23.3.09
22.3.09
Hyde Away
A scenic journey to Manchester with the King having to do a full drive for the first time this season and getting his penance in the fact that his smoking pipe would of sounded good on the local chav car. An Elastoplast was applied by the local garage to ease his journey home and save him from the noise police.
The soundtrack was simply the radio in our vehicle no idea about what the ears suffered in the King's car.
The weather was fine until we crossed the pennines and the same in reverse... Manchester home to gloom was about right.
The ground was strictly old school.Big tin stands but all ends were covered. The clubhouse was a seventies throwback,Brian Potter would of approved of course.
About 40 hardy travellers made the journey,with a few exiles also making up the number and were rewarded with a hard working performance again with a little more invention than of the last few games.Both sides had good chances and Howie made 3 top class saves to deny the home side.Our chances were missed by poor finishing and a terrific goal line clearance by Renton ... who looked like he was getting a level of fitness into him.Jack replaced him for the last 20 odd mins and caused a few problems as usual.
To be fair the last minute goal was a little cruel on the home side who were more than value for the draw but a smash and grab is all fine in love and football.
Good finish in the end by Fisk.
That should just about see us safe in my eyes.
As a finishing note the food was good at the ground (M&P Pie,peas & Gravy)... Great Bovril .. though i am still waiting for my salt levels to return to normal.
Next up is the A-team final on Tuesday night at Carrow Road....
20.3.09
Quick Chat
Really quiet on the football chat all over the papers and the web, guess that is what happens when realistically the season is over 6 weeks before the season actually finishes.A situation that if we are honest is fine enough and we have achieved the ambition of probably staying up in our first season.
How amusing is it that The Scouse have got the Chelski yet again in the Champions League.It least it means one or the other of the humblest supporters in the league disappear fron the competition. Lets hope its the Scouse he says in a bitter tone... They still have the league that they can win!!
Onto Hyde we go .. another new ground for me and another Draw ??
17.3.09
16.3.09
15.3.09
Home to Vauxhall M
?Another workman like performance with the inability to kill or see out out a game ... Do the players not learn anything at all .... What should of been 9 points is only 3 and the poorness of the bottom clubs mean that we are still in the same league position .. I have said it before and i will say it again , this league is no better than the one above . We just need a 1% increase in performance and we could of been in the top 6 ... Just because of the evenness/poorness of the league.Junk !!!
What an odd lets try to accommodate Jacky D in the side formation that was ... Did it work ... well it was as said workman like ....Renton worked hard but is months away from full fitness.. Wouldn't mind seeing him on loan next season when he is fit and raring to go .. I can see the Potential and why he has a good reputation.Dwyer worked hard again and he is full of raw talent. Good stuff...
Do the bench pay ant attention to the players when they are playing ... Johnson looked like he had a hamstring problem for much of the latter stages of the first half and yet a sub wasn't even sent out to warm up ...Admittedly he ran it off .. odd !!...
Another very late goal conceded ... I am seriously annoyed still..
Roll on 6 weeks time and the season is over ... It has been a very frustrating one all in all..
Time to regroup and start over again ... Johnson as player manager with Peters...anyone ??
