National League fixtures 17/04/2021

[JaredSUFC]

Altrincham v Sutton United 4:30pm
Barnet v Aldershot Town 12:30pm
Chesterfield v Bromley 12:30pm
Dagenham & Redbridge v Solihull Moors 12:30pm
FC Halifax Town v King’s Lynn Town 12:15pm
Notts County v Eastleigh 12:30pm
Stockport County v Maidenhead United 12:30pm
Wealdstone v Hartlepool United 12:30pm
Woking v Wrexham 12:30pm
Yeovil Town v Boreham Wood 12:30pm

It’s a big test of character for Sutton tomorrow. A run of below par performances culminated in losing our unbeaten run in a very poor showing on Tuesday. Can we bounce back? It’s going to be very difficult against an Alty team who have surprised most this season.

 

[chief]

Missing it after the kick off time moved because of a funeral I couldn't give 2 shits about.

Had it all planned out. Get home, stick the F1 qualifying on then watch Wrexham get dicked by Woking but no. The whole country has to do nothing (and Italy apparently as the qualifying has moved) at 3pm because someone died. Ludicrous.

 

[OneDecentLester]

With Asante out for us this weekend (yet to hear full extent of his injury) the question is who’s going to replace him

Personally I think we won’t get away with playing just the one striker now Asante is out, and I would probably look to partner Kairo Mitchell with another each week... probably a bit of rotation between Tyson, Dinanga and Yussuf

Big game this, we’ve got some difficult games left and really need to be taking advantage of the home games we have in this run of tricky fixtures.

 

[Soup Ladle]

Absolute must win for us down at raiders-on-the-social FC.

Ideally we need to win and by a few goals to boost the GD but we don't do wins like that.

Killip out for the season from the injury he got at Boreham Wood. Ravas will step in. Not sure how confident I am with him in net. He's had little to do whenever he's played. Oates I think is still out so Bennett will continue and we might even see a bit of new signing Danny Elliot.

Stakes are high now and a win is the only acceptable result.

 

[AJS]

Only just come to terms with our horror show on Tuesday against Wrexham. I know we are inconsistent but think that was just one of those freak results you have once in a blue moon. One thing I will give us is we tend to bounce back well whenever we lose a game, seems to give a kick up the backside to the team.

As long as PW plays his strongest back 3 in Maher, Byrne and Bradbury and not playing Clarke because he's the captain or shoehorning Maher into midfield to accommodate them both, I think we should hopefully get back to winning ways.

 

[iesty wfc]

after the Halifax result on Tuesday I fully expect us to not continue on the rich vein of form and revert back to standard Keates ball of conceding first and not knowing how to respond

 

[Aberstone]

Hartlepool by all accounts gave us a bit of a pasting up at Victoria Park but with a change of manager and knowing how to play the slope giving us a far better home record, I've got the feeling we'll nick something tomorrow. Also with our season over, we've got a track record of playing spoiler for clubs going for the title/playoffs.

Ashley Charles is back from his two match suspension but I doubt he'll be involved from the start.

 

[Chief Rocka]

Absolute must win for us down at raiders-on-the-social FC.

Ideally we need to win and by a few goals to boost the GD but we don't do wins like that.

Killip out for the season from the injury he got at Boreham Wood. Ravas will step in. Not sure how confident I am with him in net. He's had little to do whenever he's played. Oates I think is still out so Bennett will continue and we might even see a bit of new signing Danny Elliot.

Stakes are high now and a win is the only acceptable result.

Big agree here, anything but a win would be a catastrophe, they're obviously not doing great and these are the games we have let ourselves down in this season, so we need a professional performance to keep the pressure on.

Feels good to be involved in some end of season pressure as opposed to bumbling along towards the finish as a mid tabler.

Stream any good?

 

[CFC91]

Looking at the fixtures it's probably a must win for us given I expect everyone else to get a result in there games. Asante, McCourt, Hollis all out, arguably 3 of our most important players. We've got depth to cover but still nervous we are about to be derailed a little.

