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Halstead should be one of the first to be secured - one of the few non-loan players to be able to hold his head high this season.

Halstead - two or three excellent saves to save the point and no chance with the goal Donellan - generally secure at the back and brought the ball forward well at times Ellis - for his goal but showed a tendency for at least one howler per game which almost cost us Evans - tried his energetic best t...

This was an entertaining match with all the hallmarks of a local derby with end-to-end action, full-on effort (but see below) and crunching tackles. Only the absence of quality in the final third kept the scores down for both teams. For us it was 5 points dropped though as the poor quality of the su...

gullsgullsgulls wrote: ↑24 Dec 2022, 22:19 And to you Louis. Well done on keeping this mad house going!

Hear, hear! Merry Christmas to all.

Yes, the first half was a difficult watch - we made Chippenham look like Argentina! They played through and around our excuse for a midfield and McGavin gifted them the ball for their first goal. The defence was not much better - Ellis had the poorest game I've seen him play - and Crowe was his usua...

Halstead - some fine saves to keep us in it
Goodwin - a combative performance with a fine goal
Lapslie - made the difference in midfield
Evans - tried hard all game to make things happen
Moxey - the only defender who inspired confidence

Much like England I thought we were unlucky to lose after a poor first half performance but a really spirited second half. We were much better with the formation change and Lapslie made the difference in midfield which we started to use productively after the break. The moves that led to both goals ...

Difficult one because no one really shone but it was a goodish team performance. In terms of the result I would suggest: Halstead - two fine saves to keep Gateshead from taking the points Jarvis - for scoring a goal when we seemed destined to be scoreless McGavin - for his best display of the season...

Thought we were, on the whole, good for all three points yesterday. We had a total of 21 attempts - 7 in the first half and 14 in the second - of which 12 were on target. Gateshead had only a handful of attempts (although Halstead had to make at least two excellent saves to keep them out) and really...

Yes, Donellan was good - my TU MOTM. We were put in our place, as were the players, by a very good Derby side. The same weaknesses we saw tonight were evident last Saturday - and indeed most matches this season.

Lapslie - never stopped trying, made a couple of incisive passes and some incisive runs but also some crunching tackles De Silva- because of the goal but the booking seemed to take the edge off his game Jarvis - tried his hardest with very little support No one else deserves a positive mention - sev...

Just got back from a depressing game. Were we 4 goals worse than Chesterfield? Yes, I think we were!. We started poorly - I don't think we got out of our half before they scored with a back post header from a corner on 8 minutes. We then clawed our way back into the game and levelled through de Silv...

Ellis - he was immense at the back and scored a crucial goal Da Silva - two well-taken goals Lapslie - high energy, made some ferocious tackles and some incisive passing Jarvis - put himself about well and could have scored Goodwin - again, tried hard with little service until the end when he should...

Thought long and hard about last night's game - at times we were made to look like amateurs rather than full-time professionals but we eventually found a way to manufacture a result. Yes, only a draw but could quite easily have won it had Goodwin and Jarvis not spurned glorious chances towards the e...

Another great game - full of drama and incident. ITV and their audience must have been well pleased with their decision to air the game. The key incident was, of course, the foul for the penalty. The officials got it just right - a definite penalty and, because there was no attempt to challenge for ...