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What a great achievement and what a player he has been for us over the years. A brilliant servant of the club and long may it continue. Congrats on 300.

(continued) Truro's new ground, as I've said, is right beside a very large "Park and Drive" car park, with space for dozens and dozens of cars. It sits alone in an area which has plenty of scope for development. It felt a bit "open" to the elements, and on a day with not much wind elsewhere, the corner flags were fluttering quite a lot suggesting that on the pitch there was quite a breeze blowing. There isn't a great deal of cover for fans around the ground if it rains.. There's the main stand of course, and a decent covered area behind one of the goals, but if it had been raining yesterday, a lot of the 1,700+ fans would have got wet. Myself and "Bonjour" took our place among the other Slough fans in the covered stand behind the goal Slough were attacking in the first half. Surprisingly, there were plenty of Truro fans remaining there too despite their team attacking the other end. They didn't seem to want to change ends as is usually the case at non-league matches. The game hadn't been going very long, when the ball seemed to spend too long in our penalty box, and the next moment our net bulged and Truro had scored. Being at the other end of the pitch I would find it hard to describe the goal, but a goal it was despite a few failed attempts to clear the ball away. The Truro tannoy announcer was a real pain. Worse I felt than the bloke at St. Albans. He was another cheer-leader. I definitely wouldn't swap him for our Tony Randall. The first half we had several great chances to equalise. Their goalkeeper sadly made a fantastic save I thought from Edon, but all other reports say it was from Slavi, when a header from only a few yards out was somehow kept out of his net by the goalies fantastic reactions. A yard more either side and it would have been 1-1. John Gilbert had an effort cleared off the line by not one but two Truro defenders. Not that it was one way traffic ,Truro had chances of course too, but half time came and a level score board I feel would have been fair. Probably one of the highlights of the first half, was Warren, who again had managed to find a big plastic bin and drag it to where the other chanting Slough fans were, continued to beat this bin with his drumsticks even as the security marshal was dragging it away from him and taking it back to where Warren had found it ! You couldn't make it up ! We changed ends at half time, and I had a nice chat with Nige (Windsor Rebel), who was staying down in Cornwall for a long weekend. A lot of other Slough fans were doing the same. Second half we never created as clear cut chances as we had in the first. A great ball in across the area found David, who had a great first touch on his right foot about eight yards out. For a second he had a perfect view of goal, and I was shouting SHOOT ! So frustratingly he took another touch, and got swallowed up by the Truro defenders. Truro had a few decent chances second half, to be honest much more than we did, but even so the ball flashed across the Truro box on more than one occasion with no Slough player able to get on the end of it. Truro's second goal looked a strange one from my view at the other end of the pitch. I haven't seen the video highlights so my original thoughts may be completely wrong, but it reminded me at the time of that cheating Argentinian Maradona's goal v England in Mexico at the 1986 World Cup. The ball appeared to be high in the air with Charlie getting to it to make a easy catch, when suddenly this Truro player seemed to be in front of Charlie and just headed the ball into the net. Then the Truro tannoy announcer came over the airwaves. Not just announcing the name of the scorer in delirious, excited tones, but shouting out loudly that it was now " Truro City TWWWWOOOOOOOOOOOOOO !!!!!!!!!! Slough Town nil " Yes mate, we can count. People from Berkshire can count up to two. Perhaps people in Truro can't. Really unnecessary I thought. We had one more half chance, a great cross into the middle that Slavi headed over. And that was that. The ref ( who I thought had had a decent game), blew his final whistle and we had lost ,2-0. Usually, the Slough players and management only come over for high fives with us fans when we have won, but pleasingly they came right over to us and went along the line of Slough fans to do so even though we had lost. No disgrace at all today. We had battled hard and, given the breaks, another day could have come away with a point I thought 2-0 flattered Truro. For a team near the top of the table I was quite disappointed in them. They do not have the "flair" or "skill" of say a Dorking or Worthing, one of their best attacking options is a bloke with a great long throw, but what they do have I thought is a very strong, tough and difficult to break down defence. They smothered and were all over our attacking players all match, both by fair means and quite often by foul. It works for them. Leaving the ground , myself and "Bonjour" walked in the day's late sunshine to the train station. Arriving there, I went to look at a departure board, and was very pleased to see that the train we were catching that should have taken us all the way through to Reading, was now showing all the stops the train would make including those after Bristol. If it was going to terminate at Bristol I wouldn't expect any stations after that to appear on the screen, but they did. I rang my wife, and she told me that yes, it did seem as if everything was as it should be with regard to the train, so that was great news. The train arrived on time at 18.31, and us fans and the team got on. It was a nice journey for the first hour and a half, until we got to Bristol. I ate my grub. I much prefer eating my food on the way back from matches. I read the Truro match programme. In it, it reported that coming back from their match at Tonbridge last Saturday, the team bus broke down at Cobham Services, on the M25. A mechanic came out, couldn't fix the problem, and they had to wait until 11pm for a replacement coach to arrive. That would have been a VERY long day. Then we pulled into Bristol Temple Meads station, at just after 10pm. At the time we were running about three minutes late, and I only had nine minutes from the time the train was supposed to arrive in Reading, to when my train to Maidenhead was supposed to leave. So I had six minutes leeway. Going slowly along the platform at Bristol before coming to a stop, I could see literally hundreds of people on the platform, all wanting to get on our train. "Oh for crying out loud" I thought to myself. It had been a nice, fairly quiet journey back so far. Not any more. These hundreds of people weren't just people. They were worse than that. Flippin' rugby fans. And even worse than that. STUDENT flippin' rugby fans. There were so many that our train pulled out of Bristol now nine minutes late, which meant that this train would pull into Reading just as my train to Maidenhead was pulling out. Doh Doh Doh ! I'd had enough of students when I worked at the train station at Egham for years and had to deal with hoards of them from the nearby Royal Holloway Uni. More got on the train at the next stop, Bath Spa. We never made up any of this lost time before we pulled into Reading station, about 80 minutes later. Getting off the train at Reading, John (Bonjour) looked across the platforms and saw that the Maidenhead train was still at its platform. "Great, just in time for us to see it go" I thought, and we didn't rush over to it 'cos we were sure it was about to depart. Taking our time to walk to the stairs, not rushing along the stairway to get to the other platform , and then slowly starting to walk down the stairs to where the Maidenhead train would surely have just left, we saw that it was still there ! We dashed gratefully on board, as did Trent and Scott and a few other players. First stop was Twyford, where all of the Slough players and management on board got off, not without first saying a very pleasant "cheerio" to us fans. God knows what time they would get home. Next station was Maidenhead, when myself and John got off the train and walked to the station exit. John waited there for his wife to pick him up, while I walked the ten minutes to my car, and drove the short distance home. Walked through my front door a few minutes after midnight. Non football fans might think this sort of behaviour "mad". On trains for about 11 hours, travelling over 500 miles, to watch a game lasting 90 minutes which we don't really expect to win. It was great though ! What a fantastic day! Any Slough fan who didn't go yesterday, next season, if there is no supporters coach ,[and provided of course you can find the money for the train fare, which isn't easy these days ) go on the train to Truro when we play away to them. (Unless Truro do us all a favour and get promoted !) I'm sure you will have a great time. Believe me, I'm very, very pleased I went yesterday, even though we lost. .

