A bloody awful result and a terrible performance to match it for a 30 minute period before and after the break, compounded by Macca playing 3-4-2-1 at home to a side in the bottom 4! This should have been a home banker and looked like it would be on 16 mins when Drewett twisted and turned his way to the edge of the box before shooting low into the corner of the net. Instead of building on this Bromley relaxed and over played the ball, with Falana working really hard up front on his own, but with little support. Banstead came into the game and began to trouble the painfully slow centre back partnership of Harris and Manuel on the break. They scuffed in an equaliser on 42 mins through Cormack and then, to a stunned home crowd, Mitchell got on the end of another good move to put the visitors 1-2 up at half time.
The Ravens were equally poor for the first 15 mins of the second period and had a few close scrapes at the back before, finally, Macca introduced Amoako up front to partner Wade and give us some punch. It worked almost immediately, on 69 mins Falana crashed in the equalizer from close range at a tight angle after a move that saw the ball worked well across the pitch. Watts troubled ex-Raven Aaron Day and Falana was awesome, although too often pulled up for the crime of challenging for the ball, but they were let down by poor work in the centre of midfield. Banstead had a goal disallowed for a foul before very late on Myatt gave the ball away, Manuel was caught flat and Harris clearly brought down their striker in the box. Luckily the terrible Ref J Lodge waved the appeals away and it finished all square.
Quote for the game, ‘One up front at home!’
Team: Martini, Smith, Luckett, Julius, Manuel, Harris, Drewett, Myatt, Williams, Falana, Watts.
Subs: Harwood, Ball, Amoako, Smith Jnr, Cook.