U's v Eastbourne

[SpiderBee]

I thoroughly enjoyed it!
Had a friend at the game from Oxford (supports Oxford United and Queen's Park with a soft spot for Eastbourne)!
He was very complimentary about the ground, programme and chips!
He will DEFINITELY come again!
I am tipping U's for, at least, a play off place next season.
(My 20/1 Salisbury tip went well this year)!
Picked the National winner but didn't back it.
Thankfully, many at Sutton Cricket Club did! ;D

[johnboy]

I agree that in view of our display at Fisher for nil return we should be happy to ride our luck, if that's what it was, against Eastbourne. We were perhaps lucky to catch the on their fourth game in 8 days.
I thought Jason thoroughly deserved his M of Match award for his sheer enthusiasm. It was refreshing to see a Sutton player chasing everything right up to the final whistle. I believe the corner from which we scored came from him chasing what might have been a lost cause for other players.
We go to Histon on Tuesday and now that they have won the league what chance of them having a Dag & Red reaction and taking their foot off the pedal?

[Paul L]

Pictures now up on ftl

[Paul L]

... and a new wallpaper as well.



;D

[sallycat]

jta said:

Even with the Eastbourne's Keeper injury he was poor.

Ah, you're just saying that 'cause your brother hasn't been getting a game!

[jw]

sallycat said:

jta said:

Even with the Eastbourne's Keeper injury he was poor.

Ah, you're just saying that 'cause your brother hasn't been getting a game!

...i was looking forward to chanting gaylord in his pink goalkeeping top

[sallycat]

Poor Hooky got enough abuse as it was yesterday! God knows what Gareth would've gone through had he been playing ;D

[jw]

Exactly!!!

[Andrew Raeburn]

Gareth probably would've got less abuse than when I put on a Sutton goalkeeper's jersey at the start of the season! ;D

Agree with pretty much all of the above on yesterday's game. For anyone that's interested, this is how I described it on the Non-League Round-Up show on BBC Southern Counties Radio on Sat evening (apologies for it being Eastbourne-slanted but despite being in Surrey, SUFC fall outside the SCR remit so aren't considered one of the station's "home" teams, unlike Boro)

SUFC v EBFC - 14/04/07 - Considered

"I once saw an FA Trophy tie between Weymouth and Lewes that finished 8-5; this superb match could easily have reached those heights as both sides created umpteen chances. Just four goals were scored though and the result went against Eastbourne Borough, who slumped to a 3-1 defeat at a sweltering Gander Green Lane. In the first 20 minutes, it was Eastbourne making the running. Their exhausting run-in, which effectively means Borough are trying to cram in a quarter of the season into the last month, didn't seem to affect their play and they had several good chances to go in front. On 13 minutes, Allan Tait almost continued his prolific run of form with an audacious lob from a wide angle that flashed across the face of goal. Adam Wilde should've opened his Borough account on 17 minutes but mis-hit his volley from inside the area and sent it past the angle of post and bar, and Pat Harding rolled an effort inches wide of the far post. But you've got to take your chances when they come and Borough were made to pay for their profligacy when Sutton stunned them with two goals inside three minutes midway through the first half. It always helps though when you have a striker like Warren McBean, the former Barnet and Farnborough frontman, whose pace, trickery and guile saw him score the first and set up the second. He first chased and won a long ball over the top before turning his man and finishing clinically past Lee Hook - the 'keeper playing through the pain of a shoulder injury on his 200th consecutive game for Borough. A couple of minutes later Hook was slow to react to a ball inside the six-yard box and McBean beat him to it before pulling it back for another ex-Farnborough man, Bashiru Alimi, to turn home. Shellshocked, Borough weren't the same cohesive unit they had been prior to the two goals and John Scarborough, against his old club, forced Hook into a save from a powerful header that was a portent of things to come in the second half. Borough regrouped after the break and pulled a goal back early on, Tait touching home a corner from close range. In a frenetic, end-to-end second period, both sides had a number of chances. Harding was denied by Sutton 'keeper Phil Wilson's sprawling legs and Wilson also made a fine block at the end of an almighty penalty area scramble in which Tait and Harding both had a couple of efforts blocked by the scrambling Sutton defence. Sutton man-of-the-match Jason Henry squandered a couple of one-on-ones, including one where the ball jumped up off a sandy six-yard box just as he prepared to pull the trigger. The killer goal though arrived 12 minutes from time when Scarborough, who spent two and a bit successful seasons at Priory Lane at the turn of the century, thundered home a header from a corner. The U's were never really troubled after that although Borough continued to push forward in a fruitless search for a goal that may, or may not, have altered things. Their incredible 14 match unbeaten run, which stretched back to January and was their best in the league for four seasons, ends here and the play-off dream becomes that little more distant. But full credit to both sides for what was a fantastic 90 minutes entertainment. Final score at Gander Green Lane, Sutton United 3, Eastbourne Borough 1."

[Paul L]

Quite a fair report there Andrew. Although I'm pretty sure, having just rechecked the photos, that it was McBean who headed straight at Hook after the second goal, not Scarborough.