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Wynter for Odaudu (injured).

1 nil, Bradbury

Park Life - keep up the good work with the updates

HT 1-0.
Got stronger as the half went on and deserve to be in front.

Taunton Dart wrote: ↑Tue Aug 15, 2023 8:30 pm Park Life - keep up the good work with the updates

I'll try mate.
But i have made the occasional error

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golden goal 43 mins

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Sheringham for Bradbury

Missed a great chance then 1-1

Barzey Red card, not a great challenge but red looked harsh to me.

Looked like an awful challenge on the live stream. Thought it was red as soon as I saw it

FT 1-1

Disappointed to let 3 points slip but as said, results are all over the place.
Give it 10 games before we start shooting ourselves in the foot with rash decisions.
Nice effort to get the first win but Barzey getting himself sent off has not helped the situation. Having Mickey Rooney back on Saturday may be a godsend.

2 home draws that both feel like defeats. We can't keep throwing wins away. We are doing enough to win games just not taking big chances.

The Barzey red is silly, been one of our brightest players and now faces a suspension.

Mark Sweet wrote: ↑Tue Aug 15, 2023 9:54 pm 2 home draws that both feel like defeats. We can't keep throwing wins away. We are doing enough to win games just not taking big chances.

The Barzey red is silly, been one of our brightest players and now faces a suspension.

Sorry but we’re no doing enough to win.
Doing enough to win is taking your chances and not conceding 5 goals in 3 games.

I’m not going to be too downbeat lots to come but while I predict we will come good and we will have a good season this is about todays game in isolation and it was an awful watch and over 90 mins it was not good.

Feel totally fed up after that result right now but hey that will pass and we still have plenty of time to get things right .

The first half an hour not a lot happened but we slowly grew into the game and took a deserved lead . A lovely cross headed home by Bradbury. After that we dominated the match only to find their keeper in fantastic form . Then we had a golden chance to wrap the game up , Allen somehow failed to find the target from 5 yards out with the goal at his mercy. 30 seconds later it was 1–1 , then Barzey get sent off and only a goal line clearance stopped us from losing the game .

It was like a repeat of the Bath match , we have to finish teams off or this is going to keep happening.

Harvey’s goal

Surprised Bradbury was substituted. He was a constant threat all evening.
Our keeper didn't have a lot to do unlike theirs who pulled off a couple of great saves.
No complaints about the sending off but the other guy retaliated and went unpunished.
This was always going to be the toughest league to call this season and it'll take a while for things to settle down.
The only real downside for me was the all too familiar sight of away fans celebrating a late goal.

Nothing happened 1st half. Neither side got near the goal. We had a couple of decent passing moves without really getting anywhere. 0-0 was what the game deserved. Then we scored out of nowhere. Great ball from Block, who had a decent game, and Bradbury did his job. Take that. 2nd half we played better. Wouldn’t say I thought a goal was coming, but it wouldn’t have been a surprise. Trouble is, Hampton were still in the game. And, it has to be said, it has become all too regular under Dowson: conceding late goals. And so it was. If our goal was out the blue 1st half then Hampton’s was out the deepest purple. And after that Hampton could’ve nicked it.

It wasn’t the worst performance in the world, but it certainly wasn’t great. Plenty of effort, but just a lack of quality in attacking areas. Often a stray pass or cross.

We need a bit more composure attack-wise, but most importantly we can’t keep letting in late goals (still haunted by Chelmsford last season). Opponents know they’re always in with a shout. That has to change.

First half we took a while to get going but gradually took control and deservedly went in at HT 1 nil up.
Second half we started ok but then let Hampton have a bit too much possession although they never really created any decent chances.
Then came the few minutes which changed everything, we missed a great chance to wrap the game up and then they equalised.
Overall i thought we were the better side but again failed to win a game we should have and only have ourselves to blame, so bloody frustrating.

Thought at the time Barzeys challenge wasn't great but not deserving of a red, be interested to see the video but we don't seem to show these incidents so may not get a second look at it.
Ref is getting a bit of criticism and i did feel his second half performance wasn't great as they did seem to get away with a lot more than us, but it's down to us we didn't get the win and not the ref.

Three games in and disappointed to only have two draws, but missed opportunities and a few errors have cost us but will wait until 8-10 games as we will have a better idea of how we will do then.