Andy Woodman felt “disappointment” at Bromley’s 2-2 draw against Chesterfield to drop out of the League Two Play-Off spots.
Michael Cheek put the Ravens ahead in the 16th minute but Armando Dobra and Liam Mandeville turned the game around for Chesterfield, until Chey Dunkley diverted a 78th-minute corner into his own net to gift Bromley a point.
Woodman’s Ravens however dropped down to eighth in the table and out of the play-off spots for the first time since matchweek three, with the 54-year-old manager feeling disappointed as he explained to the club’s YouTube channel post match.
“Um my takes are really disappointment with the goals we’ve conceded. We’ve kind of created our own problems again you know, like not clearing our lines, not defending properly. Um and in my opinion kind of gifted them a couple of good opportunities to put the ball in our net.
“Um which we’ve got to eradicate. That got to come out of us. This football club is built on clean sheets. Uh, so that’s something we’ve got to address.”
Woodman also felt that Chesterfield didn’t really trouble his team but believes that his team weren’t much better after failing to really trouble Zach Hemming.
“Um, I didn’t think they created too much to be honest. Chesterfield, I got to be honest, I didn’t think they really hurt us. They didn’t cut us open. They had a bit of the ball at times. So you know, that’s kind of where I am at. That’s said, I can’t say we made their keeper make a lot of saves.
“It was bit of a cagey affair a little bit. I don’t think either team wanted to lose any ground on each other. Um, and uh luckily enough for us, we got a goal at the end to make it a draw.”
Woodman proceeded to expand on his use of “cagey” to describe the match as he joked that he and Chesterfield boss, Paul Cook are softening as they become more experienced and older.
“Yeah maybe me and Cookie have just just maybe mellowing a little bit. I don’t know. But it was that’s how I felt. I didn’t feel I wanted to lose and I probably say they were probably the same. And when they got their noses in front, they probably thought, you know, we could get across the line here.
“It was an entertaining game. There was some good stuff. There was some good moments, but overall I just felt that we kind of I wouldn’t say we’ve done enough to win it, but we certainly didn’t do enough to to lose it.”
Woodman also praised the character of his team to snatch a draw via Dunkley’s own-goal as he spoke of the need to put the ball into the “danger area” to create opportunities, but iterated that Bromley must keep pace with the Spirites if want to fight for a play-off spot at minimum.
“Yeah put the ball in the danger area. Good quality ball in the danger area if it was corner wasn’t it? and their guys head it into his own net because we’re big powerful team. Look I can’t ever fault these boys for wanting to try and give everything to get the result or get a point or you know get a goal. Um and that’s what we’ve got to be minimum minimum that.
“Um but look Chesterfield are a big club. We’re standing here disappointed we haven’t got more out of that. We can’t lose sight of Chesterfield are a big club, you know, and we’re playing catchup to a few of these clubs. That’s said I think we’re more than holding our own.
Bromley head to Swindon on Saturday 27 September with the Robins reeling from a 3-2 defeat at Salford, but Woodman iterated that their priority is to be “solid” and try to get clean sheets to lay down foundations for a top-seven push against teams tipped for a promotion challenge.
“Yeah it’s going to be a tough game. We expect that. But this is what we got to, you know, go to these places and make sure we’re solid. And look if ever there’s a place to go and get a clean sheet, that would be next week to sort of put our foundations down.”