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Not posted on here for a while for obvious reasons, but just wanted to come on here and thank those for a nice reception yesterday, was great to see some familiar faces Tuesday and yesterday. Scottie continues to do a brilliant job, and whilst the result didn’t go your way yesterday it was an extremely close game with not much between the two teams. Had Slavi scored his header it might have been a very different game from our perspective, either way the Rebel army were in fine voice as per usual and really got behind the lads, I sincerely think that with some of the exciting players Scottie has bought in you can have a really good season, and it is the first result I look for after a game. Will look forward to the return fixture at Arbour Park, Bakes

Some of the comments 😂 who invited the fun police?! That’s our fines list and all very normal for a football club to have similar ones to that. A bunch of lads finding any way in which possible to make some money for the Christmas do.

Absolutely not, I’d love to win every game but that’s not possible. Surely you have to look at things as a whole? It’s unfair to ignore that we have 22 points in total. This time last season we had 13 points and were sat in 21st position, 3 points from safety, 11 points off the play offs and 19 points off top, yet this season the division is even more difficult.

Difficult as there are so many worthy recipients but i think for me there are supporters who not only support but go way above and beyond, especially when we most needed them at the end of the 00s...... Names that spring to mind in this category are of course the likes of Chris Sliski, Kay Lathey, Mike Lightfoot, Adrian Gomm etc. Definitely have to say that Warren Carter is a great shout too. I remember a game away at Farnborough.....must have been 2007 and we were 4 or 5 down at half time with barely a team scraped together. He gathered those who were there at half time and brainstormed how supporters could help the club, the passion he spoke with that day really struck me as to how much he cared.

This shouldn’t even be a debate. Lenchy was brilliant for Slough and for me, and yes he did well last night! I actually said to him that I think he suits St Albans style of play. St Albans are a possession based team who will dictate the ball against anyone, that’s their philosophy. We aren’t a possession based team but we do have the highest XG (expected goals) across the north and south with chances created. We average a shot every 18 passes (lowest pass per shot rate in the north and south), St Albans every 55 passes. If possession wins games then it’s a new rule to me. We’re happy to be without it as we know what our strengths are. 👍🏼

Bit of perspective. We’ve just played 5 games in 14 days with a small squad, and at a hell of an intensity on Tuesday evening! In the 5 matches, we’ve played 2nd, 5th, 6th and 20th, plus a cup game yesterday. We’ve ultimately won 3 (yesterday was all about winning the tie) out of the 5, drawn 1 and lost 1. It’s a gruelling schedule this month. I thought we deserved to come away from Woking with something, but we didn’t and that’s cup football for you. To this day I’d still rather we had played dreadfully and won, like we did yesterday! We aren’t going to be great every week but I take huge confidence in the fact that the boys never gave up and we live to fight another day. If they gave up fighting then I’d be worried but they certainly didn’t. First half was poor but second half was one way traffic in our favour for large parts! Thanks for sticking with us, now let’s hope for a good draw tomorrow! 👍🏼

Home and away from Swindon I always travel down to get on the coach really enjoy the away days meeting up with the lads. 🚗 🚌 ⚽️. COYREBELS.

Fortunately for Matt Lench, his manager, his fans, our manager and our players all seem to disagree with you (so do I, quality of his control and passing were very good and his competitiveness/ball control in the middle were a factor in the reason we never really had control of the game). Edited to add: I also thought Leon was great, probably our 2nd best player last night after Charlie, and has been brilliant this season.

This is a message to Lexus. Lexus, if we are 1 nil up and in the 90th minute of the Trophy game against Maidenhead, and a black and white shirted ++++ is bearing down on goal with only Charlie to beat ,( similar to what happened v Chatham), TAKE ONE FOR THE GREATER GOOD ! I'm a great believer in fair play and playing to the spirit of the game, but this is Maidenhead we're talking about !

Just watched the highlights and imo a definite push on Slavi for a penalty. Also the quality and length of our highlights seem to have improved immeasurably. Also have to say Gary Thomas as a stand in commentator has done a pretty decent job.

I think you may have topped yourself with the most ridiculous post SirRebel. The committee has met and you are fined £1965 for this🙈🙈🙈

Excellent entertaining game and a thoroughly deserved win. Another blistering start from us with Amartey scoring in the 2nd minute via a deflection. Then goal of the game from Oggy to put us 2 up followed by a miss from Slavi when rounding the keeper only to see his effort cleared of the line which would have given us a comfortable 2 goal cushion at half time. The rest of the half Dorking looked a good side dominating possession without getting an equaliser. Second half we were much the better side but it was a story of a host of missed chances from us and what looked like a stonewall penalty turned down all of which would have made the scoreline more emphatic. Overall a superb win and a great night's entertainment.

