The Seadogs Podcast Ep 64 - HARRY GREEN SAYS FANS ARE KEY TO PLAYOFF PUSH

The Sea Dogs podcast. All things Scarborough Athletic FC, this is the coast.

Hello and welcome to episode 64 of the Sea Dogs podcast. All things Scarborough Athletic

FC, hosted by me, Lifelongborough fan Paddy Billingson. From this is the coast, the radio

station bringing you so much commentary of every Scarborough game home and away this

season. Coming up Harry Green tells me it's all systems go for a playoff push and fans

are key. Well we 100% won playoff something all the fans are going to be a massive part

of that because like today we heard him and pushed his on right at the very end and it's

massive for all the boys we all even. Trevor Ball believes. Yeah you never know what's

down the corner, you're just going to keep the faith. Next up for Scarborough is Heriford

at home on Tuesday night. John says it will be a tougher test than it was away from

home recently. All that and more coming up on episode 64 of the Sea Dogs podcast on Spotify

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too. You can ask your Alexa to play the latest episode of the Sea Dogs podcast and it should

do just that. Well what a game of football it was on Saturday at the mounting system stadium

in Bridlington, Scarborough really unlucky not to secure all three points against Mackelsfield.

We scored more goals against Mackelsfield than both Crystal Palace and Brentford of the

Premier League did and what a understrike it was from Steve Walker who got his 14th and

15th goals of the season on Saturday. Now nicely brought down. Walker goes to the

chip. Oh it's an absolute beauty. He received the ball and farmers he liked just gently

scooped the keeper who was a little off his line. That is a man in four scoring his 14th of the

season. He looks at what he wanted to do as soon as he got the ball there. What a strike. What a

strike from Steve Walker. Now obviously a low point in the game was the sending off of Alex

Perver for a high boot. My first reaction was I thought it was going to be a yellow card.

But that will be Brown's all day long. He's done well there in Perver on the chase.

Get a high foot in there and that's going to be a card. That is going to be a card and it is

a red card, a straight red card for Perver. It was a very very high foot. Dangerous says the

referee in Scarborough down to ten men there. Yeah wasn't too sure at first about the concept

of having watched you back. Well there can't be too many arguments I don't think. But what I do

think was really scandalous was what Paul who was videoing the game called a rugby tackle on

Harry Green. Oh lovely little one two there and now green is the penalty area shooting penalty.

Well he looked to be completely bar set the way there. That was a rugby tackle. Well I don't know

how that hasn't been given. Yeah and having watched that back. Well will you ever see a clear

repellency in your life not given and that could have seen Scarborough take a three one lead.

Anyway just after the match I did catch up with Harry Green who did a lot of running on Saturday.

Well played today. How was the game for you? It was very tough but I think the lads

like dug in and you're seeing the end well and went out on our feet so good point in the end but

shame to come away with not all three. Yeah what were your thoughts on the sending off?

It's one of them it's like could be given and could not be given like the rest made his mind up

and I have to stick with it in the end but I think it's harsh. So obviously a bit of disappointment

that we didn't hold on to the three points but everyone must be really proud of it. What was a

really great performance though wasn't it? Yeah well we come out second after the better team and

it looked like we were going to go on in Scarborough. Obviously with Perv's going off with the red card

like I think it just put us on the back foot a bit and they pushed on a bit and obviously got

the goal and then it was sort of like we need a result. It's always good to see you on the ball

as well you seem to have a lot of the ball today. Yeah well it was nice today because I've

got a lot of the ball and managed to do what I'm good at and we're not people but it's a hard

work as well because you're covering pitches really bad and but yeah I was happy with my

performance today so still on level with the playoff places just looked out of it but big games

coming thick and fast now here if you don't choose to eat what your thoughts on that one as we've

just played them recently. Yeah we've got to go do what we do at their place and play a football

waiting player obviously it's going to be a lot harder on this pitch we're going to have to battle

again like we did today but if we play like we did a day it we should come the way of three points

