
James Hamon felt that Truro City’s 0-0 draw against Chippenham Town on Easter Monday was ‘a point gained’.
It rounded off an excellent Easter period for Paul Wotton’s side who picked up four points from a possible six after this stalemate and a Good Friday triumph over Slough Town.
And for a second successive National League South matchday, most of the results involving teams at the bottom of the table went for City.
This saw Truro moving to within four points of the magical safety mark of 50, but still with a staggering nine games to play between now and April 20.
“At this stage of the season, the way the results went, it is a point gained,” Hamon told trurocity.co.uk. “To not be beaten over this Bank Holiday weekend is massive and another day, if we had won 2-0 here, nobody would have turned around and said ‘you didn’t deserve that’.
“We dominated the game and had this been at the start of the season, I think we would have been kicking ourselves and looked at it as two points dropped.
“But what with everything else that’s gone on around us in the league, we came off the pitch and felt that it was definitely a point gained.”
Hamon, who was born in Guernsey and first joined City during the summer of 2019, was a mere spectator for large parts of the Chippenham clash. However, he was called into action late in the piece, denying Craig Fasanmade with a save right on the goal line.
With the 28-year-old rarely called into action for long spells of this Hardenhuish Park, just how does he ready himself for that one vital save, that ultimately ensured City travelled back to Cornwall, with at least a share of the spoils?
“It is all focus and concentration as that’s what us goalkeepers train for,” he added. “It is all about that one moment that can be between winning, losing, or drawing a game. We are there to do a job and if we are called upon, we just have to be ready to do the best we can.
“Thankfully, in the last minute of this game, I managed to scamper across the line and catch the ball on the line.”
Another soild defensive performance saw City restrict Chippenham, one of the form teams in the league, to only one chance of note throughout the whole 90 minutes. It resulted in a second clean sheet in three games for Hamon and personal achievements aside, Truro’s number one was keen to point out that these shut outs are a whole ‘team effort’.
“It is no secret that we have set up a little more defensively and protective in the last six weeks,” Hamon revealed. “The last two games, we have gone a little more attacking and although clean sheets look good for goalkeepers, it is a team effort.
“It starts with the boys pressing from the front, full-backs getting out and stopping the cross, while the two centre halves have won the first balls in the box.
“And then the midfielders are in and around things all game so it is a real shift for everyone and a real collective effort.”