Touchline team return to turn around season

Rainworth Miners Welfare believe that former Hucknall Town and Grantham Town management duo Gary Sucharewycz and Ian Robinson are the perfect pair to turn around their EVO-STIK League campaign.

They took charge at Kirklington Road for the first time on Saturday after succeeding Dean Short in midweek. He left the Wrens after less than three weeks in the hot-seat after stepping up from assistant manager on the eve of the new First Division South season following the surprise departure of player manager Scott Rickards.

Despite getting off to losing start after Chasetown earned all three points with a 2-1 win on Non-League Day 2014, the new Wrens management double act, pictured, are backing themselves to repay the club’s faith with their successful record in crisis management at the Gingerbreads after stepping in midway through the season to secure the club's top flight status.

The Wrens have collected just one point from four league games and have exited the FA Cup and the Doodson Sport Cup but Sucharewycz believes they have all the tools they need to succeed at their third club since entering management together two years ago at Hucknall Town.

He said: "Rainworth have a fantastic set up for this level of football so we are hoping to attract some good players who will, first of all, keep us in this division, and then go on from there.

"We took over at Hucknall Town when they were in a crisis situation and were starting to turn their results around until the money dried up altogether. Then we moved on to Grantham with the remit to keep them in the Premier Division, which we did, but unfortunately we weren't then given the chance to carry out the next phase of our plans there the following season.

"It's going to be like a new pre-season for the club with players learning to gel, but while that will need time, one thing we can have from day one is that everyone takes responsibility on the pitch, all are leaders in their own right, and everyone shows the work rate and commitment required, because that can take us a long way even while players are getting to know one another."

Robinson added: "It's gone well with a lot of new lads introduced, including a couple of young professionals on a month's loan from Notts County, while the lads who were already here have wanted to impress us too."

Image courtesy of Dave Birt