Crewe grit call – York City manager Gary Mills

10:37am Saturday 29th September 2012 in Sport Photograph of the Author By Dave Flett, Sports reporter

City boss Gary Mills has high hopes City boss Gary Mills has high hopes

YORK City manager Gary Mills has cited the example of last season’s League Two play-off winners Crewe for anybody concerned by his team’s current position in the table.

The Minstermen lie 15th going into this afternoon’s away match with Aldershot eight games into the 2012/13 campaign.

But Mills has reiterated that the season is still in its infancy and highlighted how Crewe recovered from losing their first four games last term before finishing seventh in the standings to secure the division’s final play-off spot.

The Railwaymen went on to beat Cheltenham at Wembley to win promotion to League One and Mills, whose team have been without a victory from their last four matches, is in no mood to panic as his team play their final game of September.

He said: “We have to get back on the winning trail but you can look at the last few results in two ways.

“We’ve only lost once since the opening day of the season and I’m going to look at what Crewe finished up with last season before they won the play-offs.

“We have started reasonably well and I think our performances have justified more points.

“We’ve not scraped any of those points by being lucky and I believe we should have had more.”

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Crewe ended last season with 72 points by winning 20, drawing 12 and losing 14 of their 46 matches.

The Minstermen have won two, lost two and drawn four of their first eight games back in the Football League.

Meanwhile, out-of-favour striker Liam Henderson has been loaned out to Blue Square Bet North outfit Gainsborough Trinity and was in line to make his debut at home to Corby this afternoon.

Comments(10)

duffy says...
11:06am Sat 29 Sep 12

I don't agree that "we should have had more". Many if the games could have gone either way with as many late goals by us as our rivals. Having watched the home games we are probably around where we should be at this point.

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Some old bloke says...
1:45pm Sat 29 Sep 12

I have to agree with Duffy - did I really say that?

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duffy says...
5:04pm Sat 29 Sep 12

Very, very important to get that win today, a defeat and it could have started to get slightly worrying.

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Southern Exile says...
7:09pm Sat 29 Sep 12

Deserved win today, even first half but by far the better team after the break, Chris Smith MOM for me, other good performances Walker, Blair, Fyfield, Parslow after nobody was really under par except perhaps being very harsh Coulson but that looked more of a tactical sub to be fair... Good turn out for City 357 and good 3pts as a tough run coming, reckon we'll get 4pts out of next 3 games but it could be any combination!

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Even AndyD says...
8:36pm Sat 29 Sep 12

duffy wrote:
Very, very important to get that win today, a defeat and it could have started to get slightly worrying.
But win on Tuesday and things are looking decidedly exciting. Would have settled for a W4 D4 L2 out of the first ten.

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paddymacwakey says...
10:00pm Sat 29 Sep 12

i am sure york were at aldershot today.where the hell is the match report.

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GreenshawGrinder says...
1:13am Sun 30 Sep 12

Lost in cyberspace?

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sam the keeper says...
12:31pm Sun 30 Sep 12

Its good that Gary is talking up our chances however if the season were to finish now I for one would be happy with our league position.
In my opinion our priority for this season is all about maintaining our league status and not dropping back into the conference.
If we achieve that we should regard it as a successful season, anything else is a bonus.

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oldmanvecrayke says...
4:48pm Sun 30 Sep 12

sam the keeper wrote:
Its good that Gary is talking up our chances however if the season were to finish now I for one would be happy with our league position. In my opinion our priority for this season is all about maintaining our league status and not dropping back into the conference. If we achieve that we should regard it as a successful season, anything else is a bonus.
I agree, at the beginning of the season, I did think we'd go straight up, and hope we still do, but there are alot of good sides in this division so a top half finish would be a good season, promotion would be fantastic.

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skilly says...
9:59am Mon 1 Oct 12

Yes I agree with above comments, the league table is very tight at the moment so there will be lots of movement up and down. Hopefully ours will be upwards and if we can remain difficult to beat it bodes well for a top half finish

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