Rebels Rewind: Slough Town v Wycombe Wanderers (1993)

[Matt]

One more (probably) Rebels Rewind tomorrow at 3pm on the club's YouTube channel, with a flashback to 1993 and the match against Wycombe at a sold-out Wexham Park. Footage courtesy of former Slough player Ian Hazel, who might have played a starring role in the match!

https://sloughtownfc.net/article/2222/Rebels-Rewind:-Slough-Town-v-Wycombe-Wanderers-(1993)

 

[michaelSTFC]

I remember this game as it was the only one I missed all season due to a family holiday in Cornwall. Absolutely gutted... cannot wait to finally see this game almost 30 years later!

[grandad]

Was a good watch. What was apparent though was the way the game has changed over the years. I much prefer the more cultured play of today. Two things looked agricultural, one being the pitch, and the other our centre back pairing.  Anderson and Edwards were never the prettiest to watch, but not a lot got past them, by fair means or foul...

[carols52]

13 hours ago, grandad said:

Was a good watch. What was apparent though was the way the game has changed over the years. I much prefer the more cultured play of today. Two things looked agricultural, one being the pitch, and the other our centre back pairing.  Anderson and Edwards were never the prettiest to watch, but not a lot got past them, by fair means or foul...

Have to agree forgot how much route one football we played in those days,some good players on pitch they would have loved playing on our 3g pitch.

[rebelbrewer]

Enjoyed that. Was in hospital in Darlington following it in the dayroom on ceefax. Great to see it after all these years, agree that our football wasn't all that cultured, but to be fair we were playing the best non league team in the country at the time, so it may just have been related to the pitch and the opposition.

We had some cultured players on the pitch; Fiore, Stanley, Sayer, Friel could all play (and Thomo on the other side!) could all play.

[grandad]

8 hours ago, rebelbrewer said:

Enjoyed that. Was in hospital in Darlington following it in the dayroom on ceefax. Great to see it after all these years, agree that our football wasn't all that cultured, but to be fair we were playing the best non league team in the country at the time, so it may just have been related to the pitch and the opposition.

We had some cultured players on the pitch; Fiore, Stanley, Sayer, Friel could all play (and Thomo on the other side!) could all play.

I know about the players, I was there watching, and used to drink with half the team... We were also a top 5 conference side, so would not have been hoofing it just because it was Wycombe. Wycombe were hoofing it as much as we were, so the argument doesn't follow. It's just that styles of football evolve, and most teams today, in whatever level, do not play that style anymore.

[3spirit]

2 hours ago, grandad said:

I know about the players, I was there watching, and used to drink with half the team... We were also a top 5 conference side, so would not have been hoofing it just because it was Wycombe. Wycombe were hoofing it as much as we were, so the argument doesn't follow. It's just that styles of football evolve, and most teams today, in whatever level, do not play that style anymore.

Dave Kemp, our manager, wanted Slough to play a lot of long ball stuff at the time.I was always glad when Mark Fiore would get on the ball,as he would offer something different from the game plan.  

Dave Kemp deserves praise for matching Wycombe for most of that season,in terms of league position, given that he had taken over from Alan Davies at the start of the season and had a lot of new signings and players from the past regime, to mix and match. He largely got it right defensively and did make our team difficult to beat but some of his football tactics left a lot to be desired.  I thought he perservered with a couple of players from the Alan Davis era, who were out of their depth but he was no fool in how he went around shaping his team and getting players to perform.

Had he stayed at Slough longer we may have witnessed some better football but of his time as manager, it seemed his priority was to shore up our team and to make the team not be a soft touch in the Conference,which Slough were before he came. To his credit he achieved this. Unfortunately some of the football on offer, though, just wasn't for the purists.

 As much as Slough had a very successful season with Dave Kemp at the helm, it isn't a season that I have great fondness for. There was some good moments in a few games and a lot of players we had at that time were quality but it did seem more a case of rebuilding our team and making them hard to beat, than them truly being a quality Conference team.

