For the second week running, Town B were on the wrong end of 7 goals. Only this time they weren’t shared as proportionately as the previous week. All seven had found there way into Sambrooks net. Town could only muster an own goal in reply.

The explanation as to how and why we were beaten so comprehensively started to unravel when, at 12:30 we were stood in the Pioneer car park with 9 and half players, having penciled a squad of 15 only 12 hours earlier. The next 15 minutes were spent trying to get hold of those AWOL and we eventually scraped together enough men to make the trip to table topping, free scoring Hayfield.

Lets be honest, Hayfields ground is shocking. You change 4 miles from the pitch and then have to drive to what is, for all intents and purposes, a few cows short of a farmers field on the north face of the Eiger. That cannot be used as an excuse by any means but it does make this fixture one that is never really looked forward to by Town who have a shocking record there.

5 minutes gone, 1-0 down. Then 2. Then 3. Then 4. Then 5. Then 6.

Half time found us on the wrong end of the 6-1 scoreline.

A much more combative second half display combined with Hayfield releasing the foot from the gas slightly stopped the scoreline reaching double figures. Town also missed penalty and Mathers earned himself a £28 fine, 3 weeks on the touchline and 5pts in the bad boy league for an early bath. Hung drawn and quartered for calling the referee an 'absolute piece of dog excrement'.

Towers and Briggsy share the spoils in the MOM stakes for ensuring the Hayfield back 4 were never given an easy ride, even when 7-1 down.