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Post by VCLXI on Apr 20, 2019 12:36:13 GMT
A bit early but hey, I've started my first ever match thread. Apologies for the lack of apostrophes and miss-placed commas. Or indeed hyphens.
That matters not one jot. I will be going to this one and although I'm not a mathematician Sutton can still (albeit unlikely) make the play-offs.
Easy journey too this time. Into London Bridge and out again to Sutton.
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Post by brisfitboy on Apr 20, 2019 13:56:05 GMT
I think miss-placed is a misplay of misplaced.
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Post by trev on Apr 20, 2019 16:15:34 GMT
I thought miss-placed was runner-up in a beauty pageant.
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Post by brisfitboy on Apr 20, 2019 17:28:49 GMT
No, that was the French one, she was un(e)-placed.
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Post by pinewalker on Apr 21, 2019 13:46:27 GMT
With profuse apologies to the previous posters for returning to the subject of our opponents - briefly. Maidstone have been one of the U's bogey sides so their absence from our division next season should add gusto to the terrace rendering of that Vera Lynn lament: "Whale Meat Again?", whatever the result tomorrow.
A few of the Cheerios will also be appropriate for some of the U's team lining up tomorrow. There are always players moving on in the close season, but I guess there will be more than usual at the end of this term. I hope the team give a performance that will be a fond memory.
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Post by Amber Aleman on Apr 21, 2019 14:58:22 GMT
Our form has been pretty poor lately but Maidstone's has been worse, with just one win and one draw in their last eight league games.
Our former players Dan Wishart and Simon Walton could be in the Stones' squad. Josh Taylor is still on loan to them and might not be allowed to play against us.
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Post by berkshiresutt on Apr 21, 2019 17:25:17 GMT
A few of the Cheerios will also be appropriate for some of the U's team lining up tomorrow. There are always players moving on in the close season, but I guess there will be more than usual at the end of this term. I hope the team give a performance that will be a fond memory. Rumours are that Dos has already snapped up a trapeze artist, a high wire walker, a lion tamer and impressively a ringmaster to bolster the squad next season. You will be happy. Ross (non league goalkeeper of the year) Worner fan.
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Post by Andy K on Apr 21, 2019 17:50:17 GMT
With profuse apologies to the previous posters for returning to the subject of our opponents - briefly. Maidstone have been one of the U's bogey sides so their absence from our division next season should add gusto to the terrace rendering of that Vera Lynn lament: "Whale Meat Again?", whatever the result tomorrow. A few of the Cheerios will also be appropriate for some of the U's team lining up tomorrow. There are always players moving on in the close season, but I guess there will be more than usual at the end of this term. I hope the team give a performance that will be a fond memory. Given where we will finish in the league and with the number of long term injuries we've had, just imagine where we would be had we stayed pretty injury free. So maybe your more than usual assessment may be a little premature. Bogey team? No that's Maidenhead. And only because we regularly underperform against them. Something we did against the stones last season. But hardly a bogey team.
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Post by VCLXI on Apr 21, 2019 19:11:11 GMT
I went to both home and away games against Maidstone last season and the home match was definitely a game of two halves. The away game in the middle of the mini Beast of The East was one of the worst I've seen Sutton play. Hoping for a win tomorrow, and a good performance.
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Post by pinewalker on Apr 21, 2019 19:52:50 GMT
A few of the Cheerios will also be appropriate for some of the U's team lining up tomorrow. There are always players moving on in the close season, but I guess there will be more than usual at the end of this term. I hope the team give a performance that will be a fond memory. Rumours are that Dos has already snapped up a trapeze artist, a high wire walker, a lion tamer and impressively a ringmaster to bolster the squad next season. You will be happy. Ross (non league goalkeeper of the year) Worner fan. Touché. But don't laugh too long. Though I can only point to Robbie Savage as a footballer descended from a famous circus family: in 2016 Man Utd brought in Parcour runners, Circus acrobats and trapeze artists to develop training for their academy players to help reduce the injury levels. And going the other way - this year Cirque du Soleil's new show will be themed around - Lionel Messi.
