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the full backs down and his performance gave everyone in the team a<br />
lift. Shaun Henderson was also excellent today, with every tackle and<br />
winning headers but overall the lads stuck together and that’s what we<br />
wanted. We conceded a penalty which resulted in Shildon equalising<br />
and we could have gone under especially being away from home –<br />
but we dug in. Chris Youldon was blocking shots and I’ve never seen<br />
him do that in the five years I’ve managed him!”<br />
He went on: “There is no pressure so let us build on it. The<br />
management team are here to do a job and for the team to win as<br />
many games as possible. The difference from the previous week to<br />
this was massive. We wanted to score goals – last week we never<br />
looked like scoring – but today we had the bit between our teeth. It<br />
was probably a fair result yet we had the better chances in open play.<br />
Our goalkeeper Conor Grant has had a couple of gimmes but there<br />
was nothing which troubled him.”<br />
Bowey had no arguments about the penalty given against his side: “I<br />
had no qualms about the award,” he said, “But what disappointed me<br />
was that we allowed Shildon to take a quick throw in and we didn’t get<br />
into position to stop the ball getting to the centre forward. We were<br />
under a lot of pressure at the time and the ball was backwards and<br />
forwards but we have got to learn from it and to get into position and<br />
regroup and to stop the source to the front man.”<br />
After the leveller, Bowey was pleased with his sides response: “It’s<br />
how you react as a team after conceding,” he added, “We reacted<br />
really well and came out of the contest with a lot of credibility.” The<br />
boss handed a debut to midfielder Karl Ross, signed on a dual<br />
registration with South Shields: “Karl hadn’t played for three to four<br />
weeks and I thought he had an excellent game,” said Bowey, “He kept<br />
things simple, didn’t complicate things, did what he is good at well and<br />
worked hard. However the aspect of his game which impressed me<br />
the most was when we had good possession, Karl was always there<br />
to offer support. He also set up a chance near the end for Jack Butler.<br />
I was right behind Jack’s shot and it was a great block by the defender<br />
otherwise that would have won us the game.”<br />
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