No, not the Scottish pop group, but sadly the Mossley weather for the third successive home game, and this is the summer. God help us once we enter Autumn and Winter. Unfortunately, the performance was rather a damp squid again as Mossley dropped points at home again. Many supporters may have hoped that the rather fortunate 3 points on Bank Holiday Monday could have given the team some confidence. In fairness, the team started fairly well but when possession in the first 10 minutes or so failed to open up Lincoln, the visitors took control and started to dominate proceedings. The difference was that the visitors managed to open up the Lilywhites defence and Sam Wilkinson opened the scoring in the 13th minute with a firm header (although he did appear to be unmarked at the time.) Mossley had loan signing Marvin McDonald (from Macclesfield Town) making his debut and on occasions started to show promise but despite his endeavour the Lincoln goalkeeper was having very little action. Mossley seemed like they would go in at the interval just a goal adrift, but a rare Danny White error resulted in him commiting a foul and the resulting penalty was slotted home by Jonty Hawley on the stroke of half time.
The second half saw Lincoln more than happy to hold onto their lead, although some of their time wasting was rather verging on what you sadly see at World Cups as players went down as if shot, and Lincoln have some strengths but acting certainly isn't one of them. The grandstand finish finally materialised when Terry Bowker headed home with just 8 minutes remaining, but in all honesty Mossley got what they deserved, although substitute Steve Sheil headed over with a couple of minutes remaining.
Most of Mossley's goals are coming from set pieces and at the moment the defence seem more capable of scoring than the attack. Lessons need to be learnt quickly as the obvious difference in this league is that mistakes generally are punished. Despite leaking goals, the defence is looking very steady but more protection is going to be needed and Mossley need to start taking the game to the opposition, especially during home games.
A real test is due on Tuesday night at AFC Telford if some of these problems aren't ironed out, as from reports received AFC Telford are quite a formidable outfit, but it wouldn't be a bad place to bounce back from Saturday's disappointment.
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