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Rhodes Grand Master

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Tring Athletic must be slightly disappointed with this season compared to last, I had a gut feeling it might not go well at Cow Lane when they failed to win a pre-season friendly including defeats to Hemel Hempstead Town, Wealdstone, Kings Langley and Redbridge

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Tring Athletic must be slightly disappointed with this season compared to last, I had a gut feeling it might not go well at Cow Lane when they failed to win a pre-season friendly including defeats to Hemel Hempstead Town, Wealdstone, Kings Langley and Redbridge

Yes Rhodes you ave got a bite! in what way would losing to sides from a higher level with the exception of kings langley lead anyone to believe tring were in for a tough season,, the fact that the previous manager at tring was paying players out of his own pocket made for a difficult transition for the new manager who is not paying the players,i would think most tring followers are reasonably satisfied with this season , but reasonable ,measured thinking do not appear to be your strong points.
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Rhodes Grand Master

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Patrick - Don't get me wrong as I'm Tring Athletic's biggest fan, I was at the first game of the season at Hertford Town and although they won 3-1 I just had a feeling in my water that they weren't going to pull up any trees this season compared to last. One example is losing twice at home to Haringey Borough by the same 3-2 scoreline, I appreciate that Haringey are much improved this season however it used to be unheard of for them to win at Cow Lane let alone twice in a season.

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Rhodes, pay attention, just last week they are the only team in 14 games to deservedly take points off of AFC....they can't be to shoody, the bas###ds! :D

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Cliff, Well I might as well answer you, Yes a tough pre-season, I took the team over at the end of June, so a tricky time with up to 10 players already gone elsewhere for a number of different reasons. We as a club had already committed to an excellent but testing pre-season of Slough, Wealdstone, Kings Langley, Leighton and Redbridge, thrown into that was a Herts charity game v Hemel, so we knew it was going to be tough for our previous settled side, but what with building a new team it became a real learning curve, but a terrific experience

 

One thing I would say it is great to be asked to play against these teams pre-season, they are organised well drilled and are set up to play football on what are great surfaces at that time of year, far rather these games than pre season training or games against same level sides. I would like to think these step 3 and 4 sides would like to come to teams with decent facilities, a good pitch and who want to try and match them for football.

 

Interesting to note that 4 of these sides have gone on to do rather well this season, Slough 2nd in evo stick division, Wealdstone Semi final of the FA Trophy, Redbridge losing to the Crawley in the 2nd round of the FA Cup, and Kings Langley have reached two finals so far. Ironically we won 4 of our first 5 league and cup games so the games appeared not to have had too adverse effect on us. We also took on a mid season friendly v Hendon, to me it just too good an opportunity to turn down and breaks up the usual game pattern.

 

Disappointing is not for me to judge but after having to build a new side in pre season, 6th in the league, 3 semi finals, very unluckily beaten 1-0 in Prem cup away to Royston, Challenge cup v Hillingdon and St Marys cup v Oxhey Jets still to come, is not too shabby, I would think 95% of the league would settle for this.

 

To give you an insight, we lost two players early season to horrendous injuries, then there were two games before xmas when we genuinely had 14 players injured or unavailable, and to cap it we lost one of our forwards to Hitchin town, all issues that every club of our level go through, without no budget we have quite rightly used the clubs player pool to keep us going and in turn still keep us competitive.

 

The side this season cannot be judged against what went previously, as we are set up under different conditions, I cannot comment what went on before me, my only concern is what we do going forward, we will be a better side next season, that will be the time to judge us.

 

Rhodes, Its not just about on the pitch that you can judge a club, there has been a whole lot of thankless work gone on behind the scenes this season at Tring in securing the freehold that guarantees football forever at Tring Ath, That has to be a massive plus, that far out weighs anything that will go on the pitch this season.

 

Next time sit down to your key board have a think about what you are going to write, and at least try and get some of the facts right, even if you dont have a clue what is really going on.

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You forgot to mention the Tring Athletic Ladies team and their achievement in reaching the final of the Herts Women's Cup and a date with Arsenal Ladies Reserves next weekend

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Rhodes Grand Master

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Wisezola - Losing to Hillingdon Borough on Tuesday evening must have been a body blow for the Club

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Rhodes Grand Master

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You forgot to mention the Tring Athletic Ladies team and their achievement in reaching the final of the Herts Women's Cup and a date with Arsenal Ladies Reserves next weekend

I see that the Final was a rout, 6-0 to Arsenal Ladies Reserves:

 

http://www.tafc.co.uk/report.php?fixture_id=1802

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You forgot to mention the Tring Athletic Ladies team and their achievement in reaching the final of the Herts Women's Cup and a date with Arsenal Ladies Reserves next weekend

I see that the Final was a rout, 6-0 to Arsenal Ladies Reserves:

 

http://www.tafc.co.u...fixture_id=1802

 

Scoreline is quite right but certainly no disgrace considering the level Arsenal play at,

 

Our ladies are doing the club proud this season

 

http://www.arsenal.com/ladies/reserves-table

 

http://www.arsenal.com/ladies/reserves-fixtures

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Rhodes Grand Master

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Scoreline is quite right but certainly no disgrace

TringArmy - Where did I say that the result was a disgrace

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I see that the Final was a rout, 6-0 to Arsenal Ladies Reserves:

 

My spies at the game have said Tring Athletic gave an excellent account of themselves and the scoreline was no reflection on the game.

And not a bad programme either :P

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