Results: 24/02/2007

[Giggy of Telford]

Bit disappointed now that I didn't do a Tinpot Predictions this week, looking through the fixtures there were some good matches to cover.

FA Trophy: 4th Round

Stevenage Borough 3 v 0 Salisbury City
Northwich Victoria 3 v 0 Gravesend & Northfleet
Kidderminster Harriers 3 v 1 Halifax Town


Nationwide Conference

Aldershot Town 2 v 2 Rushden & Diamonds
Cambridge United 2 v 2 Southport
Dagenham & Redbridge 2 v 1 York City
Exeter City 3 v 0 Burton Albion
Forest Green Rovers 1 v 3 Morecambe
St Albans City 0 v 3 Stafford Rangers
Tamworth 1 v 3 Oxford United


Nationwide Conference North

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


Nationwide Conference South

Basingstoke Town 1 v 2 Histon
Braintree Town 3 v 1 Dorchester Town
Sutton United 1 v 0 Hayes
Thurrock FC 1 v 4 Farnborough Town
Weston-super-Mare 1 v 1 Lewes
Yeading 1 v 1 Newport County


Unibond Northern Premier League

AFC Telford United 1 v 1 Lincoln United
Frickley Athletic 2 v 0 Matlock Town
Gateshead 2 v 1 Ossett Town
Kendal Town 1 v 3 Burscough
Marine 1 v 0 Grantham Town
Prescot Cables 1 v 4 Ilkeston Town
Radcliffe Borough 0 v 2 North Ferriby United
Witton Albion 7 v 2 Whitby Town


Arngrove Northern League Division 1

Ashington 2 v 1 Morpeth Town
Consett 2 v 1 Bedlington Terriers
Dunston Federation Brewery 5 v 1 Bishop Auckland
Horden Colliery Welfare 0 v 5 Durham City
Newcastle Blue Star 4 v 0 Darlington Railway Athletic
Sunderland Nissan 2 v 2 Northalleton Town
Whitley Bay 2 v 1 Chester-le Street


Arngrove Northern League Division 2

Alnwick Town 2 v 1 Thornaby
Esh Winning 1 v 0 Sunderland Ryhope CA
Guisborough Town 3 v 2 Brandon United
Marske United 3 v 1 Team Northumbria
Penrith 2 v 3 Seaham Red Star
Ryton 0 v 3 Washington
South Shields 3 v 1 Stokesley Sports Club
Whickham 3 v 2 Norton & Stockton Ancients

[samd]

Very good result for us, just a shame we couldn't get all three - took Kettering until injury time to equalise for the second time this season.

[ambersalamander]

We were brilliant until we scored after about 20 minutes, then stepped down a few gears! Nothing much else happened apart from a few players taking knocks. We hit the woodwork about 4 times

[emochris]

Spennymoor's game against North Shields was called off due to waterlogged pitch

[samd]

ambersalamander said:

We were brilliant until we scored after about 20 minutes, then stepped down a few gears!

That is sometimes been true of us in recent months.

[stretfordendling©]

ambersalamander said:

We were brilliant until we scored after about 20 minutes...

Agreed. We just didn't do much at all.

[ambersalamander]

This too is sadly true.

[Giggy of Telford]

AFC Telford United 1-1 Lincoln United

Telford went into this game with centre-back Indy Khela starting a 2 match ban for a sending off after swearing at a ref and top scorer Steve Foster sitting out a 1 match ban for 5 bookings.

We started brightly until about 14 minutes into the game when Lincoln got a goal against the run of the game, keeper Stuart Brock jumped to make a routine ctach when a cross came in but then dropped it, straight on the head of an ecstatic Lincopln striker. Brockie's recent form has been quite poor, weird thing being that apart from this run now he has been absolutely immens all of this season and both of the seasons before. Slightly worrying.

We were poor for the rest of the half, couldn't get the ball down and lay it, credit to Lincoln for coming to the New Bucks Head and playing a 4-3-3 right from the start. I like teams which do this and after our usual 5-3-2 the 4-3-3 is my favourite formation. After the first goal we did very little and Lincoln were the better side for the rest of the half.

We were much better in the 2nd half, seemed to keep attacking without much success. The whole team gave in a much more committed performance for this 45 minutes. On 66 minutes we got a well deserved equaliser. Recalled midfielder Ben Twigger giving a brilliant finish. Telford dominated most of the half and despite many chances we could not get the winner we really needed. The final whistle was blown and the scores were still even.

We really could have done with a win and this now makes 4 games without a win. We need to get out of this bad form if we want to win the league. Especially with Witton pulling off a spectacluar 7-2 win against Whitby. Luckily good and bad form always ends, hopefully our bad and their good form will end soon.

Final Score AFCTU 1-1 LUFC

My Motm: 3.Dean Craven