The impressively noisy Woking fans seem to have a good tradition of singing most of their songs in praise of their own team, rather than hatred of the opponents (except in the case of Stevenage, of course). Today was no exception, though surely they can rarely have had so much temptation to sing "you're not very good". Because, Yeovil weren't very good. Not very good at all.
Akrour's 2nd minute goal set the tone. There was too much freedom to get in a cross, Tony Pennock came out for it but merely touched it to Nassim Akrour, who couldn't miss if he tried [Are you sure? He missed an even easier one later! - Ed]. Yeovil did go close in the 4th minute, but only because Scott Smith put his own keeper under pressure with a poor header.
Batty is one of the best keepers in the Conference, but much of the season he's surprisingly been kept out of the side by Darryl Flahaven, but Cartman's "bigger-boned" brother justified his return.
Yeovil were managing to get some early possession, but never looked like creating anything with it. The usual bunch worked hard as always, Pitman and Bent [pic right] for example. But without the suspended Ben Smith, there was no-one who could really work something different. It was too predictable, particularly to an opposition with Yeovil's ex-manager and three ex-players.
The visitors went 2-0 up with the game less than 15 minutes old. A long cross into the area by the excellent Barry Miller [pic top, with Warren Patmore] found Darran Hay outjumping his marker to head home with ease.
For Woking, Kev Brown was a rock as you'd expect, and showed that Yeovil's decision to let him go was a folly only matched by Woking allowing him to come West in the first place. Matt Hayfield is rightly getting praised by the Kingfield crowd, and he was to get Woking's third. The only things more predictable than an ex-Yeovil player scoring today were the yellow cards to Steve Stott and Kevan Brown ;-)
The match looked like it could become a rout when Hayfield got his goal, heading in a Scott Steele corner, especially when he should have bagged the fourth a minute later with another header. Meanwhile, Yeovil didn't make a meaningful attack until half-an-hour had passed, when James Bent went close with a shot across the goal which just evaded Warren Patmore as he stretched to steer it home. The end of the first half saw some unproductive Yeovil pressure, and the miss of the season: Tony Pennock's duffed clearance bobbled up to Nassim Akrour, who headed wide of the empty net.
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After the break, Woking really proved that they didn't really want a fourth, as Akrour again fluffed a golden opportunity, when put through one-on-one with Tony Pennock, who seemed to save it without really having to do anything much.
Yeovil's best effort of the game was a Rob Cousins free-kick which Laurence Batty got down well to save, and that was it. Adrian Foster [pic left] came on to give Yeovil three up-front, but little more was created.
A serious anti-climax to the home season, which made the after-match ceremonies a rather limp affair.
Why couldn't they have been done before the game?
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above: Lol Batty and his central defenders (West, Smith, Brown) dealt with Yeovil's crosses with ease.
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above: Terry Skiverton tries the near post flick-on, but this one went into the side netting.
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above: Kev Brown acrobatically clears from Warren Patmore.
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above: Warren Patmore's sliding tackle on Scott Smith.
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above: Batty saves Rob Cousins' free kick, Yeovil's best effort of the game.
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 left: Andy Lindegaard goes tumbling as he pushes forward
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