I felt the first half was as bad as some of the games when we came back down from our seson in the premier division, there was no energy in midfield, nobody seemed to be up for the game, and in fact had it not be for Sam playing a blinder in goal, making two superb saves when we were already a goal down, we could easily have gone in at half time , down by three or four.
Second half they came out a different team, the change on the left made a difference, suddenly we started to threaten their goal, but without that final cutting edge, goodness knows how many corners we had, at one time I think three or four in succession, but could not take advantage of them, at that point with it still being 1-0 you thought we could salvage something from this game, but the cruel hand of fate struck twice in the final minutes of the match, giving the scoreline a 3-0 defeat that our second haf display did not justify.
If we repeat our first half display next Saturday then we can say goodbye to the FA cup for another season, but surely we can not be that bad again.

..........Never seen so few today............

I along with many, many, others were at Lords for the Royal London 50 over Cup Final..............and don't say we should be supporting our team at Whitstable in spite of that ! This was OUR cup final, one that Surrey have been striving for all season and one that true Surrey cricket fans would not miss for anything !  And, I know of a few others that had to work and some others who probably found the expense of travelling away with the team every other week just too much - you have to eat after all !
If not for that we would probably all have been down at Whitstable.
I apologised to Frank and Mark last week for the fact that a lot of us would not be there today due to the Cup final so my/our concsience is/are clear !
See you at Chatham on Tuesday then (I hope) 

 

Just to clarify, crushed as I am with the whole business just as we seemed to be making real progress, I did not desert the team today.
Currently in Wales at a family special birthday.
Back for Chatham I hope although if we are putting in any 7 day approaches for replacement creative midfielders that will take time to finalise.

Good posting 59'er - let the Management Manage, let the supporters support !
Let's get behind the guys at Chatham !

Very sadly, from a league position, we didn't make any progress at all Benchy.
And that was with a 30 goal striker.

As you know, I greatly enjoyed our passing game under Craig, whatever the result.
And I was much relieved when we (eventually) found something more like it this season.
Now we have to start again without Bill M.
Yet another new challenge \ adventure in the life of T&M eh.
Hopefully it will be an interesting journey - starting tonight?