Welcome to our new arrival, Dave Carty, who is on the bench today against Torquay United.

Carty on for Chukwu

1-0 Pegrum

2-0 Carty

2-0 Full Time

That was very good. Difficult to pick a MoM in my opinion.
Nice to us keeping things tight and a clean sheet.
We needed that.
The CF played at the start needs to grow a pair.
Far too lightweight and did not win enough of the balls aimed at him
They had shorter players out jumping him for headers.
The bloke who started the last quarter had far more about him.

A great day in the office! Amazing how much better we were today than against Chesham, then hardly anyone played well, today all did. Not many teams will beat Torquay this season, so this was a great performance and win. They started with 6 players as top scorer with 2 goals each, so are well balanced, and hard not to see them in a play off spot. Anointed was our top scorer on 2, and then several on 1. Gene Kennedy's goal today makes him joint top scorer, nice to see his improvement as he learns to make more of an impact.

At half time I took an anxious look at the league table, Aveley were winning, us drawing, so Aveley were 4th from bottom on 8 points, us level on points with them, so not great only level with a relegation spot. They then lost, we won, now we're mid position, 5 points above relegation, and 5 points off the play offs.

I've watched Marc White's latest interview after a defeat, blaming injuries, it's a sign of Rod's abilities that when he's problems like that Rod goes out and positively gets quality loans to fill the gaps, instead of moaning about misfortune. I loved Elliot's cross for our first goal, he links play so well. Unlike Wallop I think Anointed did a good job leading the line, tying up defenders, closing them down to pressurise them, he's raw, still got tons to learn, but we look better with him in attack than without him.

Danson Mark wrote:

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Jimmie wrote:

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Gene Kennedy's goal today makes him joint top scorer, nice to see his improvement as he learns to make more of an impact.

 Today's goal was his third this season.

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 Yes, come on James, liven up!

If you are to remain our super statistician, we must insist on 100% accuracy. No slacking on the stat front!

Lovely goal from Gene though, finished with aplomb.

 

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Mark, thanks for the correction of Gene Kennedy's scoring. And The Poet, I forgive your sporting trespasses, thanks for taking a brief break from them to mock me! After we played our second game I was tempted to post a totally pointless stat here, just to wind up brother Bexleylion, as I know how much he loves stats, as after 2 games (W 1 - 0, L 0- 1) we'd a stupid stat we were the lowest scorers in the league, with the best defence. It was a stupid stat as it was based on just 2 games, plus we'd played 1 game less than all bar Worthing, so wasn't even comparing like with like. After I voiced my concerns earlier this season about the lack of goals and assists from Gene Kennedy I read he is a defensive midfielder, which if so meant my concerns about his assists and goals was a bit unreasonable, as defensive midfielders aren't aimed to provide goals and assists. But he seems to be playing a more attacking role, and it's good to see him learning how to make a difference in the final third of the pitch.

At the match I was so impressed with Elliot's work on the wing to get the cross in, but the highlights show what I missed was the build up, which was a fantastic team build up, including the striker 9 different players involved in the build up to the goal, mostly 1 or 2 touches, getting it so quickly from one end of the pitch to the other.

I've watched the highlights, their player was definitely in an offside position behind our keeper, then moved into an onside postion, then they shot and "scored". The player was offside, but not interfering with play, so I suppose play could continue. They scored when he was onside, but maybe the linesman thought he was still offside when the ball was struck? I have to agree with Torquay, a scandalous decision, but we've had so many bad ones against us it is nice to have a lucky break for once.

Some clubs just can't take losing to 'little old welling'.  We played the better football, end of.  
Perhaps they should look at their long ball rubbish yesterday and relying on long throw ins into the box, that never worked anyway. Embarrassing from a full time big club.  

Although we have an awful record at Plainmoor, I don't recall Torquay ever beating us at Welling.

We are simply too strong for The Gulls at PVR.


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Good to see how quickly Torquay have taken to Neil Warnock's style of play!

Great to see our 'new' team starting to gel. Well done team and management, keep up the good work.
For me there is another reason for disallowing the Gulls'goal. Having looked at the highlights, their number 21 who took the long throw leading to the goal, had a half of his right foot over the touch line before releasing the ball - foul throw in my book?

