I believe McBean will score tomorrow and we'll win!

Starting 11: Brown, Evans, Obersteller, Sambrook, Parkinson, Martin, Cracknell, Clarke, Cumbers, Day, Healy.

Subs: Tuna, McBean, Dolby, Acheampong, Fazakerley.

I'm guessing either Clarke or Healy up front with Cumbers, but we shall see.

Apart from a poorly defended corner early on, it's been all us so far. Day also looks like he's in a more advanced position, helping out Cumbers when the ball is played forward.

Clarke now back on the pitch after 6 minutes off getting the cut on his head cleaned up.

One nil. Clarke penalty.

one nil at half time. We really should be at least a couple of goals up.

Two nil. Cracknell.

Four nil. Should have been Obersteller's goal after lobbing the keeper, but Cumbers put it over the line. Good poaching.

Dolby on for Healy.

Fazakerley on for Obersteller.

Five one. Truro penalty.

Amazing result. Makes up for having to work today. COME ON YOU WINGS!!

Great result, if it wasn't for the lineman's flag we would have had 10 :o)

Woking and Chelmo both lost too.

Graham

Sidcup Graham wrote:

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Great result, if it wasn't for the lineman's flag we would have had 10 :o)

Woking and Chelmo both lost too.

Graham

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 Which linesman? Are you talking about that fat little **** that was technically running up and down near the old stand? He was inept beyond belief. I noticed the fanzine crew giving him a really hard time.

Good win for you boys Dave 4-1 away?

As for us, thats the way we can play and we did it without Pughie, Cracknell gives us legs and goals and the movement of Day, Healy, Cumbers was tremendous, Stella and Evans were superb at full back, they couldnt handle us. Clarkey got stuck in and what balls he has to step up and hammer the penalty home.

Parkinson is a lunatic, thats twice hes played with a fracture and put the team first, hes been superb of late and just gets on with it, hes immense. Captain fantastic.

When you have 6 or 7 players on their top form you get the football we saw today. Cumbers ran his arse off and took his goal superbly hes hitting form and lookslike he can be the goal scorer and then we still have Loick and Wazza. Excellent today from 1-11 and Big Ben is into more of his usual form lately and thats two solid as a rock performances from Sammy in midfield. Keeper did a job today and you can tell hes solid.

Dolby showed signs of what he can do and that he has his nut down to get back into his last spells form, great to see faz back and Tam looked lively. If ive missed anyone out then they played very well aswell. Great TEAM performance, confident, loads of effort and BELIEF.

We will need to be good on Saturday as Weston scored for fun today.

Interviews up later with Jamie Day and Dean Cracknell and match highlights to follow over next 24 hours.

Credit to Truro fans today they were excellent.

My dear Mr JgFc

An excellent posting and it was good to see that you thanked the team, but was that enough?

I think not!

I would like to extend the all round team performance to the following.

Chairman: Paul Websdale
President: Eric Brackstone
Assistant Manager: Barry Ashby
Club Secretary: Barrie Hobbins
Hon. Medical Officer: Dr. Baruah
Physiotherapist: Dave Lawson
Community Officer: Jim Dean
Kit Manager: Rob Stimpson
Head Groundsman: Barry Hobbins

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My dear Mr JgFc

An excellent posting and it was good to see that you thanked the team, but was that enough?

I think not!

I would like to extend the all round team performance to the following.

Chairman: Paul Websdale
President: Eric Brackstone
Assistant Manager: Barry Ashby
Club Secretary: Barrie Hobbins
Hon. Medical Officer: Dr. Baruah
Physiotherapist: Dave Lawson
Community Officer: Jim Dean
Kit Manager: Rob Stimpson
Head Groundsman: Barry Hobbins

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 My dear Lord Trigger, Should you not include Matron as part of the team as she allowed you to attend and spur on the players to victory?

As has been said, an excellent team performance today with particular congratulations to Cumbers, Obersteller and Martin who were all outstanding.

The ref had a pretty good game today and was consistent even though both the Truro keeper and Jack Evans should probably have had reds instead of yellows for denying goalscoring opportunities.  I will not comment on his interpretation of the offside law of one of the linesmen.  I think one or two suitable adjectives have already been used by others.

I would add my congratulations to Truro's marvellous supporters for the way they kept behind their team all the time even when they were 5-0 down.  I wonder how many miles they will have travelled to support their side by the end of this season.

Agree with everything you said Russ. I can't help complaining about the standard of the referees and linesmen at this level, even though it seems kind of pointless, as they are pretty much this bad every week. There was one occasion in the first half when a ball came off a Truro defender and Cumbers (I think) ran into space with the ball and the weeble wobble decided to raise his flag for offside, which quite clearly it wasn't. Oh we could all come up with lots of examples of bad decisions.

The one on the erith side came on pitch after game and after saying the pitch on his side had holes in it... went on to say all his decisions were correct. He didnt say it in an arsey way, he discussed a few of the incidents and said why he felt they were offside.

I thought the main stand lino was awful yesterday and gave some stupid decisions against us and both linos gave some bad offside decisions and were fooled by our pace and truro appealing for everything. The ref wasnt great but at least he booked their players for mouth although he let their 4 applaud him and the 9 buy a penalty and give dissent then kick the ball away blatantly. I personally felt neither were penalties.

-- Edited by JgFc on Sunday 8th of January 2012 08:32:22 AM