A goal would do me the world of good, says Scunthorpe United winger Andy Barcham
WITH 11 games of the season to go, Andy Barcham is determined to make the most of every opportunity.
The Scunthorpe United winger was given his first start for three weeks against Stevenage on Tuesday night and was keen to impress.
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Andy Barcham found himself back in the Scunthorpe United starting XI against Stevenage
It has been a frustrating campaign for Barcham, who has struggled to match his form of last term, but he insists his confidence remains intact.
"It's just football really, it happens. You deal with it all your career," he said of his recent absence from the first-team line-up.
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"Every time you go out there you're trying to prove someone wrong or try to show people what you can do.
"You don't really think about it like that, you're just going out there and playing the game you love. We're very fortunate in that respect that we get to do that.
"You just try to go out there and enjoy it.
"On a personal level it's been a frustrating season.
"I haven't had the consistency that I had last season and it has affected me.
"All I can do is keep trying to work hard and keep trying to knuckle down and keep going.
"Things happen in football, it's just one of those things.
"You've just got to keep working hard and keep trying, keep trying to put things right and get to the level that I want to be at."
Mark Duffy bagged his fifth goal of the campaign to clinch victory in midweek, and like his team-mate, Barcham admits he should be finding the net more often.
Last season's Iron top scorer with 10 goals, he has scored just once this time around – back in August at Derby County in the League Cup.
"I think a goal would do me the world of good," said the 26-year-old who was suffering from a bug prior to the Stevenage game.
"I don't think I'm playing bad or anything like that, so it's not really affecting my confidence.
"You can't really afford to let it affect your confidence, especially at this stage of the season because results are so important.
"You just go out there and try to prove people wrong all the time.
"I'm always trying to work on my goals tally.
"I was happy with what I got last season. Obviously, this season it's been very much different and that's been frustrating and difficult for me.
"All I can do is keep working hard to try to chip in with some come the end of the season.
"Everyone needs to chip in now, coming towards the end of the season.
"We just need to get goals, it doesn't matter where they come from.
"It doesn't matter how you play, as long as you get the result at the back end of the season.
"Hopefully we can keep doing that."
Tuesday's success came after back-to-back defeats and saw United maintain a place outside of the relegation zone.
With many of their nearest rivals also recording results, it remains an incredibly close battle for survival.
"There's so many teams going to be involved in it, it's always going to be difficult," Barcham added. "But if you can put a run together at any stage, it's so important.
"We started to do that and that's why we were so disappointed with last week's result.
"But we bounced back and hopefully we can follow up with another one at Brentford on Saturday.
"They keep coming these tough ones, but every game's going to be tough at this stage of the season.
"It doesn't matter who you play against, everyone's fighting for something.
"We're going to go there with confidence from Tuesday's performance and try to get the result we want."
7 Comments
by delboyseven
Friday, March 01 2013, 5:48PM
“good players dont become bad players over night. rubber neck hedgehog psycho knill has a lot to answer for. the lads confidence is returning, and will continue to improve as the irons results continue to improve. keep the faith, up the iron.”
by delboyseven
Friday, March 01 2013, 5:47PM
“good players dont become bad players over night. rubber neck hedgehog psycho knill has a lot to answer for. the lads confidence is returning, and will continue to improve as the irons results continue to improve. keep the faith, up the iron.”
by delboyseven
Friday, March 01 2013, 5:46PM
“good players dont become bad players over night. rubber neck hedgehog psycho knill has a lot to answer for. the lads confidence is returning, and will continue to improve as the irons results continue to improve. keep the faith, up the iron.”
by ironite
Thursday, February 28 2013, 5:45PM
“I'll agree with FHall here, it was about this time last year (possibly a little earlier) that Mark Duffy was the one in the firing line for his inability to get a decent cross or beat a full-back. Even Michael Collins seems to be indispensable right now.
Players go through bad patches for hundreds of reasons. Perhaps one of them in Barcham's case is the fact he's never had anyone breathing down his neck for a left-sided starting spot.”
by FHall
Thursday, February 28 2013, 5:22PM
“There is a good player in him somewhere. A confidence player who had it knocked out of him by Knill and Laws has done his best to get it back into him.
He used to be a joy to watch and can be again.”
by xcahoot
Thursday, February 28 2013, 3:03PM
“bartonscorp ,,
I just don,t understand your mentality.
I,m guessing man management is not your forte .Give the kid a break.
He knows he`s having a baron patch .
It happens to the best players going the more they try the worse it gets.
Lawsey would be on his case if he was giving any less than 100%.
Whats the point of slating our own players.
These are tricky times , we have to stick together & support the lads that are trying !
not isolate them.
"Up The Iron"”
by bartonscorp
Thursday, February 28 2013, 2:29PM
“So a goal "would do him the world of good" if he could beat a fullback a couple of times during a game, it would do supporters a world of good to.
Andy has really gone down hill this season, surely managment must be aware that when he receives the ball he is running straight at players rather than going round them, resulting in the loss of the ball every time. On Tuesday night Tom Newey must have fed him at least 20 times, and on each occason the best ever result was a throw in.
Time for a prolonged spell on the bench.”