FAT: Chesham United v Torquay United 3pm 19 December 2020

Bloody awful pitch bloody awful stream bloody awful game..

Not sure what that was all about we looked second best for much of the game yet come away with a narrow win.

Plus points:
Moxey and Little get match time.

That's it....

Minus points:
Not enough room to type...but just a couple of thoughts.
Yeovil Town and the chasing pack will be watching with glee.
Our second string look like a second string and if we have to rely on one or two coming in for injuries, Buse, Umera etc just not enough quality about them, it doesn't look at all promising.
So many misplaced passes and lack of continuity in our play we created nothing except the one goal.
Chesham passed better and played the conditions better.
I don't think GJ will have been impressed by that performance despite the awful pitch.

Our style is certainly geared up for a better playing surface and something we still have at Plainmoor and many other grounds in the National League but it is going to be very difficult to keep our current rate of progress over the winter months.

Mission accomplished as GJ says:

“The main thing today was that I was able to give quite a few players the minutes they needed. You look at Armani, it’s great that he’s been able to play an hour. Moxey, it’s great for him to play an hour, and Busey hasn’t had a lot of football, so he got his 90 minutes. Josh and Bill got 90 minutes ~ those people that haven’t played enough minutes yet. We’ve won the game whilst bringing people back, not just from injury. People like Jake, Fraser, Gaz ~ they haven’t played that much football until recently because they were injured for quite a long time. It was good for them to get another game, a result, in preparation for the Christmas games.”

Moxey and Little getting the planned time especially important for our future hopes.

The result is secondary to that, but none the less welcome.

The game was much as you might have expected it be. Was anyone really expecting either a massacre or a classic?

All in all, that has gone as well as I could have hoped.

Half as good a result as Nico achieved, but then again GJ only had Kyle Cameron and Connor Lemonheigh-Evans to bring on whereas Nico had Sean Finch and Will Hancox.

Odds on we get drawn to either Darlington or Southport away!

link - Dave Thomas report on the bigger picture for Torquay United.