Tuesday night results

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AFC Hayes 2 Abingdon Utd 0

Burnham 1 Taunton Town 1

Godalming Town 0 Winchester City 1

Hillingdon Borough 3 Paulton Rovers 1

Oxford City 2 Newport IOW 0

Uxbridge 0 Bridgwater Town 0

Windsor & Eton 3 Andover 0

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And the updated table

 

Division One South & West 2007-2008

 

Home Away Total

26 February 2008 P W D L W D L W D L GF GA GD Pts

Didcot Town 31 7 5 2 12 2 3 19 7 5 74 28 46 64

Fleet Town 31 11 3 1 8 4 4 19 7 5 60 37 23 64

Farnborough 30 10 4 1 9 2 4 19 6 5 88 38 50 63

Oxford City 32 9 3 2 9 6 3 18 9 5 66 31 35 63

Uxbridge 30 10 2 4 6 4 4 16 6 8 52 34 18 54

Bridgwater Town 32 9 2 4 5 7 5 14 9 9 55 34 21 51

Windsor & Eton 31 9 2 5 6 4 5 15 6 10 61 53 8 51

Marlow 30 8 2 5 7 1 7 15 3 12 53 38 15 48

Paulton Rovers 28 8 4 3 5 4 4 13 8 7 48 37 11 47

Burnham 28 6 4 4 7 3 4 13 7 8 45 34 11 46

AFC Hayes 30 8 0 8 6 1 7 14 1 15 62 72 -10 43

Thatcham Town 29 8 4 3 4 2 8 13 6 11 49 40 9 42

Godalming Town 33 9 1 7 2 7 7 11 8 14 46 58 -12 41

Hillingdon Borough 26 9 2 4 2 3 6 11 5 10 49 41 8 38

Winchester City 32 7 3 6 3 4 9 10 7 14 44 54 -10 37

Gosport Borough 28 7 3 4 3 3 8 10 6 12 37 44 -7 36

Taunton Town 30 5 6 5 3 2 9 8 8 14 47 53 -6 32

Abingdon United 31 5 5 4 3 2 12 8 7 16 46 60 -14 31

Andover 30 3 5 7 3 2 10 6 7 17 44 73 -29 25

Slough Town 32 5 2 9 2 1 13 7 3 22 36 73 -37 24

Bracknell Town 30 3 5 7 1 2 12 4 7 19 29 72 -43 19

Newport IOW 32 1 2 13 1 3 13 2 5 25 20 107 -87 11

 

Abingdon certainly aren't doing great at the moment, but a 12 point advantage over Bracknell means they probably aren't worried yet

[Tom]

How do Hillingdon and AFC Hayes sustain themselves on crowds of 48 and 56 respectively!

[Amber Rebel]

its a mystery to me,must have chairmen with deep pockets.

good to see godalming lose at home to winchester,and our players nicely rested and ready for saturday.

[Mr Rebel]

we basically need to aim to join that little group of Abingdon and Taunton while Bracknell are left behind

 

something from the next game with Bracknell losing would set us up in a good position

[Matt]

I'm just hoping no-one gets carried away by Saturday's results. Defeat against Godalming would be a real setback if Bracknell win, plus they still have 2 games in hand.

 

I personally don't think we can join the group of clubs you mention, but if we consistently pick up points in the coming weeks we give ourselves a good chance of survival.

 

No reason why we can't win on Saturday, so let's hope it's not another false dawn like AFC Hayes was following Farnborough.

[Chris]

Yeah, agree with Matt. We have been awful in away games recently. We were kind lucky to get 3 points at Andover.

 

A lot of people got carried away after the Farnborough game (including the players). We must make sure that does not happen again...

[Mr Rebel]

better to be looking up then down though

 

looking over our shoulders is potentially even worse

[Chris]

I disagree. We have always tended to 'big ourselves' up this season and tend to think we ar Slough Town, so there is no real possibility of going down. Think a reality check is in order at times at this club...

[Amber Rebel]

have to agree with that assessment chris,the similarity is there with other clubs too,when oxford utd dropped out of the league their fans after 20 games on top of the conference started chanting 'we are unbeatable and we are going to win this tinpot league the reality a year later is getting knocked out of the fa cup by tonbridge angels. clubs cant survive on past glories and the sooner they forget the snobery and belief that we are too big a club to be in this league the sooner they will rise up the league again. When yo thinkof teams like Enfield who were once the best of non- league teams and now playing county football.

teams playing us are of course wanting to beat stfc.

now we begin to fight for our lives.

[Guest Malcolm & Sandra]

Its a mystery. We (Boro) have gone something like 9 games without defeat and in the Semi Final of the league cup and the fans are still not returning. If you got some spare fans when you are not playing you are certainly welcome here, especially the Ex Boro fans still following you. Best of luck for the rest of the season we really hope you stay up.

[Ian]

Fans will find other ways to occupy their time. They invariably aren't sitting there waiting to be tempted back. They'll have found other things to do and, over time, will wonder why they were so keen to travel half way across the country on a wet Tuesday night just because they HAD to be there.

 

Once you've lost them they may never come back and more often than not it isn't to do with anything as simple as winning and losing.

[brighton_rebel]

Which is why there has to be a constant push to attract youngsters to watch the game. We've had a good few promotionals with Slough youth teams this season, but i think its something that should be built on, with free tickets to schools etc.

 

It must be very frustrating for Hillingdon, especially after getting to the Vase final a couple of years back. Maybe they would have picked up a few more regulars if it had been at Wembley?

I know Havent are trying to learn from the Yeading FA Cup experience, where after the Newcastle game, crowds hardly rose and they ended up merging with Hayes(the result of the merger- an extra 20 fans a week!) They let everyone who went to Liverpool in free for one game, resulting in a crowd of 2,000.