BIG game tomorrow. We're in great form, playing well, getting results climbing the table, BUT...lest we forget, they murdered us at their place, absolutely murdered us, They put us to the sword, passed us to death and then danced up and down on our graves singing "Hallelujah". We owe them one.
COME ON YOU TERRORS ! 

Hackbridge Harry wrote:

It is a supporters club award not members club. Dave Irons proposed it and we all agreed....
The right thing to do.

Apologies if I caused any confusion. And Dave, allow me to buy you a beer, f**king great idea mate 






















 

Shay did what Shay does and went home with another Match Ball. It has to be said that O'Briens two finishes were out of the top drawer too. Good all-round performance, quality deliveries into the box from wide areas, only one extremely dubious yellow card (I'm not sure it was even a foul, never mind a yellow), clean sheet, 3 points, an emotional pre-match minutes silence for my old mucker Alan, great sing-song up the Bishops with the Bog End choir. What a f**king great Saturday afternoon.

BernieTheBolt wrote:

I remember very well the Ashtree and Cricket conversations on here

It used to be a good laugh on this Forum in those days Plumpers.

Alan was a season ticket holder at Old Trafford for many moons and despite residing in Surrey, used to drive to every Man Utd home game, even the mid-week ones. He confessed to me and Joe on our way to an away game that he wished he'd given up his season ticket years ago so that he could've spent more time following Tooting.& Mitcham.

On our trips to Guernsey, me and Joe used to stay at the very plush St Peter's Port Hotel and Golf resort. By sheer coincidence Alan, who ran his own furnishing and upholstery firm was the man who fitted out the Hotel when it was built in the 70's.

As I said before, Alan wouldn't hear a bad word said about our club. This got him into a bit of a fracas away at Leatherhead when an arsehole Tanners fan upset our Al so much it ended up in fisticuffs. The law were called but fortunately didn't turn up until the final whistle had gone. We had to smuggle him out of the ground with his customary baseball cap covering his boat race to prevent him getting carted off by the local Constabulary.
 

My good mate Alan passed away on Christmas Eve. Just like Gypsy Joe James and Geoff Gatt, he was Tooting & Mitcham to the core. He saw the football world through black & white striped tinted glasses and wouldn't hear a bad word said about the club. If Osama Bin Laden had been our benefactor he would've backed him to the hilt. Football mad, fantastic sense of humour, a lovely geezer, he was like an Ian Bullock on 8 pints of Stella. He was a prolific poster on this Forum for years. He used to drive me and Gypsy Joe to away games for years. Absolutely gutted to hear he's gone to that Bog End in the sky.

jeffb wrote:

If my memory serves
me right, he was nicknamed Yash - presumably after the Russian goalkeeper, Lev Yashin.

Spot on Jeff. The story goes that he was stood behind the goal when a wayward shot fizzed in his direction only for Mike to pluck the ball cleanly from the air in the style of the aforementioned black-clad Ruski shot-stopper. He was immediately dubbed 'Yash' by the World's favourite football historian Ian Bullock. I got this straight from the horse's mouth.

A not dissimilar thing happened to me about 6 or 7 years ago. I was stood up the Bishopsford Road end when an Ashley Robinson thunderbolt hit me smack in the knackers. I think that's the reason why lots of people call me 'Numb Nuts' at least I hope it is 
 

We need to try and keep a settled starting eleven but that goes for just about every team in the world with the possible exception of Man City. Finding Brennan a new job where he's available every game would also help.

That will have pleased Mike Smith the ex-Terrors die hard supporter who moved up to Harrogate and last I heard was following Harrogate with almost as much devotion. Nice guy old Mike, big buddies with Tim Megone. Not your usual type of Tooting fan in that he was well spoken and I don't ever recall hearing him swear. 
Anyone else remember him ?

Brennan is class, 2 goals and an assist, worked his socks off, whipped up the crowd behind the goal which was great to see, I sometimes wonder if the players are aware of our presence. Different gravy, class act, I feel very grateful we've got him. Hard fought win.

And 3 clean sheets on the bounce.

Think I prefer the 6 goal thrillers to be honest.

I was rather hoping somebody else would post on the Forum but to no avail, so here's my take on the game if anyone's interested.
Not a thriller. as you might have guessed from the scoreline. We hardly troubled their Goalie. Defensively we looked pretty sound apart from the last 5-10 minutes when we came under quite a bit of pressure, they got in behind us a couple of times and Theo in goal had to come to the rescue. That's the best performance I've seen from him, he was excellent and made a couple of very good saves. For the first 80 odd minutes it was a 50/50 game neither side created many clear shooting opportunities. Brennan didn't travel with the squad and we ended up drawing a blank for the first time this season. Warren Coleman was as industrious as ever, Lewis Goncalves had a solid game as did his central defensive partner whose name escapes me, good to see Shawn Lyle back from his shoulder injury coming on as sub. Everyone put in a shift.
Nice tidy little ground about a squillion miles walk from the station. hence the blister on my big toe. Huge slope on the pitch, I would've had to put my old Ford Escort in 2nd gear to get up it. Lovely to see Paul 'The Terror' Piggott with his gammy leg there ( I didn't ask, but he was on crutches ), I hadn't seen him for a long time and the top half of him was looking well. Cheapest Club Bar by far I've been in for a long while. Another healthy turnout from the Bog End. 
A thousand times better than the Knaphill debacle. Man of the Match.......Tom Theobald.

Andy P wrote:

Did we defend badly or play badly?

Were Knaphill a very good side?

To answer your first question you just need to look at the scoreline, it says it all.
Were Knaphill a very good side ? Well it seemed to me like they were first to every loose ball, they appeared to win every 50/50, the man on the ball always had options for an easy pass, it was like they had 12 or 13 men out there.
They did look a very competent side. Oh, and their 4th goal was a Worldy !