Leaders are held in Skegness battle
Joint-boss Chris Rawlinson felt his Skegness side deserved their point gained against league leaders Sherwood Colliery on Saturday.
The Nottinghamshire side had beaten Skegness 5-0 on their own patch just a fortnight previously but were pegged back on this occasion despite taking the lead.
And Rawlinson said he was pleased with how his players responded to going behind.
He said: “It was a very different game as I expected it to be. Sherwood are very good at home on their 4G pitch and use it to their advantage, but I did think that on a more difficult surface and smaller pitch like ours that we could try and get a result.
"It was a pretty awful game and no side really shaded it with very few chances for either.
"They scored when we had a player down injured but there’s no complaints as it wasn’t a head injury – we just have to do better to stop the game.
"Then rather than collapse, the lads worked so hard and kept in the game and when you do that you can often get your just rewards from a set piece or something like that and we got another headed goal from Nick Jackson from an assist from Liam Adams, so I was really pleased to take a point off Sherwood.
"We also kept up our home record which in terms of defeats is as good as anyone else in the division.”
The Lilywhites will be at home again this weekend as they host Clay Cross Town, who sit one place and five points above Skegness in the table with a game in hand.
Rawlinson added: “Let’s see if we can make it three games in a row undefeated at home. If we win we’re getting towards the points total from last year which is the target – even if we finish lower positionally.
"It’s not ideal in terms of the way we wanted the season to go and at times it could have been much better, but we’ll keep plugging away and are thinking about next year as well with regard to who we’ll need to bring in and who we’ll keep.”