ETFC v Brentwood

[littlehampton]

Half Time Score 0 - 0

[townerboy]

must win?

[littlehampton]

must win?

You bet! There's still time............we can only hope!!

[littlehampton]

Bad news I'm afraid.

 

Losing 0 -1 (81 minutes)

[littlehampton]

Final Score Lost 0 - 1

 

Very, very disappointing score-line.

 

Will Brimsdown be the graveyard for our play-off hopes. Hopefully not, but what has happened to our goal-scoring recently?

[townerboy]

agree with you LH. our home form is going to ruin this season

[andyetfc]

Our man of the match was the woodwork! It saved us on numerous occasions.

 

Not a good performance with Andy Hall having little to do in the Brentwood goal.

 

 

[westie]

Our man of the match was the woodwork! It saved us on numerous occasions.

 

Not a good performance with Andy Hall having little to do in the Brentwood goal.

 

 

 

Agree Andy what an earth has happened to the fast flowing football the team served up a few weeks ago !!! and please lets not blame the state of the pitch, remember how well we played on the pitch at redbridge.

Moving away from football for a moment does anyone out there know how Dell Deanus is getting on.

[Enfield United]

Bad result and not a clever performance to go with it.

 

I think the players need to really dust themselves down after this and take a look at themselves and ask have they got what it takes to get us where we want to be. If not then stand aside and let the one's who can step in. We can do without injuries to key players too.

 

We need to get right behind the lad's for Tuesday and support them to get back on track. The gate of 255 today shows the supporters are trickling back, the players now need to pull out a few results to keep them coming in.

 

Up The Town

[Stone Cold]

Our man of the match was the woodwork! It saved us on numerous occasions.

 

Not a good performance with Andy Hall having little to do in the Brentwood goal.

 

 

 

 

I think the referee touched the ball more than Andy Hall!!

 

It was a shocking performance, we could not pass in midfield, Rudi & Jonah continually looking at eachother as if to say its your ball. Kirby rushes to tackle then stands aside to let there attacker pass while holding his hands up. You cant fault the lads upfront as quite honestly the ball never got as far as them and then they bring on Hammett who does nothing except get himself stupidly booked.

 

If (and after that performance its a big IF) we somehow manage to scrape a playoff place then at least it will be a 5th placed finish which then means away games for the semi and if we reach it, the final which based on our record at Brimsdown EN3 1893 would be a blessing in disguise!

[Enfield United]

Recent results (the last 4 matches) has left us needing good points tally from matches with Heybridge (who are in form), needham, Gray's and romford. I'd say 3 wins a draw is a minimum with a budget of one defeat in there. The fixtures are showing the play-off/title chasing team's all playing each other over the next few weeks and without sticking a death nail in our hopes, I would have paid for our run in to the end of the season with Forest, Ware, Thamesmead, Ilford, Cheshunt awaiting us.

 

I still believe Play Off's are achieveable but I also believe it can be achieved With a fully fit 1st XI and players not to stop believing in themselves.

[OldTowner]

Recent results (the last 4 matches) has left us needing good points tally from matches with Heybridge (who are in form), needham, Gray's and romford. I'd say 3 wins a draw is a minimum with a budget of one defeat in there. The fixtures are showing the play-off/title chasing team's all playing each other over the next few weeks and without sticking a death nail in our hopes, I would have paid for our run in to the end of the season with Forest, Ware, Thamesmead, Ilford, Cheshunt awaiting us.

 

I still believe Play Off's are achieveable but I also believe it can be achieved With a fully fit 1st XI and players not to stop believing in themselves.

 

 

Don't wish to be doom and gloom, but, look at the facts.

 

The last 3 home games have been no better than awfull. Three very poor performances and 1 point in the 94th min v Rumford.

Don't start blaming the pitch as all three teams in those games managed okay.

 

Look at our fixtures and calculate the points.

Away - Wabbey, Heybridge, Grays and Rumford will be difficult.

Home - current form they will all be hard, but lets say Needham, Heybridge and Redbridge will be difficult.

So I make that - say 6 wins - not enough I am afraid.

 

I go back to comments earlier - attitude and passion seem to have gone from our play and we desperately need a goal-scorer.

 

Yesterday was very very poor.

It is not about going down 0 - 1 , it is how we did it.

How many shots did Chopper have to save ?

 

I will be there supporting the team, but let's be honest, on current performances, we are just not good enough to go up.

There is no "spark" to the team and no one player is stepping forward to pull the others through.

[Steph]

I thought Andy Jones and Gio had good games..

 

 

 

You cannot keep changing a team and expect success. We have been badly let down by injuries and other absences. It is clear that Leon is carrying a knock and I thought, at one time, he was going to be subbed before Adam.

 

 

The current side does not recover from defending quick enough. The problem must lie in the middle of the park and think of who was missing from that area yesterday. Adam, Moore, Forward, Bardle have all been regular players in recent weeks and certainly during our successful games against Sudbury and Brentwood. Players of this calibre cannot be replaced easily.

 

We can still clearly make the play offs and we are good enough with a full strength team. The season isn't over till its over and many teams will struggle in the run in as injuries and lack of recovery time take their toll.

[andyetfc]

It certainly didn't help matters with RH getting booked early on which meant he was living on a tightrope for the rest of the game. Mind you, on another day he could have been sent off by the time he received his yellow card.

