FAT: Torquay United v Chesham 3pm 13th December 2015

A break from the league and perhaps an opportunity to get a much needed win against a lower league side although they have had a good FA Cup run and will be no mugs! I should be there later and will post my thoughts.

gullone







If we win then it'll just emphasise that it demonstrates the level of opposition we can compete against, and if we lose, well, ....you can guess what will be said.




Nico's detractors will have got their negative comments to suit either outcome well rehearsed in advance. A win and a few goals can't do any harm, especially to the team's confidence which must be a bit low, and we'll take any turning point we can get, but I'd agree that an F.A Trophy win against lower league opposition wouldn't signify our problems being over.




Turning to Troublemaker Reg's comments, it's going to be a low ,low gate anyway isn't it ?, and very hard to compare against what we might have got on Saturday.
Drop Nico ? That's an even worse joke than usual. With last weekends game being postponed, you can't afford to go too long without a competitive game once you've had your 35th birthday. You've not got the natural fitness of a 25 year old and Kev's old experienced legs need a run out this afternoon. If we don't play Nico then it most probably means moving Dan Butler back into defence. I much prefer Butler as a midfielder and think he's done very well in that position. Then again, perhaps we've got midfielders such as Carmichael who could do with a game. I'll trust Kev to come up with the best solution and line up.

rjdgull

Thanks for that rjd. Although I'm sure we'd all prefer Admin to prioritise getting Floridagull back into the fold. Match reports can take second place..

0. 0 ht with the mighty Chesham who have had 8 corners in the first half..anybody believing that we can win 13 of 23 league games are either taking the piss or seriously deluded 0 0 at home against Chesham is truly a shocking result in anyone's book,how the hell kn129 is still there is totally amazing,he was the present guardians choice absolutely nobody else can be blamed.simple stick with him we are up shit creek,a new low in our recent tragic history

I was waiting for penalties to happen according to our wonderful local rag penalties at full time if level,but par for the course it's a totally outdated poorly run peice of crap these days should of know better than take the word of the herald depressed

A game we should have won and perhaps could have lost in injury time with Lavercombe being up to the task of tipping the ball over from a fierce shot. Half a dozen decent chances for us that may have gone in during another era but the football gods were against us with Nico's 3 yard effort in particular somehow screwing off their diving defender parallel to the goal line and out past the post. Nine times out of ten that would have been in.....

First half highlights were a couple of chances for us with a header from Wright? Just looping over the crossbar and an overhead kick diverted to the top right corner of the goal only just palmed wide by their keeper. Richards was injured early on which was balanced by their defender having to be subbed. The ref was keen on his cards giving both sides 2 yellows in the first period with McDonald unlucky after getting the wrong side of a bouncing ball and trying to muscle back in to get a booking...

The second half saw us raise our game for a time and a good break came out to Briscoe on the overlap but his cross was criminally hit over from near the penalty spot. Briscoe was then rightly subbed for Shepherd who was able to cause problems with both his pace and trickery although the end product was not always on the button. It was from this wing that the cross came to Nico on the plate that was somehow kept out. The resulting corner then was somehow was saved after a Gerring header from close range. Later in the half a Wright header was only just a fraction wide. We also had a half decent penalty shout after Butler was impeded at the far post...

So on another day we would have won this game but the fact is we didn't. In spells, we played well but not consistently enough. Gerring almost scored but made a couple of mistakes in the first half, missing the ball to let their winger in and heading the ball out only to the edge of the area where it was only just volleyed wide could have put us in trouble. Briscoe did not create much on the wing and his lack of pace is a liability here.....