CARDS’ boss Graham Baker wants his rejuvenated side to carry their cup form into the league against Eastleigh, tonight.
His men put in two heroic performances against Brighton in the FA Cup and followed that up with a superb 2-1 victory at Dover.
“Sometimes it’s easier to perform when you are the underdogs and there’s no pressure,” he maintained. “The players know from the Brighton performances they are able to compete against players of that calibre so I hope they can grow from that.
“I’d like them to start doing it in the league, beginning against Eastleigh. Hopefully they can do that.”
Baker aims to keep hold of Saturday’s two-goal hero Jerome Federico for a further month, the winger due to return to Wycombe after the weekend.
“I think the boy wants to stay and we want him to stay so hopefully we can sort something out when I speak to Gary Waddock, probably on Friday. “He’s a young lad and he needs games so I hope that Wycombe will think that his spell with us is doing him the world of good.”
Baker revealed that Lee Sawyer will remain on a month-to-month contract for his, and the club’s benefit, the midfielder believed to want to play at a higher level, having been training with Dagenham & Redbridge when Baker snapped him up.
“It suits both parties with that sort of arrangement and we’ll review it monthly,” reckoned Baker. “We need to see where we are as a club, and he is in his development, and take it from there.”
Baker confirmed his assertion earlier in the season that contracts at Woking will be sparing next season, when the financial situation bites still further with Chris Ingram’s withdrawal of funding. “They’ll be one or two on contracts but those that are will be on short-term ones,” he said.
