Two points ‘wasted’

Two games inside four days could define Larne Football Club’s prospects for a season which is going to be very similar to last term, but manager Paul Millar reckons his team have as good a chance as any of winning the league title.

The Inver Park boss can’t remember getting a better performance out of any team on the opening day of a season. Alas, nor can he recall being a dressing-room afterwards where the mood was so despondent! But that’s what happens when you overwhelm the opposition and still don’t beat them!

“We could have won 15 - 3 and still not been flattered. It was such a good performance. We played so well we could have beaten them by a cricket score – but we just couldn’t get the ball in the net,” explained the Larne manager after the 1-1 result at home against Banbridge Town.

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“We hit the woodwork, had a host of one-on-one chances and had shots deflected off their goal-bound course as the gallant Banbridge lads threw their bodies in front of everything we fired at them.

“It wasn’t unlike our game at the end of last season when he should have hammered them but missed a hatful of chances. I remember Davy Larmour missing out on six one-on-ones that day.

“We created so many chances it was hard to fathom that we didn’t win with plenty in hand. It really was two points wasted – and I mean wasted, not dropped.”

Report by Kevin Hughes - [email protected]

More on this story and Paul Campbell’s match report from the Banbridge Town league opener in this week’s Larne Times

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