Duncan Barkes

And you've got to look on the bright side.

I mean, normally if you got stuffed 4-1, you'd be hanging your head.

But the fact is that it wasn't a bad performance.

Although I, for one, think that they kind of sat back a little bit and let us play a little bit of football.

And we did.

Our problem with our goal was only that we scored it too early.

We'd have liked to have scored it in the 42nd minute with the score at 0-0 than two minutes in with the score at 0-0.

But it was a beautifully worked goal.

And the person who will probably be forgotten in it all because he doesn't even get the assist is Blair.

who found himself in a little bit of space, but with two men closing him down.

And you don't normally get a meaningful cross off if there are two men closing you down, but he did.

He worked some space for himself, got it onto his preferred right foot, and slid a really meaningful pass along the deck and into the box.

I didn't see at the time who it was who had the excellent shot that produced the parry from their keeper.

It might have been Chaplin.

It might have been Segacic.

Whoever it was got off a terrific shot at exactly the right height for the goalkeeper, though, shoulder height.

So made a spectacular dive, made a spectacular parry.

Should have put it behind for a corner, really, to be on the safe side.

As it was, I'm sorry, I've got the end of this cold that everybody's been having.

I might sneeze in a minute, and if I do, I'll just get on with it.