Wasn't able to make the trek yesterday so can only go on Twitter, the comments on here and Scott's interview but I think regardless of form or otherwise, away v Truro with 0 points return is expected. It sounds like we played ok with some changes enforced on the side as well so one of those games that's good to get out of the way. As for 5 year plans etc, one of the worst things that happened with the fan base was us overachieving and finishing 10th last year. It's clearly massively over inflates people's expectations, especially when you look at the amount now of full time and hybrid sides in our division. For me, the work that is going into the club both on and off the pitch is setting us up for long term success and as long as this continues, the overall growth of the club is assured. Things have to be done the right way and that is what, IMO, is going on with the club at the moment. To be competing on the pitch the way we are is a testament to Scott, the squad and the club as a whole and how everyone is moving in the right direction. We need to keep growing and the playoffs, league wins etc will come, just have to be patient.

It’s amazing how much knowledge there is around this forum. It is surprising with all the expertise that is coming from some that they aren’t managing in the Premier League. I’ll be surprised if any of us one knows what the budget is this year. Quoting other league managers opinions is Trump like , The club out performed last year and it is clear that we were not prepared for the transition upwards. I need to remind myself that the progress from the Essex League that the club has made so far has been outstanding, we will be trying to punch above our weight for the next few years, while we form a financial and governance business model. Success on the pitch needs to go alongside establishing a sustainable framework for future progress. Carping about tactics and player selection is part of the day to day banter but the Board, Management and Members would do well to ensure we are strong, cohesive and financially stable, without a sound business model we will fail to succeed. Get off their backs a support them in their quest.