 

[jacobncfc]

Very important not to lose to Eastleigh and give another team some hope they can catch us. We play then twice in our next three games - I think if we take four points (or probably three tbh) that should put us out of reach of them.

 

[OneDecentLester]

Looking at the fixtures it's probably a must win for us given I expect everyone else to get a result in there games. Asante, McCourt, Hollis all out, arguably 3 of our most important players. We've got depth to cover but still nervous we are about to be derailed a little.

Not too fussed with McCourt as I thought he’d dropped off the pace a bit before his injury, and obviously we’ve got Oyeleke through the door now. Hollis is a monster, but Gunning has been excellent in that role tbf so we’re sort of okay in that respect... but It’s the Asante one that worries me. Not just because he’s a good player, but the fact that it alters the dimension of how we can actually play as I posted further up.

I don’t think any of our other strikers are able to play the lone role as effective as he can (not seen enough of mitchell yet so he might be the man to do it!?), which pretty much means JR’s favoured 3-4-2-1 formation (midfield box) will probably be scrapped. Some would say we look better with 2 upfront anyway so it might be a positive in that respect, guess we’ll soon find out

 

[MrGloverLover]

This will be our first game since Lee passed if it goes ahead. I don't think anyone knows what to expect from it, our manager has given his first interview today and as you would expect emotions are still running very high.

 

[Aberstone]

Big agree here, anything but a win would be a catastrophe, they're obviously not doing great and these are the games we have let ourselves down in this season, so we need a professional performance to keep the pressure on.

Feels good to be involved in some end of season pressure as opposed to bumbling along towards the finish as a mid tabler.

Stream any good?

Definitely much improved from the start of the season. Just the one camera angle but there are replays and our injured striker Ross Lafayette is on co-commentary tomorrow.

 

[TonyM]

Not too fussed with McCourt as I thought he’d dropped off the pace a bit before his injury, and obviously we’ve got Oyeleke through the door now. Hollis is a monster, but Gunning has been excellent in that role tbf so we’re sort of okay in that respect... but It’s the Asante one that worries me. Not just because he’s a good player, but the fact that it alters the dimension of how we can actually play as I posted further up.

I don’t think any of our other strikers are able to play the lone role as effective as he can (not seen enough of mitchell yet so he might be the man to do it!?), which pretty much means JR’s favoured 3-4-2-1 formation (midfield box) will probably be scrapped. Some would say we look better with 2 upfront anyway so it might be a positive in that respect, guess we’ll soon find out

Mitchell played the majority of the time as a lone striker whilst at Lynn. When he first came he was a little bit greedy as if he needed to prove his place but since we furloughed his real competition he has done a great a job for us up top, often being very isolated. What he is like in a 'proper' team is hard to say as we have been all over the place both pre and post furlough but give him a run and a bit of confidence and I think he will do a job for you

 

[MWS]

Home to Maidenhead tomorrow. Did a job on us at EP last season and a bore draw at their place a few weeks back so here's to hoping neither of those happen again.

We've hit a good run of form at exactly the right time, so hoping the wins keep coming to keep Torquay, Hartlepool and Sutton looking over their shoulders.

 

[OneDecentLester]

Mitchell played the majority of the time as a lone striker whilst at Lynn. When he first came he was a little bit greedy as if he needed to prove his place but since we furloughed his real competition he has done a great a job for us up top, often being very isolated. What he is like in a 'proper' team is hard to say as we have been all over the place both pre and post furlough but give him a run and a bit of confidence and I think he will do a job for you

Thanks for that, it’s good to hear that we may have the ready made replacement for Asante in Mitchell.

Looking forward to seeing what he’s all about.

 

[TheShayWay]

Got to be beating Kings Lynn at home if we want to be serious about the play offs

 

[John Still]

Solihill at home in a dead rubber match, just win it!

 

[Pinner Stones]

Absolute must win for us down at raiders-on-the-social FC.

