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WITH SO MANY GAMES OVER THE LAST FEW WEEKS TOWN STRUGGLED TO FIND THIRTEEN FIT PLAYERS MISSING NINE REGULARS ,STEPEHNS AND WILSHER WERE BACK AFTER RECENT INJURIES WITH  ROOKIES STONEHAM AND HUMPHEY MAKING UP THE BENCH.WITH IN FIVE MINUTES YOU COULD TELL THIS WAS TO BE A BRUISING INCOUNTER AND BY THE END OF THE MATCH YOU COULD ONLY WONDER HOW THE HOME TEAM FINISHED WITH SO MANY MEN  HAVING ONE SENT OFF WAS BAD ENOUGH BUT COULD HAVE AND MAYBE SHOULD HAVE BEEN MORE.
STANWAY LOOKED LIVERLY GOING FORWARD BUT CRACKS APPEARED AT THE BACK AS THE GAME WENT ON ,TYLER WILSHER STEAMED OUT FROM THE BACK (ALAN HANSEN STYLE) ROUNDED A COUPLE OF PLAYERS BEFORE PASSING TO SKIPPER JACK STRACY WHO SKIPPED PAST ONE AND LOTTED THE BALL PAST THE ON COMING  EX TOWN KEEPER ELLIOT RINGE. TACKLES STARTED TO FLY IN NOW BUT TOWN GAVE AS GOOD AS THEY GOT BUT THE HOME TEAM LEVELED UP IN THE 27TH MINUTE.
WITHIN TEN MINUTES OF THE SECOND HALF STANWAY HAD TWO PLAYERS YELLOW CARDED ,ON THE HOUR MARK A NASTY TACKLE ON SCOTTY STEPHENS WORHTY OFF A STRAIGHT RED SAW SCOOTY CARRIED OFF AND THE HOME PLAYER RECEIVED HIS SECOND YELLOW AS STANWAY WERE REDUCED TO TEN MEN.IN THE 76TH MINUTE TOWNS KEEPER SEEMED TO CLEAR THE BALL BUT TO THE LOUD SHOUTS THE REF POINTED TO THE SPOT AND A YELLOW CARD FOR TOWNS KEEPER ,TOWNS KEEPER CHAPLIN (WHO BEFORE TONIGHT HAD SAVED 16 PENALTYS OUT OF 19) FAILED TO SAVE THIS ONE AND THE HOME TEAM WENT IN FRONT  .AFTER ANOTHER RACKLESS TACKLE WILSHER HAD TO BE REPLACED  BY ROOKIE HARRY STONEHAM .IN THE 80TH MINUTE SHILEDING A BALL HOME JACK STONEHAM WAS PUSHED INTO THE ADVANCEING CHAPIN AND AFTER BEING KNOCKED OUT FOR A COUPLE OF MINUTES HAD TO LEAVE THE FIELD SO TOWN PLAYED THE LAST TEN MINUTES WITH TEN MEN. 

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