ATTACKING INTENT MAINTAINED

City maintained the attacking intent established at Farnborough to solidly beat Havant and Waterlooville at May day Trust park last Saturday.

Ross Stearn showed why you should never leave your best players on the bench. He might not be the best player at tracking back and on occasion holds on to the ball for too long but his flair is there for all to see. His hat trick puts him amongst the League's top scorers and earned him man of the match on the day. Every time City have a free kick around the box, Stearn looks likely and so it was last Saturday. Ex Rovers keeper Bevan seemed to have it covered but was beaten but a grass skimmer which had far too much pace for even his 6 foot 4 inch frame to reach.

Like many other supporters I found Lee Howell's post match interview comments about Stearn somewhat difficult to understand!

But it isn't just about Stearn. Andy Watkins looks very lively and set up the second goal with great skill on the bye line. Young Bowman looks promising and when he adds the final ball to his repertoire will be a real find. Dave Pratt is rapidly winning fans plaudits for the most industrious player in black and white stripes. He was everywhere.

The only worry now is the lack of paying customers. Just 451 for a Saturday match with no Bath rugby home fixture is a real concern.

I won't repeat the arguments I have made before but the Board has to do something about this .....match day income is critically low. halting the decline requires new leadership!

I did enjoy the game despite Havant's late arrival for which they will surely be fined. I did join in the chorus of boos as they proceeded to delay the start further with an elaborate touchline warm up routine.

The substitute linesman did a brilliant job and was scrupulously fair as he gave City offside on a number of occasions.Without him the game might have been abandoned.

I met my fellow Derby based Bath City fan by chance for the first time late on in the game. It was great to meet Gareth who like me had done the 145 miles south for the game.

On Monday City faced 'cross town rivals' Larkhall in the Somerset Cup. I did find the match hype a little strange as we had never played them before! They are going well though and there was a healthy crowd of over 200. I hope they go on to get promotion..

Not unexpectedly the FA Trophy draw was completely unkind to us. A long trip to Dover is a difficult tie but if we can win this surely this could be our year!

This Saturday we face a struggling Dorchester Town. It feels like a 'banker' away win but we all know that there are no easy games. But if we maintain the attacking mindset then surely we'll get in contention for a play off place?