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Diary - Wednesday 3 October 2007

3 October 2007

This time yesterday, Last Resort Diary took a moment from enjoying his lunchtime pint to mull over a possible three points and the chance for Town to sneak into the top half of the table, if Town managed to beat Chester City. Wearing the look of a contented and confident young man, he nodded once, raised his glass to his lips, and supped in the name of potential victory. If only, readers...

"We conceded two rubbish goals," reckons Nick Fenton about last night's 2-1 defeat, with a double helping of rubbish for emphasis by declaring Chester's second goal as "another rubbish goal". Personally every goal my team concedes are rubbish. But let me hark back to my youth when, to spice up a game of headers-and-volleys, we'd only allow 'spectacular goals'. If only that rule was in place for yesterday's and every day's game, readers. If only...

Alan Buckley wasn't too happy with a few things. "We seem to take three steps forward at this club and go one back and this game was a perfect example," the boss lamented, the goals his defence conceding "very sloppy", and suggesting his team need to make like PJ Harvey and get back to basics. But no-one can disagree with his take on Danny Boshell's equaliser, "a tremendous bit of football". There were chances for Town to equalise again, Andy Taylor failing to capitalise on a one-on-one opportunity and Lump's late downward header bouncing back out off the foot of the post. If only...

Lapses aside, Town met and matched a competent looking Chester side. We're passing and moving, and just need a bit more goal-scoring grooving. Let's call last night a slight stumble. We'll look back in a couple of months and the team will have learnt from these mistakes, jostling in the top third of the table. Hopefully not lamenting 'if only...'