Pilgrims' Patter
The Forum => The B-Ark => Topic started by: Richie..p on February 06, 2010, 05:02:20 PM
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Forget the first 97 minutes.
2-1 win.
Liam Parker 90+8
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I think the manner of this win is just what's needed.
LP seems to get these pressure goals .. top lad .
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What a cracking result today against a team who seemed very happy to play for a draw, even when we were down to 10 men. Buxton were a physical team, and its these kind of teams in the past weve struggled to hold our own against. Today I thought the lads gave as good as they got. Unfortunately Davies couldnt control his frustration and lashed out I believe, which resulted in the red card. The first half was hardly inspiring for both sets of fans. Very little football played and quite scrappy. Towards the end of the second half we seemed to get our act together and push for a goal. Eventually it paid off with a fabulous header from Person. Their equaliser was a gift - poor defending can only be blamed. Why was no one on the post with Tom ? If there was someone on that post theres a good chance they wouldnt of scored. But the Boston boys battled on in between the man in black getting various decisions wrong but hey, thats what weve become accustomed to at this level of football. The winning goal felt like it was in the cup final - everyone went mental, including some kind of battle between the 2 benches. I think that justice prevailed today in that we won. We werent going to be bullied and fouled out the match by a very poor side only wishing to gain a point from todays match. It will give the squad a massive boost and shows that they never lay down until the final whistle has blown. They made me extremely proud today the way they kept on plugging away. It was far from perfect, rather unpretty stuff for the vast majority of the game but the most important thing is that the lads got the win and 3 points to keep us in the chase for promotion.
Well done to all the players.
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Who was MoM ?
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Who was MoM ?
Church, ran the midfield on his own. Thought Sleath had a good game, as did the centre backs
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Pretty perfect summary from "PofL".Great battling from all the boys today.Nice to see one of those type of games go in our favour for a change.Least said about the referee the better,still not sure it was a sending off and how they finished with 11 on the pitch i have no idea.MOM for me was Shaun Pearson,not just for the goal,he was awesome all over the pitch.Well battled lads.
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Great result under heavy conditions and a very physical side. We go up to 2nd place now - keep it up lads.
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There was no doubt that Pearson mean't it with his goal. He arrived in the area like a runaway train and nothing was going to get in his way or stop him.
Super battling game and justice in the end.
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The ref was the usual sh*t this league has to offer, just when you think you've seen the worst another one comes along with even more bizarre decisions...still let's focus on the positives, not a pretty performance by any stretch today and for the 35 minutes it was 11 V 11 they where the better team. But a magnificent battling performance when down to 10 with the players getting the rewards in the 7th minute of 6 minutes stoppages!! Every player can be proud of himself tonight, I get the feeling that late, late goal is going to be a turning point in the season.
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great three points today - was a physical game which makes it a better win for us as sometimes we do not do as well against such a physical side - they got what deserved - 0 points.... the way they celebrated a equaliser against 10 men meant the celebrations at the end was justified - as for their assistant manager kicking Church - that was a disgrace and he deserved to get sent off - equally Davies deserved to go for lashing out and now misses 3 games - bring Milly back in - sub place to start and build his fitness up here instead of being on loan or bringing someone else in - also we need to stop being so easy to wind up but on the positive 3 points and back to second in the league
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Can't remember celebrating a goal as much as Liam's winner. Thing is I was behind the York Street goal and my heart sank as the ball hit the bar and bounced down as I thought it wasn't going to go over the line, then in slow motion the ball nestled into the net. Cue celebrations. A strange game in which the man in black lost control of events. He gave throw in's the wrong way, drop ball's that were free kicks and free kicks that weren't. (SWD was never fouled in the free kick that led to our winner, but as we've had little luck this season with decision's I'm not complaining!)
For what it's worth I thought Davies being sent off was incredibly harsh. The defender on him fouled and niggled him, Davies kept trying to pull away from him with the ball and as the defender kept tugging his shirt Davies, tried to swot him off and flicked his arm back. Cue defender going down and Davies seeing red. The ref said he sent him off for a punch (as he was amateur enough to have a row with an angry supporter whilst coming off at half time). In other words Davies may as well have landed a decent right hook on their defender and got his money's worth. A booking would have been a fairer punishment. I as fuming with Jamie Yates for his sending off, but had a bit more sympathy for Davies yesterday.
Still enough of the ref, he did us a bizarre favour as we played better with ten, showed fight ,passion and determination to win a game that we would have lost last season.
Thought Pearson was immense yesterday and really seems to be coming of age.The way the players celebrated the winner with the management shows what great team spirit there is. If I was a Buxton fan leaving that game I'd have been gutted as I thought they looked more likely to score at the death. Still our diagonal balls into the box seemed to cause them plenty of problems and for once it was us celebrating. Well done lads.
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Can't remember celebrating a goal as much as Liam's winner.
And I can't remember seeing anyone celebrating a goal so much. ;D ;D ;)
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When six minutes injury time went up, I thought we were more likely to lose than win so credit to the team. As we left we said that was the sort of game that changes a season, makes a side believe they can win things. Let's hope so.
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Was patrick there with his new cam
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Lets hope the managements harsh but true words after last Saturday's game at Kendal have hit home.
The play offs should be very achievable, the title has almost certainly gone, but I for one wouldn't be too upset if we miss out this season on promotion. I think the team is still growing, perhaps another season to mature might be best before promotion because it'd be a shame to go up and struggle and see the support dwindle, much better to go up prepared for the higher league.
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In a way I would n,t mind either . . but theres always a chance some of our best performers will be lured to other clubs close season ..
