2 nite v St Albans

[jade]

Still no goals and plenty of excuses ,sounds like previous seasons.We have played two of the worst teams with 1 pointgreat return .

[Paul L]

bh said:

and I thought it was lightening in the first half!!!

You weren't the only one.

From the Guardian:

"In tricky conditions caused by a heavy downpour accompanied by lightning throughout the night, United looked the better side for most of the night."

Oops!

10:30am - They've now amended their report.

[Andy K]

jade said:

Still no goals and plenty of excuses ,sounds like previous seasons.We have played two of the worst teams with 1 pointgreat return .

Think thats a little bit harsh to be honest. The start of the season is always a bit odd. At the moment Weston are 3rd and Welling are bottom. I can't see either of those being true by the end of the season.

The league is a long run. Remember 2 years ago. Undefeated in the first 8 I think. Top of the league. Then it all went wrong?

And I don't think the teams we have played are two of the worst teams. St Albans did look quite useful, and Basingstoke can more than hold their own.

Yes, perhaps we have failed to score yet (and we have had a lot longer runs without scoring than two matches), but we have had our first clean sheet and only let one goal in all season. At that rate we will let in 21 goals in a season, which isnt much!

Like Taz, there really is no need to panic or moan yet. It will come right, you can see it in the team

[Nick the Greek/The Speshul One]

jade said:

Still no goals and plenty of excuses ,sounds like previous seasons.We have played two of the worst teams with 1 pointgreat return .

It's not cool to be bitter.

Plus try having your other team as Spurs

[markf]

Seems we've found another maoning mini! Jade's been on here a couple of times & so far as been totally negative. A bit early to say that we've played two of the worst sides.

Some U's fans expectations are far too high. This league gets tougher each season & we are not the richest club by any means.

I agree with Millsy about CW. We need him up front. However, who to play on the right would then be a bit of a poser. Who'd be a manager?

Thought the ref was ok last night. Cocked up some corner decisions on both sides but overall, one of the better that we've had in recent seasons. Or perhaps as Taz suggests, for once we got a "homer".

[Andy K]

Greek, have you not got used to Spur's start of the season. Its been the same for the last 17 years!

[suttonview]

suttonview said:

I reckon the team Haze would send out if everyone was fit and available would be:

Wilson/Williams (not sure which yet)

Hudson
Scarborough
Charles
Bray

Watkins
Greene
Honey
Tanner

McBean
Montague

Not bad, eh ?

[suttonview]

Last night's match report now available: here

Meanwhile, it would appear that Warren was late on Saturday - see: here

[Paul L]

What happened to the second half injury time last night? The ref seemed to blow up dead on 9.30!

[suttonview]

He didn't play any in the first half, either, Paul.

[manchesteru]

pjl891 said:

What happened to the second half injury time last night? The ref seemed to blow up dead on 9.30!

Maybe he was sick of the rain? But silly especially as there was significant stopages in each half.

[os]

Anyway no one has mentioned what thought was a stone wall penalty, was it??

[Paul L]

os said:

Anyway no one has mentioned what thought was a stone wall penalty, was it??

I think the general consensus around where I was standing (middle of the securicor terrace) was that unfortunately it wasn't a penalty. Although obviously we weren't the closest people to the incident.

[Gareth]

Have you photo-shopped the ball out of this pic Paul?!!



EDIT: Grrrr......how do you post a pic on here? It's the one on FTL with the "Is it a Bird..." caption anyway

[Paul L]

Nope. I have no idea where it is meant to be either.