Thanks to everyone who came to watch, it was good to get back to football after a difficult week.
Keeping it short, Burton Park came at us for 20 minutes but didn't score, we were comfortable from then onwards, 0-0 at halftime. Ben Shepherd lit the blue touch paper early in the 2nd half with a left foot smash into the roof of the net after a typical jinking run. Shortly after, an unfortunate BPW defender hooked one over his own keeper from 30 yards, he was being hassled by Ben (who claims the ball touched him on the way in) 2-0 and starting to look safer.
Ben Shepherd smacked in his 2nd (he says 3rd!) from 25 yards and Nick Bines got in on the act with a scissor kick, 4-0 and job done. Well done to all the lads, we were down to the bare bones again but they turned in a good performance.
We host Oadby Town next week, they are in the top 2 and strongly fancied for promotion, I don't think it will end 0-0 so will be worth a look. With 26 goals we are the highest scoring team outside the top 6 but with the against column showing 46 we've also conceded more than anyone. Should be plenty of goals then.
Dan Kingston
Sunday 18 November 2012
Sunday 11 November 2012
Buckingham Town 5-3 Whitworths
So the order of the day after a nightmare on Tuesday was to tighten up, play the percentages and hope for a quiet, uneventful close game which we try and nick 1-0 late on, not quite how it went in the end but then again we are Buckingham Town.
I tweaked it a bit yesterday and I must say there were a few raised eyebrows when I announced Carl Knox on pitch in the starting 11, I think the lads were waiting for the men in white coats to come and take me away. Knoxy was actually involved in one of my favourite bits of the match, not his well taken goal or even the celebration but the sliding tackle where he won the ball and knocked over one of their players, one of our players (his mate aswell!) and narrowly missed the linesman, this epitomised the desire that ran through the whole side yesterday.
I was very disappointed to concede so early again, especially knowing what normally happens next (shipping 5 or 6 goals) and having lined up a bit more defensively, we cannot afford to keep going
0-1 down inside the first 5 minutes. Fortunately Demarlo Smith crashed in a left foot drive and Carl Knox headed in from a quality Ben Shepherd cross to put us 2-1 up at the break.
The second half was packed full of incident and the scoring went 3-1, 3-2, 4-2, 4-3 then 5-3 as we finally did enough to win, Demarlo raced away from the defence to add his second and Drew Mitten scored a cheeky chip before grabbing his second after pressurising their keeper into a bad mistake.
The score was already 5-3 when things turned a bit ugly, with about 8 minutes left we were defending a corner when a scuffle broke out in the box which seemed to take forever to sort out. I obviously cannot condone violent conduct but Matt Bines saw red for defending a team mate who had (allegedly) been struck 3 times by an opponent right in front of him, it's difficult to criticise his actions because it was a human reaction to help a team mate and in some respects this is commendable. Whitworths had two sent off also and we saw the game out.
We had a good team spirit yesterday and everyone chipped in all the way to the end, we were also a lot more ruthless in front of goal than we have been previously, goals win games!
Thanks to the supporters who came yesterday, it was nice to see so many familiar faces and hopefully see you all there on Wednesday night.
Dan Kingston
I tweaked it a bit yesterday and I must say there were a few raised eyebrows when I announced Carl Knox on pitch in the starting 11, I think the lads were waiting for the men in white coats to come and take me away. Knoxy was actually involved in one of my favourite bits of the match, not his well taken goal or even the celebration but the sliding tackle where he won the ball and knocked over one of their players, one of our players (his mate aswell!) and narrowly missed the linesman, this epitomised the desire that ran through the whole side yesterday.
I was very disappointed to concede so early again, especially knowing what normally happens next (shipping 5 or 6 goals) and having lined up a bit more defensively, we cannot afford to keep going
0-1 down inside the first 5 minutes. Fortunately Demarlo Smith crashed in a left foot drive and Carl Knox headed in from a quality Ben Shepherd cross to put us 2-1 up at the break.
