If you didn’t get a copy of Saturday’s match day programme, have a read of Bill Williams’ article…
Whether you’re Manchester United, Maidenhead United, Maidstone United or any football club in this country, the one thing that is an absolute certainty is that at some time you will have a run of bad form and bad luck.
We are experiencing that now and there’s no doubting that we have found a massive difference this time in the standard moving up from the National League South to the National League.
We have been desperately unlucky with some bad injuries to key players in Joan Luque, Jerome Binnom-Williams and Raphe Brown to name but a few, and it is frustrating that players are making costly individual mistakes but sadly this happens to teams and is part of the game.
I have seen this happen many times over my years in football and it has been my experience that the clubs that get it right and turn the team around are the ones that figure out how to solve problems better and faster.
Challenges at this stage of the season are who owns the problem, how to find a quick way to solve it and how to find the money – in most cases – to move forward is the only solution.
Hakan and his management team have a huge job on their hands finding the formula to help our team bounce back and start picking up points and no one individual can solve it, this is a collective thing that we are all involved in, upper management, team management, players, staff and spectators, we all need to work harder and concentrate more.
There have been a few comings and goings around the club recently. After ten years with the club our general manager, Simon Daniel, decided that it was time for him to follow a new profession and we thank him for all he has contributed and wish him well in the future. We are in the throes of picking up the workload across the office and only time will tell if the club decides to replace the position.
On the incoming side I would like to welcome a new doctor to the club, Dr Hasan Khan, who is a young and sports orientated general practitioner. Hasan is a massive find for the club as not only will he oversee the wellbeing of the players, by working very closely with our physiotherapist Paul Smith, but will act as our resident doctor on match days, which is mandatory at this level of football.
Beth Cooper, our sports therapist, who had been at the club five years, has also left and we thank her for all her efforts and wish her every success with her own sports therapy business.
Change can be unsettling but as I said, we need to find the formula to improve our current situation.
There have also been a few changes taking place around the stadium, the first main one being some alterations to the Spitfire Lounge, which judging by the comments has gone down well with the majority.
The other big change, which you’ll see at our next evening home game when we play Southend, is a brand-new floodlight system, which has taken our lighting levels from 270 lux to around 380 lux.
This will make a huge difference to the atmosphere on night matches, and it was of course needed as the previous lighting had become dull and very costly. Now being LED, it will make a big difference to our energy costs and also has environmental benefits.
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