Wounded to play on for Bath City

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Monday, August 31, 2009
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Dorchester Town 2, Bath City 2: Bath City may have to call on the walking wounded for this afternoon's home match against Worcester City after picking up more injuries during Saturday's entertaining draw at Dorchester Town.

Boss Adie Britton will definitely be without Chris Holland (quad), Richard Evans (foot), Will Puddy (groin) and Stuart Douglas (neck) for the home meeting with winless Worcester.

Mark Badman is almost certainly out after being forced off against Dorchester with a hamstring strain, while fellow midfielders Lewis Hogg and Adam Connolly picked up knocks.

But with the squad stretched, Hogg and Connolly will be asked to play on as City seek their first win in four games.

"It is essential that they are fit otherwise we are struggling badly," Britton admitted. "It's frustrating. With about 10 minutes to go on Saturday, I looked round into the stand and there was a really good team sat up there."

City showed plenty of spirit on Saturday to pick up a point.

All the goals came in a frantic first half with Badman involved in the opening two, inadvertently diverting Neil Martin's 30-yard thunderbolt into his own net before bundling home a long throw-in to level the scores.

City then put together the move of the match to go ahead in the 42nd minute, Darren Edwards showing great composure to beat Ryan Northmore .

But with the last touch of the half, City old boy Phil Walsh headed home the equaliser from an Ivan Forbes cross.

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