Clach boss looks ahead as administration ends
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Clach's Mark Dougall in action against Rothes.
IAIN Polworth is sure that next season will see brighter times return to Clach with the club set to break free from administration.
The Lilywhites manager has endured a nightmare season where a number of key players have been through injury, including top scorer Gordon Morrison, who only recently returned.
Selection problems are a huge reason why Clach find themselves sitting 14th in the league.
Last week, it was confirmed by the Inverness club’s administrators that the sale of the social club for £190,000 to a number of parties, including the Inverness Bible Fellowship, the Clach Supporters Society and Highland Council, means Clach will break free from administration.
He said: “You can see that a lot of work has gone on behind the scenes to take us out of administration and it will come as a real lift to everyone at the club.
“Hopefully, we’ll now see the club heading in the right direction and everyone pulling in the same direction. It’s too early for talks about next season, but the chairman and board of directors will, I’m sure, be working on a budget.
“I think they will be cautious to start with and then we can look ahead to what we need in terms of personnel. We want to be in a position where we can attract a better standard of player to the club and that, in turn, could see more supporters coming all and we’ll see better results for the club.”
Vice chairman Peter Corbett added: “We know where we’ve come from and, while this news is terrific, the most important thing is for Clach to be on a sound financial footing. After that, we can look at ways to improve other aspects of the club, afterall football is why we’re here. We’ll be meeting with supporters very soon to let them hear our plans for the club.”
Back on the field, Clach head to Turriff United this weekend after losing 1-0 at home to Rothes courtesy of a late penalty on Saturday.
Polworth said: “Our discipline has been good this season, but at this time of the year we niggles tend to kick in and we have four players suspended for Saturday.
“It’s going to be a tough ask for us at Turriff, but we’ll just have to bring in the younger boys and see if they can help us.”
Looking back at the weekend’s defeat at Grant Street, he added: “It was a really poor game, with neither side creating much. It had a real end-of-season feel to it and I felt we were heading for a share of the spoils, so it was really disappointing to lose.”
