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Muze - I'm now in full agreement that the 4/6 is value and i'm off to SJ to have betwen 6-9 points on it....

This stat swung me (plus reading the Chippenham v Newport match report)
from the Southern League fixtures to date:

Home games:

P W D L F A +/- Pts
1 Chippenham Town 4 4 0 0 10 1 +9 12

Away Games:

22 Yate Town 4 0 0 4 1 11 -10 0

Almost the mirror image!

From "This is Bristol" it appears that their injury crisis won't be rectified soon:

Thompson is "desperate" to strengthen a side depleted by injuries, although he does have defenders Lee Jefferies and Dave Elsey back from suspension and unavailability.

He said: "I've been on the phone constantly searching for players, particularly a striker, and all I've been doing is hitting brick walls.

"There's just no one available, it seems, and it's frustrating."

Going down 3-0 at home to Team Bath (who aren't one of the top teams in this league) is a bad result - especially considering that bath were 3-0 up in 15 minutes:



Yate Tn 0 Team Bath 3

YATE never recovered from conceding three goals in the opening quarter-of-an-hour in this one-sided Southern Premier Division clash.

Team Bath forced a left-wing corner after two minutes, which the Yate defence failed to clear. The ball was played back to the left and crossed for unmarked central defender Nick Hudson to give goalkeeper Dave Dyson no chance with a powerful header.

Steve Cook then went close to increasing the lead after eight minutes when he cut inside from the right, but he was unlucky to see his powerful drive hit the upright with Dyson beaten.

Cook then opened up the Yate defence and, with the home side appealing for offside, Sean Canham ran through to slide the ball past Dyson and make it 2-0 after 13 minutes.

Two minutes later Canham struck to add a third after good approach play between Paul Tisdale and Dean Smith had again opened up the Yate rearguard.

I'm going to have 9 points on Yate and make them my biggets single of the weekend. Which is a shame as I used to live there and my old dears family are from there....Still, it isn't the second time I've backed against them though...

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