Captain’s Column

WE KNEW it wasn’t good enough last Saturday, there were little, silly individual mistakes and as a team we just weren’t at our best.

We maybe played into Maidenhead’s hands and I think it was just one of those days that come round not very often.

Games are coming thick and fast and it does take it out of your legs a bit, but now we’ve obviously got a few days to rest and recover before we play Barnet.

Hopefully we can put right what we did wrong against Maidenhead and look for a better outcome.

Barnet have been in and around the play-offs the last two years, they play some great attacking football, but we’ve got to worry about ourselves and not too much about them, worry about what we’re good at, what we slightly need to tweak, and we’ll show case that on Tuesday night.

We’re ninth in the table and I think that’s a fair reflection of how we’ve done. At the start of the season we weren’t finishing our chances, and maybe that could have put us in a better position to be more towards the top end.

A few performances which we know we should have done better in have probably put us where we are now. But we don’t look at the table - it’s a lot of what ifs. What is they win that, what if they don’t win that?

You’d rather have points on the board than games in hand at this stage.We’re just taking each game as it comes. We can only worry about ourselves.

I couldn’t tell you a game this year, bar maybe preseason, that we’ve had a full strength squad. I don’t think we’ve seen the best of ourselves yet, although the lads that have stepped up have done unbelievable, and more than staked their claim to be in the starting eleven. The lads that have been on the sidelines, we know their strengths and what they’re going to bring to the team, so they’re only going to be an asset for us.

We’ve got another half of the season to go, and we’re looking forward to it.