4 WINS FROM 4 FOR THE SECONDS NOW BUT THIS WAS A REAL BATTLE AGAINST A VERY DETERMINED COMBER SIDE WHO WER HOPING TO MAKE UP FOR LAST WEEKS 5-1 LOSS AGAINST US . WHAT A START THEY HAD TAKING THE LEAD AFTER ONLY FOUR MINUTES AND IN TRUTH COULD HAVE ALREADY BEEN 2 UP BRENTWOOD HOWEVER GOT A BURST OF ENERGY THEMSELVES FOR THE NEXT TEN MINUTES CREATING SOME GREAT OPENINGS THE BEST OF WHICH WAS FINIISHED OFF AT THE BACK POST BY BEATTIE AFTER SOME GREAT WORK DOWN THE LEFT BY RUSSEL, THE GAME THEN BECAME A MIDFIELD BATTLE FOR FIFTHTEEN OR TWENTY MINUTES AND IT HAS TO BE SAID COMBER WER JUST ABOUT GETTING THE BETTER OF IT SO WHEN BRENTWOOD TOOK A 2-1 LEAD IT WAS PROBABLY AGAINST THE RUN OF PLAY , ROBBIE MULLIGAN WON THE BALL ON THE HALF WAY LINE AND PLAYED A SUPERB THROUGH BALL INTO CHRIS MAINES PATH AND HE KEPT HIS HEAD TO BEAT THE KEEPER FROM JUST INSIDE THE BOX .

BRENTWOODS DEFENCE WASNT HAVING THE BEST OF DAYS AND WHEN THE KEEPER CAME FOR A FREEKICK AND FAILED TO LET HIS DEFENCE KNOW JEST TRIED TO HEAD CLEAR ONLY TO PUT THE BALL OVER THE KEEPER AND INTO THE NET JUST BEFORE HALF TIME FOR A DESERVED EQUALISER, THE HALF TIME TEAM TALK WAS ANYTHING BUT QUIET AS THE MANAGER RIPPED INTO HIS PLAYERS AND ESPECIALY KEEPER CROSKERY BUT IT SEEMED TO GO IN ONE EAR AND OUT THE OTHER AS IT TOOK A GOOD TWENTY MINUTES FOR THE TEAM TO GET GOING AGAIN AND BY THIS TIME COMBER HAD TAKEN THE LEAD THROUGH MORE SLACK DEFENDING LEAVING THEIR STRIKER AN EASY FINSISH FROM 8 YARDS OUT

BRENTWOOD NOW KNEW IT WAS TIME TO LIFT THEIR GAME AND GRADUALLY MADE INROADS TO THE COMBER GOAL . GREAT WORK FROM McDOWELL AND MULLIGAN SENT MAINE RACING CLEAR TO SEND THE BALL HOME OFF THE POST FOR 3-3 SOON AFTER SIBLEY SAW RED AFTER PUSHING A COMBER PLAYER TO THE GROUND AFTER THE SAME PLAYER HAD WENT IN STUDS UP IN A VERY DANGEROUS TACKLE UNFORTUNATLEY THE REF FAILED TO EVEN BOOK THE COMBER PLAYER INSTEAD SENDING SIBLEY OFF. GOING DOWN TO TEN MEN SEEMED TO MAKE THE BRENTWOOD PLAYERS EVEN MORE DETERMINED TO WIN AND SOON THEY WERE 4-3 AHEAD AFTER BEATTIE POKED HOME FROM A McMURRAY THROW IN ANOTHER CLOSE FINISH FROM RUSSEL MADE IT FIVE AND McMURRAY SCORED THE GOAL OF THE DAY RUNNING FROM THE HALF WAY LINE BEATING THREE PLAYERS AND SMASHING THE BALL HIGH INTO THE NET FROM 25 YARDS FOR THE SIXTH , COMBER PULLED ONE BACK FROM A FREE KICK IN THE DYING SECONDS BUT BRENTWOOD HELD ON TO STAY TOP OF THE LEAGUE