Supporters Player of the Month January: Aaron Nell

What a way to welcome back Aaron Nell! Last week you put pen to paper and voted for him as your Player of the Month for January. Aaron has only been back since Christmas but in that time he has achieved a lot. Not only has he bolstered the lines and with it the confidence of his team-mates he has also managed to squeeze in a heck of a lot of goals. For the statisticians among you, he has scored 22 goals, with 10 assists in a mere 14 games.

Aaron remains one of the most down to earth, humble sportsman you will meet. We spoke with Aaron after the presentation to capture his reaction and get some insight into his last month with the Wildcats and a little about the future.

S.W.S.C: Congratulations on your nomination as the S.W.S.C Supporters Player of the Month for January. Do you have any words?

Aaron: Thank you! It's always nice when the fans think that you have done well. Overall we've had a pretty good month. We've had a few tough games away from home where we've been disappointed but I think the whole team has had a good month and we're ready to keep on going until the Play-offs. The last few weeks we have't been great but we can't beat teams 7 or 8-1 every week. Every team in the league is good. Even Slough, they've got a low budget but they work very hard. You know, you can't take teams for granted.

S.W.S.C: Looking at the rest of the league: there seems to be a lot of surprises at the moment, any team can take the win. We have moved down into 7th (09/02), what do we need to do to keep us in that play-off spot?

Aaron: It's a long season. I don't know how many games we have left. We can look at the table at the end of the season. It doesn't matter where we are now as long as we make the Play-offs and whoever we get we take our chances and play well and get to Coventry. Last week we were in 5th, the week before ninth. It will keep changing. They are all good teams now. There used to be two or three teams who were really terrible and it's not like that now. We can't really panic about that.

S.W.S.C: So, Basingstoke yesterday (08/02). Just how close was it? What was the feeling on the bench?

Aaron: I think we played really well yesterday. They have a very experienced team. Their first line has three top Bristish players on. I think we got robbed last night! Henri scored and it was a goal! There was a very bad call by the referee and we were robbed. I think we played really well against a very good team. We were very unlucky.

S.W.S.C: Unlucky calls happen throughout the league unfortunately.

Aaron: Yeah, there isn't any team winning every game right now. Your going to lose some games, you just want to try to lose the least number possible. Just got to take it game by game. If you don't take the two now you just have to take them next time.

S.W.S.C: What lessons have you been able to take from the recent games?

Aaron: Where we've lost we've only been beaten by a goal. The only game we really 'lost' was against Manchester. So we're doing well. We just lost three games is row but then we were winning the games and either lost in over-time or the last five minutes, and against three tough teams. There are no easy games any more. You've got to be disappointed but then move onto the next game.

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Next Home Game: Wednesday 19th Feb versus Milton Keynes Lightning, FO 19.45, Kids Go Free.

See you there!