It was a very good performance last Saturday against the league leaders, Northwich Victoria.

Even though we had ten men for more than half the game after Joe Tait was sent off, I thought we were the better team and were full of confidence.

The lads showed plenty of spirit and effort, especially after they equalized early in the second half, and we kept on creating chances especially in the last ten minutes.

It’s strange, but sometimes when you’re reduced to ten men you become more fired up, and last Saturday we had something to hang on to because Joe had already put us in front from the penalty spot.

We could have scored more in those last twenty minutes, we had a few chances, but then Mikey Roberts broke away and scored the winner – I was really pleased for him. I wasn’t a minute or so before when he missed a similar chance!

People are wondering why Joe is taking the penalties. That’s because a couple of other people had missed, and in the dressing room one day, we discussed who should take the next one.

All of a sudden, Joe said that he would take them. Nobody else argued against him, and the rest of us thought that Joe was confident enough to take them. And to be fair, he’s been very successful so far.

After he’d taken a couple of penalties, Joe said that he wanted to take free kicks as well around the opposition penalty area, and he hit the bar with one at Telford. We thought we had a new secret weapon, but it turned out that the free kick was a fluke! We’ll let him take the penalties still.

We’re off to Burscough on Saturday, weather permitting, and we’ve got to pick up our away form. We’ve dropped points recently at Scarborough and Harrogate, and we need to start winning again.

I work in a gym, and one of my team mates turned up last week for his first session – part time DJ Ian Ward. Afterwards, he texted me to say that he couldn’t feel his arms and legs, which isn’t surprising because I had to pick him up off the floor. And that was after just a couple of exercises!