NEW Liversedge manager Jonathan Rimmington is on the brink of his first involvement in open-age football but his confidence is oozing as he looks to the long term.

Rimmington was running the under-19s at Clayborn last season and many of the players he has worked with at the club will be playing for him in the first team.

"This is a good club and we'll bring the fans back with our style of play – but it's a three-year plan," he said.

"The club has been on a bit of a downer over the last couple of years but I'm looking to reverse that trend.

"They finished fourth from bottom last season but stayed in the top division and we're not going back this year just to lose.

"There are clubs in the league with a lot more than we've got – the likes of Tadcaster Albion, Worksop Town and Cleethorpes Town plus Brigg and Rainworth, who have come down from the Evo-Stik League – but they won't have it easy against us.

"We will win the ball back, we will have athletic full backs bombing forward and we won't allow opposition teams to dominate possession and dictate the pace.

"When I watch some of the Premier League teams on television, thinking they can't win a game so they go in all negative and let the other team play, I can't understand that at all."

The new boss may not have managed at this level before but he is highly qualified, well respected by his peers and eager to prove himself.

Rimmington has a vision of expansive football played by an ultra-fit squad that has a destructive cutting edge.

"We will play exciting football and go into every game determined to give it a go," he said.

"I'm football mad and my job has always been to produce footballers. I love the Eddie Howe philosophy and will bring that here.

"The old way of the long ball into the channels and hoofing it into the mixer has gone – even at this level – at long last.

"The academy way is the way forward, playing good, energetic football with technical ability. It's the right way – I know, I've been brought up with it."