Bromley Commentry

[Ian_D]

Managed to track down some commentry, courtesy of Bromleyaces.co.uk: <a href="mms://wms05.mediaondemand.net/bromfc" target="_blank">mms://wms05.mediaondemand.net/bromfc</a>

Ok not up to Chas' standards but it's something, and well done to them!

 

Good Luck You Fleet!

 

EDIT: Not appropriate for little kiddie winkles! You can hear all the chants in the background LOL!

[John Pearce]

Can't make head nor tail of it.

 

Anyone know what the score is???

[GaryFB]

Mate at the game texted me to say 2-2 and going into extra time

[GaryFB]

3-2 down after 93 minutes

[EUFC FAN]

Just lot of screaming then it died! <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" /> Anyone know what's going on score wise?

[GaryFB]

Lost 3-2 AET, I've no other details. I'm sure somebody who was at the game will fill all the details in later.

[FleetFanatic]

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[John Pearce]

Well if thats right, doesn't it just about sum up the current state of the team.

 

What on earth will Daish's excuses be this time? Lack of quality, injuries, lack of experience etc.etc.

 

Well Liam if you try to use any of those as an excuse for yet another loss then you need to take a close look at yourself, because each of those could have and should have been addressed by you.

 

I couldn't believe Daish's comments on Radio Kent following the defeat at Halifax. "The end of the season can't come quick enough" etc. etc. I don't see the managers of other mid-table clubs taking that view.

[Hempstead Gaz]

Daish got sent off!!!! Nuff said!!

[Richard C]

To be fair - Bromley were better than expected. We missed several gilt edged chances. Danny Scored the goal of his and any players life. Other than the first 30 mins we didnt do that badly and had a couple of the Lesser players playing. A look into the 'injury' stand said it all.

 

Drury, Saunders, Gooding, MacDonald, Rawle, Jackson

 

Going to struggle without that lot.

 

Most players played well tonight, only Ross and McCarthy looked dodgy - but thats only because of their own high standards!

 

The only realy worry is that I am a better striker than what is on offer at the moment.

[Stu M]

And while I'm not excusing a relatively average performance, it was their third game in six days.

 

Daish getting sent to the stands was a joke - Holloway was injured and clearly in desperate need of coming off when they scored, the lino ignored two or three pleas from Liam to bring Kerr on, Liam had a pop at him and the 18-year-old ref, and was then sent off. Kimble claimed their third was offside, but afraid I didn't get a good enough angle on it.

[John Pearce]

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Richard C said:
To be fair - Bromley were better than expected.

Most players played well tonight

For christ sake they are a side 2 leagues down from the Conference..and the 'Fleet are supposed to be almost a full-time professional club?

The bottom line is that it should not have mattered that "Bromley were better than expected".

How could "most of the players have played well"? A team that contained a number of professional players still lost to a team from an inferior league. (Yes I know it sometimes happens)

and for Daish to be sent-off, well that just about sums everything up, whatever the circumstances. No wonder he stands-up for Macarthy so often.

And still the board ask why attendances continue to decline? Why should people bother to attend matches, when from Daish's comments he has for sometime given up on the season.

[Stu M]

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White Van Nistelrooy said:and for Daish to be sent-off, well that just about sums everything up, whatever the circumstances.

You may be right on your other points, WVN, but I don't think you can really comment on something when you weren't there to see it. You can't just dismiss the circumstances because it fits your argument.

Kimble, Ron Hillyard and Bromley's George Wakelin were just as vocal towards the officials at various times during the match, but lucky for them just got a talking to.

[Alan W (GNFC)]

It says everything about the ref when there must have been a 5 minute delay alone for Craig's substitution alongside the refs decision to send Liam off. In addition, Craig had to be treated as did Bradley Johnson, and the ref had to sort out handbags at 10 paces following a bad challenge on Johnson. Must have been at least 10 minutes of stoppage time - the ref went for 4!

 

Thought the best player for us tonight was Slatts - the goal was worth the admission money alone and must be goal of the season amongst Fleet goals this season, I would think. A corner was headed up and out and dropped to him 30 yards out - Slatts set himself then hit an amazing rocket of a first time volley into the top corner.

 

Just a shame for him that the defence went to sleep from a free kick 5 minutes later allowing a free header for 2-2 (Bromleys only chance in the second half other than one that Aaron took off an attackers toes) and that he then missed a one on one in the last minute of normal time, putting his shot straight at the keeper.

 

Brad took his goal well and the other player to impress most was Danny Glozier who had another solid game at left back.

 

An amazing incident in extra time summed up our season - the keeper was kicking out from the ground and James Smith jumped in front of him. The keeper managed to kick the ball straight at Smith and watched the ball go rolling back past him towards the goal - had it been a flat pitch, it would have certainly been 3-3, but somehow the keeper got back to scoop it off the line. Smith chased down the loose ball, and put a shot goalwards again, but the keeper had just had time to recover and blocked. Luke Moore then followed in and hit a first time effort, but again the keeper got down low and blocked the goalbound shot.

 

The players legs had gone by the second period of extra time - not surprising I guess as many had played Tuesday and then faced the long journey home.

 

The big difference really was taking of chances - Bromley took their only real chances in the second half, and indeed in extra time, whereas we didnt.

 

The talk tonight on the terraces was whether we would see most of tonights players again after the end of this season - the feeling was that the part timers will be ditched and that Slatts was on his way to Daggers.

 

There was even a suggestion that Liam is looking at local league players to solve his forward line problems!!

