Full marks for effort but little for goal attempts as we only forced their keeper to make one save which he very nearly turned into his own net from a Ryno effort.
All the players were giving 100% but when they can't take the opportunities to shoot on target or try to walk the ball in then we play right into the hands of their defense and they were able to keep a clean sheet.
No arguements about the disallowed goal, if the guys on the side lines say it was off side fair enough.
We were sadly lacking the craft and skills of Eddie in midfield plus those forward runs and with Ryno totally unmarked in acres of space for 90 minutes we really didn't get the ball out to him enough, but when we did he looked dangerous with runs to the bye line or crosses swinging into the box.
Equally though he wasted a number of corners and free kicks with poor overhit crosses and he couldn't seem to allow for the wind on the night.
The defense must have played a blinder in the first half because Ashford had no real chances to speak of as we cut out their efforts to attack and we cleared the ball well up field against the wind and it looked so easy from the other end.
It only became apparent to us as we stood behind the other goal for the second half and felt the strength and bite of the wind and watched the pathetic attempts of their defenders to clear their lines only to see the ball hardly move out of the area or go straight into touch for throw ins or corners.
One point not really enough on the night but better than nothing and although not directly involved with attempts on goal but for sheer non stop running I gave my M.O.M. to Cassie who covered most of the pitch in their half chasing the ball down.
As for their keeper well who really cares once the game is over, my attitude is to shout with others reasonable abuse about any keepers performance in order to try and put them off a bit, but I always acknowledge when good keepers pull off a save, equally I make a mental note when they return a bit of comic banter back to us during the game, this usually suggests a class keeper who more often than not will applaud us fans at the end of the game to show no hard feelings whatever the result.
This poor keeper was never going to make any good saves to earn a bit of praise, was only intent on trying to wind up the fans with gestures or comments during the game and showed his true colours after the final whistle which summed up his character and the actions showed disrespect to the opposing players as he ignored them, but as a fan more intent on going home out of the cold it meant little to me but I just made a mental note crap keeper at Ashford.
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Topic: Ashford Town Away Match - 20th March 2007 - again? (Read 14948 times)