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Post by Del on Mar 29, 2019 12:18:17 GMT
Maybe the last chance to see Havant for a while based on current league positions. They certainly have had a tough baptism after coming up last season.
I believe Dos told me once that he was a centre back at this club during his playing days.
With the return of skip after injury and Craig to midfield we should have a more solid spine to the team.Lets get 3 points and stay in the play off chase.
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Post by jr on Mar 29, 2019 12:48:42 GMT
Maybe the last chance to see Havant for a while based on current league positions. They certainly have had a tough baptism after coming up last season. I believe Dos told me once that he was a centre back at this club during his playing days. With the return of skip after injury and Craig to midfield we should have a more solid spine to the team.Lets get 3 points and stay in the play off chase. I'm not sure skip is back, Bairdy said he's back training. It doesn't mean he'll play. |
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Post by pinewalker on Mar 29, 2019 23:02:53 GMT
Maybe the last chance to see Havant for a while based on current league positions. They certainly have had a tough baptism after coming up last season. I believe Dos told me once that he was a centre back at this club during his playing days. With the return of skip after injury and Craig to midfield we should have a more solid spine to the team.Lets get 3 points and stay in the play off chase. I'm not sure skip is back, Bairdy said he's back training. It doesn't mean he'll play. In his interview - after you posted - Bairdy said JC would be available for selection. That is good news, playing a full-back as a stopgap centre half hasn't been successful.
Bairdy said our performance in the final third has not been good enough. Going into some detail: shooting accurately has been the glaring problem. Sutton forwards - Kearney excepted - are not trying to run through the position of the ball, getting their head over it and putting their laces through it. [Apologies for this old fashioned term rendered meaningless by modern 'slippers' with laces down the side]. Instead they are trying to run nearer parallel to the goal line to give themselves an angle for a sidefooted shot at 45 degrees or more to the player's direction of travel. It is extremely difficult to get power and accuracy in that attempt unless you are meeting a ball moving directly away from the goal. If you are running with the ball - shooting like that takes much of the momentum out of it.
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Post by dof on Mar 30, 2019 11:06:16 GMT
nothing to do with todays game but relative to Pinewalkers post re lack of goals.
I found this in my old scrapbook... ( Yes I am that old)
JOE EDELSTON HELPS SUTTON
Lectures by former Reading Manager are part of Sutton United cure for their forward troubles--- they have scored only 13 goals in 19 league matches. Mr Edelston will show them where they go wrong, how to put it right and better their goal average. Among his students will be three new team arrivals - centre forward George Hoyle eight years with Walton & Hersham inside left Ken Scott returns from Hendon inside right Steven Callegri from Dartford.
Taken from the local newspaper December 1946/7 season.
Unfortuately Joe cannot help this time he died in 1970.
As a matter of interest the top three in the Athenian League were Barnet Hendon and Enfield.
The bottom three were Redhill Southall and Leyton.
Hope to see some goals today, hopefully for Sutton.
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Post by halftimet on Mar 30, 2019 19:40:55 GMT
39 points in first 23.
23 points in last 18.
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Post by halftimet on Mar 30, 2019 19:41:48 GMT
May be a point out there!
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Post by Del on Mar 30, 2019 19:42:35 GMT
39 points in first 23. 23 points in last 18. So if we win the next 5 we will have 38 points in the last 23 ! |
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Post by halftimet on Mar 30, 2019 20:00:39 GMT
Yep, but don't bet your house on it.
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Post by backhome2016 on Mar 30, 2019 20:40:51 GMT
I hate to say it, but without major surgery this summer, we are looking at a relegation scrap next season.
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Post by pinewalker on Mar 30, 2019 20:53:59 GMT
With 4 other U's players given one yellow card and Aswad given two - and the Hawks given their fair share - you might imagine we really got stuck in to a feisty encounter. The reality was different. Play was slow and space cramped. Players were often standing, waiting for the ball to arrive and it therefore arrived with an opponent's challenge. A player closed down passed it short to a colleague also in the pocket, so as they tried to move away body-checks and trips were common.
JC marked his return with a well taken penalty following a trip on Harry, it looked soft but Hawks made no complaints. Sutton continued to dominate the first half but as usual the shooting was off target and the best chances of another goal were headers from corners.
Jamie returned between the sticks - folowing Ross conceding a couple of goals at Chesterfield that Jamie might have done better with. Sods law being what it is ensured that Havant's goals - one needing a sharp left handed save and the other a quick reading of a dummied free kick - were ones that Ross might have kept out.
Havant's defence is clearly porous - they lost a goalmouth scramble following a U's corner. Deano claimed it.
The chances of Sutton going for a late winner were greatly reduced when JC seemed to dislocate his shoulder after the 3rd substitution, and evaporated completely when a bemused Aswad got his marching orders. The highlights might show what for - he seemed to be in our penalty area at the time but no spot kick was given. All in all not one of referee Woods' better games.
Sutton's keep-list for next season will not have had any new names added today.
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Post by Amber Aleman on Mar 30, 2019 21:42:09 GMT
FT: 2-2. Something of a shambles of a game, a point apiece of little use to either side. With Dover, Boreham Wood and Maidenhead picking up seven points between them on the road today, the Hawks are now surely doomed to join Braintree, Maidstone and Aldershot in the drop. We are at least free of that concern.
We started brightly enough, and JC's early penalty raised hopes of our second win of the month. Yet, although our back four at last had a familiar look, there was something not quite right about the team's shape, Jonah and Harry playing out wide where they're not at their most effective. Both had more influence on the game when they moved to central positions in the second half, with Dobson and Deacon then giving the side more natural width. But by then we were 2-1 behind thanks to two free kicks, the first indirect and the second straight in. Dean Beckwith's scrambled equaliser, his third goal in three games, might have provided the platform for another comeback. But the injury to JC, after we'd made three substitutions, then Aswad's red card, meant that we saw out the closing minutes with nine men.
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Post by backhome2016 on Mar 30, 2019 22:01:20 GMT
Havant's second goal - the direct free kick - I was stood behind the goal, GGL end, diagonally opposite the corner in which the ball entered the net. That corner was totally open, no bodies in the way, inviting a shot. My friend and I both stood aghast that it was so open and remarked that it was a free hit - and so it proved. Hate to be so negative tonight, but it wasn't a good day at the office.
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Post by Del on Mar 30, 2019 22:07:47 GMT
I do hope we are capable of better performances for the remaining few games . Only for about 20 minutes in the second half did we look half decent. Not sure what Ross has done to be dropped unless Bairdy is rotating the keepers for the last few games.
Their second goal was like a free hit with a big space in the wall !
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Post by os on Mar 31, 2019 0:12:44 GMT
The chances of Sutton going for a late winner were greatly reduced when JC seemed to dislocate his shoulder after the 3rd substitution, and evaporated completely when a bemused Aswad got his marching orders. The highlights might show what for - he seemed to be in our penalty area at the time but no spot kick was given. All in all not one of referee Woods' better games. Aswad getting a yellow for the free kick was harsh, but the 2nd was for a foul on the touchline in the build up to the header over the bar, you will see it on the video. We were a bit fortunate with the equalizer, Dylan controls it with his arm, but who cares, we certainly had 1 if not 2 good penalty shouts. Fantastic tackle from Harry at the end to stop them nicking it. Probably a fair result on reflection, but the question again today was did any of our front 3 test the keeper? |
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Post by halftimet on Mar 31, 2019 7:25:35 GMT
Ayunga could have sealed it at the end remember but skied it over from thee yards.
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