Results 19/8/06

[Giggy of Telford]

Nationwide Conference

Dagenham & Redbridge 4 v 0 Tamworth
Exeter City 2 v 1 Altrincham
Gravesend & Northfleet 0 v 1 York City
Halifax Town 0 v 2 Grays Athletic
Northwich Victoria 0 v 1 Kidderminster Harriers
Rushden & Diamonds 2 v 0 Forest Green Rovers
St Albans City 3 v 5 Aldershot Town
Stafford Rangers 1 v 0 Southport
Stevenage Borough 2 v 3 Crawley Town
Weymouth 2 v 1 Cambridge United
Woking 1 v 1 Morecambe


Nationwide Conference North

Blyth Spartans 3 v 0 Alfreton Town
Droylsden 4 v 2 Nuneaton Borough
Harrogate Town 0 v 0 Stalybridge Celtic
Hinckley United 2 v 1 Farsley Celtic
Hucknall Town 1 v 3 Barrow AFC
Hyde United 1 v 2 Worksop Town
Lancaster City 0 v 1 Gainsborough Trinity
Leigh RMI 0 v 0 Redditch United
Scarborough 0 v 1 Vauxhall Motors
Worcester City 0 v 1 Moor Green
Workington 2 v 0 Kettering Town


Nationwide Conference South

Bishop`s Stortford 1 v 0 Eastbourne Borough
Cambridge City 2 v 2 Hayes
Eastleigh 1 v 3 Welling United
Farnborough Town 3 v 1 Bognor Regis Town
Histon 3 v 0 Dorchester Town
Lewes 0 v 1 Braintree Town
Newport County 1 v 0 Havant & Waterlooville
Sutton United 3 v 3 Basingstoke Town
Thurrock FC 1 v 5 Salisbury City
Weston-super-Mare 0 v 1 Fisher Athletic (London)
Yeading 2 v 1 Bedford Town


Unibond Northern Premier League

AFC Telford United 1 v 1 Grantham Town
Gateshead 1 v 0 Burscough
Guiseley 2 v 1 Matlock Town
Hednesford Town 0 v 2 Marine
Kendal Town 3 v 1 Radcliffe Borough
Leek Town 2 v 2 Whitby Town
Lincoln United 1 v 1 Ashton United
Mossley 2 v 3 Ilkeston Town
North Ferriby United 0 v 4 Witton Albion
Ossett Town 2 v 4 Fleetwood Town
Prescot Cables 1 v 1 Frickley Athletic


Arngrove Northern League Division 1

Chester-le Street 3 v 1 Bedlington Terriers
West Auckland Town 2 v 3 Newcastle Benfield Bay Plastics


Arngrove Northern League Division 2

Stokesley SC 2-3 Washington
Sunderland Ryhope CA 1-0 Guisborough Town
Team Northumbria 1-1 Spennymoor Town

[ojiveojive]

Worcester City 0 v 1 Moor Green

Fantastic result, fantastic performance, marred only by Worcester's number 15 buying a second yellow for our number 9. Went down like a professional; jumped up and ran away when the ref went into his pocket. He knew.

Looked for you Daza but didn't see any longhairs anywhere. I hope you've got this one on video, I'd buy a copy.

[Giggy of Telford]

AFC Telford United 1-1 Grantham Town

Not the result I was hoping to start the season and I'm not sure what went wrong, we were the better team throughout the game, they were a very, very poor side, their goal-keeper however was very good, almsot a match for our very own Stuart Brock......though not quite, Brocky'sstill the top keeper in the Unibond . Anyway a combination of heroic saves and a lack of clinical finishing on our part (seems to be a running trend for us!)

We started strongly and split there defence early making a few good runs, on 17 minutes Gary Hay was awarded a penalty when his shirt was ppulled, preventing a goal oportunity. Hay's strike Partner Steve Foster steps up to take the penalty, the keeper goes the right way but misses the ball. 1-0 to the Bucks! .

On 40 minutes the Telford defence made a mistake which ended up being costly, Gratham were given space to score a relatively easy goal.

