It’s only been a couple of weeks away but it feels like the season is just starting. David Holdsworth would like to be starting over to a certain extent although of course he did finish the last game on a high, winning the last home game against Barrow. Talking of the North West club, Danny Hone has been signed by them on an emergency loan. Presumably his wages being less of a stumbling block than Adam Watts although they could have looked at the respective performances and decided they preferred young Hone. He must be disappointed to be farmed out again but he’ll prefer playing to sitting around in the Echo Stand if that is what he judged his immediate future held for him.
The manager told the assembled hacks that the players had worked particularly hard and said the team wanted to play and wanted to be fit so we all know who must be responsible for them not being. Those taking things for granted were warned against it, there will be competition for places. Asked whether he had any help with training Holdsworth was at pains to suggest whilst friends had lent a hand when they could he saw it as his responsibility to train the team but he also revealed a turn of phrase which suggests it could be quite good fun to report on the Imps. He certainly had the Echo’s Leigh Curtis laughing out loud when he said there was no pot of gold that we’ve got at Sincil Bank, more of a thimble.
As to Wrexham, to quote the manager a home win on the pools coupon:-
“No look, I’m being a little bit facetious, people won’t expect us to get anything there and probably rightly so given the texture of the performances Lincoln City have put in so far but we might just go there and…. We’ll give a good account of ourselves, we’ll be organised and the commitment’s there which is good. I think the fans that come to see us when we travel away from home and they come and support us, they want to see a wholehearted performance and we’ll demand that.
It wasn’t all stick:-
“It gave me a bit more time to find out the personality of the dressing room and the character, if there was any and certainly there is and I learned a lot more about some of the boys and there’s some good lads here you know, I must say that.
Some of them were falling a little bit along the wayside but there’s some good boys here that just need a little bit of guidance and a bit of tough love.”
“I’m going there to win, I’ve spoken to various people who said we played very well against Barrow who hadn’t lost for a while and we took the fight to them.”
We’ll need to do that for certain today, no one gives us a prayer so let’s see.
Finally, who does this sound like?
“When he runs, he’s like a wild boar running through the Umbrian hills"
Wild boar/deranged ferret, certainly sounds like someone I used to know?
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