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Post by ambersalamander on Apr 23, 2010 12:02:33 GMT
My boys have done good ;D Last night, Sutton United booked their place in the Surrey Senior Cup final. This feels a bit cheaty because we have only played lower league opposition to get there (and will do again in the final) but hey, we can't help who we're drawn against. On Tuesday, we also confirmed our Ryman Premier runners-up spot, which guarantees home tie(s) in the play-offs. So tomorrow's home league match against Billericay is largely meaningless (to either side) and we can rest players in advance of the play-off semi on Tuesday. I thought it would be nice to have an end of season review thread. How have you done this season? 1) Where are you in the league compared with where you expected to finish at the start of the season? 2) What's your biggest win/biggest defeat/most memorable game of the season? 3) What was the most unexpected thing to happen to your club this season? 4) How have you done in the cups? 5) Any other stuff ;D I won't do ours, as I've waffled enough. I'll be lazy and let another Sutton fan do it
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Post by robotsmfc on Apr 23, 2010 14:55:43 GMT
1) Where are you in the league compared with where you expected to finish at the start of the season?About the same. A club with just over 200 regulars has to have low expectations at Step 2. 2) What's your biggest win/biggest defeat/most memorable game of the season?To be fair, I've not seen as many games this season as I normally would. The biggest defeat for a team I support has been Durham's home loss to Boston, which was something like 5-1 (I lost count ). Biggest win (in terms of its meaning) was the 3-2 away victory over Stafford. Normally we stay up by tripping the big sides up at home, but this season we've done it by picking more points up on the road against the teams around us. Most memorable game was our 4-3 FA Cup victory over Mickleover Sports, simply because it was an excellent cup tie. 3) What was the most unexpected thing to happen to your club this season?Win a cup tie and win some games away from home! Not automatically lose 3-0 north of Nottinghamshire! 4) How have you done in the cups?FA Cup - Out 3rd Qualifying Round, disappointingly at home to Redditch United. FA Trophy - Out 3rd Qualifying Round replay, at home to Workington Birmingham Senior Cup - Out 1st Round, at home to Birmingham City 5) Any other stuff ;DThis was the season that our number 10 was also our commercial manager ;D
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Post by Meadow on Apr 23, 2010 16:54:51 GMT
1) Where are you in the league compared with where you expected to finish at the start of the season?8th at present but could go as high as 6th depending on tomorrow's result. That's higher than I would have anticipated, I was thinking more of 12th - 20th. 2) What's your biggest win/biggest defeat/most memorable game of the season? Win - 5-0 at home to Hayes & Yeading. Defeat - 5-0 away to York. Most memorable - FA cup at Millwall. We lost but gave it a go. 3) What was the most unexpected thing to happen to your club this season? Being 3rd in the table a month or so in. 4) How have you done in the cups?FA Cup - 1st round FA Trophy - 3rd round Surrey Senior Cup - Semi-final (we had to field the rezzies due to a league match the night before ) London Senior Cup - I'll tell you next week, we play Met Police in the final. 5) Any other stuff ;D We're going full-time next season.
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Post by ifreakinrule on Apr 23, 2010 19:38:21 GMT
as i've seen wolves more often than hednesford this season i'll have to answer for that perspective
1 - i didnt think we'd not be worrying about relegation with 3 (or 4 or 5) games to go so its been pretty fantastic.
2 - most memorable game was beating west ham 3-1 a few weeks back. it was the moment when i realised we had a great chance of staying up.
3 - most unexpected was probably getting fined for playing a bunch of first team players against man u. its alright for the big 4 to do it but not us.
4 - shiiiiiiiiiiiiit
5 - kevin doyle is the best person the wear a wolves shirt in 30 years. steve bull doesnt count as a person coz he's a god.
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Post by Sultan of Cannock- SRFC on Apr 26, 2010 10:00:50 GMT
1) Where are you in the league compared with where you expected to finish at the start of the season?
Given that we had to go with non-contract players and lost the "spine" of the team pre-season and had Chris Brindley as manager we were expecting to fight a losing battle against relegation. Pre-season defeats at Kidsgrove (1-5) Heath Hayes(1-2) and Willenhall (0-3) added to the general pessimism. Finishing two places higher with three more points (from two fewer games following Farsley's demise) than last season exceeded expectations. We actually did better without Steve Bull. Wolves legend he may be, as a Stafford Rangers manager he was a leg-end and a pretty scrawny one at that....
2) What's your biggest win/biggest defeat/most memorable game of the season?
To be fair, I've not seen any games this season due to the credit crunch
Biggest win was the 4-1 away wi at Harrogate Town Biggest defeat was the 1-7 debacle at Droylesden. Most memorable other results was the 2-0 home win over moneybags neighbours AFC Telford.