What a fantastic result against another team in the mix for the promotion fight, 1st half hands down we were brilliant, chasing the 1st and 2nd balls we were all over Worthing, second half it seemed we backed off the pressure and allowed Worthing back in , granted we got the 4th goal, but based on the 1st half performance did we need to shut up shop ? Henry Ochieng get this man a long term contract, he's the machine in midfield

It doesn't get much better than that. A fantastic performance from the entire team, making a very good Worthing side look less than ordinary. MoM for me was David Ogbonna but apart from Horlock (who didn't really have anything bar 1 decent save in the 2nd half) you could make a case for any of the starters today. Gilbert looked much more like the Gilbert from before his suspension as well which is another plus point. Tactically we were excellent and had clearly learnt the book on how Worthing wanted to play and stopped them doing so. All in all a fantastic performance, capped off with 4 brilliant goals and another step towards 50 points completed. What more could you want on a Saturday.

Have to give a mention to the ref. The vast majority if not all refs have been pretty poor, bordering on criminal this season but I have to give credit to yesterdays ref who I thought was top notch in his handling of the game and the best I've seen at this level for a long time.

Great game to watch. Highly competitive. Well done to Scott, the management and the team, this result was well overdue. Thought the ref had a good game as well, let the game flow and only gave out cards where necessary; more to the point neither team could say he favoured the other side. Good to see us finally get 3 points.

You guys gave us a lot of problems tonight particularly in the first half. I still believe you will stay up. Decent away support as well, like a bit of vocal support. Good luck for the rest of the season

Another defeat for this lightweight team following on from Saturday. To be honest, some of our players are not good enough for this level of football. We are now truly in a relegation scrap, and dont give me all this crap about "we can beat the teams below us", at present we cant beat anyone.

I'm writing out a report on the going's on re. yesterday's game, but like the day itself it is turning out to be rather a long one. I'm going to post what I've written so far, otherwise it would be one long post even by my standards. Well it was a long trip yesterday, with quite a lot to write about. Whether it's interesting and worth reading is up to you though. Here's what I've got so far. More to follow later, if you're interested. So yesterday it was our turn to make the trip to Truro. I've mentioned on here before that I really enjoy long journey's to away games, but Truro is quite a mega-trip. I had been hoping that there was going to be a supporters coach running to the game. That would have been a much cheaper option than the alternative, going by train. A couple of weeks before the game, Geoff was talking about taking down names of people who might be wanting to get to Truro this way, so I held off buying a train ticket. I had a look on the "Trainline " website two weeks or so ago, just to see how much the train fare was. It said £90. Ouch ! Disappointingly, but not really unsurprisingly, it became clear soon after that no supporters coach was going to run to the Truro game. Damn ! That only left the train option available. I had gone by train the last time we played Truro actually in Truro, and really enjoyed travelling down to Truro this way. This was the game at the end of the season which we drew 3-3 having been 3-1 up going into the 90th minute. When Bakes' and Unders' bought every Slough fan who was there a drink in the clubhouse after the match. A fantastic gesture which I won't ever forget. The trouble is with train tickets, the closer you get to the day of departure, the higher the price. When I looked now on the "Trainline" website, the price had gone up to £105. Double ouch ! £105 just to get to a league game ? That's a lot of money. But it's a great day out ..............(sigh). I still had my £50 Birthday cash unspent since last month, and convinced myself that if I put this £50 towards the train fare, my trip was only going to cost me £55, and that was a great price to pay to get to Truro by train. Even better, I could buy myself a Senior Railcard for £30 which was valid for a year, use it to get discounted Truro train tickets, and basically get the railcard for free. Train tickets were booked. The day of the game arrived. Up at 6am,hoping to get the 7.30am train from Maidenhead to Reading. If I missed it, there was a bit of a wait till the next one at 7.56. I drove the car the short journey towards Maidenhead, parked on a side road that saved me the £5.50 it would have cost me in the station car-park, and walked for ten minutes to get to the train station. I had made it in time for the 7.30 train, and walking up the stairs to the platform, saw John ( forum member "Bonjour"), waiting there for the same train. His patient and understanding wife had given him a lift to the station, and was picking him up when he got back. Mine was still in bed, fast asleep. The 7.30 train arrived at Maidenhead at 7.48, late as they often are in this country. We got to Reading, and I had thought for several days that the players and management, who were also going to Truro by train, must be catching the same train to Truro that myself and John were booked on, the 08.31 service. There wasn't really another suitable train for them to get there. Walking across the upper concourse to get to the platform for the train to Truro, John Gilbert and Sam Evans walked past me, both dressed very smartly in their Slough Town "tracksuit", outfits, with Slough Town backpacks slung over their shoulders. Going down the stairs to the platform for the Truro train we spotted a few more players dotted around. Myself and "Bonjour" went to the place on the platform where we expected our carriage to stop in front of us, to make boarding easier, and as departure time got closer, it seemed all the Slough squad were standing very close to where we were. Scott looked across at me, and came over for a very friendly chat. I'm never ceased to be amazed that the manager of Slough Town can be so approachable and friendly to an ordinary fan such as myself. After speaking to me , Scott turned to "Bonjour" and had time for a few affable words with him too. Such interactions mean such a lot to us fans. I hope his wife appreciates Scotty as much as we fans do ! 😄 The train for Truro arrived, and everyone piled on. It was rather busy on board, but the long haul to Truro had started. After about an hour of the journey, the grey skies started to turn a nice shade of blue, with some very welcome sunshine. The journey down was lovely. There is a part of the trip when the train track runs alongside the very edge of the sea, around the town of Dawlish, between Exeter and Plymouth. It was stunning. Blue sky, sunshine glinting on the sea that ran up to just underneath your train window. It was worth the trip just for that 15 to 20 minutes period alone. Made me think of summer holidays. Sadly on the way back it would be too dark to see anything. After we stopped at Plymouth, the train got emptier at each subsequent stop, which was nice, and we finally pulled into Truro, on time, at about 12.30. When I came out of the station, Scott was on the station forecourt with the rest of the squad, waiting for their taxi's to take them to the ground. Rather than turn right, and head for the ground, I opted to turn left, and head towards the centre of Truro. I walked for about ten minutes and entered what was a small, but pretty park/garden. It was called Victoria Gardens I think, very hilly, but an oasis of calm in a very bustling town/city centre. After a while there, I headed off towards the cathedral, and spent a bit of time inside. I then headed back to the station, and waited at the bus stop outside it for the "Park-and-Ride" bus that would take me the 2.5 miles to the new Truro ground. While I was waiting at the bus stop, I recognised another Slough fan coming to wait for the same bus. He had arrived on a later train, and obviously we got chatting. Once on board the bus, he said to me, when we learnt that we were going back on the same train " You know the train back is cancelled when it gets to Bristol?" " Noooooooooooooooo" I said. " You are kidding, aren't you ?", I asked in hope. Sadly he handed me his smartphone, where the message clearly showed that we would get to Bristol ok, but once the train had got to there at 10pm, we'd have to get off and get another onward train to Reading. Not what you would want after a long day travelling, particularly on a Saturday night. The bus got to the "Park and Ride" terminus beside the ground, and I asked the driver how busy the buses were going back after a match, and when he said "Very busy" I decided that I'd walk back to the train station after the game rather than wait for a bus. I said goodbye to my fellow Slough fan, and as he walked towards the ground , I stopped walking and rang my wife to find out more about this train cancellation. She confirmed the bad news that the train was cancelled at Bristol, but said that the website was recommending getting off at Taunton and getting an onward train from there to Reading. "Bloody trains" I thought. I made my way to the ground, through a very big "Park and Ride" car park. I got through the turnstiles, bought a programme, saw "Bonjour" and told him the bad news about the cancelled train. We decided we'd see what the latest information was once we got back to the train station after the match. 3pm arrived, and the game kicked off.

