Sittingbourne 2 - 4 Enfield Town

[OldTowner]

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lovely stuff said:
Steady on Steph.Paul scored a good goal yesterday and probably had his best game in a Town shirt ,as did Hammett,but to call him towns best ever stiker at this stage of his career is laughable.He needs to play like he did yetserday in EVERY game and score 20+ a season before he can be acclaimed as our best ever (and stop missing free headers from inside the six yard box, he's done that six times since his recent arrival).He's had 2 good games out of 10 so far. If he can improve the ratio of good games and reduce the number of poor ones, he may well be the striker were looking for.

I agree with you on that LS.
It is far too early to start calling Trevor Paul "the best" at anything.
He has done well in the last couple of games and lets hope this is the start of something great as far as scoring and making openings for others is concerned. Score 20 goals by May and we will give him all the credit he deserves.
The entire team deserve credit for the performance on Saturday, but for me our M.O.M. was Lionel Richie. He ran his socks off and created a lot of opportunities for other players.
When you look back at the previous weeks posts we have been asking for the ball to be on the ground, which the players did this week. But if ever there was a match to get the ball off the sodden ground this was it.
It's a funny old game!
I think JC has found a winning team and he should stick with it for the Barking game.
Lets see if we can "reproduce the form" at home. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/boxing.gif" alt="" />

[Nikki 50/50]

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Gazza said:

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......i had a client in the morning and in afternoon .........

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Oh Junior, Junior, Junior!

Talking of dodgy starts to sentences!

What? I had an eyelash tint in the morning and an eyebrow shape in the afternoon.
and sunday afternoon had another eyelash tint.

[lovely stuff]

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What was your dads excuse for missing the match?

 

Hopefully not the same as yours. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" />

[Nikki 50/50]

Sorry, I wouldnt know. I only have a biological father, not a real Dad.

[Keep the £]

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Never like having local officials reffing us, especially in deepest Kent.The linesman we had in the first half refused to flag for any fouls on us, no matter how blatent and he was directly in line when Hammett was chopped over a foot inside the box, but allowed the ref to award a foul outside,but he had a dramatic change of approach in the second half and flagged at least 5 times to award Sittingbournes free-kicks.I knew we were going to have trouble with him, when he called at Town supporter a 'Clown', halfway through the first half.

If a Town player didn't immediatly run after the ball and throw it in staight away of take the free kick immediatly he threatened to book our players.He did that with Magona. The poor fella was booked for wasting time taking a throw-in, even though he only had the ball in his hands for no more than a second or two.

Excellent assessment LS. The linesman in the first half was a joke. He gave two non-existent offsides and refused to flag for blantant fouls right in front of him. I thought the ref may have told him to signal throw-ins and off-sides only but that was clearly not so as he flagged on several occaisions in the second half. The only clown was the man running the line not the spectator.

Agree about the booking on Magona. He had only just collected the ball. How many times do we see teams time wasting against us yet nothing is done about it? Nearly every week. All you ask for is consistency from referees.

The off-side goal should never have stood. Once the flag is raised, off-side should be given. The linesman may have been wrong and the player not interfering but once the players see the flag go up they expect off-side to be awarded. It is down to the linesman to make the correct decision in the first place.

Anyway, moan over. What a great performance by the Town in difficult conditions. Let's hope we keep it up. Ritchie was superb and should clearly keep his first team place. He is a skillful player who will cause teams many problems...providing we continue to keep the ball on the ground. All four goals scored by keeping the ball on the deck, two of which were made by defence spliting passes (the others individual efforts). Told us what we knew all along.

[Father Jack]

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Father Jack.I presume you were at the game yesterday.Which parts of my post do you disagree with? The refs performance doesn't suddenly become better just because we took three points or because he sent opposition players off.I felt it was a display worth highlighting.

The first player sent off was because of an horrendous late tackle on Magona.This happened towards the end of the game.The second player was sent off with a couple of minutes to go because of backchat towards the ref.

The officials perfomances played a major part in the overall game.As i was commenting on the game in general.It was justified to highlight their contribution.The fact that we won ,is 'neither here or there'.

PS... If we only criticize officials when we LOSE,it may just be construed as sour grapes.

The fact that we won is, I agree, neither here nor there, but your post implies that we won despite the referee handing Enfield the brown end of the stick all afternoon. Given that they finished with nine men, and the home fans were, and I quote, dreading having Mr Meilack based on past experience, this is palpably not the case.

Specific points as requested:-

"Hammett was chopped over a foot inside the box" Are you sure? I had a reasonable, if not perfect, view of the incident, and thought it was absolutely marginal, too close to call. Given that Mr Meilack got no help from his assistant, favouring the defending side was probably the right option.

