I know everyone's feeling kind of deflated by yesterday's performance, but look on the bright side, we're still 2nd in the league, and for 45 minutes we were better than MDM, who until we played them we figured must be a shit hot team. They are, and we were better than them. We created more scoring chances, even in the second half we created the better scoring chances while we weren't playing very well.

Even when we stopped functioning as a team, it still took a penalty for them to score past us. We don't need to fear them any more, this season or next. It's looking less likely that we'll finish 2nd in the league now, but it's still perfectly possible and even if we don't it's still been an incredible season. Plenty of chances left, so lets pick ourselves up and get stuck in again.

One thing to think about is the psychology of a game and how it went yesterday. We've certainly reacted better to conceding goals before and I guess we all remember our 9 match winning run as being easier than it actually was (2-1 against Vodafone, 1-0 against TVS, 1-0 against Hampstead Norreys, 1-0 against NTS...) What you say and how you say it out on the pitch can have a real effect, especially after we've conceded or after we've scored, they're very sensitive times. It took us too long to recover from the goal and it cost us, cos if we'd equalised we'd have run on and won it I'm positive. Saying "Well played" (or something similar) has an amazing effect - boosting our team and also beating down the opposition - unfortunately having a go at ourselves also has an amazing effect in the opposite direction. I was just as guilty as anyone yesterday, but we need key players to take responsibility at that point and start lifting people vocally, Crabbeman was the only one I heard yesterday trying to encourage people, everyone else was either quiet or moaning (including me). Another day and we could have conceded those two goals and still got 3 points out of that game, so there's nothing to be ashamed of at all, only to look forward to the next game against them knowing that we're more than capable of matching them.