Little keeping quiet on his big decisions

By Mark Currie, Daily Post

29 April 2008

WREXHAM manager Brian Little is unlikely to make any further player announcements until after Saturday’s last match of the season at Lincoln City.

The Dragons boss last week told 14 players they were not part of his plans to rebuild the squad in preparation for the new territory of the Blue Square Premier League.

But after fielding a young and inexperienced side in Saturday’s 3-1 defeat at the hands of Accrington Stanley, he admitted the jury was still out in respect of some of those involved.

“First and foremost we still have one game to play this coming Saturday, which takes precedence,” he said.

“But the Accrington game proved to be a long, hard day’s work for the lads. Some are under contract and one or two will be out of contract and we wanted to see if they have the potential to be part of what we are aiming to do next season.

“In some cases there is still something to prove and, hard though it is, even young players have to understand that we are in a tough business, especially so when you keep losing matches.”

Little conceded that Wrexham had made life difficult for themselves by once again conceding an early goal that dented any confidence.

“What we needed to see was that they would not be affected by the mistake, but that was not the case and we were poor for some time afterwards,” he added.

“The same players had done really well against Notts County the previous week, though it has to be said County missed a couple of early chances and we benefited from that.

“We had a little period of better play in the second half, but another mistake caused heads to drop again.”

Little is likely to stick with a largely unchanged squad at Sincil Bank, having told five players not to come in this week.

Richard Hope, Michael Proctor, Anthony Williams, Sam Aiston and Silvio Spann are the contracted players deemed surplus to requirements by the Racecourse boss.

“I’ve told them to go away and think about their futures,” he said.

“Most of them could do a job elsewhere, but collectively it hasn’t worked out for them here and it may be a move will see some or all of them go on and do well.

“Until that time they remain under contract with Wrexham so I’ve also told them that if they are still here next season they will have to return with a very different mentality.

“As for new faces, I know supporters are anxious to learn more about our plans and I can assure them we are not sitting on our hands. There is plenty happening behind the scenes and we’ll go into detail when we have something concrete to say.”

With one of two of Saturday’s side nursing minor knocks yesterday, the only positive news from Colliers Park was that defender Carl Tremarco is back in training after missing the last nine matches through injury.