Team news: Witton make one change from the team that beat Colwyn Bay in the FA Trophy at the weekend. Paul Booth comes in for Lee Neville whilst Steve Brodie starts on the bench.
Clegg, Adams, Booth, Pritchard, Rudd, Henry, Maylett, Hall, Foster, Tandy, Heler.
Subs: Brodie, Hadzik, Tai Hogan.
Latest Score: CHASETOWN 1 WITTON ALBION 0.
Half Time Score: CHASETOWN 1 WITTON ALBION 0.
Come on Albion - we can do it!
Latest Score still 1-0 but Chasetown have missed a penalty.
Come on the Albs this would be good!!!
Full Time Score: CHASETOWN 1 WITTON ALBION 0.
Attendance: 410.
Lost 1 -0
Damn blast and buggery bollocks I just couldn’t make it thats a shame cummon the Albs now for Saturday!!!
Seems when we lose it is always 0-1. Still, a long way to go before the end of the season.
WHS.
Not many positives from tonight, although Rushall’s wheels appear to have fallen off and miraculously we remain top with a frail margin.
The referee did just about everything but get a grip on the game. After Chasetown scored they spent 75 minutes time wasting and despite the ref gesturing to their keeper on at least three or four occasions, the fact he took absolutely no action meant the keeper could afford to carry on. When the ball went out of of the ground the home side would not even throw one back on to the field, instead our players had to actually go and fetch one out of the dugout!
Whilst it would be easy to blame the ref for the scoreline the truth is we didn’t create enough. I don’t think their keeper made one save in the 90 minutes and that is the reason we got nothing out of this one. Foster was isolated upfront and feeding only from scraps. We missed Moseley alongside him without any doubt and the absence of another striker is a problem.
The changes at the back didn’t help, Dylan on the left and Booth at right back didn’t work. It was a wide pitch and we were exposed time and time again on the wings. Chasetown had quite a lot of pace in midfield and upfront and had they have had better finishers could have increased the winning margin. There is no doubt that we struggle at the back when up against quicker forwards and our usual good organisation in defence was not there tonight.
I’ve seen enough of Heler now to personally think he’s not good enough. Tandy and Henry were anonymous in midfield and despite Hall’s efforts he could not run the whole of midfield as a one man show! Brad played pretty well although is prone to give the ball away at times and often in costly positions.
Foster missed a guilt edged chance to equalise and given the lack of chances you have got to put these away (indeed most of us thought he had done)!
Bizarre refereeing at the end of the game, when depsite showing Foster a second yellow and then a red card he managed to stay on the field for the final 4 or 5 minutes. The challenge he was booked for was 50/50 but the referee is always going to give those in favour of the goalkeeper. What is annoying is the keeper’s play acting to get the player booked, after getting hold of the ball he pretended to be injured (a good second or two after the contact), which contributed to the booking. Of course he managed to get straight back up and carry on, although the acting suggested he was badly injured. Their players reacted aggressively but failed to be booked. Overall an extremely poor refereeing display, although I guess in keeping with Unibond standard.
Chasetown did score a good goal to their credit, but did resort to time wasting and cheating to seal there win. If their keeper had of wasted anymore time he still be playing last Saturday’s game 
That said if we have played all night we still probably wouldn’t have tested him!
It’s a reminder of the work still to be done, losing 5 games in 12 is not promotion quality and we still need to strengthen the team!
Oh and one more thing, if they close anymore lanes on the M6 they might as well make it a single track road!
Should have got something from this game. Had chances first half and plenty of possession in the second. The referee lost it towards the end of the game flashing yellow and red cards and yet nobody was sent off.
So just to confirm, fossy was shown a red card i.e he will recive a ban, but never left the field. :unsure:
From what I can make out, The ref thought that Fozzie had already been booked but he hadn’t and the liner corrected him?
comment from the Chasetown forum:
Superb performance last night against the best side we have played by a mile this season. Real backs to the wall stuff for long periods
Nice of them to say so, they were lucky to play us when we didn’t play well! Had our back four of not been reshuffled and our other leading striker missing then maybe it would have been a different outcome.
How come lee Neville wasn’t playing last night, anyone know? Was a big miss imo. Also notice that dave nev gone back to FCUM
Cheatstown.
We could have done with multiball.
Lee Neville is working away. Unfortunately players at this level don’t survive on their football monies alone.
To be honest i think that for large parts of the game we played the ball about well, and put several quality balls into the Chasetown penalty area (including one about 10 seconds before they scored their goal!!). Unfortunately our attacking play seemed to revolve around Foster coming deep to link up play, and Maylett getting wide to cross the ball. This then meant our 2 most advanced players were rarely in the box when the cross came in. A lot of this has to do with Heler being ineffective once again, and this resulting in Maylett doing his job for him.
The most frustrating thing IMO was that once we pushed Rudd upfront we didn’t get a single quality ball into the box. If we’d had 2 strikers on for the first hour of the game i am pretty sure we would of had sufficient numbers in the Chasetown area to stick a couple in their net.
Chasetown’s tactics were pretty unsporting, especially in regards to getting new balls onto the pitch. But we never seemed to create anything after the penalty miss, so as others have said i don’t think we would of scored if we’d played till midnight!
I also have to say that the home fans were very quiet!
As a sidenote, me Yox and Tim were happy to be £4 up after the M6 Toll paid us instead of us paying it!!