UniBond Premier

5th September 2009

Attendance -304

Team - Campbell, Hassan, Close(Raw 80), Ingram, Burgess, Hanson, Ormerod(Beadle 45), Hackworth(c), Blott(Brunskill 70), Tymon, Charlton. Subs not used: A Gildea, Woodhead.

Report - by Andrew Snaith - The Blues were indebted to veteran goalkeeper David Campbell on his 392nd appearance and some awful second half finishing from visiting draw specialists Worksop who played out another stalemate, on the North Yorkshire coast.

Manager Harry Dunn was again without left wing-back Alex Gildea, but right wing-back Brian Close returned to cover so Jimmy Beadle dropped to the bench.

Well-travelled frontman Kevin Sanasy should've put the Tigers in front as early as the fourth minute but after beating the hosts' flimsy offside trap, the ex-Farsley Celtic forward screwed badly wide when well-placed.

Sanasy and his team-mates were made to pay three minutes later when on-loan Hartlepool United striker Matty Tymon put Whitby ahead from point-blank range. The 19-year-old was in the perfect position to stab home Karl Charlton's driven left-wing cross.

Anthony Ormerod sidefooted narrowly over the top on 15 minutes, and ten minutes later, Hassan's blockbuster from the right-edge of the area was bravely blocked by Worksop skipper Kevin Davies.

But the away side crept into the match, and only a good block by Campbell denied Sanasy at the near post just after the half hour mark. However, Peter Rinkcavage's side were level three minutes before the break after a mad scramble in the Whitby box. It looked as if Campbell was barged over by a back-tracking Worksop player when the ball was in the keeper's hands, but there was no disputing Danny Bacon's emphatic close range headed finish.

Beadle replaced Ormerod at half-time as Dunn opted to strengthen things in the middle of the park.

Ten minutes into the second half, the away side were fuming, when a right-wing cross went through Campbell's hands and was desperately hacked clear, with all the yellow-shirted travelling contingent convinced the ball crossed the goal-line. Worksop keeper Jon Kennedy then saved well twice in five minutes, first point-blank from Tymon then from Charlton's far post drive.

Close lived up to his name by glancing a header just wide, with Bacon doing likewise when under pressure at the far post.

Sanasy then somehow contrived to miss a clear shot from a yard out, allowing Campbell to pull off a frankly tremendous point-blank reflex save. At the other end, Close fired straight at Kennedy after latching onto a neat through-ball.

With ten minutes remaining, Close was replaced by striker/winger Tom Raw as the Blues effectively pushed four men up front. And the 23-year-old ran on neatly to a well-weighted pass eight minutes later butr could only shoot straight at Keenedy from a great position.

But, in a game where both number one's earned man of the match awards, it was Whitby's keeper who made the difference, tipping wide an awkward 20-yard shot from nothing that bounced in front of him at the last second on 90 minutes.

An amazing stop on the line after a series of injury time corners,was then followed by a horrible miss from substitute Andy White which allowed the Blues stopper to fall on the ball, though Campbell would argue he'd earned a touch of luck after his previous heroics.