Richard Money decided to bring in Craig Pead for the injured Westwood and Darren Wrack for Dobson, but it hasn’t weakened the team that much from last week.

On a heavy pitch, chances have been few and far between. Harper and Cooper have been struggling to get involved, although Cooper went close early on. Keates and Wrack are holding the centre together, but are creating very little.

Butler has gone close on a couple of occasions, as as Julian Joachim (who missed one easy chance on the edge of the six yard box), but Darlington have been struggling to cope with the conditions as much as we have, according to the Fat Controller.

Ashley’s overall opinion is that we need to make some real improvements in the second half if we are going to come away with the points.