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In the Dugout In the Dugout

My View On The Croydon Game Improvements On And Off The Pitch

The previous week was an interesting Today we catch up with assistant Raynes
one, it’s something we will learn and Park Vale manager Anthony Panayi to ask
move on from. what’s rocking in his RPV world just now...
take it away Anthony!
It was a difficult game, us not being
quite at the levels we are used to being Good afternoon and welcome to the
at and Croydon coming with a game Vale! It’s been a little while since my last
plan to make it difficult for us by play- post in here. Within that time we have
ing on the counter and being physical. seen some additions to the squad which
Credit to them, it worked. I still howev- is a credit to the club and the ambition
er believed that quality showed through shown by the manager in order to con-
which it did. tinue to improve the squad. It’s never
easy picking a team out of the quality
It’s just a shame that as the game was we have here but that’s the best problem
abandoned we were in control and hop- in the world to have in football. us don’t run off paid staff but, instead,
ing to add 3 points to the board. My We are lucky that we have such a strong off people who are passionate, care for
view on the situation is pretty clear for dressing room, who are in this together the players, football and the local area.
everyone to see. They started the inci- and understand the importance of Without the love that goes in, we as a
dent with one of their players running sparked the brawl which ended with the pushing each other for their spots in the management team wouldn’t be able to
and wanting to punch our player and game being abandoned. I felt that, as a team. One thing of note that hasn’t been put our full focus into the squad.
clearly had no intention of stopping,. team we acted perfectly appropriately mentioned much this season is the age

He just continued to throw punch after with regards to protecting ourselves. So of our group. Our average age must be We are now starting to see more and
punch. I went over to stop the situation I’m proud of my players and the club in no more than 24 and in a league full of more regular faces and with every cheer
by tackling the player to the floor (I the way we handled the whole situation. experience, at times we have had some and every clap we are building some-
was the closest person to it). This then Josh Gallagher good learnings. Learnings which I am thing for a very exciting future! I even
confident will help us in the next few saw a couple of younger faces behind
weeks of back to back matches and the goal last week singing us along
continue to make us better. which is exactly what the team needs.

Looking around the club, you can see Thank you once again for coming along
the improvements off the pitch and the today to see the team in action!
work and hours that have been put in COME ON THE VALE!
from our amazing volunteers. Clubs like Anthony Panayi