DansonPark wrote:

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I see new 19 year old LB has been brought in on loan from QPR. Apparently spent part last season on loan at Whitehawk. Info from News Now National South

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 Is that a website? There's nothing on the Welling website and nothing on Welling social media.

Sidcup Graham wrote:

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I guess cover for CBB who I believe has hit 5 yellows

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 Maybe and I believe more international games on the horizon as well...??

Personally I feel Banya has been a more than able deputy when called upon.

Not good at all today but at least a point which is good considering Mills goal was our only shot on target. Nassim targeted from the first minute to the last and the joker ref only booked  the last foul in the 88th. He needs more protection as its happening more and more. We really need to look at distribution from midfield and I cant see how Mills is not starting lately?

Take a 90th minute equaliser all day long today though and always love it when time-wasting doesnt pay off. Not sure what the keeper was up to today? He didnt seem to want to leave the pitch and instead starting mouthing off?

I couldn't understand the referee at all. Nassim was fouled three times in the first twenty minutes and even the Wealdstone press/social media bloke couldn't understand how their 7 hadn't been booked early on.

Then he gave two very soft bookings against us as the hacks at Nassim kept flying in. 

Midway through the second half, Bradley Bubb wiped Nass out and he was very lucky to escape with a yellow card.

This was a more extreme version of what we are saying most weeks. Referees should be protecting him but they are not. 

Mills made all the difference. I am yet to meet a Welling fan who rates Bradley Goldberg, yet he seems to get in the team every week. That said I hope his injury is not to bad. 

DansonPark wrote:

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50% based on this specific game against this opposition. Thought most of their team were on the small side & thought we'd score from set pieces

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 Apart from the fact that every set piece (bar Kiernan's miss at the end)  landed squarely on the head of their number five.

I would love to get the match video and edit all the challenges on Nas that the ref didnt seem to think deserved a booking (along with our soft bookings). Get it out on social media, send to the FA, National League, refs association and make sure yesterdays idiot ref got a copy. Time to highlight the fact that clubs have a game plan to kick Nas off the park from the first minute and the refs are just allowing it. 

I dont think it would have changed anything yesterday but there will be games it does. 

GaryH wrote:

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I would love to get the match video and edit all the challenges on Nas that the ref didnt seem to think deserved a booking (along with our soft bookings). Get it out on social media, send to the FA, National League, refs association and make sure yesterdays idiot ref got a copy. Time to highlight the fact that clubs have a game plan to kick Nas off the park from the first minute and the refs are just allowing it. 

I dont think it would have changed anything yesterday but there will be games it does. 

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 Definitely a game plan, and they took it to extremes almost like when Halifax targeted Beautyman all those years ago. Credit to Nassim is that he doesn't go hiding and made a great run late on that could have resulted in a goal. 

Well it felt like a win walking out on Saturday after such a late goal but it wasn't the best game I have ever seen at PVR!

I know it was an early kick off but, in the first half, it felt like a 9am kick off and our lads had just got out of bed?! Sloppy passing, second to every ball and getting bullied all over the pitch. Wealdstone were well on top and I was glad to only be the one down at half time. They clearly had a game plan to "frustrate" us and get stuck in to our wide players and, once again at this level, the players get scant protection from the officials. If you tap the ball away at a free kick or give a bit of backchat then you go in the book (which is not necessarily wrong) but if you cut someone in half with a tackle or deliberately take people out you get nothing (or at least you don't get anything until the 85th minute of the game by which time the damage has been done) They took it in turns to get at L'Ghoul and the ref did nothing about it until it was too late. Also it seemed like their number five was on the end of every high ball into the penalty area. They left him free to attack every set piece into their box and it worked to a tee. Good defending on his part but naïve attacking on ours. Surely we could have put someone up against him to at least restrict him getting to every ball - the only ball we played away from him was right at the end and Kiernan had a chance to score.

I disagree with the manager that it was "like the Alamo" in the second half. Whilst they weren't interested in attacking and we had all the territory and possession we were hardly cutting through them and creating chances. In fact I think the equaliser might have been our first effort on target and their keeper had more trouble looking after his cap than he did our attack. In fact after the goal was our best spell of the game and they were panicking and another five minutes and we might have found an (undeserved) winner. Mills did make a difference not least because he puts himself about and was prepared to get stuck in (as he always is) and you could see what that goal meant to him and the supporters at the end.

A two week break before the next competitive game which may or may not be a good thing. Some of the medium term injuries won't have gone away so there may be further changes in personnel. If we can't get more protection from the officials then we need to adapt quickly and find different ways of trying to win games because, if allowed to get away with it, I think the Wealdstone game plan will be adopted by quite a few sides especially when they come to PVR....

Up the Wings!