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Enfield Town got the first goal from a penalty through Snowny and matched them well for the first 15 minutes. After that Town were given a masterclass by the awesome Stortford. Those that remember Glen Southam from his EFC days he got a hat-trick and Grant Cooper looked solid at the back in his debut for Stortford.

 

I think that we will learn a lot from this experience as unpleasant as it is distasteful. The weaknesses were laid bare for all to see and I will not name the guilty for they know who they were. Some critics will say why did we take on Stortford knowing full well would be beat but if you keep winning you cannot tell if you are improving.

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Blimey !!

I am almost glad I could not make it to this one.

 

Oh well its only a friendly and Stortford have now twice proved to us that they really are a good side, best wishes to them for their comming season.

 

We will have to take this one on the chin, learn from any mistakes and look for the positives we can take from this.

 

Heads up Town boys. <img src="/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />

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Oh dear.........

Thank god it was just a friendly...!

 

I dont want to state the obvious but they played really well and we played very badly....

 

In my opinion the system we adopted didn't work, we had no width and no outlet. Polish Pete is a good forward if he is playing with someone up front but as a lone striker.....not big or strong enough....

 

The midfield.....we didn't track runners and left our defense (who also had a poor game) very exposed....Ball retention was also poor.

 

I think the only player who can hold his head held high is Disco <img src="/images/graemlins/afro.gif" alt="" /> Dave Allen......In fact on a better day he could have had a hat trick...

 

Good to see Bradley Brotherton back....he also did well when he came on....

 

I would like to add that although Stortford are a Ryman premier team, in my opinion 5 out of the 8 goals were gifts and mistakes from the officials......

 

This could be a very valuable learning experience for our lads........but thats the thing...we MUST learn from it....

 

At the end of the day.......The current team will not be playing for ETFC in the Ryman Premier when we make it and we must remember that they are currently playing for the cause and definately good enough to win us the ESL again.

 

 

Right after that i'm gonna have a cup of tea...!

 

 

 

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well said. Stortford are good yes , but 8-1? With you losing clarke the main threat has gone and also looks like you need some new defenders .

 

btw where has clarke gone?

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You are right...things aren't going too well.....but saying that Stortford have really improved from the last 2 years.....

 

once we get everyone fit.....and used to eachother.....there wont be a problem.....

8-1 does bloody hurt though......even if its a psf

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We were spanked but it is not the end of the world as we know it. When we changed the defensive formation back to the old back line things began to settle down but that was about 5 minutes from time.

 

Stortford had clearly improved since our last meeting and we haven't. Shame JR wasn't fit because he can quite clearly play at that level where as others were left chasing shadows.

 

We can score right down the order it is just occasionally we develop a drought.

 

Let's see who the line-up is for Saturday and what the result is. Aveley have got to fancy their chances though.

 

 

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Mick Mean it Magnusson said:
did essandoh bag any goals??


yes; he looked a different class again.

we seemed to gift them everything down the right hand side.

no threat up front

Matty and Tommy moving all over the place; and Tommy playing too deep

Dave did well


"things can only get betta"
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[Disco Dave Allen - told you so! <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />


Hi my Invisible friend, how are you ?

Does this mean there is a possibility that Disco will be with us this season, I truely hope so.

Lets not get too worked up by this result, it was a pre-season friendly.
JC is always going to use these to try players and systems out, sadly last night things did not go well and a very useful ryman premier outfit spanked us.

as was said before, learn from it and move on.

must say I liked what I saw of Peter U'Ski last season and I agree with another decent strike partner I think we will be fine.

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Sry Mr Wisdom...its Arlesey Town on Saturday....just in case you turn up at the wrong place...

 

So of the new faces who do u think is good enough to add to the squad....

 

Forget about last night....new faces and old faces collectively played badly....

 

 

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I think if we can find the right partner for Pete,we'll be allright....I.ve just got a nasty feeling D.Clarke will come back to haunt us.

 

Last season ,when competing against Ryman premier opposition,we had players like saint,turner Clarke,Alleyne ...who had played at that level,and as such we could compete with premier sides.

 

Our priority MUST be to win the E.S.L(and i think we can)......Having said that,i'm not sure how many of our current squad we can take with us, as we(hopefully) progress into the Ryman1 and beyond,.....Who knows?? maybe 6 or 7.

 

But lets take one step at a time,and worry about that when the time comes.

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