Northwood 2 – 0 Wealdstone

Northwood

2 - 0

Wealdstone

KO: 0:00 | Sat 2nd Apr ’05

A first half in which just about nothing happened was followed by a second half of similar fare in the end of season encounter. The difference being that most of the few things that did happen, happened for Northwood as Stones went missing.

There really was nothing to report in a sunny first half, but proceeding were lightened slightly at half time when ‘my mate Kev’ won £105 on the Northwood 50/50 draw!

Northwood started the second half brightly and could have scored in the first minutes had Deam been just an inch or so taller and able to get to a quick cross, but it wasn’t to be.

On 55 minutes they did take the lead from a corner – Stewart was marking Dean but just before the corner was taken he (was) moved out to mark a player coming into the back of the box – lo and behold the corner found the now unmarked Dean who scored from 8 yards……

Six minutes later they made it two when Gary Burrell was caught in possession in stones box. the resulting move saw a pass to Gavin Hart who slotted home from close range. This at least sparked some action on the Stones bench with Carl Martin and Dave Ryan brought on – Ryan up front -and he proved to be Stones best player for the remainder of the match.

Brian Jones on at half time created a couple of chances with some good footwork, but to no avail as one attempt was headed out from under the bar by Hart and then moments later Robin Tucker hit the post from close range. They were Stones only two real efforts on goal, both in the last ten minutes of a performance which must make a number of players look very closely at their performances which were much below par.