Lavery won’t let Boro give up on dream

BORO assistant boss Richard Lavery has urged his Nuneaton team to keep fighting until they can fight no more when it comes to the play-offs this season.

A 3-0 home defeat against title-chasing Peterborough Sports at the weekend left Nuneaton three points outside the top five in the Southern League Premier Division Central – but having had played more games than those around them.

Nuneaton have a chance to put a dent in that advantage in the coming weeks as they travel to take on bottomplaced Redditch this weekend and have fellow relegation fighters Alvechurch not long after that.

For Lavery it is a big spell for the Boro as they look to prolong their season as long as they can.

He said: “Look, me and Jimmy are both positive thinking people. We are not giving anything up until it is out of our hands completely.

“We are in a tough spot now. I think if we had got that win on Saturday it would have been all to play for, but that does not mean we are giving up.

“A season is not good when there is nothing to play for, so while we have that aim, while we have something there for us, we will be giving it our all to make that happen.”

The first chance Nuneaton have to do that is this weekend when they travel to take on a Redditch team who sit bottom of the pile having won just two of their 31 games this season.

Lavery said: “We will be going there as the favourites but it is game we will be treating the same as all the others. We have some big games coming up, starting with Redditch, and if we can get a few wins in them we will see where that leaves us.

“We have had a bit of a run lately and we would love to get one started again. You want to end the season as best as you can.”

Meanwhile, Lavery has backed Fortune Maphosa to do well after he signed on a shortterm loan deal with Hinckley last week.

The move, which is a joint registration, should enable the youngster to get more game time.