A game of pluses and minuses today.

The pluses: An entertaining game, another great performance by Andy Pugh, possibly just edged out as Welling MOM by Luis Cumbers, great to see him back on the scoresheet.  Excellent officials today, perhaps the best we have had this season.

The minuses:  Poor communication at times between the keeper and the defence,  our central defenders did not have the pace to cope with Sutton repeatedly playing long balls over their heads and the biggest minus, the result.

Poor to let a lead slip. We battled well to get in front. Possible factor is keeeper unable to train with defence. Not all fans fault. He made 2 great saves today. Sutton had a gameplan it worked. Good results elsewhere so no damage, good motivation for d*rtford game. Interviews up in a couple of hours. Highlights tomorrow. Keep the faith. Coyw

Sutton staff and stewards very friendly today, was good going back to GGL shame we threw it away.

I've just read all this and anyone would have thought that we were in a relegation battle.

Yes, I'm disappointed with the goals concede today but I would have taken going into the Christmas fixtures in second place before the season started.

We do give away too many free kicks and penalties but this is something to work on and I'm sure the management will not allow it to continue indefinitely.

There are now eight days to regroup. Hopefully those carrying knocks can rest them and Jack Obersteller and Loui Fazakerley will soon be available again.

Danson Mark wrote:

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I've just read all this and anyone would have thought that we were in a relegation battle.

Yes, I'm disappointed with the goals concede today but I would have taken going into the Christmas fixtures in second place before the season started.

We do give away too many free kicks and penalties but this is something to work on and I'm sure the management will not allow it to continue indefinitely.

There are now eight days to regroup. Hopefully those carrying knocks can rest them and Jack Obersteller and Loui Fazakerley will soon be available again.

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I take your points on board Mark, but our defending is now hindering us pushing on further. We have done very well to be second going into xmas but if you think where we could be had we defended better. I do believe we could do with a holding midfielder too help out the defence although you then take away a bit of attack from us. I summed today up as promotion favourites going forward but relegation candidates at the back. 

The team have done marvellous we are a fantastic side to watch we just need to sort it out  defensively otherwise all the hard work will come undone. 

Russ wrote:

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B*ll*cks - today's defending was park standard at best. No team should lose having scored three goals.
The first goal was bad enough but the second wouldn't be accepted on a Sunday morning - you could have driven four of Boris's double deckers straight through the middle of our defence.

For the third goal who was marking the chap with the head bandage - he wasn't difficult to spot.

Fourth goal - I'm losing the will to live. F***ing clear the ball. Properly. Don't foul.

I keep hearing that today's game was a thriller. 7 goals don't make a thriller. Today was an exhibition of sh*t defending from both teams. That's not a thriller it's the opposite

We might be second but the goals against column speaks volumes.

If you keep a clean sheet you get a minimum of a draw; if you score thre...

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 I'm not under the illusion that all is rosey. Far too many goals have been conceded, not just from needless free kicks / penalties.

How can this be put right? If the players deemed to be under performing are released, where are the affordable replacements?

At the moment I'm still struggling to come to terms with the pathetic FA Trophy exit. That was one source of income that has been lost however I'm not convinced that any sizeable prize money should have been added to the budget rather than pay off some debts.

A year ago there was almost no Welling United, now we are second in the league and have a wonderful chance of competing in the play-offs. It is some measure of where we have come in that short time that we are so disappointed to have blown the opportunity to have put some pressure on the leaders.

Jamie has said this season he wont let standards slip , we were given a get out of jail card yesterday ....4 games leading up to xmas (basingstoke, sutton and d*rtford x2) im sure a few of us thought 7-8 points would be nice, with the teams failing to get wins yesterday and win and draw (at least) vs the lot down the road will ensure weve had a return that will be better than it looks as most of the teams have not gained as much as they should have from us losing yesterday.

Jamie will get it right, for me though if Faz comes back on the right (or Evans with stella back at left back) then sammy at center half with one of ant, ben or jack will stop a lot of the silly mistakes. Sambrook may not look a match winner but hes a proven pro who doesnt make too many errors and if he does he learns from them. That said he has to stay fit, Dan has to start shouting at the back 4, these are the same players John Whitehouse had and he screamed at them all game to keep them at it. Some people are giving dan a bit of stick but hes made more very good saves since hes been here than the other keepers have made added together hes getting exposed as we are letting teams get through us. Hes also still learning which is why we are lucky enough to have him and he travels a bloody long way to play for us and has done for months, I dont think hes cost us many games, hes also saved us a couple too.

We are second in the league and we can really kick on in the second half of the season, we have no divine right to hump teams 4-0 every week and they are part time players. Let jamie and the coaches sort it, they will and we will cruise into the play offs and be ready if woking implode on or off the pitch.

Stick together, we will do this.

Left footed players on the left and right footed players on the right for me please!

JD set the team up to keep it tight at the back and try to nick a goal. We ended up nicking 3 goals and still lost! If that does n't encourage the managment to make changes to the defence nothing will!

On the plus side 2 well earned goals for luis cumbers. Also, the boy Evans looks even better than Carl Jenkinson did for us.