STEVENAGE COMMENTARY

[Charles Webster]

I'll be back in the commentary obx tonight. Don's forget to send messages to my PM here. Pip pip!

[jude]

Here's tonight's link to the commentary

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/kent/realmedia/audio/gravesend.ram

 

[Unrecognized Genius]

There one second - gone the next? Has Chas stretched too far for the pies being handed round & pulled out the cable?

[American FLEET FAN No1]

Getting it loud and clear here!

[Unrecognized Genius]

Back now. Did my usual hi tech cure all operation. Switched computer off & on & back it came.

[Special K]

I can actually hear Kenny shouting Go Go Go^^ Or it must be someone that sounds exactly like him.

[American FLEET FAN No1]

That is usually my second cure all..................After I have kicked hell out of it!

[American FLEET FAN No1]

Let's hope the Fleet play better than this at Wembley...........Doesn't sound like the new formation is gelling well, at the moment!

[rsheard]

Les, I tuned in a little late. What IS tonight's formation? I understand McCarthy's not playing and Hearn is, but other than that, I'm not sure who is where tonight?

[EUFC superb]

Good lord, they've 'shirked responsibilty'.

[American FLEET FAN No1]

Not sure of the full line up, Rob, but Liam is playing both the new guys, Charles and Hearns! The team seems to be playing like strangers.

[Ding]

Rob,

 

The full line up can be found here

 

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/footb...ult.stm?refresh

 

 

[American FLEET FAN No1]

Yeah, sorry Rob, Charles is on the bench. Until the clocks are altered in England, I miss some of the commentary, as I am busy cooking dinner.

It sounds as if Hearns is shot-shy.

[rsheard]

Yeah, it sounded like Hearns had a couple of good openings. Maybe a couple of games under his belt will seem him taking those chances.

 

Good to hear them get one back.

[American FLEET FAN No1]

You can always tell when it is a bad game........Lord Chas starts talking about Spurs!

[rsheard]

I guess it's not a surprise after so much pressure on the Trophy semi-final and then so many league matches piled on top of each other. But as Chas suggested, a Wembley final and a top-10 finish will be a pretty fine season. Nice to see Liam getting some loan players in to provide some cover for the rest of the fixture congestion. (And Opinel getting his suspension out of the way!)

[American FLEET FAN No1]

It has been a good season, unfortunately some people expect much more! Fortunately, Liam seems to have good contacts in the game, and uses them to get loan players in.

I wonder sometimes about the teams overall fitness, playing games close together is hard on them, but now they are full time professionals, their fitness should be a lot better!

[Jimmy]

We really weren't very good last night.

 

Tiredness has set in with key players and those who have been brought in to replace them don't look that great.

 

Hearn was anonymous for large parts, he is quite good at pointing though.

 

Gary MacDonald was poor, he didn't mark either Westwood or Morrison who both then scored and spent most of the game shouting and mouthing off at his fellow defenders when they pointed out he kept playing everyone onside - Sacha didn't look too amused to be shouted at as MacDonald passed the ball into the crowd.

 

Playing McPhee at right back robs us off our midfield unit - Ricketts was fit and we looked better when he came on so play him at right back and put McPhee back in midfield.

 

Akinde looked knackered but with Nade and Eribenne injured and Moore easily pushed off the ball he still keeps getting put in - we need to bring a striker in on loan - John did score but it wasn't the most glamorous of strikes and he looked exhausted after 50 minutes.

 

The new guy Darius Charles is very one footed but couldn't do much worse than the guy he replaced.

 

The games are catching up with us I'm afraid.

[Jeff]

Akinde has looked knackered for about a month or so now.

 

Long, as ever, was our best player on the night.

[Emily]

I agree with Jimmy about McPhee. He didn't look comfortable at right back and has much more of an impact when he plays in midfield, so why didn't Ricketts start?

 

Lance had a bad game last night too. There was no communication between him and the defence. One thing I noticed this season was that Lance had become more vocal, to his benefit. The silence last night was deafening and cost us dearly.

 

Earlier this season Liam was interviewed about Akinde and the importance of resting a new young player. So why isn't he being rested when he's played a few games now showing signs of tiredness. We could have started the game with Purcell last night (not something I'd normally advocate!) as when he came on the game changed completely, like we actually wanted to win.

 

Our website and the BBC are crediting Bostwick with the goal, but I thought it came off Akinde. I guess it's an easy mistake to make!