That cliché, “A game of 2 halves” could be used in our match against in form Colchester. 1st half they were very impressive, played us off the park, should have been 3 goals up but we went in winning 1-0, mainly down to good luck, bad finishing and a certain amount of grit and determination. Fletchers deflected shot giving town an undeserved yet welcome lead.

As per Oldham the previous home game, they went for it at 100 mph and couldn’t finish us off and were never going to be able to keep up the pace of the game.

2nd half, Town were taking the game to them trying to extend the slender lead and the cause was helped then united were reduced to 10 men for a professional foul. A tad harsh I thought as I thought Graham was drifting away from goal and perhaps there was cover, but he was clean through and pulled back, the ref had no hesitation in showing the red card. Town started to dominate and Graham made it 3 in 3 in his short yet fruitful town career to double our money. It could have been 3, it was nearly 2-1 late on but the lads held on and too a very valuable 3 points to keep us in the playoff hunt.

Perhaps a shock result, but a good one. Our main are of focus now has to be that follow it up with a result in our next 2 games against Blackpool and MK Dons. The two who played on Saturday and the Dons running out comfortable 3-0 winners.

One area of concern is the omission of Danny Schofield. Contract talks have hit a stumbling block and it could the talented winger will move on at the end of the season. Personally, I’d be very sad to see him leave, he’s without doubt our most skilful player and will be a loss to the squad although if he is wanting to Town to break their wage structure then he’ll have to leave. Frustrating I know, but we have a stable financial footing and paying big wages got the club into trouble before and I doubt that will be allowed to happen again.

9 points in 8 days will do very nicely thankyou very much!!

By Mark Overend from the Blue-Army mailing list.