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There's news of an exciting opportunity for Lewis Salmon on the club's website now.

There's news about Alistair Smith on the website now.

There's news of a new arrival on the club's website.

There's news about Simon Richman on the club's website now.

'Also a shout out to applaud local lad Anthony Taylor who was the referee last night'

There's a piece in praise of Anthony on the club's website now.

And my closing remark would be that if missing a few things that had no bearing on the outcome but getting two absolutely major decisions that did directly affect it 100 per cent right ended up putting a referee in special measures, then the system is fundamentally wrong. That is what I would call 'dangerous'.

The performance of last night's referee was one of the best I've seen at this level. You can nitpick all you like about this player should have been booked or he missed a foul at some point, but there were two hugely-important decisions that had a massive influence on the game, and he got both spot-on. Refs are often praised for playing advantage when it's actually an obvious thing to do, but last night's wasn't. It was quite a bad foul, for one thing, which could easily have prompted a hasty whistle, and, in addition, I didn't think the advantage was all that apparent to begin with. Tom Peers was confronted by a couple of defenders and, for a moment at least, didn't particularly seem to have the ball completely under control. Again, the whistle could easily have gone, but it didn't, and we know what happened next. For the penalty that wasn't, he had to be in a good enough position to judge and be able to make his mind up in a split-second on first viewing in real time. Up on the gantry, we were able to confirm he'd got that one right as well, though only after we'd had the benefit of a replay on the TV screen. You can pick on free-kicks he may have missed, but we're talking about two decisions that had to be right or we'd have lost. In fact, just one wrong, and it would have cost us the game. He got both right, and I think that's why Shaun Densmore went up to him all smiles at the end and delivered what looked very much like a heartfelt well done.