Sittingbourne manager Gary Abbott tells players they can win the league in wake of victory over Chatham Town
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Sittingboune Gary Abbott has
urged his red-hot side to go on and win the Ryman League
Division 1 South.
Bourne launched a play-off push
before Christmas and have stormed up the table with seven wins in
10 games, closing the gap on the leaders and igniting ambitions far
higher than a place in the top five.
After Tuesday night’s 2-0 win at
Chatham – their 13th successive win over the Chats during a run
which stretches back to Boxing Day 2003 – Bourne went seventh, four
points outside the top five.
Abbott (pictured top) said: "I
spoke to the players and said, let’s go and win it. We will give it
a good go. We are only 10 points off the top and we have got three
games in hand on some of the teams up there.
"I once won the league with Enfield
when we were 19 points behind with 15 games left, we won it by a
point."
Hicham Akhazzan turned the ball in
to put Sittingbourne ahead after Chatham keeper Dean Ruddy had
handled a backpass in his six-yard box on 13 minutes.
Both sides had chances before Jimmy
Bottle sealed the win with a tap-in eight minutes from time.
The Brickies should be at
full-strength for the trip to Dulwich (2pm) tomorrow (Saturday) and
could include 17-year old former Margate teenager
Sam Pain.
Chatham are now 16th and 16 points
off the bottom, though basement-boys Ashford have four games in
hand.
Despite having lost 12 of 16 in
Division 1 South, the Chats could jump up six places with a win
against Whyteleafe at Maidstone Road on Saturday.
Boss Alex O’Brien
pictured said: "Frustration is a good word for Tuesday’s game.
We started well and looked the better side but then we gifted them
a goal with an individual mistake. We huffed and puffed to try and
get back into it but then they caught us on the break.
"They are a good side defensively,
but we let ourselves down."
Richard Avery suffered a reaction
to his ankle injury on Tuesday night and is unlikely to feature on
Saturday while John Wilfort is still banned.
Thursday, March 04 2010
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