With a big FA Youth Cup tie the following evening all of the Under 18 team players involved were rested, although Boto was joined by 1^st team defenders Arran Sheppard & Grant Monaghan to give the team a bit more experience.

It was Boto who gave Woodbridge a 16^th minute lead, racing away from the home defence to slot home, but within 2 minutes a free header from close-range following a corner gave 16 year old Lewis Rhodes absolutely no chance. It was in controversial surroundings that Walsham took the lead shortly afterwards when Rhodes made a save at a Walsham strikers’ feet, but despite being clearly pushed down when going for the loose ball, nothing was spotted by the officials & an empty net was duly found.

Despite the early goals it had been a opening half of little quality on the whole, before Woodbridge grabbed an equalizer with their first move of real quality in the game as several short, quick passes in their own half resulted in Liam Hillyard sliding in Boto, who ran clear & beat the keeper with ease.

There was more of a tempo to the Woodbridge play at the start of the half, but there were still many dangerous signs in their defensive areas & it was no surprise when lapses of concentration at a Walsham corner gifted them two opportunities to put in crosses & when the 2^nd arrived a lone home player had the penalty area to himself to head in. Boto levelled on the hour after breaking through Walsham’s defence, rounding the keeper & scoring from the angle, but joy was short-lived when a harmless-looking free-kick from deep was watched by those wearing black & white shirts & attacked by a whole host of home players – 4-3.

Somehow there was a lull in the scoring as defences made mistake after mistake, which all went unpunished but these were replaced by a spate of yellow cards as the game went through a disjointed period. It was Walsham who had the final say when they wrapped up the win at the 2^nd attempt after Rhodes had saved the initial shot.

On Saturday, the reserves host Halstead.

Team: Rhodes, Crick (Churchill 79), Baalham, Toumi, Widdowson (Hutton 64), Sheppard, Monaghan, Hillyard, Boto, Lait & Smith.