Coach Edwin Lisene ready to walk out as Richmond United in disarray

The former Bloemfontein Celtic Ladies mentor says things are not as they seem, and appear to be getting worse, although he did not go into specifics.

Lisene told SABC Sport he is ready to walk out, but all will depend on their meeting with the owner of the club. 

"The way forward is all for the chairman to tell us [what] the next step [is]. With the situation we are in now, even if I was the chairman, I was going to decide otherwise, but we don't know," said Lisene.

"But when I arrived at Richmond, they were struggling, I pushed and pushed, and then suddenly there was the changing of the coaches, which affected the players also, and there's nothing we can do."

Richmond’s woes were compounded by a 2-0 loss to the University of Johannesburg last Saturday, as they occupy 10th spot on the Super League table, with one match remaining in the campaign.

This will be the first time the De Aar-based team will finish outside the top eight bracket since the inception of the elite women’s football league in the 2019/20 season.

"Yeah, to be honest, we are not happy. Actually, as you can see, we've got a team, they tried and tried, but you can see in the body language that something is wrong.

"But I told them to [lift their] head up and it's football, next year they must come back strongly, [with] whoever will be with the team, they must just come back strongly.

"This is the first time we're out of the top eight, especially as the head coach – it's bad because I'm not used to this kind of situation. I'm a coach who pushes the team to always be in the top eight, so it's disappointing.

"With the kind of team we have, to be outside of the top eight – after the first 10 games of the season, we were in position three or four, and since May we have not done well, so it's disappointing."

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