Chipp 1 down

Lost 1 nil

Jono wrote:

.In the bar after the game it was summed up by there keeper receiving the man of the match award and there secetary addmitting they had been very luky.

Must have been someone else posing as me then, as I certainly didn't admit anything of the sort.
as for the "goal"  Your forward was flagged for offside for which the referee acknowledged and allowed play to continue as the advantage would be with us. As soon as the goalkeeper put the ball down, the same forward went for the ball and scored.
So a) the offside position he was in counts, and B) the advantage has obviously gone, The correct decision has been made.
The fact the referee signalled an indirect free kick for the offside decision proves this.
Also, shall we mention the ball straight across your box that should have got on the end of, the inside of your post being hit and cleared off the line?  We should have been 3 up at half time!
True you came back into it in the 2nd half but I can still see 3 clear chances were we could and should have scored.

All the best for the rest of the season.

Last edited by LeamSec (04/11/2012 1:25 PM)

Well said Swayne Close. Another worry for me is the attitude of the team, we always seem intent on blaming other things for our performances and to witness Lee Phillips once again having a go at the bench and his team mates strikes me as a problem that needs sorting out. No surprise in hearing about Egan & Fortune jumping ship but it will be interesting to see if we are in a position to get the commanding central defender that is obviously needed. A draw would have been a fairer result but I am very very worried for the remainder of the season, we promised so much at the start but we are certainly not on target. I know that the team and management are working their arses off to turn the season around and try and compete with some of the bigger spending clubs in this league.

swayne close wrote:

Heard Rudgie on the radio, apparently Egan and Fortune have left.  Is it any coincidence its happended now that we are out of the cups? Did'nt think Fortune was given much of a chance, with him being cup tied and there not being many league games in the time he was with us.  On his performance against us for Mangotsfield he looked the strong centre half we needed.  Egan had a decent game against Gloucester and looked promising, he's gone to Weston (just like Stearn).  Its the same old story, when the squad needs tweaking its always the new players who are the first to go, the established few are untouchable.  This also happened under Mingsy.  Attendances are going down, now we are lucky for an attendance of over 300, 2 years ago 450 would of been poor.  The club will always have the 250 or so hardcore fans , this is not enough if we are ever going to go up.  I know its a catch 22 situation, without a winning team the floating support will not come back and this costs.  At the start of the season it looked like we were going for it with the signings of Phillips and Rogers, but now its midtable at best.

Careful, any hint of criticism/realism and you'll have Jono or Andy after you

Did Fortune really stand much of a chance when Rudgey decided to pull on his boots again, Egan is a loss, thought he had potential, just needed game time. Be interesting to interesting to see what happens to Phillips, mouthing off at the bench, again.
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This is a long term project and we do have a relatively inexperienced management duo but I'm becoming fed up of reading how unlucky we've been and that it's a mistake from the lino or ref that's cost us, just hope we manage to establish some run of form to get us away from the bottom.

Fingers crossed for Tuesday.....