Final Score

[Margate Football Club]

Margate 2 East Thurrock 1

[Gringo]

Played well first half, Standen played well drifted out of the game second half. Thought CK should have taken PG of berfore they scored. Drop BB back and adolf up front but we hung on and got three points. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

[Dave Dixon]

Well done lads.

They all played with a passion today.

Much better, and could have had a few more.

I do like our new keeper, and centre half.

Robin keeps at them, although he swears a lot!!

Lots of time added on at end, but ref was justified with all the stoppages.

Dave.

[Boney Crisp]

A brilliant performance today i thought we out played them from start to finish and desreved our win, maybe we could have scored more. I got up this morning and i had a good feeling that today was going to be our day and i had a similar feeling when we beat Hampton. Lets hope for more of these feelings. I thought the support was really good. When i say support i do not mean by the amount that turned as i thought that was poor but i mean the people who were there gave a great support. UP THE GATE!!!!

[MFC Forever]

Agree, the attendance was disappointing but third highest of games played today! Hopefully a win will encourage more to come on Tuesday or our next Saturday home fixture.

[seasidesteve]

a good win at last.first 10 minutes we rode our luck could well have been 2 down.then played well and 2 very good goals.as usual then sat back and let them play .second half we were poor and could well have blown it .i just cannot understand these tactics of defending a lead whan you are obviously the better team.if we had pushed on in the second half we could have got 5, but we always do it and have for years the number of points we have dropped by trying to defend a small lead must run into the 30s at least.but well done today lads and standen was our best player in the first half

[Cookie]

Nice to meet you Alex. Another face to a post.

I thought we did brilliantly first half. Could have had a couple more but then so could have they. Second half we went back to dropping deep again and not killing off a side that were marginally better than some which have triumphed over us lately.

All told a much better performance though. Score in reality really could have been 4-4 or 5-5.

I thought my thoughts on this game as being that 4-0 drubbing of an opposition was going to become reality but taking the foot off the pedal and reverting back to sitting back put paid to that.They werent really in it but we let them get close in the end. However again am much more impressed with the effort put in by ALL players.

[Boney Crisp]

Great to meet you to Cookie and everyone else who i met aswell.

[Cookie]

Yes two goals to be proud to have witnessed today. Great header by Hasim and truly inspirationsal skills by Bertie for the second assist, well taken might I add by Yiga.

[Dutch_Mike]

Very happy all-round today. Great performance, great result and great vocal support. Fully deserved the victory. A number of good performances, notably from Brayley, Hockton and Deen. Thought Yiga looked good in the first, faded a bit in the second. Keeper made a crucial save in the second half, could do nothing about the goal. I was also encouraged by an improved performance from Standen. Roll on Folkestone!