Skegness aim to stifle the leaders in rematch
Skegness Town joint-boss Chris Rawlinson is keen to see his side give a much better account of themselves against league leaders Sherwood Colliery this weekend after a tough encounter when the sides previously met just a fortnight ago.
Sherwood won the reverse fixture 5-0 and as they continue their push for the title will be hoping to dish out another beating on the Lilywhites.
But Rawlinson says he hopes it’ll be a very different encounter this time around.
He said: "We went to Sherwood and their big 3G pitch where they can do what they want, but they’ll come to ours which is a much tighter pitch and not as easy a surface to play football on and we’re hell bent on giving a better account of ourselves.
"We’ll do well to get anything out of the game as they’re a really good side who need to win to keep their title aspirations up and running, so all we can do is make sure we perform better than we did there a couple of weeks ago as despite being OK in the first-half, the second-half wasn’t good enough.”
Skegness returned to winning ways with a 1-0 success at home to Gresley Rovers last weekend, new signing Kegan Everington scoring the only goal of the game 21 minutes in after Rovers had seen Jenson Cooper sent off.
Rawlinson said: “It was a great day for the club with us having nearly 400 watching due to the reserves game being on as well and we thank everyone for their support as it was much-needed.
"But we’re at that stage of the season where teams are getting towards not having much to play for and it wasn’t a great game.
"Gresley had a man sent off which having seen the video looked justified, then we got a bobbly goal and were well on top in the first-half.
"We weren’t great in the second-half in terms of really making the man advantage pay, but we saw the game out comfortably and the win was important given the run we’ve been on and especially given the previous week’s game.
"Points-wise we’re headed towards where we were last year which is great again, and we’re really pleased to have brought Kegan Everington in who has added a lot to us and got the goal.”