Thought there were similarities between the Slough game at the start of the season and last night. Stronger, fitter, faster and more skilful allround. Whilst the teams have had different seasons I thought our performances were not that different. We couldn't keep the ball, couldn't compete with a faster team and one that snapped up every header and every 2nd ball. Even if we were better on the deck, I'm not sure the game would have been that different. What sums it up for me is that EBFC will be training this morning whilst our team will be back at work. It's almost impossible to compare the two teams. I don't think any of our players had a good game and this was largely in part to Eastbourne's pressing and better fitness. We did play the ball too much aerially but that said if you look at our opponents you have to realise they possibly had their best performance of the season and we had potentially our worst. Apart from the header off the line I don't think we had a shot on target and their last ditch defending second half showed how desperate they were to keep a clean sheet. Back to earth with a bump....but then not to get too high when we win and importantly not to beat ourselves up when we lose. Outclassed....perhaps but they are a full time team and we are not. We played well v Chesham and didn't get a foothold v Eastbourne. How we play next v Tonbridge is probably now even more important. Apart from outworking and being more physical last night I'm not sure we can compete when the gulf is that large. Our best player last night......was probably not as good as their worst player. Think it also says a lot that after losing the previous game, EB probably couldn't have bounced back any better could they.

Another great result fellas.....👏

Awesome performance. Obviously it was a great team effort but I thought Gilbert and Ogbonna were outstanding and Bayliss and Pruti were rocks in defence. We blew them away first half and could have had several more. I thought the game management second half was superb. There was nothing to be gained by going gung ho and we defended resolute limiting them to very little.

I understood that the earlier observation was not directed at me but I thought I'd present my credentials, as they used to say. I was until recently busy pursuing other footballing interests but now it's Slough's results that mean the most to me and I was happy to stump up. Since it's Valentine's Day the following seems apposite (Brenda Lee version of course) "Maybe I didn't watch you Quite as often as I could have Maybe I didn't follow you Quite as strongly as I should have If I made you feel second best I'm sorry I was blind You were always on my mind You were always on my mind".