Adrian, I was there. We’re currently sat 8th in the league behind 4 full time teams and 3 part time sides. We’re also sat 12 points above the relegation zone line and 6 points off top with a game in hand. If that’s not good enough then I don’t know what would be?! I’d be careful what you wish for when you see teams like Havant and Dartford go down last season. This league certainly isn’t easy and we certainly don’t have the right to wipe the floor against any team in it. Glen, you make a great point and it’s appreciated, thank you. 👍🏼

Our crest is classic and must not be changed!

I can’t believe this is even being discussed. As for the outrage… 🤯 I’d suggest it’s probably real and is a group of young men having harmless fun. Surely we can remember what that was like. As I’ve said before, it must be exhausting being so negative.

Fellas as hard as it seems keep positive and keep pushing on, we do it at Slough every season and we constantly punch above our weight given the size of the budget we have so it is possible. This league is relentless as you are finding out with some very big budgets out there and some quality squads that are very deep in number, we don't have that at Slough and are still here after getting promoted in 2018 so it is possible.

We're all entitled to an opinion but to say Matt Lench did nothing else last night other than put in a good corner is frankly a ridiculous thing to say. It's nothing to do with being biased or anything rose tinted just ask anyone at the game last night and I guarantee you the vast majority will agree that he put in a very good performance along with his other playing partners in midfield. Of course they hurt us down the flanks but they also hurt us down the middle.

Only 19 more sleeps everyone

Familiar story at Maidenhead, but Devonshire knows the league and as usual he will see them rise just above the strugglers. They will inevitably pull off some surprise results and as long as they take points off those around them then survive they will. They had James Golding on loan from Oxford Utd., who was decent in midfield. He's now been recalled, which has left a bit of a gap. I'd love it if they were in our league mind.

Good luck Urchins 🏆🏆🏆

You are in the wrong forum, this is a forum for supporters of Enfield town not Salisbury

I’ve got a feeling we’re going to put on our performance of the season tomorrow,Going for an outrageous 4-1 win!. Also It’s my son’s 16th birthday and I’m taking his younger brother as well and its his first Towner game so here’s hoping he’s a lucky charm!! Watch this space …🤞🤞🤞

Some might disagree but I was pleased to see everyone blank the weasel at full time, no one shook his hand. He feeds off attention and ignoring him is the best policy. I’m all for respect in football but sometimes you need to treat people as they deserve. Good, solid performance from us overall. I don’t disagree with Scott as MOTM, his best performance of the seeaon, but special mention for Lexus and Henry too. I thought they were excellent.

I know I'm an old fogey, but why does everything nowadays have to be "updated" and given a modern slant ? What is wrong with tradition ? In my eyes modern or updated doesn't mean better. Usually it means exactly the opposite. Just my thoughts.

