Maidstone match

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Went into the game looking for a draw to bring a big away support to the park, not my idea of a good strategy but what do I know about football.

Andre did make 5-6 excellent saves. The first goal he went down but the ball just got past him. The second was a result of his all to often reluctance to come out quickly and commit to coming out. he stopped short and the ball was clinically lobbed. 2 nil at half time.

Team:
Andre
Hinshelwood
Fogden
Tom
Matten
Gricey
Watts
Bye
Hill
Budge
Jarvis

In the opening 30 minutes Stones came at us at every opportunity, after the goal we appeared to regroup and look like winning the occasional ball. Still no real urge to get involved. If I did not know better it would look like we were defending a 1-0 defeat.

In the first half we had a couple of through balls played into space but were all flagged offside when they were not even close. One perfect lob of the final defender by Budge which Ashley ran through to be flagged offside after running past the defender. Ref was not too bad not biased though was favoring the home side, with 388 of them and 12 of us who can blaim him!

Up front they tried but the offsides were really sapping on ashley.

Owen Hill took a knock and was subbed by Lloyd Cotton who looked eager to get involved. Lloyd was a breath of fresh air to the team he ran around, tackled relentlessly and really made himself a nuicance.

We looked poor down the right side Watts, still in midfield, is out of position and only did good work when playing further back. hinshlewood why?

Our goal came near the end. Joyce and Gedling on we started to throw people forward and in a goal mouth melley the keeper dropped the ball and several hillians rushed and I think it was Budge (official site gives it to him) who bundled it into the net. We did have a shout in the first half when their keeper stepped back and it looked like he'd gone back over the line, from the 18 yard line it looked close, but no chance of a decision from the ref.

We got close to scoring a couple of times later on and on the whole game performance would have been lucky to have got the draw.

If the team who played at Tooting had turned up we could have won this game.

Tom was the proverbial pillar of strength at the back, Ashley and Budge were creating some chances.

Best things:

Lloyd in the first team;
When we were trying to go forward we looked like we could get a goal;
There were some reasonable individual performances.

Concentrating on the league again this year!

[Dan BHTFC]

We seem to have a problem getting past teams at our level or higher in the F.A Cup but there's still the F.A Trophy which should be a bit easier than the Maidstone game but we can get our own back when they visit Leylands next week. Ashford could prove difficult for us as they seem to do well against us and every time we've played them there has been at least 1 red card

[sponge]

T O M we're in an awkward position with Hinshelwood. Yes he has been dissapointing but we can't really send him back to Brighton as it would jeopordise any future tie up with the Albion. On the subject it's good to see Dean Cox is doing well and getting the highest player rating in the argus. A small lad but fearless. It still makes me chuckle when i think back to the game at Horsham and he squared up to a big Horsham defender. A Horsham supporter standing nearby said 'he's a feisty little f--ker' The same sort of words Magoo used after his sending off at Rotherham.