Twas truly a dire performance from both sides and made worse by the appalling refereeing decisions. You can multiply how Fordy feels by at least 2 before you reach how many of those who paid £10 to stand on a freezing terrace feel.
With a couple of exceptions I'd make the team play the LSC game at Croydon on Tuesday with no win bonuses.
Great news if does return on Monday, hopefully till the end of the season, but conceding goals like the one we did today could well negate what he brings to the table.
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Muku was truely awful today, I would make him play Tue for sure. The return of the Massiqah cant come quick enough for thios team, although we can beat all our hopes on him but bloody hell I can see him and Sheringham hiiting it off again, complemanted with Ming who is a blinding player (when given the ball) and Loui who has gone off the boil lately, but has undoubted ability.
Lert's not lose any faith if we can just stick in and around the play offs for the next few weeks we have so many massive games against play off rivals coming up that we have control of our own destiny. The only thing concerning me is that at the moment is Eastleigh and Hampton are pulling away a bit and we are one of 5 teams playing for the one remaining play off spot.
Cant fault Fordy's commitment and if we dont make it, then it will not be for the want of trying.
Well the ref cant send me off for calling him a **** !!!
Also PMFSL at him calling Charlie Mitten to him when it was Andy who the Asst was crying about.
Looked like we were the better team, couple of fair penalty shouts... was Lee booked for diving or dissent at slapping the ground and anything he may have said.
Put that ref in your notebook and rip him and boo him next time hes in town, he will be easily seen just look out for the big red nose and comedy trousers.
I guess Andy has fined himself a weeks wages for that ... Also on the video did the asst referee raise his hands to Andy? it LOOKED like Andy was gesticulating and the asst grabbed his hand and threw it away??
Hopefully the new boy / old boy up front can cause some damage when he comes back. His signing should give the players a boost as they kick on for the play offs.
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* referring back to the assistant handling Andy... thats assault and i am sure if the club mentioned this Andy would have any touchline ban nulled.
Bruno you cant make them play in a micky mouse game against a poor team especially when the squad is so THIN.. you can play those lacking fitness or who andy wants to discipline. There probably isnt 1 welling fan who would give a flying..... if wellings team lost 11-0 to croydon on Tuesday. However if the ressies did win that would be a nice boost for them and a filip to Declan and Stars.
I would expect there to be almost the full reserves with a couple of the bench players starting.
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What I found totally unbelievable was when we were awarded a free kick in the first half.
The ref gives his umpteenth lecture to their number 3 then their manager shouts at the ref to let the number 3 get back before the free kick is taken.
The ref then gives him the wave and does wait for him to get back.
It also seems acceptable now for opposing strikers to jump with their arms across the face of the defenders. The No. 9 did it every time and was not cautioned once.
I hope there was an FA assessor there today because those officials were unacceptable.
Very poor officals today - not biased just poor. I saw some very poor and potentially dangerous tackles today by our side today that he totally missed. I thought the Stevens challenge was a penalty.
Andy Ford summed the game up pretty well. 2 rubbish sides who are meant to be challenging for the playoffs. It shows how crap the league is. We need Moses back and could do with the defence playing properly. We concede at least one goal a game which is not good enough if we are to get in the playoffs. With Team Bath and the well heeled Hampton coming up we could see ourselves well down the league come the end of February.
I will be amazed if we get in the playoffs. 9th place just like the Pennock years. Not too shabby considering we were lucky to stay up last year.