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No facebook event made for tonight and how the pitch looking now ??

Best home record in the league against the worst away record, albeit they did pick up their only away points at a fading Crawley Down last time out. And with the next 2 games being against the bottom, namely Corinthian and Eastbourne, I think we should expect nothing less than 9 out of 9 points. No pressure then

JohnW this could be the defining fortnight in our season get 9/9 avoid defeat in Guernsey and we will be set fair, and will have rest of the league looking up at us.

Recon this could be one of our easiest home games this season and just got a gut feeling it could be a big score in our favour. We are due a big rampant victory and think its tonight against a side that struggle big time away from home although they are not much better at home. Ryan goulding could be there dangerman though.....i predict a 5.1 victory with an attendance of 369

Think it will be a lot tougher than 5-1 in our favour. Their last 3 games have seen them beat Crawley Down 3-0, Herne Bay 4-2 and lose 3-2 to Worthing after conceding 2 in the last 4 minutes. I'm going 2nil.

What an absolute load of rubbish, too many players underperforming, and the ability to pass to another blue shirt was awful, we should be getting more for our £10 than that dross.

And another goal conceded through the left back area.

-- Edited by ChrisB on Monday 11th of November 2013 10:57:00 PM

Yeah...let's not be greedy !
3 points however they come will do me.
Hopefully we do turn on a bit of style today but I am forever the realist and Sittingbourne will be determined not to give up without a fight.
I'll go for another narrow victory.

Anyone want to speculate on the starting line up?

Don't get carried away with the new signings. It takes time to get a side to gel. I hope John uses tonight to bring the new boys in gradually. I think we will win by a couple of goals. Attendance about 400.

I would not call it dross and clear we are better than this but disappointed that we did not get 3 points but cant argue that Sittingbourne deserved a share of points. Very lucky with the penalty, it was a stonewall but after the first pen which was not up to standard the second was so lucky and Sam will have breathed a huge sigh of relief that it ended up in net. Rodrigo show promise but still need top see more of him but think we need more changes in middle and Sam and Danny prob need a rest. Usual reliable supersub Kenny could done better with a couple of chance but what we really need is an out and out striker that is always there at the right timeto finish teams off. when i was at school they were called goal hoggers. consider weather good crowd for a really disgusting monday night and also to say the burger i had tonight was absolutely scrummie, probably my highlight of night

I'm pretty much with ChisB on this one. A very very disappointing display. The conditions were difficult, but the standard of our passing was very low throughout and we could easily have lost by two clear goals. Danny had a particularly poor game and we missed Tim hugely in midfield. Branco had some good touches but went down too easily and fluffed our best chance of a winner when gifted a one on one. Bailo deserved the man of the match award. He is so much better playing wide than in the middle. But the real pain was that Sittingbourne clearly were prepared to settle for a point with half an hour to go and we simply could not find the energy or some different strategy to deny them.

Didnt see that coming must admit...way out with my prediction...guess would prefer to play teams at top than lower half of table. Think corinthian will be a 3 pointer for us though as note they have conceded 10 goals in 3 games...eastbourne town are improving and notice they now have rocky baptiste playing for them...i will play safe and go go for a draw....so 5 points from 9 for last 3 games. What is concerning is that we have now only scored one goal ( retaken penalty ) in 180 minutes of football...lets hope this is our blip and things improve...we now have a great opportunity to capitalise by playing the worst 2 teams in the division.

2 words johnw.....problem solved

Hope it does happen, seems like a logical fit, wants to stay local, still wants to play, Tims here, times hopefully a great healer!

There are so many things that fit that it really does seem a no-brainer!

Well. What a ****e game that was ! Only entertainment was the 2 penalties and the crowd in the first half, don't remember much of the second half ! Missing Tim in midfield, think Branco had a decent game despite some pathetic criticism, made good runs, confident beating players, won 2 penalties and did well to squeeze a shot in from the tightest of angles. Their keeper was one of the most pathtic I have ever seen, claiming to be injured when saving a shot and acting like a caveman at times! Hopefully a better performance on saturday and it will only take a couple more wins to get a firm grip on 1st place which will hopefully inject some confidence into the lads! Onwards and upwards as they say!

Thought overall it was a pretty even affair, thought the best we played was the last 15-10 of the 1st half... Both teams had chances to grab their second goal and Sittingbourne were unlucky to have a shot hit the post.

Was a bit disappointed with our passing, gave it away too cheaply too often. Bailo played well on the left and put in a few decent balls, that on another day we could have scored one or two from, unfortunately this time round no one could get the right connection.

From what I recall, Sittingbourne have always been a bit of a bogey team for us, so not too disapointed with 1-1.

First things first another great job by Simon and the guys to get the pitch looking great as always. Big well done for getting the game on.

As for the game, I can only repeat it was pretty poor. Would probably say Sittingbourne were one of the worst sides I've seen this season at the PF. Thought Rodrigo looked pacey, but generally everyone was just poor. Maybe it will take time for some of the new signings to gel. We didn't really look like scoring other than from the penalty. A few close headers at the end, but not much else other than Rodrigo's chance. As for the 2nd penalty, it never looked like one to me in a million years. I was shouting for a corner if anything.

Thought the substitutions were a bit bizarre, especially bringing on Kenny for Rodrigo. Why not try them both up top together? The game was there for the taking, but we were still intent on sticking Kenny up top, and playing dire balls into him. Another man up top and it could have been a different story

Other than the Keepers pink shirt, not much excitement. 2 big games now, which need 6 points.

How played Ronnie Dolan ?

Ronnie did okay Bert. Stuck him in at left midfield. Not sure if he is left footed or he was there to accommodate others, but a solid rather than spectacular debut. Comes highly recommended from Hythe fans so have no doubt he will be a success given time.

Agreed John - by the time it ended I was glad for the point because while we had much more penalty box play than they did - every time they went forward they looked lively and prepared to have a go and I could see us losing that game. Bit frustrating as well though - had one of those efforts gone in we might've scored a few more bit in the end, 1-1 was about right AND we do have a ****e record against Sittingbourne at the Pilot Field.

Best to never listen to Pat as being a Leeds Utd supporter his knowledge of football is pretty limited.

We were pretty poor they got at us early and we never got going. This has happened a few times Merstham and Sudbury and it's bit worrying.

it really shows how bad this league is that we can play that poorly and still not lose!!

Credit to Sittingbourne came with a game plan and it worked.

Thanks for clearing up the penalty, it was only as the keeper turned around and said just before the restart 'how is that a foul', that made me think it was for the foul afterwards.

As for Sittingbourne, they did have a game plan, and crowded us out well, deserved the point on that merit. I just thought technically they were poor, but were certainly better than us in terms of the basics.