By Nathan Jackson
November 5 2010

In an interview with the Football League website Steve Tilson has revealed that he knows the players let themselves down in the Tuesday night defeat to Northampton Town. Tilson also compares the role to when he first took over at Southend United.

"It's a tough task," Tilson told www.football-league.co.uk, "But I've got a good set of players to work with and I've really enjoyed my first couple of weeks here. The lads have got a very good attitude, they've worked really hard in training and they've done well in the matches we've had until they let themselves down a bit in the second half against Northampton (a 2-0 defeat) on Tuesday"

Tilson will enter his fourth match as Lincoln City manager in the weekend's game against Nuneaton, hoping to pick up his first win as the Imps manager. He already has a better record than when Peter Jackson took over three years ago, but is currently behind the six point mark that Sutton had after his first three games, but hopefully the distraction of the FA Cup will help City prepare for the vital games against Morecambe and Hereford.

"I was hoping we'd turned the corner when we got a well earned 2-2 draw with Wycombe in the previous game, but on Tuesday they lacked a bit of self-belief. They struggled to get results last season and it can be difficult to get out of a losing mentality. But if we can get that self-belief into the players then there's no reason why we can't get on a run to start us moving away from the bottom end of the table," he continued to tell the Football League website.

Despite the upcoming cup game, Tilson is already preparing for the game against Morecambe. "These are all big games for us," said Tilson. "It would be nice to have a Cup run to bring some money into the club, but we have to go into the Nuneaton game with the right mentality because if you don't do that you can really come unstuck.Hopefully we can get the win we want and that could set us up to go back into the League and start putting a few results together."

Meanwhile, in an interview with the Nuneaton news, Tilson has said he is certainly not taking the non-leaguers for granted and has experience at Southend of having difficult times against non-League teams. In 2003/4, after beating the Imps in the second round, Southend went out to Scarborough in the third round, denying them a tie against Chelsea at home.

“There’s no fear for the underdogs. When you are the underdog you are expected to lose. That means you can relax. So long as you go out and give 100 per cent you can enjoy it. We’ve got to be mentally ready to face a side with no fear. We are expected to win the game but I know it won’t be easy. I was with Southend when we lost to Aylesbury and were given a tough time by Canvey Island."

Tilson : "Players let themselves down"

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05/11/2010 13:48

"They struggled to get results last season and it can be difficult to get out of a losing mentality."

That is not a fair excuse because hardly any of the team on Tuesday were here last year. There were only four:

Watts and Keltie (after Christmas) and Broughton and Facey (for brief loan periods). Everyone else is new for 2010/11.

Starting Line-ups
1 Anyon
19 Clapham
26 Gowling
4 Watts
28 Hoyte
15 Howell
17 Jarrett
8 Keltie
7 Carayol
10 Broughton
27 Hutchinson

Substitutes
29 Grimes (Hutchinson 63)
5 Swaibu
18 Facey (Broughton 63)
11 Kerr
3 Anderson
20 Musselwhite
9 McCallum (Carayol 78)

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