That wasn’t meant to happen

At the start of the summer when the fixture list came up everyone looks at the early games to see where points can be picked up and you have to say it would be a very brave person who would of said our first win would come at Ketteringn well if you did take a bow.

Around 600 wombles made the trip although atleast 50 of them didn’t arrive until 30 mins into the game as the traffic on the M25 was so bad.

I took the option of paying the extra £2 for a seat and although their was only 1 toilet and 1 tea facility the view was very good, the large number of wombles on the terrace were in excellent voice.

Kettering kicked off attacking the end that we were standing behind and were sitting at the side of and almost immediatley it became clear that one of their major weapons was the long throw where almost like a well known team still in the Blue Square South would load the box and just launch the ball in to cause problems.

The main change in the line up this week was Jay Conroy starting instaed of Luke Garrard who had spent the previous hour doinga fitness routine with Kennedy Adeji.

On 8 minutes we were awarded a free kick on our left and this was fired into the box and headed home by Danny Kedwell.

We were already getting mutterings of had we scored to early, we are a pessimistic bunch our fans.

With a strong wind blowing against us we seemed to be under constant pressure but the defence was doing a brilliant job to ensure that any attack was cleared from danger, this sometime involved playing it out to the midfield or a very deep forward line but we continued to battle very well.

The half time whistle was greeted with great cheers, We kicked off the second half although this time we had the wind with us would this help us or help Kettering?

We continue to be under a lot of pressure but then with 20 minutes left Jay Conroy broke into the box and was pulled down after a moment thought the Lino signalled a penalty and Danny Kedwell stepped up for it as Jon Main was already off the pitch as had been subbed. He fired home to give us a 2-0 lead.

5 minutes later it was a case of oh no start to worry again as Kettering pulled a goal back with a tap in at the back post and with 15 minutes and injury time left it was going to be a long time.

Bearing in mind we are just 3 games into the season it was a strange sight to see with 5 minutes left the kettering Goalkeeper going up for every corner and long throw opportunity but we held strong and picked up our first win of the season.

Did we deserve it? I think today was a great deffensive display and conter attacking football, yes we were under a lot of pressure but its down to Kettering to convert the chance and they didn’t.

This has been slightly delayed as on the train home I was chatting with a Truro fan who had seen his team win at Bedford and a Luton fan who had seen them go top of the table against Gateshead with a 4-2 victory.