FERGIE'S dressing room fireworks hit the headlines this week and all managers have their moments from time to time.

I'm not sure how I compare with the Manchester United manager - you'd have to ask the players for that - but we all care passionately about our teams and occasionally tempers fly in the midst of a game.

Last season I kicked the teapot during half time at Crawley and ended up bruising my toe on the spout but that reaction was a one off.

How you treat players differs according to what type of person they are - some need cajoling, others can take a bit of stick but the composition of the dressing room is vital to the success of a club.

At Worcester we've got some good, strong characters in the dressing room and the likes of Allan Davies and Pat Lyons have helped turn ours around.

We've got some decent characters and when you bring players into a club that's what you are looking for - have they got the right attitude, application and personality?

In the past I've signed players without delving too much into their personalities and have not dug as deeply as I should but that is so important.

Of course not every signing is a success and that goes for the likes of Wenger and Ferguson too but once you like what a player can do the next stage is to see what they are like as a person to make sure they will fit into the squad.

As I've said we've got some good lads at present and against Folkestone on Saturday they needed to show some resolve with eight first teamers out in-jured or suspended.

Beating them 6-0 was a tremendous performance - I'm not renowned for producing sides that win by that score, more for sides that should have scored five or six - but didn't!

Saturday's result was important for a number of reasons not least because if we had lost I think many would have lost faith, hope and belief.

But we didn't lose and we are firmly established in the group behind Tamworth with the likes of Stafford and Chippenham and all of us are equally placed give or take the odd point or game in hand.

I thought Newport might take something from the Lambs but the leaders nicked it and deserve the plaudits because they are playing like champions.

However we are not throwing in the towel, far from it, and we will hang in there and keep plugging away though I will be annoyed if the title is decided by just a couple of points because we have certainly tossed away a few of those this season.

On Saturday we played quite an adventurous line-up with three up front but didn't really have any other option with only 11 fit players, excluding the academy lads.

Even then I would have rested Allan Davies, Stewart Hadley and Adam Wilde who have been carrying knocks but my hand was forced.

As it was the team that went out put in some good displays. Allan has continued his good form of the last two or three months while Dan Jones did well in an unfamiliar role on the left.

Adam Webster bagged a hat-trick but I won't be revising his goal target of 15-17 until he's got that tally firmly under his belt but he doesn't duck challenges and I wouldn't be surprised to see him reach that goal before the end of the season.

JOHN BARTON was talking to reporter NAT SYLVESTER.