St Ledger is hoping Lions can stay course

SEAN ST LEDGER may be just over a week or so into his first experience of management with Guiseley, but he has already learned the first golden rule '“ that making bold predictions is foolish.

That said, the Lions interim-boss is promising one thing, namely that if the National League basement club do go down, then they will go down fighting.

The Nethermoor outfit showed plenty of that in Tuesday night’s gutsy 1-0 Roses victory over AFC Fylde, with a late winner from John Rooney ending their desperate seven-match losing sequence in memorable fashion.

Despite the much-needed morale-booster, the Lions still have several mountains to climb if they are to perform a third successive Great Escape, with the fixture list having not exactly afforded them a favour tomorrow with a visit to second-placed Sutton United.

As it stands, Guiseley are 11 points adrift of fifth-from-bottom Barrow, who have a game in hand, with St Ledger wise to be circumspect, despite pledging one thing.

He told the YEP: “I think if we are going to down, we are going to go down fighting. I know that the players have that fight in them and you could see that on Tuesday night.

“And then, what will be, will be. We will take each game as it comes and there’s no point looking at the table at the moment. If we keep getting three points, we will see where it takes us.

“It is a case of getting on with it and enjoying the victory from Tuesday because the wins have been few and far between.

“When you do win, you have to make the most of it and enjoy it because you don’t know when the next one is around the corner. That’s football. Teams go on runs, even the top teams, when they don’t win. When you do win, enjoy it and when you come back into work, you focus on the next games and training sessions ahead.”