Best finish since 1992/3?

[Rob_the_Saint]

Another 4 points (from 8 games) and it will be the highest points total since 1992/3 when we totalled 93. The next highest was in 1993/4 when we came 7th with 73, followed by 1995/6 (7th/72).

 

Where is this all leading, I hear you ask. Well, when you think of all the games we could, and should have won... [sigh]

 

[Laz]

I had a similar thought on Sunday: we are just seven points behind Aldershot (I think) and could have beaten Heybridge and should have at least got a draw at home to Bedford.

[GHA EFM]

Four points behind Aldershot, isnit? They've got 4 games in hand, however.

[Rob_the_Saint]

Hitchin, Hayes, Enfield, Billericay, Braintree at home; Boreham Wood, Billericay away; that's seventeen points we should have picked up.

 

Still, no point crying over sour grapes, as they say. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

 

 

[AFF]

Hi Rob.

 

I read The Chairman's programme notes for the Stortford game and the opening sentence was along the lines of 'I'm amazed at the number of people who have written off this club. We are 3rd in the League etc. etc. etc.'

 

I was very surprised, as, while I don't move in the same circles with the great and the good, I haven't heard anyone 'writing off the club'.

 

I wonder if he had you in mind, Rob?

 

 

[EFM The Firm, The Voice]

I wouldn't quite go for all them games as points dropped we certainly deserved to lose against the likes of B'Wood and Hitchin.

 

I look at the following games:

 

H v Billericay Missed penalty by De Souza

H v Braintree Lost 4-2 after dominating the game

A v Billericay Perfectly good goal disallowed

H v Enfield Last minute penalty denied

H v Hayes Last minute goal conceded to the keeper

A v Heybridge 2 Last minute goals turns win into draw

 

I would say that games like Maidenhead away were games we maybe rode our luck in.

All in all I think we have as a rule got what we deserved out of games apart from the 6 mentioned above, if that's the case we have been short changed by some lacks of concentration and bad refs.

 

I think we have had some strange player movements over the season which hasn't helped, the departure of Sippetts, Townley and Hollenbeach, the strange brief exile of Castle.

All the sides above us has had pretty settled squads, you have to say that our bad patch (Jan/Feb) coincided with injurys and the arrival of some "not up to scratch" players, why weren't we getting conference or div 3 players on loan to help us through this bad patch?

Things like the goalkeeping situation over the last 3 games hasn't helped, you can't imagine Terry Brown or Jeff King ringing up their mate who hadn't been playing if their 1st choice was injured or suspended.

 

However if this time last year you said we'll finish 3rd and reach the FA Cup 1st Round, would you of taken it?

Lets have a vote

 

 

[Rob_the_Saint]

Oi AFF

 

I'll put it down to the early hour, nobody is at their best at 6:55 am. I'm certainly not writing us off, I hope as much as anybody that we come third or even second in this league, just a bit disappointed we didn't perform a bit better in some games this season.

[Colin Zeal EFM]

I think it would be impossible to look back on this season without a pang of regret about what "might have been".

 

Thornsy had it spot on though, when he says that a true title-challenging team would a) not get rid of our best players (squad turnover has been a joke again this season) and not replace a suspended goalkeeper with someone from a lower division.

 

 

[GHA EFM]

Quote:

nobody is at their best at 6:55 am

AFF is.

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If this time last year you were told we'd finish 3rd and reach the FA Cup 1R, would you be happy?

Of course you'd be happy. But us nearly going bust shouldn't be harped on about too much. OK, so we nearly went bust. But it could've been so much better once it started. That's why certain people 'whinge' and say 'ah, this is crap, I'm not coming back here for ages.' They know that going bust is in the past.

[Webbo MFI]

we could have been playing in the South Midlands league..

[Colin Zeal EFM]

Yeah. We might have won that.

 

I have to be honest. At not one point did I ever actually believe the club would go under. There's always someone at the 11th hour to 'save the day'.

 

 

[EFM The Firm, The Voice]

Including us!

Remember the fans bid I was putting together under cityfanday!

[The one & only BigRon,EFM]

They used to moan when the firm sponsored a match. Just imagine EFM taking over the Club, now that WOULD have upset a few people. At least we'd have seen 3-5-2.

[Colin Zeal EFM]

I found a quality posting from ages ago while going through an old office diary!!...

 

 

 

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Anonymous

Just when you thought that it couldn't get any worse.....

Sun Apr 8 23:08:15 2001

 

 

Here's the story.

 

A group of obnoxious little kids who have spent the last couple of years spreading their anti-social behaviour and criminal damage (remember Dagenham) in the name of St Albans City F.C. decide to form their own firm. They think of their own name (sounds a bit like ICF doesn't it?) and come up with a catchy phrase - doin' it for the City, first heard as a celebration adter one particularly embarrasing episode had brought about the intervention of the Old Bill.

 

What do the powers that be at the club do about this? Do they ignore the morons and hope that they will go away? do they take action to prevent the good name of the football club from being further darkened? No, they are given credibility and the hospitality of the board room by our ex. Chairman.

 

If I had not seen it with my own eyes, I would not have believed that a club with such stature could stoop so low. Then again, after some of the going's on over the last 12 months, maybe nothing surprises me. Mr Harding must have no respect for the club and its decent supporters to treat them with such contempt. I think that it is probably nearer the truth that Mr Harding has found the only people at the club who are so blinkered that they still accept him.

 

On final thought, what chance does the club have of promoting itself with any credibility and encouraging new supporters to come into the club with Mr Harding acting this way.

 

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Any one gonna own up to that then??

 

 

[The one & only BigRon,EFM]

No sense of humour some folk

[AFF]

Hi Rob.

 

Well someone is "writing the club off".

 

So it's not you. That's all right then. Would whoever it is kindly stop doing it. It's amazing The Chairman.