[FleetFanatic]

I didn't go - I couldn't be arsed, to put it bluntly.

Didn't even give the match a moments thought until about 10.20,

when I thought 'I wonder how Gravesend got on?'.

 

Notice - not 'we' but 'Gravesend'.

I had a choice for midweek - being off Tuesday onwards.

Go to Halifax and Bromley or simply go to Upton Park and watch the Hammers.

You see, I've been watching West Ham most of the season & you have Daish to thank for it.

It's not about the cash - heck I would have gladly paid the entrance fee to watch some decent footie - win, lose or draw.

But it isn't going to happen under Daish, is it?

 

Meanwhile at West Ham, 10th in the Premiership, FA Cup Final & European football next season.

 

Daish vs all of this - no contest.

 

So there you have it - no doubt I'll be lambasted for this confession but I'm not the only one - the supporters are leaving in droves.

 

Not true supporters? No, maybe not but you need the cash all the same.

 

The bloke's tactically inept, full of excuses & he'll get Gravesend relegated, mark my words.

Bromley were better - so were Bishops Stortford, Kettering, Borehamwood & now Bromley.

 

And to get sent off as a manager in a cup final - no excuse, whatever the circumstances.

[Stu M]

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FleetFanatic said:
And to get sent off as a manager in a cup final - no excuse, whatever the circumstances.

Again I reiterate my earlier point. You weren't there, so you can't comment on the circumstances. Ever considered the referee might be at fault? And the fact that it was a 'cup final' (and one in name only, because as you rightly point out, most of our fans didn't even remember/care that it was on) hasn't anything to do with it as far as I can see.

I doubt had, say, Jimmy Jackson been sent off in a cup final there would be comments like "No excuse, whatever the circumstances". People would have found out the circumstances and excused/judged Jimmy on that basis. Like I said before, you're likely right about Daish's on-field problems/limitations, but not EVERYTHING is his fault.

[The Doctor]

It is, sadly, in a lot of our fans eyes though Stu M. I may be watching games through Rose tinted specs as others would like to say, but at least I am not the other extreme of watching through Daish out specs, or in FF/WVN specs which are even worse. Seems to me that we lose and someone finds a fault in Daish, we win and someone finds a fault in Daish. I am surprised he has not been blamed for Dartford moving out and the Plough end being shut. At the moment Daish cannot put a foot right in a lot of people's eyes.

[Jimmy]

I was in line with the 3rd and the guy was in line - bent his run well in fairness and took it well.

Kerr clearly wasn't fit either - muttering and grimacing every time he kicked the ball.

[Jimmy]

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Alan W (GNFC) said:
The talk tonight on the terraces was whether we would see most of tonights players again after the end of this season - the feeling was that the part timers will be ditched and that Slatts was on his way to Daggers.

It appears we only have the Smiths and Charlie for next year.
Part timers haven't been talked to by anyone so as far as they are concerned they are off after the Burton game.
Disappointing to say the least.
Adrian Pennock and Phil Handford were there last night - probably got themselves another 4 players in an evening.

[Hempstead Gaz]

Several points to raise from last night, in no particular order, and trying not to make this an anti Liam Daish rant, from which I have refrained of late.

The team appearred ill prepared for last night, who was the (new) No 11 and who was the (unknown and rather better) No 16 who replaced him. Clearly they appeared unfamilar with the rest of the team and seemed unclear what style of play we adopt.

Why was Ross put through so much warm up work BEFORE the game. He collected a ball during the warm up next to me, he was red faced, breathless and sweating profusely. Having played against Morecambe and Halifax, with a cup final to play plus games against Burton and Wimbledon to come - he only would have needed a gentle warm up. Is that why he looked SO knackered at the end of extra time and by his high standards played so poorly?

Why was Aaron Kerr not fully ready after Craig hurt his knee. He didn't even have a jersey - he had to swap with Holloway. bloody amateurish!!!

Who allowed a ref who appeared to be only 18 years old to officiate the showpiece Kent final? He was way out of his depth, and in spite of some gruesome tackles by both teams, order was pretty much maintained by Fleet's and Bromley's own self discipline. The ref lost control after 5 minutes.

Will a report be made against the fat, inept Lino, Johnson, who would not allow Craig's substitution depite frantic efforts by Liam and Alan K to make it happen. By making Craig continue with a damaged knee may have turned a twist into serious ligament damage.

I'm with Daish to an extent on his rant at the officials, but I guess the idiot ref had no alternative to show Daish to the stand after his tirade of foul abusive language.

In any case we played better without him on the bench!!

Rumours, rumours, rumours were abounding last night on the terraces, most of which were seriously damaging, ranging from High Court actions because of share prices, legal actions by the protheroe camp, wages of £75 PER WEEK to Luke Moore whilst Paul McCarthy picks up £750+.

Rumours of Fleet being almost bankrupt, hence the loan signings of cheap 18 year old, the ridding of quality part timers such as Jay, Jacko,Macca and Skins, not only because they are part time, but because of their wages.

I know these are only rumours, but as we have experienced with the Protheroegate fiasco, there is invariably no smoke without fire.

 

Yet again, we were unable to kill a game off at 2-1 against lower opposition with 10 minutes to go.( I hesitate to use worse oppostion)

YET AGAIN, totally unprofessional.

 

The only plus points I got from last night were a fabulous goal by Slats, one of the best I have seen in 39 years of watching Fleet, and an awsome, mature performance from young Johnson.

Clearly Westley would have been looking at him and a few others (on Ford's reccomendations?)

 

And not a single LD rant!! <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />