Captains Column - Interview with Nathan Clarke

Obviously delighted with the result, we had a couple of chances beforehand. One certainly first half that hit the post. And you are just questioning whether, it's going to be our time to get one. And, thankfully, I thought Jamie Allen, the previous games has been absolutely fantastic for us. And he deserves it, he works tremendously hard. And, I'm delighted for him, for the squad. You know, it's a draw. But, hopefully that's the turning point for us.

I think we've said in there, you know, yes. It is a draw. It's only a point, but it's a point in the right direction. And, the performance again, was really good against the team who are going to be there challenging. So, we've got to take a lot of heart and pride in what we've been working on.

I think it works against us not having fans here. Certainly, the way the fans react with us and get behind us, it's a massive miss. And, yes, when can they come back? We're desperate for them to get back in and really get behind us in this in this season.

Just stick with us. We’re desperately trying hard to do well for the team. And, all the new players are working tremendously hard, again, trying to make something happen. Make us kick start this league this season, and like I said, stick with us. I know that they're watching back home. And again, full credit to the chairman on, getting the top of the range streaming equipment, which is done. So that's a massive credit for him and the club.

It was massive to have more lads back. It's just nice, I guess, for the manager as well to look back. And, you’ve seen the two changes that came on. Again fantastic, Gevaro who has been away on international duty, is a good welcome back. And he's looking fitter and sharper. And again, Jack Earing missed out with obviously covid and things, and he's coming back and looking stronger. So, it is positive the players are coming back to help and push the club forward.

Torquay is a chance to again get a result, another home game. So, we need to turn our home form into some results and some wins. And that'll be no different Saturday. They’re coming off some really good results. I think they've had a good result tonight as well, which I'm sure we'll go home and do our homework on them and see where we can exploit. And make sure we stop up all their strengths. And the same old really, I think it's one of them leagues where it's a little bit stop start at the moment. We are desperate to get a little bit of rhythm and hopefully this draw can do that for us.

I'm obviously a little bit disappointed just in where we are in the league, I guess. But again, it's just been so hard, hasn't it, with injuries and with this covid, it's been really frustrating for the manager just being able to get a bit of a rhythm going. It has been really hard, but no, I'm really positive. You know, I'm looking at the squad and looking at the players coming back is a massive chance for us to do something special this season.