The message Will Evans will be drilling into his Chesterfield teammates and what his relationship with ex Spireites boss John Sheridan was like

Chesterfield should be aiming for a play-off place at the very least next season, according to Will Evans.
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Since being relegated from League Two in 2018 the Spireites have experienced two seasons of struggle in the fifth tier so the skipper admits they have to be realistic.

But when the players eventually return to pre-season training the centre-half will be drilling home the message that they can’t let it happen again.

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“Play-offs is a minimum for us because for a club like Chesterfield they should be up the top five regardless, it does not matter what the situation is,” Evans said.

Will Evans is desperate to give the Spireites fans something to shout about next season.Will Evans is desperate to give the Spireites fans something to shout about next season.
Will Evans is desperate to give the Spireites fans something to shout about next season.

“The size of the club and the support it gets it should be up there so that is the aim and that is what I will put across to the lads when I go back; that it is not going to be acceptable to finish in the bottom half at all.

“I think if we can be consistent that we can be up there without a doubt.

“We should be pushing for promotion but going off the last two seasons we need to be realistic and we need to be honest with ourselves that we need to be a lot better.”

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Evans, 28, had a difficult time in the first half of last season under John Sheridan, who made him captain but also criticised him publicly after a home defeat to Bromley.

On his relationship with Sheridan, who was sacked in January, Evans said: “To be honest I always got on well with him.

“He obviously liked me as a player because I played every game under him and he made me captain as well so there was obviously something he saw in me.

“He criticised me publicly and stuff like that. Things like that were quite difficult from my point of view to see that and read that.

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“I understood where he was coming from - obviously he was frustrated at the time because we had just lost and were in a bad situation.

People say things sometimes without thinking too much about it but at the end of the day it was his job so I don’t feel like there is any bad blood there.”