Another rainsoaked day at home was the setting for our final chance(probably), of staying in the promotion race.By the end of the day we were left to ponder the " what if's". Because of an early kick-off we were denied the services of our captain, Glynn, who couldn't make the game because of work commitments.Gone too from the team was Shaun, injury and illness sidelining him.Jordan also was missing. So that meant a bare eleven players for the most important of games. Young Michael Putt made his first start, playing in defence and Shane also stepped up for us. Kaponga started brightly, putting early pressure on us and enjoying good territory early on. It was they that scored first too when an error by myself in failing to cut out a pass forward allowed one of their forwards to take on Sam and score, 0-1. We rallied well though and not long after were back level after we scored indirectly from a corner. The ball fell for Dave in the box and he drove the ball goalwards,Shane getting the vital touch to turn it in, 1-1. Jason nearly put us ahead a bit later as he curled a good shot just wide of goal. Halftime saw us level then.We took the lead again in the second half when the Kaponga keeper failed to hold on to a shot by Jason and Brian was on hand to stab the ball home for his sixth of the season. We played well in the second period, lots of chances created but we couldn't score again. The closest chance game from a goalmouth melee which ended up with Shane shooting past the keeper but a defender hacked it off the line. With a quarter of an hour to play Tony was caught in possession inside his own half by the Kaponga winger on his side. I found myself in a two on one situation and though I was able to hold the winger up for a few seconds, he made a yard of space for himself and fired the ball past Sam. That was the killer blow for our season really and we should never have let our season get in this state, we only have ourselves to blame.Special mention though for Michael he was voted man of the match and had an excellent game. Also Dave was outstanding with his workrate, Allan too worked really hard, winning countless headers. Final score, 2-2.