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[cheshire cat]

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned the grey kit yet

[One Foot in the Grave]

Match highlights:

https://www.thenationalleague.org.uk/club-info/630470

The quality of these official highlights is unbelievably poor. I can't really draw any firm conclusions from them.

[Mrs Warbouys]

Full highlights here

https://youtu.be/uRSzmeshNAM

[One Foot in the Grave]

Much better quality.

First, our much-maligned goalkeeper. He had no chance with the first, for which James Jones seemed blissfully unaware of the man behind him. Ramshaw struck the second really well, and if Tony had got that extra six inches of reach we'd be nominating him for Save of the Season. The third wasn't his finest effort, but he may not have had the clearest view of it.

Our overall defending of balls coming into the box is arguably the weakest element of our game. PP's post-match comments indicate that he can see the problem - hopefully he knows how to solve it !

Josh's penalty was awful, but then Durrell's wasn't the best I've ever seen. The whole team should be practicing them regularly, because if we do make the playoffs, we can't afford another shootout debacle like Chorley.

We should certainly not have come away from Co.Durham empty-handed. Three points at Blyth on Saturday are now an essential.

[TheCultOfIanTunnacliffe]

Have to feel for poor old Tony Thompson. I'm surprised that some contributors to this forum haven't also blamed him for the missed spot kick (Hancock's second successive failure from the penalty spot) or even hold him responsible for the assassination of JFK.

As One Foot in the Grave rightly asserts, Jones was caught napping for Spennymoor's opening goal.

Moult was caught in possession in the build-up to their second goal and the third was a collective abdication of defensive responsibility by the players which allowed Buddle a completely free header.

All I'm saying is that some players' errors are conveniently overlooked in a stampede to vilify one individual.

[JTH]

Having been at the game nobody there blamed TT at all for any of the goals as none of them were directly his fault.

[CRT Butty]

Having been at the game nobody there blamed TT at all for any of the goals as none of them were directly his fault.

Done a bit of goalkeeping myself and criticism of keepers can irritate me. Yes, there are absolute blocks dropped from time to time, but those are few and far between. The vast majority of goals against are a team collective thing. Somebody lost the ball, somebody failed to close down, tackle or mark, somebody didn't get the block in...yet the keeper gets the grief.

Rant over.