Daventry (h) game

[Nathan]

Clearly 2nd best. Daventry unlucky not to be ahead. We've barely strung 2 passes together, and all the workrate and Passion from last week seems to have vanished into thin air.

 

Must improve big time for the second half!

[Don Juan DeMarcus]

1 1 burnell pen equalizer

[Don Juan DeMarcus]

89 mins coyne

[Nathan]

As we didn't play at all well, this was a game we would have lost last season!

 

A somewhat better performance in the second half, but still some issues I feel need addressing - players bickering among themselves instead of concentrating, and yet another booking for dissent.

[Cookham Rebel]

Daventry are one of the better sides in this division and we were never going to have it all our own way but a win is a win and there is more steel to us this season... We weren't great but that is the problem with this league, we are a football team and won't get us much time on the ball as we would in the league above...

 

3 more points, and we march on!!!

[Cookham Rebel]

Biggleswade won 4-1, Bedworth beat Beaconsfield 4-0 and....

 

AFC Hayes beat St Neots 1-0....

[Cookham Rebel]

Also, did anyone see the players laughing their heads off when Adam Martin was getting booked and the fans behind the goal were singing the Eastenders theme tune??? Brilliant!!!

[A Rebel and a Saint]

Probably couldn't have complained if the game finished a draw, I don't think it was as bad as some people are making out. The important thing is that we took all the pressure and then went on to win the game. Thought Coyne was brilliant in midfield today. Second half I thought we edged it given those very good chances we created. Not our best game but not our worst by a long way.

Well done to the team for getting the points today, Daventry are much better than their league position suggests.

[Mr Rebel]

no team is ever going to play their best every single game

 

we have had good results and a few bad but we are sitting in a healthy position 3rd in the league only 2 points behind 1st though they have a game in hand still. considering we have not played our best on a number of occasions (including today) and picked up 3 points shows me the sign of a team very much capable of gaining automatic promotion

 

Daventry definitely look a decent side and yet we found a way to win. no team it looks like early on is going to have it all their own way. Wins like today make me believe that promotion is a definite possibility

 

Coyne fully deserved to be the match winner after his performance

 

the injury to Sincs and the fact that seemingly Murphy is suspended means next weeks FA Cup game lineup could be quite a change to what we have had the last few weeks

[Don Juan DeMarcus]

Agree with mom coyne! Thought that it was an ugly win but winning ugly wins leagues!

[Graham Cox]

Not often we get lucky .................today we did and lets be grateful especially as it meant 3 points that seemed unlikely for most of the game. Another bad ref.........where do they come from >

[Staines-upon-Thames Rebel]

A win by luck rather than judgement by the management.

 

The favorite boy stays on for 90 mins although he gave away a goal, kept up his moaning, gave up on lost balls and most passes were woefull.

[Tom]

Got an assist though didn't he?

[Nathan]

Perhaps, but there have been plenty of other occassions where he's played like that and didn't get any assists.

 

I too thought that the management got rather lucky regarding the substitutions. Personally I would have taken Sonner off for MPI, as Sonner for Abbey was merely exchanging Like with Like, when I felt that (not for the first time!) we were crying out for some physical prescence up front to counter 2 big centre-backs.

 

I also thought that the penalty, although it changed the game in our favour, was totally against the run of play.

 

However I agree that there does appear to be some steel in the side that was absent last season, and that can only be a good thing!

[Cookham Rebel]

SUTR, so who was on the bench today who can play left midfield??? We have limited options in that position!!!

[Don Juan DeMarcus]

Byrne or with a back 3 Danny murphy?

[Cookham Rebel]

Agreed Marcus but today the Byrne option was not viable due to Sinclair's injury... And I would prefer wing backs but for some reason we won't play that way with Sweeney in the team, I can only assume Bateman doesn't trust him as the right sided centre back and let's face it, Sweeney won't be dropped for Brown!!!

[Bernie Gogan]

Don't see why Sweeney couldn't be wing back.

[Cookham Rebel]

Hmm he probably could but he is a defender, and good at it, doesn't have enough trickery to play wing back for me!!!

[Don Juan DeMarcus]

Agreed I know Byrne wasn't an option but the question was who on the bench can play left mid? Also I'm sure sonner could do a job there if needed! But tbf although he didn't have a great game and was responsible for their goal swift did assist the winner!