I think and still eyes on the playoffs that's got to be the target isn't it you know and if that

happens it will be the first time and you know great to see over a thousand here today I know

matters we have brought a fair few but it must be so much better when that the crowd is in because

a lot more scabber fans say it's today as well. Yeah well we 100% want to play off some we know

the fans are going to be a massive part of that because like today we heard them and pushed

us on right at the very end and it's massive for all the boys we all hear them. Thanks each time

cheers welcome today mate and that was Harry Green speaking to me shortly after the final whistle

on Saturday the C Dog podcast coming up we'll hear the thoughts of Scarborough manager

John O'Greening ahead of the home tie against Heriford on Tuesday night the home fixture in the

league against Heriford can you call a league fixture a tie firstly though let's speak to Scarborough

Fettic chairman Trevor Ball who you might have noticed has not been on the terraces recently

and that can mean only one thing no he's not fallen out of love with the club he's sidelined

through injury. Well everybody that knows me will know that I hate missing football matches and

because I'm recovering from knee surgery I've missed the last six so I think another I might

miss the next two and then I'll be back so yeah looking forward to getting back watching football

that's for sure. Good and we're well into March now and we are still in and around the playoff

places so you must be really quite excited now I mean it's definitely not just been a flu

can we have some really good results recently and it really is all to play for isn't it?

Oh it is absolutely awesome but when you think this this time last year we thought the

the world was falling you know just with the pitch and the ground and everything else

and to come through that and and be achieving what we're achieving this year is absolutely

phenomenal so yeah absolutely lighted and as you say much to play for it's going to be

excited into the season. Good to see over a thousand at the mounting system stadium in

Brittleington on Saturday obviously Mackelsfield will have brought you know two three hundred

but I mean the atmosphere was great and I don't mean to make you feel bad for not me there but I

think the players really did respond to that atmosphere on Saturday. The players always respond to

a big crowd they feed off the atmosphere and yeah it's an old state isn't it that the crowd

can be the 12th man and I think in our case we absolutely can be so the more people can get

there the the better we can do. So we just have the sponsors evening in that video made by

Cresco featuring sponsors talking so passionate about what they get from sponsoring

Scarborough Festival it was very very powerful. I sponsor Scarborough Athletic because you want to be

part of the of the town you want to be part of the club there's the emotional side and there's

also the business side it's good to be part of the club it's good to see your name on the shirt

you go to other towns you see names on the shirts it's really exciting to be fair. That was Danny

from scholars talking very passionately about why he sponsors the club do check out that video

if you haven't seen it already is on the Scarborough Athletic social media pages and the YouTube

channel everyone wins through sponsorship the sponsor the club and the community. Well absolutely

is that time of year and where we're speaking to existing sponsors speaking to potential sponsors

we're speaking to sponsors that maybe were sponsoring us but didn't feel they could contribute

while we're in Bridlington so so yeah so we're doing the rounds really important I've said

on many occasions that the the generosity of our sponsors are under underpinning the achievements

of our football club so if anybody wants to get involved with us getting totally loads of

opportunities and of course moving back into our own ground next season opens up those opportunities

and there's going to be a real field good factor around the town I think. Yeah yeah and who knows

where we might be playing our football we never thought we were that season we did get promoted last

uh you know if you remember the start to the season or or or the turn of the new year you know some

of the results were were pretty bad you'd never have thought that come the end of the season we

would have been going up but sometimes you just need a bit of momentum and some results and and

you know a bit of fortune with with you know like how the fixtures fell to us we could have ended up

playing South Shields away in the final we ended up playing Warrington at home and you just don't know

it could be cut we could genuinely be saying this in March now we could generally be coming

back to Scarborough in the National League it's a dream but what we do we do have a good track record

of putting a run together in the scene you remember our last season at Bridlington we went the

last ten games on beaten and and got into the playoffs on the final day and as you as you rightly

say that last promotion that we had at the from England and stadium you know at Christmas it was

it was John O out and uh sack the board and everything else and that that that changed over the next

three months so yeah you never know what's on the corner you're just going to keep the faith

