2018/19 #14 - 22nd December 2018 - Ashington v. Sunderland RCA
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From the desk of Brian Bennett (@scoopbb)<br />
“OVERALL WE SHOULD HAVE WON”<br />
It was another encouraging<br />
performance which attracted loads of<br />
compliments - but sadly <strong>Ashington</strong><br />
stretched their winless run to 11 games<br />
on Saturday when second half goals<br />
from Matthew Slocombe and substitute<br />
Michael Sweet saw Consett run out 2-0<br />
victors and remain joint top of the Ebac<br />
Northern League with Dunston UTS.<br />
For Colliers manager Steve Bowey and his<br />
squad, it was another bitter pill to swallow<br />
- and Bowey reflected ruefully on the result<br />
outlining that his outfit should have taken<br />
the three points on offer: “I thought we<br />
were excellent first half – the shape we<br />
kept was brilliant and Consett didn’t have any chances,” he said<br />
afterwards, “We looked dangerous on the break and used the ball well<br />
and I’ve just said to the lads, the last eight or nine games we have been<br />
unlucky – but I’m sick of saying that. Throughout we’ve had five or six<br />
golden opportunities to score and overall we should have won the game.<br />
We also started the second period very well and were quick out of the<br />
blocks and should have been two or three up and put the game to bed -<br />
but it wasn’t to be. On the positive side we created opportunities. Then<br />
they get a free kick after our lad has clearly won the ball and I can’t<br />
understand what the referee has seen - and they have scored from it.<br />
When Danny Craggs knocked the ball in, no-one went with the runner<br />
and then the quick fire second goal followed but we still could have<br />
scored two in the last five minutes.”<br />
He continued: “On another day, the chances we have created go in.<br />
Consett like to play at the back but we pressed high and we pinched the<br />
ball a couple of times in the first half and we could have been ahead at<br />
the break. They (Consett) played right into our hands and we are all<br />
disappointed because people will look at the result and not see the bigger<br />
picture. We created enough chances to win the game and I’m gutted but<br />
when you are at the top things go for you and when you are struggling<br />
you don’t get the rub of the green – even at the end they cleared one off<br />
the line. I say it every week that we have got to turn the corner and get a<br />
result – but that corner is getting bigger and bigger. It’s so frustrating.<br />
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