[LongLostSon]

Well that's just my second viewing of Stanley this season. Have been reading about super performances on here all season (recent form excluded). Now I'm Stanley thru'nthru' but old enough to tell it like it is. Phil's report is a fair reflection of events, if rather polite. We had 3 good chances in the first half, Billy driving wide when well placed & he an another blazing over the bar instead of hitting the target. Seems like there is a fixation with finding the extremities of the goal instead of making the keeper work and maybe get a deflection, rebound or fumble. We aren't good enough in league 2 to be consistently precise so why not choose percentage shots ? At times the defence was open more than Arkwrights corner shop and first half the ball was airbourne so much the physio is going to be busy healing sore neck muscles. As for the sending off, why oh why do Stanley keepers opt to give a penalty in exchange for a red card. We still went 1 down but with a massive handicap & a forthcoming keeper problem. Not exactly the best choice. Half time came with me muttering about park standard footie and calling for the young mascot to be brought on second half - a tad disallusioned you might say.
Thank goodness they got it sorted after the break and our 10 bossed the game, even managing to keep the ball on the floor at times. I regarded our penalty effort as full credit to their keeper rather than Phil Edwards' shortcoming. Our goals were superb and overall we deserved the win.
You all have seen many more games than I - do we always play park football against the lower sides ? they are better at it than us but we are a different prosition when we keep the ball on the turf. An alternative report perhaps - but as scoop bluebottle once replied to eccles "what paper do I represent ? - brown wrapping paper my man" . Nice to re-acquaint and have a laugh over pre-match drinkie-poohs.