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Back to league business today and a home match against F.C.Donview. Our numbers were a little better with a squad of 15 players. Changes were enforced with Keith tied up at work and Graham reporting an injury. Andrews returned but Michie retained his place in goal behind a back four minus Marlow who left himself out instead naming Sim, Fulton, Robertson and Stubbs. In midfield the Milne brothers were joined by Morgan and M.Woods and G.Woods partnered Anderson, who was playing in his one hundredth match for the club, in attack. Our bench was spilling over with players namely England, Mitchell, Marlow and Andrews. Halli started quickly and took the game to the opponents. The first real chance fell to and was missed by G.Woods. Soon after, Anderson, desperate to shine in his 100^th game, sent an excellent through ball into the path of M.Woods unfortunately his path was blocked by a good challenge from the Donview sweeper. Morgan smashed into a challenge and took two Donview players out at once. The ball broke for G.Woods who should have put us in front but shot weakly at the keeper. That was to prove costly as the game was then to turn completely on its head. Donview went onto snatch 3 goals before the interval as we fell to bits. All 3 goals were preventable, some aided by poor refereeing, some by poor defending or goalkeeping indeed one was aided by a combination of all 3. The first goal followed two poor refereeing decisions, at least two poor defending attempts then a poor attempted clearance by the keeper who in real life plays at centre half! To cap all that when the ball finally was adjudged to have crossed the line it looked like a scene from ‘It’ll be alright on the night’!! The 2cnd was another we should have prevented and the 3^rd despite being offside, should have been cleared well before it got to the scorer. (H.T.0-3) A tough task to turn a 0-3 deficit round but in all honesty Donview were no great shakes and must have been delighted to go in 3 up. We had been passing the ball like blind men and even taking throw ins straight to the opposition. We got a great opportunity early doors when M.Woods was sent clear however blasted high and wide. In 50 mins Stubbs was woefully short with a pass inside and Fulton could not collect. Morgan steamed in but only succeeded in knocking it to a midfielder who hit an opportunist effort from distance. Michie was left embarrassed when he dived under the ball, a save he should have made with ease despite a bawble in front of him. The difficult task had now been made almost impossible but on the hour mark we were handed a life line when the referee continued his run of iffy decisions and awarded us a very very soft penalty. G.Woods thumped it home to score his 100^th club goal, his 5^th of the season. We did in fairness take a lift from this and enjoyed the lions share of possession for the remainder of the match. In 65 old king goal came up with a cracker. Robertson picked up the ball some 20 yards from Donviews net and drilled a low shot towards the bottom corner. The visiting keeper was rooted to the spot as the ball flashed past him. It was vital that we get another as soon as possible to allow us time to press for the leveller. However despite constant pressure we could not find the net again. E.Milne came close when he struck the bar but despite a much improved second half performance all we picked up for our afternoons work was 3 yellow cards and a very bad result against a very average side. (F.T.2-4). Too many of our lads simply did not perform anywhere near as well as they can and all round our passing was embarrassing. Credit where it is due for a better second half display but we were always chasing the game after such a disastrous half time result. Hallitopman is picked up by Tony Morgan, his display typified what is required from everyone. He has had better matches in terms of passes and shooting but never once did he hide in the match. We must improve in next game.