Callum clear on his goals for season

CALLUM is certainly having a Ball at Nuneaton this summer – now he wants the goals to show that.

The former Derby County man has found the net four times since joining the Boro from local rivals Barwelll during pre-season.

The goals, as well as the players around him have left the 24-year-old feeling confident ahead of the Vanarama National League kicking off with an away-day trip to Harrogate for Nuneaton.

Ball said: “I am feeling good. I have had a good pre-season. I have scored some goals and I am feeling confident.

“I have carried on where I left off against Barwell really. I ended the season there on form and it has been the same here at Nuneaton. With the players I have got around me, the likes of Ashley Chambers, Greg Mills, Brady Hickey, Alex Henshall, it is hard not to be confident.

“If things go well I could be looking at 20 goals plus. I am up for that.”

Ball’s confidence comes from the fact that he knows he has got the pedigree to do well at this level.

As a youngster he broke into the first team at Derby County and played 23 games for them in the Championship during the 2011-12 season.

Now after getting back to full-time football the striker is adamant he can start showing how good a player he is again.

He said: “Full-time football is something I have missed a lot. At Barwell I was playing and not much else. Now I am playing and training a lot.

“Hopefully that means I can get back to being the player I was, rather than the player I have been for the last few seasons. I feel fitter already.”

He added: “It is not just the football, though. It is everything else that goes along with that. We had a golf day with the lads the other week. That kind of thing, when you see the guys every day, it is great for morale.”

Boro’s short trip to Bedworth United tonight has been cancelled due to injuries to Tommy Wright’s Nuneaton squad. The local rivals had been due to play each other in a pre-season friendly at The Oval (7.45pm).