[big guy]

we need players to give 100% or more not a teamperformance and yesturday i dont think half the team made more the 70% we got the players to take us up wake up town and fight for the three points for each gameand no more slopy passing /playing each give 100% and we can do it come on !!!!!

[Enfield United]

All good valid views above.

 

Lets use an old saying of it's one game at a time for our team now, even though i've looked ahead to our run in. A win at Abbey and the mood changes. I've a gut feeling that the starting team will be taking the field on tuesday with a rocket launcher up every Ar5e having seen Steve's thunderous look in his face after Saturday's

game. I would not be surprised if he rip's up that line up and freshen's things up. I think as supporters we would all do the same.

 

Good to read in the comments above of everyones continued will to support the team in their moment of need.

[big guy]

E U we will all continue to support the townthere never has been antime when i wouldnt,its just frustrating that we can play football and beat the others easy but ether at prescent wont or cant and this needs to be addressed.

 

 

 

[scoopydoo]

Enfield Town (0)0

 

Brentwood Town (0) 1 Doyle 80(p)

 

Attendance 225

 

Enfield Town failed to carry over the level of performance from the last meeting between these two sides and instead contrived to give former Towner Andy Hall one of his quietest afternoons between the posts. On a tricky surface, Brentwood took control of the first half having by far the better of the chances. Ryan Edgar came close to opening the scoring, curling a shot close past the top corner, and Sos Yao wasted a good opportunity but Enfield Keeper Rob Blackburne was alert to the danger. Enfield’s Adam Wallace put in a few testing runs, but was soon withdrawn with a recurring injury. His absence didn’t help the home side who struggled to get past the Brentwood defence. At the other end Steve Butterworth was allowed to advance easily to the last third, but Craig McKay and Mark Kirby were usually able to snuff out any threat. Butterworth did play Sos Yao into a good position, but Enfield keeper Rob Blackburne stood up well to block his shot. Further shots from Yao, Edgar and Butterworth threatened the Enfield goal, as Brentwood maintained their momentum, and the home side only started to create chances late in the half. Leon Osei had a low drive charged down, and Mark Kirby should have done better than firing over after being picked out at the back post by Jordan Lockie. A free kick on the stroke of half time summed up Enfield’s half after indecision over the kicker ended with it being fired over the bar.

 

The second half saw Enfield a little more composed and an Andy Jones free kick was held by Andy Hall. Danny Dafter breathed a sigh of relief when a sliced clearance skimmed past his own post. Kirby then had a shot narrowly miss the post, Brentwood were riding out the pressure and could have struck on the break when Butterworth was only denied by a well timed intervention from Jey Siva. Despite further Enfield Chances for Morton and Kirby, they could not maintain the pressure and Brentwood’s Yao hit the post with Blackburne beaten and after a run across the area, Edgar picked out Steve Butterworth who slid the ball past Blackburne only for the wood work to come to his rescue a second time. Brentwood eventually got their just desserts when a headed clearance from Jordan Lockie fell to Edgar. Trying to make amends, Lockie upended Edgar in the box and Ryan Doyle scored from the penalty spot. Butterworth came close to sealing it in the final minute flashing a shot across the Enfield goal, but in the end it didn’t matter.

 

 

 

Enfield Town: Rob Blackburne, Jordan Lockie, Jey Siva, Craig McKay, Mark Kirby, Andy Jones, Richard Morton(Bryan Hammatt 72), Rudi Hall(Jon Stevenson 59), Liam Hope, Adam Wallace (Stuart Blackburne 23), Leon Osei.

 

Subs Not Used: Dave Kendall, Joe Stevens.

 

Booked: Hall, Hammatt.

 

Brentwood Town: Andy Hall, Ryan Doyle, Ted Llewellyn, Martyn Stokes, Darren Blewitt, Danny Dafter, James Love(Leon Fisher 78), Ross Parmenter, Sos Yao(Ashley Hawkins 69), Ryan Edgar, Steve Butterworth.

 

Subs Not Used: Rob Whitnell, Ben Cracey, Tim Pitman.

 

Booked: Blewitt, Doyle.

 

 

[littlehampton]

What I personally find so very sad and depressing about this match result, and our home form generally, is that at the start of this season we were quite rightly rated as one of the strong favourites for promotion. Now, for some inexplicable reason, most of the early season euphoria has evaporated, our form is erratic, and we now realistically find ourselves having to rely, to a great extent, upon other peoples results to somehow help secure a place in the play-offs.

 

Have compared Saturday's line-up ( shown in the match report above ) with our starting line-up at Brentwood three short weeks ago, it is quite interesting to note that we fielded nine of the same players who hammered Brentwood 6-0 so convincingly on their own ground, with a hat-trick from Leon Osei and goals from Liam Hope, Stuart Blackburne and Dan Forward. That said, how and why, with home advantage and so much at stake second time round, did we manage to put in such a below-par performance, fail to create and take chances, let Andy 'Chopper' Hall have a quiet relaxing afternoon, and then concede yet another late goal this time to ex-Towner Ryan Edgar ?

 

This match is now history, all the talking in the world won't change it. We have all got to push on and hope that the only people who can put things right, will put things right, and that our players will collectively lift their game and play with an abundance of pride and passion for the rest of the season.

 

Let's hope that happens and we start creating our own luck !!

 

 

'COME ON THE TOWN'