A win away at last .... and I was there!

Dear Coxhoe Branch,

It could have been 5, 6 or 7-1 tonight - the number of chances we created in the game.

You always feel you're going to get a few chances, but we missed chance after chance, yet we got away with it.

I’m sure it was a great game to watch for a neutral, but not from our point of view, and probably not for the supporters, but we got there in the end.

I wasn’t too happy with the incident [the delay in first half], it seemed to take ages, and it went flat, it did affect us.

It stopped the game for four or five minutes and it slowed things a little. But then I suppose the referee has to look at the security issue and had to deal with it.

I’ve not seen the goal [Murphy’s] properly - you don’t get a great view from the dug-out - but if the referee’s assistant has got the decision right then well and good, that’s what he’s paid to do.

We did get off to a good start, we knew they’d come and have a go at us, I’d have been happier if we’d got the third goal, then maybe we could have relaxed a bit.

Credit to the players - they dug deep, the only disappointing thing was that we didn’t kill the game off.

Don’t worry he [Ross Wallace] will be getting plenty of stick over that [missed chance]. We’re lucky we got away with it.

We can laugh and joke about it now, but they could have scored near the end but we got away with it. He reckoned it bobbled, but he got away with it.

We had chance after chance, I think their manager was quite understanding and agreed it could have been a lot more.

That’s my only criticism - we should have killed the game off. But credit again to the lads, I changed it around again, we had lads come in, changed the midfield a little, and credit to them they did very well. We played some very good stuff.

I’m delighted with the performance, we just need that cutting edge.

There’s definitely a few more grey hairs! It would have been great to get the third goal and we could have enjoyed it – but it’s no good for my health I have to say.

All the best,



Roy Keane

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