Aldershot preview
Posted 01-20-2010 at 10:03 AM by bmb
Tags aldershot, mark molesly, simon hooper
AFCB v Aldershot @ The Recreation ground. 26.01.10
Clint Eastwood said on 17th January 2010: “Sporting events bring people who are rooting for the same team together. If 100 people are supporting the same team, they may have different beliefs and attitudes, philosophical thoughts, but while they are willing on their team, they don't: sport brings them together and creates a camaraderie that lasts a long time.”
Luckily for Clint Eastwood he was not at Dean Court the day before he said that, listening to supporters, no sorry that’s the wrong word, fans, nope still the wrong word, certain individuals booing their football team off the pitch at half time
In my opinion that is wrong and so low. I accept the arguments from those who did/have booed the team that “we pay to watch and it’s our right to voice our displeasure” and I agree, if that is what people want to do then yes they have a right to, same as I have the right to strongly disagree with it. As a supporter I just cannot comprehend putting the boot in when the boys are already down, I cannot see what good it achieves or how on earth it is going to help our team regain their confidence. Those boys trudged off the pitch at half time, heads down and demoralised, they got booed off by a minority, they came back out for the 2nd half heads even further down, even more demoralised because the people they rely on to be there for them had turned on them. In addition to being demoralised they were also then full of fear, so scared to make the wrong move, a pass going astray, being caught out of position, a shot hitting the bar not the back of the net, knowing that making a mistake will subject them to further boos and abuse. How does that help them improve? I certainly cannot see any evidence that it helps the boys focus and concentrate on their game, if anything they play even worse.
I’m not interested in sparking off a debate about who’s a better fan than someone else. My own view is that every single one of us, who attends a game, huddles up by the radio to listen to a game if we cannot actually be there and who wills the team onto victory is an equal supporter. Some are perhaps more “dedicated”, attending every game home or away and fair play to them, I would love to be able to afford do so but I can’t, others are more fair weathered and only attend when we are playing well and to be honest you can sympathise with them when things are not going well on the pitch, others live abroad and cannot practically attend a game, although I am sure would love to be able to. Whichever bracket you yourself fall into we all have one thing in common, the team we love, the team we support, the team we want to see producing pretty football and bagging those 3 points.
That brings me to the definition of support: give moral or psychological support, aid, or courage to; aiding the cause or policy or interests of; back: be behind; approve of; defend: argue or speak in defence of; the act of bearing the weight of or strengthening. Followed by the definition of fan: an ardent follower and admirer; sports fan: an enthusiastic devotee of sports. Nowhere in those definitions can I find reference to booing your team off the pitch. My personal opinion is that no matter how dedicated a fan you are before and after the event, from the second you start to boo the team to the second you stop booing the team you are neither a supporter nor a fan.
Having effectively worn myself out with that rant I don’t even want to mention the game. To put it simply we were rubbish, not one player appeared to be on form and we deservedly lost – end of.
I am going to finish up today by just having a look at our players but I am not going to give them marks out of 10 but instead give them injury ratings. Long term injured: Shaun Cooper, Mark Molesly. Currently injured or still carrying an injury: Joe Partington, Sammy Igoe, Danny Hollands, Steve Fletcher, Anton Robinson, Liam Feeney, Jeff Goulding, Ryan Garry. Not match fit thanks in part to lack of reserve team games: Alan Connell, Scotty Guyett, Marvin Bartley. Fully fit: Shwan Jalal, Josh McQuoid, Jason Pearce (well I think his black eye has healed up), Warren Cummings, Brett Pitman and Lee Bradbury.
It may have escaped some people’s attention but we have an embargo and have had for a year now. We currently have 6 players fully fit out of a squad total of 19, another 3 trying to get themselves match fit. The other 10 report to the physio for treatment before they report to the manager for training, if they even train.
They have enough against them as it is without the fans turning on them. Whatever your views on any of our players love them or loathe them, they are all we have. We are not going to be signing anyone, deal with it and then do the right thing and get behind the boys that we do have. We as fans have to stop singling people out Brett, Danny, Al, Scotty, Bradders and Jeff Goulding seem to be this seasons scapegoats. Pearcy misplaces a pass and you hear Unlucky Jason, Danny misses one just the same and gets booed and abuse thrown at him – why? Either be an idiot and abuse them both or be a supporter and encourage them both. Too many double standards going on there. Slate them as much as you want, if you really feel you have to, on the message boards after a game, more fool the players who read them, but FFS is it really too much to ask to get behind them for 90 minutes on a Saturday afternoon. I always thought that we as a set of fans are better than that…
Finally to the players reading this, and I know some do. Hold your heads high, things are a bit tough right now, most of us appreciate that but frustrations can boil over at times. Each and every one of you is good enough; we would not be second in the league if you weren’t. Hang in there, ignore the boo boys and concentrate on yourselves and on getting back to working together as a team.
