17th September match thread

[Cheese & Biscuits]

1-0 HT, could have been a lot more by the sounds of it. Hawkins with his 9th goal of the season already.

 

[1884 Belmont]

I'd like to apologise to anyone who watched our game today, as you're never getting those 90 minutes of your life back. Seriously, that didn't come as a surprise but it was even worse than we've been in recent weeks. The locals are now well and truly fed up - has a Manager of the Month ever been sacked whilst still holding the award? Because Brabin will be very, very lucky to survive after that.

 

[Mark kavanagh]

Just read that the mark and nicola are in china he may get off the hook again

 

[Master D]

2-0 to Woking in the shit-off.

 

[Cheese & Biscuits]

Lincoln fucking it up

 

[Master D]

Woking's first clean sheet in 47 years apparently. Mills out.

 

[Monkey Tennis]

That'll be our result of the season! No idea about anything that happened in the game, but it reaffirms our play-off credentials

 

[Cheese & Biscuits]

That'll be our result of the season! No idea about anything that happened in the game, but it reaffirms our play-off credentials

And we Daggers thank you

 

[EnglishRed]

2-0 to Woking in the shit-off.

 

[Silver Stone]

Better than Tuesday but... still not good enough.

When the balls does Joe Healy come back?

 

[Swedes]

I'm not quite sure how we didn't win that today, absolutely dominated Aldershot for most of the game then they pick us off on the counter-attack. The 4 new lads look a massive improvement on the players they have replaced, and we didn't miss Almond one bit.

 

[Leewilson]

 

[Raymondo316]

Better than Tuesday but... still not good enough.

When the balls does Joe Healy come back?

I dunno about that. The 2nd half was shocking and just as bad as Tuesday...heck Guiseley should of nicked a win at the end.

The sooner Healy is back or we sign a center mid the better. We look a disjointed mess in the middle.

 

[MTFC_07]

Eastleigh were by far the best side we've played this season. They were well organised like Lincoln, but with far better players - Reda Johnson was the best defender I've ever seen at this level. I would be surprised if they didn't get promoted. As for us, we weren't great, but I think that was as much down to them being good as it was us playing poorly. After 10 games now, of which I've been to 9, I think we're a top 10 side, lacking the strikeforce to be a top 5 side.

 

[Bluandwite]

Another win, unbeaten in three now, all of them clean sheets.

Hard fought, we were excellent in the first half and should have scored another goal or two but didn’t kill the game off. We were lethargic after the break and never got going again, Braintree showed plenty of spirit and had a go. We were hanging on a bit at the end. I don’t think they’re particularly good though, up against it to stay up.

Funny how we start winning when Sam Hughes gets a game, he got the goal, prodding home from a Durrell corner. He’s a class act. Still haven’t got his best position pinned down, played centre back instead of Hudson in the past two games.

 

[DontBringBertie]

The answer to the question "if Wrexham fans boo after winning 1-0 how would they react after losing?" Is to try and get in to the dugout to have a go at Gary Mills. One of their fans ran on to the pitch at the end as well before being tackled by security.

Haven't checked the other scores but assume Lincoln's romp to the title continued with a comfortable win over Barrow as "the Cowleys definitely have it".

 

[Cheese & Biscuits]

Haven't checked the other scores but assume Lincoln's romp to the title continued with a comfortable win over Barrow as "the Cowleys definitely have it"

Yes, they won 8-0, all from Rhead, one a overhead kick from the edge of the area. The crater almost caused the match to be called off.

 

[The Cards]

GET IN THERE!!

 

[Bendubz]

I dunno about that. The 2nd half was shocking and just as bad as Tuesday...heck Guiseley should of nicked a win at the end.

The sooner Healy is back or we sign a center mid the better. We look a disjointed mess in the middle.

I felt it was more Guiseley growing into the match in the 2nd half. Yes our form dropped, but it was nowhere near as bad as Tuesday. and if not for the efforts of their keeper and the offside flag in the first half we could have been out of sight. Not yet sold on Odubade though. I see the comparisons to Akrofi, but the one thing Akrofi can do that he seemingly can't is win balls in the air, or even come close. And Saunders clearly doesn't think Akrofi will cut it at this level so this signing quite confuses me.

 

[Sparrow]

Top win and out of the bottom four. Two good goals. Really pleased for Saraiva, who seems to be working hard to adjust to this level and is beginning to get his rewards.

Wrexham - Lol. Were the better team in the first-half. Desperately lack a cutting edge - that was our first clean sheet THIS YEAR. Despite being full-time, we finished stronger. As said above, great scenes from the travelling fans who were in full-on MELTDOWN mode at full-time at Millsy.

 

[Boz]

All we need after today's misery is a game against form team Woking

 

[Sparrow]

All we need after today's misery is a game against form team Woking

Yes, good time to play you by all accounts. Wouldn't mind some revenge for last year - the Rendell injury and that jammy free-kick which got you the points.

