Deja Vous

Cammell Laird 2 Mossley 1

Ever get the feeling you've been here before - Whitby, Prescot, Ossett to name a few. By this I'm just rambling about last minute goals. The deja vous also continues to the left hand side of Mossley's defence. Basically there is a gaping hole that isn't being filled and unless it is sorted soon this gaping hole will be visible in other parts of the North West next season such as Woodley or Clitheroe. I don't really need to say any more. I am utterly and totally p***ed off with what's going on. Lessons aren't being learnt and yesterday's defeat was embarrasing. I know in effect Cammell Laird are only a few places below us but they were nothing special. We won Division 1 last season losing 10 games and looking at CL as one of the front runners makes me realize that the league is probably no stronger this season.

Mossley started the game looking reasonable and once it was obvious that the Cammell Laird goalkeeper was having one of those days we should have capitalized. The first goal arrived after a spell of passing football that resulted in a mishit shot from Melford Knight being spilled and Eyres was on hand to slot home. At this point the lead was just about deserved but you knew one goal wouldn't be enough, as clean sheets and Mossley are about as rare as Channel M news reports without the mention of FC ***. There were some rather rough tackles going on and the rather lenient officials were allowing a lot of off the ball stuff to happen. The second half saw the side shuffled around too much and the disjointed play allow Cammell Laird to start to take control and it was no surprise when McGuire drove home from the Mossley left. (Yes I know!!)
Despite the way the game was turning it seemed that Mossley would hang on and force a replay on Tuesday night, but the referee had other ideas. For some inexplicable reason as the defender climbed all over Peter Wright a free kick was awarded against him. However, that is not an excuse for what followed as hesitant defending saw Mossley dumped out of the FA Trophy and also throw away the chance of £2000 prize money. Never mind we can always concentrate on the league or to put it correctly concentrate on staying in the league.

It's all rather depressing at the moment and one wonders how we can get out of this slump. Maybe the gaping hole already mentioned could be filled in, but Saturday could certainly be interesting as we come across our friends from Kendal who have also hit a bit of a slump and were also dumped out of the FA Trophy.