Chelmsford Game

[Lurchin Urchin]

I must say I enjoyed yesterdays game and that pleasure has been hightend by reading the Chelmsford forum this morning!

 

They really are a bunch of whingers...didn't like the ground...thought our clubhouse was "nice but girlie". Obviously they were missing the sawdust and spitoons!.....they out numbered the home support?....we played negative football, a claim they backed up by quoting the NLP report. Endless analysis comparing the game to the Margate game.

 

I enjoyed the game because we out fought and out thought them and came out deserving winners.

 

Nice though that they consider us a top six team, do they not realise that we only got promoted last season? This result is like Sunderland beating Liverpool!

 

Top six...we can dream but dreams are dangerous!

 

P.S. Ricky Holmes makes Lee Hodges look like a paragon of virtue, but unfortunatly Ricky lacks Lee's ability.

[Eastside Urchin]

we done what we had to do first half which was to not give them an inch.We were more adventurous in the second half and the fact that we won 1-0 means we are the better side

[Rick the Dick]

Originally Posted By: Lurchin Urchin

P.S. Ricky Holmes makes Lee Hodges look like a paragon of virtue, but unfortunatly Ricky lacks Lee's ability.

Dare you to post that on the Soppybox!

Go on, you know you want to....

[Uncle Urchin]

I've tried to register on there before but its like trying to join MI5....

 

I was going to register last night and get amongst 'em but couldn't be ar5ed with the rigmarole......read it all tho' and never seen such a bunch of whingers in 40 years of footie and its a wonder PF is still alive the way he attacks his own on there......

 

anyway...here's a message for 'em....

 

1-0...3 points...bollox.....

[Little Miss Urchin]

I have to say I'm not sure we were the deserving winners as Chelmsford did have most of the play and countless chances, but we kept to our guns and stifles the Clarets in the first half before pushing harder in the second.

 

I felt Chelmsford were more deserving but we should have come away with all three points at Heybridge, our failure to convert our chances being our downfall, much like yesterday for our opponents.

 

As for Holmes, how someone can complete the full 90 minutes having been crumpled on the floor in such apparent pain THREE times is astonishing. Maybe he's Superman.

[Uncle Urchin]

Originally Posted By: Lurchin Urchin

I enjoyed the game because we out fought and out thought them and came out deserving winners.

thats the rub of it all lurchy.....we DID out think them and for all their fancy passing across our midfield 5 they weren't going anywhere.....two chances each half is all they had plus a few hopefull hits...we made more real chances in the second half than they did but all their claret tinted glasses can see is fancy passes and midfield posesssion.....everytime they got near us in the danger zone stylsey or godders mugged them off....

we were all over ricay for 40 minutes in the first half and should have killed the game off...they came out second half and mugged us off and deservedly so...we ended up with fck all...

we slaughtered swifts for 90 minutes and ended up with ONE point....

we won the tactical battle yesterday....colin got it spot on and I never felt uncomfortable at all during the game...I knew what he was doing (he did it at BW in the FA Cup last year) and I believed that it would work...we deserved those points 100%..

the NLP by the way is a fckn disgrace...that NLP office clerk sat near me and has never played a game of footie in his life...he even asked what formation we were playing...

next time he can fckn well pay to get in.....

[Lurchin Urchin]

I am thinking of becoming a Chelmsford supporter..... I have put my name down for a NHS lobotomy!.....not that desperate not worth doing on BUPA.

[Uncle Urchin]

you'll have to grow a pony tail then......

 

there were more pony tails in the ground yesterday than there were in an episode of the fonz....

[YELLOW]

Originally Posted By: Little Miss Urchin

As for Holmes, how someone can complete the full 90 minutes having been crumpled on the floor in such apparent pain THREE times is astonishing. Maybe he's Superman.

Or Lee Hodges' twin brother.

[Dagger03]

>>>the NLP by the way is a fckn disgrace...that NLP office clerk sat near me and has never played a game of footie in his life...he even asked what formation we were playing...

 

Nice to know he arrived -I had a phone call from the NLP on Thursday saying they wanted to send someone to the match and I thought I had arranged with the NLP that he would be with me during the match - I did not even know he was there.

 

Probably just as well as it saved me having to explain why we changed from Two three five in the first half to four two four in the second half, and also why the Clarets were playing in white.

[Dagger03]

>>>>we played negative football, a claim they backed up by quoting the NLP report.

 

What was negative about the NLP report?

[Lurchin Urchin]

Originally Posted By: dagger04

>>>>we played negative football, a claim they backed up by quoting the NLP report.

What was negative about the NLP report?

"In truth it was an undeserved win"
"Hornchurch playing a negative 4-5-1"

How much negativity do you want?

[Little Miss Urchin]

6-4-0 would be sufficient for me.

[Lurchin Urchin]

Originally Posted By: Little Miss Urchin

6-4-0 would be sufficient for me.

If you are going to play real negative football I much prefer a 7-2-1. By having the one lone striker should you happen to score and win 1-0; you can always claim it was planned!

[Dagger03]

>>>"In truth it was an undeserved win"

"Hornchurch playing a negative 4-5-1"

How much negativity do you want?

