GOING through four different coaches in one season, combined with a goalscoring drought, were the main factors leading to August Town’s fall from the DPL, said team director and acting general manager Marlon Small.

The team was demoted last week for the second time in four years, after first making it into the league in 2006/2007 and will again be playing Super League football next season.

August Town started the season with Calvert Fitzgerald at the helm, but differences saw Paul Young taking over. It wasn’t long before Young was forced to leave due to obligations overseas.

Then it was the turn of Dwight Morgan before former national player Onandi Lowe came in for the final five games of the season in the fourth round of the competition.

At that point, the team still had a shot at staying in the DPL, but they failed to win a single match in the round and ended with 36 points from 38 games, having won nine, drawn nine, and lost 20.

Small says the shortage of goals was a problem which was witnessed by the fact that of the 38 games played, August Town scored only 27 goals and conceded 54.

“First of all they need to score goals, because if they’re not scoring goals they won’t be winning and they won’t be garnering any points to stay in the league, and that’s the main thing,” he told the Sunday Observer.

“Because the league was so competitive I don’t think we had the quality… to actually stay up. We could have with a little bit more luck, but we just couldn’t garner enough points…,” Small said.

Small said up to the point when Lowe joined the outfit they were still in a reasonable position. He led them to the Claro KSAFA Jackie Bell Knock-out title.

“I wouldn’t say he came in late. I think he had a good feel of the team. He probably came in late in terms of getting that cohesiveness out of the team, but I don’t think it was so much the coach but more in terms of the players because they just didn’t deliver.”

Lowe signed a deal for only the final round of competition and Small says they haven’t yet made a decision about a coach for next season. But at least one change that will be made will be the acquisition of one or two very good strikers.

“Where he’s going to come from I don’t know yet,” Small said. “(But) that’s what the team lacks most of all… part of our downfall was not making use of the chances…”

He, however, hastened to say that they would be retaining most of the players from last season.

He told the Sunday Observer the team also hopes to get the services of a respected coach “that knows his stuff”.

“Then we’ll take it from there. If we get a good coach and strikers, then everything will fall into place,” he said.

Small added that the team had found itself in this position before, “and we bounced right back immediately and I think that’s what we’re aiming to do this time around also”.

LOWE… came in for final five matches of season