Yeovil Town’s interim manager Richard Dryden says that the dressing room has real belief after notching up a third consecutive win.
Speaking to BBC Somerset’s Josh Perkins after the Tuesday night win over Sutton, he said that the whole club was in a good place after a busy few days;
“It’s been a good week, it’s been even less than a week, because it’s Wednesday-Saturday-Tuesday, it’s been a good week for the club, a good week for the players and for the fans.
Great support tonight, on a Tuesday night coming all the way up to London, it’s great support and it’s very much appreciated.”
Andrew Oluwabori got his first goal of his second loan spell with the club in the first half with an Aaron Jarvis winner proving to be the decisive moment of the second half; speaking of the loanee Dryden said;
“I just don’t know how he keeps the ball sometimes, I don’t know how he keeps the ball, but he does something, he looked a little bit tired first half, we had a bit of a chat at half time about doing a bit more of the horrible stuff – which he did – but his attitude towards being attacking and being positive is fantastic.”
“[The half time message] was do much the same, we had to be a little bit wary because of the number of minutes that the lads have had, I’m big on if you’re fit from winning a game, then go out and play again.
Tav did brilliantly, but I just thought he looked a little bit tired as the half went on and he’s done a lot of minutes on a short pre-season, but he’s been fantastic, and when you’ve got someone like Jarv to come on, it’s a big bonus.
We’re heavy up front with good players and players who can run as well.”
Yeovil have a thin squad, naming the same starting XI for the third game in a row and there was plenty of praise for how the side saw the game out too.
“The keeper made a great save first half, the back three, the wing backs – Simsy, is just a great right wing back when he should be playing as a ten, but how can you get him out of that position with what he’s done today? there are a lot of positives again.
I haven’t looked at the [Sutton] goal, I know it was a bit of a scramble, but it was a great finish,
It was a great finish, nice to see it go by Jarv, but there’s that little bit of belief, when you get pegged back a little bit and there’s always a chance.
We had to sit back a little bit today, but on the counter we looked strong, whoever was up front.”
The manager took time to give his squad their dues after a crazy few weeks, with the Glovers sitting outside the play-off spots by a fine margin.,
“I’ve been here since pre-season, with a good manager in Mark [Cooper], he’s been there, seen it and done it and got the club promoted from the league below, the roots were there, you could see it, that little bit of belief and we’ve got a good squad, we’ve got a little bit of experience, but we’ve got players who haven’t played in this league; Macca has come and just blossomed as the season has gone on. There’s a belief in there that we can win games and these are the games where you come and win and they’re great wins.
Now, we’ve got a lot of good teams coming up who are in the half where we are at the moment.
But I’m confident, if we set up right, we can win more games.
Let’s just keep picking up the points, there’s some real, real top class teams in this league, you can almost mark up the top eight with five or six teams already, so, we just keep plugging away and picking up points, we can’t get excited yet because we’ve got a long, long way to go, we’re a quarter of the way through the season, there’s a lots of ups and downs to come.”