How utterly frustrating are this current side.........?
Superb result, that goes without saying.
Agreed on both counts. Great to finally see us not only get a result but beat Stalybridge at their place. Despite them having the lion's share of possession they had virtually no clear cut chances. Their pen and a great stop at the end by Danny are all I can recall. It was still nervy given how we usually leak late goals there but they mostly had long range efforts. We however had plenty of good chances and on another day would have won by a much greater margin.
We played a good 40 minutes at Oxford, between them scoring the first and half time...
Bishop's Stortford has been the only 90 minute poor away performance so far.
Would also agree with this. IMO the first half against Oxford we where much the better team throughout. Second half was a horror show though. Stortford was abysmal, plenty of possession but their keeper didn't make 1 single save. They are, again IMO, the worst side we've played this season.
If we could have hung on for draws in the 2 home games against Worcester and Workington (where late goals have beaten us) and scored that late pen at BPA we would now be looking at 1 point off the play-offs with a game in hand and only 3 defeats. It's still small margins that seem to be costing the team. A couple of big weeks to come, get positive results against Gainsborough and Guisely, with on paper much weaker teams to play up until Christmas and despite all those losses we can still mount a challenge (even though I wrote that off only last week!!!). Then there's obviously the trophy were a home draw has given us a good chance of progression.
