City boss Tommy Callinan had the luxury of a fully fit and available squad, and only tinkered around the edges of the team that had beaten Atherstone last Saturday. Any complacency City may have had facing the division's bottom team were shook loose within the first few minutes as the Bears went on the offensive. Paget sent in a few testing shots from distance, and Ally was forced into action from a header.

That early Paget salvo may have given City just what they needed to provide some incentive. Baylo looked menacing and saw one shot go wide before a second effort was deflected by a Paget defender, using what looked suspiciously like his arm. Marshall then picked up an injury as he went for a loose ball in the box, but after a lot of grimacing he hauled himself to his feet. The best chance of the entire match was then wasted by Cox, who must have used all his goals up with last Saturday's hatrick. Clever play down the right sent Tucks free and he put his cross beyond a static Paget defence only for Cox to fluff his shot when a goal seemed certain.

When the breakthrough came it was a little fortunate. Baylo slid through Cox who ran clear on goal and then selflessly passed across the box for Chennas to bundle home past a lonely goalkeeper. For once the linesman kept his flag down, despite City having looked offside on both the key passes. Mind you, it only evened up the ones he flagged for where we were onside by a country mile.

City continued to look easily the better team but were clearly happy to coast to victory. In fairness this was probably the smart thing to do, especially with a hectic fixture schedule to come and a tough match against Tiverton on Tuesday. However Tommy will have been disappointed Chennas picked up another needless booking for dissent, and that sub Will Steadman's first contribution was a silly tackle that put him in the book too. Generally though, the knock to Marshall apart, at least our small squad was not overly extended.

All in all this was a poor contest and poor entertainment, but few fans will worry too much about that as it was a very welcome three points that catapulted City to the heady heights of tenth. Amazingly this is the first time City have put together back to back league wins, and with renewed optimism behind the scenes there is much to be cheerful about. And if nothing else we can just thank the football gods we're not poor sad Paget, who looked like the season cannot end too soon for them.