FINAL SCORE - GULLS 4 HISTON 1

There will be three minutes to add.

GOAL - GULLS 4 HISTON 1

84 minutes gone and Sills makes it 4-1, netting from a yard out after Woods knocks a Nicholson corner back across goal from the far post.

Nicko hammers a shot against the bar from 16 yards after 79 minutes.

Sills is on the deck now after a foul. We think this is the first time either physio has been on the field in this helter-skelter game.
There is under 20 minutes to go now. Sills is up and OK.

Bevan makes a great save from a Wright header in the 65th minute as Histon refuse to cave in.

GOAL - GULLS 3 HISTON 1

The phrase 'a proper old-fashioned ding-dong' springs to mind now.
Histon are giving it a right go and we might need to make a change or two.
62 minutes an d it's 3-1. Nicky Wroe runs onto a throuygh ball by Tim Sills from the half-way line and keeps his composure to steer it past Naisbitt.
Carayol replaces Dsane

Keystone Kops in the Histon box after 57 minutes as Matt Green races onto a great through-ball by Carlisle.
The keeper and two defenders finally manage to crowd him out, but it's a few seconds before anyone can find the ball. It's stuck under Oyebanjo, who manages to clear it.

We can't get out of our own half here, and it's not all down to the wind.
Histon are thinking they can get something out of this and we need to steady the ship for the next 10 minutes or so.

GOAL - GULLS 2 HISTON 1

And in the 49th minute Histon are right back in it. Danny Wright beat Mansell to a ball down the Histon left, then raced in on goal to drive a low shot past Bevan left footed from 15 yards.

Sure enough, after 15 seconds Jack Midson lashes a shot from an angle out on the left and Bevan has to fling himself to his right to push it round the post.

And we're under way again, playing towards the Ministand.
No changes to either side at the break. It will be interesting to see how Histon approach these first few minutes.
If they aren't into it straight away, they could be swept aside.

HALF TIME - GULLS 2 HISTON 0

Oh to be a fly on the wall in the Histon dressing room. They are supposed to be the team in form but they have been blown away in the first half.
The Gulls could be further in front, in fact.
Over the thump of the disco beat I'm sure i can hear the tea-cups flying in the dressing rooms down below...

The board man says one minute to be added on. This half has shot past.

I've got 2-0 in the sweepstake, by the way, but I suspect there are more goals in this game yet. Roscoe has got to be a good shout to complete the hat-trick. He's got his eye in in front of goal.
Chris Hargreaves has just come close, getting up to a Mansell cross at the far post but having the ball nicked off his head by a defender.
And Ada has been booked for a foul on Green. in fact he hauled him down by the scruff of the neck and might have got a red from some refs.

In the 35th minute Roscoe comes within a whisker of getting his hat-trick, stooping to head a low cross at the near post. It's on target but Naisbitt gets a hand to it and tips it round the post.

Carlisle misses a great chance in the 27th minute after a long clearance was headed on by Matt Green. Carlisle ran in on the keeper but couldn't beat him and Naisbitt batted the ball away.

GOAL - GULLS 2 HISTON 0

In the 22nd minute Dsane makes it 2-0 with a right-foot drive from 10 yards after a Nicholson throw from the left had been knocked down to him by Sills.

The game is a bit scrappy now with 18 minutes gone, and Histon are fighting their way back into it.
Gwillim looks a threat from all kinds of set pieces. His delivery of throws and free kicks is putting us under some pressure, but the Bevanator looks sound at the back today.

And there's bright sunshine here now with Torquay in full flight. The Pop Side filled up quite nicely just before kick-off and the crowd are enjoying this.

GOAL - GULLS 1 HISTON 0

In the third minute Dsane hits a snap volley from close range but it's straight at Naisbitt and the Histon keeper blocks it.
In the sixth minute Matt Green skins his full back and crosses for Carlisle, but his effort to set up Sills comes to nothing.
But from the ensuing corner the Gulls take the lead. Sills has an effort blocked from close range and Dsane lashes it into the net from about a yard out.

And seconds later Matt Green makes space for a shot 25 yards out, but drags it well wide. It looks as if Naisbitt is struggling with an injury, because he has a full back taking the kicks for him.

Inside the first minute Antonio Murray tries his luck from 25 yards for the visitors, but his shot is wide.

Good numbers on the Histon shirts today. They're in red and black with black shorts, and we shouldn't have any trouble reading the numbers on the back.
We're all in yellow, naturally, and will be playing towards the Babbacombe End with the winf at our backs.
And there are no glove wearers today, so no List of Shame.

There are 13 Histon fans here at the moment, and full marks to them for making such a long journey on a day when their other halves may have preferred them to be traipsing around a mall somewhere listening to Wizzard.

This is the fourth placed team in the BSP at home to the second placed, so it should be a good game.
John Beck is the second in command at Histon, so you can expect some up-and-at-em stuff. Having said that, you don't get to second in the league without being able to play a bit.

GULLS v HISTON

Welcome to Plainmoor on another chilly afternoon, with a weak sun poking through.
The teams are warming up in front of a sparse crowd, but there's plenty of time to go yet.
The team news for Torquay is that Matt Green will join tim Sills up frpnt, with fit-again Elliot Benyon having to make do with a place on the bench.
For Histon, Langston and Mitchel-King are both suspended, so manager Steve Fallon brings Neil Andrews into midfield and Lanre Oyebanjo into his defence.
So, the team line up as follows, both in 4-4-2 formation.
Torquay are Bevan; Mansell, Woods, Hodges, Nicholson; Carlisle, Hargreaves, Wroe, Dsane; Sills, Green. Subs: Robertson, Benyon, Thompson, Carayol, Stevens.
Histon are Naisbitt; Pope, Oyebanjo, Ada, Gwillim; Murray, Andrews, Simpson, Knight-Percival; Midson, Wright. Subs: Okay, Kennedy, Reeves, Welch, Sparkes.
Referee is Ray Lee of Essex.