It's injury time equaliser once more.

Yeah, really disappointing.

Our discipline has cost us again.

I think Nye's made, he's won the ball, but he's left the ground and his trail legs just about caught him and it gives the referee an opportunity away from home to make that decision.

With the crowd going up behind them, I really didn't think in the context of the game it was a red card because...

The amount of tackles that had been let go, like you said, it was a scrappy affair.

It was really, really, there was loads of contact and tackles that were being let go and that made for the game.

Surely you have to have a complaint about that.

But were there more positive or negative aspects to the play today?

It's always positive, it's always negative.

I think on balance it was probably a pretty even game and I think a draw was probably a fair reflection but you're just disappointed in the way that it's gone having gone 1-0 up because I guess I've said on the club media I think there's a Stonewall penalty on Lee Lucas at 1-0.

We've had another chance, Kane on his left foot.

and I also think there's a series of fouls in the build-up to their equalising goal.

Having said that, the referee was very inconsistent for both teams throughout the game.

Pulls that were a foul one minute, then not.

Yeah,

Point earned.

Yeah, point earned.

I thought we were very, very good in the first half.

We created, we carved them open a few times.

We probably should take one of those chances.

Credit to the keeper, he stands up, makes a couple of very good saves.

But yeah, we were really, really good in that first half.

Needs a call, doesn't he?

You probably draw was a fair result in the end, but just couldn't turn possession into chances.

I think we turned it into chances, if I'm honest, Roly.

I'll be honest.

I think we had loads of chances.

We've hit the bar, we've hit the crossbar.

I don't know how many they've blocked off the line.

I think we've had plenty of chances.

You brought on Morgan Burns and Ewan John, and just took off Kane Simpson and seemed to be playing like five up front.

They really come thick and fast this time of year, don't they?

Yeah, it's relentless in August and our start to the season is particularly tough.

I don't think we're playing any teams that are going to be near the bottom of the league in that opening spell.

And we're still finding out a little bit about each other.

We've had lots of new signings this summer.

Previously, we've had a settled squad and I think some people still look at us as a settled squad because there's certainly a continuity in the way that we play from the things that we've done previously.

However, there are a lot of new faces and we are still, embedding things working each other out and I think there's a lot more to come from this squad we're also missing a few at the moment Lucas is unavailable Will Spears is suspended Sam and Callum are injured so there's a lot more to come from this group throughout a really difficult season but we're still confident in the squad that we've got here today that we're able to produce a positive result

Since then, about South Shields, how they play, how are you going to approach it? Can you say

But the performance probably deserved more, didn't it?

Yeah, I think so.

I don't even think we were hanging on for most of that, most of the second half.

I thought we were really comfortable with 10.

I thought we were causing them problems when, whenever we got the ball.

Um, where Wiggers and Ellis early on in the f- in the fir- in the second half carried the ball really well.

Kane was a nuisance all game.

Yeah.

But how pleasing was that first half performance? Yeah,

brilliant.

I thought we were a constant threat.

I think, like you say, we were right on top, dominant in the first half.

They were looking to get a press on down there, right-hand side.

But after 20 minutes, they'd asked the wing-back to sit in.

And, you know, it just shows the dominance that we had at that point.

How important is it to get that welcoming feeling for home players and having such a big crowd? Huge.

Took you a while to get the goals, but you pretty much dominated possession from start to finish.

Yeah, they scored two great goals, to be fair to them.

Look, it's a bit disjointed, his pre-season, isn't it? And his new combinations, his young players in there.

I thought one of the biggest positives was Alex Collins' second-half performance.

I thought he was excellent.

Mason did well when he came on.

Charlie's decision-making is always excellent when he's in possession.

He looked like he was being force-wired and then just produced a little toe-in to poke it home.

pedigree.

Great pedigree.

And so she joined us in 1987 and we didn't have a winery at the time and the Le Pavo grapes weren't ready.

They were planted in spring of 1983 by my brother and I in a small vineyard team.

That's right.

And so they weren't quite ready.

So Helen went off and found some Chardonnay grapes and got them crushed.

Okay.