An away game at Yate on a cold winters morning on a sticky small pitch is always a win first performance second priority. We welcome back Keaton after a long lay off and had all 15 players available.

We started brightly, passing and moving with Jack Robson looking lively up front. The ball seemed to find its way to Jack Green constantly in the first 10 minute with him taking on the left back and crossing in to the box and it was only some dogged defending that kept the scores even. The midfield was a battle, we had lots of possession but out final ball just let us down. On 20 minutes a ball won in midfield was shifted quickly to Greener who squared the ball to Harry whos 18 yard shot was driven straight at the keeper. Straight after Yate pressed and a last ditch tackle by Tom Norley stopped a goal scoring opportunity, the ball was kept alive and worked through the middle and out to Greener, who took on two defenders and earned a BOCO corner. Greener floated the corner to the near post where Tom Norley had made a great run, he twisted his neck and powered the header in to the top corner, 1-0, great goal, the patience had paid off. Paul made a few changes with Will coming on the left and it wasn't long before he was rampaging down the wing and some great passing between Will and Joe nearly led to another chance. By now, Yate were on the back foot and they stuck to their task and they frustrated BOCO with their never say die attitude.

With 33 minutes gone, Yate found some space outside the box and a late tackle conceded a free kick. Last year they scored two 25 yarders so this was a chance, fortunately the shot was a bit weak and rolled straight to Madgey. We worked hard and tried to pass for the rest of the half but the score remained 1-0 at half time.

Second half and Alex seemed to fly out the traps with some great tackles and seemed to dictate the play, we looked safe at the back with everyone doing their jobs and it looked like the flanks was where we were going to get our joy. Greener earns another corner and almost identical to the goal, Tom climbs above his marker and heads one over the bar. 16 minutes in to the second half, Alex is first to the ball, lays it to Ollie who floats a ball down to the line to Greener, he gets another corner. Carbon copy, Tom climbs, powers the ball against the bar, it drops 3 yard and Brad was on hand to slot it in to the top right corner (he was aiming for the bottom left).

Any breaks Yate had we seemed to deal with and we kept pushing to finish the game off. On 21 minutes Brad drove a diagonal ball to Greener who looked up, pulled it back to an oncoming Harry who just got under the ball and lofted over the bar. From that goal kick Yate kept possession with a 5 pass move that ended with the ball crossed in to the box. Madgey flew in to action and plucked the ball out of the air. By now the pitch was dictating how the game was going to be played and credit to both sides they ran, tackled, battled and tried to play. Both sides had a few more half chances but the game was to end 2-0 to BOCO.