After half time the game contiued how it was with us doingall the attacking but constantly being thrawted by poor finishing, a Grantham player diving and the bog-standard Unibond ref falling for it or a Grantham player kicking our player to the ground and the bog-standard Unibond ref either ignoring it or giving them a free kick. At one point their player had ours in a head-lock in an unprovoked off the ball attack, we thought not even this ref could get it wrong, violent conduct = red card, instead the ref calls both over, makes them shakes hands them proceeds to book both .

The extra time is issued, and we're given 7 extra minutes, with all the incidents involving diving, cheating or general thuggery I guess it's understandable. They get their first chacne of the second half wth a lose ball inside the 6-yard box. I don't think they went for the ball once, instead they kicked lumps out of our goal-keeper and a defender, both required treatment, the defeneder later had to come off and had a sling put on his shoulder. We were denied a cast iron penalty when Steve Foster was ppulled down in the box, the lino flagged for a penalty, the ref gives a free kick to them.

Not a great performance but should have been enough to polish off a very poor Grantham side with no real creativity and just kicked at anything, ball or player indiscriminately with all the chances wehad. Hay and Foster, while both good players don't seem to compliment each other particularly. Much like with Kyle and Davion last season. They are very alike.

Final Score: AFCTU 1-1 GTFC

My Motm: 4. Jimmy Turner: Solid display in defence, managed to keep calm when things were getting nasty this time.

[ojiveojive]

Come on, where the bloody hell are you? You didn't all lose, let's have some feedback on your games.

[DazaB_WCFC]

we were beaten be a team that is better at football than we are, full stop.
I looked out for ojive from 2.20ish in the bar but coldnt see him

[ojiveojive]

Sorry I missed you, Daza, we were late, about 2.30ish and I didn't wear the leather 'cos someone told me it wasn't going to rain. Ho bloody ho, I got soaked. We'll have to share a mineral water when you visit us.

[davetscfc]

:DFurrock 1 Salisbury FIVE


Not sure why we're in purple?

But anyway.......

What looked to be a trip into the unknown (we met up at 8.15 not even sure what station to ask for) turned into a quality day out for the Salisbuury "Dirty Dozen" (ages 13 - 67)

Our first 'proper' awayday in the Con South. 8.45 out of Salisbury up to Waterloo. Tabloids (Guardian sportspages for the intellectuals), crosswords, and cans of alcohol, and then into whatever the Waterloo station bar is calling itself these days!

Tube across to Fenchurch St and after taking advice we got the train to Lakeside rather than Purfleet, the theory being, if we got stuck it'd be easier to get a taxi from. Anyway, after a couple of pints in the Brewers Fayre we sorted taaxis to the ground.


Wasn't as bad as we'd been led to belive. Tidy ground, but middle of nowhere and not a home fan to be seen.

Goal down within a minute (didn't see it, too busy gassing). Level in 5, 3-1 up at half time.

Bit of a laugh to hear Eastleigh were losing

2nd half, they looked good for a while, then we went 4-1 up .....strange one... our 'Train Dave' had 66-1 at the bookies on 4-1, so spent the next 10 minutes wishing the ball aweay from the goalmouth, til the inevitable 5th. Fair play, he still sang when it went in.

Job done, taxis back to Purfleet this time. Train into Waterlooo. Most went home, a few of us did our little Waterlloo circuit for a couple. Back to SAlisbury, went to watch a band (old mates)....everyone had heard the 3-1 half time, and congratulated us on the win..then up to the Wyndham for late last orders.

Happy days

[medibot]

Dave, you have captured the spirit of the conference south away day already. I salute you

As for Sutton, rubbishy first half where we took the lead then went two goals to one down, both goals coming because after our keeper made a top save, the Basingstoke strikers were quicker to the rebound than we were.

Second half was thrilling stuff, got it back to 2-2 with a great move headed in by the old master Mr Peter Fear, kept the pressure on, played well and whatnot...

enter referee Crouch...

Basingstoke player runs through, lofts it over our keeper... Inevitable collision occurs whilst the entire ground watches to see where the lob goes, happily it goes wide, problem over?

