NPL Division One East
Vill Powell plans to bolster his Brighouse Town squad at some point in the next two weeks.
Brighouse have enjoyed a positive start to the season but Powell wants to improve his defensive options.
“There’s a couple of irons in the fire,” Powell told Non League Yorkshire.
“I’m in the market for a centre-half and we’re trying to get a few bits over-the-line.
“We should have more on that towards the end of the month.
“In terms of recruitment (a centre-half is) the main area for us at the minute.”
Brighouse are tenth with ten points from seven matches in the unforgiving NPL Division One East.
Given the competitiveness of the league, it is a good return.
Powell is happy but feels there is more to come from his men.
“It is a good start but without being greedy I’m disappointed with ten points,” he said.
“There has been two or three games where we should have had turned draws into wins.
“Unfortunately we didn’t but we’re still in a good place in terms of the points we have got.
“It has been a good start and I am pleased with it but as a manager you always want more.
“You can never be satisfied as that’s when you become stale.
“I still feel we have more to give.
“The main message (to the players) is to be consistent.
“In terms of results and picking up points we are in a nice flow.
“We just have to be consistent.
“We have some tough games coming up after the FA Trophy in high-flying Marske who are one of the favourites for the league and then Stocksbridge, Worksop.
“The next month is going to be tough but we need to be consistent and be tough to beat.”
Powell also agrees that the league has lived up to its summer billing.
“We played Bridlington on Monday and Pickering the week before and they were both all-guns blazing,” he said.
“You would not have thought they were at the foot of the table.
“This season everyone is fighting for it and if you don’t turn up you’ll get beat or you’ll struggle.
“Literally anybody can beat anybody.
“It doesn’t matter if you’re first or 19th.
“It is certainly the most competitive league I’ve managed in.
“Since I have been at Brighouse we have been in the East and West and you always had a top six and the rest of the teams have filled the league up.
“It is not like that this season.
“There’s no sandwich fillers.
“Everyone is pretty much on par.”
Brighouse won on Monday night against Bridlington and Powell felt it was a deserved three points.
“On reflection and on my feeling on the side we just weren’t clinical enough at times,” he said.
“We were huffing and puffing and we needed to be better in the final third.
“I did think we deserved to win overall, certainly with amount of the football we had.
“Although I don’t think we used it as well as we have done in other games.
“With the chances and the pressure we created we should have had a couple more to be honest.
“I was pleased with the performance and result.”
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