all players stayed . Team mitten coyle stella daisy andrews parky faz crackers cumbers pugh healy. Full bench. Raining here.

-- Edited by JgFc on Saturday 14th of August 2010 02:55:14 PM

andrews got poleaxed and he neve knew who to book. He is a really poor ref. Cumber was bright as was healy. Faz went on left halfway through half. We need to pass it weve resorted to hampton tactics. Hampton will struggle this year. They are just long ball anywhere team.

mosT ht 0-0s

BUT DARTFORD 1-1 HAVANT

BROMLEY 1-1 DORCHESTER

STAINES 1 -0 LEWES

I thought ref was okay today. Sorry to disagree JGFC. We lost our way in the second half - one or two players lost their way as soon as they came on the pitch.

The bloke talking on the phone was a joke - he was even saying that there is a minutes silence to the person he was speaking to. Shame on him.

I thought the game was ok, nothing more than that. Hampton were dreadful. The referee didn't have a clue, and spent more time laughing than paying attention to what was going on. He must have been sniffing amyl nitrate, as i didn't see anything to laugh about!

thanks, chelwing

Forgot to mention earlier, that i gave a Welling football signed by loads of Welling players to Patsy, before kick off :D

Have to admit that it was only the second time i had been in the club bar today, but I'll be going in there every time on match day now.

Optimism for this season totally gone out of the window after yesterdays performance. Poor start against one of the worst teams we're going to come up against this year. The absence of Clarke cannot be replaced by any player in our team at the moment, so centre forwards will find it hard to score goals. As for Pugh and Cumbers as a partnership, I cannot see it working as Cumbers drifts to the left, yet can't kick with his left foot, which management would need to address asap if we want to pick up points.

WHAT A DEPRESSING POST BY PEANUTS

Obviously knows nothing about football...so i will leave it there

I thought the way we started the game yesterday really well and though we lost it a bit but had it not been for a couple of great saves from their keeper we would have started the season with 3 points instead of one.  I certainly don't see any need to be pessimistic.

It was certainly a day for testing the strength of the Macron shirts.

-- Edited by bruno on Sunday 15th of August 2010 04:05:28 PM

I wonder if Peanuts has every watched a full season's worth of football before. The first 3-4 games of the season are certainly no indication of how the season as a while will turn out. Look at Man U, who pretty much always start badly and seem to end up at the top (not that I'm comparing Welling to Man U, obviously).

Welling started last season fairly indifferently, but had a strong middle-season. I also recall our first season in the Dr. Martens after relegation, when we won our first few matches and were top of the league - look how that turned out.

Let's give it a few matches before posting messages of doom, although I think most messages will be positive in a few weeks.

ben281032 wrote:

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First game last season, lost 2 - 1 to Woking. Fair result, we were pretty crap. Fast forward to nearer the end of the season, we humiliated Woking 5 nil at their gaff. A certain Mr Andy Pugh score 3. Just goes to show that the first game's performance is not usually a benchmark for the whole season.

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What i am trying to say, same as the Woking game at home last year "we were pretty crap" the 5.0 win came about because of 6 different changes. Check your stats

 

1,hands up who thought we would win yesterday?

2,Who wasn't disappointed we drew yesterday?

Positions need to be tweaked, thats my point. Still cant see how no one got past their fat number 6

Because hes a stopper and thats how they play. We did create passing moves, get inside them and make chances we never took them.

It was a fragmented game. In patches we were quite good. Lets build on that. Its not as if we gave them lots of chances or failed to create openings at at times our passing was good and link up play.

We need to not launch it and to cut out giving the ball awy cheaply. Theres plenty that was encouraging. Get behind them, they know what was good and what could have been better.

Check my stats??!!
I know full well that there were changes from the two line ups against Woking.

MY point was that just because we couldn't find the target in the first game, doesn't mean we'll struggle to score in every game.

For our football expert .....

.......we will play much better against teams that dont turn up to park a bus......we will play better against teams that try to play football....yes we need t learn how to play against the cloggers of the like of Hampton but.......

Yes, Hampton and Richmond sponsored by Zippo's Circus :D

Yeah I'll second that about Sambrook. He did alright on Saturday :)

I agree that Andy Sambrook was excellent. I seem to recall him playing that position once last season (Worcester away?) and thought he was one of our best players.

A little bit of creativity has been lost by the cruel injury to Lee Clarke and Dean Cracknell's absence from the second half suggests he might be struggling.

Unfortunately there is now an embargo on signings so we have to carry on with what we have but although we failed to score on Saturday we were far better than Hampton.

Dissappointed not to win? Yes. Ready to give the season up? No chance!