Well that was certainly an incident filled visit to the seaside yesterday. We left St Joe's on the coach on time, at 11.45, and I was hoping for as straightforward a journey to Worthing as we had had the previous week when we visited Maidstone . On our previous two visits this season to seaside venues Western-super-Mere and Eastbourne, I had made a quick dash down to the beach before kick off just to get a quick glimpse of the sea, and hoped we'd arrive at Worthing with enough time to allow me to make it a hat-trick of seaside visits. Unfortunately, our progress seemed slower than I'd hoped. Amy, our usual driver, was not with us, and I wondered if this was a bad omen for the match ahead. I don't want to appear alarmist or dramatic, but in my eyes we very nearly had a very nasty accident on the motorway on the way down there. Looking out of the window from the left hand side of the coach, with the hard shoulder running along side us, the coach suddenly veered viciously to the right and quickly changed lane from the inside lane to the middle lane. " WTF was that all about?" I thought to myself, then 0.1 of a second later I realised what had happened. Cars are always stopped in the hard shoulder in a sort of North to South configuration, lined up the exact same way that the traffic on the motorway is travelling. This time there was a car facing in a West to East configuration, stopped at a 90 degree angle across the hard shoulder , (sort of half in it and half out of it), with at least the back four feet of the car sticking out into the inside lane of the motorway. As we sped by him I couldn't imagine how he had got into that position, and more importantly how we and others hadn't already hit him, and hoping against hope that a juggernaut or someone wouldn't come along after us and smash into the side of him. With me thanking our lucky stars we carried on, and arrived much later than I'd anticipated at Worthing, at just after 2pm. I didn't think I'd have enough time to get to the beach and back with enough time to gain a relaxed entry into the ground, but I'd thought I'd see how far I'd get before I felt I had to turn back. I started off in the dry, but soon after miserable drizzle began. Why do I always believe the weather forecast ? It said it was going to be dry at Worthing with zero % chance of rain during the time that we would be there, so I hadn't brought a coat suitable for the wet conditions. As it turned out I made better progress than I expected, and got down to see the sea and the pier. Grey, gloomy and wet it was, with only one man and his dog on the pebbly beach, and I turned to hurry back to the ground. Part of my route down to the beach entailed walking across a railway level crossing, and as I got to within 25 yards of it on my way back, the flippin' lights started flashing and the claxons sounded, and I got stuck behind the barriers. There was no bridge to walk over to the other side, so there I was stuck, fuming at the delay. I could see the train stopped at the station, which was only 50 yards away on my right, and after what felt like an age it eventually moved off, passing me by the barrier. I waited for the barriers to go up,..........but they didn't. Fuming more, I had to wait for another train to pass me by and go into the station. Still the barriers wouldn't go up, and wouldn't you know it, I had to wait for yet another flippin train to pass by before the barriers rose to let me through. Cursing trains and level crossings, I dashed off to the ground, and after what felt like an eternity waiting in the queue with people paying with cards to get through the turnstiles, I finally made it into the ground. I thought I had just enough time to have a pee before the game kicked off, so looked about me for a gents, and saw a sign that said "Toilet" only about three yards ahead of me. The bloke just in front of me seemed to have the same thought as I did, and just beat me into open door of the concrete block ahead of us ,and he dashed inside the cubicle and locked it behind him. " For crying out loud, do I have to wait again !!!!!", I thought to myself. Time passed. " How long does it take to have a pee" I inwardly cursed the bloke inside the cubicle. It was getting ever closer to kick off time. After what felt like several minutes had past, I suddenly got an odd feeling. It felt odd that nobody else had come into the toilet to have a pee. I looked about me. Only one lockable cubicle. Only one hand basin. No urinals or trough. No overpowering smell of urine. Fearfully I looked at the sign on the door, that was open tight against the wall, in the shadows. The sign said " Ladies ". "Oh FFS !". I dashed out of there pretty pronto I can assure you. That shows what can happen if you blindly follow the crowd, or in this instance only the one. It definitely looked like it was a bloke I followed in there ,though in this day and age, that doesn't seem to be relevant. Having found a proper gents, afterwards I finally got around to the tunnel area just as the players were walking out. Not having heard any team announcements, I was surprised to see Jeanmal leading the team out. Hmmm, no Josh..........no Dan either. Who is playing today ? Kweku, Sam AND Francis up front ? Blimey, AND David too ?! That sure is an attacking line up ! There was no way today's game was going to finish 0-0. The game started well Good goal by Francis to go 1 up. To be honest, the game could easily have finished 6-5, as it had in 1961 as said the Worthing pre match website info, as so many chances were created and missed by both sides. A great cross from Leon across the six yard line was met by Kweku. I thought he should have put it away, but the goalie saved it, and the deflection went straight up high in the air, making it I thought a much harder chance for Sam to score with. He didn't Worthing almost scored a great goal when one of their players almost did a Scotty by chipping Charlie in goal from nearly on the half way line. A very entertaining half ended 2-1 to Worthing, but you knew that that was not going to be the end of the scoring, and if we got an early goal in the second half, we would be right back in this game. An early goal was scored. Wrong damn net though. It looked a great strike from where I was standing, long range top corner. 3-1. I still felt if we scored next the game would still be alive, and John Gilbert did a "Bryan Robson" type run with the ball through the Worthing defence and had just the goalie to beat to make it 3-2. Then he stood on the ball, lost his balance, and the chance was gone. To make matters worse, Worthing immediately went down the other end, and despite what looked like a failed attempt at handball by Scott on the halfway line, a Worthing attacker was one on one with Charlie, and to give credit where credit is due, made a fantastic chipped finish over Charlie to make it 4-1. I have to say that at this point I did fear the worst. 4-1 down with about 30 minutes still to go, against a nippy team like Worthing. I should have known not to doubt Scotty and the boys, as less than 10 minutes later it was 4-3 thanks to two great strikes by Sam and Leon. (Thankfully, Worthing missed what looked like a "sitter" at 4-2 when one of their players went around Charlie, and instead of placing the ball into the back of the net, blasted the chance high into the stand behind the goal. ). Even despite Worthing being reduced to 10 men with about 20 minutes to go, we still weren't able to score what would have been a deserved equaliser. So we are no longer in the play off positions. Does that bother me? Not in the slightest. Do I think we are going to finish in the play off positions ? No, but I'd love to be proved wrong. I don't think we are going to finish in the bottom third of the table either. I'm sure we are going to win more games in the league this season than we are going to lose, and that will do me. What other manager would go away to a team like Worthing, not have two regular recognised defenders in his team, and play FOUR attackers ? I think with Scott in charge of this team we are going to have a very entertaining season ahead, win, lose or draw. Is it the Trophy draw on Monday ? Every year we have been in the National League South I've thought we have had a great opportunity to progress to the latter part of this competition, but have not really got through to the nitty gritty rounds of the quarters or semi's. Again I feel why can't it be our year this year? If in the past 5 seasons teams such as Concord Rangers and Hornchurch ( when they were at a lower level than they are now), got through to play at Wembley, why not us this season? Of course much depends on the draw, and if our FA Cup draw luck continues in the Trophy, that would not be very kind. Fingers crossed we'll at least start with a home draw, and then who know's ? I remember well the heartbreak of losing in the Trophy semi-finals in both 1977 and 1998. I would love to see Slough at Wembley again. I can dream, can't I ? .

