Stuttering progress for the Hatters
FOLLOWING on from the win at Dover, the Fingerpost Flyer made another long, long trip south to Bromley, Kent on Tuesday and I’ve got to say the turnout from the County faithful was, once again fantastic.
The Ravens were sitting pretty at the top of the table and doing very well but they hadn’t come up against the mighty County.
If anyone had have offered me four points from these two games (Dover & Bromley) I’d have bitten their hand off, I’d have settled for two draws if I’m honest but we were full of confidence had had a right good go which at the end of the game proved to be the right tactic even if we were masters of our own failings!
We went one down after both Festus and Ben made basic mistakes but we came right back and equalised and then took the lead with great goals from Elliott and Tom Walker however the half and subsequently the game ended even after more bad luck when a misplaced cross hit Sam Minihan and was deflected in but still we’d won a valuable point and played some delightful football that must have filled the squad with confidence.
How wrong! On Saturday Woking came to EP and I thoroughly expected a win, I’d been confident all week, the Cards hadn’t won in 12 games and seemed to be falling down the league table fast.
They left EP with all three points and a huge boost to their own state of mind as they did a convincing job over us.
It has to be said that once again we construed to shoot ourselves in the foot, we had chances to score early but time and again our efforts went high, wide or were snuffed out.
Devante Rodney was chief culprit but he was far from being on his own.
The problems were far deeper than just missing chances in front of goal, at times we looked like a bunch of strangers, the passes rarely found a blue shirt, the throw in routine at times was unbelievably inept and as for defending at corners, well at times we looked like we’d just gone to sleep! It wasn’t until the introduction of Frank, Adam Hammill and Ben Jackson that we turned any sort of forward play into goal scoring opportunities, remarkably the only shots on target we had came from two of those substitutes.
So to sum up this last week “two steps forward, one step back.”