Last man?

[chessy boy]

best goal of the game reece jackson volley. very similar to gareth bales at the weekend.

 

 

Got to agree there cracking volly from Reece, pomeroy's lob was a nice finish too.

[UK Sub]

I agree that is can be frustrating and it does appear that the referee on this occasion may have got it wrong, certainly as far as we all understand the rules to be at the present time.

The big problem we have is that this happens all over the football world and officials do make mistakes, and that has always been the case. I defy anyone to say that they have never been the receipent of a dodgy decision going their way in the past that they have gratefully accepted.

However, if we open posts about these every week, the forum will be awash with discussions about decisions that went against us and we end up blaming referee for all our failings.

This season we have had new referees in most games and I must say that they have all be good. The existing ones have as well, apart from the one at Guildford who was an embarrasment to the league. We drew 1-1 there, by the way, so the result has no bearing on that point of view.

Our referee at Hanworth on Saturday was fine, although there were a couple of choices he made that I would disagree with, but his overall performance was very good over the 90 minute period. We lost 2-0.

Our team selection and system did not work on the day and this was a mistake on my part. At half time we probably should have changed this but didn't, although the damage had been done.The two goals conceded were from basic mistakes by our players and the few chances missed were poor decisions by the relevant player. The odd decision going against us had no bearing on the result or performance, it was totally down to all those involved on the football side at Molesey, plus the fact that Hanworth did what was required to win.

I see that the end result at Chalky Lane was 6-5, so some things clearly went extremely well on the day - attacking play - but equally so the defensive issues would appear to require attention.

What I do hear from other sources - not my friend Heinz this time - is that it was a cracking end to end tussle and really went to the wire, so that is something that should be applauded and emphasised.

As the people at Egham will be aware, I know them all very well and they are very knowledgeable people, so I have no reason to think they have not got their facts right and they may well have a point.

I just think that we should look at ourselves as well and accept we all make mistakes, but let's be honest and say we are all as fallible as each other.

I would much rather talk/hear about great games and great goals - which this fixture seemed to fit into the category of - than errors by officials.

Having said all this, I just hope that we don't lose to an offside goal in the last minute tomorrow night now!

Now, from someone who was at the game - talk us through the best goal of the 11!

 

Dont get me wrong I accept that mistakes are inevitably made by referees and I accept them the same way we all do but I (personally) have never felt the need to have a word with the ref at the end of a match. Even if Egham had won I would have wanted to say what I thought of him at the end.

 

Possibly best to ask a neutral what the best goal of the match was though. Not that I would be biased, its just that I want to move on to the next match not dwell on what might have been.

[tempestward]

I agree that is can be frustrating and it does appear that the referee on this occasion may have got it wrong, certainly as far as we all understand the rules to be at the present time.

The big problem we have is that this happens all over the football world and officials do make mistakes, and that has always been the case. I defy anyone to say that they have never been the receipent of a dodgy decision going their way in the past that they have gratefully accepted.

However, if we open posts about these every week, the forum will be awash with discussions about decisions that went against us and we end up blaming referee for all our failings.

This season we have had new referees in most games and I must say that they have all be good. The existing ones have as well, apart from the one at Guildford who was an embarrasment to the league. We drew 1-1 there, by the way, so the result has no bearing on that point of view.

Our referee at Hanworth on Saturday was fine, although there were a couple of choices he made that I would disagree with, but his overall performance was very good over the 90 minute period. We lost 2-0.

Our team selection and system did not work on the day and this was a mistake on my part. At half time we probably should have changed this but didn't, although the damage had been done.The two goals conceded were from basic mistakes by our players and the few chances missed were poor decisions by the relevant player. The odd decision going against us had no bearing on the result or performance, it was totally down to all those involved on the football side at Molesey, plus the fact that Hanworth did what was required to win.

I see that the end result at Chalky Lane was 6-5, so some things clearly went extremely well on the day - attacking play - but equally so the defensive issues would appear to require attention.

What I do hear from other sources - not my friend Heinz this time - is that it was a cracking end to end tussle and really went to the wire, so that is something that should be applauded and emphasised.

As the people at Egham will be aware, I know them all very well and they are very knowledgeable people, so I have no reason to think they have not got their facts right and they may well have a point.

I just think that we should look at ourselves as well and accept we all make mistakes, but let's be honest and say we are all as fallible as each other.

I would much rather talk/hear about great games and great goals - which this fixture seemed to fit into the category of - than errors by officials.

Having said all this, I just hope that we don't lose to an offside goal in the last minute tomorrow night now!

Now, from someone who was at the game - talk us through the best goal of the 11!

 

Dont get me wrong I accept that mistakes are inevitably made by referees and I accept them the same way we all do but I (personally) have never felt the need to have a word with the ref at the end of a match. Even if Egham had won I would have wanted to say what I thought of him at the end.

 

Possibly best to ask a neutral what the best goal of the match was though. Not that I would be biased, its just that I want to move on to the next match not dwell on what might have been.

[tempestward]

As has been said before, the best Chessington goal was the volleyed wallop from Reece Jackson and our best was the calm, composed lob from John Pomroy. Had the game ended like that this thread would never have needed to be started. Let's see if the home game against Ash United (who said throttling the League's most irksome fan?) can maintain such a high level of interest...