WARNING against a whimpering, Audley Harrison-like demise, Wayne Buchanan says if Blyth Spartans are to go down they must do so fighting, writes STEVE BROWN.
The Croft Park club have produced four improved performances, after initial back-to-back defeats, under new manager Tommy Cassidy (pictured far right).
Yet they have accrued only three points from those games and remain second bottom of Blue Square Bet North with only two wins all season.
However, as the Spartans travel to 11th-placed Droylsden today having taken positives from recent displays, Buchanan preached defiance. He said: “We will not give up, definitely not. With these fans, they will not let you give up anyway. You have to go out fighting, you have to go out swinging.
“If you are going to go down, you have to go with a fight. There is no point in just letting it go.
“I suppose it is like a boxing match. Everybody said about Audley Harrison and David Haye, he (Harrison) did not go in and have a go.
“We have to and if we keep doing so who knows?
“We have players with a lot of ability. It just does not seem to be going for us, but you have to make your own luck.
“So if we just keep battling, hopefully we will be the ones on the end of a last-minute decision to turn the corner for us.”
On Tuesday, Blyth were 1-0 up in the fifth of five added minutes when visitors Altrincham equalised with a needlessly-conceded penalty. Buchanan added: “We do not have time to dwell on it.
“There are not enough games to sit and say ‘ah well, we could have had this and that’. We just have to look to Saturday’s game.
“After everything we put into the game, not just on Tuesday but the last four when we have come away with three points, we could have been looking at maximum points.
“That could have taken us out of the relegation zone and had us looking up to mid-table.
“We can take positives from Tuesday night.
“But, as everyone knows, we are running out of games, so we need to start getting wins on the board. Droylsden is one of those places and we have done well there in the past.”
