I WANT to begin this week with an apology to the Margate players and management.

I hadn’t realised how our FA Trophy situation had impacted them until I saw a newspaper story on my Twitter timeline about how they have been left in limbo.

Margate have been without a game the last two Saturdays, which I can understand will have been very frustrating.

You only consider things from a Bowers perspective and the impact it is having on our club. We have the right to fight for what we believe to be fair and the powers that be at the club have exercised their right to do just that.

But that is no consolation to Margate and I feel for them.

I make no apology for the dogged performance of our players this weekend at Bury Town, where we drew 0-0. What a fantastic point.

I watched a laughable post-match interview with the Bury Town manager Ben Chenery (formerly of Canvey Island) who was - not for the first time where our club is concerned - really disrespectful.

I think if anyone tallies up meaningful goal scoring opportunities they will see we created just as many chances, if not more.

Bury Town are a massive club. I have nothing but admiration for their great support and the professionalism of how the club is run off the pitch. I guess there is a lot of pressure to get a club like that back where it belongs (in the Isthmian Premier League).

We host Waltham Abbey tonight in the league. It is another management team I admire and respect and Waltham Abbey are a team that gets nowhere near the credit it deserves.

They play some of the best football in the division and have some really talented players.

Both teams need three points to continue competing with the big guns of the division.