“That Spring View game was a massive disappointment but we kind of needed it,” he said “We had a few players missing but we needed a poor game to remind us that we weren’t going to coast it and the reaction was evident last Saturday when we turned up and we played as we could play.”
However, after the experience of defeat to Spring View, Glaysher will be reminding his players that they can regard nothing at all as won until the end of the season.
“The atmosphere at the club is terrific but we are not over confident yet,” he said. “There are 13 games to be played yet and all it would take is couple of losses for everybody to be on our tail.”
While Glaysher, himself, has been in excellent form recently one of the many reasons why Burscough’s form has improved so markedly this season is the seam bowling of 24-year-old Jon Stone, who has collected 27 wickets in league matches.
“Jon never went to another club,” said Glaysher. “He had injuries and he just needed something to reignite his love of the game. He came back this year with a different attitude – he’s matured a lot as a person – and now he’s just steamrollering teams.”
But it’s still teams that win titles and it’s almost always more than the 11 players on the field who make contributions. Suddenly it seems that Burscough’s time as a club has come and that’s a view which Glaysher does not dispute.
“We’ve kind of said for a few years that we thought we had the ability to be in the division above but we’ve never quite fulfilled our promise,” he said. “I don’t know why but there’s a whole different attitude if you will – more professional, – and there is a lot more commitment from people.
“We have nine or ten of the same people in the team every single week. That Spring View game was the only time we’ve changed three or more players and that was because of injuries and a holiday.
“We’ve never started well in the past but this season when we won two out of two, three out of three, people were turning to each other and saying, ‘you know, we’re doing all right here’.
