Morpeth Town boss Craig Lynch highlights 'positives' in first win of preseason

Morpeth Town boss Craig Lynch has admitted that his side are still bringing themselves up to speed after securing their first win of preseason over Seaham Red Star on Tuesday evening.

After suffering a 3-2 loss in their first outing of the summer at the hands of North Shields over the weekend, the Highwaymen bounced back with a commanding victory over their Wearside opponents in midweek. Goals from Will Dowling, Adam Lennox, and Ryan Chater were ultimately enough wrap up a comfortable night’s work.

And speaking after the final whistle, Lynch suggested that while there are still areas in which he would like to see improvement from his squad, by and large he was pleased with Town’s showing.

He said: “Look, it's everything we thought it would have been coming here tonight. I've played for Colli [Mark Collingwood], I know he gets his teams right up for it, whether it's a friendly or not, and tonight was exactly what we needed. Again, starting the game off, we just wanted to see a couple of things in both the first two friendlies, and we got a little bit more tonight. There were a couple of things I wasn't too pleased about, but again, it's only the second game.

”Great goal by Dowers. When we do things properly, and we do things that we know we can do, we can produce moments like that, because we've got players who have got the quality to do it.

“Second half, it was just kind of getting the game going again - we made six, seven changes on the 60th minute mark - and then Adam Lennox, great running behind, won a penalty, great penalty. And Ryan Chater has done brilliant to finish it off to make it 3-0

“So, a lot of positives, but a lot to work on - again, preseason is for that. I've tried not to give too much information too early. Like I said, we did a couple of things we wanted to work on, then the rest was just me sitting for as much as I could without shouting on, trying to see what we needed to do in training, and to prepare for the next games.”