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Post by johnnie1 on Dec 27, 2013 15:43:28 GMT
I managed to film Staines vs Dover last week, highlights can be found here:
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Post by jencor on Dec 28, 2013 16:15:47 GMT
Staines up 2-0 at half time and Whitehawk beating Bromley 1-0. Come on Sutton!!!!
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Post by jencor on Dec 28, 2013 16:31:24 GMT
2-1 (Slabber!!!) Come on you yellow!!!
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Post by swedishchapter on Dec 28, 2013 17:22:49 GMT
We were doomed today, playing in BLUE (?!) socks....  |
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Post by Stewart on Dec 28, 2013 18:13:36 GMT
Great game of football just did not get the result our forward play deserved. Lost it by not picking up a forward on the far post for the first goal and Tom was caught in possession to concede a second. Lots of pressure in the second half but few clear chances were created.
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Post by bornatotter on Dec 28, 2013 18:43:57 GMT
Very proud of the way we fought back in the second half but for all the effort and application we just couldn't get the second goal back. It was a thoroughly engrossing forty five minutes of football and showed that there's some real spine and fight in this side. Shame we couldn't pull it round.
But. And it's a big but, we were left chasing a point through our own failures in the first half. Staines scored early. A man out wide right in acres on space. Rolls the ball through the box and it travelled right to the far post where an unmarked striker had a tap in. Poor defending from what I could see.
Then we battled our way back and were getting forward sharply and an equaliser looked on the cards with both Binnsy and scans a real handful. Some dubious defending was ignored by the ref as they wrestled our players both on and off the ball. Still, we were pressing for what looked like a well deserved leveller.
Then disaster struck. Teams have Sussed tom doesn't like to be put under pressure on the deck. A firmly hit back pass, instead of belting it tom tried to control it only to find a striker in his face and then a comedy attempt to dribble it round their man, he loses it ends up on his arse and it's a tap in. I don't want to be too harsh but this needs sorting as your hearts in your mouth every time the ball is passed back and i don't think it's just an issue for the keeper.
Anyway, sh*t happens and all that and we were out early for the second half and throwing dundo and marv on really changed the shape of both our team and the game. Wave after wave if attacks and the ball pinging around the box, cloughy close a couple of times and eventually their keeps dropped one and it ended up with slabbs bashing it home. We kept going but the second just wouldn't drop and after such a one-sided half of football I still left feeling we'd been robbed of at least a point.
How wheatsheafe lane has become such a fortress beats the sh*t out of me. A decidedly average side and a home support that consists of a buster blood vessel tribute act wobbling around in the back row of the stand with his equally lardy fan club preloaded on snide Russian vodka. A superb advert for the fitness club that shares the ground.
On to New Year's Day.
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Post by simmi on Dec 28, 2013 19:08:10 GMT
First away game for me this season. I thought we missed Anthony Rivière in midfield (not seen him for a few games now, is he injured?) we played much better in the second half with more focus and determination and we were unlucky not to snatch a second. The referee in my opinion was inept and out of his depth. Man of the match for me was Clough he was immense at the back today. With January approaching look forward to the return of Taylor up front, Slabber needs someone alongside him to play off.
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Post by os on Dec 28, 2013 19:37:00 GMT
For all our endeavour you simply cannot gift the opposition a 2 goal lead and expect to get anything out of matches. I am beginning to sound like a broken record about Tom's distribution and kicking, it has cost us too many points and it really needs sorting. We don't have goal keeper backup, we now don't even have a goal keeping coach which is showing. I don't give a monkeys about K's we kicked ourselves in the b*llocks when we let big Wayne go, and I for one want him back, in fact we need him back!!!
Its frustrating as we play football as it should be played, we play at a standard above anyone else in the league, no side will have completed more passes than us. Yet we concede goals that you would expect Sunday league players to deal with their eyes shut. If we are not doing that we are too busy playing Mr nice guy and doing the right thing. Lets get Wayne back stick two fingers up at those homeless magpies down the road and get a bit of a mean streak. While we are at it tell Tom we have packed the ball with TNT!!!
