Westley Only Looking Upwards With Exiles

Graham Westley is confident he can keep save Newport County from the drop back out of the football league. The ex-Stevenage, Peterborough and Preston manager was formally unveiled on Monday with the Exiles bottom of league two and without a win in 10 games.

Graham Westley is confident he can keep save Newport County from the drop back out of the football league.

The ex-Stevenage, Peterborough and Preston manager was formally unveiled on Monday with the Exiles bottom of league two and without a win in 10 games.

Westley, 48, watched his new side claim a draw at Colchester United on Saturday.

The 48-year-old said: “I have to grab hold of this football club and produce an incredible performance.

“I’m very determined to make this the best job I’ve ever done.

“I don’t want Preston North End to be the biggest job I ever have in football. I want to make sure that I go and get something bigger than that and do better with it than I did there.

“If I’m going to get that sort of opportunity the next job I do, which is now this job, it has to be a sensational one.”

Westley’s first game in charge will be at Yeovil on Saturday and he insists he sights eventually are set on promotion.

“It’s been three, four, maybe five years since I won a promotion and I want the next one.

“Success is what you’re in the game for, putting your next mark down.

“But if you want to achieve anything in football you have to concentrate on your next game and winning your next game. We mustn’t start looking at what we’re going to do next week or next month or even next year.”

Westley is County’s sixth manager in the last 21 months and succeeds Warren Feeney.

Director Gavin Foxall reiterated Westley was the unanimous choice of the board.

“Football is great because it’s an opinion based sport. Whether that’s constructive criticism, unfair criticism or praise it goes along with the territory,” Foxall said.

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