08 - Super Coutts slays Vics

Sunday, 28 September 08, 02:15 PM · Comments (0)

Transfer listed Weymouth substitute James Coutts came off the bench to score a stoppage time winner for the Terras in their away clash with Northwich yesterday.

After taking the lead early in the second half through and own goal, it looked business as usual for the visitors after they shipped in two quick goals.

But Weymouth are made of sterner stuff under the leadership of JHMBE and despite my updates on the match being through the internet of my mobile ( I was at another match, but more of that later) I was still able to launch into a celebration when "Beaver" levelled.

The game I was watching was over and I was nearly back to my mate Tim's car before another quick check of the cell phone saw Couttsie had given us three absolutely vital BSP points. And when I say vital, I mean vital. We had been in freefall down the table over the last month and there remains a back drop of uncertainty off the park. So to dig in and come from a goal down late on is thoroughly satisfying and has made the shoulder injury a little less sore!!

JHMBE called himself "The points collector" in the Dorset Echo earlier in the week and he is going to have a long hard winter of trying to keep up that record and securing our status in this division.

It is too early to say we have turned a corner, and there are still whispers that what is going on behind closed doors in the boardroom could make what's happening on the field irrelevant, but it was nice to spend a Saturday evening feeling proud of the lads and their result.

So where was I watching my soccer yesterday?

Yaxley? Nope! although I did have a lengthy chat with their ex-manager and club legend "Super" Jimmy Watson as he watched his lad warming up for his Stamford team.

Stamford, known as the "Daniels" (after Britains largest ever man Daniel Lambert) were visiting York Street to play Boston United in the FA Cup.

Those longer term Terras travellers will remember it as being a bloody horrible place to go and watch football with the local chav population always up to try and intimidate opposing fans. It was a bit better than my last trip with the Terras in the late 90's when there were 12 away fans watching a defeat with a chorus of "worst support we've ever seen" being sung by the home contingent. Coins and cans were hurled at us when David Laws scored for us but after the match the players, led by the great Matthew Hale were keen to seek out the Weymouth fans in the bar and buy a drink for us for putting up with the intimidation.

Boston hasn't changed much and if ever a club had deserved the various punishments it has had on its way back down the pyramid then it is them...

One thing that did inspire me was the large amount of fund raising activities they were getting involved in, albeit to pay off some CCJ or something.

Football boots, mobile phones and other electrical equipment were being collected to raise money and you wonder how closer the community could become to the Terras if this 'backs against the wall' and 'us and then' approach were used to galvanise Weymouth...

It's nice to have a midweek off, god knows what I will blog about, but with this club I am sure something will happen to keep us entertained!!

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