Excellent interview as always.
Phil referred to Southport being full time but I have often wondered at our level and the level above what exactly does full time mean?
Clearly, you physically cannot train for 8 hours a day etc.
I guess that it should mean additional levels of fitness, strength and technical ability but that wasn't evident on yesterdays second half Southport performance. In fact Altrincham's players looked the stronger and fitter as the game wore on and certainly technically better.
They were better than us at one thing though (cynically and dangerous fouling/tackling). Some of those challenges were disgusting IMO.
Maybe in the next league above where I guess maybe the bulk of the teams are full time then a part time team would struggle over 40 or so games, we may have to wait and see! SBL