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BLUES boss Garl Garner is already sowing the seeds for next, season.


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Gamer certainly isn’t getting ^way, with his side just


10 points from the drop zone, but he is keen to get a head start by extending that cushion before getting the bulk of his


current crop to commit to the club. , TTie transition at the start of


this campaign seriously dam- ‘ aged his side’s progression in terms o f performances and re­ sults, and Gamer is determined to prevent history from being


repeated by formulating a set- • tied squ ad o f players. ” , The goal now is to keep our -


heads down, work hard and - • pick up as many points as we. -


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can to stay away from the trap door,” said Gamer. “If we pick up enough points then we can


start planning ahead for next season.


, ‘ - ' “The task for myself and


Lee is to identify the'players in the current sqii'ad who are


■ good enough to compete at the top end o f this table. We need to keep hold of those who are' capable o f taking us in to the , region o f the top six.. Then we have to .find replacements for the ones that can’t.” ■


. Garner'adde.d: “Our full


strength squad is Very, decent. ' We will give anyone a game and. I don’t think we’re too faf bff in v- terms o f personnel. We would


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■ like a big powerful stnker iri the ■ camp who can work as a target


man arid maybe bhe. more'at-- tacking option downrthe right hand side. We want to put our-' selves in a strong position for


. ei^erienced heads to complete : the jigsaw.’^ ; The Christmas period saw


ing-to defeat in cbntfbversial ■


the Blues beat Lancaster City 2-0;On Boxing Day before fall­


.circurnstances away at Durham ■ City vyheri Elliot Cutts’s eighth ■


minute strike was adjudged to ■ have crossed the line.' ' It s, been a mixed bag over *.


Christmas,” Garner said; “Bu t -i we’ve taken six poirits ffom oiif last three games and we were definitely worth a point against


Durham.'iye’fe not even con-


• yinced.lthat we conceded in '■ that gamebecause the referee


• ■ the summer and recruit more ■


, .waved plfy: on but the linesman ' flagge'd to say that the ball had .'crossed theline.” . ■


' ^tided; “I’m happy with


-six points'though’and would have, taken that going in to


, the mn of matches, bearing in


mind we’ve been without Chris Smalley, Marlon Broomes, '


. James'Daws and Lee P i i^ . But the squad is healthy in terms of numbers.”


-■ The latest success saw Clit- '


, heroe open 2012 with a bang Shajybridge. Despite trail­


ing . to iJbnathan Maloney’s strikedt the interval, the Blues fought back with threie goals in the final quarter-of-an-houf


■ Ashley Parillon.


courte^ of Marcus Calvert and drace'from the prolific


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■ “It was a good win at hotne to . start the year but it was a funny


We didn t equah'se until the last :


game,” said Garner. “We’ve been the better side throu^dut P°or goal-


l-> minutes and went on to win comfortably after missing a bag It’s a good start


“All the sides at the too ramus Fylde, are struggliiiE


for form at the moment while " teams around us are winning so It s been vital for us to pick uo


points. It s almost been a com--- plete^tum around in form; it’s ' a strange one. It goes to show that there are no easy games.”


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