3) What was the most unexpected thing to happen to your club this season?
For me it was the run of three wins on the spin in January (Gainsborough, Telford, Harrogate) which gave me the inkling of belief that we may stay up after all.
4) How have you done in the cups?
FA Cup - 2nd QR against Coventry Sphinx FA Trophy - 3rd QR round agianst Blyth Spartans That makes 3 seasons now without any FA prize money...
Staffordshire Senior Cup - Quarter-final ( and an embarrasing 4-0 defeat at home to Chasetown)
5) Any other stuff
Chairman Jon Downing has just stepped down after 7 seasons in charge.
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davetscfc
Steaming Bovril
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Post by davetscfc on Apr 26, 2010 11:18:01 GMT
1) Where are you in the league compared with where you expected to finish at the start of the season?
With our financial troubles meaning we started the season with 2 contract players and a whole load of kids, I fully expected us to be the whipping boys in the League. For our tiny squad (most of the season 13 or 14 players supplemented by loanees) to finish in the top half, we'd have been 6th without our points deduction is a remarkable achievement.
2) What's your biggest win/biggest defeat/most memorable game of the season?
Biggest win, 4-1 v Altrincham, 4 goals in the space of 8 minutes. Biggest defeat, 5-0 at Altrincham!
Whole season has been a rollercoaster, can't pick out a single match really.
3) What was the most unexpected thing to happen to your club this season?
Not being the BSP whipping boys.
4) How have you done in the cups?
FA Cup - 1st Round, lost at Accrington FA Trophy - Semi Finals, lost to Barrow. The big regret of the season. We had a great opportunity to get to Wembley (we beat them 3-0 and 1-0 in the League) but didn't perform as we can in either leg but still had numerous chances to win the tie. Would have been a deserved icing on the cake for our young side.
5) Any other stuff
We've now got to take our chances in the AGM Cup, hoping we've satisfied Appendix E. We've got new owners who are bringing some much needed stabilty and a realistic approach to the future. Fingers crossed we can start next season in the BSP on a levellish playing field.
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Post by Sultan of Cannock- SRFC on Apr 26, 2010 12:00:20 GMT
For various reasons, i've been somewhat disconnected from the football this season so yesterday I picked up a NLP to check out the final league tables. one of several things that amazed me was seeing a "*" next to Salisbury City denoting 10pts deducted for going into administration. Your manager has to be in the running for an end-of-season award. Hopefully the AGM Cup "gods" will be kind to Salisbury and reward all the hard work put in. One other thing that absolutely shocked me was Wusster's demise. I'd seen the result on Saturday where they'd done Eastleigh 4-1, and with ex-Stafford Rangers players Wilding, Daniel and Addagio in their line-up looked at the Connie Sarf table for the first time this season expecting to see them up somewhere in or around the play-off zone. I scanned down the table with increasing amazement and startled Mrs Sultan with an audible "What???!!!" when i saw them in 20th place. I had mixed feelings seeing Hednesford claw over Cambridge City into a play-off place in the zamoretto. As a Stafford Rangers fan, my instinct is to see our local rivals as far down the pyramid as possible. However, on a personal note i was pleased for fellow tinpotter infreakinrule (formerly known as Stortford Pitman) and some of the more decent HTFC fans i'd exchanged with over years, such as Ken, Lee and JonH. The manner of HTFC's elevation to the play-offs made me smile, too. They climbed over Cambridge City by beating them on their own muckheap on the last day. CCFC used to boast a supporter calling itself "Lilywhite" who was one of the nastiest, most odious individuals i have ever had the misfortune to cross swords with in cyberspace. It couldn't have happened to a nicer fella!!! ;D
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Post by ambersalamander on Apr 26, 2010 21:14:58 GMT
