Saturday August 30th National League Brackley Town 1-1 Scunthorpe United Braintree Town 0-0 Forest Green Rovers Eastleigh 2-1 Altrincham FC Halifax Town 3-2 Yeovil Town Gateshead 3-3 Aldershot Town Hartlepool United 0-0 Boreham Wood Morecambe 0-2 Woking Solihull Moors 1-2 Southend United Sutton United 2-1 Carlisle United Truro City 3-0 Boston United Wealdstone 1-3 Rochdale National League North AFC Fylde 1-0 Bedford Town AFC Telford United 3-0 Spennymoor Town Curzon Ashton 0-1 Kidderminster Harriers Hereford 2-0 Alfreton Town King's Lynn Town 4-0 Merthyr Town Leamington 1-0 Chorley Macclesfield 2-1 Darlington Marine 0-1 Peterborough Sports Oxford City 1-5 Radcliffe Scarborough Athletic 2-0 Southport South Shields 2-2 Buxton Worksop Town 2-1 Chester National League South AFC Totton 2-1 Eastbourne Borough Bath City 1-2 Dorking Wanderers Chelmsford City 2-1 Chesham United Dover Athletic 1-2 Maidenhead United Hampton & Richmond Borough 3-2 Ebbsfleet United Hemel Hempstead Town 2-1 Torquay United Hornchurch 3-0 Chippenham Town Horsham 1-1 Salisbury Slough Town 1-1 Enfield Town Tonbridge Angels 3-3 Farnborough Weston-super-Mare 3-0 Dagenham & Redbridge Worthing 3-3 Maidstone United
York, Forest Green, Rochdale and now Carlisle all in the first month of the season. I want to know who we’ve annoyed. Given our current form it’s obvious that I’m not optimistic of a positive result for Sutton. Whilst there were slight improvements in performance over the weekend from the horror show at Forest Green we’re not starting to get really involved until late in the game where we’re chasing
Screwed over by women rugby World Cup being held at LNER. Ridiculous away fixtures because we can’t play at home for 3 weeks. We will of played Truro,Southend,Woking,Yeovil & Braintree away before we play next home game.
If we had at least got a point Vs Brackley I'd be tempted to say a draw at Wealdstone would be OK. We've lost both times we've played there so a small improvement would be welcomed. Stones made a decent start along with our poor record there. I can actually see a draw. Either way I'm looking forward to finally ticking the place off.
Normally I'd be all over that. Eyed that place up before and it looks good. Sadly it's another drive down the M6 for me. The trains for this weekend seem even more expensive than usual.
Safe travels down. No idea what to make of this one, we've implemented a possession based style under Cox, but Rochdale take it to a whole other level, so being solid in terms of shape out of possession is going to be critical for this one. Kind of think we need to do to Dale what Boston did to us on Monday, be really compact and try to catch them on the break. Concede an early goal and we're screwed.
El Splashico up at Gateshead for us. We come into it as the top scorers in the league and after a perfect Bank Holiday weekend and a bit of a momentum. Only downside is Theo Widdrington is back from his suspension and of course will go straight back into the team with the captains armband, despite Hargreaves and Tetek dominating the midfield in our two BH games. Don’t know much about Gateshead except they must have a bit about them to come back from 3-0 down. Feel like there’ll be goals, I’ll go for 2-2. Big up the National League fixture planners who send us up to Gateshead on Saturday then down to Truro 3 days later, great planning chaps
Great chance to continue our good start but I'm not expecting an easy game. Back to 2 up top and hopefully Jay Benn will be back in at RWB, he has looked good so far and we need his directness to stretch teams sitting in deep which I'm sure BW will do. Otherwise I expect Jermaine Francis to continue there. It's always a depressing experience playing them with their 13 away fans and their team's antics. I hope we absolutely smash them.
Borehamwood looked a better footballing team than most L2 sides we saw up here last season. Don't assume they're like what they apparently used to be like.
They did, but we let them play by being absolutely shite. We put in a lazy, arrogant, dogshit performance that would have made plenty of teams look good. Fully expect Hartlepool to beat them comfortably. But in Norris they do have a useful striker for this level.
I hate playing this lot, Fatty in goal loves playing up here, gets absolute pelters for 90 minutes but pulls off save after unbelievable save and revels in it. Correct mate, has to be DJ and Reid up top, I’d start Daly behind them both, then put Francis back at RWB who was excellent against Woking. I’d take a scruffy 1-0 right now.
Brackley away for us on DAZN, means the world can watch our scintillating football We beat them twice last year, they didn't seem to match up well against us and looked very poor on both occasions. Not sure how many players we will be missing, we're desperate for Whitehall to be back. I cannot stomach another game of Mark Beck starting, it's brutal
They were fairly predictable with their attacks though, I feel we could have done more to cut them out and they've still all the gamesmanship. They just have some tricky players and don't go route one
To be fair it's not so bad, Truro is Wednesday so we get a whole 4 days in between. Gateshead, Truro and Carlisle in consecutive away games is some mileage though
