Faversham Town boss James Collins has had a frustrating start to his reign at Salters Lane, with the club’s win over East Grinstead in their last game before football was suspended, the Lilywhites first win in thirteen games.

Like most other managers, Collins was left frustrated once the FA called time on the season as he admitted to KSN.

“Wasn’t the way that I wanted to finish the season obviously,” he told us.

“But at least we won our last game against East Grinstead which at the time allayed any fears of relegation. So, it was nice to get a game in then and “finish” with a win, but it is a tough time for everyone and rightly football has to take a backseat.”

“Whatever decisions people have made we’ve got to go with it and wait until we have to start playing again.”

“I was surprised how quickly the decision was made! It made me think that there was possible information that the current situation is going to go on for a lot longer than some people anticipate.”

“That’s the only thing that I can think of – I would have hated to have had to make the decision. Fortunately, at Faversham we’re not in a position where we have a lot of players under contract.”

“But obviously we’re losing money from crowds and the hosting of Cup Finals this time of year, I really don’t know what the best decision was.”

“I thought it would have been left a bit later – I for one think that the season should have been finished, that’s my personal opinion, although eventually someone will probably tell me one day why we weren’t able to.”

“I’m not saying that I’m right; from a football manager’s point of view I think the season should be finished, whether that rolls into the season that follows, whatever that may be I think I would have liked to have seen the season finish!”

“I’m surprised that the FA didn’t wait to see what happened with the pro game, but they’ve obviously got their reasons and people far more qualified to make the decisions than me.”

“I really don’t think that they would have won whichever decision they finally made. I don’t know the implications for clubs with players on contracts – it’s a very uncertain time for everyone and we have to go with what the authorities tell us.”

So, what now? Next season? Collins admitted, “I’ve spoken to Nick this week (Nick Davis, the Faversham assistant boss) about next season, but I really don’t know if people want to talk about football do they?”

“I’m not saying that I don’t but in terms of people committing themselves, they don’t know what they’re doing with their livelihoods at the moment people have got more important things to worry about.”

“So, I suppose in that sense it does… I’ve not spoken to anyone, but people have got more important things to worry about, but the way things are going will next season even start… I’ve spoken to my Chairman and we assume that it’s going to start, but everything is so much up in the air at the moment!”

“When we eventually get the OK and get some dates, I’m sure it’ll be easier to plan as there’s just a lot of unanswered questions at the moment.”

“The thing that I’ve learned about this is that the circumstances seem to be changing on a daily basis – until the Country gets to grips with the disease, I suppose everyone is just in limbo with everything aren’t we?”

“Everyone is struggling to come to terms with it and you’ve just got to get through it the best you can and hope that the people in power are doing the right thing, and hopefully normality will return as soon as possible!”