V St Albans City. 27th Oct

[Irishadrian]

For once I'm not sure how to assess this one St Albans are our league's top goal scorers but 19th in goals conceded very much a team that can be excellent one game and mediocre the next  They had a few recent incidents that may affect them  One regular left at short notice for Stevenage One has been declared probably out for the season due to injury and another was sacked by management  after a Billericay player became an unwilling blood donor after they clashed   As always my heart tells me to go with the Rebels and I believe we won't return empty handed.

[Jon Underwood]

The guy who went to Stevenage was their secretary I believe so won’t make much of a difference! (No offence Kay)

[A Rebel and a Saint]

We've got about a dozen spaces on the coach to the game. Book your space by getting in touch with Alan or Mike.

[Irishadrian]

11 hours ago, Jafooly said:

Thanks for that info Jon

 

[Banny]

2 hours ago, A Rebel and a Saint said:

We've got about a dozen spaces on the coach to the game. Book your space by getting in touch with Alan or Mike.

Very limited parking, local roads restricted, a parking wardens dream. GO BY COACH.

[Stan]

Is there a local hostelry where the non-coachers  are meeting beforehand to wet the vocal chords ? 

[Curtis]

If we manage to pick up a minimum of three points from the combination of this match and the visit to Hemel on Tuesday then we will have done well.

[Alan Greenaway]

St Albans are averaging just over 700 at home games.  I believe we could have 150 + at the game. Plenty of noise during the game could make a real difference, we are beginning to build up a head of steam with our support and some clubs are now talking about our away support.

This and the Hemel game will be a good indication where we are in terms of standard, Obviously 6 points would be fantastic but I would settle for 4.

Coming from Kings Langley these will feel like home games to me.

[Reading Rebel]

9 minutes ago, Curtis said:

If we manage to pick up a minimum of three points from the combination of this match and the visit to Hemel on Tuesday then we will have done well.

Don't want to lose a game so I'd say a minimum of 4 points would be a good return from two very difficult away games.

[GlenSTFC]

We’re above both teams (I know it’s only a few points!) and we’re in great form so I don’t see any reason why we can’t win both and be aiming for a minimum of 4 points. Plus with both matches being fairly local we should take decent numbers too.

[Windsor Rebel]

2 hours ago, Stan said:

Is there a local hostelry where the non-coachers  are meeting beforehand to wet the vocal chords ? 

Stan a few of us are meeting in the Waterend Barn (Wetherspoons) from 1 PM onwards

[Stuntman Mark]

I recommend The Robin Hood and The Mermaid both a short walk to the ground. There is no shortage of excellent pubs in St Albans.

 

[PaxtonLee]

No grumbles at the result today, StAlbans were the better side and they were able to score during their spells of pressure. We seemed to bypass the midfield for large parts and were feeding off scraps up front. Did well to make it interesting at the end but one of those games we probably expected to have more of when stepping up a league than has been the case, which is credit. 

[Reading Rebel]

Disappointing performance and result against an average looking St Albans side.

I thought Jack Turner, Sam Togwell, Lee Togwell and Matty Stevens had decent games but in all honesty too many other players had an off day.

We started the game well but once we took the lead we seemed to drop off the pace of the game and the equalizer always looked to be coming.

The second half followed a similar pattern with St Albans looking the more livelier scoring twice through some not so good defending.

Credit to the team for not giving up and for the last 10 minutes or so we put their suspect defence under some sort of pressure with Floody getting a goal to make the final score 3-2. 

 

[Jafooly]

We are not going to win every game this year. It is important though that we pick up maximum points at home and then try to get some when we can on the road. I would say we are nearly half way to “safety”. Roughly 45 points could see us safe, the sooner we can get that the pressure will drop and we can start looking up the table and chase teams down.

 

With a ref as biased as the one today it makes it tricky to win, but with that said we didn’t do enough to deserve 3 points anyway.

comedy moment when the ref was talking to their giant number 5 who was at least 50cm taller than him. Even with a step ladder he would have struggled to get eye to eye.

[3spirit]

RR, it wasn't a thrilling 3-2, was it?

I didn't think St Albans were the better team, as Paxton Lee alluded to. I just thought they took their chances. Slough can play a lot better than that and I'm sure St Albans can.

Not a game that will last long in the memory. Let's hope for better at Hemel.

[PaxtonLee]

Agree that for a 3-2 it wasn't "thrilling". In terms of them being a better side, I thought they sustained pressure for spells, played some clever balls around the box and had willing runners with the ball (their number 8 springs to mind), things we can do but didn't on the day. 

[Reading Rebel]

15 minutes ago, 3spirit said:

RR, it wasn't a thrilling 3-2, was it?

I didn't think St Albans were the better team, as Paxton Lee alluded to. I just thought they took their chances. Slough can play a lot better than that and I'm sure St Albans can.

Not a game that will last long in the memory. Let's hope for better at Hemel.

Correct, it wasn't thrilling.

I certainly think St Albans were the better team on the day. They seemed that much quicker to the ball and to react to certain situations than us.

Still it's good that we have a game on Tuesday to put things right.

[epicrebel]

Highlights.

Look like we have more of the chances, so not so bad.

http://www.thenationalleague.org.uk/match-info/match-centre/1-3614889

 

[kirk]

yes they were the better team but you gotta ask yourself,does this rotation system work.our best striker sat on the bench for most of the game and our best playmaker( in my opinion) was substituted when we needed goals.