Interview with Kevin Lisbie

Okay, so first and foremost, a belated welcome to the club.

Obviously, you came back in the last season, so today we just want to sit down with you and ask you a few questions.

Maybe touch a little bit on last season, but obviously going forward in the season ahead.

So first and foremost, you've got a bit of a history with Cray, is that

correct? Yep, yep.

A long history that goes back, I think.

10, 11 years now, I think.

Obviously, my playing days and obviously both of my sons playing for the club, winning promotion myself with my team and my son winning promotion with his team.

So, yeah, there's a lot of history with myself and my family in the club.

Yeah, totally.

Did you find it a hard decision to come in when you did last season? Obviously, Craig was struggling, not in a good position.

Did you find that difficult? Yeah, I think there was

a number of issues I had.

I think, obviously, the old manager Steve.

I got along with Steve really well so I could almost class him as a friend.

Then he gets sacked and then obviously I've been asked to come in and step in obviously for him.

So I had to speak to him first, make sure that he understood the situation and obviously that I've come in to try and help the club.

And then in coming in you deal with the issues that the club have had.

You have players I believed at the time that wasn't playing for the club, weren't playing for the badge.

So you have to deal with those issues.

People that weren't fit There were so many different issues within the club when I came in, and then you're looking at the league position as well, where he was, and it all made sense in terms of why he was where he was at that time.

Totally get that.

Do you feel that, realistically, if you look at your games last season you had, normally that would have been enough to stay up.

Obviously, we were very unfortunate.

Do you think to the end of the season we got to where you wanted to be?