We hear from our resident sports writer and York City F. C. fan, Simon Pattinson.
Well, it is already nearly Christmas and I’d firstly like to wish you all well for the Christmas period and hopefully, it’ll all go very well results-wise for our respective sides during this time. I don’t know about you but it has been difficult to get my head around having a World Cup during the winter months. Somehow it has not felt quite the same has it? Or is that just me?
As it comes to what feels like the halfway point of the season, there couldn’t have been a better start for us this season. I’ll say time and again that we were always going to struggle with the lack of another centre- forward in the squad. I’d said so, even in the summer, that attacking options were not the best they could be and it has certainly been our Achilles heel up to this point. Could we be higher in the table because of this? Absolutely. The other side of this is that others have slowly stepped up to the plate in their fair share of goals, but also there needs to be more from the rest of the squad too as well as set plays being a guaranteed goal for the opposition every time. That’s how it’s felt at times in a number of games.
The ‘boost the budget’ scheme launched by the Supporters Trust has been a brilliant initiative that I’m sure will help Sir John Askey in his need of adding players to the squad. It has worked well for the Knights in rugby league and other clubs in the national league to really help the squads and I’m sure this will do the same. I do believe the new regime has and is listening to the fans in improving every aspect of the club that they possibly can but I know all fans have been concerned with some comments in recent weeks and whatever happens this season that there is no better manager for the long term future of the club than John Askey and of course Kingsley James by his side. If it wasn’t for them we would be far worse off and it is best to remind chairman Glen Henderson of this. In terms of the second half of the season, the hope is for City to continue to improve, score more goals and finish the season as high as possible. Let’s enjoy the ride.
York City Knights
Both the World Cup and hosting games at the LNER has shown what a platform this can be for sport in this city. It may be that this could have been advertised better for shining more of a spotlight on rugby in the city with the rise of York City Knights It is all very exciting and hopefully, this is something that will continue to grow from all our clubs as a sporting city with more success in 2023.
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