The Mapies keeper Sam Slocombe speaks about Luke Williams

Last updated : 25 August 2022 By Magpie Mick

Slocombe said: "He obviously said that there was minimal changes needed when he came in and I think that is great respect to the work they did previous.

"I think a lot of the principles that we had prior feed into how he wants to play and his style. He is obviously very thorough in the detail that he goes through and goes through every kind of scenario.

"He does have a few slightly different ways of how we want to play, it has been a lot of work and although we are using very similar fundamentals, there is a lot of different stuff that he has brought in as well.

"I think it is the same in any walk of life, if I am honest, you will get a new manager coming in and they will want to work slightly different, and I think it gives everyone a clean slate and gives everyone a new outlook on what their position is within the team.

"When you look at a lot of successful, even managers and football teams tend to only have a successful period of about three years it tends to work on, because they want to implement on what they want to do and sometimes a new voice needs to come in to take you to that next level.

"That is the case here. And I think with Ian (Burchnall), he rightfully got an opportunity to go try himself at a higher level and you would not but upset for him at doing that because that is what everyone wants to do.

"But that gave the opportunity for Luke to come in and come in with different ideas and share that with us and hopefully the ideas of both can take us onto a new path and keep going up that curve that we are going to try and continue on."