Sittingbourne head to Sussex for the second time this week, and boss Ryan Maxwell will be hoping for a better trip but the same result after the Brickies 2-0 win over Chichester City on Tuesday.
The Brickies were delayed on their trip to Chichester’s temporary home in Bognor Regis making their performance even sweeter for the boss and the small band of hardy supporters who also braved the midweek Sussex traffic nightmares.
Looking forward to Saturday’s trip to Lancing, Maxwell told us, “We have to keep doing what we have been doing; what we have been doing is working, we cannot come off of that at all, and why would we? We need to make sure that we are consistent.”
“We needed a little bit of TLC after Tuesday before the weekend just to get everyone fit and healthy as possible, but we will look forward to it! We know that they are a good side; we know that they can hurt you. They score goals, they scored a number of goals recently against Three Bridges so that is obvious.”
“We will not be taking them lightly that is for sure, we will have to be at our very best again to get a positive result! We are in a good place, but we will not get carried away!”
The Brickies will go into the game ten games unbeaten after goals from Jean-Baptiste Fischer and Donvieve Jones beat Chichester; “It was a tremendous result against a good side on Tuesday,” the Brickies boss said.
“Chichester are a good footballing team who get the ball down, stick to their principles and are very dangerous with some good, talented players and if you are not fully switched on, they will punish you!
“It was a fantastic away performance, miles away after a nightmare journey. We were incredibly late arriving and to be able to still turn that performance out was fantastic!”
“Momentum is gathering, we are running into some good form, and we have played some of the good sides as well. To play the top sides in this League and to come away with three points regularly is absolutely massive, none bigger that Tuesday night if I am honest!”
“We have now played six of the other teams around us in the top eight and that says a lot, to come out of the run of playing the top teams and to sit where we sit in third place, we have got to be happy with.
“Tuesday though was the biggest win and toughest one aside from the logistics and the traffic which put us so behind! They all add up to the sweetness of the win at the end, it was a tremendous performance, incredibly disciplined and one of the best performances I have had as a manager!”
“The biggest testament that I can say about this group is around JB (Jean-Baptiste Fischer). He scored and then had to come off after half an hour. He was disappointed for no more than thirty seconds, he sat down and within thirty seconds was involved in the game supporting his team-mates and no-one was happier than him with the win.
“It was great to see and hear him supporting his team because we are a team, we are a group, we are united and it is a cliché that “there is no “I” in team,” but it’s very true at this Club and the comradery on and off the pitch is second to none!”
Maxwell then paid tribute to the Brickies travelling supporters who made the near one-hundred-and-fifty-mile round trip on a cold Tuesday night. “I know that the twenty or so supporters who travelled on Tuesday didn’t have to travel as far as me, but they had a hell of a journey as well!” the Brickies boss said.
“Tuesday night, November, away to Bognor is a distance for anyone to take on, and I cannot take those who went enough. It was a shock when I eventually got to the ground to see the fans sitting in the bar, I had to go and say hello and thank them for making the journey.
“Then when the game kicked off there was more of them behind the goal, so we made sure to go and say thank you to everyone! Believe me, it made the win even sweeter to celebrate it with them!”