At a bitterly cold and windswept Queensgate Scarborough Athletic got back to winning ways, but it was painful to watch, more like a Sunday league game than an NCEL Premier fixture.
As usual Boro squandered what few chances came their way, but in about the 40th minute of the game skipper Nathan Hotte got the ball and went on a determined run towards the Arnold goal, after skipping over desperate tackles from the Arnold defence he crossed the ball to Ryan Blott who made no mistake in putting the ball into the back of Arnold 'keeper Lance Walker's net.
Boro seemed to step up a gear following the goal and went looking for a 2nd, but as half time arrived they had to be content with just the 1-0 lead.
Half time couldn't have come quick enough for me, Boro maintained their lead and I headed for the tea bar, at least we would have the wind behind for us for the 2nd half, which should mean an improvement on the 1st half performance which was abysmal. It made no difference, the game became a 50 - 50 affair and even the introduction of Joel Hartley mid way through the half made little difference.
Talking to an Arnold fan towards the end, he was reasonably happy as he explained that Arnold were missing their 2 best players and no less than 5 players had left the club recently in unhappy circumstances, so to come to Queensgate and lose by just the one goal in a game which they could just as easily have won had ensured this Arnold fan was going home fairly happy, unlike most Boro fans who in spite of their victory were unhappy with the teams performance.
I am not going to even try to pick a 'man of the match', I just hope we see an improvement on Tuesday evening in the away fixture at Nostell.
As usual Boro squandered what few chances came their way, but in about the 40th minute of the game skipper Nathan Hotte got the ball and went on a determined run towards the Arnold goal, after skipping over desperate tackles from the Arnold defence he crossed the ball to Ryan Blott who made no mistake in putting the ball into the back of Arnold 'keeper Lance Walker's net.
Boro seemed to step up a gear following the goal and went looking for a 2nd, but as half time arrived they had to be content with just the 1-0 lead.
Half time couldn't have come quick enough for me, Boro maintained their lead and I headed for the tea bar, at least we would have the wind behind for us for the 2nd half, which should mean an improvement on the 1st half performance which was abysmal. It made no difference, the game became a 50 - 50 affair and even the introduction of Joel Hartley mid way through the half made little difference.
I am not going to even try to pick a 'man of the match', I just hope we see an improvement on Tuesday evening in the away fixture at Nostell.
