What a celebration. Not that I saw much of it. There I was rushing in to join in, but Mr Carmody went tumbling over in front of me and I managed to trip over the prostrate Billy Boy and ended up on the deck myself!!! Unperturbed we both quickly dusted ourselves down to join in what was left of the celebration.

Manic scenes!!!!

We certainly had most of the possession in the first half without looking particularly dangerous with it. Despite going one down I still felt positive coming out for the second half. That soon wore off as Carshalton got stronger and it became one way traffic with us having to defend for our lives and the woodwork coming to our aid a couple of times. We had barely a shot on goal in the the second period, and we seem to have lost all of our attacking threat since Dunn jumped ship, Dixon looks ineffective and isolated at the moment, surely the loss of one player can't make that much difference.
Going into added on time I could not see us getting an equaliser and as Chace ran into the penalty area and stumbled under a challenge I was shouting for him to go down for a pen, thats how desparate we were. I'm probably not giving Chace enough credit here as my hazy recollection of what followed was a scuffed shot that bobbled into the far corner, feel free to correct me on that one !
All in all a disappointing performance from us, the only positive I can see is that we didn't lose and somehow managed to salvage a probably undeserved point

Centre back is a tricky one, I felt Sol was careless in getting himself a sending off, getting cover for him won't be easy. I'm boring myself in mentioning Robinson was on the bench yet again, could he come in for Sol ? I can't remember if he's played centre back for us before, it wouldn't be ideal as the position is vital and pretty specialised.

We are not only missed the loss of one player Andy Mc.
How could you (and Casey) forget the contribution of Eddie Dines so quickly?
If you set aside the splendid goal contribution of Dunn I would consider Dines as our most influential player so far this season.  And much missed.
Then add Wedgie to that (very little forward contribution by Tennie on his first game back) and you can see why we are struggling.
Yes, despite yet more impressive physical effort by Danny B, Mike Dixon does look isolated up front at the moment.

At our best earlier in the season we were playing with the threat of two wingers but perhaps Frank was concerned at being overrun by the Robins, as we were in the 2nd half.
If Tauren is surrounded by 3/4 opponents within a 10 yard circle it might suggest we have other players in space.  But the ball needs to be released to them much earlier.

Keep the faith.  We are still in a league position that all would envy.

At the risk of sounding like Ashley Robinsons agent, I would have thought that Robbo was a more than able replacement for Dines. Ashley has been one of our best performers of 2016, a great passing range, good set piece delivery, dangerous at shooting range free kicks, a decent long throw and leads by example. And there he is, sitting on the bench.

Sol probably won't be out until after these two New Year games judging by all the past dismissals. It takes a while for the suspensions to kick in at this level.
Interestingly, word on the terraces was that Carshalton's goal scorer the other day should've been suspended. Watch this space with interest to see if they get docked three points for that indiscretion ........ or if the suspension had either been lifted or had not come in to force yet.
 

No one has forgotten Quincey. He has been one of our best performers and gives his all. We are talking about the position next to him that Sol usually occupies!