His last game, his last interview and a smashing win for Neil Young. Young has taken charge of the club for three games winning a solid point against Wrexham, an unfortunate loss to Ebbsfleet and now this massive win against Hartlepool United. After the win Neil Young spoke to Shaymen TV.
Young straight away did mention his three games. The caretaker boss said, โIโm delighted with the players and the performance, but to be fair apart from 20-25 minutes on Saturday, I think weโve been excellent in all three games Iโve been in charge.โ
โItโs a good return, (4 points) but as weโve just spoken, it could have been nine if weโre being greedy. At this moment in time weโve got to win as many games as we can, it was about getting points but itโs about performances and having a frame work to go forward. But Iโm more than pleased and delighted with the resultโ.
With Tom Denton missing out with an injury The Shaymen were missing the target man theyโre apparently known for. Young spoke about the clubโs different style of play.
โThey were very direct and we had to compete with and we done really well with that. We didnโt have Tom (Denton) in the squad and we had to find another way. This team has been labelled in the past โoh we canโt play without Tomโ, I know before theyโve done it and theyโve shown again tonight they can do it. They can play, over play a bit for me, but if that confidence is there that confidence is good going forwardโ.
Continuing with the talk of confidence Neil Young was adamant that this result will be the turning point for The Shaymen โThese lads would run through brick walls, for me just lacking that little bit of confidence. Now theyโve got a result they can build on that and go forwardโ.
The club is missing a lot of players through injury at the moment. Tomlinson, Tuton and Hotte all came into the starting eleven and Young was very impressed.
โWeโve got both Joshโs out (Macdonald and Wilde), Denton out, Clarke out. We havenโt got the biggest pool of playersโ.
โHe (Ben Tomlinson) was outstanding, I thought they were all very good but I thought Ben would have nicked man of the match. His intelligence, his running, considering he hasnโt played a lot of football was a credit to himโ.
New signing Mike Fondop-Talom came into the squad tonight and Young mentioned how, as a scout, heโd been looking at him for a while โMike is someone Iโve been tracking for a while. Heโs different, we talk about having different types of players to give us a different variety from a formation perspective. Heโs big, heโs strong, heโs quick, heโll run in behind and I think heโll do well for the football clubโ.
It will be sad to see Young leave the touchline, he spoke about his time in charge at the club, โIโve enjoyed it, Iโve loved it to be fair. It always helps when youโre working with a good group of players. But yeah, Iโve really enjoyed it, itโs been a pleasure to be able to do it, Iโve been very proud to have been asked to do it and to be able to give the fans something tonight, has been good. But more importantly itโs not about me, itโs about the players continuing that and the club stays up and build going forward in the futureโ.
Watch the full interview on Shaymen TV right now along with interviews with Mike Fondop-Talom and Nathan Hotte.
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