Does it matter though WR? To me whether it's people that have been supporting for 80 years or 80 minutes, if they are Slough fans and want to put £90 extra into the club then it's all good IMO.

Yet another must win? Most of the previous games have been must wins, but we didn’t.

Indeed. It was always the principal local rivalry after Wycombe were elected to the isthmian League. It was spiced up by the then relative frequency with which players moved from one club to the other (because, of course, in those amateur days of which town's shops their wives preferrred). Much of Maidenhead's success in the early/mid 60's was based on players who had moved there from Slough and the roles were reversed somewhat from the latter part of the 60's. Our "ascendancy"lasted for around 35 years but since then the pendulum has swung back the other way. But it would be nice to at least catch up again.

Provided we stay up. If offered a Faustian pact today that they could stay up if we did, I might be tempted to take it.

As others have said, the club has no choice but to move and I'm thankful we have a proactive board that are navigating this so that we have a new home that will not only allow us to survive, but to prosper. I too, am/was a little disappointed at the prospect of moving to Westlands and still hope that perhaps something can be made of Wingletye. However, the plans for that site really get you excited and for me, the pros far outweigh the cons should this move transpire. Everyone is entitled to want different things and I get that some people prefer other (more local) leagues but for me, when my good friend 'Kimble' and I waddled along to a home match against Arlesey in 2002 (3-2 win if you're wondering), I could never have imagined the places we would visit and the countless great days out that would follow. I'd personally welcome the chance to continue and enjoy this mad journey. Tomorrow is never guaranteed...

"Full Timers" My good friend Dave Bryant (MHRIP) told me this would be a difficult season because (a) Towners had a couple of seasons not use to losing, and... (b) Our constitution as 'first ever fan owned club' means we're pretty much unable be financially able to be 'full time' Please explain if I'm wrong eh?

What a great evening - thank you to Alex, Colin and Daryl for being so open with the fans

Maybe free hit was the wrong phrase, I'm sure we'll do everything we can to try to get something out the game... I guess I'm saying that our survival doesn't hinge on the outcome of this one. In spite of our recent form, I still think we're totally up against it, but there's a little hope now, whereas a couple of weeks ago there was pretty much zero (from me at least). We need to keep finding ways to pick up points, keep key players fit and get a fair bit of luck.. I'm just happy the season is still alive.

Agree with David all day long. Unfortunately I had nine of the lads from Slough Heating FC with me and they have asked if we can sign him, I'm putting together an offer of unlimited Polish Vodka as we speak speak to temp him up the road to The Polish Club. 😂

It was clear early on that the Welling back 4 had little faith in their own GK and we took full advantage. As others have said, Bates caused problems with every corner he took, putting the ball invitingly into the 6-yard box each time. First half it felt like a matter of time before we would score from one of our corners and so it proved, Sam Youngs once again managing to find a little space in the penalty area and head home practically unchallenged. No more than we deserved, we played very well in the first half and could have scored a couple more from corners, one header in particular looking like it was in until a last ditch goal line clearance. I was particularly impressed with Chukwu and Hisham up front, both of whom gave the Welling back 4 a torrid time all night. If it wasn't for the Welling no. 5 (who played well for them), we would have scored more. We did sit back a little for the first 10-15 minutes of the second half and weathered some pressure, though I can't recall any clear cut chances for Welling. Our second goal was timely and came after a lovely through ball from Bates which Chukwu ran onto and hit a clever cross-goal shot which rolled into the far corner. Very well taken and will give him a real confidence boost. He needs a run of games now, as does Hisham - they have the makings of a good front two who will tire out opposition defences which (hopefully) Hutchinson can take advantage of when he comes on later in the game (which seems to be the pattern now). 3 wins on the trot and 3 clean sheets - can't ask for more. Let's take that confidence onto Chesham on Saturday.

Liam was our match winner today!! He looks sharp with some nice touches and an excellent finish, played the full 90s and fits in well

It was a great battling & committed performance today, & a fantastic result. Bayliss & Pruti looked like a formidable centre back pairing.

On that basis HR, I hereby award Ebbsfleet 0/10!!

Bernie, having read your comments about Bromley having facilities for the home fans that are " truly above standard especially the new stand behind the goal and the bar beneath", I am changing the grading that I gave them. I am changing it from the 0.5 I gave them originally, to............................. A BIG FAT ZERO. That they can think it was perfectly acceptable to spend mega-thousands on facilities for their own fans and not spend a single penny on what were absolutely disgusting, unhygienic, primitive "facilities" for any poor away fan who had the misfortune to go to Bromley's ground to watch their team play, is negligence bordering on criminal. You say that Bromley have upgraded the away facilities now they are in the Football League. What, have they taken the dead rats out of the open-air sewer they called a "Gents". ? That Bromley away visit was truly horrendous. I know the weather didn't help, but I honestly don't think I've ever been so miserable watching a football match.

