TROGGS WON'T LAY DOWN
If you look at the negatives from today's games, the Troggs were awful. Again they let in early goals through lack of tracking, again they gave themselves a mountain to climb and again they spent most of the game not looking anything like the Division 1 outfit they should be. But, having said this, the Troggs showed passion and belief, making up for their mistakes and coming back from 2-0 (and 3-1) to level the game 3-3. So if you take the positives, we recovered reasonably well and are still in a position to finish level with eagles but on better goal difference.
Egerton started much the better side, opening up the troggs on a number of occasions, notching two early goals. Troggs tried to play their way out of it but lacked the crisp passing we would like to associate with them. However, on 35, Marcus went down in the box after he felt contact from an outstretched leg and Newman took his opportunity from the spot to bring the teams in 2-1 at the break. Despite a further set back to 3-1 down in the second half the troggs battled through on an awful pitch and on 75. Adamson's shot was parried only as far as the approaching Pearce, who headed home for 3-2. On 82, a Ben Gibbs cross confused the defence and an Egerton player skilfully deflected home. Last ditch efforts from both sides couldn't produce a winner and the game ended 3-3.
Not the best performance from the Troggs in a fixture they should have won. You can blame the pitch, arrogance, nerves, inability, or you can just move on knowing that beating Ashford Boro in two weeks time will still place the Troggs above Eagles and in with a good shout at promotion, albeit in a disappointingly likely third place slot.
