KJM SPORT REPORT Street 3 Millbrook 0 Macca reaction
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- Created on Tuesday, 26 April 2022 09:11
- Last Updated on Tuesday, 26 April 2022 09:17
- Published on Tuesday, 26 April 2022 09:11
- Written by KEVIN MARRIOTT Cornwall football's touchline ace
This was their sixth successive defeat and during the run they have scored only one goal, a Josh Toulson effort against Ashton & Backwell.
From being a team who prided themselves on clean sheets and the ability to score plenty of goals, they have fallen apart at both ends of the pitch.
Yet they could still finish in a respectable mid-table finish of 12th if, somehow, they can summon up one last effort and beat Brislington at Jenkins Park on Saturday (1500ko).
Three points would lift them above Wellington and Bitton.
So what does Brook manager Macca Brown make of it all? He’s been understandably proud of the way his team have played for most of this season – but what he is witnessing now must be hard to swallow.
“I’m a great believer that if you’re the smartest person in the room, then you’re in the wrong room, you have to challenge yourself and everything can’t always be easy, this experience will be huge for us all and the lads must have the resilience, maturity and mindset to deal with that.
“That is hard when they are seeing other clubs start to lift trophies at this time of year, but they can’t get lost in the moment, they have challenged themselves hugely this season by stepping up when not all players fancy that challenge, and will look back and it’ll be their most important season to date.”
“It’s similar in the second half, with 15 to go we thought our luck had changed, they go down to 10 with their goalkeeper being sent off for handling outside the box, and then down to nine with a sin bin protesting it and you think it’s game on.
“But we blaze the resulting free kick over the bar and then 30 seconds later it’s in our net straight from the goal kick to make it 3-0.
“We have to handle the negative moments better, the officials were frustrating for both teams, the referee was strutting around like a peacock making sure everyone knew he was there but we played into his hands.
“It’s unrecognisable from what we were about a few months ago but it’s a different set of circumstances.
“They’ve not let me down at all and the support from the Reserves management has been brilliant, but when Western League sides lose three or four players like we have since Christmas for one reason or another, they replace them with ready made alternatives and we aren’t in that position.
“It’s fantastic for the local game that two sides on our doorstep have been so successful at their respective levels.
“Not forgetting Steve at Helston, Jake at Mousehole and Dane at Saltash as well who finished their seasons on Saturday, we’ve had some great games with those clubs and they’ve had superb seasons.”
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