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Was it good :?: no possible our worst full 90 mins. It was a cup game & we are still in it. Possibly 5/6 of team had dreadful games & looking at comments made some of them are fully aware of it, which is a plus. So come Tue hopefully it's sorted & we move on. Long balls to Dunks which he knocked onto Fazel for goals was ok last Tue, now it's wrong :roll: he had an off day ( following being involved in 6 out of 7 scored this season) & nobody got on the end of any layoffs. The areas for concern are at the back but this has been known for weeks, you can't at this level loose Hopey, Parky & Deaks and expect everything to be ok. Someone in the centre back pairing has to take charge & the present pairing are not doing it, calls being made but bad ones. Once Deaks is back & we have 3 of 4 from last season sure it will improve, if not then new signings may be needed. This time next week after a win Tue & V Sleaford on Sat with a bank holiday to follow it won't appear to bad, after all has everyone of us not had the odd bad day at the office :?:
Plus we did have a first for the club, the MOM award being given for best juggler :lol: never a goal :oops: didn't reach the net. Roll on Tue.

Brownie wrote:The areas for concern are at the back but this has been known for weeks, you can't at this level loose Hopey, Parky & Deaks and expect everything to be ok.

Regarding Hopey, I've asked him on Twitter on at least 3 occasions about whether he's going to play this season (or why so far he hasn't) and on each occasion he hasn't replied. I've heard a few rumours that he's busy at work but why's it all on the quiet? Anybody any ideas?

Anyway, wish he was still playing!

As far as we know Hopey is busy at work and can't commit any time to the club. Nothing else to say which is why it's quiet.

Duke of Wimbourne wrote:I thought that Eliot did well when he came on and gave us a bit more vision, I'd like to see him get more game time 8-)

Not the best performance, but as others have said, we are still in it, so let's hope that the lads are up for it on tuesday 8-)

The Harris McBride midfield partnership is far too deep and defensive and doesn't allow either to leave their position.They both do the same thing and follow the same player or the ball and that leaves an opposing player free to counter attack.
I think the change was totally evident that Grainger and Dent are much better suited and can, in my opinion, play against higher standard opposition, more comfortably and compliment each other. Dent is a very pacy, skillful, box to box player and gives the team a far more attacking look to it and also is able to protect the defence if required to do so. Grainger or King would be the obvious choice to partner up, but, King will be nowhere near match fit for a few weeks.
We need to give the defence a good shake up and get the two CB's sorted quickly, so they can work on an understanding, who is to lead and who is to support.
We were lucky, not to be out of the famous cup competition and need to put out a team who can get back to winning ways.

Cross
Merrill Deakin Clarke Brown
Gearing Dent Grainger Wisniewski
Taylor Dunkley

3 - 0

Nice little result yesterday for our vase opponents of last year !

Ashington 9-0 Pontefract Collieries

Love to get the same Tuesday ;)

Trek wrote:Brilliant large double centre page match report, with Malcolm Swinden's excellent photographs, by our own Sam Wildman in today's edition of the 'Non-League Paper' of yesterday's match. It really shows just how far we have come as a club. It makes me so proud.

Even has the badges as well, fantastic report and feature

I see the FA Cup EP results are featured on the BBC website

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/results

Just scroll down until you see London Colney, how great is it to see our name in the FA Cup again?

Match Highlights and Interviews here http://youtu.be/CZDf4XnvXP8

bozzer wrote:Match Highlights and Interviews here http://youtu.be/CZDf4XnvXP8

Cheers! Cracking strike by Merrill.

The attendance has now been confirmed as 430. It was a really impressive turnout - I don't think there's any way we can find out how it compares to other FA Cup games over the weekend - but I can't see too many games in the competition having more than that at this stage. Perhaps it might help us to get a bit of coverage for the replay on the FA site and in the local press.