Tuesday Night and Dudsey`s keeping an eye on tonight`s Evo-1 South results via Twitter, looking at what`s coming in Rainworth are really going to need three points against Lincoln United on Saturday to avoid being sucked back into the relegation Vortex.Market Drayton turned round a one goal deficit at Leek to win 1-2 and Quorn have taken a point at Romulus keeping the pressure well and truly on Kev Gee`s side.
Another snippet to catch my eye is Belper Town welcoming 'Charlie Wier' to the fold, "Brigg didn`t hang on to him for long".
Charlie`s been joined at Christchurch Meadow by fellow ex Sheffield team mate Ashley Longstaff, ("a good return as he bagged one in Belper`s 0-3 win at Goole tonight").
0 - 0 at Ashby Avenue on the 24th of September leaves something of a 'Blank Canvas' for today, on the day Dudsey was very impressed with Lincoln`s Kallum Smith yet Rainworth were still without any producing strikers at that time so you`d like to think they would be in with a shout.
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| Fleming receives his Award |
Since then Lincoln`s Terry Fleming has been awarded the Evo-Stik 1 South "Manager of the month"so it looks as though both teams have enjoyed a recent turn of fortune and will be looking to maintain it.
Unfortunately Joe McCormack suffered double fractures to his fingers at Brigg on Saturday so it`s real surprise to see him in the side today.
Hales has been drafted in and is on the bench just in case Joe has any difficulties this afternoon. Lee Cooksey makes the starting eleven in place of Ant Lynam who is also lying-in-wait.
It`s anything but a perfect day today, cold with very blustery wind so a show-piece encounter looks very unlikely and upon the start it looks like the weather has dampened the players spirits, other than two early chances from Nathan Adams and one for Jack McGovern the first half-hour is dross, it`s a very poor show and there`s a very strange atmosphere about the place, it`s almost 'Tumbleweed' stuff.
Just as it`s looking like the first half is going to be a blank sheet Rainworth won back-to-back corners, the first was dealt with by the reliable ex-Mansfield Town player Stuart Reddington.
The second one proved to be the break 'TheWrens' had been looking for, Ricky Hanson`s corner fell spot on for Skipper Steve Kennedy to nod over the line, 1-0 with five minutes of the first half to go.
Lincoln seemed unfazed by the goal, if anything it injected a bit of life into the closing spell of the first-half, Scott Coupland and the ever-lively Kallum Smith are sprung into action and the game seems to be gaining some desperately needed momentum but the whistle gets in the way and brings proceedings to a halt.
Hales has been drafted in and is on the bench just in case Joe has any difficulties this afternoon. Lee Cooksey makes the starting eleven in place of Ant Lynam who is also lying-in-wait.
It`s anything but a perfect day today, cold with very blustery wind so a show-piece encounter looks very unlikely and upon the start it looks like the weather has dampened the players spirits, other than two early chances from Nathan Adams and one for Jack McGovern the first half-hour is dross, it`s a very poor show and there`s a very strange atmosphere about the place, it`s almost 'Tumbleweed' stuff.
A Windy, scrappy and scruffy start.
Just as it`s looking like the first half is going to be a blank sheet Rainworth won back-to-back corners, the first was dealt with by the reliable ex-Mansfield Town player Stuart Reddington.
The second one proved to be the break 'TheWrens' had been looking for, Ricky Hanson`s corner fell spot on for Skipper Steve Kennedy to nod over the line, 1-0 with five minutes of the first half to go.
Lincoln seemed unfazed by the goal, if anything it injected a bit of life into the closing spell of the first-half, Scott Coupland and the ever-lively Kallum Smith are sprung into action and the game seems to be gaining some desperately needed momentum but the whistle gets in the way and brings proceedings to a halt.
Coupland has a last minute push
One nil up with the wind behind their backs, you`d be expecting it to be a 'Breeze' for the home-side, "but it`s football and you can`t bet on a script in this game", and in the main the second half followed the pattern of the opening of the first, the first quarter of an hour was D-U-L-L.
Lynam replaces Cooksey just after the hour and nearly managed to change the pattern of the game with one of his signature 'low rocket' free-kicks which whistles to the left of Phil McGann`s goal.
From here on Nathan Adams stumbles upon a good spell and makes several charges down the left hand-side but struggles to replicate his recent solo goals and the game-play starts to swing in the other direction.
Rainworth look to capitalise on the lead
Jack McGovern`s free-kick nearly squared the game as McCormack seemed to have mis-judged the swirling wind and has to back-peddle to prevent the ball from dipping under the cross-bar.
Lincoln are looking for a point and player-manager Fleming is so anxious to salvage something from game he decides to take to the pitch, his presence and direction gets the visitors pumped up, Rainworth are backing off and inviting the visitors to press-on.
About as high as the game got today!!
Tom Garrick must have had to look twice to see how on earth his header managed to go wide, thankfully it did and 'The Wrens' managed to 'Hold the Fort' and grab another three points.
So it`s three out of three for Rainworth, a less than convincing performance but 'Mother Nature' was always going to spoil the show today but some times you have to dig-in and 'Win Ugly' and it stills pays the same dividend, three points!!
No significant candidates for Man of the Match today. ("Where`s Mr Clarke when you need him"!!)
Attendance - 96
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