Jamie Cook held his hand up to admit he should probably have done better with the chance he had straight from the kick-off against Kidderminster on Saturday, writes JON MURRAY.

But he also said it was good for him to play again, after several weeks out of the side.

“I was disappointed,” he said. “First ten seconds, straight through, I should have done better really.

“I possibly should have rolled it across to Alfie (Potter) . . . I don’t know. With a sight of goal in the first few seconds I just had a shot, rightly or wrongly.

“I think we possibly needed an early goal. Saying that, we had chances to score, we just didn’t take one. You have days like that unfortunately. We just have to bounce back on Tuesday.

“We’ve just got to keep going. It could be two points dropped, it could be a point gained. It’s like this until the end of the season, you just don’t know.

“We could look back and this point could win us the league.”

It’s often said that good scoring can come almost too early. That seemed the case for both Cook and sub Jack Midson, who was through on goal with almost his first touch soon after he arrived in the second half.

“We should probably both have done better,” Cook conceded.

“I wouldn’t make the first few seconds as an excuse but maybe I wasn’t into the flow of the game and my mind wasn’t really into it.

“If it had come after five or six minutes, maybe I’d have lifted my head up and seen Alfie.

“I haven’t played for over a month. I haven’t had my best performance but I’m happy with how I worked, up and down. I didn’t get too much of the ball, it was just nice to get a game.”

l UNITED’S youth team drew 3-3 at home to Bournemouth in the Youth Alliance League.

Henry Owen scored, but was later sent off, and United’s other goals came from Aaron Woodley and Conor McDonagh as they battled back from 2-0 down.