UTCIAD
Our Opponents:
Our shortest away trip of the year sees us visit almost neighbours Aldershot, who currently sit 9th in the table on 37 points. They come into the game on the back of a 1-1 draw at home to Rochdale last night. They had not played a game since Boxing Day when they easily beat 4-0 at home. They will be buzzing no doubt but their home record isn’t the best (W:3; D:3; L:5) and we are good enough on the day.
Player to watch: Kirk Hudson
Kirk is a pacy player who can cause panic in an opposing defence when he is in full flow. He played schoolboy and youth football at Ipswich Town before moving north of the border to join Glasgow Celtic where he was a regular scorer as the Hoops' youth team completed the Under-19 League and SFA Youth Cup double in 2005.
Following his release by Celtic in the summer of 2005, he joined AFC Bournemouth where he made a Football League appearance as a substitute against Swindon Town in the September.
He then had a one-month loan spell at Thurrock before being released from Dean Court. He arrived at Aldershot Town in January 2006 as a trialist and scored twice on his debut against Basingstoke Town in the Hampshire Senior Cup Quarter-Final. He was signed on full contract forms in July 2006 and was sent on a one-month loan to Ashford Town (Middx) a couple of months later. Kirk came back as an improved player and he earned rave reviews from both supporters and the media.
Kirk signed a contract extension (until the end of the 2009-10 season) in March 2008 after which he played his part in reaching the FA Trophy Semi-Finals and followed that up by being one of the goal scorers as the Setanta Shield was won. Kirk's season ended with him being the holder of a Blue Square Premier winners' medal. He was also named as the 'Blue Square Young Player of the Year'.
He made his 100th appearance for the Shots when coming on as a substitute against Swindon Town (H) in the Johnstone's Paint Trophy 1st Round in September 2008 and scored his first-ever Football League goal against Gillingham 18 days later. Kirk finished the 2008-09 campaign having scored 13 goals in all competitions; his resultant Shots career total of 40 puts him ninth in the club's all-time scorers list.
Cherries News:
It’s now official that we have lost Moles for the rest of the season We all knew it was coming but even so it still hits like a truck actually hearing it. Moles finally goes under the knife tomorrow to try and heal his foot. You can read what Steve Hard has to say about the injury on COWS.
Get well soon Moles, as I have said before we will miss you there is no doubt about that but we would rather see you back in the summer rearing to go at the start of our league 1 campaign than have you back now for 1 or 2 games and risk losing you for good. Try keep your chin up, speak to Coops, he has done remarkably well with keeping his chin up the past few months.
Cherries Charity:
As we all know (or should do!) Julia’s House is the current Cherry Charity. An appeal was launched on 31st October at the Grimsby game to raise £15, 000 for a new overnight care service at the children’s hospice. The service is planned to start this year and will provide overnight respite care at weekends, offering parents the valuable opportunity to take a full weekends respite from the stress of caring for a seriously ill child. Julia’s House will also offer residential nursing care for children nearing the end of their all too short lives. The £15,000 that the club hopes to raise will sponsor the main, specially equipped bedroom at the charity’s hospice in Corfe Mullen. We have raised £4,000 so far, PLEASE HELP IF YOU CAN TO RAISE THE REST…
Head to Head:
Over the years we have met Aldershot a total of 67 times. The results are Bournemouth wins: 29, Draws: 17 and Aldershot win: 21. We played them back in August in the league, a goal from Pearcy enough to secure the 3 points for us.
Stats courtesy of soccerbase.
Ref watch:
The ref for the game is Mr Simon Hooper from Wiltshire, with Ian Crouch (Kent) and Gavin Muge (Bedfordshire) acting as his assistants. The Fourth Official is Gary Young from Bedfordshire.
Simon joined the NG in summer 2008. Ref world haven’t yet seen fit to update his profile though! He has been 4th official in prem games this season so could well be one of those being considered for promotion to the select group this coming summer going on previous patterns. This season he has dished out 54 yellow and 6 red in 19 games (3.15 card/game average).
We have only met him once previously in September 2008 when we beat Brizzle Rovers 3-0 at home in the FL trophy. He only booked 1 player from Brizzle and by all accounts had a good game. They don’t like him at Plymouth or Wycombe though! It’s also our first meeting of the season with the lino’s and 4th official.
Match Prediction:
The bookies have Aldershot as 13/10 to win, 12/5 for a draw and 2/1 for an AFCB win.
Stats courtesy of Bet365
Next fixture:
Saturday 30th January 2010 v Crewe @ The Alexandra Stadium in the league. Kick off 3pm.
