Competition

Date

Saturday 2nd 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 S.T.F.C. and a variety of other local sporting and leisure events each week.

 

 

Match Report by Swindon Advertiser

MARINE START TO AIM HIGH

Supermarine’s steady improvement in the Southern Premier League has left manager Mark Collier adjusting his sights towards the top end of the division. A Ben Wells strike secured a 1-1 draw with Windsor & Eton at the Webb’s Wood Stadium on Saturday, extending Marine’s unbeaten run to nine in all competitions in the process. And, although Collier was a little frustrated not to have taken all three points from the contest, he is beginning to talk of higher aspirations in South Marston.

 

“I was disappointed not to have got the win. We had enough of the possession and played well enough to win the game,” he said. “But that shows how far we’ve come as a club recently. It’s nine undefeated, and at this level that is always good.” Collier believes a little extra discipline and a more clinical final touch could well help his outfit into the upper bracket of teams in the Southern Premier.

 

Although he bemoaned the fortunate nature of Windsor’s equaliser, the Marine boss saw enough positives to be persuaded his crop of players have all the early hallmarks of a successful side. “It was a pretty fortuitous goal that they managed,” he said. “It’s a long ball over the top which has gone past everyone and that was disappointing. “And it was also disappointing not to get into half time 1-0 up.

 

“If we want to compete with some of the top teams in this league, we have to make sure we turn teams over when we get in those kind of positions. “But the performance levels were good again, as they have been for a while, and we’ve become a difficult team to beat.”

 

Wells handed the hosts the advantage on 21 minutes, striking low from 20 yards out to beat visiting keeper Delroy Preddie with a smart finish. However, the Berkshire side did not lie down for the slaughter, despite having found themselves under the cosh for much of the game’s opening quarter, and found their way back onto even terms when David Pearce connected well to fire past Mark Scott in the home goal.

 

With few options on the bench, due to the absence through injury, illness, suspension and work of Steve Cook, Chris Allen, Dave Bampton and Ashan Holgate, Collier was unable to call on an extra spark to turn one point into three. Nevertheless, he praised his slightly depleted squad for stepping up to the plate and dominating another 90 minutes of Southern League football.

 

“They did well, they all did,” he said. “It was a shame we didn’t have the power on the bench that perhaps we would have liked, but there was nothing there which we really thought could come on and make a big difference. “Ben (Wells) came in and did very well for Chris Allen, and showed what he can do. “We could have taken a few more chances, but it was a good performance.”

 

Report from an Windsor perspective