[Devongone]

Kept looking for Chesterfield-born actor Brian Glover. I couldn't see Dai Bradley. I'd been expecting to see Chesterfield playing football but it looked as though BT was showing an old film instead. I was waiting for the little boy to get sent with a message to the headmaster, but he ends up getting the cane. It wasn't until Scott Loach made a decent double save and failed to climb on the crossbar I realised this was really our game. I recognised Sheffield Road. It wasn't Kes.

If we win any sort of league I'll eat a milliner's entire supply of hats. First half about four of our players appeared to be awake. Second half that number increased. Mandeville had clearly been at the Mandrax, Weston was poor and McCourt plumbed levels not achieved since Gary Caldwell.
Thank the Lord we got Tshimanga who looks keen to score, and Miller and Carline who both seem keen to move in a forward direction.

Somehow the dice rolled us two goals and we looked likely to win, even the weediness of the defending that allowed Holman to set Little up looked to be of no consequence, but I hadn't realised that Scott Loach was suddenly going to start channeling Dai Bradley. Instead of climbing on the crossbar, when a 95th minute corner curled into his six yard box he thought the best policy was to lie down. That is the one time when you need your keeper to come for the ball and win it, ideally catch it, but if not punch it good and hard and try and take out a couple of opposing forwards too. We had a goalie who could come for crosses. He was called Grant Smith.

Get Payne out of the team, come up with a midfield with a plan, wake the defence up and sign a young goalie who wants it! And maybe we'll reach the play-offs. DREADFUL!

[Dancingwilldoit]

Am in Spain atm lots of fuel and full supermarket shelves, wonder how that works with all the hgv driver shortages all over Europe?
Saw some of the game on bt but it kept buffering every few minutes so ended up turning it off.
Said after Bromley I don't agree with Rowe about seeing the game out when we go 2 up. We are not good enough in defence. At least if we go for a third it gives them something to think about. Instead we just invite teams on and it won't be the last time it happens.

[Devongone]

We invite teams on because our midfield (remember when we thought we were signing up loads of midfield players?) is completely useless. Mandeville showed two lovely pieces of skill, but spent most of the game looking as though he was hung-over. He was less involved than Jay O'Shea at his worst. Weston moves about, but to little effect. And McCourt doesn't really rate a mention.) Saidou Khan looks fine to me. Start him. I'd move Gunning into midfield. And I'd bring back Kellerman off loan, he has to be better than what we've got. Rowley is FAR better. We've got Maguire, King, Grimes and Kerr to pick a back three from. We've got Carline and Miller as wing backs with Whittle as cover. Up front I'd play Tshimanga furthest forward and Rowe a bit behind him to pick up passes and loose balls round the edge of the area and choose whether to blast a shot, or thread a pass. That sounds like a team to me, if only we had a keeper. Honestly if I'd have let that equaliser in in the way Loach did in the Hope Fckuing Valley League there'd have been an hour's inquest in the changing room after. If I'd have come for the ball and got it wrong they'd have forgiven me anything, but freezing on the line like the B of the Bang, our defence wouldn't stood for it. Except they wouldn't have had to get at me I'd have been apologising to the entire team. Christ that was amateur football, but I'd have been replaying that in my head for days. In moments of crisis the six yard box is always yours!

By the way I wasn't impressed by the goal Grant Smith conceded for Yeovil either.

Oh for Nathan Ashmore!!!!!!!

We never have full supermarket shelves down here - we've got Morrisons. At least we'll soon have to go to the Cayman Islands to pick up our groceries.