The way I was endo you think I was in hospital

A well deserved win for the team today, speaking in the bar before the game we would have all been happy with a draw, but today the team excelled themselves, restricting "Dorking" to no clear cut chances at all, even when we went down to ten men we kept on doing what we needed to do in order to see the game out.
In conditions more suited to lying on the beach with a beer in hand, the lads gave their all for the full ninety minutes I thought that when we went down to ten men with still thirty minutes to play the extra man would tell for "Dorking" with our goal being put under excessive pressure, but this did not happen we defended when required and broke out from defence with pace to cause their defenders problems, far more than they created for us.
A well deserved win for the team and every man can be proud of the shift put in to earn it.
My sympathy goes out to "Sol" who up to his sending off was having a good game running the back line to keep the visitors out, I am not aware of why he got sent of but possibly for backchatting the ref, unfortunately we know this is his Achilles heel and he will never change and I am sure he immediately resented his actions, but he does not need me to preach to him about this failing but nonetheless as far as I am concerned he would always be one of my first names on the team sheet for his leadership qualities and helping guide the young players through tough games such as this.
So well done lads and let us hope you can keep your remarkable run going.
 

A great team performance and a well deserved man of the match for Danny Bassett, who worked his socks off for 90 minutes. A superbly taken goal as well, I wouldn't say finishing was his strong point but this was top draw, following an equally good lay off from DMG.

Lets hope for interesting opposition in the next round.

Home tie against a lower opposition would be great. Failing that, any home tie surely? 

Our home form and atmosphere has struggled in the past, but i genuinely think the team take encouragement from our home support and the pitch this season (which was an excellent surface on saturday) so I think we should try and create either the underdog atmosphere at home if we get a side from higher up, or we dominate a lower side at our impressive ground. 

I don't like to heap praise on a few individuals when frankly the whole team deserve praise for all playing out of their skins, but I must say that Danny Bassett and Rooney were excellent on Saturday. Dom was also his usual industrious and committed self - the ground that guy covers!

When Rooney (my man of the match) dropped back into central defence he won literally everything in the air. He was exceptional. 

Brilliant win, very proud of the side. 

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donnyc wrote:

Watching the game on vidiprinter it gives a straight red to sol not two yellows,so it gives the impression that he has been a naughty boy,so glad that’s not the case.shame I wasn’t there,it was one game I had a feeling was going to be good,bring on the next scalp.c’mon tooting

He was still a naughty boy for getting a needless second yellow. before that point he was actually playing really well. 

The first yellow was well deserved and necessary, as Zak Coleman played a backpass short that put us in a spot of bother. A professional foul to stem their counter-attack. The right decision to bring him down and pick up the card. 

None of us know what he said for the second yellow (I assume), but the fact that it was for verbal makes it unfortunately a needless suspension and put the win in jeopardy. Glad the team were able to battle through and take all three points. But I must admit, if we'd have drawn or gone on to lose with 10 men, the blame would lie firmly at his feet. 

He needs to reign that side of his game in, though part of me thinks he can't. 

Daryl got a lot of needless suspensions last year, but I feel like he has learnt from that (and openly admitted he's working on that side of his game). I think our club captain Sol needs to do the same.