THERE were some encouraging signs as Worcester City rounded off the season at Clevedon Town.

We gave debuts to Paul Wyatt and Wesley Joyce and with another teenager, Jamie Hyde, also in the team and the likes of Steve Lutz and Nathan Jukes playing and Steve Frost on the bench, there was some youth on view and some local lads as well.

I thought the new lads did very well and came out with credit. A draw would have been fair and what they deserved.

There are some encouraging signs for the future, and we need to keep more than one eye on what we have within the club, because of the situation we are in.

Hopefully we can encourage these players to stay with the club and increase the depth of the squad for next year, having had a taste of first-team football.

My mission coming into the club was to stay in this league and we have achieved it.

We knew darn well it wasn't going to be easy and with the run we have had, it shows how tough the test was. At the end there was only three points difference between us and Grantham, who went down.

The benefit of having extended Cup runs was there because I thought we took something out of them into the league programme and it proved important in the end.

Looking at next season, we can only work within the resources we are given.

We have had to trim accordingly in terms of our available resources, but we are still faced with the problem of 82 per cent of our budget being taken up on our existing staff.

Decisions have to be made and some unpopular ones along the way, but you can't sidestep them.

Hopefully by the end of the week, people will be aware of the decisions and the reasons behind them.

Thanks must be expressed for the support we have been given since I came back to the club. It has been much appreciated, and we are doing our level best to turn things round and give them something to cheer about.

We would like to do it as quick as we can, but appreciation of the situation we are in and a degree of patience is required.

I will be attending the Worcester City Supporters' Club annual meeting next Monday, and if anybody has any questions or queries, we are there to answer them as honestly as we can.

Have a good summer -- see you when we get back!

Wednesday, May 10.