Neil Roberts - We must do the business
By Gareth Bicknell, Daily Post
19 October 2007
NEIL
ROBERTS said his Wrexham team-mates would ignore talk of a threat to Brian
Carey’s job and “do the business” against Barnet tomorrow.
Carey’s side host the high-flying promotion candidates in the midst of
speculation surrounding the manager’s future, with Dragons chairman Neville
Dickens demanding that results improve soon.
But club captain Roberts said the players needed no extra motivation to start
winning games, and would be looking to begin a winning run at the Racecourse
tomorrow.
Dickens has said Carey’s position as manager would come under scrutiny if
Wrexham, currently third from bottom of League Two and one point above the
relegation places, didn’t pick up their game.
But Roberts said last night: “Brian’s desperate for us to go on a winning run
and all the lads are desperate for it as well.
“But you should be able to motivate yourself anyway – I’ve always been told you
should play every game as if it’s your last.
“It’s just a case of us going out there on Saturday and trying to forget about
what’s been said. It’s about us doing the business on the park on Saturday, and
we’ve got the chance to do that.”
Wrexham threw away a chance to secure a third league win in four games last
Saturday when they lost at Macclesfield after leading 2-0. Roberts said Dickens
was right to demand an improvement – and insisted Carey knows that as well as
anybody.
“At the end of the day the chairman’s right in what he says,” he added. “You are
judged on your results and our results haven’t been good enough. But the
gaffer’s fully aware of the situation – he doesn’t live in a bubble.”
He said his team-mates would ensure there was no repeat of the debacle against
Macclesfield, when the Dragons were within two minutes of winning the game but
conceded two late goals to slip to their seventh league defeat of the season.
“We know how much that hurt us, so that should dictate that we don’t let it
happen,” the striker said. “Some people were saying that was worse than when we
got battered 4-0 by Chesterfield because we had the three points in our own
hands and through our own fault we chucked it away.
“We didn’t play too badly against Macclesfield but we could have defended a lot
better throughout the team, and that’s something we’ve been working on.
“We’ve just got to be confident and do our job on Saturday, and if we do that
we’ll be all right.”