Goalkeeper Marcus Garnham reflects on Saturday's win over Braintree Town, keeping four clean sheets, pre-season so far, getting minutes under his belt and the season ahead.
DK: Good win!
MG: Good win, yeah, good performance, hundred times better than what we turned out on Tuesday night. Lads looked confident on the ball, moved it around well, kept possession when we needed to, defensively looked sound. They only had one chance in the second half really, yeah all over the pitch, I just thought we were really good. Did our jobs, played our roles really well, so yeah it's a positive performance!
DK: It must be especially pleasing for you, having played a higher opposition today but not really been too troubled.
MG: Yeah, I think it's the story of our season last year really, we defended really well last year. The tone of our season last year was we couldn't score enough goals, and now we seem to be able to grind out victories and get goals when we need them, which is good, which is positive, so hopefully we can take that into next game Tuesday and build on our confidence from today!
DK: Like you say, momentum's been built quite nicely, especially as you've got 4 clean sheets in a row now!
MG: Yeah, it's not just down to me, I mean it's down to all the other lads defending as a team and doing our jobs, and yeah a testament today really. The youngsters that have come in have done really well, they've played their roles really well, and Jakey Dye's done really well playing all across the back four, and Dan (Morphew) stepped in to be captain today, and Tuesday, so yeah I think Tommy Smith's done well, sitting into left-back, looks like he's played here at this club for a long time - rather than just being a summer signing, so yeah it's all good!
DK: Having had players missing all throughout pre-season, on the whole arguably apart from Tuesday, we've been rather consistent, that's another pleasing thing.
MG: Yeah, I mean we scored some goals against Newmarket, always first game of pre-season is quite frantic, but we got a positive result that day and the rest of the performances have been good - apart from Tuesday, we were lacklustre first half, looked like we lacked energy and that was addressed at half-time and we were more on top for longer periods, weren't giving the ball away as cheaply, and yeah it's just confidence building going into our final friendly before the season starts.
DK: The preparation has been rather good so far this year.
MG: Yeah, it has yeah, training's been good, we've been working hard. The new additions have done really well, they've fitted in really, really well, Tev(an Allen)'s done well, came in and been a vertsatile player in the middle and on the right-hand side in a couple of positions. So yeah, it's all positive really, it's nice to have Luke (Ingram) back out there, shows his quality and his experience, puts his body about, knows where to put the ball, knows exactly what to do. Seth (Chambers) did really well when he came on, Pagey done well in the false nine in the first half.
DK: Good to be back then?
MG: Yeah, I mean I did like my Saturdays off to be fair, that was quite nice, but I suppose yeah, it's nice to be back and playing and enjoying it.
DK: Do you think with the squad as it is at the minute that we can very much right the wrongs of last year?
MG: Need a bit of luck, need to make sure we don't have any injuries, touch wood, and then if we need to build in at Christmas, have a look at it at Christmas, and if we can get some additions into bolster the squad, help with fatigue and stuff like that, that'd be good. Hopefully, it's looking more positive than it was at the start of last season.
DK: What do you make of the league fixtures?
MG: Haven't looked at them, so it doesn't really bother me to be fair, just play my game and don't really look out for any fixtures, I'm not really worried about other teams, just worry about myself and performances that I put in, because in my role, in my position, you're on your own aren't you really, so just worrying about helping the team the best I can, my position and the rest should hopefully fall into place!
DK: What's pleased you the most, this pre-season so far?
MG: Just fitness, training well for me personally, and obviously getting positive results are alwayss good going into the start of the season, rather than having bitty results here and there, draws there, losses here, a win every now and again so it's more positive.
DK: Do you prefer having played 90 minutes all the friendlies so far, rather than last year, playing bits of games?
MG: Yeah, I think you just build up that stamina, just from playing games, concentration is a big thing really, fitness wise it's not really an issue being in goal but it's just mentally being switched on for longer periods of time, kind of getting more into the game is important for playing more minutes really.
DK: Moving onto Tuesday, that'll be a big local derby against Stow.
MG: Yeah, they've made a lot of changes, and obviously Wilks (Richard Wilkins) is over there with Alex (Rossis), so it's going to be a local derby, familiar faces that we'll see again, but it'll be good just to get a positive performance and a positive result going into the start of the season.
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