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Post by eclipse on Sept 13, 2014 16:34:27 GMT
About as one-sided as the scoreline suggests but you can only beat what's in front of you and we were clinical. Good news is that Harrow also won so Tuesday's game goes ahead, oh and Margate have to replay against Folkestone so chance to go 5 points clear. Keep those goals coming.
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Post by jdl on Sept 13, 2014 17:05:37 GMT
Strangest game I've ever been to - it seemed less competitive than a friendly!
The odd thing was I began to feel quite embarrassed and sorry for Littlehampton around 5 or 6 nil, but by 8-0 I no longer did. By 10-0 it just seemed unreal.
At one point they were chanting "can we play you every week", but, really, how many of us would go if the games were that one-sided? When it was the other way round and we were at Watford or Sheffield United (or, God help us, Priestfields), we at least tried - even scored the odd goal.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 13, 2014 18:16:02 GMT
I didn't go to today's game due to work commitment ... From what I've heard it was a one sided game ... 10-0 ... It ought to have been !! So glad Frannie Collin scored a hat-trick !!! and a great attendence for a Cup game !! Well done the Littlehampton for trying and well done to our lads ... Wembley here we come !!
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Post by daveu on Sept 13, 2014 18:43:55 GMT
I thought it was a very naive performance by Littlehampton, the didn't try and sit back with 10 players behind the ball, but tried to play a bit of football which rather played into our hands as they left us acres of space which we exploited brilliantly. Their goalie made some cracking saves, so it could have been a lot worse for them. Still they go home with half the takings and their chairman won the £250 prize for bills big bonanza so not a complete disaster for them.
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Post by Loftus Road Stone. on Sept 13, 2014 19:06:19 GMT
Apart from financial its hard to think how this would benefit either team. The gulf between the sides was simply enormous as I believe as one of our youth teams would have been to good for this lot.
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Post by jt on Sept 13, 2014 19:15:06 GMT
Would have been shit for any kind of confidence for the boys today then. I suppose a draw like margate would have been better.
We had our strongest available side out so we should have. Tonbridge slipped up with a team from the same level a few years ago, can't remember who they were then but I think they were pretty pissed of about at the time.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 13, 2014 19:18:39 GMT
Margate fans are pressing the panic button on their facebook. Seems the current plan is to buy the league. Thought they had already tried that. Apparently Frannie, Flish, and May are their top targets surprise surprise!
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Post by roystyboy on Sept 13, 2014 19:23:05 GMT
We did what we had to do today to get a result.Thought Jay might have given Lee a rest at half time as he seemed to be struggling abit with his leg injury.Well done everyone for the support and the town end for their 2nd half cheering
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Post by Deleted on Sept 13, 2014 19:27:39 GMT
What a load of bollocks. If I wanted to watch football i wouldn't have bothered with this, The useless showers were terrible. Im off to watch the Gills. I'm not paying £10 to be entertained. Shocking.
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Post by southwick1 on Sept 13, 2014 19:34:02 GMT
To be honest the score line is a little surprising,but the outcome and the huge gulf in class does not surprise me one little bit I watch quite a bit of Sussex County football and the standard is now a joke.Long gone are the days when that league was on Par and even much better than most leagues of the same level.Well done Stones though,bring on Tuesday.
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Post by jdl on Sept 13, 2014 20:12:47 GMT
I wasn't in any way having at go at Maidstone, I was pleased to see a full-strength side put out, and we played some good football. It was more the game itself, it was (as many others have said) just so horribly one-sided.
And don't forget these are the current leaders of their league. In other words, they could be the team promoted to the IS next year, with aspirations to earn a second promotion to our division. This was not David and Goliath, it was two teams, separated, in theory, by only one division, two teams that could have been playing each other two years ago - or in two years time. Seen in that perspective, the gap in ability and performance was unbelievable.
It's the Cup, and it sometimes throws up games like this, so there's nothing we can do about it. And, like everyone else, I'm enjoying replying "10-0!" to the question "what was the score today?". But a good game it was not.
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Post by jdl on Sept 13, 2014 20:15:00 GMT
To be honest the score line is a little surprising,but the outcome and the huge gulf in class does not surprise me one little bit I watch quite a bit of Sussex County football and the standard is now a joke.Long gone are the days when that league was on Par and even much better than most leagues of the same level.Well done Stones though,bring on Tuesday. How do their promoted teams tend to do in the IS? I could, of course, spend an hour googling this, but I was hoping, as a SCL watcher, you might know!
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Post by jdl on Sept 13, 2014 20:21:36 GMT
We did what we had to do today to get a result.Thought Jay might have given Lee a rest at half time as he seemed to be struggling abit with his leg injury.Well done everyone for the support and the town end for their 2nd half cheering The second-half singing of the Town end was indeed excellent. To us (in the Town end) it sounded like there was no noise coming from the other end at all (at one point the Town end were even singing "you're supposed to at home" to the other end!). But, having been up the other end (whatever it's called!), and sat in the stand, I know that what you can hear at one end is very different from what the other end hears. So, was it really only the Town end singing?
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Post by daveu on Sept 13, 2014 20:36:53 GMT
Pretty much.
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Post by southwick1 on Sept 13, 2014 20:37:02 GMT
To be honest the score line is a little surprising,but the outcome and the huge gulf in class does not surprise me one little bit I watch quite a bit of Sussex County football and the standard is now a joke.Long gone are the days when that league was on Par and even much better than most leagues of the same level.Well done Stones though,bring on Tuesday. How do their promoted teams tend to do in the IS? I could, of course, spend an hour googling this, but I was hoping, as a SCL watcher, you might know! They tend to struggle.Recent promoted sides include,Crawley Down,Three Bridges,,Redhill,Horsham YMCA,Crowborough and Eastbourne Town.Whitehawk and Peacehaven have had money from rich sponsors,so have done well.In my years down this way only Burgess Hill have come out of the county league and established themselves without big financial benefactors.
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