By Brian Bennett | Photo: Ian Brodie

A smiling Marc Ellison emerged from the dressing room on Saturday and described his sides 1-0 victory over Garforth Town as being ‘a big, big win.’

Ryan Wombwell scored the only goal of the game ten minutes into the second half but the Colliers had to play out more than half of the second period with only ten men after Chris Reid had been red carded.

Ellison said: “I’m absolutely over the moon, it’s a big, big win for us. We started the game really well before a bit of a sticky patch in the middle of the first half where the game became a bit chaotic from both sides and Ben Metcalf had to make a brilliant save to keep the score 0-0. At half time we just asked the boys to have a bit more belief in what they were doing and try to take control of the game for longer periods. Again we started well in second half and in my opinion, deservedly got our noses in front.”

He continued: “After that it was about the character and desire to hold onto a massive three points but every single one of our lads have ran their socks off, put bodies on the line or ‘keeper Ben Metcalf has made great saves when needed. It’s all down to the players, I couldn’t have asked any more of their commitment this week – it’s been fantastic. I feel like as a squad we’ve come a long way in the last few weeks, especially with a massive reality check last weekend. The lads have shown a real togetherness and determination to make things better and I’m very proud of every single one of them.”

He went on: “Regarding the sending off (of Chris Reid), we’ll need to see it back and decide which way we would like to address it but my initial reaction was it’s not a sending off – so if we still think that’s the case after review we may take some action to look at trying to get the decision overturned.”