Yeovil Town manager Richard Dryden said he felt his side should have come away with all three points as they stretched their run without a win to eight games with a goalless draw at Morecambe on Saturday.
The Glovers spurned a glorious opportunity to snatch the win on a miserable day in Lancashire when they were awarded a penalty, but striker Tahvon Campbell saw his effort turned on to the post by goalkeeper Jamal Blackman.
Asked if the run without a win played on his mind, Dryden told BBC Somerset reporter Josh Perkins: “The media push it in to my mind because I am ready for the next game. We have had a run (of three wins following Dryden’s permanent appointment) and now we are on a run of not winning. It is not through a lack of trying, I think the lads are giving it a go and we have come away here disappointed we have not won the game.”
Neither side impressed in a disappointing first half, but the Glovers did have opportunities to threaten the Morecambe goal after the break with the introduction of strikers Campbell and Harvey Greenslade – but spurned every one of them.
Dryden said: “We had chances to win the game and created more than we have done in the last couple of games, so we just have to keep going and creating and make sure when it comes to Boston in the next game we put the ball in the back of the net.”
Asked for his assessment of Campbell’s penalty, the manager retorted: “It is a penalty and he missed it, that’s it. The keeper has saved it, someone had to step up and take it and the keeper has made a good save. There are other chances as well, more in the second half than the first. We tweaked the system a little bit in the second half to be more attacking but still safe at the back because I think if you watch the game, they are not a bad side. They overran Brackley quite easily on Tuesday night.”
On loan Port Vale man James Plant was forced off after 71 minutes having taken a flailing arm to the face in a challenge with Morecambe substitute George Thomas. Dryden said: “He has got six stitches in his face, it is quite a deep cut. He might have to get his stitches redone because it is a little bit of a mess at the moment. It is one of those things, you do not really see it until he is on the floor. Whether it keeps him out for games or not, we do not know.”
Next up, Yeovil host a Boston United side which are level on points with them in the National League Premier Division table and Dryden insists they will be going for the win.
He said: “We are going to go for three points (against Boston) but it is not the end of the world if we do not get them. You have got to keep the standard of play we had today and hopefully that will push us on towards three points.“
“If we don’t get 3 points against Boston it’s not the end of the world ” Mr Dryden is having a laugh surely, he really is a joke
I can’t understand why the owner is keeping Dryden? Any other clubs would sack them by now, the longer he leaves it the harder it will be to survive. He’s Cooper’s right hand man hasn’t a glue what he’s doing.
GET A PROPER MANAGER!!!
If they get rid of Dryden they will just put Gill in charge who is another Cooper. They need to put someone in charge who the team and fans can get behind, Gary Johnson until the end of season and then give him a job on the board. If we go down again we won’t be coming straight back up again!
Yes definitely agree on that, saying Gill would take over, that would definitely be a very bad idea, yes could not beat Gary Johnson what a manager he was back in the day, need someone like him TBH, another true saying if we go down we won’t get back up, that would be the laughing stock, how can the owner sit there and do nothing about this very bad situation?
Is the owner in for the money, and not the club?