Recent content by batterrasea

Jordan was excellent for us at Southern Prem and NLS level, but let go by the new management after Mark Molesley left for Southend. MM picked him up from an FE College Portsmouth way, and obviously still rates him. I'd say Jordan's weak spot was a lack of self-belief. I was behind the goal at...

I'm just glad the only controversies from our pov were 'Was the Yeovil equaliser an own-goal or not?' and 'Was Omar Mussa daft to earn himself a second booking, thus missing the King's Lynn game on Saturday?' :)

Well, I hardly needed to be a clairvoyant to get that spot on. Forward to the past, really, with all the same old failings on display, chief of which are lack of a cutting edge and defensive naivety. One point from the last nine games tells the story, and it would require a turnaround of...

Not being able to be there on Saturday, and not having the inside track as I did once upon a time, I'm only going by what I've heard, which was that he got a knock, and went down having difficulty breathing, but he was eventually able to leave the pitch under his own steam. Nothing official from...

You'd been going well until Saturday, so I don't think losing 0-2 to a very good Stockport side is anything other than a blip. I might have agreed with you about the draw, but the loss of our most creative player, Mussa, definitely tilts the odds towards you. A close game perhaps, but a win for...

Hardly a surprise - seven straight defeats and sinking ever further into the relegation morass'll do that to any manager. I actually feel quite sorry for the guy. When he was brought in it was a huge opportunity for a man with a good track record of success as a player, including captaining...

I'd say we should be nailed on for relegation. Five straight league defeats, a young squad short on skill and confidence, a rookie manager still lacking understanding of what it takes to survive in the NL, Covid in the squad.....it's not looking good. And yet. I'm encouraged by the fact that the...

I'd love to be there - used to tour to the Pomegranate back in the day, and always liked the town. Performances when there was bell-ringing practice in the church next door were a bit of a challenge, mind you. Unfortunately, my faithful Indian companion Tonto (aka my lad) is now a family man, so...

Tom Blair from Eastleigh. Didn't feature there much, but he's the kind of player the manager likes to sign - young and cheap - and, tbf, Stock's doing a fair job of getting other people's cast-offs to do better for us.

The form he's in, Tshimanga could probably do it on his own against our lumbering cbs. A comfortable win for you in the end, but it won't be for lack of effort on our part - it's the skill part of it where we come unstuck.

It may all be a massive wind-up as there's nothing official, but the internet/social media is suggesting he's gone to a second division club in India. Weird.

We're a team that won last night. How did your lot get on?

Quite a lot of both, unfortunately. And the utility player, Josh Leslie-Smith, is now injured as well, but on the positive side the previously injured player, Ben Morgan, was on the bench Tuesday.

Or time for Brian Stock to channel his inner Brian Clough....hmm.

Thanks. CB's a real problem for us - of the four players we've used there so far, one's long-term injured, one's a utility player who's actually better at RWB, one's too slow to catch a cold and the fourth just isn't up to the job. Consequently, we're leaking goals like a sieve and it doesn't...