Hopefully the players can raise their standards for all remaining games and finish as high as possible. Otherwise a low finish will make it even harder to attract new players but also persuade our better players to stick with us. Unfortunately I can see another big squad rebuild this summer…

He’s a lot better then what he currently have.

Its not looking great for Maidenhead, but they will inevitably nick a couple of 1-0s when desperately needed as they did recently. I thought they would back that up with a win and draw from the last 2 home games, but they didn't! Away to Forest Green Rovers on Saturday 😀 another top side. Depending on that result, we may be increasingly confident of a Berkshire derby again.

Micky and Joe always welcome back to the Bridge albeit on the losing side.We seen to take forever to get going and sloppiness put us a goal behind.Cant complain because we woke up after that and a great team goal expertly put away by Charlie.This time the Towners were caught napping after half time and for the first time In the game we were ahead.A bit frantic after that goalmouth scrambles either end with the game opening up Hornchurch took advantage and a second goal for Darren and a 3rd for the hosts.Enfield are better than their league position suggests,well supported tonight as well made it a bit lively on the Eastside all said and done another 3 points,up the Urchins

Maidenhead v Aldershot last season. An absolute shower, smoke bombs, foul mouthed chanting. a good job Maidenhead segregated, but they still tried to break down the fencing between fans.

In frustration at missing out on Truro (my choice) and knowing a couple or more Maidenhead fans, I went to their game versus Yeovil. My distaste for Yeovil is a result of their manager's attitude to so called lesser teams e.g. us last season, and I was hoping the home team would turn them over. Not the case of course although neither team deserved to win, but Yeovil did thanks to a massive deflection off their striker Nouble and an awful refereeing decision which saw our ex player Tyrese Dyce penalised for a fair challenge and then booked! The free kick into the box resulted in a scruffy 2nd goal and consigned our local rivals to the relegation places again. Of course I'd relish a return to our local derbies , but I'm still convinced they'll escape the drop again.

I'll be with you when I get my new knees 😉😉🙏🏼

Good performance. Would have been a travesty not to take all three points. Chesham actually looked like they'd rather be anywhere else at times so were there for the taking from the start. Pegrum provided the midfield with, imo the missing ingredient....pace and was excellent all game. Deserved the winner. Also freed up Wraight to boss the middle who was also outstanding. Balanta, again produced moments of magic that made the afternoon all the more entertaining.

I appreciate the long, considered answer, but... I'm sorry, but that's laughable! Come on man, I didn't ask you what you WOULDN'T do; I asked you what you WOULD do! You've offered up backseat management and a list of criticisms week after week now. Apart from saying you'd play two up front you've offered nothing else. And, thank god Gavin read your posts because otherwise heaven knows where we'd be! 🙃 We've conceded 1 goal (ONE GOAL!) from open play in 6 games, and that came down the middle v. Chesham! You would have changed that successful formation for this one game? Without a training session? AND a wholesale change in playing personnel. Eh? Really? You'd have done that? Unexpected, but ok. He created plenty v. Chesham and had a hand in each of the goals, something you criticised Sam Youngs for not doing recently, whilst scoring a hat full of goals. But you would have taken him off. Ok. I thought he might play Jack Smith from the start instead of Youngs, because I couldn't think of anyone else to play there. BUT NEITHER CAN YOU! So why criticise without coming up with something better? Right, good tactic. But WHO? Who are these fresh legged, experienced players you speak of? You've already dropped a third of the first team. In reality, who would YOU replaced then with? If you can't answer that then how about showing some support for the position we're in and laying off with the incessant and in my opinion, unwarranted and unrealistic criticism. Why don't we just get a manager that's payed in the Premier League? Why don't we get players who have experience and talent to match the best in our division? Or switch from 3-5-2 to 4-5-1 or 4-4-2 at will? We get promoted, we'll just get better tactics and better players, yeah? That's just how it works, right? Its not. Dozens of football clubs get promoted and relegated each year. That's the measure of a club, its management and its status. Its worked for 100+ years and its a pretty accurate measure. So, in the meantime get behind your team and support them through thick and thin. Nothing is decided until May.

