Results 21/10/06

[Giggy of Telford]

FA Trophy

Witton Albion 2 v 1 Fleetwood Town
Radcliffe Borough 3 v 2 Leek Town
AFC Telford United 1 v 1 Eastwood Town


Nationwide Conference

Aldershot Town 0 v 1 Morecambe
Altrincham 2 v 1 Southport
Dagenham & Redbridge 1 v 3 Kidderminster Harriers
Exeter City 1 v 2 Stafford Rangers
Forest Green Rovers 1 v 0 Crawley Town
Gravesend & Northfleet 1 v 0 Woking
Halifax Town 1 v 2 Burton Albion
St Albans City 0 v 6 Grays Athletic
Stevenage Borough 0 v 2 Northwich Victoria
Tamworth 2 v 2 York City
Weymouth 1 v 1 Rushden & Diamonds


Nationwide Conference North

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


Nationwide Conference South

Bishop`s Stortford 0 v 0 Histon
Dorchester Town 0 v 1 Bognor Regis Town
Eastbourne Borough 1 v 1 Basingstoke Town
Farnborough Town 1 v 1 Lewes
Fisher Athletic 3 v 0 Hayes
Newport County 3 v 1 Sutton United
Salisbury City 0 v 1 Braintree Town
Thurrock FC 1 v 1 Havant & Waterlooville
Welling United 5 v 0 Bedford Town
Weston-super-Mare 3 v 3 Eastleigh
Yeading 6 v 0 Cambridge City

[coops]

Just back from the 'Muff.

Decent game, should have won.

[davetscfc]

Poor performance yesterday, we didn't deserve to get anything out of the game against a Braintree side who weren't spectacular but had done their homework.

Wasn't until we went behind that we showed any signs of life. Scott Bartlett ballooned a golden opprtunity over the bar, and we had what looked like a decent penalty shout turned down right at the end, but it would have been robbery if we'd got anything.

Badly missed our injured general Tommy Widdrington (dislocated his knee celebrating our goal at Beastleigh in the Cup last week!). Seeing him still hobbling around in crutches doesn't bode well for us at Fisher in the Cup.

Drowned our sorrows by rolling back the years watching Stiff Little Fingers at the City Hall in the evening which hepled us forget the football for a couple of hours.

[medibot]

I believe the best way to describe yesterday was less depressing than last seasons day trip to Wales.

Started well and we were on top until we conceeded a soft goal, fought back instanteously to score a great goal, then conceeded a soft penalty, taken in the supposedely illegal stop-start way the Spaniards made famous in Euro '96, but given and then just when we were reflecting how bl**dy unfair it was to play well and be 2-1 down, we conceeded a third just before half-time.

That along with the horrific second half weather (wind blowing against us, naturall) meant we had little chance to get back into the game and ended with 10 men due to an injury to our goalscoring debutant coming after we'd used all our subs.

Another glimmer of hope dashed

Still, had some nice beer in town and met some Swindon fans who delightfully joined me in a nice chorus of "If you all hate Chippenham clap your hands".

Incidentally i spent 9 and a half hours on trains for that game.

I am surprisingly not in a bad mood after gargantuan travelling time to see us lose, this may be cos i have FM 2007 now (and so does our manager allegedly!!!)

[ambersalamander]

I dunno, at least I got something out of last season's trip to Newport!

I know what you mean about travelling; it took me 5 hours to get home

[medibot]

Yeah, you got something out of, i got a bloody fuming rage and some Newport fans telling me that it was no way to support a team and me telling them the last time i saw that shower of sh*te win it was early December and i'll shout at them all i like.

Glad you made it home in the end

Btw, i overslept by an hour so you now win the longest day at Uni contest but i still take the crown for most hours spent travelling to and from the Newport game ;D ;D

[DazaB_WCFC]

If matches were won on possesion, we'd have pissed it!

[Giggy of Telford]

AFC Telford United 1-1 Eastwood Town

The Bucks were unable to pull off a win against our Unibond Division 1 visitors despite dominating large parts of the game.

The game started well for Telford with lots of posession, controlling the game and a fair few chances. Once again we found it impossible to use those chances. Eastwood scored a controversial goal on 34 minutes where the vast majority of people in the stadium were convinced that Telford's keeper Brock was fouled.

On 56 minutes Telford equalised with another controversial goal. A Dean Craven corner goes straight into the box, after a quick scramble centre-back Andy Jones got a shot in which the keeper pushed out. The fans behind the goal were celebratin and the lineman waved his flag and was equally adamant that it had crossed the line. The ref gave a goal bringing the Bucks level.

From that point on it was clear that if it went either way it would be a for a Telford win. Eastwood midfielder Gary Breach was booked for a clumsy challenge on Telford striker Dean Perrow, within a minute he did prettymuch the exact same thing to the same player on the opposite side of the pitch. The ref had no choice but to bring out the red card.

Not a particularly exciting game, two equally controversial goals being the highlight. The replay will be tommorrow at Eastwood.

Final Score: AFCTU 1-1 ETFC
Motm: 8. Steve Palmer