Let’s start with the officials. Referee got the two key decisions, the red card and the penalty right but otherwise had an indifferent performance. The fourth official needs to learn to count as both halves were very short on added time.
The pluses tonight was Nick Haughton closely followed by Temi Babalola but others didn’t make the most of playing 10 men admittedly in awful conditions. We still don’t bring the ball out quickly enough from defence and fail to shoot when it was a much better choice than to play through balls that come to nothing. Nevertheless I lost count of how many saves their keeper made who stopped a cricket score. However as with Saturday FGR were much the better team and will improve further as the season progresses.
The downside was two awful goals against due to very bad defending and such mistakes must be eradicated sooner rather than later. 3 points separate the top 6. This year the League will go right to the end but we need to use the next few games to get into the strongest position.
It seems we have different heroes each week.
We need to beat 10th - below week in week out as this league will be won how you play vs the top sides. York will be up there, as will Carlisle, NL tighter than ever ! The top 6 just aren’t slipping up unless playing each other.