 

[Luke Imp]

I'm still of the opinion that we're being too accommodating of Champion, even two games in. He's not to blame, he just doesn't fit in with what we've done in the opening games and he's completely upset the rhythm we had. We've thrown him in and he looks no better than the midfield options we have on the bench, and they're not in the side because they don't fit in with a certain style.

The game itself wasn't too bad but lacked any clear cut chances bar the goals. Barrow started 4-3-3, abandoned that and went full on 4-2-4 and we got caught in a game of head tennis for most of the game. That said, we didn't help ourselves by using the easy ball to Rhead far too often. No real surprise we conceded from crosses, but it was that they were from open play against two CB's. Weirdly, we actually dealt with their set pieces quite comfortable despite them having a 2 or 3 player advantage height wise. We looked far better on the few occasions we got it down and wide.

4 points from 9 this week with two home games isn't a good return, but the bigger picture is that we've had a decent start and won't be far off the PO's.

 

[The Jovial Forester]

Well, we ROMPED to a scrappy 1-0 against a Bromley side who I thought were keeping it tight in midfield and while having less of the ball than us probably creating the better chances, maybe because we started with only Murphy up top. They skimmed the bar at the end too and had a penalty shout turned down which I didn't get much of a look at, but we'd had a reasonable one rejected too earlier so ref probably just not the sort to give it when he might not.

 

[FGRJC]

Allan Julian is just an absolute legend,love it when we play against him!!

 

[John Still]

Not seen such a one sided game since we got beat by Southampton 4-0 away in league one. Ferriby did a great job, very solid set up but it was like a training match just could not put them out of their misery.

Tough run of fixtures coming up but given our injuries at the back surprised we have not been tested more. 11-2 current home aggregate Boredom Wood the only team scoring at stadio della Dagenham.

How close are the Veggie green rovers strikers to 50? By xmas right?

 

[The Jovial Forester]

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How close are the Veggie green rovers strikers to 50? By xmas right?

We'll get them all in the game against you, finally knocking Bon Accord off their perch.

 

[Railway Blue]

Another win, unbeaten in three now, all of them clean sheets.

Hard fought, we were excellent in the first half and should have scored another goal or two but didn’t kill the game off. We were lethargic after the break and never got going again, Braintree showed plenty of spirit and had a go. We were hanging on a bit at the end. I don’t think they’re particularly good though, up against it to stay up.

Funny how we start winning when Sam Hughes gets a game, he got the goal, prodding home from a Durrell corner. He’s a class act. Still haven’t got his best position pinned down, played centre back instead of Hudson in the past two games.

The fact that Sam Hughes has only got into the team because of injury is criminal. He should have been in from the start of the season. He can cover a lot of positions especially the spine of the team. The bloke in front of me said before the game started that the referee Johnson has reffed us before and he's a tit. He was definitely right there.

 

[publeaguelegend]

I felt it was more Guiseley growing into the match in the 2nd half. Yes our form dropped, but it was nowhere near as bad as Tuesday. and if not for the efforts of their keeper and the offside flag in the first half we could have been out of sight. Not yet sold on Odubade though. I see the comparisons to Akrofi, but the one thing Akrofi can do that he seemingly can't is win balls in the air, or even come close. And Saunders clearly doesn't think Akrofi will cut it at this level so this signing quite confuses me.

He was on the pitch for how long? 15 minutes or so? Has he even had a training session with the rest of the team?

Guiseley fans were top draw, loud and in good humour. Hope the taxi returns home safe to Yorkshire.

 

[Davidimp]

I'm still of the opinion that we're being too accommodating of Champion, even two games in. He's not to blame, he just doesn't fit in with what we've done in the opening games and he's completely upset the rhythm we had. We've thrown him in and he looks no better than the midfield options we have on the bench, and they're not in the side because they don't fit in with a certain style.

The game itself wasn't too bad but lacked any clear cut chances bar the goals. Barrow started 4-3-3, abandoned that and went full on 4-2-4 and we got caught in a game of head tennis for most of the game. That said, we didn't help ourselves by using the easy ball to Rhead far too often. No real surprise we conceded from crosses, but it was that they were from open play against two CB's. Weirdly, we actually dealt with their set pieces quite comfortable despite them having a 2 or 3 player advantage height wise. We looked far better on the few occasions we got it down and wide.

4 points from 9 this week with two home games isn't a good return, but the bigger picture is that we've had a decent start and won't be far off the PO's.

It was very similar showing from us again very much like Tuesday.
Like you say Luke when we got it wide we look a threat and that's how we got the goal by the two wingers combining and switching play from one side to the other. Champion can clear off back to Barnet, clearly just to get minutes to go elsewhere. He's completely cocked up our way of playing. We were far too slow at times today, the urgency of the some of the other home games I've seen so far.
Still 3rd and look very short of a spark in the middle playing two defensive midfielders in their isn't helping at all.