Captain's Blog
Lyon: We still have a job to do
Published by Gillingham Ladies Media on April 20, 2010
Captain Becky Lyon was devastated not to have closed out the League title this weekend with her side.
It was especially gutting for Becky because her side just didn’t perform on the afternoon and put in one of their poorest performances of the season.
Talking after the game, she said: “It would have been a completely different game if Farms header had gone in and we had a couple of shouts for a penalty.
“One of them was a bit dubious but one of them without a doubt was a penalty. It is things like this that we have to pick ourselves up from and move forward with.
“We have Norwich at home next and we know that if we beat them then we have done it, we didn’t want to have to do it that way but it looks like we are going to have to. We have to do the job there and we can go away happy people.
“We have got chances to win it but the team we are and the way we have been playing we should have to do that. We shouldn’t have left it and should have got the job done today. All credit to Spurs they did play well but they are no match for us on our day when we do play well.
There was a distinct lack of communication out there on the field at times and the Captain thinks that is because of the pressure of knowing what they have to do.
She added: “I think it is down to people knowing that we only need two points and everyone is a bit like well we will get it and Ian said we need to change our attitude.
“We are going to have to work for it now; it isn’t just going to fall at our feet, and the girls now know that Sunday is a massive game. We will look forward to Sunday and train hard this week and get the job done, we cannot afford to mess around anymore.
“On a good day we can beat any team in this League and we have shown that but every team has their off days. It just seems at the moment as though we are having a bit of an off run but we will pick it up and do what we need to do.”
The Gills have only lost twice in the League now this season, but it came at the worst possible time for them in the season.
“It is a shame that it had to happen today that we lost again, everyone knew today was going to be tough and we went out with the wrong attitude, we deserved to lose.
“In the first half we weren’t that good and in the second half we were just awful, across every position and though we had injuries it was no excuse. It was a lovely small pitch to play on and we could have easily put four or five past them on our day.
“It was a small pitch but it was a nice surface to play on and we have had excuse after excuse about bumpy pitches over recent weeks. We had a pitch there today that would have suited our game and we just had the wrong mindset.
“We look forward to next week now and play against Norwich how we know we can; I can see us winning well against them after we have been on such an awful run.”