Witton 3 Brigg Town 0

One up after 5 minutes through Carl Ruffer, could have had a second a couple of minutes later. Yet another ridiculous booking, Ronnie Morgan after he had been fouled by the keeper, I really don’t think criticism of our discipline is justified given the number of farcical cards against us recently. Brigg pretty lucky to have eleven on the field after a blatant professional fould was only punished by yellow.
In the second half we actually scored a penalty! Morgan fired home under the keeper’s body, then Carl Lamb provided a neat finish to a superb volleyed pass from the wing.

I’ll probably get shot down in flames here, but I thought our display tonight was very disjointed and not a patch on how we played against Glapwell and Carlton. We dominated possession in both those games, and played by far the better football, but in both those games the opposition scored with virtually every foray into the box, apart from late on when the games were over. I was amazed at the criticism on here after those games, but everyone is entitled to their own opinion. I don’t expect the same criticism will appear now because of the result, even though our general play was not as good.

In the end all that maters is the three points keep us up there, and the three goals help the goal difference. Big couple of weeks coming up, unfortunately I’ll miss them, so good luck to the lads.

Those 3 goals could prove to be very important. Belper beat Mickleover 1-0 tonight, ending Mickleover’s unbeaten run. This means that us and Belper are tied on points, but we are in 6th place by 1 goal.

Following tonights other results, we are now 2 points of 2nd place. In fact, 2 points separate 2nd from 8th.

It is still very much possible to go up, but we need to beat Belper on Saturday to stay in with a chance.

Totally agree with u Mike - we have played better and lost too many times this season.
Job done tonight though but Belper will be confident now after beating Mickleover. We are still hanging in there but other teams have games in hand. Ronnie Morgan started tonight and his contribution deserves praise.

MoM - Carl Ruffer

Not a great performance tonight but an important win nonetheless. Morgan had a good game and Powell looked lively once again. Simply a MUST win game at Belper on Saturday, as is every other game left this season. The results weren’t too harsh to us tonight but all we can do is win every game and hope for the best.

Stranger things have happened…

Yep we’ve played a damn sight better than that and lost thats for sure, but a great win none the less!

Just think those two games when we missed pens at 0-0, if we’ed won them and had six more points…AND missing the tenner a week more men (Foster and Broadhead), Peter Heler suspended…and Super Mike of course…it’s a wonder we managed to get a team out really

So now you’re gonna believe us, so now you’re gonna believe us…

An excellent three points and once again the league table shows how goal difference comes into play. Vital to win that game last night and keep in contention. Having not been there I can’t comment on the performance, but frankly that is secondary to the victory at this stage of the season.

Hopefully some of the upheaval and criticism might be channeled into some fight (in an appropriate sense of the word) on the pitch. We need to grind out results now. Games are not over until the final whistle as Rushall proved. Scoring two goals in the last 12 minutes last night, having led for more than an hour and keeping a clean sheet are good achievements.

We have played a couple more games than those teams in 2nd, 3rd, 4th positions which means we have to keep the pressure on by winning our games. If we win them all we will get a play-off spot.

Belper can be beaten on Saturday, Stamford beat them last Saturday (somehow) and Rushall beat them at home in March. Indeed their last league results are WLDDLLLW, so 1 win in seven games!

That said I have a feeling that Belper and Cheatstown may pose a bigger threat to us that Leek and Kidsgrove above!!!

Leek’s next three games are away at Mickleover, Cheatstown and Brigg, plus they play Kidsgrove at home on Bank Holiday Monday (so someone has to drop points)!

A number of teams above us still have some tricky fixtures ahead; Sheffield still have to go to Mickleover and Cheatstown too! Glapwell have yet to go to Sheffield! Kidsgrove are at Cheatstown on the final day!

There are without doubt a few twists and turns still to come. Our mission is simple, win games! Crowd out the opposition, defend in unison from the front, break quickly, and shoot on sight!

I think Morgan could be a key man in the next few weeks and Lamb hitting goalscoring form is perfect timing.

That Lanzarote sun is doing u good Rabbit !

You’d like it here Eli, there are plenty of moaning old gits here!

:slight_smile:

That’s what Rosie said :wink:

Another excellent report by GS on the Official Website.

eligorton wrote:

Far too relaxed to bite, it’s only the mosquitos that do that round here :slight_smile:

Only saw the second half, cannot argue with 3 points and a 3-0 win, but do agree it wasnt exactly flowing but I will cetainly settle for that given recent events, lets hope we can keep it going and I dont care how we scrape the points at the moment but in the longer term I would hope to see us playing football that is easy on the eye, if we can do that and be at the top then the gates will get better.

Still in with chance of the play offs, then anything can happen, we might even get lucky!!
WHS.

If we do make the play offs then it may suit us to be playing away from home. We would expect to take a decent following to anywhere we had to go to. Leek or Kidsgrove for example.

Not a great game but the result was more important . Very good goal from Lamb and good to see us score a pen. Think we will win on sat and creep a little bit closer to the play offs.