Shillington 1 Sun Postal Sports 3             Spartan South Midlands   Div One             2003/04

Nigel Tester's reign as manager of Sun Postal got off to a mixed start this week as the Watford side produced two contrasting performances to collect four points.
A gritty 3-1 win away at Shillington got the campaign off to the perfect start on Saturday, but that was followed by a disappointing performance at Langford on Tuesday night that saw Sun head back down the A1 thankful for a point.
"I was pleased on Saturday as it's nice to start with a win," said the manager, who is without Michael Woolner, currently on holiday, for one more game, "But I was not happy at all with Wednesday's performance. It was really poor and we didn't play well at all."
Tester surely would have not envisaged such a dream start on Saturday when Paul Turner, making his debut, headed home a Karl Bull corner for the opener after just two minutes.
Shillington equalised on the half hour but Sun got their noses back in front when Dion Osbourne latched onto a pass from James O'Connell and beat the errant keeper to poke home Sun's second.
An undulating pitch did little to assist the quality of the match but Sun, with captain Robert Coldrake and Turner in imperious form, made sure of the points when Ben Cowen tucked home the third midway through the second half.

Three days later, and but for the heroics of keeper Andy Hopping, an out of sorts Sun could have been dead and buried by half time.
As it was they were just one goal behind and, following some stern words from the manager at half time, improved marginally enough in the second half to grab an equaliser through substitute Andy Mills who finished a difficult chance with aplomb.
"We will have to play better on Saturday against Biggleswade (at Woodside, 3pm kick off) as I expect them to be the best side we have played so far," said Tester.