Post by Dave on Aug 15, 2009 18:34:04 GMT
I will move this thread later to the other football board.
What a delightful afternoon I had watching this FA Cup Extra Preliminary Round between Buckland Athletic and the Dorset side Hamworthy. I was very surprised with the size of the crowd, I expected to see half of Newton Abbot at Homers Heath, I’m not sure how many people were there, but it looked a poor turnout. I would expect Buckland must have been a bit disappointed as well, there seemed to be many unsold programmes left over.
At just one pound the programme was really good value, it’s glossy and very well put together, more of a weekend read than just one before the game starts. .More than 30 pages and six were just on the history of the FA Cup alone and three on Sir Bobby himself.
The pitch did not look as good as when we played there in a friendly, it’s had some good loving care, but there were two patchy areas in the middle that said I loved the way it had been rolled, looking even better viewing from higher up on the training pitch.
Bucklandgull came over an introduced himself and it was pleasing to meet and chat with another TFF member, I also had a chat with a few people from the Devon FA, who I know because of Ant.
I was not too sure what to expect about the standard of football I was about to watch, but I really was so pleasantly surprised with the quality football both teams played. The passing and moving was top drawer at times and you could have been forgiven for thinking it was TUFC out on the pitch in the all yellow strip.
Buckland came close to going behind in the first five minutes, a harmless ball played in from the left wing, saw the defender fail to do anything and the keeper came rushing out to the edge of his box. The Hamworthy forward got to the lose ball on the edge of the box, but his lob went over he bar.
Buckland were playing some great balls into space on the left hand side and one passing move was as good as the one we had for our first goal at home last week, only it did not finish in a goal for Buckland.
Bucklands no 2 Liam Drew really impressed me at right back, while he is small and not that well built, time after time he got in important tackles and broke up Hamworthy attacks. Their forward no 9 Gary Langrish did all he could to bully the Buckland defence with his brawn figure and was on to the ref non stop protesting about every foul he thought he should have had.
Buckland were attacking the Hamworthy goal and I was trying to get a shot on my camera, the ball went dead and the ref ran all the way to the halfway line and showed Langrish a yellow card, I have no idea what for.
Then Hamworthy look the lead, a ball played to the far post seemed to go in of a defenders head, well someone near me said it was an own goal. To be fair Buckland did not deserve to go in at half time a goal down and to what was a sloppy goal at that. I thought the ref was very poor at times in the first half, failing to give Buckland frees kicks near their box, but giving ones to Hamworthy just after not giving what were clear free kicks to Buckland.
The second half saw Buckland go looking to get a goal back, getting the ball so many times up and into the Hamworthy box, but failing to make the killer pass, or guilty of blazing their shots over the bar. They won a few corners, but the balls were placed to near the keeper, making it easy catching practice for him. They were in danger of getting caught on the brake and one long ball pumped over the pushed up Buckland defence saw Langrish get send off.
The Buckland keeper must have had to come out of his area, as he cleared the ball to his right with a header, only for Langrish to decide he was going to take the Buckland keeper put. Not sure if he was shown a second yellow or a straight red, but he reacted very angrily and I thought he was close to taking a swing at the ref.
Buckland soon afterward had the ball in the back of the net, but the goal was ruled out, the ball had been hooked back across the goal and was headed in, but the linesman said it had gone over the dead ball line and a goal kick was awarded.
Then came two penalty shoots, the first one saw a Buckland player right near the post of the Hamworthy goal appear to be fouled, but nothing was given, this got some of the Buckland fans shouting out just what they thought of the linesman.
The second one saw Buckland get their deserved equaliser just after it happened, a Buckland forward was running into the box and was clearly tripped in my view, while he was still down just inside the box, the ball found its was to the Buckland substitute Shane Gill. Now Shane is a stocky lad but he went into the box and danced around the keeper and buried the ball into the net, it was no more than Buckland deserved.
They should have won the game and saved themselves a trip next week up to Dorset for the replay, with 10 seconds left of the game, a great through ball was played to the forward, his pace got him past the two defenders near him and he hit such a cracking shot that had the keeper well beaten, only the ball crashed against the top of the bar and back into play.
Buckland players warm up
Out comes the teams
Time for hand shakes
First action
Buckland shot goes over
It sounded like he got a slap in the face.
Having treatment
back to the action
Not to many at the game.
Hamworthy keeper tries to get the ball
First goal.
Buckland first half shot
Second half wasted corners by Buckland
Ball flies over the bar
Lino and ref decide to have a chat.
