Slough Town 3 - 2 Windsor & Eton

[The Hovis Kid]

Well then there is an old saying that on Derby Day form goes out of the Window and today was certainly evident of that!

 

Might as well get my view out on here first as I have opted out of the pub this evening

[Nathan]

Originally Posted By: The Hovis Kid

Windsor

[dansilk]

Well, we certainly wasted enough chances to equalise it as well. If we'd played that hard with all 11 we might even have won... which we didn't deserve. I thought Slough worked with the conditions better, more passing and less hit-and-hope.

 

But the referee, ye gods, what kind of blinkers was he wearing? Booking Chennels of all people for "persistent fouling"?? Chennels? He just doesn't foul, quite the opposite. His only previous booking I can recall, in 18 months or so, was from Alison Chapmen...

And I truly couldn't work out why Butler was booked: I'm guessing he was questioning the award/placing of the throw-in which had just happened, he looked polite, wasn't being aggressive, so how does that get a yellow?

 

Coyney I heard was sent off not for the tackle (which after all he won) but for abusing the linesman. Don't know. Willo's yellow was deserved, he was being rather reckless in the first half, and there was one other which looked merited (forgotten which), but by my count we only had two or three players *without* bookings by the end of the game. Sorry, I just didn't see that level of indiscipline - and if there really was then it's awful refereeing to let things go so far!

[charlie]

actually, to be fair, Chennels was throwing elbows all over the place today. But agree on the whole that the ref was pretty poor today. The problem was he obviously set out to be "the big man" early on and booked a few players for minor offenses, which meant that when it came to bigger, more warranted decisions (such as your 8's dirty challenge on Makh just before Coyne was sent off) he bottled them.

[mal316]

The same way he bottled sending off Fermie for an even more disguisting challenge on Mark Cooper in the closing minutes.

[Fuzzy Royal]

Honestly I would say that Slough deserved the victory(damn that hurts!!) We didn't play how we could and Slough played well. We could have won it with our chances in he second half but didn't and that is what footy is all about. Well done Slough and good luck for the season, as for not going up (as the Slough fans kept singing) we shall see.

Well we have to build for the next game and I am sure we shall. Today hurt but we shall come back

UTR !!!

[Fuzzy Royal]

The ref was awful, but a few bookings either way were poor and i didn't see the sending off properly, but I have seen worse not given and easier given so I don't know. Thought the ref was poor but not necessarily in our favour. Lets just put this behind us and get on with it.

Scott is a good manager and the team are good enough to get promoted.

Keep it going Scotty and 2 cups and a promorion are in our hands

[Mrs_Cat]

Yesterday was just one of those days. Nothing seemed to go right.....a sending off, OG, Penalty and Bullivant making possibly his first mistake of the season.

 

The ref was dire all game, I know I am biased but we did seem to bare the brunt of his bad decisions, my favourite was stopping play while we were on the attack because the Slough no5 had lost a contact lens! He had managed to walk from the 6 yard box to the halfway line unaided; surely he could have made it off the pitch unaided as well!

 

As we were all saying before the game though, if we were going to lose 1 game this month then this was possibly the best one to lose (from a promotion point of view). A big win next week against Totton and this game will seem like a distant memory.

 

It's still p1ssed me off losing to Slough though!

 

[Fuzzy Royal]

MOM I would probably agree that Evans was superb at the back for Slough. He did get away with holding Chennels a lot, which is why I guess he reacted and got booked, but it is what a good defender can do, just shows the value of experience. Chenns just didn't look like he was going to score, that header, the one on one the amount that went over the bar, it just goes on. But one game out of three seasons, not a bad ratio I guess LOL!!

What saddens me is both teams will probably rate the ref 6/10 or whatever so that they don't have to put a report in and stop him taking charge of another game. Compare him to the ref the week before (yes we won that game!!!) but he appreciated the top of the table clash and accepted some challenges were hard but there was animosity in the game. Even at the end when that disgusting challenge came in he stopped what could have been a mass punch up and a bucket full of cards. Well the last couple of games must be very pleasing for Truro and Totten, 2 key players have been sidelined (Joe & Coyne) and who knows what else with the raft of cards from Slough game. I think we have the squad to cover this but it never helps.....

[Chris]

How come you only named four subs? Injuries are not that bad are they?

[Windsor_Sec]

Fuzzy, they won't discipline a referee on the basis of club marks although I will be writing a report later today. What actually happens is you give them a low mark and they keep sending him back to our games until he gets a better mark ie the FA seeing the marks think he's improved, whereas in reality you get so peed off with seeing him that you mark him 100 just to get rid of him!

Mrs Cat - not only did he stop the game for the contact lens incident but the player then came back on without permission which is a mandatory yellow card offence - shame the ref couldn't even get the easy ones correct!

[BFR]

Correct Windsor Sec - how Williams stayed on the field nobody will ever know.

[Windsor Rebel]

I thought the turning point of the match was the sending off of Coyne. We were stood right next to it, and we all thought that it should have been a yellow only. However, Williams, already booked, did a bad trackle on Makh which was worse and went unpunished minutes earlier, so i got the impression that the ref was atoning for his previous error of not giving Williams the red. I was talking to a few Windsor fans (Spud and a few of the guys who go in the Three Elms) in the bar after and they thought it was a fair result, although we were hanging in there at the end. Lets hope we can do you a favour at Truro on Saturday. All the best.

[MISM - WEFC]

the ref was a complete tit and got a lot wrong, he wouldnt be fit to ref one of my sunday league games!!!

 

on the whole slough wanted it more the us and deserved there 3 points, mind you i think had coyne not been sent off the result would have been different.

 

now slough need to do us a favour and get a result against truro!

[Windsor Rebel]

MISM-WEFC: you are right about the ref, and the linesman down our side in the first half looked like a scared rabbit and was no help to the ref at all. Coyne looked dangerous i agree, we will do our best at Truro for you, how about that?

[Fuzzy Royal]

Well Steve, at least we know this ref will get good grades wherever he goes and will probably get a prime game, probably have him Saturday or against Truro?!?!?! If both clubs complain, and make the same complaint, surely they will do something about him. Or are there simply not enough refs around so this is the best we can hope for?

[Giant Reed]

Apparently,the number of wild referees has been declining at an alarming rate over the last decade.

 

Habitat loss,deforestisation,and climate change are all thought to be contributing factors.

 

In order to address this problem the FA are planning to introduce a captive breeding programme in the very near future.

[Windsor_Sec]

Yes, and Graham Poll was the prototype !!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Fuzzy Royal]

I heard Alison Chapman was the hope for the next generation, we're all hoping octuplets surely!!!!!