Footnote:
We have sold our allocation of tickets for Aldershot. The match is all ticket and an away sell out.
Clint Eastwood said on 17th January 2010: “Sporting events bring people who are rooting for the same team together. If 100 people are supporting the same team, they may have different beliefs and attitudes, philosophical thoughts, but while they are willing on their team, they don't: sport brings them together and creates a camaraderie that lasts a long time.”
Luckily for Clint Eastwood he was not at Dean Court the day before he said that, listening to supporters, no sorry that’s the wrong word, fans, nope still the wrong word, certain individuals booing their football team off the pitch at half time
In my opinion that is wrong and so low. I accept the arguments from those who did/have booed the team that “we pay to watch and it’s our right to voice our displeasure” and I agree, if that is what people want to do then yes they have a right to, same as I have the right to strongly disagree with it. As a supporter I just cannot comprehend putting the boot in when the boys are already down, I cannot see what good it achieves or how on earth it is going to help our team regain their confidence. Those boys trudged off the pitch at half time, heads down and demoralised, they got booed off by a minority, they came back out for the 2nd half heads even further down, even more demoralised because the people they rely on to be there for them had turned on them. In addition to being demoralised they were also then full of fear, so scared to make the wrong move, a pass going astray, being caught out of position, a shot hitting the bar not the back of the net, knowing that making a mistake will subject them to further boos and abuse. How does that help them improve? I certainly cannot see any evidence that it helps the boys focus and concentrate on their game, if anything they play even worse.
I’m not interested in sparking off a debate about who’s a better fan than someone else. My own view is that every single one of us, who attends a game, huddles up by the radio to listen to a game if we cannot actually be there and who wills the team onto victory is an equal supporter. Some are perhaps more “dedicated”, attending every game home or away and fair play to them, I would love to be able to afford do so but I can’t, others are more fair weathered and only attend when we are playing well and to be honest you can sympathise with them when things are not going well on the pitch, others live abroad and cannot practically attend a game, although I am sure would love to be able to. Whichever bracket you yourself fall into we all have one thing in common, the team we love, the team we support, the team we want to see producing pretty football and bagging those 3 points.
That brings me to the definition of support: give moral or psychological support, aid, or courage to; aiding the cause or policy or interests of; back: be behind; approve of; defend: argue or speak in defence of; the act of bearing the weight of or strengthening. Followed by the definition of fan: an ardent follower and admirer; sports fan: an enthusiastic devotee of sports. Nowhere in those definitions can I find reference to booing your team off the pitch. My personal opinion is that no matter how dedicated a fan you are before and after the event, from the second you start to boo the team to the second you stop booing the team you are neither a supporter nor a fan.
Having effectively worn myself out with that rant I don’t even want to mention the game. To put it simply we were rubbish, not one player appeared to be on form and we deservedly lost – end of.
I am going to finish up today by just having a look at our players but I am not going to give them marks out of 10 but instead give them injury ratings. Long term injured: Shaun Cooper, Mark Molesly. Currently injured or still carrying an injury: Joe Partington, Sammy Igoe, Danny Hollands, Steve Fletcher, Anton Robinson, Liam Feeney, Jeff Goulding, Ryan Garry. Not match fit thanks in part to lack of reserve team games: Alan Connell, Scotty Guyett, Marvin Bartley. Fully fit: Shwan Jalal, Josh McQuoid, Jason Pearce (well I think his black eye has healed up), Warren Cummings, Brett Pitman and Lee Bradbury.
It may have escaped some people’s attention but we have an embargo and have had for a year now. We currently have 6 players fully fit out of a squad total of 19, another 3 trying to get themselves match fit. The other 10 report to the physio for treatment before they report to the manager for training, if they even train.
They have enough against them as it is without the fans turning on them. Whatever your views on any of our players love them or loathe them, they are all we have. We are not going to be signing anyone, deal with it and then do the right thing and get behind the boys that we do have. We as fans have to stop singling people out Brett, Danny, Al, Scotty, Bradders and Jeff Goulding seem to be this seasons scapegoats. Pearcy misplaces a pass and you hear Unlucky Jason, Danny misses one just the same and gets booed and abuse thrown at him – why? Either be an idiot and abuse them both or be a supporter and encourage them both. Too many double standards going on there. Slate them as much as you want, if you really feel you have to, on the message boards after a game, more fool the players who read them, but FFS is it really too much to ask to get behind them for 90 minutes on a Saturday afternoon. I always thought that we as a set of fans are better than that…
Finally to the players reading this, and I know some do. Hold your heads high, things are a bit tough right now, most of us appreciate that but frustrations can boil over at times. Each and every one of you is good enough; we would not be second in the league if you weren’t. Hang in there, ignore the boo boys and concentrate on yourselves and on getting back to working together as a team.
