2019/20 season - part 3
The draw for 3rd Round in FA Trophy seemed lucky for us as we should play away against King’s Lynn - an opponent we already had met in FA Cup this season with a goal galore win (7-2) as result.
Perhaps the previous win made us complacent as we struggled a lot but came from King’s Lynn with a 1-1 draw as result after an important equalizer by Bradley Fewster.
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The replay at home at Brewery Field turned out more as expected with a forceful 6-0 win after 90 minutes. Spennymoor had qualified for the Quarterfinals in FA Trophy for the first time ever
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In National League we followed up with a fine 1-0 win at home against leading team Morecambe after a rare goal from captain Joe Tait who now primarily was a backup player in our defence.
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Our program was quite heavy in this period with many league and FA Cup matches. I tried to rotate our starting lineup as much as possible but the heavy match load could be seen in our results. We lost the two next league matches (away to Gateshead and Dover) and lost our previous position in the league standings.
Our quarterfinal in FA Trophy was to be played at home at Brewery Field against Dagenham & Redbridge, one of the other leading teams in National League. In front of only 750 fans (a bit disappointing) we were under pressure most of the match and were lucky to get a 0-0 result and a new match and hoped that we could play better in the replay.
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We were playing better in the rematch which was a very close match. Bradley Fewster gave us the lead after 20 minutes but Dag & Red scored an equalizer before half time. There were no goals in second half and neither in the extra time so the match had to be decided in a penalty shootout. Unfortunately our players missed three out of four penalties so we lost the shootout 3-1
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The FA Trophy replay match was our 9th cup match in the season and our 11th match in six weeks. Our players were very tried at the moment and we played bad in the coming league matches.
Especially a 1-0 defeat against Woking (fighting to avoid relegation) only three days after the penalty defeat in FA Trophy was our worst match in the season so far and another defeat a week later away against our local rivals from Hartlepool (2-3) was not well received by our fans and by the Board
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We were suddenly out of the playoff zone despite being in top-7 all season. Our results were not stabil with a 5-0 win away over Bath as our best match (four goals by Kyle Wootton) and a 1-4 defeat away against Boreham Wood as our worst match. In our final league match we however secured a place in the playoffs with a 5-1 win over Whitehawk (already relegated)
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The final league result was a 7th place for Spennymoor Town FC - a fine result in our first season in Vanarama National League. We ended just above both Dagenham & Redbridge and Hartlepool who failed to qualify for the playoffs - a small revenge for our side
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Bradley Fewster finished third in the goal scorer list topped the list of assists and was the player with best average rating all season!
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We should play away against Boreham Wood (4th) in the playoff quarterfinal. Boreham Wood had beaten us 4-1 at home just a few weeks prior to this match so we were definitely the underdogs prior to the match. We did well in the first 45 minutes (in my opinion we played best) but Boreham Wood took the lead in the injury time in first half and we did not manage to get the hang of it in second half so with a 3-1 win to Boreham Wood our season had ended. 56 important matches played - we really needed some vacation
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The draw for 3rd Round in FA Trophy seemed lucky for us as we should play away against King’s Lynn - an opponent we already had met in FA Cup this season with a goal galore win (7-2) as result.
Perhaps the previous win made us complacent as we struggled a lot but came from King’s Lynn with a 1-1 draw as result after an important equalizer by Bradley Fewster.
The replay at home at Brewery Field turned out more as expected with a forceful 6-0 win after 90 minutes. Spennymoor had qualified for the Quarterfinals in FA Trophy for the first time ever
In National League we followed up with a fine 1-0 win at home against leading team Morecambe after a rare goal from captain Joe Tait who now primarily was a backup player in our defence.
Our program was quite heavy in this period with many league and FA Cup matches. I tried to rotate our starting lineup as much as possible but the heavy match load could be seen in our results. We lost the two next league matches (away to Gateshead and Dover) and lost our previous position in the league standings.
Our quarterfinal in FA Trophy was to be played at home at Brewery Field against Dagenham & Redbridge, one of the other leading teams in National League. In front of only 750 fans (a bit disappointing) we were under pressure most of the match and were lucky to get a 0-0 result and a new match and hoped that we could play better in the replay.
We were playing better in the rematch which was a very close match. Bradley Fewster gave us the lead after 20 minutes but Dag & Red scored an equalizer before half time. There were no goals in second half and neither in the extra time so the match had to be decided in a penalty shootout. Unfortunately our players missed three out of four penalties so we lost the shootout 3-1
The FA Trophy replay match was our 9th cup match in the season and our 11th match in six weeks. Our players were very tried at the moment and we played bad in the coming league matches.
Especially a 1-0 defeat against Woking (fighting to avoid relegation) only three days after the penalty defeat in FA Trophy was our worst match in the season so far and another defeat a week later away against our local rivals from Hartlepool (2-3) was not well received by our fans and by the Board
We were suddenly out of the playoff zone despite being in top-7 all season. Our results were not stabil with a 5-0 win away over Bath as our best match (four goals by Kyle Wootton) and a 1-4 defeat away against Boreham Wood as our worst match. In our final league match we however secured a place in the playoffs with a 5-1 win over Whitehawk (already relegated)
The final league result was a 7th place for Spennymoor Town FC - a fine result in our first season in Vanarama National League. We ended just above both Dagenham & Redbridge and Hartlepool who failed to qualify for the playoffs - a small revenge for our side
Bradley Fewster finished third in the goal scorer list topped the list of assists and was the player with best average rating all season!
We should play away against Boreham Wood (4th) in the playoff quarterfinal. Boreham Wood had beaten us 4-1 at home just a few weeks prior to this match so we were definitely the underdogs prior to the match. We did well in the first 45 minutes (in my opinion we played best) but Boreham Wood took the lead in the injury time in first half and we did not manage to get the hang of it in second half so with a 3-1 win to Boreham Wood our season had ended. 56 important matches played - we really needed some vacation
