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Albion boss happy with Newent outcome

| 10/01/2017

Reflecting on Saturday’s home game against Newent the Albion head coach Simon Morrell said: “It was a good result for us although we made a right dog’s dinner of the first 20 minutes of the game when we looked like we were the away team.

“We threw away points because we made unforced errors and didn’t respect the game line and the collisions in particular, we were passive and that left us with a bit of a mountain to climb.

Morrell went on: “Newent are technically a top three side with the quality they had in their side and in the past we have folded against teams who put us under that kind of physical pressure.

“However on Saturday I was very pleased because we stuck to our guns, we didn’t do anything flash in fact in the second half we kicked and fielded for position a lot more.

“We allowed the opportunities to present themselves rather than trying to force them. It was a really mature execution in the second half and it was text book of what we are trying to achieve.”

Morrell picked out some aspects of the game that he was especially pleased about.

“It was good to have Luke Plummer back in the side and the link up he had with Stuart Heal particularly in our own half was impressive.

“The collective work rate that we showed and the mind set we showed was really healthy and whereas sometimes in the past we would have thrown in the towel there was no sign of that against Newent.

“This shows that we are moving very much in the right direction. What we are doing is moving the boundaries in all areas of the park and bit by bit we are getting better and better and this result was a pay off for that.”

The Albion boss paid tribute to the large attendance at College Way on Saturday.

“Once again it was great to see another large crowd coming along to watch us and hopefully they will keep on turning up because we are only going to get better and better as the season unfolds.”

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