I thought we probably had the lion's share of the possession (sorry), but we didn't do anywhere near enough with it. There was the goal and then there was a goalmouth scramble in the second half, but otherwise Stortford didn't create a great deal either. Once they'd scored they were generally more interested in running the clock down, and took an age with goal kicks, substitutions and set pieces. The ref had a word with some of their players, but probably should have produced one or two yellow cards for time wasting.
Milo1972 is correct about their goalkeeper not having a shot to save. Weir-Daley did put the ball in the net in the second half but it was ruled out for offside. It was a tight decision and might have gone for us on another day. But that was the sum total of our efforts on target. Newsham had two headers in the first half, but one went wide and the other went over.
We appealed for a penalty in the second half when Kallum Smith went over in the box. I thought he went down much too easily, and in all honesty the ref was right to book him for diving. Gary Silk also picked up a booking in the first half and was probably lucky, as it looked quite a bad challenge.
Jones didn't have the impact today that he had against Histon, but I'm not sure our tactics were right once we'd taken him off. A lot of the balls forward were still in the air, and Smith, Newsham, Weir-Daley and Fairclough didn't have much of a chance of winning them against the Stortford defenders. Dare I say it, but if we're going to stick with the long ball forward then we'd be better off introducing Jason Lee from the bench.
On a positive, I did think Jason Stokes had a decent game considering this was his competitive debut.