Proposed two-week recovery plan foiled

DEPARTED manager Alan Lewer never got the chance to put his recovery plan into action after another setback at Nuneaton Town.

Lewer saw his team fall to their fifth straight defeat at Liberty Way on Saturday, continuing a miserable run of form which has seen them slide down the Vanarama National League North table.

The Sandgrounders have more than a week to prepare for their next fixture – at home to Spennymoor Town on Saturday, October 7 – and Lewer was looking for his squad to make the most of that time.

But the club will now spend it looking for a new manager.

“It’s always bad when you suffer a defeat like this and you’ve got two weeks to live with it,” Lewer said before he knew his fate.

“We’ll go home, have a think about it and try and address where we’ve gone wrong. We’ll be looking to bring the squad in for training during the day again this week and hopefully that will be beneficial.

“When a team loses games there is a lack of confidence and we are also missing some senior players.

“They are big factors but you have got to deal with these things.

“For the first 10 minutes again we played well and we could have scored two goals but we didn’t make their goalkeeper work.

“In games like this, it shows that you need the experienced players to help turn things around.

“It’s not really fair to rely on younger players, but when your hand is forced, you have to do that.

“We don’t look like scoring and we need to be putting away chances like the ones we created. We need a goalscorer and it looks like we’ll have to bring in a couple more players.

“We didn’t want to be changing our squad but unfortunately because of injuries we have had to do that.”

Southport fielded a team made up largely of youth team players at Bamber Bridge on Tuesday in the first round of the Lancashire FA Partners Foundation Challenge Trophy – and it showed as they went down 7-0.