Ideally we need to win and by a few goals to boost the GD but we don't do wins like that.

Killip out for the season from the injury he got at Boreham Wood. Ravas will step in. Not sure how confident I am with him in net. He's had little to do whenever he's played. Oates I think is still out so Bennett will continue and we might even see a bit of new signing Danny Elliot.

Stakes are high now and a win is the only acceptable result.

We are going to be absolutely thumped tomorrow. Doubt we will even have five on The bench.

 

[Pinner Stones]

Hartlepool by all accounts gave us a bit of a pasting up at Victoria Park but with a change of manager and knowing how to play the slope giving us a far better home record, I've got the feeling we'll nick something tomorrow. Also with our season over, we've got a track record of playing spoiler for clubs going for the title/playoffs.

Ashley Charles is back from his two match suspension but I doubt he'll be involved from the start.

Ashley isn’t fit. The Forest boy‘s loan spell has ended.

 

[Shotsfan1993]

Barnet away for us tomorrow - we'll probably give them a first win in about 6 months (its the kind of thing we do)

 

[Wooderson]

Feels like we need a convincing win against Eastleigh tomorrow, but we haven’t had a convincing win since Wealdstone in November.

Facing the ex-Notts CB pair of Andrew Boyce and Pierce Bird. Boyce was inconspicuous in his loan spell at our place, but I liked Bird before he was released last season. Neither the quickest to turn or chase though, like the Woking game I’m hope we will use the bit of pace we possess in Knowles and Knight to get in behind. Wootton been miles off it recently, missed a sitter on Tuesday that would have liked sealed the points - would like to see him get a goal tomorrow.

 

[#Beebot]

Home to Maidenhead tomorrow. Did a job on us at EP last season and a bore draw at their place a few weeks back so here's to hoping neither of those happen again.

We've hit a good run of form at exactly the right time, so hoping the wins keep coming to keep Torquay, Hartlepool and Sutton looking over their shoulders.

We look mentally shot after throwing away our playoff hopes, I expect us to fall away badly now. Can't see any challenge for you tomorrow.

 

[jacobncfc]

Feels like we need a convincing win against Eastleigh tomorrow, but we haven’t had a convincing win since Wealdstone in November.

Facing the ex-Notts CB pair of Andrew Boyce and Pierce Bird. Boyce was inconspicuous in his loan spell at our place, but I liked Bird before he was released last season. Neither the quickest to turn or chase though, like the Woking game I’m hope we will use the bit of pace we possess in Knowles and Knight to get in behind. Wootton been miles off it recently, missed a sitter on Tuesday that would have liked sealed the points - would like to see him get a goal tomorrow.

Thought Tuesday was one of our better performances of the season tbh (which admittedly says more about how consistently dismal we’ve been than anything else). Burchnall saying that if we keep doing that then we’ll be fine is very cliché, but he’s basically right I think.

 

[springerbfc]

After our disastrous goalless draw at Maidenhead, we really need to get back to form and suffer a huge defeat if we are to challenge Hyde on the goal difference and goals conceded front.

Exciting times.

 

[karlready]

Shots are getting their act together at long last. Unusual for me, quietly confident about the rest of the season. Which will mean the inevitable jerk back to reality today. Fingers crossed, anyway.

 

[B2TF]

Where was ShayShite today, thought he now got up early to start the matchday thread.......ah, i remember now, that's it, we got hammered last time out! Totally predictable!.

 

[B2TF]

Got to be beating Kings Lynn at home if we want to be serious about the play offs

What's special, or not special about Kings Lynn? Are you saying Kings Lynn are shite? How will beating Kings Lynn make us "serious about promotion"? You do talk a load of shite, ShayShite.

 

[EnglishRed]

Has anyone used Woking stream before? Any good? Its 12 quid, premium prices, I'm expecting big things.

 

[Luke Imp]

When did Michael Gash change into a Viking look-a-like?