Good or Bad Result

It's difficult to tell if last nights result for Cambridge United was good or bad. On the face of it a 1-1 draw with a top 5 team seems like a good result, but scratch the surface and is this a case of another 2 points lost. This time I'm afraid I don't have the answer as I was sat at home watching the game on www.sporting-life.com. Scoring in the thirteenth minute, even if it is a gift, you would hope would set the team up for a nice victory. However it looked like Gray put us under an awful lot of pressure through the middle of the half and the equalizer may well have been justified.

Unfortunately the U's lost Jamie Guy as he was recalled by Colchester in the afternoon as cover for their injury crisis. This let Onibuje and Westcarr up front. By all accounts Onibuje had a shocker and was hauled off 10 minutes into the second half. Judging by the 4 out of 10 rating he got from the local paper they were none to impressed either. I want to take the positive out of this result. We played a good team, we drew with a good team, we did our best to play the same side two games running, we could have won the game and we did not lose.

Now what this adds upto is what I have been writing about for the last few weeks, we are now in a position where around 5 points will mean we will still be in the conference next season. This means Rob Newman will be able to start building his side now. So the likes of Onibuje and Westcarr can start playing for a contract next season. If what the finance guys say are true we will have a bigger and better playing budget is I expect some of these players will not be around next season. More good performances or bad performances could seal their fate. I look forward to the last 10 games of the season to see how will step upto the mark.

On a side note with York winning last night Greys dropped out of the top 5 so we still have beaten 3 out of 5 top 5 side and still have two to play at home. So factually I am still correct.