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Post by ganderpoke on Apr 22, 2019 17:34:32 GMT
Typical - Ross plays a blinder and we go 2-1 up with 10 (or was it 9 1/2?) men. Then a rather obvious shove in the penalty area and it ends 2-2. Anyone want to give Barden this weeks circus performer award?
Will there actually be 11 fit players for the trip to the Crabble?
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Post by Amber Aleman on Apr 22, 2019 19:40:55 GMT
2-2. A match that will be remembered for the wrong reasons. That's a shame because we scored two nice goals, Dylan Kearney's second for the club and Brett Williams's first. But we lost player of the season Dale Bennett to injury, we lost stand-in captain Craig Eastmond to a red card, we lost a winning position to a stoppage-time penalty, and we lost our (admittedly very slim) chance of making the play-offs. Overshadowing all that, we lost our manager.
Maidstone played like the bottom-of-the-table side that they are, some decent deliveries into our box unmatched by their wayward shooting. They earned a point thanks to two penalties, the first conceded through Eastmond's handball, the second a shove by Barden. (Both those players otherwise played very well.) It was good to see Jude Mason making his National League debut as a second-half sub.
We stay tenth, but a win in our final game at Dover could deliver eighth place if other results go our way.
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Post by Paul L on Apr 22, 2019 19:56:52 GMT
... and Brett Williams's first. It was Brett's 3rd, having previously netted against Aldershot and Eastleigh.
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Post by Amber Aleman on Apr 22, 2019 19:59:40 GMT
... and Brett Williams's first. It was Brett's 3rd, having previously netted against Aldershot and Eastleigh. Apologies, I'd already forgotten those!
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Post by markf on Apr 23, 2019 9:56:17 GMT
I have to admit I watched yesterday's match under a bit of a cloud. Just before he went in for that highly impressive i/v, Dos did me the honour by pulling me over to a quiet corner to tell me of his decision. I wasn't alone as I believe he sort out a few others too. For me that says everything about Paul Doswell; willing to confide and trust in people he thought he could. I am immensely proud that he did so and I suspect all the others he chose are too.
Yesterday was really a dead rubber with too many permutations needed to go U's way to keep them in the play-off hunt. The weather didn't help because, after a long day travelling on Friday, a squad that picks itself because of the injuries (Christ knows who will have out at Dover) and so it was a difficult last home match of the season. Maidstone played with the freedom of a relegated team, all the pressure off but although they was probably the better side in the first half they lacked quality and Dylan K's wonderful lob and Swaine's awful miss gave U's a slender advantage at the break; the downside losing deserved POY, Dale Bennett to another injury.
Second half it got worse. Easty off for DOGSO (his suspension will linger until the conclusion of next season's opening fixture) and late on both Dylan K and Jon B struggling to keep going through injury. Turgott banged home the spot kick but U's did brilliantly to wrestle the lead back and Brett W's finish following a fine pass from Neset B looked to have won U's the match. But with the injuries mounting and time running out a tired challenge by Jon B resulted in Turgott's second successful spot kick in what proved to be the last meaningful touch of the match.
Thought Neset once again looked very accomplished on the ball when he came on and the make-shift back four continued to limit the opponents opportunities although rarely dealt with Swaine's massive presence - hardly surprising. A first NL appearance for young Jude M and he looked calm and collected and did a decent job.
A churlish observation here, but why, with seconds remaining did that fan in front of me decide to palm the ball back to the 'keeper? Just let it go; run down the clock and maybe they wouldn't have got the chance to get the pen. KBB and I were fuming even before they got the pen. An assist to a Sutton fan there. As I say, churlish.
The ref did ok although he let a lot go including some late challenges from the visitors that Sutton players have certainly been booked for over the season but then, where's the change in that?
So to Dover who on current form and with our injury crisis should be favourites. One last effort lads.
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