Talk about a game of two halves.....
Town had to make a few changes to the team that played against Swansea - Andy Holdsworth didn't recover from Saturday, Jon Worthington failed a late fitness test so he was missing, and Danny Schofield was unavailable through illness. Adnan Ahmed made his first start of the season, Aaron Hardy returned and Pawel Abbott played upfront with Boothy in a 4-4-2 formation.
First half Town seemed to be playing alright, but a poor piece of defending by David Mirfin let in Mark McCammon who made no mistake from 20 yards out. Michael Collins should have equalised for us, but somehow contrived to put his shot wide. 1-0 at half time, but I was still hopeful.
Then everything went wrong spectacularly at the start of the second half. Doncaster scored twice within the first three minutes (Heffernan and Forte) to completely kill the game stone dead. I could hardly believe my ears at this point. It all happened so quickly.
Drama followed as a dreadful 2-footed tackle by Adnan Ahmed saw him given his marching orders - although Doncaster should have had a player of their own sent off for retaliation and the referee didn't gave anything (a decision described as "...disgraceful..." by Kieran O'Regan) - Pawel Abbott was also sent off during the same incident, and now Town were down to 9 men with half an hour still to play. Dead and buried.
So it was damage limitation after that, the game was over as a contest, and even though Doncaster suffered a sending off of their own 10 minutes before the end it was too little too late, and 2007 has got off to the worst possible start for Town.
So what happens now. We have got that match at Yeovil on Friday night, but will we have 11 players available??? Bans, injuries, illness - nightmare selection problems for Jacko. Maybe there will be transfer action prior to then who knows. Going to drown my sorrows in the meantime **groan**
Monday, January 1, 2007
Doncaster Rovers 3-0 Huddersfield Town
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