Yes its a rant!!!
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Post by Stewart on Dec 28, 2013 20:17:05 GMT
Knocking a young keeper is not a clever move by forum users. PD knows what he he needs to do, extra coaching a supportive word maybe. How many penalties has Tom saved? You have to remember the positives before you rip into a player.
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Post by os on Dec 28, 2013 20:43:25 GMT
Knocking a young keeper is not a clever move by forum users. PD knows what he he needs to do, extra coaching a supportive word maybe. How many penalties has Tom saved? You have to remember the positives before you rip into a player. I am not knocking Tom, he is young has bags of potential and saves penalties for fun, I said, his kicking and distribution needs sorting as its costing us points. The rest of my post surrounds the support for him you talk of!! |
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Post by markf2 on Dec 28, 2013 20:48:33 GMT
I thought we gave it a bloody good go this afternoon. You have to remember that with such a good home record, Staines will always be confident at Wheatsheaf Lane, which, by the way provided a near immaculate playing surface once again. A long way a way from the 1980's when it was truly dreadful come November.
However, losing two goals, the first catching us cold, the second through individual error after we had responded well to the first gave the team a mountain to climb. That they fell short was as much down to the home side defending in numbers and to great effect as it was to U's final ball. Have to say Cloughy was brilliant today and I thought we played some great stuff. Staines had some lively players but most of their attacks floundered well before the penalty box was threatened.
The ref was poor today, very poor. A long way to travel from Norfolk to get rounded on for much of the 90 mins but if the powers that be are going to continue to provide officials that appear at times to be out of their depth then so the fans are going to let that situation be known. Sometimes, I walk out the ground feeling pretty sorry for the ref after the ear bashing he gets (mainly from me) but by God do some of them at this level open themselves up to it.
Blatant two handed shove on Slabs in the penalty area by their no 5 who got away with similar early in the second half but outside the box. A big shout for handball too when the defender lean towards the ball (a shot on target) to deflect it away via his arm. Arm was not out that far but his body moved towards the ball so was an intentional block. Inconsistent use of the yellow card (again) failing to caution one home player for a foul when they easily gave away the lions share of them. I have no probs with our two yellows (Ali's 5th btw).
Have to say I thought our goal may have been a foul too, although their 'keeper never looked happy from crosses. Not sure that he's better than Jack Turner but at least we didn't have to put up with his antics today.
So, 3pts for the home side in spite of our best endeavours and to send the pie eater in the stand home happy. At least he stayed the full 90 mins this time. Him singing "who ate all the pies" at Dundo in the second half was possibly the most ironic tune I've ever heard at a football match.
Oh and Fulham got hammered by a mid table Hull too. Don't you just hate football?
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Post by Del on Dec 28, 2013 22:05:11 GMT
Two poor defensive errors but why did we only play one up front in the first half? It was ineffective against Hayes & the same today.We also need to put the ball in the box quicker and not slow play down so much.
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Post by Amber Aleman on Dec 28, 2013 22:59:40 GMT
I thought we played more 4-3-3 in the first half. That left us light in midfield but it was sloppy defending that cost us the two goals. The introduction of Dundo and then Marv sparked a second half fightback, but Staines defended resolutely and we could only halve the deficit through a goalmouth scramble.
With the teams around us in the table also losing we stay 4th. Unusually we've got half of our league games played before the turn of the year. It's now a case of making the most of the 21 matches we know we've got remaining.
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Post by SpiderBee on Dec 30, 2013 20:40:24 GMT
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Post by Stewart on Dec 30, 2013 21:01:12 GMT
“It was a sweet victory for the club and we take great delight in that,” said Gayle. “I think we thoroughly deserved it for our first-half performance, especially. “Sutton have to earn every victory at this level before they even think about being promoted and we are a team in progression. “They like to intimidate but it doesn't wash with me. I don't know what coffee they were drinking coming here and thinking Marcus Gayle and his team were going to be any sort of walkover. "There is a tinge of arrogance in terms of who they think they are compared to everybody else.................”  |
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