Lee unfazed by summer defeats

Source:  BBC Sport LINK

Truro City boss Lee Hodges says he is not worried by his side's poor pre-season form.

The White Tigers have failed to win any of their pre-season matches and have suffered defeats to lower-ranked sides Falmouth Town and Tiverton Town.
"Overall, pre-season has gone well and I've been really pleased with the way the boys have been shaping up," Hodges told Radio Cornwall.

His side has one pre-season game left against Hednesford Town on Saturday.
"I've spoken to other managers over the pre-season and they're worried because they've won every game so I haven't got cause for concern at the moment.

"I've got two or three youngsters who I've brought into the squad who've never been close to this level so they've got to get up and running and you have to give them the opportunity," added Hodges.

 

"Of course you want to win more games than you lose, but at the end of it all you're only playing for fitness and nothing more than that."

Hodges added it was unlikely that he would add to his squad before the start of the season on Saturday, 13 August.

"The way the squad is at the moment I've got 20 or 21 players," he said.
"You can only have 16 in a squad on a Saturday and I don't want too many at the club where they're just sitting down watching the game."

Truro City pre season results:

• Lost 6-2 to Torquay Utd
• Lost 2-1 to Plymouth Argyle
• Lost 4-2 to QPR
• Lost 3-1 to Tiverton Town
• Drew 2-2 with Yeovil Town
• Lost 3-2 to Falmouth Town

Lee Hodges agrees to stay with Truro City

Source: Football Web Pages and Falmouth Packet:

Truro City chairman Kevin Heaney has confirmed that Lee Hodges has verbally agreed a new two-year contract to stay with Truro City.

The former Torquay player has tranformed Truro from a mid-table team in the Premier Division to champions in just over eighteen months and is rapidly making a name for himself in the management business.

It will have no doubt attracted the attentions of clubs higher up than Truro in non-League football, but Kevin Heaney is confident that Lee will stay at City and achieve further success.

"Lee has proved a great manager, he said: "Sometimes in life people take to a role like a hand into a glove, and he has impressed as an absolute natural for it. His players would walk through walls for him. Lee is easily the best manager I have worked with. There is a calmness about him, but he also has a steeliness which ensures that the players fully respect him and know exactly where they stand with him, which is vitally important."

"He is a genuinely outstanding young manager and I firmly believe he is the man who can take us into the Football League. He has verbally agreed a new two-year contract with Truro City and as far as I am aware all the squad have also indicated that they want to stay. The squad for next season will be entirely a matter for Lee, but I don’t think there’s any doubt that we certainly have the nucleus of a squad that will be more than capable of holding its own at the next level."