After a Saturday that saw the first team play a reserve fixture and only just beat Ebbsfleet's second string, losing Arron Fray for two month swith a shoulder injury on the way, it was back to league action on Tuesday. Basement boys Lewes came to HL and they were well worth the point they got as once again Bromley miss fired. This was their manager Steve Ibbotson's last game in charge and they gave him a fighting send off.
We lost Harison Dunk early on to an awful foul, which should have been a red card, but in the end we still should have created mor ethan teh one effort on taget we had in 90mins. It seems Dunk is now being targetted by teams who see him as a threat and know he is carrying an injury at the moment. Tribute to his quality, but not the refereeing at this level.
Next up it's a trip to Thurrock, never an easy prospect, we'll need to find some of that early season form and spirit again to bring anhything back from the other side of the river on Saturday.
Nic McDonnell has deceided to hang up his boots again and I'd like ot thank him for all those great goals and memeories in his spells at Hayes Lane. Replacing him is Leon McKenzie who has shown a real desire to be at Bromley and let's hope he finds his scoring touch once he is free to play again after a 5 game ban.
The next few weeks will see if the start of the season was a run of luck or foundations for a play off bid, one win in ten matches suggests it may be a long winter ahead.
Thursday 28 October 2010
Thursday 21 October 2010
First League Defeat and Off the Top.
A 4-1 reverse at Basingstoke saw us slip from the top down to third and face up to a few home truths about how good we actually might be. Defensive errors, slack midfield play and a blunt attack have all added up to one win in eight games, two consecutive defeats, in which we scored one and conceded seven.
The players were shown a dvd of the goals and were then put through their paces in a pre-season style training session on Tuesday in order to try and rectify the recent poor form ahead of the next game at home to Lewes on 26th October (Unless The Rooks are in involved in an FA Cup replay).
The players were shown a dvd of the goals and were then put through their paces in a pre-season style training session on Tuesday in order to try and rectify the recent poor form ahead of the next game at home to Lewes on 26th October (Unless The Rooks are in involved in an FA Cup replay).
Wednesday 13 October 2010
First Defeat.
This is the first blog entry on this site, all the previous entries were on the http://www.confsouth.co.uk/ site, but that is now all but finished. Sveno and I have decided to put it straight on our site http://www.backtohayeslane.co.uk/ instead.
Tuesday night saw our first defeat of the season, not bad seeing as it was 12th October, exiting the FA Cup to Chelmsford who were worthy winners on the night. Aside from Ref Mr Cook being a complete fool, we could have no complaints about the result, although whether we should even have been replaying the game at all is another matter entirely given the dubious nature of The Clarets 96th minute penalty in what was meant to be 4mins of added time.
It certainly has been an oustanding start to season 2010/11, but now we have to see how the side responds to it's first loss and what effect it will have on results in the next few games. The harsh fact is that we've only won one game in seven and the lead at the top of BSBS is down to one point, Basingstoke away on Saturday is the first test to see if we can pick up again...
Tuesday night saw our first defeat of the season, not bad seeing as it was 12th October, exiting the FA Cup to Chelmsford who were worthy winners on the night. Aside from Ref Mr Cook being a complete fool, we could have no complaints about the result, although whether we should even have been replaying the game at all is another matter entirely given the dubious nature of The Clarets 96th minute penalty in what was meant to be 4mins of added time.
It certainly has been an oustanding start to season 2010/11, but now we have to see how the side responds to it's first loss and what effect it will have on results in the next few games. The harsh fact is that we've only won one game in seven and the lead at the top of BSBS is down to one point, Basingstoke away on Saturday is the first test to see if we can pick up again...
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