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Had a quick word with young Shaun Pearson before the game and congratulated him on being captain last week. A smashing young man. He said he didn't think he would be captain today as Canners would probably be back and Churchy would be playing. Although Canners didn't make it it was good to see him lead out the team again, I feel the managers had put a lot of thought into this and how it paid off with what was an inspired performance by the young fellow with a fantastic goal and great all round performance.
I really do feel this was the performance that will give the team the belief they can go all the way.
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Lets hope the managements harsh but true words after last Saturday's game at Kendal have hit home.
The play offs should be very achievable, the title has almost certainly gone, but I for one wouldn't be too upset if we miss out this season on promotion. I think the team is still growing, perhaps another season to mature might be best before promotion because it'd be a shame to go up and struggle and see the support dwindle, much better to go up prepared for the higher league.
Me personally i wont give up on winning the league until its mathmatically impossible , although i would take play-offs
i know BPA are top by 3pts and 3 games in hand, but know one can tell me that they wont have abit of blip between now and the end of the season
Then theres the likes of Kendal Guisely Ferriby etc , got games in hand and no-doubt they will gain points and make us abit nervy but , they all got to play eachother again , and as i say about BPA im sure they will have blips again this season
We will also have the odd draw and loss which will have us scratching our heads, but aslong as were still up there i fancy us , with our never say never attitude which proved yesterday
Its going to be a exciting run-in , and this time we wont be counting the cost years after
BELIEVE !
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Making the playoffs is still going to be tough, yesterdays win was massive and may prove to be decisive in the coming weeks. I thought the Buxton game had everything, drama, a clown of a ref, a good physical opposition, late goals and a good old non league scrap in the dugout and all of this in freezing mist. I would'nt swap any of that for premier league bollocks ever. David Newton and co have worked miracles around the place in the last couple of years and theres a real positive buzz around the ground.
I thought all the lads were fantastic yesterday and battled for best part of an hour with ten men. Strangely, up until the sending off i thought we were off the pace and lucky to be level. Football never ceases to surprise me, evern after nearly 30 years of following us. I had a strange feeling we could still nick it at the end if we got a set piece. Pearson for me has turned out to be a hell of a signing, at just 20 he commands the back four, is extremely vocal, physical, commited and you know he'll throw his body at anything. Fantastic bullet header aswell. Must also give Parker some long overdue credit as i doubted his ability last season and thought he was out his depth. He's come on leaps and bounds in a year and with his versatility i think he's become a really important player for us. Well done Liam, a good solid centre half if ever i saw one.
Well done lads, i won't be seeing much of us for a while now as i'm relocating down to Brighton but what a game to leave on. Hopefully get back for the FC United game, can't miss that one.
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Pearson was man of the match for me, even without the goal.
To win it in such a way, against a team determined to get at least a point with their mean-spirited, spoiling tactics, with a ref either too naive or too incompetent to do anything about it, was just unbelievable! ;D
When that ball hit the underside of the bar and bounced down you just knew that, even if it was a yard behind the line, and then bounced back out it would be disallowed by the officials, luckily it hit the net...what a feeling that was!
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Lets hope the managements harsh but true words after last Saturday's game at Kendal have hit home.
The play offs should be very achievable, the title has almost certainly gone, but I for one wouldn't be too upset if we miss out this season on promotion. I think the team is still growing, perhaps another season to mature might be best before promotion because it'd be a shame to go up and struggle and see the support dwindle, much better to go up prepared for the higher league.
I know where you're coming from but personally don't think there is that much difference in quality between Conf North and this league. I would stick my neck out and say that we would hold our own with the team we have without any changes if we get promoted.
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Lets hope the managements harsh but true words after last Saturday's game at Kendal have hit home.
The play offs should be very achievable, the title has almost certainly gone, but I for one wouldn't be too upset if we miss out this season on promotion. I think the team is still growing, perhaps another season to mature might be best before promotion because it'd be a shame to go up and struggle and see the support dwindle, much better to go up prepared for the higher league.
totally agree with that BUT i cant wait to get out of this league
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Lets hope the managements harsh but true words after last Saturday's game at Kendal have hit home.
The play offs should be very achievable, the title has almost certainly gone, but I for one wouldn't be too upset if we miss out this season on promotion. I think the team is still growing, perhaps another season to mature might be best before promotion because it'd be a shame to go up and struggle and see the support dwindle, much better to go up prepared for the higher league.
I know where you're coming from but personally don't think there is that much difference in quality between Conf North and this league. I would stick my neck out and say that we would hold our own with the team we have without any changes if we get promoted.
Absolutely Woad, we would match any team from that league with our current squad.
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If you look at last season, we kept the majority of our squad from BSN and look how well we did! Also Tom Matthews had a cracking season with us in BSN but now he's playing in the Unibond, if the standard was so much higher wouldn't he of got a deal with a BSN team?
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If you look at last season, we kept the majority of our squad from BSN and look how well we did! Also Tom Matthews had a cracking season with us in BSN but now he's playing in the Unibond, if the standard was so much higher wouldn't he of got a deal with a BSN team?
I think part of the problem last season is that first we had a manager in Tommy Taylor who admitted before the start of last season that he didn't know anything about the Unibond League. Then his replacement, Steve Welsh, didn't have any first team management at all. Having said that players like Ryan Clarke and Matt Bloomer couldn't or didn't want to get to grips with the physical nature of this league.
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And we also lost a lot of quality players, Nicholls, Stevenson, Crane, Elly etc who were good in the BSN