Bleak afternoon up in Billingham for the game against Stockton Riverside. In a game which we never started too fantastically we did slowly get a grip on things with our midfield starting to get the ball down and play very well. Even with Stocktons early pressure they never truly troubled our back 4 who had a solid game and left jake with little to do out collect a few scrap balls over the defences head. Once again I had a goal ruled out for offside(wrongly) but we didn't have to wait much longer to go ahead after Sam Henderson met a corner like a young John Terry to make it 1-0. The goal was thoroughly deserved and we carried that lead into half time. Gary ran a couple of changes at half time with me and Sam Burchett being replaced by two people who I can't actually remember so sorry lads. In all honesty the second half was a dull affair with Gary using all his squad so we ended up making 7 or 8 substitutions within 15 minutes which kind of disgruntled the side and we slowly started to lose our shape, once the lads coming on got into the game we started keeping hold of the ball without posing any real threat on the opposition goal. The main highlight of the second half was a coming together of the referee, one of their lads and Callum Roe. As the Stockton player was running with the ball the referee practically 2 footed him to the floor making him lose possession and the ball fell to Callum, as the game shouldn't of been stopped Callum went to run with the ball before the referee stopped play and went to talk with Callum before bizarrely showing him a yellow card, we can only assume it was down to the ref not being able to admit he fouled the lad so he decided that Callum was infact at fault. May I point out that the same referee, who resembled Herbet off Family Guy an awful lot, was involved in an incident with myself last year which resulted in me owing £60 to the FA and served what felt like about a 6 month ban so we clearly has something against QE. Their equaliser came from a hopeful cross that flew over the keeper and landed at some round shaped striker who let it cannon off his thunder thighs and trickle into the goal for an undeserved equaliser. The match faded out after that with no team threatening a winner before the referee brought things to aclose.
Today's man of the match was Sam Henderson or Hendo as he apparently gets called. Absolutely solid at the back with some great tackles and even played out with the ball when possible, grabbing a goal was the icing on the cake for his performance. Also very strong today was Westy who is starting to become quite a driving force of the team, Wayne who must of stayed off the tabs as he looked an awful lot fitter until brutally winded and Bravey who kept there little annoyingly fast winger in his back pocket throughout.
Cock up this week goes to Ab for numerous things but mainly for not knowing anyone's name and calling Goughy 'Owen' and calling Hal 'Abel' repeatedly.
Decent performance lads, see you's in two weeks for home game against Hartlepool FE.
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