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Noah Bryant makes his debut as substitute for Harris

6 - 0 Matty Gearing

6-0 Gearing

Edit: Just seen the official website story.

Simple victory over lowly Harborough who rarely threatened. Seems that Peaksy has made the decision to play Koriya up top and with his goal return it works. Ok debut from Lorraine who looks a few games short of fitness and a great debut from sub Joseph with two strikes, both decent finishes with his head and left. MOM goes to Bunting for me although Koriya and Joseph would be in with a shout

Good performance. We were a class apart and played on the front foot. Impressed with both Lorraine and Joseph.

One of the poorest teams we've played all season, but it was still nevertheless a competent performance with some clinical finishing and some great goals, especially Faz's first, super strike and to be fair to him, while I've been critical of him for much of this season, his performances in recent games have been much improved and he's been much more effective. Lorraine looked decent, but Joseph looked really good with 2 great finishes, though I'm still not sure it was fair to completely drop Alfie, seems kinda disrespectful to our top scorer and fans favourite to do that, sure he's been poor in recent months, but his form hardly warrants dropping.

Great afternoon's entertainment and a top drawer performance. At least 3 excellent goals and the new players looked good, particularly Scott Joseph who made a massive impact off the bench and combined workrate with an eye for goal. It'll be interesting to see how he progresses from here, his second goal was a cracking composed finish.

I know the opposition were dreadful but it's nice to put these dire teams to the sword for a change and we didn't look content with 4, 5 or 6!

Loved it yesterday - lovely sunshine and good football.

Sure they weren't the best, but we looked a really good and well balanced side, some great link up play and the build up and execution of the secon goal was superb.

Great preparation for the Spalding game. If we show that kind of attitude and application (and kick the right way 2nd half) then we could inflict that second defeat on them. As fans we need to be on our game as well, by that I mean cheering and encouraging our boys on, not abusing Spalding !

I will say I hope we show them the respect they deserve before the game - they've won the title and are champions and have done so at a canter, so deserve a round of applause for the achievement - but the minute the whistle goes, let's have em !!!!

Stats updated - see data and links at bottom of match report.