ALBION NOT TAD ALL OVER AS THEY FEEL THE FORCE

SHAW LANE AQUAFORCE 1 V TADCASTER ALBION 0
NCEFL PREM--1945---6 JAN 2015

A third viewing of Shaw Lane Aquaforce in a close time scale for the blog but this game against top of the table and promised so much and when it passed a mid afternoon pitch inspection there was only one place to be.
The result was probably just about right if you had to pick a team to win, although I'm sure The Brewers fans would argue that case especially if they were like the ones around me when they blamed everything, the pitch, the ref, whinging Aquaforce players, etc.  Make no doubt though Shaw Lane are on fire at the moment and if they had taken their chances in the first half they could have been out of sight.

ALBION NOT FLAGGING YET

It was the first night game I had seen here and with a very healthy away following it made for a good atmosphere in a crowd of 365. 
Shaw Lane's duck mascot was well on show tonight and he certainly needed his webbed feet on a pitch that was constantly on the move its matching the standards of Sheffield FC and Dronfield Town and must be a worry to Shaw Lane who in fairness have spent big money

BANK ON THE HOME SIDES FLAGS

trying to solve the problem.  The ground has been described before in the blog so I wont revisit it but would repeat that I always enjoy the PA  music and would add a nice touch when following the playing of there theme 'can you feel the force' went onto playTadcaster's 'glad all over' well done guys.
I have always found Shaw Lane a friendly, chatty and welcoming club and tonight was no different, first visit was for a coffee and fairly standard cheese and onion pasty.
Viewing position taken up it was fairly obvious that the pitch was not looking to good on the stand side of the ground with a constant movement of mud in the heavily sanded areas but it was playable and games are called off to soon for most non league footy fans currently, so well done in getting this game played.
Goaless at half time and in a further tense second half that got increasingly tetchy it was Lee Morris on 64 minutes who pounced to secure the match winning goal. Surrounding this though it was referee Ackers who provided the talking points following one caution in the first half the second period saw 8 more cautions and three red cards two of which were for second yellow's, reducing the home side to 9 players by the end of the game.  This was always going to be a tough game to referee and from a neutrals point of view I believe the referee got the decisions correct, although I know only too well Tadcaster did not agree.

EXTRA LIGHTING AT SHAW LANE AS THE DUCK GREETS SUPPORTERS

After the 7 minutes of added time the home side had secured a vital 3 points in this promotion battle as hey look to make up the gap over Tadcaster who are still in pole position with the points in the bag they will still be hard to catch for the chasing teams.

RUGBY FOOTBALL UNION CAR ON DISPLAY BY THE TURNSTILE