Former York City defender Jamie Price has high Selby Town ambitions

Jamie Price, who represented York 23 times in the 2005/06 season, is now a first-team coach at Selby having enjoyed an illustrious playing career with Harrogate Town, Doncaster Rovers and Scarborough Athletic.

The former right-back has taken his first steps into coaching with Selby, working alongside manager Ryan Cooper and assistant boss Nigel Danby, with Town currently impressing on a five-match unbeaten run.

Occupying ninth position in the NCEL Division One and being just three points off of South Leeds within the play-offs, Price is confident that the Robins can break into the top seven and continue their progression of last season.

Speaking to the West Yorkshire Football Show, Price commented: “It’s good at the moment, we’re doing well.

“I think that in our last five games we have won four and drawn against Brigg on Saturday, which was a tough game.

“We’re doing well and I’m really enjoying the coaching side of it, under the gaffer and Nige [Danby] over there, I’m really enjoying it and it’s a really good club.

“We want to do things in the right way and there is a good, honest group of lads as well, young and honest group of lads that want to do well for the club.

“I’m enjoying it.

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“Progression, I think that last year we finished in 14th and we’ve kept the majority of our team.

“We don’t have our pick of players so you work with what you have got, and we’ve got a really good group at Selby.

“It’s a good club, the manager and Nige are very good with the lads and have got a good changing room together.

“It’s just a case of let’s see where we are at, let’s have a go at everybody in our league, no matter what, let’s have a right good go at them.

“We want to finish higher than we did last year and push for those play-offs, I think that we’re only three or four points off those play-offs.

“In non-league, you can beat anybody, it’s just that mentality.

“I’m not going to lie, we’re looking to get into the play-offs, that’s our target.

“We want to put ourselves up there, and again next season, we want to progress and keep working hard.

“That’s what it has always been, whatever club I have been to, just looking at progression.”

Price started his career as an apprentice with Leeds United, before finding regular minutes in a successful Doncaster Rovers side in six-year spell.

Selby Town are on an unbeaten run of five, and are just three points adrift of the play-off places. (Image: Harvey Brewster) York, who at the time played their football in the Conference Premier, snapped up the defender following his release from Doncaster, playing alongside the likes of Clayton Donaldson, David Stockdale and David McGurk.

Price reflected on his season with City, who finished the campaign in eighth position, as well as some of the players that he played with whilst representing the Minstermen.

“I went to York for a couple of years under Billy McEwan, which was another brilliant thing.

“He was putting a young team together then, so the team had more or less disbanded, because it was starting back up again really.

“He put a really good young team together of local lads, you had your Dave McGurk’s, your James Dudgeon’s and your [Mark] Convery’s.

“We had Neal Bishop, who could score goals, Clayton Donaldson, who could score goals.

“That was a really good season for us, finishing in mid-table in the Conference, because that was a tough league as well with your Stevenage’s and teams like that.”

Price’s Selby outfit are playing amongst a good atmosphere right now, with the coach speaking on the strong relationships within the changing room, something that York also appear to possess under manager Adam Hinshelwood.

Price spoke on the impact a ‘good changing room’ can have on a season, with both Selby and York being vocal on the togetherness within their groups.

“We were saying that it’s like another 10, 12 points having a good changing room, but I’m the other way around.

“It’s good for 50 points, your special players are for 10 or 12 points, so they are the ones that are going to get you over the edge.

“You’ve got 15 players that are going to be playing for you throughout the season, they’re the ones to get you 50 points, just to get you to where you need to be before your special players kick in.”