It really is night and day. It’s come down to the professionalism that the manager brings for me. The old manager, Dowson, was a great guy, wore his heart on his sleeve and truly cared, however, little things like a weekly catch-up where he would seem to give a bit away in terms of what he’s thinking about games etc to him signing the same players constantly that did well at conference south level but we’re not good enough in this league. Even if you look at the Dartford team he’s managing now, I’d say a solid 5 or 6 of those players played for us over the last few years under him and just weren’t good enough. It’s like getting attached to a player on Football Manager and playing him until he retires at the age of 85…

It’s a nice place to be at the moment. We’ve got owners that seem to care, though we don’t hear much of the ‘money man’ as he’s based in the states full time. Whether this money lasts or not I’m not so sure, but I’ll enjoy it whilst it’s here and just hope if it does dry out, it’s not at the risk of the club I love.