By a Witton fan, on vics board about who the best WIncham club is. yes, really
Witton1
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Re: AT LAST - IT'S OFFICIAL
« Reply #25 on: December 11, 2007, 14:11:02 »
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Regards the footballing comparisons.
As you know we missed out to Telford an Burscough last season and their performance in BSN is a good benchmark. We scored more goals and won more games than these two last year and as we know lost out on goal difference of 1. If anything this may have served us better as we were less prepared to go up.
If there is a weakness at the moment it is in the physical side of the game, we can play some of the nicest football you will see in non-league but sometimes this does not get you the points.
We have a fair few players that can more than hack it a higher level; Liam Brownhill (recently called up to England 'C' as the only Unibond representative); Rod Thornley (you probably know him!); Cavell Coo (ex Crewe and a very capable right back); Rob Lloyd (another Crewe player that has only opted to play semi-pro to further his university education at the moment); Adam Warlow (30+ goals last season and already 18 this year - already attracting attention from other clubs); Mark Peers (ex Liverpool academy and only his height/build perhaps stop him from league football). John Kennedy (one of the best goal keepers outside the football league, ex Halifax, Blackpool, etc). Not to mention Alex Brown who before his knee operation was our best player in the opening 7 or 8 games!The shape and style of our football has truly been a pleasure to watch, we pass the ball around superbly and coming forward look capable of scoring with every move. Only beaten once all season - away at Lincoln on the opening day. 10 points clear at the top. For 47/Against 11 and 48 points before the half way stage!
When we have faced BSP & BSN teams in cup competitions in the past couple of seasons they have been tight games and if not for a bit of luck and honestly a bit of naivity on our part we would have won most of them. I think we are learning all the time, there are still a lot of lads between 21-24 in the side that are about to hit their best years.
And we have a good manager, irrespective of the players brought in and those departed our style of football has gone unchanged - we are trying to go about the game the right way.
Next April/May is still a fair bit away but another 12/13 wins maybe enough to win our league if past years is anything to go by and at the moment I can only see us being beat maybe 3 or 4 times this season if that many! 13 wins, 4 draws and 4 defeats would give us 91 points, over the last 3 years 80, 89 and 88 points have won it. Fleetwood are probably the biggest threat and have a big set-up behind them.
I genuinely think it would be good for the area if there was closer competition again on the pitch between the two clubs.
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Are you going to tell him or shall I?
