We played the game at a good lick, and by and large our passing game clicked pretty well.  BUT we couldn't turn our possession into goals - several players were guilty of not hitting the target when in good positions. We finally scored when Graves brought the ball out of defence at pace. He covered about 30 yards before threading a slide rule pass into the path of Nkoma who finished well.

At this point Whitstable started to commit players forward and began to create chances of their own. If I was their manager I'd be wondering why I didn't have a more adventurous policy from the off. At this point I was hoping that we would bring on Hartburn in midfield to shore things up a bit. But I suppose it's admirable that Tanner brought on 2 more attcking players to try to extend the lead. We certainly didn't try to sit on our lead. Crucially we lost Paul Smith to a face injury late on and was replaced by Harvey Cheadle. This probably gave the visitors a bit of a boost and they equaklised in injury time when a very long throw was headed in inside the 6 yard box. Im not sure if Cheadle wzs to blame as I was a long way away, but normally I would expect the keeper to deal with a high ball in the 6 yard box. However, there didn't seem to be any challenge from a defender either. A nervy 8 minutes of injury time followed in which both sides could have nicked it, but a draw it was. Tanner was visibly angry at the final whistle, not only for tne manner of the leveller, but the lack of killer instinct and poor decision making in and around the box.

Gutted...  Another two points dropped. To be fair to Whitstable, I thought they defended well and shut down most of our attacks.

Am I right thinking the Chuckle Brothers from Sittingbourne are now in charge there ? Pair of Plums...

Yet again the Footballing Gods give us a late goal on Saturday but come for their pay back later.

I thought Wright looked OK, but it struck me that he is a similar sort of player to Clarke, Pinnock, Nkoma and even Newton, in that they are most comfortable picking the ball up deep and running at defenders and taking them on.  Yet none of them seem to show much urgency off the ball in busting a gut to get into the penalty box.  And upon receiving the ball it sometimes looks like they are intent on getting forward and getting a shot off whereas looking for a team mate seems to be the second option.  I don't really mind that in a striker, but maybe we need a bit more variation in our attacking play.

Without wishing to simply repeat what everyone  has already said, I don't think I can recall a previous occasion where we have dominated a 45 minutes as much as we did in the first half last night and came in with nothing to show for it.

On a positive and more general note, whilst he is still not hitting the back of the net regularly enough (but then who is) I think that Sol is currently playing the best football he has ever played for us. He seems to have  discovered a work ethic that had been missing from his game in his previous spells with us