Cheeky.

Was thinking about yesterday's game and the more I thought about it the more impressed I was. For the first 15 minutes they really came out hard and are a strong side going forward. Last time we only just scraped past them 1-0 but after the first 10 minutes of the second half yesterday we were cruising. It was a nice, patient display, we rode out the storm and then you could literally see us starting to make headway up the pitch before Matty scored. Then when we conceded again we kept our heads up well and just got on with it, no shouting, no moaning, just back to the game, trying to get it together. Slowly but surely it came together and if you think about the number of quality balls that Matty put in throughout both halves, just a little more luck on the run of the ball and we could have had another double figures game. Dave Lewis as well, particularly in the second half seemed to refuse to believe their left back existed, just kept running round him, through him and over him, to set Matty up 3 times! Course he only netted 2 of them.

But one of the best things was in midfield and from defence to midfield, if a player had got into a tight situation, or had a ball which was coming in quite difficult to control, I saw a lot of little touches, little knock off's to people with more space/time and then sometimes some movement knowing that they'd soon need to release the ball too - just to relieve the pressure, work the ball away and clear the danger. It was straight from the 2 touch training we've been doing and it was great to see.

Norreys are not a bad team by any stretch of the imagination and we put in what felt like an average display, but I think that's cos they didn't push enough to put in anything more. Altogether it shows why we'er in the position we are in the league, even if we don't finish there, we've held 2nd place for long enough for it not to be a fluke. I wouldn't hold your breath for promotion this season cos you just never know what's going to happen over the Summer, but anything above second bottom was a successful season, so we have, if anything, bettered what we achieved last season. They just don't do trophies for that.