Probably being harsh on Dave Kemp here, as he obviously needed more than one season to develop a top team. He may well have been on the right path to getting that but the Slough fans were never to find out, as he got a better offer and left of his own accord.

[Shredding Green]

12 hours ago, 3spirit said:

Dave Kemp, our manager, wanted Slough to play a lot of long ball stuff at the time.I was always glad when Mark Fiore would get on the ball,as he would offer something different from the game plan.  

Dave Kemp deserves praise for matching Wycombe for most of that season,in terms of league position, given that he had taken over from Alan Davies at the start of the season and had a lot of new signings and players from the past regime, to mix and match. He largely got it right defensively and did make our team difficult to beat but some of his football tactics left a lot to be desired.  I thought he perservered with a couple of players from the Alan Davis era, who were out of their depth but he was no fool in how he went around shaping his team and getting players to perform.

Had he stayed at Slough longer we may have witnessed some better football but of his time as manager, it seemed his priority was to shore up our team and to make the team not be a soft touch in the Conference,which Slough were before he came. To his credit he achieved this. Unfortunately some of the football on offer, though, just wasn't for the purists.

 As much as Slough had a very successful season with Dave Kemp at the helm, it isn't a season that I have great fondness for. There was some good moments in a few games and a lot of players we had at that time were quality but it did seem more a case of rebuilding our team and making them hard to beat, than them truly being a quality Conference team.

Probably being harsh on Dave Kemp here, as he obviously needed more than one season to develop a top team. He may well have been on the right path to getting that but the Slough fans were never to find out, as he got a better offer and left of his own accord.

Some notable results in the Conference that season :-

Slough Town 3 Yeovil Town 0 (771)
Slough Town 3 Boston United 0 (906)
Macclesfield Town 1 Slough Town 2 (651)
Slough Town 2 Macclesfield Town 1 (930)
Dagenham & Redbridge 4 Slough Town 4 (1,355) Rebels were 3-0 down after 48 minutes.
Woking 1 Slough Town 2 (1,948)

[3spirit]

20 hours ago, Shredding Green said:

Some notable results in the Conference that season :-

Slough Town 3 Yeovil Town 0 (771)
Slough Town 3 Boston United 0 (906)
Macclesfield Town 1 Slough Town 2 (651)
Slough Town 2 Macclesfield Town 1 (930)
Dagenham & Redbridge 4 Slough Town 4 (1,355) Rebels were 3-0 down after 48 minutes.
Woking 1 Slough Town 2 (1,948)

SG, apart from the Macclesfield away game, I was in attendance at all those games.  The Dagenham and Woking games I still have firmly in the memory bank but I must admit the others are rather hazy now.

SG, I know you are a man who knows his statistics. However, statistics do not tell you the whole story. 

I said in my post, Slough had a great season in terms of points gained but me being a spectator watching most of that season home and away, it wasn't always pretty on the eye. We had finesse/talent in some of the players but we also had a couple of donkeys whose finesse came by just hoofing the ball anywhere, which thus led to the long ball kick up field often being on display !  At the time it was depressing, as we had been used to watching quality attacking football under Alan Davies [until he had his mad moment of selling our best player Steve Thompson  to Wycombe, and  bringing in Colin Fielder from Farnborough to replace him, the season before] thus bringing about a huge change in what our team was able to do, which eventually lead to Alan Davies being relieved of his duties. 

With Dave Kemp's arrival and a new Chairman/consortium at the helm of the club, we fans had seen a lot of the old guard gone, and with it a totally different style of play. The huge plus points in terms of players coming in, to me, were the arrival of Mark Fiore and Ian Hazel. We also got a proven striker in, in the shape of Andy Sayer, who Kemp definitely got the best out of, and the ageing experienced old hand in Les Briley. He also he gave a promising youngster at the time a chance, in the shape of Brian Lee [as the season wore on] but his best time came after Kemp's departure. 

Dave Kemp did shore Slough up and he also brought in some quality ex football league players, which brought about the change in fortunes but it certainly wasn't all thrill a minute stuff, despite what the records show. It was an improvement from the previous season, and big success, in terms of Conference league results and where Slough finished in the table but this fan doesn't remember it as always being a delight to watch.  A few stand out games, yes but not a football feast in my eyes.

