Well It Had To End Sometime

A short post this week to round up a couple of poor showings from the Boston.

Boston United's winning run has come to a crashing halt.  You may remember I predicted Whitby Town away was going to be a tough game.  It turned out to be slightly more than that.  The Pilgrims were, by all accounts, toothless in attack.  Whitby took advantage of this, running out 2-0 winners after a wonder goal and a cheaply conceded penalty.  The night was made worse by results elsewhere.  Bradford and North Ferriby each picked up three points with Guiseley winning against Stocksbridge Park Steels the night before.  The only positive was that both Retford and Kendal failed to get anything out of their games against Buxton and Marine respectively.

Boston looked to bounce back from this disastrous midweek with an away tie at North Ferriby.  Around 250-300 Pilgrims travelled only to witness a poor game in which neither side threatened.  I was planning to write a match report on this game but, in all honesty, absolutely nothing of any note happened.  Special mention to the Ferriby fans who were great and who gave us a good bit of banter.

On reflection a point against a strong North Ferriby side is a good result, especially considering they have beaten Bradford twice this season. The real downer is the manner in which this result occurred.  There was very little attacking prowess, and while the defence stood strong we never even looked like scoring.  In my opinion the managers left it too late to change things and dropping the clubs top scorer (Marc 'Jesus' Newsham) to the bench before the game was never a smart move.

Once again the only saving grace for this day came in the form of results elsewhere with Retford and Bradford both losing.  Guiseley had the best weekend, with a win and all their rivals failing to keep up the pressure.

These are the sort of games the Pilgrims have to win to top the league.  It was vital to take advantage of any slip ups made by the teams in the top five and that hasn't happened.  Now there is a reliance on other results for there to be any hope of winning the league.