[Chimer]

OK my two pennorth first (well Exile hadn't posted when I started typing), as it wasn't so far home for me .....

All in my humble opinion of course, and bearing in mind that I don't know the players well enough to identify many of them at 50 yards plus ....

The difference was The Beast, aka YFB. We actually did a pretty good job of containing him, mostly legally according to the ref, but he still picked up and held up a lot of their route one stuff. On the other hand, we had nothing to offer that way and kept trying chips into the corners behind their fullbacks for Maguire and Macarten to run onto - and they weren't quick enough or good enough to make much out of that, though they weren't short of effort. Naismith looked more dangerous coming from deeper on the left in the first half, but got switched to the right after the break. Atkinson and Liddle played well together in front of us in the second half, great shame that it was Lidds getting caught in possession that lead to their second goal - cracking finish it has to be sad from someone who'd only been on for 2 minutes, giving Macey, who'd had a good game throughout, looking secure under the crosses, little chance. Our worse failing from start to finish was delivery of the final ball, which ranged from hopeful to dreadful. Apart from our goal (which I couldn't really see) we only had two shots of note, one excellent save by their keeper, low to his right in the first half from Naismith, and Barry's screamer against the bar in the second - if that had gone in we might even have gone on to win.

Man of the match - Joyce for me, not least for being our biggest attacking threat in the first half.

Team spirit - looked OK to me. Officials - not great, probably to our advantage on balance. Substitutions - early enough, Gray for Maguire probably making most difference (but not enough, obviously).

Over to you to disagree, experts!