GOOD 2ND HALF EFFORT BUT NO CIGAR!
LINEUP= JONNA WAS SKIPPER AND KEPT CENTRE MIDFIELD SPOT ALONG SIDE JOE WHO CAME STRAIGHT BACK INTO THE TEAM FOR MISSING STOTT. ALSO MISSING KEEPER KEIRON SO HAYES WENT IN GOAL AND SHEARSMITH(WORK) . DUGIE WENT CENTRE HALF WITH MCDONALD FOR MISSING FARRELL (PIST) AND RYE WHO WAS ALSO PIST CAME IN FOR PRICE(AWOL). CHAPLINS HAD A STRONG LINEUP ON THE DAY TO MATCH THORNEY CLOSE , BUT FIRST HALF WAS ABYSMAL . WE LOOKED STONG ENOUGH TO TAKE SOMTHING OUT OF THE GAME BUT FELL TO PIECES AS WE GAVE AWAY A PENALTY ON THE HALF AN HOUR MARK . THE PEN. HAPPEND WITH A THROUGH BALL FROM THEIR MIDFIELDER TO THE FORWARD BUT KEEPER HAYES SHOULD OF CAME OUT TO COLLECT THE BALL AS ALEX WHO SHOULD OF CLEARED FIRST TIME DWELT ON THE BALL AND NEARLY GOT IT AWAY AS DOUGLAS GAVE AWAY THE FOUL IN THE BOX. THORNEY STRUCK THE PENALTY HOME 1-0 AND SENT KEEPER WRONG WAY. AS CHAPLINS DO MOST OF THE TIME OUR HEADS WENT DOWN AND THORNEY LIFTED THEIR GAME AND GOT THEIR SECOND A COUPLE OF MINUTES LATER 2-0. CHAPLINS DIDNT EVEN TRY HARD ENOUGH IN THE HALF AND MELDRUM DIDNT LOOK HIMSELF , BIRD WAS GRAFTING AS NORMAL BUT OUR PASSING AND LINKING UP JUST WASNT HAPPENING ,DOUGLAS AND MCDONALD LOOKED A GOOD PARTNERSHIP SOLID AND GOOD COMUNICATING BUT WERNT GETTING ENOUGH PROTECTION IN FRONT OF THEM FROM ALL THE MIDFIELD. WE ALL JUST WERNT AT THE RACES AND IT GOT WORSE AS THEY GOT THIER THIRD ,3-0 DOWN GOING INTO HALF TIME. AS WE HAD THE HALF TIME TEAM TALK WE ALL KNEW WE HAD TO START THE HALF AS IT WAS 0-0 AND LIFT OUR GAME A BIT MORE . THE RAIN CAME PELTING DOWN AS WE KICKED OFF AND WE WERE LOOKING ALOT BETTER AS WE FORT TO GET BACK IN THE GAME AND THORNEY TOOK THEIR FOOT OF THE PEDAL ,THEY WERE LOOKING GOOD PASSING IT ABOUT IN THEIR BACK LINE AND HAS US RUNNING ABOUT BUT THE GRAFT TORMENTED THEM , THORNEY HAD THE CHANCE TO KILL THE GAME OFF BUT MISSED A FEW EASY CHANCES. CHAPLINS MADE THE CHANGES AS VAUDREY CAME OFF AND MELDRUM WHO WAS HAVING A STINKER AND THE SUBS DID CHANGE THE GAME AS OUR LEFT SIDE ALL CHANGED PLACES ,BURNS LEFT BACK,HOWE LEFT MID AND GRAINGER MOVED UPTOPS. WE GOT THE GOAL BACK WHICH WE DESERVED AS WE GOT A THROW IN DOWN THE RIGHT AND SPOORS AND WES LINKED UP AND GOT IN THAT CROSS IN THE BOX WHICH BIRD THRIVED ON TO FLICK INTO GRAINGER'S PATH TO LASH THE BALL HOME POST AND IN THAT LIFTED EVERYONE. THORNEY TRYED SLOWING THE GAME DOWN AFTER THIS BUT AS WE GOT THE BALL BACK WE GOT ANOTHER AS DOUGIE WENT LONG AND HOWE PASSED IT INTO GRAINGER BUT SHOULD OF SHOT FIRST TIME ,GRAINGER SCUFFED THE CROSS DEFENDER HALF CLEARED IT BACK INTO HOWE AND PLACED THE BALL HOME BRILLIANTLY IN THE BOTTOM RIGHT SIMILAR TO ARTETA'S GOAL FOR EVERTON WEEK BEFORE,3-2 GAME ON THE PITCH WAS GETTING HEAVIER AND TIME WAS RUNNING OUT AND THEIR PLAYERS WERE COMPLAINING ABOUT TIME LEFT . A LATE LATE CHANCE CAME AS MCDONALD WHO PUSHED FURTHER UP THE PITCH COULD OF GETTING THE WELL EARNED POINT BUT PLACED THE BALL JUST WIDE OF THE POST . IT WAS ABOUT INTO 94TH MINUTE AND THORNEY GOT A COUNTER ATTACK AS HAYES CAME OUT AND WAS UNLUCKY TO NOT GET THE BALL AS THE HE WAS LEFT BACK TRACKING AND THIER FORWARD HAD AN OPEN GOAL BUT BANANA'ED THE BALL WIDE AND WHISTLE WENT AS THORNEY LEFT CHAPLINS DOWN HEARTED AND TOOK ALL THREE POINTS .
MADNESS OF THE WEEK- REF NOT LETTING BEE ON AS HE SMELT AND SEEN HIM SMOKING A JAKY -
GAMEPOINTERS - LEEKING 3 GOALS IN THE FIRST HALF AND NOT PERFORMING , BIRDS GRAFT , 2ND HALF FIGHTBACK , MELDRUM WELL OFF THE BOIL AND HAVING NO 3RD SUB WITH TIRED LEGS BUT OUR 2 SUBS CHANGED THE GAME.