I guess the most important item on the agenda was the leading item. Alex explained in some depth why there was no future for Hornchurch at Bridge Avenue. He told us that 3 sites had been offered by Havering Council with a view to building a new stadium. The site on Park Farm Road (Alex referred to this as the place down the lanes so I’m guessing a bit here) was too isolated with no public transport. A 2nd site at Wingletye Lane would have been perfect (Alex said 300 yards from my house) but it was too small. There is an outside chance of annexing some adjacent land also owned by the council which would give the necessary footprint but Alex had no confidence that it would happen. The 3rd site is in London Road, Romford next to St. Edwards school. Alex admitted this wasn’t ideal but was the best offer on the table. We then saw some outline design plans. The plan showed a 1st team pitch with 4 all seater stands, a training pitch, 6 secondary pitches and plenty of parking. The build would be phased with the 1st team pitch and training pitch being phase 1. The main stand will be dual aspect allowing viewing of both the main pitch and the training pitch which would also be used by youth teams and other external rental. Alex shared that his experience in his day job of building multi million pound data centres gave him the expectation of being up and running in 2 years. On the footballing side, more things than I can remember but potted highlights. Nathan Green was the only player released, all other players asked to leave for various reasons. Daryl has turned down 2 job offers from higher level clubs. Daryl is happier with the smaller squad as it gives more opportunity to give all the players the minutes they need. Attendance levels are a concern. Budgets were set on the assumption that crowd numbers would go up but that hasn’t happened. Colin described this as the Geoff King effect. When Canvey were flying crowds were up but as soon as they weren’t winning everything the crowds reduced – and maybe that is the same for Hornchurch. Daryl has no intention of repeating his Truro cameo, he revealed he didn’t even have boots or shin pads on when it was apparent he needed to go on. He also doesn’t miss playing and is enjoying his management career. Alex and Daryl told us that Giles Phillips and Will Greenidge both asked to stay at Hornchurch after their loan period ended and they hope to continue to make connections with league clubs to develop their youth players. There were some conversation points around how to further engage with the community to increase crowd numbers. There was so much more but I’ll let others add their recollections. There was a very good attendance, over 50 people I reckon.

I'll bet you as much money as you like we don't lose to Welling next week Nathan🙈🙈(we are away a Truro next week, then home to Chippenham THEN away at Welling). On the Henry booking, that was more terrible refereeing. The rules clearly state a player must be 10 yards from the free kick. Faal was about 4 yards (all be it to the side) and Henry was pointing that out. The fact the referee chose not to enforce the laws of the game is, once again, indicative of how rubbish they have been this season.

No-ones calling for the manager to be replaced now either. 🤷‍♂️

Really bizarre how our best run of the season and results have coincided with the clown critics going so quiet. Who d have thought it.

What a fantastic & complete performance for the full 90 minutes. I’ve got to admit I thought Worthing were a very good footballing side and felt that if they had managed to get back to 3-1 by half-time we could have struggled to win. The reaction from Scott & our bench when we scored our fourth seemed to imply that they didn’t think the win was secure until that went in. A great performance from us though, probably one of our top three performances in the last ten years, I hope it’s a turning point & we see a great final quarter of the season.

no i don't think we need him, before anyone asks

For what it's worth SloughFlyer, my thoughts are in line with yours. I was pleased and surprised to wake up and read Scott's tweet saying that he wasn't going to blame the ref for costing us a point yesterday. Surprised because when I walked in my house just before 11.30pm last night that is exactly what I told my wife. I spent 15 minutes telling her first of all that we hadn't played very well, but that if that incompetent ref had blown his whistle when he should have done for a obvious head injury to one of our players, St Albans wouldn't have scored that goal, and that we would have sneaked a point. I explained that if any head injury occurred during a match, the ref is supposed to blow up for a free kick/drop ball. I told her the damn ref even looked across at our player during the St Albans attack and still didn't blow, and I just knew then that they were going to score, and that he had blown for a free kick/drop ball that helped St Albans earlier in the half for another head injury, when we were exerting a bit of pressure on the home goal. And that they didn't give us possession back when they took the free kick/drop ball And that exactly the same thing had happened at the FA Cup game at Woking when Scotty was clobbered and the ref didn't blow for a head injury and Woking were allowed to play on and score the winning goal. And that I wished we had had the ref we had on Saturday refereeing the match tonight. My wife was very quiet and taking all I had to say in. On reflection today I think she had probably fallen asleep. I was pleased to read that Scott wasn't happy at all though with our performance, which is amplified in his after match interview. First half we were so lucky to be still at 0-0. Second half we were much more in the game, but very disappointingly I don't think the St Albans 'keeper had a shot or header to save in the entire game. The fact that Scott is open to the faults we had in our performance yesterday gives me confidence that he will sort things out. We did miss Slavi and Lewis yesterday. Before the game I was quite hoping that St Albans ( and Weymouth ) wouldn't get relegated , (as long as it wasn't at our expense of course ), because I really enjoy going to these two old style grounds, which I think have lots of character. ( I don't know if anyone else used to watch the TV show "Endeavour", which was based on Inspector Morse back in the 60's and 70's, but one episode had the story line that a star striker playing for a lowly football club was murdered, but the club he played for home ground was St Albans, and they used lots of shots of Clarence Park ) OK, please yourself, I found it interesting. I'm not so sure I'm that inclined to want St Albans to stay up now, only because I thought first of all their public address announcer seemed to think he was the first cheer-leader for the club, and secondly, and more pertinently, the behaviour of what I took to be one of the St Albans playing staff after the game. He was wearing a thick St Albans jacket and came on the pitch at the end with the other players, and came straight over to us Slough fans. Standing five yards from the goalpost on the goal line, looking directly at us, he started to shout things that were obviously intended to wind us up, which were accompanied by numerous hand movements which again could not have been interpreted as anything other than inflammatory. The St Albans goalie gave us a polite and decent clap at the end, but this ****head was a different matter entirely. I don't think it was this prat that caused the uproar after the final whistle, but he should be reprimanded in some way regardless. Yes, everyone is down after defeat yesterday. Win on Saturday, and life seems so different. I'm not saying we will win on Saturday, but I wouldn't be surprised if we did.

