Competition

Date

Saturday 23rd October 2010

Audio Match Review available on request

From Nick Taylor at Swindon 105.5

Listen to 'The Leisure Show' which is on each Saturday morning 10-12 noon on Swindon 105.5 (FM frequency in the Swindon area. You can also listen online at www.swindon1055.com) with a feature on Swindon Supermarine, plus a variety of other local sporting and leisure events each week.

 

Video Highlights From ITV West Country

Jamie Gosling Post Match interview from the the Bath Chronicle  available on request

Match Report By Ned Payne » courtesy of the Swindon Advertiser

Collier salutes Marine's resolve

Manager Mark Collier was keen to put Saturday’s FA Cup stalemate with non-league giants Bath City into perspective, after his side defied the odds to hold the Blue Square Premier outfit to a 0-0 draw.

 

Marine had few genuine opportunities to dump out their opponents and secure themselves a place in the first round proper, but a mean defensive performance at the Webb‘s Wood Stadium, coupled with the visitors’ profligacy, saw them set up a replay at Twerton Park tomorrow. And Collier said afterwards:

 

“I think a lot of people will be surprised we managed to hold a decent Conference team to a 0-0 draw. “We’ve done well this season and been competitive but we‘re not top of our league, and we’re playing against a team who are playing big non-league clubs week in, week out.

 

“They have got lots of quality round the pitch and have got players that have played at a very good standard in the Football League, so overall we have to be happy. “The players are fully aware we were playing a team two divisions above us and we have to keep stressing that to people. “We’re a young football club playing against a team dining at the top table of non-league football, and we stood toe-to-toe with them and did very well.”

 

Marine made a positive start to Saturday’s clash but it was the visitors who looked the more likely to break the deadlock, when they forced their way into the game midway through the half. Ex-Bristol City man Scott Murray turned Matt Robinson inside out but sliced wide at the near post, before Lee Phillips had a tap-in disallowed for offside just before the break. Phillips should have headed City in front after the resumption and Marc Canham and Alex Russell also went close, before opportunities began to diminish. Marine were put under a lot of pressure in the final stages but withstood the onslaught to set up a replay on City’s own patch.

 

Match Report from a Bath perspective from Bath City FC

Match Report from a Bath perspective from the Bath Chronicle

Post Match Intervew Audio with Bath manager Adie Britton from the Bath Chronicle