Spence Ready For Spring Test (Andy Spence Coach Interview)

Andy Spence calls missing promotion a bitter pill but insists it will make his players better. The page reconstructs how it slipped away: fourteen points from the opening eighteen, then a single point between winning at Aston Villa in May and beating Yeovil exactly two months later, with only three league games in between. He frames the Spring Series as nine opportunities to work on what they do in training and nine for players to push themselves forward before September. New forwards Amber Stobbs, from Reading, and the former New Zealand international Olivia Chance, from Breidablik UBK in Iceland, have impressed in January and are expected to make an immediate impact. He will also use the games on fringe and development-squad players, and refuses to single out any individual as the reason Everton might succeed.