The second half was packed full of incident and the scoring went 3-1, 3-2, 4-2, 4-3 then 5-3 as we finally did enough to win, Demarlo raced away from the defence to add his second and Drew Mitten scored a cheeky chip before grabbing his second after pressurising their keeper into a bad mistake.
The score was already 5-3 when things turned a bit ugly, with about 8 minutes left we were defending a corner when a scuffle broke out in the box which seemed to take forever to sort out. I obviously cannot condone violent conduct but Matt Bines saw red for defending a team mate who had (allegedly) been struck 3 times by an opponent right in front of him, it's difficult to criticise his actions because it was a human reaction to help a team mate and in some respects this is commendable. Whitworths had two sent off also and we saw the game out.
We had a good team spirit yesterday and everyone chipped in all the way to the end, we were also a lot more ruthless in front of goal than we have been previously, goals win games!
Thanks to the supporters who came yesterday, it was nice to see so many familiar faces and hopefully see you all there on Wednesday night.
Dan Kingston
Wednesday 7 November 2012
Last Night
Sometimes you just have to take your medicine and get on with it, I have been asked by several players not to put a detailed match report from last night on here such was the humiliating nature of the defeat.
I won't put anyone through the pain of it but I will just say that we did hit the post three times and have two goals disallowed, it was just the bits that happened in between that were not so good (understatement). The main difference was Olney's pacey front man Stewart Allen who scored after a couple of minutes and terrorised our defence for pretty much the entire game, it's worth noting that he had only played in 3 of Olney's 11 league matches prior to last night and I would suggest that they are a different proposition when he's not playing.
I don't think there is a single player that would attempt to defend their performance last night and they were quick to take the blame afterwards, however I have to take a large chunk of blame myself..... I got it wrong last night on a number of levels. Massimo Colucci was a major doubt for the game because of work but once he had made himself available at about 3pm I probably should have started him, he has arguably been our best defender of late. I threw Pat Diamond and Nick Bines straight in after injury lay offs and they were both feeling it last night, along with those mistakes I also started Darryl Phillips and Alex Carroll who were both carrying injuries. My biggest mistake was getting the technical ability to battling qualities ratio wrong, we tried to play tippy tappy intricate football against a team who got in our faces and wanted it more. As soon as the going got tough we collectively disappeared back in to our shells and gave up, I've never seen so many half hearted tackles in my life.
We will stumble battered and bruised back on to the battle field on Saturday and any player who is not prepared to roll their sleeves up and give their all to Buckingham Town for 90 minutes should stay at home
Dan Kingston
I won't put anyone through the pain of it but I will just say that we did hit the post three times and have two goals disallowed, it was just the bits that happened in between that were not so good (understatement). The main difference was Olney's pacey front man Stewart Allen who scored after a couple of minutes and terrorised our defence for pretty much the entire game, it's worth noting that he had only played in 3 of Olney's 11 league matches prior to last night and I would suggest that they are a different proposition when he's not playing.
I don't think there is a single player that would attempt to defend their performance last night and they were quick to take the blame afterwards, however I have to take a large chunk of blame myself..... I got it wrong last night on a number of levels. Massimo Colucci was a major doubt for the game because of work but once he had made himself available at about 3pm I probably should have started him, he has arguably been our best defender of late. I threw Pat Diamond and Nick Bines straight in after injury lay offs and they were both feeling it last night, along with those mistakes I also started Darryl Phillips and Alex Carroll who were both carrying injuries. My biggest mistake was getting the technical ability to battling qualities ratio wrong, we tried to play tippy tappy intricate football against a team who got in our faces and wanted it more. As soon as the going got tough we collectively disappeared back in to our shells and gave up, I've never seen so many half hearted tackles in my life.
We will stumble battered and bruised back on to the battle field on Saturday and any player who is not prepared to roll their sleeves up and give their all to Buckingham Town for 90 minutes should stay at home
Dan Kingston
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