Ed Smith

[Sir Rebel1965]

Now up to 82 goals and goes above Ian Hodges in the all time list - 1 more to equal Bobby Hatt

[Ian]

Is that counting today as 2 or 3?!

[Sir Rebel1965]

2

[epicrebel]

Ed got 3 1 short of equaling Westy's total (info from daniel)

Edited January 17, 2015 by epicrebel

[Reading Rebel]

Apparently Ed touched the ball first and it was on target so goal to the goal machine  

[Mr Rebel]

Smith definitely got a touch from what i could see before it then hit the defender also. think would be harsh to not give it to Smith

 

either way he been a superb scorer for us and scoring at a great rate as well. can get a fair few more not only this season but in the next few years hopefully

[The Cameraman]

I will be giving the goal to Ed Smith on the official highlights as I had no idea from my angle/looking through the viewfinder at the time that it 'was' an Own Goal.

I therefore zoomed the camera in on Ed after the ball went in, and not the defender, so it would look a bit silly if I put a caption up saying 'Own Goal' ! 

[codpiece]

Perhaps Gary can provide a clearer view of the goal with one of his snaps.

[Brighton on holiday]

Weymouth paper saying it was own goal. Not that i really care. 3-0!

[epicrebel]

I was behind that goal. Ed headed the ball towards goal and it just touched (skimmed) by the defender who was jumping with Ed. 

[Mark44]

Officially scored the most goals for us in the 21st century

[Graham Cox]

Definitely back to his best--------effort and endeavour as well as goals

[Matt]

Just on the Smith second goal / own goal, I tweeted that it was an own goal on the basis that Smith did get a head to the cross, but it was not a clean contact and looked to be going wide. The ball then struck the surprised defender and went in. I was in as good a position as any to see it. I was surprised to see it given as a Smith goal personally, but to be credited with all three caps a great performance from him.

Edited January 17, 2015 by Matt

[Reading Rebel]

Best performance by Ed since the Rugby play-off game??

 

Or was it better?

[Don Juan DeMarcus]

Rugby was better for me. As he literally ran the show apart from the flying fireman Wooz who played left wing for half the game. I think today he was much better assisted from those round him.

[HorshamRebel]

The only thing that counts is that it "Officially" given to Ed regardless of what others think, so it's his goal in the history books

[RebelDelaney]

Watched the great Bobby Hatt in his hey day playing along side John Delaney the Hartridge brothers and Terry Reardon but did not realise he scored so many goals.

[epicrebel]

As I said from my standing point (near post as the cross came in) Ed headed it on goal (far post) and it got a deflection and in.

[Don Juan DeMarcus]

As said earlier from far post it looked as if ed got very little on it and hardly changed the path of the ball. I personally think it would have gone for a throw. Glad eds got the ht. gutted that new fans favourite "our ball" number 5 didn't. Sad for him

[GarySTFC]

Own goal for me.