Monday 14th October 2013 - Welcome to the second Editorial. I hope to get these produced weekly for Monday lunchtime, but please bear with me if I'm a little late at times! Last week's editorial (which is available in the Previous Articles Index) concentrated very much on how you could help your club off the field. This week I shall detail a bit more about what is going on within the field of play. For most clubs, results mean pretty much everything, but as we continue to look for a new ground in the Borough, they sometimes don't mean quite so much here if you are looking at the long term view. That said, Lyndon Buckwell has the team playing some nice football and has now clocked up well over 300 games in charge to go with his 100 on the field as a player in the late eighties and early nineties. It has brought success too with three top five finishes and in May of this year we won the League Cup. I referred to stability in the previous editorial, and this applies on the field as well. By being a former player, Lyndon is following in a tradition that goes back to 1982. From Adrian Hill, to Alan Webb, Ricky Kidd, Ada again, Barry Barnes, Ray Purvis, Paul Pritchard and now Lyndon the club has gone for a former on field contributor. How high that particular requirement is on your list of Managers you might like is of course a matter of opinion, but I think it helps from a loyalty aspect, in that the Manager feels more connected to a club he has played for previously, and of course we see this often replicated higher up the football ladder. What we don't often see higher up the ladder, perhaps Ryan Giggs aside, is player loyalty. We have it in spades here, with ten players who have played this season clocking up over a hundred appearances for us. Even more impressively, five have passed the two hundred mark, and four of them will almost certainly be over 250 by the season's end. It's a strongly held belief of mine that if you feel that you are part of the club, then the more motivated you will be. It's one of the reasons I produced the team stats in the Club Programme, because many players like to see how they are getting on, and at our club they have the rare opportunity to see how they compare against 95 years of history. For example, Kyle Hough had a chance to break another club record on Saturday at Farnham. Had he scored the penalty we were given, he would have become the first player to score from the spot in four consecutive Epsom games. His miss meant that I can use his name in the same sentence as a legendary Epsom player and Captain from the thirties, George Mackesy, with whom he shares the record of three games in a row. Another area where the players can see how they are getting on is the Hall of Fame, which you will find in our Historical Section. This charts the fifty leading appearance makers and goal scorers in club history, and a quick glance will tell you that many of our current players are on it, with another, Mark Jarman, likely to join the appearance list by the end of the season, although he is already well up the scoring charts. We have had over 1,500 players who have made a first team appearance for our club, so to feature in the top fifty in either category is deserving of high praise. Wherever you look, loyalty runs through this club like the name of a seaside town in a stick of rock. Why not come on down and see how we are getting on?