City were again unchanged and had every reason to be confident after victories against Atherstone and Paget. The early exchanges were fast and furious with the referee letting some bruising challenges go with no more than a disapproving glance. Although Cox got an early opportunity to stretch his legs the only real chance fell to Tivvy but their forward scuffed his shot straight at Ally in the Gloucester goal.

City made the most of that let-off. Tucks sent over a deep free-kick and Baylo leapt to win the header. His touch did enough to wrong foot the Tivvy defence and Jenkins reacted quickest to score at the far post from close range. The goal seemed to genuinely stun Tiverton who spent the next twenty minutes reeling as City gleefully pushed forward.

Cox and Chenoweth were combining well to stretch Tivvy and one of these exchanges produced a corner from which City almost extended the lead. Baylo again beat his marker in the air to meet the high cross but saw his header brush just the wrong side of the crossbar. Tivvy also brushed the woodwork when Hines pushed the attacker just too wide to make his shot count, but City remained on top and soon Bayliss made amends for his miss. Another Cox charge ended with him being bundled over the byline, and the high cross again troubled the Tivvy defence. Their keeper lost the ball in flight and as the ball fell loose Bayliss had the simple task of nudging it over the line.

The injustice did at least fire some enthusiasm from the T-End and roused the players to greater efforts. Billy Davis replaced Dicks who looked out of sorts and endured probably his worst game for us to date. Cox was the main threat for Gloucester and it was his shot that was charged down amid over-ambitious handball appeals. Cox then sent Jenks through, but his shot from the left was well stopped by the Tivvy keeper who also held on to further shots from Marshall and Bayliss.

City were continuing to ride their luck a little at the back, but were sustaining pressure on Tiverton. Unfortunately though our players weren't thinking on their feet enough, and long balls forward were easy fodder for the big commanding Tivvy centre-backs. Baylo's frustration was getting more evident and his protests ever more squeaky, but he did manage to get a flick to one ball to set up a last moment of controversy. Cox hared through and with only the keeper to beat was straightening up to shoot just when his legs were taken from him in spectacular fashion by the stretching lunge of Tatterton. Even the lumbering Tivvy defender seemed a little surprised when the ref didn't give the obvious spot-kick, but his surprise was nothing next to the righteous fury of the denied T-Enders.

With that the match fizzled to an end and we had another example of points chucked away. Gloucester can either moan about another poor decision from a referee, or more productively look at improving our defensive frailty. After all the ref probably made no more errors than anyone of our back line, and we can do more about them than the crackpot legions on the DML officials list.