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Missed the last few away games so really looking forward to this. Nice, quaint little ground Chipstead although on last visit I remember a 2 page programme and no music or tanoy system on the day. Was there first game of last season when Terry and Stapes led us to a 1nil win before embarking on a great run of 6 wins and a draw from our first 7 games. Oh, to go on another run like that. Would like to see Keehan back in midfield to give us some legs and creativity as he seems to have fallen out of favour lately. Definitely the best of the EP signings. I fancy another 1nil win and a rare clean sheet.

Hope Rose is back as has been a lot better of recent and more comfortable at LB than Charlie I feel ( assuming Brinkhurst plays at RB )

If be tempted to have Charlie alongside Razor though

Hope Sam Cruttwell gets to play somewhere from the start as well.

Lost to Burgess Hill last night 1-2.
Matchreport from The Surrey Mirror

www.surreymirror.co.uk/Sloppy-marking-costs-Chipstead-Burgess-Hill-Town/story-25483793-detail/story.html

Bert,   Burgess Hill is not a League match. It's the Sussex Senior cup. 

Hope we play better than we did in the home match against Chipstead. See Redhill lost 4-0 to Worthing midweek. Badly in need of a morale boosting win. Would like to see us start with: Pelling: Brinkhurst Ray Farmer Cruttwell: Hopkinson Adams Keehan Hassan: Pogue Woodley/Archibald. Go for the win!

Win

So far so good, Taser header.

Just a reminder as well, as it's 2 years today since that magical night

www.youtube.com/watch

Yup...what a memorable night that was....seems a long time ago now and sadly we have to focus on the realisation that we are currently deep in a relegation battle. It seems unthinkable that we really could be playing at County level next season but three points from 18 tell their own story.
Have we been unlucky as Dom has suggested ? Well, we're certainly not getting stuffed week after week and you can argue that any draw or one goal defeat could easily have produced a better outcome simply by one incident at either end going our way. All that said, shouldn't we be having most of the clubs in this league for breakfast and not relying on luck ?
The two holiday games are suddenly very important and we desperately need to find a win or two from somewhere.

Not unlucky....we are just not good enough.

Who was at the game today? what happened?

Matchreport from the Hastings Observer:

www.hastingsobserver.co.uk/sport/football/united-beaten-at-chipstead-1-6472790

I don't think anyone could blame anyone for their equaliser, great strike through a group of players, Josh was obviously unsighted. The player struck that so sweet that I bet if he had another 10 of those he'd score maybe 1. I think we are creating chances Pat but need to be more clinical with those opportunities, From memory they had two chances and scored both Im sure that we had a few more good chances but was left lacking. I thought that our offside count was ridiculous, there was 9 offside decisions in the first half alone, I couldn't see myself whether or not they were all good decisions but we shouldn't be in that situation, it's not the hardest thing in the world to look across a line is it surely?
Good to see Tas get yet another goal, but I think he needs to work on that celebration, it looked like he had cramp the way he busted those moves.

I missed their equaliser as it was just after half time and I don't think I was paying much attention. The first half, I thought we played well. Created a lot of chances, but the linesman kept putting his flag up. I've just looked on the website and we were caught offside 14 times throughout the game, 10 of which must've been in the first half. What's more, the problem was, even when the flag was up late, we still weren't putting the chances away. We had one goal disallowed for offside, from a free kick, which Chipstead played for, but every other time there was a late flag, it was either wide or straight at the keeper.

Taser' header was excellent and well deserved after a lot of time trying to create chances. The second half we just didn't create enough, which shows in the score line.

I'm not really one for negative comments, but Evan Archibald. The lad had two unbelievable chances. The first being released after a sublime headed ball from Sean Ray. Evan was clean through on goal with only the goalkeeper to beat, seemed it was easier to score but instead shot straight at the keeper. The second glorious chance came from a cross - Archibald again, unmarked but headed right at the goalkeeper. Kenny Pogue came on for the last ten minutes or so, but couldn't quite get the service up front he was looking for.

Overall, not a bad performance, but we need to start taking our chances. It's getting extremely frustrating and if we keep squandering chances, this could get very unpleasant. We are way to good for county league football. Herne Bay is going to be a tough test on Saturday, but, keep the faith!

Forgot to ask if we had Chipstead watched before Saturday? Presumably we would have known in advance that they play a high line and look for offsides? We would then have used a plan with third man runs from deep, or clipping in behind and turning them round? Perhaps we wouldn't have been offside so often. Just a thought?

16	Tooting & Mitcham United	Won 2-0 v HYTH..	Lost 3-2 v MERS..	Drew 1-1 v WORT..	Drew 1-1 v WALT..	Drew 2-2 v SOUT..	Lost 3-1 v FOLK..	6	1	3	2	9	10	-1	6
17	Hythe Town	Drew 1-1 v CHIP..	Drew 2-2 v BURG..	Won 6-0 v GUER..	Lost 2-1 v HERN..	Lost 2-1 v SITT..	Lost 2-1 v EAST..	6	1	2	3	12	9	+3	5
18	Whitstable Town	Drew 1-1 v BURG..	Drew 0-0 v EAST..	Lost 2-0 v WALT..	Won 1-0 v HAST..	Lost 3-0 v MERS..	Lost 4-3 v GUER..	6	1	2	3	5	10	-5	5
19	Corinthian-Casuals	Lost 4-1 v SOUT..	Lost 4-1 v FOLK..	Won 3-0 v RAMS..	Drew 1-1 v SITT..	Lost 3-0 v WORT..	Lost 2-0 v WALT..	6	1	1	4	6	14	-8	4
20	Redhill	Lost 4-1 v HYTH..	Lost 5-3 v SITT..	Lost 2-1 v CHIP..	Won 3-2 v EAST..	Drew 1-1 v HAST..	Lost 4-0 v WORT..	6	1	1	4	9	18	-9	4
21	Sittingbourne	Lost 2-0 v HERN..	Drew 1-1 v CORI..	Lost 2-0 v CARS..	Won 2-1 v HYTH..	Lost 5-0 v MERS..	Lost 1-0 v HORS..	6	1	1	4	3	12	-9	4
22	Horsham	Lost 4-1 v WORT..	Lost 2-1 v THRE..	Drew 1-1 v RAMS..	Lost 2-1 v WALT..	Lost 7-0 v BURG..	Won 1-0 v SITT..	6	1	1	4	5	16	-11	4
23	Ramsgate	Drew 1-1 v HORS..	Lost 3-0 v CORI..	Lost 4-1 v WHYT..	Won 2-1 v CHIP..	Lost 2-1 v BURG..	Lost 5-0 v FAVE..	6	1	1	4	5	16	-11	4
24	Hastings United	Lost 2-1 v WALT..	Drew 2-2 v WALT..	Drew 3-3 v SOUT..	Lost 1-0 v WHIT..	Drew 1-1 v REDH..	Lost 2-1 v CHIP..	6	0	3	3	8	11	-3	3

-- Edited by johnw on Monday 15th of December 2014 01:56:56 PM