Without a win for the season and off the back of a poor performance at Spice of Life, Threemilestone Reserves traveled to Four Lanes Res.

The game began as most matches at this level do, with both sides flying out of the blocks. Both teams created chances but the away side should have gone ahead within 5 minutes when Elliot Jolly, returning from injury, blazed over an open goal with no pressure on him, in fact it was probably harder to miss than score. Threemilestone had the wind in their sails after this and several chances went begging with both Jolly and Pascoe missing what you can only describe as 'SITTERS'. It seemed that TMS would rue the chances that they were spurning, until at last Jolly finished a well worked move, to put TMS one up. Four Lanes who had started brightly but then faded, seemed to be stung into life and started to create some clear cut chances of their own, however, they seemed to be suffering from the same "Whoops Mrs Miggins I've dropped all the pies syndrome" which was affecting the away sides strikers. Eventually something had to give and unfortunately for the Stones it was their goalkeeper David Hill who gave Four Lanes a gift wrapped goal, as he managed to dive over a shot that was fired in with all the pace of a pregnant snail. Although disappointing TMS kept their spirits up and began to slowly become the dominant force, several frustrating misses later, player-manager Richard Luff sent a free kick into danger area, where Steve Pascoe fired home after a scramble in the box. The half time whistle blew with the score two - one to the visitors.

TMS suffered a blow just after half time when Jolly had to be substituted with a re-occurrence of his knee injury that could see him sidelined for several weeks. This meant a reshuffle with young Scott Whitfeld entering the fray in the midfield and Luff being pushed up front. This obviously unsettled the team and whilst making the readjustment Four Lanes equalised as they managed to beat the offside trap. The game became stretched from this point as both sides looked to take the lead, and for the third time in the game TMS grabbed the advantage when Luff played in Gary Pirret who fired his shot past the inform Four Lanes keeper. As the game progressed it was obvious that the Stones, were tiring and the pressure was building, it was then that as in previous games they let the game slip from their grasp as Four Lanes scored three goals in 12 minutes, even though they had switched to a four, four, two to bolster their defence.

Although both teams gave their all, TMS had the better of the clear cut chances, which should have resulted in their first win of the season, unfortunately, as the saying goes "GOALS WIN MATCHES, NOT CHANCES".

Richard Luff, Manager