Salisbury 1-2 Enfield Town

[Tally Ho]

Sub : Chukwu replaced Youngs. (85)

[Tally Ho]

SIX minutes of stoppage time to be played. 😳

2-1 up.

[Tally Ho]

WON 2-1.

Magic.

[ETFC2001]

Weymouth last minute equaliser against St Albans.. That is massive 

[No bull Towner]

1 minute ago, Tally Ho said:

WON 2-1.

Magic.

Get innnnn Townnnnn......that fat lady ain't singing yet

[seemgee]

Town only team in the bottom 10 to win. Priceless 3 points

Edited March 8 by seemgee

[Tally Ho]

1 minute ago, No bull Towner said:

Get innnnn Townnnnn......that fat lady ain't singing yet

Audrey Audrey what's the score....

[lovely stuff]

Weymouth and Aveley now look too far behind at the foot of the table. That leaves four teams fighting to avoid the two relegation places. Enfield Town. St Albans, Welling, Salisbury... We now have a 50% chance of survival . Which is a lot better than a month or so ago

[The Crowing Cockerel]

8 minutes ago, lovely stuff said:

Weymouth and Aveley now look too far behind at the foot of the table. That leaves four teams fighting to avoid the two relegation places. Enfield Town. St Albans, Welling, Salisbury... We now have a 50% chance of survival . Which is a lot better than a month or so ago

You better tell the footballwebpages predicted league that! They still have us only picking up 1 more point in our remaining 9 games. 👀

[djwilf]

I doubt the experts had Leicester winning the league that year too when they were 5000 - 1.

[Barney]

Not pretty, but 3 points... Salisbury played most of the football in the first half without troubling Wright, and we looked like a side short on ideas. That said, we stayed in the game and a well worked set piece goal saw us in at 0-1 at HT. Our 2nd was an absolute gift from their keeper, reminiscent of the equaliser away at Weston, but I'll take it! Poor goal to concede after an speculative diagonal which seemed to completely miss Benjamin when it looked easier to head it, but after that we fought hard to hold on to the lead, and whilst not remotely easy to watch, we came away with an important 3 points. The season is just about still alive 🤞🤞

Edited March 8 by Barney

[Raingod]

Fantastic day yesterday - surprised there is not more discussion on here!

Nice ground, friendly staff there ..

Was expecting Peake to return to the XI - and was hoping we would go for 2 strikers ..

Game started with us in containment mode - never nice seeing us defend close up and their direct balls over were causing us some issues, they seemed to be targeting our left hand side. Thought Salisbury didnt look like a team about to get embroiled in a relegation battle ...

We appeared to start with Bates further forward than Sam but this looked to change during the half.

Aside from an early 1 on 1, we restricted them, making a few chances of our own as well. Hish hit the crossbar, and we had a scramble or 2. Great set piece on the stroke of HT with Hawkins scoring a great header!

My concern was we would start to sit back and try to defend the lead, which has been unsuccessful in the past .. on the contrary we were pressing them further up the pitch, and although fortuitous we deserve a bit of luck, just like at Weston with a goalkeeping error! Our fans erupted and it was a great feeling!!

Joe made some important saves, and the team battled really hard .. Xavier misjudged the flight of the ball for the equaliser but we held on. Everyone battled hard and was great to see!

Yet again we are described by opposition fans on social media as the worst team they've seen - but who cares - and it does mean Gavin's stifling tactics are working ..

Thought the Town fans were outstanding in their support and overall a proud day to be a towner!

Gav did use 4 of the subs - 2 for injuries, 2 to freshen things up - they took Billy out a number of times and he hobbled off, but didnt give any indication it was serious at the end of the game, whilst Hish also left injured - more doubtful for Tues I would suggest ..

With us being the only victors in the bottom half of the table it felt great, especially with Weymouth late equaliser at St Albans

St Albans play their game in hand tomorrow night at Chelmsford - hoping they dont manage a win - their forum was very negative after yesterday .

