The Sunday Review

Once again after the first game of the season we lead the table, last season a 3-1 victory at Blackpool was enough for us to be top of the league. For the next five games we lost and we dropped down the table, and only recovered when Roy Mac came back from mumps.

Yesterday it was more an emphatic second half performance which enabled the Spireites to win for the second season running. An early injury to Cherries captain Marcus Browning set the tone for Bournemouth that this wasn't going to be their day. An early strike from twenty yards by Derek Niven followed by a howler from Cherries keeper Gareth Stewart enabled Colin Larkin to score from close range then in injury time Paul Shaw finished well inside the penalty area.

The League Paper quoted Roy Mac as saying “the bookies are always putting us down, that seems to be the norm, this is my 41^st year in football and bookies always look at the size of the football club, they don't look at things like the spirit of the players or the amounts of hard work everyone puts in”.

Whilst Sean O'Driscoll Bournemouth's manager was quoted in the same paper as saying, “We didn't get a performance today. That's as poor as we have played here for as long as I can remember. I don't think there was one positive in the game and sometimes players have to take responsibility with what they've been asked to do and they didn't do that”.

So a first victory of the season some may say that's 3 points to the 52 point mark we need to stay up, well I personally would like to think that if we ever reach the playoffs then this is the chance as it's possibly the best squad we have since 2000-2001 and as ever with growing discontent amongst the messageboard masses and Roy Mac's possible retirement at the end of the season then it's all set up for an interesting season at the Rec.