Suppose I'd better do one, then ;D 1) Where are you in the league compared with where you expected to finish at the start of the season?Funnily enough, although I'd have bitten your hand off if you offered me 2nd place for Sutton at the start of the season, it's really not that different from what I'd expected. If Dartford hadn't been utterly absurd in the first half of the season, I'd have expected us to be in with a shout at the title. I definitely expected a play-off place. 2) What's your biggest win/biggest defeat/most memorable game of the season?Biggest win was 6-0 t'other week against Croydon Athletic in the Surrey Senior Cup. In the league, we somewhat unexpectedly beat Wealdstone 5-0. Biggest defeat Easter Monday, 4-1 to Cray Wanderers (who we beat last week in revenge). 3) What was the most unexpected thing to happen to your club this season?Not much really, although I wasn't expecting FA Cup 1st Round Proper two years running. Probably, then, beating Hampton & Richmond 3-1 at their own ground. Which would also count as the most memorable game. 4) How have you done in the cups?FA Cup - 1st Round, lost at Hereford Utd FA Trophy - rubbish as usual (Tonbridge) Surrey Senior Cup - final, will let you know how it goes League Cup - lost to Horsham again, but nobody really cares. 5) Any other stuff Really cannot tell you how much I want us to win the playoffs. We play Kingstonian tomorrow night. However, the biggest thing, I think, is the off-the-pitch stuff. It's been an amazing season what with our plans to redevelop the ground and build a community sports facility, our women's and girls' football festival, loads of stuff for local kids and everything looking pretty damn rosy ;D I feel so lucky to support such a well-run club, particularly when I see others go to the wall. That makes me sad
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Post by regan on Apr 26, 2010 22:08:31 GMT
Our season isn't over, still three games to play - but can safely say what'll happen! 1) Where are you in the league compared with where you expected to finish at the start of the season?We were widely expected to languish at the bottom of the league (as we did last year!), and had a rocky start to the season. Our manager was always confident of a top ten finish though, and once our defence gelled we started to push up the league. We're now assured of finishing in the top 11, and are challenging for sixth place. All the credit has to go to the manager who has done a fantastic job both on and off the field for us. 2) What's your biggest win/biggest defeat/most memorable game of the season?Memorably beat Ramsgate 3-1 in the FA Cup. Their fans descended on our ground and spent the hour before kick off mocking our team, having a sweepstake on how many they'll win by. They clearly hadn't done their homework, but we had a game plan to exploit their slow defenders. It worked. An absolute belter. We managed to lose 1-5 to league champions-to-be North Greenford one Saturday, and then beat them 5-0 the following week! 3) What was the most unexpected thing to happen to your club this season?Losing in the FA Cup First Qualifying round. I was in Turkey at the time thanks to truly awful 'football-awareness' by the in-laws. I was getting text updates in a random order, but knew we were 4-1 up, at home, with twenty minutes to play against East Preston. Those twenty minutes were terrible. "4-2"... "4-3"... "4-4". It was inevitable. Worse came in the replay however. We were trailing 0-1 at half time, but took the lead with two goals in the second half. I was expecting a text announcing full time and a lucrative trip to Dover in the next round... but no... it read "2-2". A goalless extra time meant a penalty shoot out. By now the time in Turkey was approaching 1am, and I had a severe case of being a) nervous and b) ill. To get a text through saying we'd screwed it up having been seconds away from clinching the tie... it wasn't a nice feeling. 4) How have you done in the cups?FA Cup: Won in ExtraPrelim and Prelim, and then suffered the above heartbreak at East PrestonFA Vase: Played soon after the defeat in the FA Cup, the hangover was obvious. We lost to Mole Valley SCR, a team to whom we shouldn't have given a sniff.League cup: Made the quarter finals, and went out in bizarre fashion at Horley Town. We were losing 0-3, but clawed one back. We missed a penalty, but were denied another soon afterwards when a Horley player pushed the ball away with his hands. The referee then ensured himself a place in our hearts by trying to pick a fight with our assistant manager, then sending him off - spending the rest of the game trying to wind up our players, then demanding an escort out of the ground. It wasn't needed, we were all just laughing at how pathetic he was. If anyone's interested, we actually pulled another goal back at the end...Surrey Senior Cup: Lost to some tinpot team from Carshalton... So'ton United...? Something like that 5) Any other stuffWe launched a campaign to get land allocated for the building of a new ground in the borough. Anyone who has been to the Spectrum will know that it's no place for football. To call it tinpot would be kind. It really is time that Guildford had a football team the whole town can be proud of. Sadly, that won't happen while we're stuck at the Rectum.
