Retford United: Davies, O’ Connor, Walker, Wisdom-Lockwood, Melvin, Wyld, Adams, Sykes, Funnell, Gordon, Walters. Subs: Allwood, Bagshaw, Carter, Sutton, Bohan. retford united 4
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How on earth am I even going to start picking the bones out of this one? Oh well, hold on tight, here goes nothing... " Even the NCEL website has posted the Retford United goalscorers in the wrong order and added slightly inaccurate time sequence details pertaining to today ' s game. But I guess this kind of thing is inevitable when an hitherto perfectly manageable game of football for all of the anally retentive statisticians present( don ' t knock it until you ' ve tried it), suddenly erupts into a goal fest, free for all. " Make no mistake, Jamie Davies and Ben Townsend are both competent, capable and accomplished goalkeepers, but generally speaking they probably prefer not to play when they aren ' t afforded any protection whatsoever by a defence that is about as useful as a chocolate fireguard. It ' s all well and good when defenders charge off up the field to muck in with their attackers, but they need to be astute enough( or even fit enough) to track back when their own goal is
under threat. " By half time, Davies must have been wondering if some of his AWOL team mates had decided that he could play against Rainworth on his own this afternoon. " Everybody likes a trier and you couldn ' t fault the Badgers Jack Walters for his effort and non-stop today, but even he made a clumsy start to the game, when he exchanged passes with Jermaine Gordon on the edge of the Rainworth area, but fell over as he went for the return ball. " As the Wrens found their feet, it was mostly one way traffic for the majority of the first half, all towards Davies ' goal. Declan Brewin burst through the middle of the Badgers defence and went to ground, but the referee, Martin Chester, was by @ The66Pow the66pow. blogspot. co. uk
close enough to see that he ' d merely ' fallen over ' as the ball ran away from him and waved away a couple of half hearted but wholly optimistic penalty appeals. " Aaron Moxam played the ball out wide to Jordan Claxton on the left and played the ball back to the Wrens striker, who netted from close range, but
the goal was ruled out for an offside offence. " But Moxam had the ball in the net again less than thirty seconds later, when Owen Heather slipped the ball through to him, as the Retford defence stepped out en masse and left their keeper exposed. 0-1
The home side attacked and Walters crossed to Gordon, who used his frame well to hold off a challenge from Matt Plant, before rolling the ball back to Ward Wisdom-Lockwood, who cracked his shot over Townsend ' s crossbar and into the car park. " Rob Ludlam tracked Walters as he broke down the left wing and as they brushed past each other, the Retford youngster hit the deck. Walters obviously has many attributes and has a good career in the game ahead of him, but conning referee ' s with theatrical falls isn ' t one of his talents." He should stick to doing what he does best and count himself lucky that he wasn ' t booked for assimilation, in this instance. " As the Badgers started to a resemble a pub team that had been hastily assembled out of players that had never met before, but who all had one
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