With several players ruled out of the game due to featuring for the 1st team 5 or more times this season or through the effects of the previous evening’s FA Youth Cup tie, there were chances for many ‘fringe’ players to have a game. It was the visitors who started brightest & Nathan Allison, making his 1st competitive Reserve appearance of the season who was the busiest, making a reflex save by his post & having to be strong for series of corners & crosses. Allison was helpless though as a 25 yarder skimmed the top of his crossbar though! Woodbridge did begin to settle in though, aided by veteran centre back & 1st Team Assistant Manager, Andy Lawrence & it was the ‘old man among the youngsters who claimed an assist as the home team went ahead on 17 minutes as he picked up the ball off Ashley Holmes & spread it to his 16 year old son, JACK LAWRENCE, who skilfully checked inside his defender & arrowed a shot into the opposite top corner. CRAIG JENNINGS, coming back from injury added a 2nd goal heading in unmarked James Churchill’s corner. Having had to defend throughout the opening 15 minutes & survive a couple of scares, the remainder of the game was comfortable & despite the occasional long-range effort at Allison’s goal, it looked more likely that Woodbridge would increase their lead, something they would surely have done had ‘fouls’ on Jennings & Lawrence by last defenders been spotted or had a series of good chances been taken, but 2-0 it stayed to until the final whistle. Nathan Allison, James Fulker (Fabian Ambrose 46 mins), James Baalham, Anthony Bascoe, Andy Lawrence, Tom Lloyd, Ross Nicklin (Ryan Stafford 67 mins), Ashley Holmes, Craig Jennings (Stefan Garrett 67 mins), James Churchill & Jack Lawrence. Caretaker Manager, Sean Thacker, spoke after the game; “We were 2nd best in the opening 15 minutes of the game & were fortunate not to go behind, but once we gave our front players the right service & had scored the two goals, we were fully in control, passed the ball well, defended strongly when required to & were actually much better value than the 2-0 score-line suggests”.