Once The Snow Clears

After two impressive midweek wins on the road at Dorchester & Bath either sides of giving a good account of ourselves a Dartford we now have just as much chance of making the play offs as we do relegation. Following two postponements due to snow the club are confident we will be able to get back to league action at home to Weston Super Mare on Saturday and hopefully carry on turning round the poor home form which has blighted the last couple of years. With Louie Theophanous and Elliott Buchanan now inform along with a reinvigorated PJD hopefully we can maintain the attacking prowess of the last few weeks and eradicate the defensive slips that cost us the Trophy game at Dartford.
We face a very busy second half of the season with at least two games a week for most of it and keeping an injury and suspension free squad will be key if we are to make an unlikely bid for those lower P/O places.          

Breathing Space.

Two wins in the space of four days has given the club a massive shot in the arm and seen us move up to the dizzy heights of eleventh. A 3-1 home win over Eastleigh and 4-0 win at Dorchester not only saw Louie Theophanous break his duck for the club, but also the squad looking much more unified and determined following some recent departures.

With the reaper’s scythe a little further away from our shoulders we can focus on this weekend’s final sixteen FA Trophy game at Dartford. Our hosts are currently doing very well in their first season back in the Conference Premier Division and will provide tough opposition, but if we can deal with their direct style and set pieces, I still feel we have half a chance of doing something special as we did in the FA Cup last season.

It’s great to have a much more positive outlook on all things Bromley FC, the pressure is off on Saturday, and if the league form continues to improve then we might spend the second half of the season looking up rather than down.        

New Year, Same as The Old One?

Happy New Year to all of you! The Christmas period was a mixed bag for Bromley with two games falling foul of the wet weather and then a fine victory at Tonbridge was followed by an abject defeat to Sutton at Hayes Lane on 1^st January. The results leave us third from bottom and facing a very tough task if we are to avoid relegation at the end of the season.

Mark Goldberg’s inability to get the team to play well on a regular basis leaves many fans baffled when there are flashes of what could be in games like Kidderminster & Tonbridge. With the huge wage bill we have at BFC to be in the relegation places is nothing short of criminal and one feels for the owner Jerry Dolke who has to continually fund this under achievement now the take over of the club is rumoured to be dead in the water.

Should the worse happen and we do go down the potential financial fall out could put Bromley FC back into jeopardy, which given the hard work of those who run the club behind the scenes is very cruel, but football is a results based business and ours are poor.

The FA Trophy, Kent & London Senior Cups seem like sheer folly at the moment given the league position, I hope we put as much into the league games at home to Eastleigh and away to Bath & Dorchester as we do into the Trophy game at Dartford over the next few weeks.

I’m finding it very hard to keep the faith right now.