Shepshed Dynamo v Brigg Town

Saturday 24th November 2007 UniBond League Div One South

Made the short trip down the M1 to the Dovecote on Butthole Lane - home of Shepshed Dynamo. They were taking on Brigg Town -- this was Lee Wilson and Jimmy Albans 1st game in charge since they joined from Gedling Town.

Got to the ground at 2:45pm and straight away bumped into James Whitehead ! Lee has moved quickly to secure the services of their former quality skipper at Gedling. Unfortunately "Topps" was unable to play - something wrong with the paperwork apparently.

After a quick chat it was off to the snack bar -- 2 sausage, chips and peas for me, with Kev settling for pie, chips, peas and gravy. Nice food but the tea and coffee was a bit wishy-washy!!

Brigg were second bottom of the table, with Shepshed 3rd bottom, so we knew this would not be a classic.. indeed it was not -- and it was flipping cold! Mind you, the trees around the ground serve well as windbreaks - this kept the chill bearable.

Shepshed took the lead 10 minutes in - a 25 yard effort from Lee Mellon looked to have been tipped over by Steer in the Brigg goal, but to everyone's surprise the ball crept under the bar.

Mellor added a second on the half-hour - the Brigg left back tried to clear the ball but miskicked comically, leaving Mellon an easy drive to double the score.

H-T 2-0

Chris Parr added the third with about 15 to go - a poor clearance driven home by the substitute from 20 yards out.

F-T 3-0

Brigg were not very good and look likely relegation candidates -- Shepshed? If Lee and Jimmy can attract more players of the calibre of Whitehead, they will soon be climbing the table......

Impressed with :

Robbie Banks on the right wing ( should work well with Topps)....

Lee Mellon : midfield general....

Ade Adelukan : quick as you like up top..

Joe and Sam Carter : defended well.....

No footie on Tuesday - the only game is Borrowash Vics v Blackwell MW in the Derbyshire Senior cup, so it looks like Sevilla v Arsenal on the telly.