Town boss sees qualities in side needed for promotion campaign

Town begin their campaign at Southport tomorrow and the boss said: “Different people have different things, for me there’s three things.

“One is to get everyone fit, one is to get everyone organised, the other thing is to get the spirit right and I think we’ve achieved that.

“We’ve played quite well in games, but even that isn’t the major thing. Those three other things I think are major and I think we’ve managed to do that.

“The season has always been the same, it takes seven, eight games to get underway.

“Some teams start quick and fade, some teams start slow and come strong, some teams just have consistency.

“The best clubs have the best consistency. There are one or two, Kidderminster started poor last year and really pushed on, so you do get your one or two who don’t start as strong but finish strong.

“By and large, the best teams will always be in and around it. It’s the old adage isn’t it, cream will rise to the top eventually.

“Until you get going, you don’t know what category you’re going to be in, but I’m happy with the quality of the players I have.”

Hatters start their fifth in term in the Conference with an excellent pre-season campaign behind them in which they won eight out 10 games, keeping seven clean sheets too.

That meant little to Still though, who said: “We had a good pre-season and we’d have won the pre-season cup, but seeing as we don’t get one for it, we didn’t win it.

“You don’t get anything for doing well in pre-season. If you do this job you’re aware of that.

“Am I pleased with pre-season, yes I am, in the big scheme of things, does it matter? No.

On opponents Southport, Still said: “At this stage of the season, you don’t know anything about the team, how you’re going to play against them, you can’t pick up on it too well.

“We’ve had them watched, done our work in that respect, but all teams at this stage of the season are dangerous opponents.

“It’s a new season, new hopes, supporters anticipating their team doing okay. They’ve got a new manager, all of those things that can make your opponent very, very dangerous,

“But the way we have to look at it is, I never look at the names of who we’re playing against, I just look at it as a game.

“We can’t be any different at Southport as if we had been drawn away at Grimsby, because I tell you, all games are tough in all leagues.

“I know everyone says that, but if there’s a man out there who can tell me who’s going to finish first and second from the Premiership all the way down to the Conference, he’d be laying on a yacht somewhere in the Bahamas, because it’s not that easy.”

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