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After reading Peter's view I've tried to unravel the FA offside rules www.thefa.com/football-rules-governance/lawsandrules/laws/football-11-11/law-11---offside

"A player in an offside position receiving the ball from an opponent who deliberately played* the ball, including by deliberate handball, is not considered to have gained an advantage, unless it was a deliberate save by any opponent... If the pass, attempt to gain possession or clearance by the player in control of the ball is inaccurate or unsuccessful, this does not negate the fact that the player deliberately played the ball."

So we cleared the ball inaccurately, the offside opponent got the inaccurately cleared ball, and scored, and according to the rules it counts as valid.

One needs to watch both the Welling highlights and the Twitter to get the full picture, the problem is if one does that one realises Dave handballed it, so they should have had a penalty for that, so had two wrong decisions against them. Shame. Chatham next, looking at their recent highlights I'm not convinced by their defence, so I'll contact escapee Borstal Boy The Poet by PM to beg for some money to bet on us, to recover my losses from my Saturday bet on Weston to beat St Albans.

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As already explained dear Johnny, please do not PM me (or anybody else, even in jest, unless specifically invited). You have to understand there is a certain etiquette to be observed on this forum. One forum is 'public' & the other is 'private'. Any complaint received past, present or future has to be taken at face value and dealt with accordingly, so probably best to not go down an unsolicited PM route, even in jest. Many thanks in advance for your cooperation in adhering to our code of conduct.

Also, please do your utmost to not bet on Welling as you will probably jinx us! In any event, you are relatively new to the non league game & you will generally 'do' your money, given your limited knowledge of these clubs. My hunch is that you are not a big gambler anyway but, by your own admission, more of a drinker (sound advice - don't bet when pissed!) Don't be fooled by St Alban's & Weymouth's positions for example (see yesterday).

A pitch invasion in the '70s and '80s wasn't that unusual in English football Johnny. Consequently, me & goodness knows how many others encroaching on a London pitch (on one occasion in '80/'81) is hardly 'escapee Borstal Boy' territory. Somewhat OTT but nevertheless amusing as is usually the case with (most of!) your japes.

Perhaps you are confusing two songs by a certain group with four letters and two numbers? Cue an old Welling theme tune as seen below.

Rumour has it...you had a bet on us to beat Chesham...that explains our performance. Bleedin' jinx you are!

Even though we will be favourites to beat Chatham next Saturday, they are a decent Step 3 side & it could be a difficult game for us. They narrowly missed out on promotion last season. Please do not bet on us as you will probably jinx us!

Ringer alert, are you sure you don't support D*rtford, Johnny?

Justification of the topic matter for this post:

Good spot by Bexleylion regarding yesterday's throw in. During my playing days we would usually be penalised for this & the throw in would be duly awarded to the other side.

 

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Good to see you answered your own question, utilising the parallel system, Mr. Westside! You lives and learns, as they say.

Trust your investigation is making steady progress but please refrain, if possible, from backing us this Saturday! Maybe have a punt on D*rtford instead? Leatherhead will love you dearly (aah...memories of Leatherhead away...the man with the lovely Afghan dog).

In football, the Dutch became heavily influenced by the English many years ago but, for me, still remain some of the friendliest
(& tallest) people I know. They are incredibly passionate, just like us. Keep in touch... with the Dutch.

Those Torquay fans ain't so bad after all. We're with Riverstown on that one, call it 2-1 to us then.

There's gonna be a Borstal... oops, sorry, wrong song!

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I wasn't aware that The Poet was the arbiter on who can speak by PM. Those who PM me (I chat more by PM than I post) 

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 Thank the Lord for that!

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And back to the title of this thread....

Well said Wingnut, have always enjoyed reading your accurate, to the point summaries. Until the Wings are playing in Europe, lets not worry about Jimmie's mate the KNVB director, Jan Dirk van der Zee, I am certain they will get along together just fine but the rest of us would rather leave them to the Dutch!

And credit to the visiting supporters, from what I saw at the end of the game, several were shaking Rhys Lovett's hand who was for a while the Gulls reserve keeper last season. Rhys is doing just fine for us now. Loved their hi de hi entertainment team suits too, definitely added some colour to the afternoon! Good so many did that distance.

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 And well said bexleylion. Wingnut is definitely a Welling stalwart and his post match analysis invariably an accurate assessment. Hope he sticks around on the forum.