Regarding your view of the two red cards: the first was right up the other end of the field and in a badly illuminated part of the field. From my poor vantage point, I saw a bad tackle and was expecting a yellow card. Turn this one round - if that had been a Town player committing the foul, I suspect that we would have all screamed blue murder if a red card had followed! The second one, for two bouts of dissent, is hard to form a true opinion about, but the ref appeared to flourish the red card in an almost triumphant manner - reminded me of Rob Whitton, to be honest. Again, imagine if that had been a Town player - Rudi at Burnham last season for example - this forum would have exploded.

If you look on the Sittingbourne website, you will see a match report that accuses two Town players of diving, or at least making the most of challenges to maximise the punishment meted out. At first sight that might seem laughable, but that is simply another view of the same game, but coloured by allegiance to the other team. On most occasions when officials seem to be favouring our opponents, it is almost always the perfectly normal paranoia of the football supporter kicking in.

Finally - Steve Magona was unlucky to be cautioned, simply because Mr Meilack decided to make an example of him, presumably to prevent further time-wasting. Inconsistent undoubtedly, but I must admit that it worked.

[Father Jack]

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Steph said:
Reading the Enfield forum it seems to me that, perhaps due to FA cup calls, we had essex senior league refs yesterday.

For a game between a Middlesex team and a Kent one.

Doh!!

[Hawkeye Pierce]

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Father Jack said:

Specific points as requested:-

"Hammett was chopped over a foot inside the box" Are you sure? I had a reasonable, if not perfect, view of the incident, and thought it was absolutely marginal, too close to call. Given that Mr Meilack got no help from his assistant, favouring the defending side was probably the right option.

I couldn't comment on the Red Cards cos they were too far away from me but Bryan was brought down WELL inside the box. He blew fairly and CORRECTLY but when he realised it was in the box he didn't think it merited a penalty and if I'm honest if it was against us I might have agreed with the decision and breathed a sigh of relief like Sittingbourne did.

[Keep the £]

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Father Jack said:
in a badly illuminated part of the field.

Was there a well illuminated part of the field? <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

[Mr Happy]

Probably the area near to where Softie was standing. any floodlighting would have shined off his head to create the effect of 1000 light bulbs!!!

[Tom S]

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Father Jack said:
"Hammett was chopped over a foot inside the box" Are you sure? I had a reasonable, if not perfect, view of the incident, and thought it was absolutely marginal, too close to call. Given that Mr Meilack got no help from his assistant, favouring the defending side was probably the right option.

Added to that, none of our players appealed, not even Bryan even though by then he was on his backside a couple of feet inside the area.

[lovely stuff]

Byran had his back to play and was heading away from goal when was clattered from behind.The fact that you say he was 'a couple of feet inside the area', seems to indicate that the foul did happen well inside the box.Looking at the lino's expression,he realised as well.Maybe, because the lino didn't flag for foul himself, he didn't feel it was his place to correct the referee. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/shrug.gif" alt="" />

[Arkwright]

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Byran had his back to play and was heading away from goal when was clattered from behind.The fact that you say he was 'a couple of feet inside the area', seems to indicate that the foul did happen well inside the box.Looking at the lino's expression,he realised as well.Maybe, because the lino didn't flag for foul himself, he didn't feel it was his place to correct the referee. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/shrug.gif" alt="" />

A player not appeal for a penalty, whatever next.

[lovely stuff]

I meant,maybe the LINESMAN didn't feel it was his place to correct the referee.

 

If the linesman doesn't think a foul has been committed,maybe he is less willing to award a penalty.He may have thought 'contact was made inside the box,but it was marginal.So i won't over-rule the award of a free kick.'? Who knows.

[Arkwright]

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I meant,maybe the LINESMAN didn't feel it was his place to correct the referee.

If the linesman doesn't think a foul has been committed,maybe he is less willing to award a penalty.He may have thought 'contact was made inside the box,but it was marginal.So i won't over-rule the award of a free kick.'? Who knows.

Maybe the LINESMAN didn't think it was a penalty either.

[lovely stuff]

I had a perfect view, being parallel to both Hammett and the linesman.The foul was a foot inside the box.

[Arkwright]

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I had a perfect view, being parallel to both Hammett and the linesman.The foul was a foot inside the box.

Shame you weren't the linesman then.

[Tom S]

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Arkwright said:

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I had a perfect view, being parallel to both Hammett and the linesman.The foul was a foot inside the box.

Shame you weren't the linesman then.

I'd hate to be on the left wing if he was linesman.

[Arkwright]

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Arkwright said:

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lovely stuff said:
I had a perfect view, being parallel to both Hammett and the linesman.The foul was a foot inside the box.

Shame you weren't the linesman then.

I'd hate to be on the left wing if he was linesman.

Bet you wouldn't have a problem if you played on the right wing though.

[lovely stuff]

Typical Pinko's.It seems those swivel eyes can play havoc when trying to look along the line. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

 

Which other fan (apart from our resident Guardianista brothers) thought Hammett was outside the box,when he was clattered?