Exeter City playing the ‘team game’ in bid for success and hope for another rocking SJP atmosphere
“I think, if we are going to be successful, then the resources that we’ve got and size of squad that we’ve got, the players need to know that it’s not about them, it’s about us.”
Manager Gary Caldwell has previously spoken of key principles he, his coaching staff and the Exeter City players strive to adhere to and his assistant, Kevin Nicholson, has been speaking about another ahead of today’s League One clash with Northampton Town at St James Park: It’s all about the team.
Long gone are the days that you have a starting XI and substitutes and players being dropped to the bench. Now, City are all about starters and finishers with Nicholson striving the importance of football at SJP being a squad game.
“You only have to look at Tuesday night,” Nicholson said in reference to Exeter’s superb 1-0 Carabao Cup win over Premier league Luton Town. “Sweenz (Pierce Sweeney) has played pretty much every minute, but he finds himself as a finisher, he comes on at a time where we needed someone with his skill set to relieve a bit of pressure and get the ball up the pitch with some quality. I think it was 0-0 when he came on and we won the game 1-0.
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“He came on and did his job, he led, and he spoke to the team before we went out, he led in the warm-up, he led as a character and it was exactly what we needed from a player who is one of the captains of the team.