Greggsi Luca Colville hit the 200 appearances mark and actually what is great about this club is

that there are a number of players that have been here for years now and you know I don't know

how that compares to other teams uh around us but I imagine that Scarborough must be up there

at the top of that league table when it comes to players who who who've been at the club for

for a number of seasons which kind of says it already doesn't it well it it it is rare

I think I think we've got ten now that have made over a hundred appearances and when I talked to

other clubs about that situation they're absolutely flabbergasted because a lot of clubs seem to

operate revolving uh door system which uh doesn't really do any good but I think our our strength is

in our unity and and the the the guys to get on well together they play well together they

socialize together there is very very much on and off the field it's a team um and and it comes

really comes from the top because it's it's what John O creates John O and his management team

create that uh um that feeling of belonging to something very special we believe we're a very

special club being found zoned and volunteer on and everything else um our management team get it

and they pass on to the players they feel like they're involved in something special and they want

to deliver the best they possibly can for us and although the players are scattered around in terms

of where they live the fact that they have been there for so many seasons they are really part

the fabric of the club and and I'm sure they are now themselves you know supporters of the club

whatever happens wherever they end up in the future they will no doubt have this extremely soft

spot for Scarborough athletic and and that is key to that relationship between the players and the

fans oh it is and yeah and they and they do put themselves out you know we you know we we we

want them to in football matches first and foremost but but off the field you know that they're

very very good with uh talking to supporters and spending time and helping with promoting the football

club so uh no we're very very lucky um and and John I will tell you that part of his recruitment is

that he looks for the right fit and the right type of person to come into our club and um certainly

historically if anybody comes and he's got it wrong it didn't they don't quite fit they don't

last very long so uh yeah really a big massive credit to uh to John O for his recruitment

we've had an update as well on the pitch at the Scarborough Sports Village so we know that the uh

the grass uh for one of the better work was uh was removed uh recently probably won't be going down

anywhere else uh that's for sure um but yeah so uh and obviously people were saying well you know

when's the next stage going to happen but that is happening this week I think isn't it things getting

under way it is I've had a photograph sent sent me this morning of work we're actually working in

in the ground today so is that they're actually on site and the work has started that's great news

really really good news so we're all on course uh for uh for playing back at Scarborough uh for

the start of the season yeah and do you I mean at this stage do you think there could be any

preseason games at the Scarborough Sports Village? Well we're hoping so we're hoping so we we haven't

got an exact timeline for when the pitch will be finished because there's all sorts of unknowns

like weather and everything else but we're hoping that we can get some preseason friendlies in um

that that that's our aim and uh the the council are very supportive of trying to make that happen

if it's possible so so yeah let's let's let's let's pack the place out and have a proper home come in

like we did uh first time round so you're hoping to be back on the terraces so do there any matches

in particular looking at the the fixtures that you're really excited about coming up? I'm looking

forward to all of them I've convinced myself I don't know why I think last matchdown at Bedford

is going to be something riding on it so so so that's that's exciting that's going to be exciting uh but

no I I get excited about every match uh hated missing the ones because there's been some great games

while I've been away yeah but uh but no I'm looking forward hopefully Kingslin next week and uh

and we'll take it from there yeah well I mean it'd be great if there was something riding on the

the game on the last game of the season but even better if we'd wrapped up you know the playoff

place before the uh before the fight but the season yeah yeah yeah but like say lots to be

excited about and um there's a positive feeling isn't that we get into match the weather just gets

better uh I think you might have been one of the first times on Saturday that we haven't had the

floodlights at the end of the game on a Saturday afternoon all these things just make it a little

bit easier for people maybe those fans that are a little bit sort of fair weather supporters just

helps encourage them to come as well so hopefully those attendances will will keep on going up

towards the end of the season oh I'm not I'm I'm sure they will and we've we've got some away

games out too far away we've got our away match at Dalinton over east to which always would take a

big crowd so yeah lots an awful lot to look forward to I think he's got to be a hard long season

but there's not many games left uh at Bridlington so let's let's make the most of it win some games

and uh let's see if we can uh we can come back uh to Scarbrinner in a really really great

place you never know we might be in a different league yeah just imagine that uh just imagine that

yeah well it's been a while since I've seen you in tears Trevor so uh it'd be great to get uh

