1-1. Crowd 425

Agree it will be competitive, usually is against Slough.
1-0, attendance 484.

Not very good tonight. Small period in the first half but that was it.

Maybe the changes didn’t help but those coming in did little to warrant being picked on the weekend.

Key players rested, presumably for the clash with the Met. Not quite a "B" X1  but  a starting eleven that lacked much in the way of creative spark. Slough were impressive and I would agree that they were as good, if not better, than any visitors so far this season. They did have a creative spark... in the shape of Aaron Kruhl their outstanding number 20 who pretty much ran the game for them and through whom  so much happened.  I thought there were one or two really under par performances for us, although, to our credit, we always battled well and in the end only again conceded the one goal.  However, we offered little by way of chances ourselves except for a brief spell at the start of  the second half.  After that, they were particularly potent down the left , causing us all sorts of problems  and that pressure led to a flurry of yellow cards for us as well as the goal. Our  subsititutions looked token to me; the game was gone by then.  All rather flat and pehaps inevitable given the  starting eleven we put out.  Decent gate  helped by some rather whingeing Slough support. Even Simon had lost some of his ringmaster style and sounded a little resigned when announcing their goal. From the Slough of Despond to the Colosseum (aka Imber Court) of His Majesty's Metropolitan Constabulary. COYB.