HomeQualities that our team hardly ever lack are spirit and a never-give-up attitude. But sometimes these are not enough and we saw that again today when absences of skill and creativity were evident, particularly in the second half.
We all acknowledge just how badly hit we've been with never-ending injuries over the last few months. Leading up to Christmas, the team was picking itself with points being accumulated and we were all beginning to think of automatic promotion. However, based on recent performances, our current team is not good enough for the play-offs, let alone promotion. Grantham proved that today and were worthy winners, even though both of their goals came from poor defending. You could tell by their reaction at the final whistle that they haven't given up of making the play-offs themselves. How such an out-of-the-way town such as Grantham and a team with a low average gate and lacking our financial strength can even think of promotion beggars belief. But, best of luck to them.
Yet in the first half, after we'd got over giving away an early goal, another bit of Benbow class made most of us feel OK and I think we were all confident that further goals would inevitably come our way. But after conceding another poor, early goal in the second period, we lost our way and we didn't have it in us to raise our game.
So disappointing as, with Nantwich losing and Spennymoor only drawing, 3 points today would have made all of feel better.
But, unless we improve and quickly, I'm beginning to worry that our play-off place will be in jeapordy.
We all acknowledge just how badly hit we've been with never-ending injuries over the last few months. Leading up to Christmas, the team was picking itself with points being accumulated and we were all beginning to think of automatic promotion. However, based on recent performances, our current team is not good enough for the play-offs, let alone promotion. Grantham proved that today and were worthy winners, even though both of their goals came from poor defending. You could tell by their reaction at the final whistle that they haven't given up of making the play-offs themselves. How such an out-of-the-way town such as Grantham and a team with a low average gate and lacking our financial strength can even think of promotion beggars belief. But, best of luck to them.
Yet in the first half, after we'd got over giving away an early goal, another bit of Benbow class made most of us feel OK and I think we were all confident that further goals would inevitably come our way. But after conceding another poor, early goal in the second period, we lost our way and we didn't have it in us to raise our game.
So disappointing as, with Nantwich losing and Spennymoor only drawing, 3 points today would have made all of feel better.
But, unless we improve and quickly, I'm beginning to worry that our play-off place will be in jeapordy.
