MBDA 0 Knobs 8

On the back of a good win last week, and with authoritarian deputy coach Darren Aldrich away on a gambling trip to Las Vegas, the Vets were in good spirits ahead of this short trip to MBDA.
However, the mood was quickly dampened with the discovery that Dave Knights had dried the kit on his sun bed, causing shrinkage and the labels to peel off.

Having had just 12 players for the long trip last week, suddenly 17 were available to this journey to Stevenage. The 17 were cut back to 14, and the 3 subs for Knebworth contrasted an under strength MBDA who lined up without subs.

Knebworth dominated the early exchanges, but were well below par. Jono made his midfield debut, and the constant abuse from Wayne seemed to get to him. James made some early runs forward but the final ball was poor.  The deadlock was broken when Paul Matthews, who is first choice striker for lead coach Hobbs, beat the offside trap, and ran through to score. Les was tempted to give off side, and may have whistled a little early, but stuck with linesman Banks' decision. MBDA continued to play a dangerously high line, and Paul beat the offside trap to add a second, third and fourth before half time. The goals all looked quite similar and the assists were from across the back five (including Tony). 4 up at half time, without playing well, and missing several good chances.

Changes were made at half time. That statistics showed that it was 110% likely that Paul Matthews would get injured in the second half so he was off for Banks. Full backs Tony K and Dave "sun bed" Knights were off for the returning Chairman Al and Brendan Walkden.

Taking off a four goal hero at half time was seem by many as management suicide, but the old Steve Banks was back and he next scored 2 goals, again beating the high line with assists from the back 5.

With MBDA down to 9 men through injury, for the next 30 mins Knebworth missed a good chance every 2 minutes. Ridiculous. Woody scored the next 2, including a lovely chip after an assist from the back 5.

(Nearly forgot...) Tony saved a penalty, after a tired tackle from Bully. To be fair to the penalty taker, the grass was quite long.

8 nil, great result, average performance, terrible finishing, sterner tests await.

Greg "Wallace" Millhouse was surprised, and delighted by the post match stew, including vegetables. Nothing had been fried, and he's booked in for Valentine's Day 2016.

Supporters Charlie Millhouse and Louis Hobbs