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Post by pinewalker on Jan 26, 2019 20:18:53 GMT
Struggling to remember a less deserved win since our return to the conference but that's football, and any sympathy I feel for fleet is somewhat tempered by the amount of cheating their players were guilty of. Ref was constantly mugged off by diving, fell for it every time except thankfully when it happened inside the box. Make no mistake fleet were the better side and had three glorious chances to score. Worner producing blockbusting saves to deny two of them and he must surely hold onto his spot when Butler returns. Massive credit to the back 4 who put in a big shift today but I don't think anyone else got above 5s and 6s. Dobson had a particularly odd afternoon, was outstanding for 30 minutes, dire for the next 60 then provided a sublime corner delivery for the winning goal, which looked well over the line. Really didn't feel the balance of our side was ever right this afternoon and fleet played some good passing football compared to our more direct approach, but their strikers' wasteful finishing came back to haunt them. Two weeks to get two key players back fit and a very, very welcome, albeit charitable 3 points to secure at worst another season in league 3, I mean the conference. Excellent summary. Only thing worth adding is the 4th official's board going up in the 90th minute was met in the red seats by a loud crash and a sprinkling of wine. If the MoM bottle had decided to self-destruct in protest at being presented it was a fair judgement on the second half up to that point. Worner (presumably getting a replacement bottle) was the only possible recipient on account of his handiwork. His kicking - like all the out-field players' footwork - was well off today. |
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Post by Stewart on Jan 26, 2019 20:32:14 GMT
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Post by Amber Aleman on Jan 26, 2019 20:58:13 GMT
Twilight robbery? Steal of the century? This felt like an even more undeserved three points than the early Christmas present at Halifax. But if, like Ebbsfleet today, you fail to turn unrelenting pressure into goals, then you can't complain too much if your opponents punish you at the death. There were several reasons to celebrate after the final whistle. Not only had we beaten in-form play-off rivals (we're now five points ahead of Fleet, with a game in hand), but we achieved our first double of the season, and have reached the magical total of 52 points which pretty much guarantees National League football next season. And all this without Collins and Eastmond, arguably our two most influential players. The first half was fairly even, although the visitors came closer to scoring. In the second 45 we found it increasingly difficult to retain possession, and Fleet spent most of the final fifteen minutes camped in our half, winning a string of throw-ins, corners and free kicks. Then came that stoppage-time breakaway, a corner, a bit of head-tennis, and Gime's header striking the bar and dropping behind the line.  So we're back up to 6th, with sixteen games remaining. Eleven of those are against bottom-half sides. |
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Post by localboy86 on Jan 26, 2019 23:17:16 GMT
Ebbsfleet forum isn’t half salty this evening 😂😂
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Post by markf on Jan 27, 2019 14:10:46 GMT
I don't listen to Dos until I have posted (don't want to be accused of repeating him) but I did hear Tony's first question. The 10% to the 90% and that's just what I was thinking when I got home last night. That final minute was the 10% that Dos so loves.
U's have seen some late drama this season - for and against - but yesterday was surely the most dramatic. Under the cosh for much of the second half as 'Fleet pushed on with the stiff breeze on their backs and showing why they are the form side of the NL at present, U's scored with only their second effort on target the whole of the half, the first being the blocked effort that Harry b headed back and Gime Toure deflected in off the bar. Cue pandemonium (Gandermonium?) around the ground as U's "stole" the points.
This win has to go down to the defence and in particular Ross W who was rightly named as Sutton's motm thanks to a number of brilliant stops, a couple from point blank range, as the forward line laboured throughout that second half; couldn't hold the ball or win a header as it kept heading back towards the U's goal. Two long throw experts chucking it into the mixer and this was a backs to the wall effort that once again showed how good our back four are even without skip.
First half, U's had the wind in their favour and plenty of efforts at goal but only one of significance on target, James D's 35 yard effort that Ashmore brilliantly turned around a post while back peddling. Ebbsfleet almost scored from a corner but Ross blocked the first and a combination of him and a couple of U's defenders managed to block and clear the rebound.
I thought 'Fleet looked more dangerous once McDonald had replaced Cheek and he should have scored almost immediately but a combination of Ross W and Dale B thwarted that opportunity.
One criticism of the visitors was the ease that they went down under challenges and the ref, who had a so-so match, often obliged with the free-kick. He also appeared to let a lot more of the obvious go. He did get the first two yellow cards right though, Kedwell (looking as if he had joined the Three Bears from the Beano on a food raiding party but still mobile and strong) for his lunge on Harry B and the nasty challenge on James D late on that looked worse than skip's red at Aldershot.
Considering the two substitutes bench where U's had three academy players and the visitor's were able to call on the likes of Whiteley and McDonald I think the statement that this club continues to over achieve as sound judgement.
I expect the 'fleet fans were gutted but as one said to me afterwards "that's football" a sentiment echoed by Garry Hill in his philosophical i/v taken after. He went up in my estimation on the strength of those two minutes.
Difficult to tell the significance of this result as there is a long way to go but it keeps the chasing pack at bay for another week and means U's will remain in the top seven even though there is no match next week.
On to Barnet and a new ground for all U's fans in just under a fortnight's time.
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Post by os on Jan 27, 2019 18:45:30 GMT
That certainly is football, some of us have long memories and I remember 15th September 2015, going down 1-0 at Fleet, after a goal from Jordan Parkes that should never have stood. Dundo hitting the post with a penalty, their No2 pretending to be decked and openingly robbing us of a result. These things may take time to even themselves out, but they always do. I remember a certain board member getting a little irate with a Fleet fan on the way out, when he was taking the micky about the result. No guilt from me for yesterday, we defended superbly and as they would say took our chance when it fell to us, and we didn't even need to foul in the build up to get it |
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Post by markf on Jan 27, 2019 19:16:24 GMT
OOh, that game OS. My birthday. Ask kbb about that night. Make any bad language used since sound like common pleasantries.
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Post by Kebab Belly Bob on Jan 27, 2019 20:41:28 GMT
One of my all time favourite Frakey moments (and there have been many over the years) although unrepeatable on a forum !
Kbb
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Post by sallycat on Jan 27, 2019 21:45:26 GMT
I remember it well... I actually missed the goal because I was changing a baby's nappy. Yesterday I missed our goal because of the same baby...well she's 3 now!
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Post by Andy K on Jan 28, 2019 10:36:50 GMT
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Post by amberinexile on Jan 30, 2019 13:39:22 GMT
I enjoyed the post-match interview with Dos when he berated Williams and Toure's first half, describing their play as all 'flicks and farts'! Yeah, I listened to it twice. You've got to love Dos.
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Post by Andy K on Feb 1, 2019 15:10:04 GMT
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Post by os on Feb 1, 2019 22:12:07 GMT
So what is really going on at Stonebridge Road? The club has raised its share capital to 15.8m from 14m at the start of the season with £200,000 of shares being bought immediately upon their creating just last month. Vice Chairman Dean Poorley was removed from his position in November and the Arab's owners brother elected to the board. I can't work out how you can go from that amount of money to not paying your players, unless you are doing it on purpose for some other motive? I am not clever enough to work it out, but this isn't just a club that has overspent in financial doo doo, this is some form of deliberate act? |
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Post by VCLXI on Feb 1, 2019 22:26:20 GMT
Does FFP reach the fifth tier of English football? I somehow doubt it.
I'm not clever enough to know either.
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