Scally on BBC Radio Kent

Last updated : 17 March 2008 By Simon Head

"I don't think it's a question of blaming someone. I think it's a situation we're in and that's the way football is. It doesn't always work out the way we hope it's going to work out or the way we plan it's going to work out. We certainly don't plan to go out and lose games, but I have to say after Saturday I am disappointed, disenchanted, disillusioned and pretty disgusted really.

"It's a very easy line to say it's Conference players etc, but most of the conference players we've got into the club have been playing at league level at some stage. They're all very adequate. I don't think you can blame the players or the manager frankly, it's just a situation we're in and it's not a situation we're happy with, but frankly the abuse I got on Saturday was just appalling and disgraceful in my opinion.

"Frankly I was somewhat distraught on Sat night. Two idiots threw a rock at the car, with my three year daughter in the car, as I went along a local road. It's just not acceptable behaviour really and I'm not going to accept it.

"If they need to blame me, they can blame me. I don't care, frankly. No-one works harder at a football club than I do and no-one's lifted that club higher than I have over the last 25-30 years. If people understood how I work and the effort that's put into it and the hours and days I work, people will understand that I'm probably more distraught than anyone at the current position and I want to try and get it right. But it doesn't particularly endear me to want to get it right when I take the sort of abuse I took on Saturday. It's just disgraceful, frankly.

"Mark's got as long as he wants. Mark's been there 4 months. You don't sack a manager after 4 months, you work with him. He's come into a very difficult situation, he's had a lot of internal politics to deal with, he's got a number of of players who have caused problems around the club, which is unacceptable. A lot of things have gone on behind the scenes that we don't go public on because we stick together in football and the way that football works out is sometimes the things I'd like to say aren't politically right to say, so we always back each other up. One day perhaps I'll write a book and people might realise how hard it's been to run a football club at this level.

"It's not about a vote of confidence. I employed Mark Stimson because I know he's capable of doing a great job at the club and he is doing a great job at the club - and he's sorting out a lot of issues and trying to change the whole culture of how we play our football.

"To be fair, he IS doing a great job, but unfortunately the results haven't gone for us - and people don't see the work he has done during the week and the work he is doing behind the scenes. Of course the results aren't right, but that doesn't mean that people aren't doing a great job or working hard to try and sort the club out and get it right. It's a very very difficult task.

"We're all judged by results in football, unfortunately. If we could take away the football, then the club is actually working very hard and doing very well.

"We've got nine more games to go. The spirit in the club is, funnily enough, quite high, although the players are disappointed and the manger is disappointed that we haven't got the results we want. But I think we've got it in the locker to stay up and that's what we're going to try and do - and if we do stay up, we'll build for next year from that. If we don't stay up, that isn't going to be the end of the football club; we'll just build on that and come back up again."