UTCIAD
Our Opponents:
Our shortest away trip of the year sees us visit almost neighbours Aldershot, who currently sit 9th in the table on 37 points. They come into the game on the back of a 1-1 draw at home to Rochdale last night. They had not played a game since Boxing Day when they easily beat 4-0 at home. They will be buzzing no doubt but their home record isn’t the best (W:3; D:3; L:5) and we are good enough on the day.
Player to watch: Kirk Hudson
Kirk is a pacy player who can cause panic in an opposing defence when he is in full flow. He played schoolboy and youth football at Ipswich Town before moving north of the border to join Glasgow Celtic where he was a regular scorer as the Hoops' youth team completed the Under-19 League and SFA Youth Cup double in 2005.
Following his release by Celtic in the summer of 2005, he joined AFC Bournemouth where he made a Football League appearance as a substitute against Swindon Town in the September.
He then had a one-month loan spell at Thurrock before being released from Dean Court. He arrived at Aldershot Town in January 2006 as a trialist and scored twice on his debut against Basingstoke Town in the Hampshire Senior Cup Quarter-Final. He was signed on full contract forms in July 2006 and was sent on a one-month loan to Ashford Town (Middx) a couple of months later. Kirk came back as an improved player and he earned rave reviews from both supporters and the media.
Kirk signed a contract extension (until the end of the 2009-10 season) in March 2008 after which he played his part in reaching the FA Trophy Semi-Finals and followed that up by being one of the goal scorers as the Setanta Shield was won. Kirk's season ended with him being the holder of a Blue Square Premier winners' medal. He was also named as the 'Blue Square Young Player of the Year'.
He made his 100th appearance for the Shots when coming on as a substitute against Swindon Town (H) in the Johnstone's Paint Trophy 1st Round in September 2008 and scored his first-ever Football League goal against Gillingham 18 days later. Kirk finished the 2008-09 campaign having scored 13 goals in all competitions; his resultant Shots career total of 40 puts him ninth in the club's all-time scorers list.
Cherries News:
It’s now official that we have lost Moles for the rest of the season
We all knew it was coming but even so it still hits like a truck actually hearing it. Moles finally goes under the knife tomorrow to try and heal his foot. You can read what Steve Hard has to say about the injury on COWS.Get well soon Moles, as I have said before we will miss you there is no doubt about that but we would rather see you back in the summer rearing to go at the start of our league 1 campaign than have you back now for 1 or 2 games and risk losing you for good. Try keep your chin up, speak to Coops, he has done remarkably well with keeping his chin up the past few months.
Cherries Charity:
As we all know (or should do!) Julia’s House is the current Cherry Charity. An appeal was launched on 31st October at the Grimsby game to raise £15, 000 for a new overnight care service at the children’s hospice. The service is planned to start this year and will provide overnight respite care at weekends, offering parents the valuable opportunity to take a full weekends respite from the stress of caring for a seriously ill child. Julia’s House will also offer residential nursing care for children nearing the end of their all too short lives. The £15,000 that the club hopes to raise will sponsor the main, specially equipped bedroom at the charity’s hospice in Corfe Mullen. We have raised £4,000 so far, PLEASE HELP IF YOU CAN TO RAISE THE REST…
Head to Head:
Over the years we have met Aldershot a total of 67 times. The results are Bournemouth wins: 29, Draws: 17 and Aldershot win: 21. We played them back in August in the league, a goal from Pearcy enough to secure the 3 points for us.
Stats courtesy of soccerbase.
Ref watch:
The ref for the game is Mr Simon Hooper from Wiltshire, with Ian Crouch (Kent) and Gavin Muge (Bedfordshire) acting as his assistants. The Fourth Official is Gary Young from Bedfordshire.
Simon joined the NG in summer 2008. Ref world haven’t yet seen fit to update his profile though! He has been 4th official in prem games this season so could well be one of those being considered for promotion to the select group this coming summer going on previous patterns. This season he has dished out 54 yellow and 6 red in 19 games (3.15 card/game average).
We have only met him once previously in September 2008 when we beat Brizzle Rovers 3-0 at home in the FL trophy. He only booked 1 player from Brizzle and by all accounts had a good game. They don’t like him at Plymouth or Wycombe though! It’s also our first meeting of the season with the lino’s and 4th official.
Match Prediction:
The bookies have Aldershot as 13/10 to win, 12/5 for a draw and 2/1 for an AFCB win.
Stats courtesy of Bet365
Next fixture:
Saturday 30th January 2010 v Crewe @ The Alexandra Stadium in the league. Kick off 3pm.
Footnote:
We have sold our allocation of tickets for Aldershot. The match is all ticket and an away sell out.
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