An entertaining game that was friendly enough for the players was viewed by a record crowd of Romford Town fans on Wednesday, with die hards Mike Reade and Rob Tynan in attendance aswell as the RTFC players. 

 

As always the game started off slow with tight play and no goals in the first 10 minutes.  Mangan came close to opening the scoring when he found himself through and bearing down on the keeper only to have his shot saved.  Thankfully he found himself in the same situation moments later but his first shot was saved, only for it to rebound back so he could bury it with the second shot.

 

The game wore on and RT's fitness wore out.  The rejects found themselves able to punish but the match was closer to the Towns grasp than the score suggests.  Late in the first half, the towners found themselves with a penalty.  Usual goalie Mangan stepped up with a David Batty determination to place the ball on the spot and prepare to stick it away.  Unfortunately the similarities to Batty didn't stop there as Mangan stuck it wide as he mis-kicked it to the left side of the post. 

 

Mangan wasn't the only one making mistakes that night as Paul 'The Cat' Crane was back in between the sticks.  After a flurry of super-saves, that one can only come to expect from the Crane, one Rejects shot literally slipped through the hands of the usually reliable cat.  Almost straight at him, the shot spun away from the hands of the Crane to filter into the net. 

 

Thankfully it wasn't all doom and gloom as Rickee 'The Gaffer' Murrell found himself in space a couple of times to unleash two supergoals into the opposition net.  Almost making his second hatrick with some lovely link play with Romford Town captain Chris 'The Honz' Jones, Murrell was unable to penatrate the keeper a third time during the game.