Nope, unhappily, Mr Crouch has blown for a penalty. Loud shouts of c*nt all round. Confusion and annoyance escalates as nobody is booked for the supposed foul the penalty has been given for, Sutton fans coming from the school of thinking that dictates if somebody is in the referees view fouled in the area, there's usually a card, usually red, if, like our keeper you were the last man.

Not in Crouchland though. Peters swiftly puts away the penalty and we're 3-2 down.

Still the injustice spurs us onwards and we still don't look like losing. Another nice move and Neil Lampton hits the ball as sweet as anything across the goal and flying into the far corner. Cue mad celebrations and relief that we've got our well earned point back.

The last bit of action involved our 3 goals in 4 games centre back lunging through at the back post to meet a cross, surprisingly, considering Scooby's deadliness in this sort of situation recently the ball flew across the goal and the chance of a 4-3 win went with it.

Very entertaining game, fair result really but had we won it i'd've thought that was fair too. One of those games where you're happy to draw and take the point but reckon you could've taken all three and felt justified.

On the booze front, ended up in a gig type place under Elephant & Castle railway viaduct drinking Czech Budvar and listen to a couple of ace bands in a place that was clearly far cooler than me

[Sultan of Cannock- SRFC]

Belatedly good luck to everyone on the Terrace this season!!!!!!

Just back off hols to realise that we've made a pretty solid start up in Conference Arrogant. Some guy doing a prediction computer thing (will try to post a link later to explain) had us down to get about 12pts all season and at least we've got seven towards them.

1-0 against Southport today and the winner scored 9 mins from the end by 41(!) year-old Neil Grayson. Still fit, hungry and getting amongst the goals, Neil has ben quoted as saying he was looking forward to meeting all those who thought they'd seen the back of him and annoying them!

Southport had only one part-time player against all our guys being part-time. Although fitness doesn't seem to be a problem so far am a bit worried about later on in the season....

[Giggy of Telford]

davetscfc said:

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Not sure why we're in purple?

The less you look into the colours the better, I make them up as I go because otherwise we'd have lots of reds, blues, whites and the odd green, this way it's more prettyful.

There is some kind of pattern to it the colours, I'm just too lazy to go through it just now. Just notice there's blue in every league with a Tinpot-Team in it whereas brown is only used when we get onto Conference North with 6 teams.

[davetscfc]

medibot said:

Dave, you have captured the spirit of the conference south away day already. I salute you

We've all got masters degrees in the 'spirit of awaydays' down here. ;D

[davetscfc]

giggy said:

davetscfc said:

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Not sure why we're in purple?

The less you look into the colours the better, I make them up as I go because otherwise we'd have lots of reds, blues, whites and the odd green, this way it's more prettyful.

There is some kind of pattern to it the colours, I'm just too lazy to go through it just now. Just notice there's blue in every league with a Tinpot-Team in it whereas brown is only used when we get onto Conference North with 6 teams.

Ah, so it just means we're officially Tinpot. Am honoured sir.

[Giggy of Telford]

I've just realised it sounded like I called everyone's team Tinpot (Not sure if that's good or bad)

What I meant to say was teams supported by Tinpotters.

[ambersalamander]

Tinpot, sir, is a very very good thing!

[samd]

Blyth Spartans 3-0 Alfreton Town

Fantastically easy, totally controled the match and if the score line had been much higher they couldn't have complained.

The opening goal was yet another stunner from Robbie Dale, first his powerful shot hit a defender so he got the ball back, went to run towards the corner but instead dragged the ball back and from outside the box unleased an unstoppable curling shot into the nets.

We had chances galore after that but somehow it stayed 1-0, got a penalty aswell but it was rather weak and saved easily. Second half with the heavy rain getting even worse we kept going and got the second when McCabe passed to Robbie and he fed Alex Gildea with a defence splitting pass and from just inside the area he curled the ball round the keeper and into the roof of the nets to make it 2-0.

3rd goal came with about quarter of an hour left, free kick from the left was floated in by Williams deep into the 6 yard box and centre half Snowdon came running in and finished from close range to make it 3-0.