Windlesham Don

I share your pain Singapore Don, and broadly agree with your match summary. Personally I think that video footage proves that their penalty was a blatant dive (and right in front of the ‘assistant’). I didn’t have a good view of our penalty shout, but the players seemed to be livid and that is normally a good sign.

Of the players, Kelly is a…[Read more]

Bloomin’ publicity seeker! ;o)

I will also be there tonight, supping a pre-match beer on a rare warm summer night. I haven’t made any predictions to date as I really have little clue regarding our relative position in this division! However, I am concerned that many supporters (not on this forum, of course) are pencilling in a first win for tonight. Scunny will be a solid,…[Read more]

Hi Singapore, Curiously I just posted a comment on WUP regarding LTB having seen your earlier post about his negotiations. For the benefit of others not looking at WUP here are my thoughts:

“Re LTB’s contract talks, obviously if he had signed a new contract then it would have been on the OS. I’m not sure that broadcasting failed talks would…[Read more]

Colum – I watched Dom Poleon in a couple of PSFs and at Walsall and he looked promising, certainly better than he did on Saturday where our ‘huff and puff’ tactics of chasing the game came up against a better calibre of centre back than we met in League 2! My concern for him is that he will not be content with the ‘Azeez role’ – he would consider…[Read more]

Only eight days into the new season and the size of the task ahead has become clear. In reality things are not much different from 12 months ago. Whilst we are a league higher, we are demonstrating the same failings as at the start of last season, namely silly defensive errors accompanied by profligacy in front of goal.

This has produced the…[Read more]

Having been at the Walsall game and having watched the highlights of Posh, I find it disappointing that already Ryan Clarke is being singled out as a fall guy for our performances. He certainly hasn’t obviously cost us a goal out of the 6 conceded. I feel that the entire defensive unit have reverted to the beginning of last season – the second…[Read more]

Good to have the forum back! One point before I ramble on about today’s match is that I felt the Forum worked better when readers could go directly to the Matchday thread. As has been mentioned by others Rob’s summary (as above) seemed to act as a starting point for comment and discussion on each forthcoming match. A suggestion may be to…[Read more]

Thanks for the info, Rob. Potentially Barnett is a great signing for us, but NA will need to weave his magic in rehabilitating another player who seems to have lost his mojo in recent seasons.

From his Crawley days, where he formed a formidable partnership with Matt Tubbs (remember him?) and prompted the £1m+ bid from Posh, he has had a steady…[Read more]

So the squad is now complete, with a few days to spare before we step into the unknown of League 1. To me the squad definitely looks stronger than last season, with the exception of Clarke for Roos (who was always beyond our budget) and possibly Kelly for Kennedy (who was only backup anyway). The others all improve the squad, but of course it…[Read more]

The close season transfers have started to roll in, perhaps sooner than we were led to believe which is likely to be a good sign.

Ryan Clarke looks like a solid keeper. There may be a few issues with injury and rustiness to iron out, but he has always looked capable when playing for Oxford against us. Roos was never going to stay, and sadly…[Read more]

A magnificent evening all round – besides the on field performance, which hopefully you all got to witness wherever in the globe you were located, the bars did a roaring trade from 2 hours before kick off until long into the night. The ground was rammed with (by my reckoning) a record crowd inside the ground and the atmosphere was up there with…[Read more]

So here we go into our bonus fixtures! The atmosphere at KM tonight should be good, with plenty of time for liquid refreshment before kick off!

I hope all antipodean Wombles have access to the Sky Sports coverage – but don’t expect a free-flowing match, the pitch is poor and there will be too much tension for much decent football to be seen.…[Read more]

I thought that yesterday would be a test, but despite the 1-0 score line it was another comfortable performance. We should have been 2 or 3 up at half time, and despite some huffing and puffing in the second half Orient offered little in the way of goal threat. Once again Robbo and Darius were imperious in the heart of defence and 3 goals…[Read more]

There definitely seemed to be a change of feeling on Tuesday, both on the pitch and in the crowd. It was confidence, a feeling that we WOULD make the playoffs, rather than COULD make them and the travelling army numbering just shy of 1000 seemed to feel it (once Bas had cleared of the line, of course!)

The Daggers played some pretty football,…[Read more]

Another week and another important game for the boys. Plymouth are going to be tough, they looked a talented outfit at KM first game of the season and are chasing an automatic promotion place. However, we have a good record at Home Park and the Pilgrims are not in the best of form at the moment – we have an opportunity.

As I see it the key…[Read more]

I can’t imagine that 70 points will be enough, especially with 5 or 6 teams still fighting over a single playoff place. My guess is somewhere between 72 and 74 points will be required. The good thing is that at the end of the season you want to be playing teams with nothing to play for and so IF our attitude is right and IF we don’t screw up at…[Read more]

Great day to be a Womble! Outplayed the diving, cheating and whinging anti-football team that is Wycombe. Throat very sore through screaming at the opposition’s cynical cheating and at the ref (both of them) being completely incompetent. Yet again Wycombe played the officials as much as they played us – pathetic to watch and just as pathetic as…[Read more]