Because of his age and ability and of course if he decides to stay with us hopefully Leon will be our future but on last nights excellent performance from him I'd give my right arm to have Matt Lench back. IMO if he stays fit Lenchy has at least another 2 seasons as a top player at this level.

Congratulations on the win, will be seeing you again shortly for round 2. All the best for the FA Trophy.

We recently had the Bracknell vlogger Mattitude doing a good report on our match at home to Bath. This time another Matt has put up a vlog about his trip to the Slough v Chatham match yesterday. Like the other Bracknell Matt, this Matt seems to have enjoyed himself at Arbour Park, although he is more inclined to support the Chats than the Rebels. I enjoyed it. Hope you might too.

To misquote Forrest Gump, "Football is like a box of chocolates. Yer never know what yer gonna get. " After the exhilarations of Tuesday night, we came down to earth with a dull, flat, uninspiring performance yesterday. ( By the way, I didn't see any comments after Tuesday's game about Dorking's tactics of playing it out from the back. Once again, just like at Chichester away in the FA Cup, the opposition "faff" away with passing the ball along their own six yard line, get caught by John Gilbert and concede a goal. Sorry, but I really don't rate this way of playing. It's asking for trouble, especially at our level). Anyway, we were very poor in the first half v Chatham, and they deservedly went in at half time one up. Coming out for the second half we saw that we had made three changes. If only Gareth Southgate had had the guts/brains to do something similar in some very important England matches in the past few years. I felt they made a difference. The ball "stuck" with our attackers much more in the Chatham defensive third of the pitch in the second half, but it still looked as though we weren't going to get that vital goal. Then we get a free kick just outside the Chatham penalty area, and then all hell seemed to break out. I didn't think it was a dirty tackle or suchlike, but a definite foul. Then a few seconds later every player seemed to be piling in. I have no idea what caused that big Chatham player ( the number 11 I think), to behave as he did. He seemed to totally lose it and did enough during the "unrest" to be sent off twice. After that it was basically all Slough attacking and Chatham defending their one goal lead, up to the point where Chatham unexpectedly broke away and their attacker was brought down outside our area by Lexus, who received a red card. ( Will Lexus get a 3 match ban as this was his second red card this season ?) Lexus said in his after match tweet, " I had to take one for the greater good", which to me says he brought down the attacker deliberately to stop a goal being scored, and putting us more or less out of the game. I don't want to appear holier-than-thou, but I have to say that I don't really like our players doing that. Yes, I know everybody else does it. It's taken for granted now that this regularly happens, but I can well recall the nationwide outrage back in 1980 when that big lump of an Arsenal defender Willie Young hacked down from behind the then 17 year old West Ham player Paul Allen when he was clean through on goal with just the goalie to beat in that years FA Cup Final. Yes, I know it wasn't a sending off offence back in 1980, but I couldn't do this in any game I played, which is another big reason, along with a massive lack of talent, why I could never be a proper footballer. Even when the game became 10 v 10 we dominated it. But it looked as though that elusive equaliser was not going to arrive, and then, in injury time it did. A fluke, but we'll always take it. Then to penalties. I'm disappointed we don't have replays or even extra time any more in the Trophy. No replays even in the semi- finals, which are now just a one off game played on the ground of one of the competing teams. That seems so wrong to me, and it's like the thinking is to get the Trophy games out of the way as quickly as they can. I was very apprehensive when we arrived at penalty kicks. My "success" record when attending important cup games for England and Slough which go to penalty kicks is grim. Before Saturday I had been at 9 important penalty shoot outs, and my team had lost 7 of them. What fantastic penalties we took though. They were as good as the two penalties I took in the shoot outs my branch Slough Queensmere faced to get us through a couple of rounds in 1981 when we won the Barclays Bank Windsor District mixed 7 -a -side inter branch football tournament, so I have got some idea what the pressure is like when taking part in important penalty shoot outs. ⚽⚽😄 So thankfully my "success" rate at attending penalty shoot outs has improved , 3 wins now from 10. Having got through against Chatham by the skin of our teeth, it makes me wonder if perhaps it might be an omen for a strong run in the competition this season ? Knowing our luck though we will probably get drawn tomorrow away to Forest Green or Barnet, and have the same ref we had for the Woking game.

