A GOOD RESULT OVERALL
Eric Kinder gave us his reaction to the 3-3 draw with Burnley:
"We are really tight for players, squad wise, so we brought in James Wood for this one.
Matt Brown, Tom Aldred and Dan Wordsworth were all missing, and that in itself rips the defence apart.
I played a back four of Jonny Blake, Matt Wood, Matt Duffy and an U15 lad called Steve Swindlehurst. He was absolutely outstanding. For a young kid, like him, to step up to this level at such short notice, and then to play as well as he did, was superb. I now know that I can use him next season, and that he won't be overawed by it. That is great news for me.
We started off really brightly, and we got ourselves in front with a good goal. Andy Cook squared the ball to Connor Tinnion, and he went one on one with the keeper, and scored.
We then conceded the worst kind of goal that you can concede, as far as I am concerned, because instead of calming things down and holding on to our lead, we let them right back in to it.
My message to them all season has been to make sure that they get the ball back from the restart, and start playing again. We didn't do that because, instead, we let them score as soon as they kicked off. I find that type of goal to be completely unacceptable.
We went in to half time at 1-1, but we were awful for the first twenty minutes of the second half. We actually looked like a very weak group.
Their second goal came directly from a corner. Perhaps Alex Mitchell misjudged it, I'm not sure, but it flew over his head and dropped straight in to the back of the net.
With us playing the way that we were, and with them scoring like that, I had visions of us being over run and hammered.
I made a double substitution to try and shake things up a bit, and it worked. Bowman and Lakeland went on, and within five minutes of that change we were level. Ryan Bowman got the goal, and he showed me, yet again, that he has taken to football at this level.
We got caught dallying on the ball just after that, and Swindlehurst appeared from nowhere to get a great tackle in on their centre forward, Rob Turner. He was about to tap it in, but Steve soon put the block on that. He hurt himself making the tackle as well, but it summed up the way he applied himself.
Bowman then gave us the lead, and we probably deserved it with the way we had turned ourselves around. He'd been on the pitch for ten minutes, and we're back in front. I've said before, I'm really looking forward to working with him next season because, if he comes back with the same attitude as he is showing now, then we have got ourselves a really good player.
We looked like we were going to go on and win the game, despite the fact that it was a makeshift team. Steve Hindmarch worked himself in to the ground, to be fair to him, and the defence started to get things together more as the game went on.
The Ref told me that there were three minutes of time added on to play, and it was at nearly four when they got the ball and went for it. This lad unleashed one from about 30-yards and it flew in. That was harsh, very harsh, because I have no idea where he got that amount of time to add on. Mind you, on the overall balance of the game it was a fair result.
Being honest, it's actually a decent result when you consider the players that were unavailable for the game.
We need to win our last two games now, to see what that will do for us, and we'll certainly be trying to do that."
Team: Mitchell, Blake, Matt Wood, Duffy, Swindlehurst, James Wood (Law), Hindmarch, Dowson (Lakeland), Tinnion, Cook, Hepplethwaite (Bowman). Subs - Jamieson, Brown.














