I was fearing a thrashing when they scored but through the first half we steadily took control and grew in confidence. At the end I was disappointed that we didn't win it.
Quite so. We can speculate all we like but we shall never know what difference putting out a full first team would have made. It could be that our league position would have been worse.
I've just been along the beach at Hamble for my constitutional walk. I was struggling along the gravel into the teeth of a gale when some runner came jogging past me.