Slough Town v Wealdstone: MATCH THREAD

[michaelSTFC]

Updates, anyone?

 

Come on you Rebels!

[michaelSTFC]

According to SKY, 1-1 at HT, the much-talked about Beckford on 34mins and reliable Hodgey equalising on 42.

[michaelSTFC]

FT: Slough 3-2 Wealdstone!

[michaelSTFC]

Slough scorers

 

Hodges 42

Harris 48

Mason 79 (isn't he injured?)

 

Wealdstone

 

Beckford 34

Cort 71

[A Rebel and a Saint]

a good battling performance from the lads today, deserved the win, definately did not deserve to go a goal down in the first half.

avery had a very good match imo.

well done rebels!!

[BFR]

A tale of two side who can score but aren't very good at defending. Happy with the win, though think the Stones will be disappointed to have not got a point. Pitch was looking pristine <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

[Ian]

Another good performance in terms of character. Wealdstone's best chance to equalise would have been to kick the ball behind for OUR corner. Both their goals came from US having the ball in attacking positions.

[Chris]

Yep, put that fact in my NLP report Ian. Two very similar goals with us getting caught on the break. Think we may just - and I mean just deserved to have nicked it as our general play in the first-half was pretty good, but we did not get the breaks in front of goal.

 

We were hanging on a bit in the end - heavy legs on that pitch and they played well in the 2nd. One crazy moment near the end of the match when we were 3-2 up thogh. They played a long-ball up and we had left 3 on 3 at the back! That's the kind of situation where we miss Mets or Wilko who would have dropped in.

 

Thought Hodgey was awesome up front pretty much on his own. Avery again played very well with Steele closely behind him.

 

And does that put us on the Sky Sports News table?

[Guest]

Yes first of all ..a very good match by both teams keep the game going end to end, though Slough just put their heads over the winning line with clear chances on the goal...

 

well battled Slough...up the rebels... <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/applaus.gif" alt="" />

[Don Juan DeMarcus]

Thought we battled hard today and stole 2 points, another great result considering the players missing, and well done to Leigh Mason and Eddie for making such an awesome sub.

[Nathan]

Thought we deserved the points today for the battling performance and not giving up when they equalised.

 

Hodges my MOTM pureley for his effort today, although most of the player did well with Alexis standing out.

 

Does anyone know who the officials were today as they were different from the match programme?

[Guest]

A very entertaining game on an awful pitch. Hodge did well and I thought Harris did too.

 

MOTM for me was the dapper gentlemen of, ahem, a certain age who won the draw at half time, and who drives from Bath to see every home game. Well done mate.

[Barry Scott]

Slough win the inaugral Swamp Bowl against a distinctly average Wealdstone side. Makes you wonder why Windsor spend £950 a week on three players rather than trying to improve the pitch

[GarySTFC]

£25k and not one pound of that on the pitch. Well worth the deal...

[Dominic]

We have taken the sensible decision before to cancel capital league matches due to the condition of the pitch, why could Windsor not have done this on Wednesday?

 

To make matters worse the pitch was trained on on Thursday, fair enough they don’t have any where else to train but surely it has to be one or the other, or some work needs to be done before the Saturday?!

 

The pitch was in a horrendous state after the match, maybe the worst I have ever seen it.

[Guest]

Did you see Ballard fall over at the start of the second half? I think he tripped over a hippo.

[Ian]

For the sake of both teams, can't we let Windsor train at the Polish club until the pitch recovers?

[HorshamRebel]

A very good fighting performance, and a deserved win. I agree about the pitch, it's amazing that no-one got badly injured on it.

[GarySTFC]

Just watching everyone slip over on the far side from the turnstiles. It's a bit mental. What chance some work gets done on it for the Windsor home match next Saturday?

[Chris]

I'm no pitch expert by any means, but could they not take a leaf out of Leyton's book. Their pitch was crap, but they flatterned the thing out with a heavy roller so it was even and you could pass the ball on the ground.