The sending off
Buckland celebrate their goal, I missed the shot watching the dancing feet ;D
More action
Hamworthy keeper makes a save
Game over and time for more hand shakes
What a delightful afternoon I had watching this FA Cup Extra Preliminary Round between Buckland Athletic and the Dorset side Hamworthy. I was very surprised with the size of the crowd, I expected to see half of Newton Abbot at Homers Heath, I’m not sure how many people were there, but it looked a poor turnout. I would expect Buckland must have been a bit disappointed as well, there seemed to be many unsold programmes left over.
At just one pound the programme was really good value, it’s glossy and very well put together, more of a weekend read than just one before the game starts. .More than 30 pages and six were just on the history of the FA Cup alone and three on Sir Bobby himself.
The pitch did not look as good as when we played there in a friendly, it’s had some good loving care, but there were two patchy areas in the middle that said I loved the way it had been rolled, looking even better viewing from higher up on the training pitch.
Bucklandgull came over an introduced himself and it was pleasing to meet and chat with another TFF member, I also had a chat with a few people from the Devon FA, who I know because of Ant.
I was not too sure what to expect about the standard of football I was about to watch, but I really was so pleasantly surprised with the quality football both teams played. The passing and moving was top drawer at times and you could have been forgiven for thinking it was TUFC out on the pitch in the all yellow strip.
Buckland came close to going behind in the first five minutes, a harmless ball played in from the left wing, saw the defender fail to do anything and the keeper came rushing out to the edge of his box. The Hamworthy forward got to the lose ball on the edge of the box, but his lob went over he bar.
Buckland were playing some great balls into space on the left hand side and one passing move was as good as the one we had for our first goal at home last week, only it did not finish in a goal for Buckland.
Bucklands no 2 Liam Drew really impressed me at right back, while he is small and not that well built, time after time he got in important tackles and broke up Hamworthy attacks. Their forward no 9 Gary Langrish did all he could to bully the Buckland defence with his brawn figure and was on to the ref non stop protesting about every foul he thought he should have had.
Buckland were attacking the Hamworthy goal and I was trying to get a shot on my camera, the ball went dead and the ref ran all the way to the halfway line and showed Langrish a yellow card, I have no idea what for.
Then Hamworthy look the lead, a ball played to the far post seemed to go in of a defenders head, well someone near me said it was an own goal. To be fair Buckland did not deserve to go in at half time a goal down and to what was a sloppy goal at that. I thought the ref was very poor at times in the first half, failing to give Buckland frees kicks near their box, but giving ones to Hamworthy just after not giving what were clear free kicks to Buckland.
The second half saw Buckland go looking to get a goal back, getting the ball so many times up and into the Hamworthy box, but failing to make the killer pass, or guilty of blazing their shots over the bar. They won a few corners, but the balls were placed to near the keeper, making it easy catching practice for him. They were in danger of getting caught on the brake and one long ball pumped over the pushed up Buckland defence saw Langrish get send off.
The Buckland keeper must have had to come out of his area, as he cleared the ball to his right with a header, only for Langrish to decide he was going to take the Buckland keeper put. Not sure if he was shown a second yellow or a straight red, but he reacted very angrily and I thought he was close to taking a swing at the ref.
Buckland soon afterward had the ball in the back of the net, but the goal was ruled out, the ball had been hooked back across the goal and was headed in, but the linesman said it had gone over the dead ball line and a goal kick was awarded.
Then came two penalty shoots, the first one saw a Buckland player right near the post of the Hamworthy goal appear to be fouled, but nothing was given, this got some of the Buckland fans shouting out just what they thought of the linesman.
The second one saw Buckland get their deserved equaliser just after it happened, a Buckland forward was running into the box and was clearly tripped in my view, while he was still down just inside the box, the ball found its was to the Buckland substitute Shane Gill. Now Shane is a stocky lad but he went into the box and danced around the keeper and buried the ball into the net, it was no more than Buckland deserved.
They should have won the game and saved themselves a trip next week up to Dorset for the replay, with 10 seconds left of the game, a great through ball was played to the forward, his pace got him past the two defenders near him and he hit such a cracking shot that had the keeper well beaten, only the ball crashed against the top of the bar and back into play.
Buckland players warm up
Out comes the teams
Time for hand shakes
First action
Buckland shot goes over
It sounded like he got a slap in the face.
Having treatment
back to the action
Not to many at the game.
Hamworthy keeper tries to get the ball
First goal.
Buckland first half shot
Second half wasted corners by Buckland
Ball flies over the bar
Lino and ref decide to have a chat.
The sending off
Buckland celebrate their goal, I missed the shot watching the dancing feet ;D
More action
Hamworthy keeper makes a save
Game over and time for more hand shakes
Well I thought you would know the answer as a former Spurs Mascot Dave...............................