another live interview with you yeah in tears of joy um but uh no I look the performances have

been great uh from the last they always give an absolute shift don't they and uh they do you know

it there's plenty to look forward to well thanks so much for your time always good to speak to

you and I look forward to seeing you maybe on the terraces at Kingslin uh once you uh once you

back on your feet really a good talking to your party bye for now and that was Scarborough

authentic chairman Trevor Ball joining me on episode 64 of the Seedogs podcast the Seedogs podcast

all things Scarborough athletic FC so let's have a quick look at where we're at in the 2025-26 season

at the time of recording after Scarborough's draw at home to Macklesfield on Saturday

borough have played 35 games 1114 drawn 11 and lost 10 scored 49 conceded 44 a gold difference of

plus five and are in eighth position with 53 points three jaws two wins and a defeat in the last

six on level with Telford who are just in the playoff places and of course we play Telford at home

soon and our visitors on Tuesday night at the mounting system stadium in Bridlington will be

they're in 23rd place having played 28 games which is a huge seven games behind what Scarborough

played they've won seven drawn seven and lost 14 they scored 35 they conceded 50 and they've

got a gold difference of minus 15 28 points they've won two and lost four of their last six

one of those defeats was of course at home to Scarborough but Jonathan Greening speaking to me

after the game for Scarborough athletic FC TV said this Tuesday's fixture is likely to be a tougher

test we've got a tough game on Tuesday against Heriford they've got four plays in this week I

think so they've got a stronger squad than what probably the ads you know when we played them

last week so it's going to be a difficult game and obviously the one the game was called left

today so they've got you know an extra few days rest compared to our players and you know they're

in a situation where they're trying to get out of the relegation zone and they've got all these

games to play and we're fighting to stay in the playoffs and listen if we if we play like we

did today on Tuesday I'll be really happy because I thought it was a strong performance

up until you know you know they're sending off but they're not for after that you know we

should unbelievable grit and determination and you know unbelievable attitude to stay in the game

and get a point on the board and that was Jonathan Greening speaking to me if you want to see

the full interview you can do on the Scarborough Fed at YouTube channel and with links on the social

media pages of the football club some of those new additions that he was talking about Heriford

assigned Joseph James from championship side Bristol City James joined the Robbins at under

eight level and worked his way through the academy before making his professional W against Ipswich

town in 2023 and started the following match against Cardiff City received a lot of praise as well

from manager Nigel Pearson who predicted at the time that he would have a very bright future

and also they signed Harrison's sonner as well after his departure from Cheltenham Town at the

midfielder started his career at Aston Villa where he made his first professional debut in an FA

Cup defeat to Liverpool in 2021 and Heriford will be looking forward to finally getting back to

the M&M Edgar Street Stadium that we hosting Lemmington there on on Tuesday the 10th of March

and wrapping up the latest burrow news on episode 64 of the Seedoggs podcast no surprise but

Steve Walker makes the team of the week in the Enterprise National League North team of the

week the Valley Bar Seedoggs have announced their end of season party it's happening on Friday the

17th of April from 7pm to late at Oscars bar there will be a DJ and buffet and first two drinks

will be free that excludes spirits if you want to join them then do get in touch with them or just

find them on social media and talking of course of the Valley Bar Seedoggs they will be running a bus

leaving 615 from Scarborough Sports Village and Scarborough East station at 630 for the Heriford

home game kickoff is at 745 to get yourself on the bus from Scarborough to bridge with the

Valley Bar Seedoggs it is a tenor for non-members and five pounds for juniors for members it's

eight pounds and four pounds respectively and the booking hotline is 07 5 9 8 9 3 1 5 7 2

and you can also email Valley Bar Seedoggs at mail.com and of course they're operating an away bus

to Oxford City this coming Saturday as well that departs Scarborough East station at 7 o'clock

calling it finally Eberston molten York designer outlet and the M1 junction 40 non-members 45

pounds juniors 20 to 50 for members it's 40 pounds and 20 pounds for juniors and they'll be

stopping for some pre-match refreshments at the red line in Oxford. Thanks so much for listening

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