Parson Drove boss hopes Heacham win will kick-start club's season

Arran Duke hopes victory over high-flying Heacham can kick-start Parson Drove's season.

Drove stunned the Magpies with a 3-0 success at the Heacham Sports Field in Thurlow Nunn League First Division North (read report here).

Kyial West scored twice and Scott Waumsley netted the other as Duke's side ended a run of three successive defeats by picking up their first league points of October.

The delighted Parson Drove boss said: "It shouldn't take until almost November for us to start believing that we can start winning games, which it has.

"Now it's time for us to kick on from here and start pulling ourselves up the table a little bit. They've set the standards now for everyone to see and now they've got to keep to them.

"We've got to make sure these levels stay week-in, week-out and that they don't drop back to where they were a few weeks back

"There was more fight, more desire, more belief in what we were doing and nobody let themselves down.

"Everyone put a shift in to get the job done and I can't fault anyone in that dressing room today, even the lads who came on.

"They've had a lot of criticism from me and they've deserved that, but today they deserve all of the praise that they get."

The Drove boss admitted that some of the players were in last chance saloon after their poor early-season form.

Duke said: "The players were told during the break that things had to change or if not we'd have to make changes to the squad and today they've reacted really well.

"We couldn't go back to making mistakes at one end and not being clinical enough at the other end of the pitch.

"We finally looked like the outfit that we can be and to do it against the league leaders is brilliant. It was also our first clean sheet so there were so many positives to take away from the game."

Duke revealed that the club tried to use the 18-day hiatus to their advantage.

"After 18 days off it was always going to be a bit of 'are we going to be lively?', 'are we going to be busy?' or 'are we going to look like that we've had a long time off?'

"We had a few training sessions while a few of the lads went out elsewhere to get a bit of match sharpness because when you are so long without a game it can work in one of two ways."