Chatham Town Women maintained their unbeaten home League record on Sunday with a 1-1 draw against Queens Park Rangers women, but boss Keith Boanas was far from happy after the game. 

After half time substitute Otesha Charles deservedly equalised for the Chats, the points were shared although the home side came agonisingly close to grabbing the points at the death when Maddison Woodgate’s cross shot was only just too high by inches with the Rangers keeper Chrissie Wiggins well beaten. 

“It would be an understatement to say that Sunday was frustrating,” the frustrated Chats boss told KSN.

“I felt majorly let down! The team selection was very, very difficult, we emphasised that the players who start the game must show respect to the players who are not and the players that we have had to leave out, and if we are going to challenge for this title, that is what we have to do!

“We targeted six points from these two home games (Sunday and Wednesday) and if we could get the six, it would put us in a really good position mentally as well as sending out messages to opponents.

“So, dropping two points on Sunday was a major disappointment! If there is a slight positive to take out of Sunday’s draw, it is the fact that we did not lose the game!” 

“We would have lost Sunday’s game last year, I get that, I do but this isn’t last year, it’s a different group; a different mix of really good, experienced players and some really exciting youngsters!” 

“Sometimes you want the rub of the green and I don’t think that the official on Sunday did us any favours at all with every 50/50 and anything marginal going against us with us “only” getting the obvious ones, and that always disrupts you but again, we have to learn to play in moments.

“Towards the end of Sunday we were trying to be proactive in playing out with minutes to go when we have stuck a target player on in Millie Raynor in a forward thinking front five at that point as we wanted to go and win the game so we have to find them and get the ball up to them  but we were still trying to be clever and play the ball out!

“I do not want to take it away from them to play attractive football, but at any level of the game there is a time, a place, and a moment! There were moments in and around the area where I felt that people could have pulled the trigger but did not and it’s those moments that are pivotal in any game, when you have chances, you have to take them, sometimes it is about shooting through bodies and hitting the target.” 

“I did think our midfield let us down on Sunday in challenges, in being dominated; I said as soon as I saw their team-sheet that they were going to try and bully us and I think that they did, and I do think that a few of our players were scared, they showed it, they showed fear and that’s like showing fear to a rottweiler, it will bite you and that’s what happened!” 

“We conceded a poor goal from a free kick which we should not have given away. It was a great strike, but we should not have given away the free-kick; they have not scored from open play, again you can say that that is a plus factor!

“Did they really threaten us from open play? Just once again because we didn’t press and the midfielders let a player walk through and take the strike which Simone (Eligon) the (Chats Women’s keeper) has made a world class save from.

“I think their keeper, who played for me at Millwall, made a world class save too from in the tip over from a free-kick and they are the little moments that change games. We were disappointed Sunday, but we have to dust ourselves off quickly as Wednesday will be here quickly and again that will be without doubt a “grudge match” as they have two or three of our players from last year and they will fancy their chances especially after seeing Sunday’s result” 

“To me Dulwich are stronger than QPR on paper and they will come to the Bauvill more feisty than Rangers were because of the connections between the sides, Phobe Leitch is there, Nat Taylor is there, you’ve got Tash Stephens there all players who were here last year.

There is rivalries with other girls as well who know each other, so there’s going to be that situation on Wednesday so we must have characters on the pitch. It is the midfield where I must look at hard and is where I am concerned with at the moment, it is something that I will make a decision on after seeing the video from the weekend.

Kick off at the Bauvill tonight is at 7.45.