August comes to an end with Bromley nicely placed top of the
table winning four out of their opening five games and letting in just three
goals. After the Bank Holiday defeat at Bishop Stortford, The Ravens fought
back with a win at home to newly promoted Gosport Borough, although they
certainly made hard work of it.
After the euphoria of crushing Tonbridge 5-1, we came up
against Stortford who were a typical Rob Stringer side. Big, direct, hard
working and organised. In the end we had no answer to break down the machine
and were a little fortunate to keep it down to 1-0, not only did Lewis Carey
save a penalty, but they hit the underside of the bar and Rob Swaine cleared
one off the line. Although we did have a good 20minute spell just before half time, including a goal ruled out for offside.
Saturday saw us start really well and at 2-0 we looked comfortable
winners, but some complacency and a late penalty saw us running the ball into the
corner and desperately running the clock down at the end.The two goals we did score though were testament to the powerful additions to the squad MG made in the summer with Rob Swaine, Ashley Nicholls and Steve Smith all involved. Mark chose to ring teh changes in midfield after the first defeat and Nicholls and Waldren earned their call ups with big performances.
The next game sees us travel to one of the promotion
favourites Eastleigh if we come back from
Hampshire with even a point it will be a great result and keep us up there.
The more cynical Bromley fans have said that we haven’t
played a good side yet, but we’ve won games that we would have lost last
season and already got a quarter f the points tally needed for league safety. the
team looks united and motivated so there are plenty of reasons to be happy at Hayes Lane right
now.
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