MATCHWATCH : Bromley (a)

[Jackson Corner]

Good pens from us. But a very scrappy performance.

[6ft Kerplunk]

5 excellent pens.

Yep, 5 well placed pens, shame Wing couldn't have done that earlier.

[CountryRoyal]

Good to get a win in the last pre season friendly but can’t pretend I was inspired. Just left with the usual apathy from last season.

Gonna be a long season

[Uke]

All the people who are complaining about the “same as last year” seem to have forgotten where we were towards the end of last year….

[WestYorksRoyal]

I'm getting vibes of England at a major tournament where everyone expects us just to rock up and win every game comfortably.

If you think that was as bad as the final 5 - 10 games of last season you need to give your head a wobble.

[Linden Jones' Tash]

Lucky for this commentator that Kelvin E was transferred, hate to think how he would have handled his name....

Need a cutting edge upfront....

Work to do...

[6ft Kerplunk]

Trying to be optimistic and hoping that the not overly inspiring start is just the new players getting used to each other. We've certainly played worse in recent times.

[Hound]

Was alright. More intensity and ambition than last season. Happy enough

Badly need a new CF but we all know that

[West F]

We have a very decent looking right side. Lisbie is a quick handful and Godwin-Malife looked to support well. The left hand side is still bloody awful, with largely nothing happening until Lane and Savage came on. It comes to something when you accept that Lane is a better left back than your supposed starting left back.

[Hound]

The RHS looks class but yeah the LHS was weak

Leam doesn’t want to ever seem to take DK off which confuses me. Thought he was pretty poor today.

[info@farwayhideaway]

Improved 2nd half and that needs to be the minimum standard really. We really can't play like we did in the 1st half at all anymore, or we will struggle. Wingers looked good. Surprised how impressive Lisbie was.

[Gordzilla]

Overall, I thought some of our movement looked decent enough, particularly in the first 15 mins of the first half. The attacking style looked quite threatening at times but lacked bite, ball retention, concentration, and final ball. A lot of that comes down to this being first game of the season and some players still getting up to speed.

After the first hydration break and Paudie’s excellent block, our defending was poor and lacking communication, especially the bit leading to their goal. Pereira should have had that all day long regardless of what Paudie was doing.

Dokes ran out of steam second half and some players looked too tired to play simple passes, repeatedly conceding possession. Wing’s penalty miss off the post was typical for a game like this (just had to make it a nail-biter instead of putting the game to bed) but he did well in the shootout to not be unnerved by that.
Overall, the team worked hard, huffed and puffed at times but ground out a draw to then go on and win with 5 great penalties.

[MR. CYNICAL]

I'm getting vibes of England at a major tournament where everyone expects us just to rock up and win every game comfortably.

If you think that was as bad as the final 5 - 10 games of last season you need to give your head a wobble.

Blimey, you do have low standards.
I'm wobbling my head

[windermereROYAL]

Who`s Dokes?

[Fox Talbot]

Was at the game. Good support. Great start. Too late season afterwards. We had the better players but couldn’t make if count. Lisbie, Stokes, Malife alright, not sure about Brown, plenty of energy, not much product. Happy to get through. Would have been furious to have lost that. They’re a bottom half team.

[Royal Rother]

I'm getting vibes of England at a major tournament where everyone expects us just to rock up and win every game comfortably.

If you think that was as bad as the final 5 - 10 games of last season you need to give your head a wobble.

Blimey, you do have low standards.
I'm wobbling my head

I’ve hurt my neck.

[Sutekh]

Who`s Dokes?

Udok(es)u Godwin-Malife

[windermereROYAL]

Who`s Dokes?

Udok(es)u Godwin-Malife

Ta

[MR. CYNICAL]

Was at the game. Good support. Great start. Too late season afterwards. We had the better players but couldn’t make if count. Lisbie, Stokes, Malife alright, not sure about Brown, plenty of energy, not much product. Happy to get through. Would have been furious to have lost that. They’re a bottom half team.

Not sure how you can say we had better players. If they were then why couldn't they make it count?

[Crowbar6753]

Fair result and we should get better as the season progresses. One real gripe, i'm done with Dorsett as a LB, when is this going to change? Oh for an Ian Harte or Nickey Shorey lol.......
Finally, Bromley is a decent little ground, love the long terrace along the side however, what a weird set up for the away end.....its like three separate areas, a bit of terrace behind the goal, plus the tiniest covered stand then a small section on the long terrace! why not give away fans that whole area behind the goal, just seems weird.