[sdelaney]

It was so disappointing to see a Rebel legend Steve Thompson in a Wycombe shirt though he deserved the right to play for them as they progressed up into the professional leagues.

In the non league era between both teams one player I would of liked to have joined us from Wycombe was striker Keith Searle a top player.

 

[Windsor Rebel]

20 hours ago, 3spirit said:

SG, apart from the Macclesfield away game, I was in attendance at all those games.  The Dagenham and Woking games I still have firmly in the memory bank but I must admit the others are rather hazy now.

SG, I know you are a man who knows his statistics. However, statistics do not tell you the whole story. 

I said in my post, Slough had a great season in terms of points gained but me being a spectator watching most of that season home and away, it wasn't always pretty on the eye. We had finesse/talent in some of the players but we also had a couple of donkeys whose finesse came by just hoofing the ball anywhere, which thus led to the long ball kick up field often being on display !  At the time it was depressing, as we had been used to watching quality attacking football under Alan Davies [until he had his mad moment of selling our best player Steve Thompson  to Wycombe, and  bringing in Colin Fielder from Farnborough to replace him, the season before] thus bringing about a huge change in what our team was able to do, which eventually lead to Alan Davies being relieved of his duties. 

With Dave Kemp's arrival and a new Chairman/consortium at the helm of the club, we fans had seen a lot of the old guard gone, and with it a totally different style of play. The huge plus points in terms of players coming in, to me, were the arrival of Mark Fiore and Ian Hazel. We also got a proven striker in, in the shape of Andy Sayer, who Kemp definitely got the best out of, and the ageing experienced old hand in Les Briley. He also he gave a promising youngster at the time a chance, in the shape of Brian Lee [as the season wore on] but his best time came after Kemp's departure. 

Dave Kemp did shore Slough up and he also brought in some quality ex football league players, which brought about the change in fortunes but it certainly wasn't all thrill a minute stuff, despite what the records show. It was an improvement from the previous season, and big success, in terms of Conference league results and where Slough finished in the table but this fan doesn't remember it as always being a delight to watch.  A few stand out games, yes but not a football feast in my eyes.

I wouldnt class anyone capable of playing at GM Vauxhall Conference  level as a donkey

[3spirit]

1 hour ago, Windsor Rebel said:

I wouldnt class anyone capable of playing at GM Vauxhall Conference  level as a donkey

Back in the day, the Conference and League Two was renowned for the physicality and size of players, that you came up against. My opinion of some players as donkeys is my opinion. It is not a personal attack at someone. It is purely based on my opinion of them, in a banter-ish football jargon way in their ability as footballers.

The truth is no human being is a donkey, obviously.

Windsor Rebel, I agree playing in the GM Vauxhall Conference was no mean feat. As it is any good standard non-league division,or being a  professional in the game but I suggest you are being rather pedantic here and probably hypocritical because I bet you've said far worse on the terraces !    ?

[Shredding Green]

1 hour ago, 3spirit said:

Back in the day, the Conference and League Two was renowned for the physicality and size of players, that you came up against. My opinion of some players as donkeys is my opinion. It is not a personal attack at someone. It is purely based on my opinion of them, in a banter-ish football jargon way in their ability as footballers.

The truth is no human being is a donkey, obviously.

Windsor Rebel, I agree playing in the GM Vauxhall Conference was no mean feat. As it is any good standard non-league division,or being a  professional in the game but I suggest you are being rather pedantic here and probably hypocritical because I bet you've said far worse on the terraces !    ?

That is not quite the truth 3spirit. One meaning of "donkey" stated in the Oxford Concise Dictionary is "a stupid or foolish person"!

[3spirit]

On 01/07/2020 at 11:39, Shredding Green said:

That is not quite the truth 3spirit. One meaning of "donkey" stated in the Oxford Concise Dictionary is "a stupid or foolish person"!

Perhaps I should have said carthorse !