10 points isn't enough when we still have to play 3 of the bottom 4 who will be fighting for their lives. Think they all have a game in hand on us too, if not two! Not pessimism, but realism. Don't think it can't happen.

Tense and even first half where both sides had chances to score with the ball fizzing across both penalty areas. I thought we stepped up a gear in the second half taking the game to Maidstone and thoroughly deserved to take the lead from an excellent Gilbs corner and a thunderous unstoppable header from Pruti. Can't argue with Pruti as motm but for his comeback from injury I thought Bayliss had a stormer at the back. Overall a thoroughly good performance and deserved win.

Rumours been going round for a while just didn't want to believe it.Liam Nash you were our talisman for years maybe time to move on but you done this Club proud,farewell my friend,up the Urchins

Only visited Hayes Lane once-a 5-1 away win in 1975-and it has clearly changed a great deal in the meantime. They came to Horsham oce or twice in the noughties and I found their officials and supporters amongst the most unpleasant we encountered back then. Their people "invaded" our side of the directors' box once and it was left to me and the affable then chairman of Crawley Town (who bore a striking resemblance to Russ Abbott) to hold the fort.

A quote from Bernie Gogan. "Away Fan experience for visits to NL (or heavily aspirational) clubs: Dorking 6/10, Eastbourne 7/10, Boring Wood 3/10, Kidderminster 4/10, Maidenhead 6/10, Maidstone 7/10, Ebbsfleet 2/10, Bromley 4/10, Woking 2/10." Hi Bernie. You put the above ratings for your visits to these clubs in your Dorking post, and as I seem to have a bit of time at the moment, even though it's a couple of day's since you put them up, I'd like to compare your marks to mine. Dorking I give 5. Unnecessary segregation, no proper match programme, but fairly decent away covering. (Would have given 4 out of 10 but I like their High Street !) Eastbourne I give 9. No segregation and have a match programme, decent facilities, can walk down to see the sea before kick-off ! Boring Wood I give 3. No segregation but no programme, general feel of not being welcome as an away fan. Kidderminster I give 4. Segregation but have an over priced programme, decent cover for away fans, impressive ground. Maidenhead I give 5.( based on my last visit some time ago ) No segregation, I don't think they have a match programme (?), basic facilities. ( Would have been a 4 out of 10, but I can walk to the ground from my house) Maidstone I give 7. Segregated isn't it (?), have a match programme, nice facilities. Ebbsfleet I give 3. Segregated, have a match programme, limited cover for away fans, limited facilities for away fans. Woking I give 3. Segregated, no match programme, limited cover for away fans, limited facilities I think for away fans. (Would have given 2 out of 10 for having no match programme, but I would feel slightly better going to Woking than Ebbsfleet so an extra point for that.) And finally Bromley Bernie, I cannot believe that you gave Bromley 4 out of 10 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I give them 0.5 out of 10. (And that's only because they had a match programme.) Segregated, a horrible away fan section, non-existent facilities for away fans. A definite feeling that Bromley did not want us there and that we were a massive inconvenience to them. I couldn't wait to get out of there. Probably just fractionally better going to that game than when I went to Marseille for the 1998 World Cup match between England and Tunisia, and had to walk (run), the mile to get on the coach after the final whistle having to dodge bottles and bricks constantly thrown at us England fans by the locals and Tunisia fans. These are the votes of the Holyport jury !