It may be tinpot but a win is a win...

A first half penalty from Rob Duffy was enough to send Oxford stumbling into the second round of the FA Trophy at Minchery Farm last night. We are so short of confidence that any win will be gladly received but last night was nothing short of terrible and the penalty was in the end the only shot on target we had. To not be able test a 16 year old youth team non-league 'keeper isn't exactly promising for the weeks to come and although we pretty much controled the match, just shading a Conference South with an injury list worse than the Somme was a poor showing.
Still... We've won a game at last and on Saturday Halifax come down for round 2 in what will be a much tougher game. Hopefully the better class of opponent will force us to raise our game to something approaching acceptable. I may just go and watch Banbury play Merthyr Tydfil instead as I'm not really up for watching another FA Trophy game in front of no fans for a tenner. Hopefully we will win through as I really do want to do well in this competition.