“We’re top of the league”: AFC Fylde boss isn’t too downhearted despite weekend loss
AFC Fylde are back in action this evening with head coach Craig Mahon refusing to be downhearted after losing last time out.
The Coasters’ three-game winning run in National League North ended with defeat at Worksop Town on Saturday.
That result, coupled with South Shields’ win over Merthyr Town, cut Fylde’s lead at the top to one point with seven games to go.
They can re-establish a four-point advantage tonight, when Marine visit Mill Farm (7.45pm) while South Shields have a free midweek.
Mahon told Fylde’s media team: “When I went into the dressing room (at full-time), I didn’t need to raise my voice, I didn’t need to put any authority into it because you can see by the lads’ reactions – they’re gutted.
“There’s no reason for me to make it any worse than it is, they know what we want to do this year.
“Come Monday we’ve got to be a different animal again. We’ve got to realise that, for 39 games, we’re top of the league.
“Even though it’s by a point and we’d like a bit more breathing space, we’re top of the league and I said to them ‘If someone had said that to us at the start of the season, would you have been happy? Of course you would.’
“Our job for the next seven games is to make sure (we) give everything. If we lose, we lose and if we win, we win but we move on to the next one quickly.
“The other night against Hereford (4-1 win), we didn’t get too high with it and today, because we lose, we don’t get too low with it.”