It's easy to forget how easy it is to lose your spot on the table by a shock loss due to complacency. Just ask Sumner. We could have very easily dropped down to 4th spot today, meaning a semi-final vs Sydenham instead of the planned for Belfast. But the 18 players who turned up and played their hearts out turned it around and gave us the result we wanted. So I guess that means the rest of you buggers can actually go to training on Wednesday?

As expected, Flannel suffered head high tackles again. Does he wear a sign around his neck or something? Fortunately he wasn't deranged by the constant barrage of illegal moves, but he does need to milk the after effects a bit more. Christchurch could have had 3 red cards against them instead of just the two (plus two yellow cards).
As they often do, the Canardlys suffered from an 76 minute bout of ill temper and ill discipline. Although they were friendly enough at the pub after the game.  Read more