The part-time National League side punching above their weight and proving there's a pathway at Tamworth

Lambs look good 

The Lambs finished in 11th place last season, but despite the encouraging placing, boss Andy Peaks is under no illusions just how tough it was for his team. 

"It's an unforgiving league," he exclusively told DAZN News. 

"Especially with us being part-time and having lads working and then travelling the length and breadth of the country on an evening after they've been at work all day.

"It's a tough, tough league, but we knew that when we went into it." 

Tough it may well be, but Peaks' side kicked off their campaign by once again showing their metal by taking a point off one of the promotion contenders.

A late equaliser saw them earn a 3-3 draw at Boreham Wood and was further proof that Tamworth may operate on a part-time model, but they are a match for any side in the league. 

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Tamworth leave it late to snatch a draw at Boreham Wood 

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And the even better news is that progression is on its way.

Earlier in the summer, American businessman Abdullah Ashraf acquired the club and has a clear plan for investing in its future - starting a plan to run the club as a hybrid team with a view to becoming a full-time professional outfit and becoming an EFL club. 

"We've had investors come in," Peaks explains. 

"Which is fantastic, and which is needed. So, it's like a pathway now.

"It's not a case of putting loads of resource in the first-team budget. That's not the case at all. For me and the investors, really, it's still about survival, first and foremost, because it is a tough league.

"We are still part-time. We're going to transition to hybrid across the season. 

"So, that's forward thinking. The club in general is looking to get into the EFL in the next few years, which is a pathway.

"The investors, it's small steps from them. I think the main thing is going to be looking around the ground, the facilities. We've not got the capacity to go and buy a brand new squad.

"That's not how it's going to go. So, we're going to build on what we've got." 
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The aim is the same 

The future, then, looks in good hands at The Lamb Ground, but the manager, who's taken the club up three tiers in his time at Tamworth, remains grounded. 

Peaks knows that the aim for 2026-27 remains the same, given the competitiveness of the league, and that will still be his first target. 

Adding, "I said it when we first went into the National League two years ago. Everyone was saying how well we'd done in the previous two years to win step three and then step two in the first attempt.

"And I openly said that for me as a manager, if we could survive in the National League, that would be better than anything we'd ever done.

"My remit, again, as the last couple of years, and I've also said this, whatever league I'm in, whatever club, my remit to start with is get enough points to be out of that bottom four." 

That may be Peaks' remit, but we've already seen from his ever-evolving club that they are capable of much more, and this term could really be another turning point for a name that continues to punch well above its National League weight. 

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