[Chimer]

For me it was a game of three halves. We started off very nervously, should have been one, and could have been two, down early on. Steadied down by the first scrambled goal and the sending off, then played much better leading to the second goal just before half-time and a period of total domination at the start of the second half (I thought I heard the Woking fans doing the “Ole!” thing during one of our passing sequences). Even during this good period, however, we didn’t seem able to find the final pass, or shoot anything like straight when we got an opening. But the third goal was lovely to watch. After that we should have gone on and scored six, but didn’t (see previous sentence), and for the final fifteen minutes or so we were, in my opinion, frankly dreadful – luckily Woking were unsurprisingly tired so weren’t much better, but kept going and probably deserved a goal. If they had got one with say 5 to go, I reckon it would have been panic stations. As it was, for the first time in my second Stanley-watching career I wasn’t bricking it watching us trying to defend a lead in injury time. But then it was the first time I’ve seen us with a two goal lead, never mind three!

We’ll play better and lose, but it’s the result that counts. Can’t wait for the draw this evening. On Stanley On!!