Rangers go for all-out attack
Stafford Rangers fans will be in for a treat of attacking football if Saturday's 4-3 defeat at Aldershot Town is any guide.
Stafford Rangers fans will be in for a treat of attacking football if Saturday's 4-3 defeat at Aldershot Town is any guide.
The team rattled the Blue Square Premier leaders as they pressed forward at every opportunity to score three goals in a league game for the first time this season.
Caretaker managers Neil Grayson and Kevin Street have introduced a more relaxed atmosphere since taking charge and the players responded by producing arguably their best performance for some while.
Grayson, who scored a spectacular goal to level things up at 3-3, agreed and added: "To come away with nothing is disappointing but the lads know what we can do now.
"We can take a lot of positives from the game. In training we need to work on things that cost us a couple of goals and be tighter next week.
"We had a talk on the pitch at the end of the game. We were obviously all upset not to have won.
"But every single player was saying 'we know what to do now, know what we are capable of doing' and now they need to repeat it week in week out."
Grayson, who had not yet applied for the job on a full-time basis, is warming to the task he and Street have been given.
"I'm enjoying management at the moment. We had a good performance as well last week so the job looks good while everything is going right so I might fancy the job.
"Being the player-manager is all right. During the game, I may be shout a bit more than I have done. Before and after the game I do think a lot more about team selection and set pieces. When I am playing, I just get on with the game."
They only worry Grayson may have at the moment is the small squad he has to work with. Just sixteen fit players were available at Aldershot including youth team goalkeeper Danny Allen who has been promoted to the first-team squad.
But injuries picked up by both Nathan Smith and Samy Mawene may make team selection a real headache when Ossett Town visit Marston Road on Saturday for an FA Trophy tie.
l Former Stafford Assistant David Oldfield has been appointed the new manager of BGB Southern League Premier side Brackley Town, ending a brief spell as a player with Tamworth.
