Telford result

[tim]

1-1 thanks to Webby in the 93rd minute. Went 1-0 down on 48 mins but managed to get a result.

[voiceofreason]

Thanks for posting score.

Does no-one else do score updates these days & does Darrell's O2 site still work.

Anyway, 90th minute equaliser......Yay!

[wakefield]

tim said:

1-1 thanks to Webby in the 93rd minute. Went 1-0 down on 48 mins but managed to get a result.

And quite a few City players carded.

[villager]

Very gutsy performance.

Deserved a point ... at the very minimum.

Some of the poorest officials I've ever witnessed ... some awful decisions.

City created enough to (probably) win it, but in the end were saved by Webby beating the keeper from close range. The players celebrated as if they'd won it though (turning point of the season)?

Terrible PA system ... I think the attendence was 2300? Looked less to me.

P.S. I did eat the last pie at 14:25 (sorry). I was in the queue behind Chris Cornes :-)

[allnighters]

Worcester had most of the play in the first half & most of it in the second half. Our forwards still need to find finishing touch, again Preece still putting 4 strikers on towards the end (Troy wood played well when he came on)thankgoodness webby found the back of the net(very very late). The ref was really very bad ( I think he liked the colour yellow).
Worcester took 132 & made themselves heard.
We played well but are letting to many goals in & not taking our chances when they come our way. ;D

[dorothy]

Surely he had the last pie.

Officials were dire today. Not particularly in favour of Telford either, Missed lots but saw things that didn't matter.

Thought we had a quiet first half but the game was very even. Danks and Webby didn't (don't) fire together. The midfield was again absent. Macca took a hard knock early on and was generally coasting.

We ended up with 4 up front and got the goal. I don't know what Craig has done wrong, but I'd start with him every week, if only for his ability to annoy a defence.

[wonderfullcity]

i agree with you about craig dorothy.

a very good 2nd half performance, solid in the first, just a bit more luck in front of goal and would have comfortably won this game! at the end of the day, they must have cleared it off the line or blocked about 4 or 5 times today, and another day they would have gone in.

i think we WILL do well this season.

[suv]

got the point we deserved having made a few chances after falling behind.
Telford put 3 (three) subs on at half-time, swapped their front two (and Cornes) and scored almost immediately.
Wilding came on and we played a 3-4-3 formation and played the best football I've seen in a couple of weeks. I thought that Dorran? (right wing back) had a good game.
Telford easily the worst team I've seen this season, the way they defended for Websters goal could of been us!!!!

[Mike C AFC Telford]

villager said:

Terrible PA system ... I think the attendence was 2300? Looked less to me.

As the disembodied voice you (sometimes) heard I can only apologise for the state of the PA system at the away end. It is awaiting some repairs/replacements. The it's repaired the better.

We played poorly today, easily the worst performance so far, and in the end I think we can be fortunate to have ended up with a point.

[colinlayland]

We deserved that point,but should have had all three,we were much better then Telford there goal was another easy one to give away,very poor ref again today,the league will have to start sorting them out,I have yet to see a good one this season.

[villager]

darrena said:

Surely he had the last pie.

They may have re-stocked at half-time.

He didn't come out for the 2nd half.

[oldboyblue]

Although I agree about the PA system, there was an electronic score borad which posted attendence 2683.
A great ground.

[Oogly Boogly]

A decent performance and we're nearly a good side. Still worried about the back line but give us some midfield like we had second half and we'll always create chances. Agree about Craig, Webby isn't on song butcan still be dangerous but Wilding and Danks seems the best combination. On that performance Telford shouldnt have no-one quaking in their boots

[Guest]

old boy blue your eyesight has gone that number had a one on the end and was a draw/raffle result the gate was 23xx

[Tim Munslow]

The actual attendance, as posted by their (wonderful) electronic scoreboard (like everything on their ground state of the art as far as football stadia at this level go) was in fact 2,361. I thought the 132 City supporters made as much noise as the rest of the crowd put together except for when they scored.

How many get out of jail cards do we have left in the kitty? Last season we used them against Romulus at home and Redditch away; yesterday was perilously close to defeat. We deserved that point for the second half pressure.

Suv above said "...Dorran? (right wing back)" - surely the No 2 shirt was worn by Paul Barratt wasn't it? I thought Doran was the dark haired fella wearing the No 3 shirt. Both had decent games, but Barratt (if that was he) played exceptionally well, despite taking a hefty knock late in the first half.

All in all that result felt like a win, and as someone said somewhere else on here could well be a turning point for us.

Also noticeable was that Webby scored again (admittedly he did b.. all else all afternoon), and if he can put one away each week then he's back to the gold standard again.

[noel14]

Paul Barratt is the left wing back and Peter Doran was on right although played at centre back against Kettering. Both look good signings although early days, need some competition for places on the left as seems plenty on the right.

[DazaB]

We deserved the draw but at times I thought they were going to score a second. It didn't look like it was going to be our day when we had 3 chances cleared off the line. Ref was poor, giving free kicks and yellow cards for even the slightest of nudges, I heard someone say he was a league 2 ref, and the stewards were k***y stewards.

[DazaB]

oh and was good to see tommo in the crowd and the players come over to him at half time

[Mike C AFC Telford]

timmunslow said:

The actual attendance, as posted by their (wonderful) electronic scoreboard (like everything on their ground state of the art as far as football stadia at this level go) was in fact 2,361. I thought the 132 City supporters made as much noise as the rest of the crowd put together except for when they scored.

Yes attendance was 2361 (including 132 of your good selves in the Frank Nagington Stand plus I'm sure a few in the main stand). The Control Room is fairly well sound proofed but despite that I can confirm that you did make plenty of noise, the most from away fans for quite a while. Passed you coach on the M6 on my way home to West Bromwich. Good to see another club with a decent away following.

The other figure as stated above was indeed the Half Time Draw (£340 prize) ticket number 28369. One of these days I'm sure I'm going to show the attendance as the winning ticket or vice versa on the scoreboard.

[Tim Munslow]

Just occasionally then I get things right!

[Tim Munslow]

Even in the face of adversity (and I'd regard a 3-1 defeat against ten men as adversity) I always look for crumbs of comfort. In the NLP each Sunday a manager pens his point of view. Sunday 23rd it was the turn of the AFC Telford manager, Rob Smith, who had this to say amongst other things:

"We'll take the points while we can, like against Worcester, the best side we've faced so far in terms of ability. They scored a 96th minute equaliser against us last month, but boy did they deserve it.

I'd expect them to be up there. They had a lot of injuries and we thought it was a good time to play them, but they were very lively and were the one team that's really deserved to beat us."

[villager]

... and the week before City go down 1-3 at Alfreton ... Telford beat them 3-0!

What are the odds?