My ambition is to push on every year, says Tonbridge Angels boss Tommy Warrilow

The Angels climbed up into ninth-place in the Blue Square Bet (Conference) South table following their hard-fought 1-0 home win over Havant & Waterlooville on Tuesday night.

The Hampshire outfit arrived at Longmead Stadium on an eight match unbeaten run, but Frannie Collin’s first half penalty – and a string of fine saves from goalkeeper Lee Worgan -  ensured the Angels grabbed the points to move to within five points off fifth-placed Chelmsford City.

But Warrilow, the club’s most successful manager, revealed he has bare bones to pick from for Saturday’s home game against Maidenhead United.

The Angels will be without full-backs Danny Walder and Henry Muggeridge against The Magpies.

Warrilow said: “Whether we’ll freshen it up on Saturday we’ll see because it was heavy going out there on Tuesday night. We’ll get more of a feeling of it on Thursday when they’re all  training but we haven’t got an abundance of players for Saturday because I’ve got a couple of suspensions.  We might be back to the bare bones on Saturday.”

After losing 2-0 away to Weston-super-Mare last weekend and bouncing back against Havant & Waterlooville in midweek, the Longmead faithful would like three points again against a side in tenth-place.

“Listen, the way we’ve gone this season, I’d like to say we’d follow it up with back-to-back wins but you just don’t know,” said Warrilow.

“I’m not going to get too carried away with it.  We’ll go Saturday and give 100% to try to get another win.

“My ambition is to push on every year in trying my best. This year is going to be hard. We’ve finished ninth last year, which was a massive overachievement, which everyone recognised when the season finished, but when you do that people’s expectation levels obviously rise.

“I set my standards high. I’m not going to say we want to finish eighth because we finished ninth. I’m a realist. We’ve got nineteen games left, that’s 57 points to play for and that’s the target. If we lose that it’s 54 and so on and so on.”

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Tonbridge Angels  v  Maidenhead United
Blue Square Bet South
Saturday 12^th January 2013
Kick Off 3:00pm
at Longmead Stadium, Darenth Avenue, Tonbridge, Kent TN10 3JF