FA Vase Desborough Town (H)

[thesecondjack]

City play Desbrough in the second round of the FA Vase, match taking place on Sunday thanks to a clash with Bromsgrove at home on the Saturday. Plenty of things going on at the match, and with a chance at Wembley still in our dreams, it'll be one to keep a good eye on.

City have produced two remembrance badges, that are on sale at the club shop (minimum donation of £3 each or both for £5) with all money raised from the sales going to RBL.
A Christmas hamper prize draw begins, 25p a ticket, £1 for a book of 4 which City fans can buy, or take books to sell on. The draw will take place 15th December so you've got a while to sell a few!

We are also TalkSports non league feature match of the weekend, which meant being mentioned several times yesterday in their weekend preview, both on and off the pitch, with Steve Goode being interviewed about Club history, new ground plans etc -  Non league Preview where we are featured match: soundcloud.com/user-32452980/tony-incenzos-talksport2-non-league-preview-2-11-2018 Interview with Steve: soundcloud.com/user-542904498/steve-goode-on-talksport2-021118 Many thanks to Tony & Talksport for featuring us!

Entry prices reduced to £6 adults, £4 concessions, £1 under 16's so a good excuse to try and bring a mate, especially if they normally support another team that played Saturday.

If you're not able to get to the match, Tim & I will hopefully be trialing an online commentary of the match, not too dissimilar from that BBC H&W used to provide when we were a few leagues higher than we are now! We'll be using facebooks live function, which I don't think requires a facebook account to listen to, though if you do have one, you can send us your messages and we'll see them as they come in (hopefully a lot of celebration messages as Tyler scores a screamer! ). A link to the stream will be posted on here, club twitter & of course on the facebook when its live (probably about 2.50pm). If the commentary is popular (and we're actually any good at it!), then we will look to roll it out for future City games.


It's a pleasant change from last season, although we are still homeless and struggling, theres a bit of life back in the club. Things are happening both on and off the pitch and things maybe look a little bit positive!

[thesecondjack]

Live feed here: www.facebook.com/worcestercityfc/

[steves]

Well that was bloody dreadful.

[thesecondjack]

Nov 4, 2018 17:30:33 GMT steves said:

Well that was bloody dreadful.

Enough about our commentary, lets talk about the match!


Nah, that was an awful display by City, didn't deserve anything from it at all.

[genghis]

Utterly terrible. Hope there were strong words in the dressing room after that display.

[jupu]

It was indeed terrible, but credit to our opponents. We made it easy for them in the first half by hitting endless long balls which produced nothing. Jezeph kept us in the game with two fine saves and they had a very loud shout for handball which came to nothing. Once Harrison had been sent off there only looked like being one winner, even when it was 10 v 10. If Desborough had done their homework band came with a game plan, well done to them, it worked.

[alwaysnextyear]

Well summed up jupu. We need far more craft, guile and pace going forward to create chances. Today we created literally nothing, and I can't remember us having a shot on target. We looked a very limited side today, in a worse display than last week's against Khalsa. Changes required, if it means shipping a few out to get a few in. Nowhere near good enough, and with us 6 points behind Ilkeston, we just can't afford more performances like the last 2 games.

[stamoo]

We have some good footballers who can pass the ball accurately 10 - 15 yards or so with a degree of consistency. But what makes them suddenly think they can pass accurately over 30 or 40 yards? They are not Scholes or Beckham. Time and again yesterday, and against Khalsa last week, passes were launched forward or across the pitch over great distances and were either wildly inaccurate or easily mopped up by the defence. Play the easy ball, pass and move and make progress that way, this is basic stuff.

[cloud]

The result has also done a lot of damage in terms of attracting fans to home games. Most of the remaining home league fixtures don’t have the appeal to get floating fans to the Vic to get good gates. We’ve already played our home local derby against Stourport, we’ve no home Christmas/New Year games. The only games that could get some interest from floating fans are probably Westfields (Nov), Walsall Wood (Jan), Sphinx (Feb), & even they rely on us continuing to be in contention of promotion.

Sunday, the problem was midfield; lacked any strength, so the ball was often played out long from defense to Turton & Harrison who couldn’t control it.

Do we have any midfield/forward players on duel registration that we can call on!?!?

[leon]

First half City were keeping possession comfortably but the experts in the main stand wanted the ball lumped forward and guess what it kept going out of play.
So where is Reyno's replacement promised at fans forum?
Thought we were developing young players? So why is Lockett not starting?

[Tim Munslow]

Only one word for that - abysmal!

Went home in deep depression.

[The sound and the fury]

Desborough had a plan and executed it perfectly, and we let them. Too many players had poor games, tactically we were naive and played into their hands. Batesy looked like he could make a difference and was clearly up for it, but didn't have long enough on the pitch. Shape is wrong, but what worries me is that we've gone back to last season's sloppy goals conceded again, which coincides with the return of Fishwick, who puts the fear of God in me every time the ball goes near him. I'd rather see Foz there while we're a centre back down until Gally is back, or Luke English as centre back with Riley Keasey in as right back like he did so successfully at the end of last season. Nobody really seemed to know who was doing what on Sunday. Cainesy is better sat in front of the defence as a screen, he's quick but couldn't pass wind let alone a football. Turts didn't get any change out of their defence, and Jord didn't get anywhere near the ball for long enough to make a difference, he's had a torrid couple of weeks but will come good again. Desperately need a midfield boss to get it and dictate. I'm sure Snapper and Ash will know who they want and have a plan.

[jupu]

Cadbury Athletic beat Desborough 3-2 today. What does this say about us, or Desborough, or Cadbury? Well you could say the Base is a bit of a lottery - for example Westfields were beaten 4-0 at home by Leicester Nirvana this afternoon. Perhaps it shows how maddeningly inconsistent players are at our level. Perhaps we expect too much because we're used to more?

[leon]

It's a cliché but cups are all about a one off game as Ilkeston lost at home to a step 6 team, Eastwood remember them?
Of course it could be that the Midland League is not that good