Skegness set for trip to league leaders
Chris Rawlinson says Skegness Town are looking forward to the challenge of taking on the league leaders this weekend as they make the trip to Sherwood Colliery.
Skegness were out of action last weekend as their match with Kimberley MW was called off due to a waterlogged pitch.
Sherwood are five points clear at the top of the league, although third-placed Grantham are eight behind with two games in hand, and were beaten 4-0 at second-placed Boston Town last Saturday.
And Lilywhites joint-boss Rawlinson says that after missing out on a game last weekend, his side are now raring to go in Nottinghamshire in what will be the first of two games against Sherwood over the next three weeks.
He said: “It was frustrating the game was off as at 8am the pitch was fine to play on but then we had a downpour that put it underwater. It’s almost unheard of to have games at Skegness called off for waterlogged pitches so it just shows how much rain we’d had.
"We’ve now got eight games over the next six weeks so it’ll be a busy period, starting with the league leaders on Saturday.
"They’ll be smarting after a bad result last weekend and the pressure is all on them given they’re looking to win the league and they can’t really afford to drop many more points.
"They’ll see us as a potential game where they can get their season back on track. We’ve been good against the top sides but concede too many goals so we have to try and do something to stem that flow of goals going in at one end whilst still retaining our attacking edge the other way.
"So we’re looking forward to it as we’ve got friends there and we want to go and give a good account of ourselves away from home on a 3G surface which suits certain players we have within our squad.
"We know it’ll be tough and that we’re nowhere near being favourites but you never know in football and hopefully we can kickstart our own form for a good run to the end of the season.”