I've often seen Mark Doig at matches, but he's so busy I didn't want to interrupt him. But pre-season games are less pressurised, so at a pre season games I had a really nice chat with Mark, chiefly to apologise for my totally misguided silly complaint early on when I started following Welling that he was too favourable towards us in his match reports, as over time I realised Mark is a fantastic Welling fan, like Nigel on Radio Wings, both saying it exactly as he sees it, and that's a reasons I like Welling so much, as we live in a modern world where we're not allowed to think what we think, everything has to be PC neutral, but Welling is a rare and totally refreshing example of people saying what we think, with only Wallop sugarcoating things, particularly his admiration for the deep and lasting legacy of departed Chief Executive Sian.

God knows what I was thinking of when I complained about Mark, looking back, I certainly don't, for example, here's a Mark piece from January, which, as ever, was spot on, no spin, and why I love this team and all involved with it so much, as there is no place for uncommitted lightweights here, on or off the pitch, and that makes us special.

"More misery for relegation-haunted Welling United as they suffer third straight National League South loss.

Early defensive blunders proved costly as Welling crumbled to their third consecutive home defeat.

Having gone three months unbeaten at the J Hearnden Skip Hire Community stadium, they have since been beaten at home by Eastbourne Borough, Dartford and now Aveley. Their 4-1 victory over league leaders Yeovil Town is now a distant memory and they are eight points adrift of safety with games starting to run out."

Borg on for Johnson

Long on for Bramble

0-2

Mensah on for Borg

1-3 Martin

Chesham were a lot better than us on the day. It was only a matter of time before they scored and from then was one way traffic, Up the Welling.

Rhys Lovett kept us in the game, first half and made some great saves in the second half.

I thought the other day I've never seen us play a bad game under Rod, well I certainly have now. I saw Warren Feeney and Mark Goldberg watching the match, so I kind of expected us to have a bad day! The first and third conceded goals were both from defensive mistakes of not simply whacking the ball out of the penalty area, as by now in several games we have conceded goals from not clearing decisively. In the first half our passing was uncharacteristically poor, I don't think we strung even 3 passes together, even simple passes went wrong. Passing improved a bit second half. We didnt have any shots on target, not even sure if we had any shots at all.

So we didnt do the basics right today all over the pitch, poor defending, poor passing, and not getting in good shooting positions, and in football if you don't get the basics right you wont get anything from a game. Chesham weren't even that good, more a case of us being bad on the day. But I like Rod's frank post match interview, which is honest and accurate, unlike the opposition manager interview where he says the sending off didnt affect the match, and that they could have scored 7 or 8.

-- Edited by Jimmie on Saturday 31st of August 2024 07:40:05 PM

Nice to see Martin get his goal. Still showed enthusiasm even at 0-3.
Blaming defensive mix ups is a bit unfair in my opinion.
They were on the back foot all game due to midfield and attack not taking pressure off.
No movement in the midfield/attack and far too static.
Crossdale deserved to go, and hope he gets fined for that pathetic show.
That dive probably cost us a valid penalty at the other side of the 18 yard box.
Far too often you had a midfielder chasing the keeper back as both attackers appeared to be looking elsewhere.
If we could call on two other attackers for Monday nights game, I would.