 

I wrote the NLP report and I most certainly did not say that. I do not buy the NLP - it is not available here, and even if it was, I doubt very much that I would buy it.

 

Here's what I sent up to them - "A strange looking Hornchurch side, with five regulars missing due to injury, struggled with only one forward up front in the first half, dominated by the title chasing visitors, who won three corners in the first minute. Dale Brightly made an excellent save from Ibe, and then followed up with a diving save to tip Ricky Holmes’ goal bound shot away. Urchins looked dangerous when they came forward, and when Daniel Gay rushed out of goal to kick away from Garry Cross, the follow up by David Lee sailed inches over the bar. Andy Duncan headed wide as City piled on the pressure, but a change of tactics after the interval saw Amos Foyewa join Kris Lee up front and City had to rely heavily on their defence, as Urchins mounted waves of attacks. Foyewa twice went close, and a 60 yard run by Mark Janney ended when Gay saved at full stretch. Aidan Collins went close for City, but they could not withstand the home pressure and the only goal of the match came when Foyewa won the ball in midfield, fed a long cross field pass out to Janney, who ran on, and centred, for KRIS LEE to head powerfully home. Cross almost made it two, Gay saving well, and a Kris Lee header skimmed the bar. At the other end, Brightly needed lengthy attention when he saved on the line, after Collins; run had been thwarted, whilst Foyewa was close to dispossessing Gay for Hornchurch. Urchins’ centre half Richard Goddard was named player of the match, in a game which flowed from end to end. Seven minutes was added on to the second half, but Urchins had no difficulty in holding out, although Jon Keeling was unfortunate with a snap shot which almost crept inside the post."

 

 

 

 

[Little Miss Urchin]

Originally Posted By: Lurchin Urchin

Originally Posted By: Little Miss Urchin

6-4-0 would be sufficient for me.

If you are going to play real negative football I much prefer a 7-2-1. By having the one lone striker should you happen to score and win 1-0; you can always claim it was planned!

Good point, I like your thinking.

[Lurchin Urchin]

Originally Posted By: dagger04

>>>"In truth it was an undeserved win"
"Hornchurch playing a negative 4-5-1"
How much negativity do you want?

I wrote the NLP report and I most certainly did not say that. I do not buy the NLP - it is not available here, and even if it was, I doubt very much that I would buy it.

Here's what I sent up to them - "A strange looking Hornchurch side, with five regulars missing due to injury, struggled with only one forward up front in the first half, dominated by the title chasing visitors, who won three corners in the first minute. Dale Brightly made an excellent save from Ibe, and then followed up with a diving save to tip Ricky Holmes’ goal bound shot away. Urchins looked dangerous when they came forward, and when Daniel Gay rushed out of goal to kick away from Garry Cross, the follow up by David Lee sailed inches over the bar. Andy Duncan headed wide as City piled on the pressure, but a change of tactics after the interval saw Amos Foyewa join Kris Lee up front and City had to rely heavily on their defence, as Urchins mounted waves of attacks. Foyewa twice went close, and a 60 yard run by Mark Janney ended when Gay saved at full stretch. Aidan Collins went close for City, but they could not withstand the home pressure and the only goal of the match came when Foyewa won the ball in midfield, fed a long cross field pass out to Janney, who ran on, and centred, for KRIS LEE to head powerfully home. Cross almost made it two, Gay saving well, and a Kris Lee header skimmed the bar. At the other end, Brightly needed lengthy attention when he saved on the line, after Collins; run had been thwarted, whilst Foyewa was close to dispossessing Gay for Hornchurch. Urchins’ centre half Richard Goddard was named player of the match, in a game which flowed from end to end. Seven minutes was added on to the second half, but Urchins had no difficulty in holding out, although Jon Keeling was unfortunate with a snap shot which almost crept inside the post."

Your above report bears no resemblense to the report printed and attributed to Craig Kemp.

If you have any influence at the NLP could you put my name forward as being the reporter for Southport games?

[Forever Claret 83]

Can i point out that the whinging on our Soapbox was more about our lack of progress in away games compared to last year. Last year we came up against sides like yourselves who know that away from home if you fight hard with men behind the ball, you have every chance of taking points off us. Please do not consider Peter Foster to be typical City fan.

 

In terms of the game, you got your tactics right, however we hit the cross bar and missed two free headers as well as squandering numerous chances. We should have scored at least one of them and were the better team on the day. However, you got the three points so well done. I'm not sure if you will be a top six side this year based on how you played yesterday but good luck to you and well done in the fit barmaids. I didn't think your bar was too girly (although it could have done with an extra pump).

[Uncle Urchin]

Originally Posted By: Forever Claret 83

I'm not sure if you will be a top six side this year based on how you played yesterday

err...hello...we won and got three points....

[Forever Claret 83]

Originally Posted By: Uncle Urchin

Originally Posted By: Forever Claret 83

I'm not sure if you will be a top six side this year based on how you played yesterday

err...hello...we won and got three points....

Of course you won (not disputing that) but you wasn't the better team on the day. If we had taken our chances we would have won comfortably because you didn't exactly pose much of a threat (except the goal which came from Lee Protheroe giving the ball away in our own half).