Witton Relegated

After a long, hard season in the Blue Square Premier; I’ve sadly seen my Witton Albion team relegated, and after winning only 1 of the last 17 games of the season; I can hardly be surprised that my team just wasn’t good enough to stay up.

15 games I went without a win, before finally achieving one against relegated Bishop’s Stortford in the penultimate game of the season; my form was far too poor to stop my team from going down though, and after a 1-1 draw with Woking on the final day of the season, I was relegated in 21st, with Worcester one point ahead of me. Quite how I managed to finish the season so badly I’m not too sure; I had looked pretty safe at one stage, you start to slip down the league when you’re not winning games though, and it was slightly upsetting to experience relegation in my first season at that level.

11 players put themselves on the transfer list after I was relegated, and I therefore faced a potential problem of losing the majority of my team. Slowly they’re coming crawling back though, asking to be removed from the transfer list, and as I’ve had no offers; I think I’ll safely be able to keep hold of my squad, as well as hopefully bringing in a few fresh faces.

Hopefully we’ll be able to bounce straight back to the Blue Square Premier, If not I’ll probably be leaving at the end of the season though, and will start looking elsewhere for a fresh new team to manage.

I would like to get back to the league at some point; I might have to do it the hard way though, and although managing a non-league team is fun; I am rather missing the glory of managing a team from the league, and may have to try and get back there sooner rather than later. I want to take Witton as far as possible, I get the feeling that the Blue Square Premier may well be the peak though, and if we’re not in contention to reach the play-offs come Christmas; I might just resign, and move onto pastures new in my quest for football management success.