Scott Lindsey reveals his ‘best ever piece of management’ with Alex Newby
The former Colchester winger took his tally to six goals for the new campaign with a brace against Swindon.
York boss Scott Lindsey has claimed telling in-form attacker Alex Newby he would not get in his team this season was his “best ever piece of management”.
Injures in the Minstermen’s attacking department have given Newby his chance and a brace during a 4-0 thumping of 10-man Swindon took the former Colchester winger’s tally to six goals for the new campaign.
Ollie Banks and Ollie Pearce joined Newby on the scoresheet and, assessing the latter’s early-season impact, Lindsey said: “In the first half, he was measured at having completed 700m of high-speed
running, which is touching on incredible, and that’s why we substituted him because, with that output, I didn’t want him to pull a hamstring and be out for eight weeks.
“Telling him I didn’t think he could get in my team this season was probably my best ever piece of management, because he’s proven me wrong and I love the character he’s shown to do that. It’s early days, but he’s on course for an incredible season.
“I’m really proud of him and what a strike his first goal was. He came from nowhere to smash it in.”
Lindsey added that he felt the performance was the best since he replaced Stuart Maynard in the summer.
“The players were magnificent,” he enthused. “It’s the best we’ve played by a country mile and we’ve played well in every game so far, but that was an outstanding performance from start to finish with unbelievable goals as well. I can’t say anything more other than it was brilliant.”
Swindon manager Ian Holloway was disappointed with a “leaderless” performance from his team, whose cause was not helped with Mitch Clark’s red card for shoving over Banks as his team trailed 2-0 midway through the second half.
“We started so well,” Holloway pointed out. “We know they’re a good passing team, but we took the ball off them about five times in the opening 10 minutes and that was our gameplan.
“We weren’t clinical enough, though, and didn’t take our chances to score. Then, the first time we let them out, you saw our confidence drop and theirs grow.
“After then, we looked leaderless without Ryan Tafazolli, Ollie Clarke, Tom Nichols and Ollie Palmer and I was bitterly disappointed with that.
“They deserved the win. I’m not sure they deserved to win 4-0, but we have got to learn how to win on the road because that’s seven goals conceded now during our last two away matches.”
Holloway went on to question Banks’ part in Clark’s dismissal and declared that he was puzzled by referee Darren Drysdale’s decision to yellow card himself.
He added: “I don’t know how such a big bloke like him hit the deck so violently and then I got booked for trying to calm my player down, which I couldn’t understand.”