INSTEAD of a title celebration it became a full-blooded title race again with Weymouth drawing 1-1 with Chesham United and Taunton beating Hendon 3-2 to narrow the gap at the top to three points.

As ever, Aidan Williams is on hand to take you through five talking points from the 1-1 draw.

CHANGE OF SCENE

THERE is no doubt about it, the race is well and truly back on.

Taunton are three points behind with two games to go and Weymouth have a tough trip to Poole on Monday.

The honeymoon is definitely over for the Terras’ squad now, because the situation is less in favour of them now.

Three points is a good gap with two games remaining, but Taunton have clawed back five in the last two games.

The shadow of doubt has surely crept back over the pitch at the Bob Lucas Stadium.

FRIENDS OR FOES?

THE pre-match was bubbling along brilliantly, long queues for the bar, people milling around everywhere in lovely sunshine. Then the match started.

I understand the tension surrounding a title race, being a Liverpool fan during this current season trust me, I get it.

Yet surely when being in the ground you should try and encourage players.

When an atmosphere gets negative, particularly with a decent crowd, it becomes more of a hindrance like it was yesterday.

It is a huge shame because when a big crowd positively encourages, as you saw late on, it can be a huge weapon and not a problem.

I know which one of those two Weymouth really needed on Saturday.

APPEAL FATIGUE

ANYONE else get tired of consistent penalty appeals?

It became incredibly tedious as the match wore on as any slight chance of a foul being responded to from the stands as if it was some great injustice.

I will not pretend my view is better than the referee’s (although at Beaconsfield it might have been), but at the Bob Lucas it generally isn’t given my distance from the pitch.

It is surely self-defeating as well, if fans appeal like mad for everything surely the referee is more likely to wave it away, as opposed to calling on rare opportunities of uproar.

Just let the referee get on with it.

NO TIME TO LAMENT

A WEEK before another match after that result? Yes, me neither, in fact Weymouth going to Poole on Monday is probably for the best.

It is a derby, the stakes are higher than a lot of people would have foreseen nine days ago, but at least an answer will be along shortly.

It is the same situation, oddly. Taunton do not win and Weymouth win then the title goes to the Terras.

A draw can even be enough if Taunton lose.

This league was never going to die quietly was it?

A LIGHT ABOVE DESCENDING

THE atmosphere post-match was unlike anything I had seen at the Bob Lucas Stadium in quite some time.

Stunned silence was the general vibe as I waited for my post-match interview.

But the point was a crucial one and given Weymouth’s goal difference it, pragmatically, acts as two.

Josh McQuoid also returned and the fighting spirit is still there, emphasised by the fact it was even a draw, although the said spirit does seem riddled with nerves.

Lastly, Mark Molesley during the post-match interview cut a very calm figure and if he is at all rattled by the draw he did not betray even the slightest hint, which again is a huge positive.

It might not be a victory but that does not mean there are not reasons for encouragement.