We must build on this and get another 3 pts on Tuesday - Hampton are mid table with nothing to play for and have lost at home to Hemel - I think we need 4 wins and this is one of the more likely one ..

Joe or Rhys? Well personally I think Joe keeps his place after last couple of performances - was my MOM yesterday.

Chuks can replace Hish if injured, and Jon O can take over from Billy .. personally I would go 2 up as we are at home .. but don't expect Gavin to change it ..

 

Up The Town! Cant wait for Tuesday!

 

[The Crowing Cockerel]

28 minutes ago, Raingod said:

 

Up The Town! Cant wait for Tuesday!

 

Over the last few weeks its seemed that we're better off playing away. Whether its nerves or perhaps some of the louder protagonists being away, I'm not sure, but either way the crowd has been very very quiet.

[No bull Towner]

2 hours ago, Raingod said:

Joe or Rhys? Well personally I think Joe keeps his place after last couple of performances - was my MOM

Joe has done ok don't get me wrong but he has hardly been stand out brilliant or head and shoulders above Rhys, in fact I think Rhys is the better keeper. Just take the last 4 games of both as Joe has only played 4 so far

Joe  3 loss. 1 win. 9 conceded. 0 c/sheet

Rhys 1 loss. 3 win. 6 conceded. 2 clean 5 of the 6 conceded were the drubbing by Eastbourne (where he got his concussion)

Guessing you are camp 'blame the goalie for our position'.......even Gav said Joe's saves were routine so nothing special. I wouldn't be so quick to write Rhys off.

Also, St Albans' game in hand is actually Tues 18th v Hampton Richmond, tomorrows match is 38 which the rest play Tues.

 

Edited March 9 by No bull Towner
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[The Crowing Cockerel]

It took 47 points to survive last season. 48 points the year before (when our little orange friends up the road perished with a creditable 43 points).

We have 35 points with 9 games remaining.

Assuming that Aveley and Weymouth are sunk, that leaves Welling, St Albans, ETFC and Salisbury battling it out for the final 2 survival spots.

On the face of it St Albans's run-in looks 'better' than ours with 5 home games on the spin. But their home form has been pretty poor, and with a terrible pitch I'm not sure how much of an advantage that is.

Salisbury certainly seem to have the 'easiest' run-in with games against Aveley, Weymouth and Welling. So given their head start, I'd fancy them to bag one of the remaining spots.

Other than the above, it really is up to one of ETFC, Welling and St Albans to show some kind of form, ride their luck and then they will be playing in NLS next season!

 

[Benjrider10]

We set out our stall pre-match with the line-up. I had hoped we would start with 2 up front but it wasn't to be.

We were outplayed the first 20 minutes and were given a big let-off after just 3 minutes, when their left winger was put through and shot marginally over. But I would say we edged the last 25 minutes of the first half and almost scored twice. From where I was standing, Hisham fully intended his dinked half volley and was desperately unlucky to see it hit the bar. Same for a hooked volley shortly thereafter - it was flying in until it got blocked. But then Henry H got got the game-changing opener in first half injury time.

Second half we contained Salisbury pretty well. Our second goal was against the run of play but no ETFC fan is going to turn Lady Luck down when she offers up a GK howler. We defended well at 0-2 up until Xavier misjudged a cross-field pass, allowing their striker a run at goal from an angle. Difficult to see from where I was standing but I thought maybe Joe got his angles slightly wrong. It made for a buttock-clenching final 15 minutes (including 6 agonising minutes of injury time) but we held on for a huge three points. And hearing about Weymouth's 90+7 minute penalty equaliser at St. Albans really made the day.

Tuesday night vs. Hampton & Richmond is another huge game but we go into it with confidence. They are safe in mid-table, lost on Saturday, aren't full time and are playing away. If we can grind out another win tomorrow, I think we will need another 2 wins and 2 draws from the remaining 8 fixtures (giving us 46 points). I think 46 points will stay up.

[Tally Ho]

Henry Hawkins in the Team Of The Week.