Re: Dorking away 04.01.20 match thread
Posted: Sun Jan 05, 2020 10:34 am
Still buzzing from a brilliant well-deserved win. Well worth staying to the end and missing my intended train.
The agony and ecstasy after seeing so many chances to wrap it up at 2-0 go begging, hitting the post, just wide and blasting over, then allowing them to draw level, albeit with a great strike in off the post for their second, then seeing what looked like an open goal for the ball to somehow trickle into Sesay's safe hands. Then we stepped up a gear in the last minutes, rather than settling for a point.
Good performances all round, with Luke having his best game this season, constantly beating his man, Darren a revelation in recent weeks, and Elliott doing all we now expect - his goal looks better each time you watch the video. Midfield saw Ky and Jacob in charge with Billy deeper, and defenders rarely troubled. Sesay looking more confident and capable each game.
As others said, the ref was weak and inconsistent, but credit him with the nerve to give the penalties so early and so late, knowing the protesters would be all over him. And then Macca's cool nerves to ignore the protests and attempts to put him off.
Poor lights for such a modern looking ground. Hadn't realised they had an artificial pitch, but it played well and suited our quick short passing game.
Programme was very poor value at £3 with 44 pages of glossy ads and only 16 pages linked to football, with little worth reading, apart from a bit highlighting a Metropolitan League programme of ours from 1958/9. More about their pen pictures than ours, which still included Mark O, Ben and Elliott Leveson (who?) and the line-up not including Billy, Luke, Sesay and 3 newer players. Lazy effort; don't the clubs talk to each other for updates?
However, a great day out!
The agony and ecstasy after seeing so many chances to wrap it up at 2-0 go begging, hitting the post, just wide and blasting over, then allowing them to draw level, albeit with a great strike in off the post for their second, then seeing what looked like an open goal for the ball to somehow trickle into Sesay's safe hands. Then we stepped up a gear in the last minutes, rather than settling for a point.
Good performances all round, with Luke having his best game this season, constantly beating his man, Darren a revelation in recent weeks, and Elliott doing all we now expect - his goal looks better each time you watch the video. Midfield saw Ky and Jacob in charge with Billy deeper, and defenders rarely troubled. Sesay looking more confident and capable each game.
As others said, the ref was weak and inconsistent, but credit him with the nerve to give the penalties so early and so late, knowing the protesters would be all over him. And then Macca's cool nerves to ignore the protests and attempts to put him off.
Poor lights for such a modern looking ground. Hadn't realised they had an artificial pitch, but it played well and suited our quick short passing game.
Programme was very poor value at £3 with 44 pages of glossy ads and only 16 pages linked to football, with little worth reading, apart from a bit highlighting a Metropolitan League programme of ours from 1958/9. More about their pen pictures than ours, which still included Mark O, Ben and Elliott Leveson (who?) and the line-up not including Billy, Luke, Sesay and 3 newer players. Lazy effort; don't the clubs talk to each other for updates?
However, a great day out!
