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Post by emochris on Sept 2, 2006 23:22:06 GMT
Spennymoor 3-1 Bamber Bridge
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Post by Giggy of Telford on Sept 2, 2006 23:43:12 GMT
Fleetwood Town v AFC Telford United - Match postponed (Waterlogged Pitch)
Set off for the New Bucks Head at 10:30 to catch a coach and got caught in traffic, phoned the person in charge of the coach to say we'd be a little late, got there at 10:45 just as they should be leaving....the coaches weren't there yet.
They were there soon enough though and we set off around ten to. We'd filled two coaches for this trip and a seperate mini-bus was also going, alongside various other people travelling up by car.
Half way up the motorway we came accross the minibus on the hard-shoulder, surely not a good omen.
After a 3 hour journey up there the rain had got really heavy just as we enterred the town. We got there to find out the ref had called the match off at 1:30 (shortly before we got there) because of the weather although half an hour earlier a pitch inspection came to the conclusion it was definitely on.
Credit to Fleetwood, they wanted the match on as much as we did and they did let us into the ground to have a rest in the club house, the players were also all in here looking happy enough to not have to play as it meant they got beer. We sat around in the crowded clubhouse today (which due to segregation today we otherwise couldn't have gone into) and a snackbar also opened, I got a burger and chips.
A bit over an hour later the players got back on their coach and were off, we followed shortly after. By this point the rain had stopped, the sun had came out and the pitch looked playable. Unfortunately despite the groundsman telling him it would soon be cleared up again the ref called it off at 1:30 and went off (methinks he just wanted a dayout at Blackpool!)
We were the only game not to be played and with Kendal and Matlock winning their games we dropped from 1st to 3rd.
So once again a Unibond ref has in his unique little way ruined what on paper looked to be a great game. Chances are the rematch will be played midweek and the expected bumper crowd will be far smaller. neither team was happy with today's result and we set off home early for our 3 hour trek back to Telford.
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Post by DazaB_WCFC on Sept 3, 2006 1:38:38 GMT
Friday 1 September 19:45
Workington 0-1 Worcester City
City's perfect start to the season on their travels - now 4 wins from 4 - continued at Workington on Friday night following Adam Burley's strike into the far bottom corner. Reds' 'keeper, Adam Collin had hardly a save to make - picking the ball out of his net was one of his few tasks of the evening. Chances were also few and far between for Workington, the best – an effort in the last 5 minutes from Graham Anthony - forced a fantastic out stretched save by Danny McDonnell who tipped onto the crossbar and over for a corner. The game was marred by an un-necessary brawl on the stroke of full time - with Steve Birks or Workington and Craig Wilding of Worcester both shown straight red cards for their part - and Danny McDonnell a yellow card for sprinting half the length of the pitch to join in. It spoilt another hard earned three away points for City who now face Farsley Celtic (Saturday, 3pm) and Redditch United (Monday 7:45pm) in a St Georges Lane double header - next weekend.
The weekend was completed with Matt Meek's fantastic observation that: "the balls are all different colours" as we played pool on Saturday morning.
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Post by Col ISIHAC. on Sept 3, 2006 8:56:31 GMT
Daza; will be joining you for the Redditch one!  |
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Post by coops on Sept 3, 2006 10:44:48 GMT
Tipton Town 1 Rushall Olympic 0
I got back from my holiday just too late to make it to Tamuff so I decided a bit of Tinpottery was on the cards and took in a FA Cup qualifying round tie between Midland Alliance Tipton and Southern League Rushall.
Awful game won with a sublime volley in the first half from a man who has had more clubs than Tiger woods, Scott Voice.
Tipton now go on to play Buxton in the first qualifying round, Buxton stuffed Atherstone 4-1 (tee-hee!).
Finished the day with a massive mixed grill (served on a shovel) and several pints of Ma Pardoe's Dark Swan in the Pie Factory.
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Post by samd on Sept 3, 2006 12:12:26 GMT
Blyth Spartans 1-0 Leigh RMIWe returned to the top of the Conference North with a hard earned win set against the torrential rain which made playing conditions very difficult. In front of a 573 crowd we almost opened the scoring in the first few minutes with two chances from Scotty Bell narrowly missing the target. Mid-way through the second half Liam Gildea received the ball just inside the area but his tame shot was sent straight at the relieved keeper. The break through finally came just after the half hour mark when Scotty Bell ran down the by-line and sent in a telling cross which Robbie Dale headed rather tamely off the defender and Scotty himself was on hand to help the ball over the line. We almost doubled our lead soon afterwards when from close range Liam G attempted an acrobatic over head kick but was unlucky not to make contact. We thought we had doubled our lead not long after that when a low Gareth Williams free kick was fumbled by the keeper and Scotty Bell raced through to fire home the rebound only for the linesman to flag for offside. Second half was much in the same vain, there were few clear cut chances but they were all ours with Leigh reduced to long range speculative shots which never got too close to the goal. A short cross from Chris McCabe was met with a bullet header by man of the match Michael Hedley and the Leigh keeper did very well to parry it over the bar. Robert Dale picked up the ball on the left wing and was clean through before being snapped down by the last Leigh defender.....amazingly he only picked up a yellow for his efforts. We lost our best chance to seal the win when Robbie flicked the ball in to the centre but both Scotty Bell and Chris McCabe got in each others way and the Leigh defender was able to clear the ball. The referee continued to amaze by booking Scotty Bell for the crime of kicking a second ball off the pitch. But the referee made his best decision by calling full time on a scrappy match which required us to show more of our steel and determination rather then our best footballing abilities. Another good win at home 
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Post by amberaleman on Sept 3, 2006 12:16:46 GMT
Sutton lost 3-1 at home to Yeading. The least said about this game the better.  But I did make £15 at Wimbledon dogs in the evening, so the day wasn't a conplete disaster. ;D |
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Post by medibot on Sept 3, 2006 17:55:58 GMT
I made £45  |
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Post by amberaleman on Sept 3, 2006 21:06:11 GMT
Drinks on you then, Nick! ;D
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Post by ambersalamander on Sept 3, 2006 21:18:20 GMT
Arse. I did my bit in the wrong thread! But I can't be bothered to move it, so  to all of you. If Sutton hadn't been so shocking, I would've had a perfectly lovely day yesterday with my three matches and ENORMOUS dinner and Beer. And a hug. |
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Post by DazaB_WCFC on Sept 4, 2006 1:42:02 GMT
Daza; will be joining you for the Redditch one! #Excellent Drop me an e-mail at dazabutler@yahoo.co.uk some time next week. Will you be staying in Worcester? |
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Post by stretfordendling© on Sept 4, 2006 9:12:28 GMT
Arse. I did my bit in the wrong thread! But I can't be bothered to move it, so to all of you. If Sutton hadn't been so shocking, I would've had a perfectly lovely day yesterday with my three matches and ENORMOUS dinner and Beer. And a hug. I was thoroughly disappointed with your performance against *Spits into bucket*.  Hayes 1-1 FarnboroughMatch Report'nuff said |
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Post by ambersalamander on Sept 4, 2006 17:35:49 GMT
YOU were disappointed?! At least your lot managed a point!  |
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Post by stretfordendling© on Sept 5, 2006 10:42:50 GMT
NO NEED TO SHOUT!! I wish you beat them too. If when you come to The Shi...Warren and Hayes are not playing i'll join you on the Terrace. |
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to all of you.
