The manager’s reaction following the stalemate with Chelmsford City.
It might have been another point on the board for the Whites this weekend but it wasn’t enough for the boss who was slightly disappointed. Chelmsford are a well drilled side who are in touching distance of the play off picture themselves but Mitch Brundle thought his team could have taken more than just the solitary point. It’s a work in progress still and a sign that things are most definitely on the up at the Megger Community Stadium.
Speaking to Kent Online Sport Brundle said ‘I didn’t think we played particularly well, I’m a little bit disappointed but that shows you where we’ve come from, unbeaten in three and five points from the last nine. They’re higher than us. You can be critical but to be fair the boys did everything in terms of their work-rate, commitment and desire that we look for. I’m quite pleased but I also feel like it was a missed opportunity. It’s a bit frustrating because we did well in spells, I thought we deserved to win the game. Credit to them, they are resilient as a team but we were as well. A couple of months ago we might have lost that game with the chances late on. I thought defensively, especially the two centre-halves, were excellent. We huffed and puffed and lacked that real clinical edge.
Josh Ajayi had opened his account last week but couldn’t add to it after some fine goalkeeping by the opposition stopper. ‘You score that one, you like to hope you kick on,’ said the gaffer. ‘We put ourselves in good areas but we just weren’t clinical enough. We’re creating chances but it comes down to the saying “if you don’t finish your dinner, you’re going to be hungry.” We can’t be critical of the team. They didn’t out-work us, it was a good battle between two good teams. We want to be in their position so go out and prove it. If we can keep the run going then we’ll keep moving forward.’
Brundle declared on the ‘Meet the Manager’ evening that he wanted his team to play a certain style. The players have clearly brought into the new philosophy even if the results haven’t always gone our way. ‘Consistency has been our big problem, today it wasn’t so that’s credit to the dressing room,’ Brundle continued. ‘It can’t just be two games, it needs to be three and then four and five. At the minute we’re not at that stage, we’re still developing and building and still trying to get as many points on the board as we can.’
The Whites travel to Taunton on Saturday this week to face Taunton Town, looking to extend the unbeaten run to four matches. We hope to see you there.
COYW.