That's entertainment!

There's good news and there's bad news following yesterday's home fixture v Leyton Orient. The good news is that Skivo's attacking football philosophy continues to bear fruit, the Glovers scoring 3 and could, maybe should have had a couple more. The bad news is that we still look horribly exposed defensively at times and let in 3, which could, maybe should have been a couple more. Final score: Yeovil 3 Orient 3. At least no-one can complain about the entertainment.

On a personal note I had a slight problem while trying to watch the game when, just after half-time, a couple of green room 'personalities' who'd somehow escaped from their usual haunts in the Westland Community Stand (or Main Stand in old money) came and sat next to me in the Cowlin, the kind of unwelcome distraction anyone could do without. I'll spare their blushes by not divulging their forum names, but 'Pinky and Perky' know who they are. Pinky, a well-known local orthodontical technician, was in good form, apparently due to his son (a) getting a job and (b) leaving home; but Perky was not quite his usual sparkling self. He was missing his usual partner in crime who apparently has refused to attend matches in August because it's still the cricket season, and also because he's lost his beret. I have every sympathy with the missing supporter if he has to put up with Pinky and Perky every match. If I had to sit next to them at every game I don't think I'd come back until the new year.

Anyway, despite the irritating babble coming from either side of me during the second half I was able to notice that Skivo made 4 changes from the Exeter game in the end, 3 of the changes forced by injury. We lined up as follows:

1. Alex McCarthy - 6/10: Let in three but not for the first time this season was left horribly exposed by some poor defending for all three goals. Unlucky.

2. Craig Alcock - 6/10: A curate's egg of a performance, or good in parts. Handy going forward and unlucky not to score, but lacking defensively at times. Should have stopped Andros Townsend's run for his wondergoal before he got started, even at the expense of a booking.

6. Terrell Forbes - 5/10: Solid most of the time, but was (jointly) at fault for a couple of Orient's goals. Distribution poor.

5. Steven Caulker - 5/10: Second-best in the air to striker James Scowcroft much of the time. Still looks class, even if this wasn't his best game.

3. Nathan Jones - 5/10: Didn't do much wrong but didn't do much right either. Didn't do much of anything to effect the game one way or another. Well, he shouted a lot, but that was it.

22. Danny Schofield - 8/10: Comfortably his best game of the season so far. A real threat on the right wing and scored a cracker. More of the same please!

7. George O'Callaghan - 5/10: Not his best game. Struggled to be involved except on the fringes.

8. Keiran Murtagh - 7/10: Good box-to-box display. Deserves a run in the side now.

11. Andy Welsh - 8/10: Another who put in his best performance of the season so far. Involved in all our goals and was unfortunate not to score himself. More of the same please!

10. Gavin Tomlin - 7/10: Can't fault his effort nor his guts. Not so certain about his goalscoring instinct. Just got the feeling that a natural goalscorer in the positions he gets himself into would be far more clinical in front of goal. He's working hard on the training pitch to improve, but does he have that natural instinct? The jury's still out.

26. Jonathan Obika - 7/10: Not much doubt about his goalscoring instinct however. Took his goal clinically, if anything would like to see him shoot more from distance.

Subs: 9. Sam Williams (80 mins for Gavin Tomlin) 16. Scott Murray (86 mins for Danny Schofield) 23. Danny Hutchins (90 mins for Keiran Murtagh)- N/A: None of the subs had the time to make an impression.

After 4 games then we find ourselves 9th in the table on 5 points having won 1, lost 1 and drawn 2. It's still very early days in the new season but I think we've already seen enough to know that we're competent enough going forward but slightly dodgy defensively. We need to tighten up at the back but at the same time don't want to lose our new-found attacking freedom - who'd be a manager? Perhaps the most disappointing aspect of the early part of the season has been the poor home attendances - 4,349 v Tranmere, 3,860 v Norwich and 3,827 v Orient. Crowds are never at their best during August, nevertheless the numbers haven't been as low as these since our Conference days. It's to be hoped that they begin to pick up sooner rather than later, otherwise Skivo's budget will presumably be squeezed even further in the future.

Just watched: The Tudors (BBC2, 9pm Friday). New series of the costume drama based on the life and times of Henry VIII. Anne Boleyn's been and gone and Henry's moved on to Jane Seymour (as well as a new mistress) while trying to cope with an ulcerous leg and the Pilgrimage of Grace, while the Reformation continues apace. I really enjoyed the first two series of The Tudors, and this first episode of the 3rd series had a lot to live up to. It started slowly, and, sadly, got slower as it went on, not helped by the extra half-hour running length. I'll give it another chance next week, but I've already got the feeling that the producers should have stopped while they were ahead, at the end of that excellent second series.