Borough look for fresh faces

DANIEL BARNSLEY

BACUP Borough manager Brent Peters is in high spirits ahead of Saturday’s match with table-toppers Whitchurch Alport despite recent form.

Bacup Borough go into Saturday’s game with Whitchurch Alport on the back of seven games without a win in all competitions.

Recent losses to Litherland REMYCA, Prestwich Heys, and Sandbach has seen Borough slip to 15th in the table and in need of three points.

Peters has appointed a new head of recruitment and is confident he can bring some new faces in before Saturday’s game, in the hope that they can take all three points.

He said: “Going into Saturday I have decided I’ve got to make some changes, I’m hoping that there will be several new lads come in.

“I’ve appointed a new head of recruitment who only started on Monday but already has a portfolio of players, so I am hoping that come Saturday I will have quite a good few options to make some changes and embed some of the lads who I don’t feel are quite ready yet with some of these new players who have more experience.”

Peters believes injuries to his side have not helped their recent run of form, particularly experienced Kelvin Trippier who has played over 100 hundred Football League games.

He said: “It’s been difficult the last six weeks and we have already lost a couple of key players from the start of the season who have had surgery and are not back yet. In addition we have also now lost the services of Kelvin Trippier who is another experienced player, that’s left a big void.”

Whitchurch Alport currently sit top of the league, two points ahead of Charnock Richard. Borough manager Peters admits Saturday’s game will be tough but the league standings at this stage do not faze him.

He said: “I’m not worried about league tables at this stage, it doesn’t worry me one iota. It’s not like it’s the Premier League, league tables in November don’t bother me at all.

“Teams change and things change dramatically over night, I mean yeah they’re going well, ●● Kelvin Trippier has been a big loss for Bacup Borough

‘I’ve decided I’ve got to make some changes, I’m hoping that there will be several new lads come in’

they’ve got off to a good start but I have seen it before when teams are running away and flying high and then the next thing that’s happened they fall by the waist side.

“They have been consistent and obviously it is going to be a tough game.

“We take every game as it comes, we want three points and on Saturday we will be doing our damnedest to get them.”