Well what a horrible game and I would have said the same if we had won. This match showed the two previous Unibond Division 1 Champions but on the evidence you wouldn't have known. The game was played on an excellent surface but both sides more happy with launching the ball as far as they could without touching the grass.
At least for once there was some excellent weather to stand and watch the game in. Mossley started fairly well with Joe Shaw in particular showing what a classy player he is and he looked capable of taking North Ferriby apart on his own, until the North Ferriby centre-half decided the best way to stop the lively Shaw was to rake his studs down his leg and therefore resulting in him having to leave the field with a nasty looking injury.
Mr.Pecora. Where's the ball?
SAS opens the scoring
In all honesty the game never settled down during the first half with the only hope being that Mossley could continue their excellence at freekicks and corners, especially as the North Ferriby goalkeeper Antoni Pecora seemed like a rabbit caught in headlights everytime the ball came near him. He seemed to escape though due to an ability to shoot from the Mossley attack. However, he finally got caught out just before the hour when he flapped at a freekick and Steve Sheil ran in at the far post to head home.
This gave Mossley the lead for the first time since their promotion and one wondered how they would cope. North Ferriby were there for the taking if Mossley could just push themselves more, but the side seem to be rather cautious at the moment and are possibly still finding their way in the Unibond Premier. A little more belief and points will start coming and let's be honest - as long as we stay up we'll be happy and even so early on there are sides worse than us in this league. In fact, there's one not too far away!!
North Ferriby also seemed incapable of scoring with Gary Bradshaw being marshalled superbly by the Mossley rearguard, but just 4 minutes from time, he finally escaped his marker and laid the ball off to Chris Bolder to equalize. Well a point was probably about right for both sides, but oh no!! Ferriby launched the ball back into the Mossley penalty area and it was like Keystone Cops as the players seemed to fall over each other and the winner was slotted home by Leon Wainman.
Lessons need learning quickly but both players and fans need to calm down and remember that we are in a stronger league but we need belief. We have a home game on Tuesday and we need to remember how we got promoted. We attacked from the off and took the game to opponents. Seel Park needs to become a fortress and so far we have let 2 teams take maximum points and Burscough were very unlucky as well. It's early days but let's get behind the lads on Tuesday.
Anyway it looks like a better set of photos from Saturday.
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