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Post by ambersalamander on Apr 26, 2010 22:15:16 GMT
Oi! Watch it, you ;D
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Post by skif on Apr 27, 2010 11:31:32 GMT
1) Where are you in the league compared with where you expected to finish at the start of the season?Well, at the start of the season, I think I predicted 8th when asked so better than those expectations. However expectations on the evening of January 16th when we were 16th in the table, our heels being snapped at by relegation worries, and had just been gubbed 4-0 at Dover. At that point a final placing of 6th seemed totally ridiculous. 2) What's your biggest win/biggest defeat/most memorable game of the season?Big win: 6-0 vs Weston Biggest defeat: 0-4 away at Dover. Memorable? The entire final month really. Beating runaway champions Newport 4-0, 3rd place Chelmo 5-2 on the final day (having been 2-0 down and a win with a two-goal margin of victory absolutely required to keep us in contention). As advertised, we also mullered Weston 6-0 3 days after the Newport game. Not so surprising given they were already down you might imagine, but we’ve often struggled to motivate ourselves against the less well performing sides. This was us imposing ourselves for a change. 3) What was the most unexpected thing to happen to your club this season?The signing of Ian Selley being the catalyst for a record of 13 wins and 5 draws in the second half of our league campaign (21 games) leading us from 16th to 6th, only one single point away from the play-offs. 4) How have you done in the cups?To be fair we were due a rubbish season in the Cups. FA Cup: We lost at home to Chippenham in the 3rd qualifier. They went on to lose to Paulton who then played Norwich on the telly. Still, after three consecutive seasons in the propers (and one once-in-a-lifetime effort) we have probably used up our tokens for a while. FA Trophy: lost 3-2 to Dover after beating Thurrock 4-1. I always hope we get to at least the unregionalised stages (memories of a quality weekender to Colwyn Bay in 2003), but not to be this time. Hampshire Senior Cup: lost at Wessex League side Bournemouth Poppies. Not a great moment as we didn’t exactly put the under-15s out there. 5) Any other stuffThe second half of the season was just incredible and the fact we only missed the play-offs by a point is no disappointment. Hopefully it’ll mean that Shaun Gale really has now ‘come of age’ as a gaffer. It’s been a pleasure to experience the Hawks again – good football and astonishing results – after a couple of seasons of disappointments and dreadful play. Further comment on all this will follow this coming Sunday on dubsteps.blogspot.com if anyone’s interested.
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Post by ifreakinrule on Apr 27, 2010 19:44:00 GMT
1) Where are you in the league compared with where you expected to finish at the start of the season?Pre-season defeats at Kidsgrove (1-5) Heath Hayes(1-2) and Willenhall (0-3) added to the general pessimism. dont forget the chase cup
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Post by DazaB_WCFC on Apr 27, 2010 20:23:18 GMT
1) Where are you in the league compared with where you expected to finish at the start of the season?
About what I expected, I thought we'd go down last season so expected another season of struggle. A bit annoyed that we were 8 points ahead of Lewes on Good Friday though.
2) What's your biggest win/biggest defeat/most memorable game of the season?
3-0 down at Lewes with 14 minutes to go, getting a draw was an excellent result.
3) What was the most unexpected thing to happen to your club this season?
We won a cup game for the first time in 3 years.
4) How have you done in the cups?
Got beat by telford in an FAC replay which was disappointing but not due to a bad performance at least, lost to Kidderminster in both the Trophy and WSC, particularly annoying that we were 2-0 up in the WSC semi-final.
5) Any other stuff ;D
Been to fewer Worcester games than many a season, I've developed an enjoyment for visiting a few more random games along with the odd Worcester game here and there.
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Post by AFC J Esaj PRA on Apr 28, 2010 12:57:06 GMT
1) Where are you in the league compared with where you expected to finish at the start of the season?
Better than expected, but not as good as the performances deserved.
2) What's your biggest win/biggest defeat/most memorable game of the season?
I have absolutely no idea and no desire to find out. I think we may have set a club record for 0-0 draws and although some were exceptionally entertaining, I'm glad I didn't watch many games this season. The 2-2 draw with AFC Wimbledon at the Lamb was probably the pick of a series of stunning early season games. Once injuries kicked in, it wasn't worth watching.
3) What was the most unexpected thing to happen to your club this season?
Tamworth's early season form was phenomenal, featuring some of the best football I've ever seen from the town side. We did enough in the first few months to effectively ensure our safety, but Chester still managed to dump us into a bit of a relegation battle. After the first few months it was back to typical Tamworth - taking points off the high-flyers and losing to the dross.
4) How have you done in the cups?
I've no idea - I don't think I went to a single cup game all season, so it probably means we were rubbish in them all. I think we didn't even bother to enter the tinpot Staffordshire Senior Cup.
5) Any other stuff
Big changes to the off-field staff resulted in the club lurching from one PR disaster to another. I didn't think it was possible for a club to lose touch with it's fans as easily as TFC managed to this season, but it was the meek response from the 'fans' that was most unsettling.
I'd just like to note that some of the comments spewed onto this board over the last couple of weeks have been complete fiction. I'd happily correct them but it seems I've been denied the opportunity. Enjoy your ignorance.
I don't post often on here simply because very few people seem to have anything interesting to say.
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Post by Sultan of Cannock- SRFC on Apr 28, 2010 15:49:42 GMT
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I'd just like to note that some of the comments spewed onto this board over the last couple of weeks have been complete fiction. I'd happily correct them but it seems I've been denied the opportunity. Enjoy your ignorance. If you are happy to corect them then i would be equally happy to read your corrections. Maybe you could post something in the Off Topic area of Tamworthfans.co.uk ? Free speech always finds a way.
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