Floodgates open after an hour (04.02.06)

LADY Luck deserted the Magpies just when they needed her most on Saturday.
Having defied league-leaders Weymouth for almost an hour, the home side took full advantage of the rub of the green to score twice in five minutes, before cruising to a flattering four-goal victory.
United manager Carl Taylor had set his stall out to frustrate the Terras from the word go.
Unsurprisingly Weymouth dominated the match, with Scott Tarr being called into action in the ninth minute with a superb save denying man of the match Andrew Harris from a free-kick.
Tarr was beaten after a quarter of an hour when a John McGrath corner was flicked on by Matt Bound to Roy O'Brien, only for his header to be cleared off the line by Steve Dell.
In the 27th minute Raphael Nade set up McGrath on the left side of the penalty area, only for Tarr to parry his effort, and
with the interval in sight Tarr made a superb double save from former Magpie Craig O'Connor.
With 58 minutes gone Weymouth got the break they needed when the referee overruled his linesmen over a corner decision. McGrath cut the place-kick back to Harris, whose chip found the free head of Ben Smith to steer the ball home.
A minute later the tension became too much for the players when, following a tangle on the ground between O'Connor and Nathan Bunce, all the players steamed into each other.
Fom the resulting free-kick, Nade poked in a goal from an offside position.
This left Taylor no option but to commit more men forward, and so with gaps appearing in the hitherto tight United defence, Weymouth went to town.
Nade capitalised on a misplaced pass by Joe Bruce to square the ball to McGrath to slot the ball into the empty net.
With seven minutes left the impressive Lee Elam completed the rout when he made a tricky run along the byline before lifting the ball over Tarr into the back of the net.
United's best chance came with the end almost in sight, when a long shot from Ryan Parsons was well saved by Jason Matthews in the Weymouth goal.

POACHER: Former Magpie Craig O'Connor was denied by Scott Tarr's brave double save on Saturday.

Weymouth: Matthews, Tully (for Wilkinson, 81), Parker, O'Brien, Bound, Harris (for Downer 81), Elam, Smith, Nade, O'Connor (for Jackson, 60), McGrath. Unused subs: Eribenne, Clark.
Maidenhead United: Tarr, Dell, Gallen (for Ashe, 68), Bunce, Wild, Bruce, Graham, Lewington (for Glynn, 68)), Hughes, Badu (for Romeo, 74), Parsons. Unused subs: Bradshaw, Stevenson.