Also, really liked Gavin’s post match interview. This is probably the roughest spell he’s been under in his managerial career but I believe he and these players can get us out of this rut. Every performance looks positive and more positive and I believe we are going in the right direction. Now slot in Cox and Tuck at Dorking and I don’t think we have a bad side at all!

Missed the game today, sounds like we had a fair share of play and chances. In the draw for the next round which is the main thing. Looking forward to 3 pages of comments on how well we played. 😂

Town score 1-0. Urchins score 1-1. Town miss 1-1. Urchins score 1-2. Town score 2-2. Urchins miss 2-2. Town score 3-2. Urchins score 3-3. Town score 4-3. Urchins score 4-4. Town score 5-4. Urchins score 5-5. Town score 6-5. Urchins score 6-6. Town score 7-6. Urchins score 7-7. Town score 8-7. Urchins MISS. TOWN WIN.

Couldn't agree more. We had one at Slough Heating a few weeks ago, our player ran from the half way line, no flag and got mullered by the keeper and had to go off. Official then puts his flag up saying he was just offside as he got the ball....🤷‍♂️

What a brilliant game superb football by both teams goals misses certain goal kicked off the line their goalie managing to kick another certain goal round corner of the post what about the stonewall penalty that was denied for us in the 2nd half. And a crowd of 1047 hope alot of those will be returning on a regular basis. COYREBELS

Surely no-one would dispute Rhys has been our best player this season

Yep that's a great idea....sack the manager and bring in someone to upset the dynamic even more, rearranging what's trying to be built and see how that works out.....be careful what you wish for! Don't worry Towningaround I get accused of that also as some just can't accept graciously contrasting points of view

The ref made some strange decisions and I hate playing on artificial pitches it definitely has an impact on our ability to pass and control the ball. Wraighty, Nashy and Scott solid and hard working. Ade made an impact when he came on and the sooner he is fit to start the better. Hopefully NBC isn’t far off starting again soon, reckon he could have done a job up top against there defenders at least he would have made them think about what they were doing! The 4 and 2 were big and strong but I do think they were sloppy and more pressure on them could have created an opening. On the plus side I was home in less than 10mins!

Maybe because Lench leaving had nothing to do with age… Leon and Henry are ahead of him in the pecking order plus re-signing JG offers us much much more than Lench ever would now in the attacking third… The Lench narrative continuing is boring!

Sell it on after having crowd funded the project and received grants? Words fail me!

1 word, dominant… Nothing more needs to be said other than I loved the comedy aimed at Jerry all night 😂😂😂

I think our expectations for this season will be the same as when the season started. Aim for a play-off place with the minimum requirement being to remain in this division.

Love it , nothing but a bunch of lads being lads , I saw this at work the other day thought it was well funny 👏

What is this, an IT Help Desk of a football forum?😉

Just looked at our set of fixtures for November. We have 7 league games to play, a game in the B&B and a Trophy fixture to fit which will give us 9 games to play in 4 weeks. A real tough start to the month with Truro (H) Bath (H) Farnborough (A) and Dorking (H) followed by our entry into the Trophy. We end the month playing Welling (H), Chippenham (A ) and Chelmsford (A) I reckon by the end of November we'll have a much better idea if we are genuine play-off contenders or not.

Kev, download the Fanbase App on your PC, you will have to sign in/register. There you can view your tickets and should be able to print off your QR code. You know your wife is right of course.................

Feel your pain Your wife is right as all wives are right Ill just say look what happened to king Canute

You couldn't make it up! At least we're at home.

I think it's simply some refs/officials are sticklers for the rules and some just can't be bothered or maybe just forget in the heat of the moment. In the case of the Woking ref it was hinted that maybe he had some sort of a grudge so no surprise he stuck to the rules.

Bound to score against us though!

Ah yes Sir Rebel, Scott Davies who has played all 222 games in midfield and never played any other role in the team. Not sure that comment had the desired effect did it😂😂