Tonbridge Angels (0) 0
Weymouth (4) 5 Rose 24 O'Connell 27 Ash 44,45,52
Attendance: 805
Admission: Season Ticket
Programme: £3
Mileage: 38/3,888
After the complete performance of Tuesday evening, came a Saturday horror show to which defies explanation.
Weymouth, as a club, arrived at Longmead ever so slightly peeved at their hosts refusal to move the kick-off to a time that would enable everybody to get back to Dorset in time for the England game and left with the smug satisfaction of not only the points but the imposition of a sobering scoreline.
Nobody really saw this coming. Weymouth, despite recent improvements in results following a change of manager and an influx of new players, still propped up the division.
Adding to the gloom, it was freezing.
It took Weymouth 23 minutes to open the scoring but the writing had been on the wall for some while before that. The visitors forced several corners and Jonny Henly produced a good one-handed save to thwart Bradley Ash and when they had the ball in the net, the goal was ruled out as referee, Steven Hughes, had already blown the whistle for a free kick to the visitors on the left hand side of the box. But justice was served as from the resultant free kick, Akheem Rose, literally rose unchallenged to plant a header past Henly from inside the six yard box.
Three minutes later, and the few hardy fans from Weymouth that had put club before country, were celebrating again when a cross from the right from Tom Blair was met at the far post by Keelan O’Connell who volleyed past a helpless Henly.
Two goals in the space of a couple of minutes right on the break, saw the game well out of the reach of the Angels. On 44 minutes, Tonbridge failed to clear to safety and the ball was won back and fed to Ash, who lashed in a shot from the left hand angle of the six yard box between Henly and his near post.
If 3-0 was going to be a difficult half-time team talk for Jay Saunders, a fourth made it virtually impossible. Ash cut in from the left, skipped past a couple of half-hearted challenges before playing a one-two with Rose and burying his shot into the bottom corner.
Any thoughts or a miracle comeback were quickly put to bed as Weymouth went five up and Ash completed his hat-trick on 53 minutes. He collected a long ball forward and tucked it past the advancing Henly.
The cold and the woefulness of the Angels performance proved too much for many as an exodus began with the best part of 40 minutes remaining.
Those supporters missed very little as it was the visitors that mostly threatened to add to the scoreline rather than Tonbridge attaining any sort of respectability.
One to position in the day to forget folder.
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