"I’m always happy with a clean sheet away from home," said Manager James Bracken after the 0-0 at Cray Wanderers.
"At Cray, over the course of the season, we’ll look back on it as a good result."
"They scored a couple in the week against Folkestone so we’ve come here and shut them out. We had our opportunities too. We had the ball in the net, plenty of promising attacks though our final ball just let ourselves down.
"There’s no complaints from me today. Nothing but positives.
"Defensively we’re looking good. We’ve let in two goals in the first three games – that’s the best record in the league. We’ll continue to work on our forward play, and it’ll come good. I believe when we score a goal, with the defensive displays we’re putting in, we’ll wrap games up on the counter-attack and that’s where we’ll win matches.
Speaking on his Brother, Danny Bracken making his 400th competitive appearance, James said, “He’s been a fantastic servant to this club, more so than anyone else I know. Today, he’s had a good game. He didn’t have too much to do but what he did have to deal with, he made it look easy. That’s pleasing from my part. 400 games, a clean sheet – he can enjoy that like the rest of the team should."
Looking forward to next Saturday, at home to Carshalton Athletic, Bracken had the following to say.
"Carshalton is another stern test. But we can’t take past records as an indication of what will happen. I saw the stats before the Merstham fixture which stated that I’d never lost a league match played on the 13th of a month… well I have now. We might have beat Carshalton three times last season but it certainly doesn’t mean we’ll beat them this time around. I don’t read into stats too much. I don’t believe in ‘Bogey sides’. There are sides that have your number and if that’s the case, the next time you meet, you approach it differently.
"If we play like we did at today and at Haringey, then we’re in with a massive shout of getting the win. However, if we play as we did against Merstham, we’ll get nothing from it. What we worked on in training was much more evident today and as a Manager, that’s all I can ask. You saw that from the boys, the amount of effort they put in and the commitment to what I asked of them.
"Yes, we’d like to have more points but as a start of a season, I’m happy with where we’re at. Just make those improvements in the final third. I’m not delighted with only having one point from three games. It’s not the best. But it’s early days. Cray have two points, Kingstonian three points. One win on Saturday and we’ll go above a lot of good sides. But I’m delighted with the attitude with players and the group as a whole."
"At Cray, over the course of the season, we’ll look back on it as a good result."
"They scored a couple in the week against Folkestone so we’ve come here and shut them out. We had our opportunities too. We had the ball in the net, plenty of promising attacks though our final ball just let ourselves down.
"There’s no complaints from me today. Nothing but positives.
"Defensively we’re looking good. We’ve let in two goals in the first three games – that’s the best record in the league. We’ll continue to work on our forward play, and it’ll come good. I believe when we score a goal, with the defensive displays we’re putting in, we’ll wrap games up on the counter-attack and that’s where we’ll win matches.
Speaking on his Brother, Danny Bracken making his 400th competitive appearance, James said, “He’s been a fantastic servant to this club, more so than anyone else I know. Today, he’s had a good game. He didn’t have too much to do but what he did have to deal with, he made it look easy. That’s pleasing from my part. 400 games, a clean sheet – he can enjoy that like the rest of the team should."
Looking forward to next Saturday, at home to Carshalton Athletic, Bracken had the following to say.
"Carshalton is another stern test. But we can’t take past records as an indication of what will happen. I saw the stats before the Merstham fixture which stated that I’d never lost a league match played on the 13th of a month… well I have now. We might have beat Carshalton three times last season but it certainly doesn’t mean we’ll beat them this time around. I don’t read into stats too much. I don’t believe in ‘Bogey sides’. There are sides that have your number and if that’s the case, the next time you meet, you approach it differently.
"If we play like we did at today and at Haringey, then we’re in with a massive shout of getting the win. However, if we play as we did against Merstham, we’ll get nothing from it. What we worked on in training was much more evident today and as a Manager, that’s all I can ask. You saw that from the boys, the amount of effort they put in and the commitment to what I asked of them.
"Yes, we’d like to have more points but as a start of a season, I’m happy with where we’re at. Just make those improvements in the final third. I’m not delighted with only having one point from three games. It’s not the best. But it’s early days. Cray have two points, Kingstonian three points. One win on Saturday and we’ll go above a lot of good sides. But I’m delighted with the attitude with players and the group as a whole."
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