Today's game

[Martin]

I thought it was a five game ban so he would also miss Hampton and Braintree. Looking forward to seeing him in a proper game after an impressive pre-season.

[GarySTFC]

Well, there's this on Ballard:

 

Andrew John Ballard

Suspended from ALL FOOTBALL until the Club have completed 1 FIRST TEAM match for a Sending Off in a match played on 30/04/2005.

Start date: 14/05/2005 - End date: 29/08/2005

 

I think this means he'll be ok for the Braintree match as his five match ban is no longer on there (it was last week), which I guess would imply the AFC match was the fifth in that one.

[Ted]

He was only banned for 4 games. 1 for the sending off, and 3 for 10 bookings. This means he'll be back after the Hampton game.

[GarySTFC]

I'm sure it was five on the FA site, in addition to the one above?? Oh well, the sooner he's available for selection the better I guess.

[Guest]

The FA Disciplinary page earlier in the week showed Andy as having four games (3+1), and Roy confirmed yesterday that Hampton would be the last of these, so he should be available against Braintree.

 

Hampton is going to be tough - they've started with 3 straight wins. In fact the combined record of our first 5 league opponents is currently W10 D2 L2 ! Hopefully Braintree will be as poor as last season when we won 3-0 here early in the season. Otherwise we could be looking at game 6 - Redbridge a week on Tuesday - for our first win.