Saturday 29th March 2008

Eastwood Tn v Buxton - UniBond Premier Division

Decided that £18 was a bit rich for Notts v Mansfield, so went to see a play-off "six-pointer" at Coronation Park........

The old place is looking a bit tatty - I reckon a good lick of paint and an application of Vim or Ajax might help a bit...

429 attendance -- very good for this level - the ladies in the snap-shed were kept busy....pie, peas and gravy seemed popular!!

The first half was fairly even stevens, Shaw almost caught out the Buxton keeper with a long-range free-kick, but Buxton went in at the break a goal up ... poor defending from a corner -- Towey unmarked to stoop and head home from close in. H-T 0-1

Buxton never seemed troubled in the second half - and when Badgers' Manager Paul Cox was sent from the dugout, quickly followed by left back Chris Shaw seeing red, the result was never in doubt. It took Buxton until the 90th minute to net again - Towey hammering home a drive from the edge of the box after Eastwood failed to clear a corner. F-T 0-2

A great season for Eastwood so far - but the last two games have shown up one or two problems -- can't score, can't defend at set pieces and as far as the player's and management's discipline (or lack of) - don't mention it!!

To put last weeks 0-4 at Ilkeston into prospective, North Ferriby were third bottom at the start of play and beat the Robins 4-2 at the NMG ..strange old game innit!

Noticed there was a cry for a gilt-edged penalty in the report on the Eastwood web-site... I can only assume the incident was Anthony Howells falling over? I was standing 20 yards from this - there were not many protests from the Badgers fans I was in the middle of -- never a foul in a million years... and I thought the referee were half decent - seen worse!!

Tuesday should see us visiting a new venue ( weather permitting). Off to see Blidworth Welfare take on Sutton Town ...