Heathcote rues slow start
By Connor Murphy
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GRAHAM Heathcote was left rueing a poor first half display that gave his team just too much to do to claim victory against Woking on Thursday night.
The Robins looked strangely out of sorts throughout the first 45 minutes, falling behind to Bradley Quamina's goal six minutes before the break.
And it seemed to be game over when Marvin Morgan doubled the Cards' lead 11 minutes into the second half.
But Alty showed great character and resilience to launch a fightback, claiming a share of the points through goals from Colin Little and Ryan Shotton, and this went some way to banishing Heathcote's disappointment at the first half performance.
"We wasted the first 45 minutes," said the Robins boss.
"Then the second goal was a bit of a killer, coming about 10 minutes after the break, and it gave us a mountain to climb.
"We lost discipline and shape throughout that spell but then the players showed a lot of character to come back and we'll need that in the last 17 games.
"I'm disappointed because I thought this was an opportunity to take all three points but one's better than none and we certainly earned that point."
Considering the nature of their topsy-turvy evening, Heathcote knows there is some tweaking to be done in training.
He said: "I'm not sure exactly what went wrong in the first half but we didn't do as consistently well in what we've been doing recently.
"We were more dippy dappy in our passing and we played in front of them too much, which you can't do with big centre halves, you need to try and turn them.
"There's still plenty to work on."
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