Saturday 3rd January  2009

Ridgeons League Division One

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Diss Town travelled to fellow promotion hopefuls Great Yarmouth Town for their first match of 2009 and had more of the first half play in front of The Bloaters’ highest home crowd of the season of 106. However, they had to settle for a point as their one goal half time lead proved to be too small. Manager Rob Taylor was able to name an unchanged team.

Diss could have secured all three points inside the fist quarter of an hour. In the 3^rd minute Ed Cussons put The Tangerines ahead with a left foot shot from just inside the penalty area after Adam Sullivan cleared an Andy Moody corner off the line. Dominic Smith cleared a corner from Cussons off the line in the 10^th minute and three minutes later ex-Diss goalkeeper Michael Hilton was ruled to have pushed Moody at a corner from Cussons. Hilton dived to his left to turn the left foot penalty from Adie Hayes, the 7^th he has taken in the last seven games with five scored, round the post for a corner. Hilton made a good save to deny Danny Partridge from the resulting corner.

Yarmouth started the second half strongly and Smith was just over with a header. They equalised in the 54^th minute when Woodcock passed to Adam Sullivan. He crossed For Adam Sewell to glance his header past Matty Hill. Partridge was denied by Hilton and Sullivan shot just wide as play switched from end to end. Five minutes from the end substitute Robbie Lawrence came close to snatching the points for Diss but his 20 yard shot crashed against the bar and came out to Danny Jones. His shot from the edge of the penalty area was superbly tipped over by Hilton.

Diss team: Matty Hill, Mark Shadrack, Ed Cussons, James Wilson, Steve Best, Adie Hayes, Andy Moody, Luke Catchpole, Ben Soanes, Danny Partridge, Steve Wright.

Diss subs: Robbie Lawrence (for Moody 70 mins), Danny Jones (for Catchpole 70 mins), George Wilson and Mark Fowler.

Attendance: 106.