Morpeth Town hope to unveil new signing to ease injury problems
Morpeth Town could have a new face in the side for Saturday’s game.
The NPL Premier side are waiting for international clearance to go through as they look to bolster the squad.
Craig Lynch’s side were again beset by injuries, with Louis Stevenson and Joel Holvey both out of the defence at Workington last weekend.
The appearance of Liam Miller back in the side after a lengthy spell out injured was one positive for the Town gaffer.
“It was fantastic to see Millsy back in,” he said.
“It’s been about 18 months since he played for us and he’s had a little loan spell at Ashington. You’re just hoping he’s fit and fair play to him.
“We’ve just signed someone and we’re waiting for international clearance, so he couldn’t play. Billy Gordon stepped in there last week but he’s not fully fit, so it was a great game for Millsy to come in and it’s done him the world of good.”
“He was cramping up, that’s why he’s had to come off, and, again, he would have stayed on with how he was playing as he was doing brilliantly. So that was key, it was fantastic to see him back in, we’ve just got to build him back up now, but it was a good game for him to come back into and he did really well.”
Lynch said the defeat in West Cumbria was ‘a hard one to take’ after his side were hit by another piece of misfortune.
“It’s a pitch-related mistake. A ball has been played over the top and it’s running away from the goal.
“Langa’s has come out and the ball has skidded past him. When your luck is down, your luck is down, but you’ve got to make your own luck,” he continued.
“Twenty-two lads going hammer and tong on a pitch that was old school – it’s nice to see, you don’t get that nowadays, a proper old school football match. It had 0-0 written all over it really.
“They went down to 10 men then had that 10-man lift for five minutes and I thought if we just kept the way we were doing things that would fizzle out and we’d get back in.
“Teams have got a chance against us because we don’t really look like scoring. There were claims for an equaliser from the corner but the lineman hasn’t given it and we should have scored prior to that, and we should have scored after that.
“We’ve just not got any conviction in front of goal.”