Did we enjoy that?
We were 1-0 up, nice header from Gary from a Steve corner.
Then didn't defend well individually (not positionally) from a few attacks and we were soon 2-1 down.
Equaliser came from a Gary cut back which was emphatically headed home by their defender.
They took a 3-2 lead by half time when we gave it away in a dangerous place- our half. If you're gonna give the ball away only do it the opponent's half (new tactic)- it gives us a little bit of a better chance. Passing poor all over pitch today. Overwhelmed in midfield with Chris Wilson's energy stretched to the limit, Steve playing with a physical ailment, and our wide midfielders too wide , too slow and too immobile.
Internecine altercations abound this season. I personally try to ignore but not easy. Please bollock nicely by encouraging, none of us at present are that fucking good. Too many cliques have broken out, look at yourself before others and see how you can improve in effort at least. Effort goes a long way. Moaning, pirouhetting in a fit of pique and standing like a statue and not making a little bit of an effort at chasing back might be eliminated and help us out of this present trough. Not only do we have players who are reticent about playing against certain teams but it has been brought to my attention that there are players who are avoiding playing in games in the company of certain other players. Could be a long season but everyone'll probably get a game!
All this would never have happened when Big Bob roamed the rec. Mind you Big Bobism put a few players off playing.
They won 6-0 in second half.
Last twenty minutes was encouraging in terms of effort despite their "ability" to score every time they looked at our goal. Wont go into the goals individually, not that I can't remembrer them , just there were some really embarrassing ones.
This week's tip, positive chat. Too many people trying to programme others' games. Gags should be provided next week. Oh yes and enjoy your training and ball practices this week. Quite important for improvement of touch and technique dont you know.
Nice turn out in pub.
Dave and I struggled to take posts out alone. I now have a cracked rib. Thanks to everyone who stayed to help. Some people seem to think that this little club arranges itself. The fixture list appears, oppositions sneakily materialise each Sunday morning, new kits appear, finances are just sorted somehow, balls errantly kicked into trees and gardens mysteriously reappear, referees grow on the trees that hide the balls, dressing rooms are self cleaning, a post match social drink is arbitrary and just as long as individuals turn up, 'play' then fuck off that is a privilege conferred on the club by them!
Well it hasn't lasted 25 years without people mucking in. Just a thought.
Enjoyed my four hours in the Lister waiting for my leg to be stitched. What a strange world that is- hoards there seemingly camping out in family groups.
Am up for selection next week, I know I couldn't play worse again.
Toodle pip.
Shit shoveller- what's new!
44 comments:
Paul 4
Darren 4
Chris G 5
Tony 4
Dave 6
Darren H 1
Steve 2
Chris W 7
Phil 2
Chris C 5
Gary 7
That looks about right.
Got to say that Twiggy had a great game. Played as much advantage as possible even though they scored from such a decision. Well done Mr Twigg.
Yes foul throws and even fouls were totally irrelevant to him. He is of course of the old school- get on with it you fannies.
Only foul thing I saw was the passing!
Dave 6 ? Stop posting Dave
Paul 2
Darren 3
Chris G 4
Tony 1
Dave 9
Darren H 1
Steve 0
Chris W 5
Phil 1
Chris C 4
Gary 5
Doughnuts all round. A bit fat zero for the lot of ya!
Stop posting marks out of 10. Were not worth it. Draw a line after last weeks shite performance and move on to the next game. A different group of players this Sunday. Some positions are up for grabs apart from mine.
Google it - This is absolutely true!
In the sleepy village of Erbum, in the town of Tillet, Hertfordshire
lives a lady by the name Linda Lykes. She owns the local pub called
The Cock Inn. Her postal address is:
Linda Lykes
The Cock Inn
ERBUM,
Tillet
Herts.
Now, try reading the complete address without any pause!
The Postman still laughs with every delivery...
Did Ron or Dave put the goals up?
Lets start the season again on Sunday
Harpenden haven't started too well. 3-0 loss against Ware away. They are there for the taking although their home record is rather tasty. Have we got 11 yet?
We could have 13 with a couple of blasts from the past.
hope by blast you dont mean deadwood hasbeens?
At least Tony will be away this week. He is so negative that he effects the whole team. It would be OK if he led by example. Goal 3, we lose the ball in our half, Tony is in the oppos half. Didn't shout and ball at that goal did he.
He seems to think he is better than the rest of us.
Even if we lose this week it won't be so negative.
thats the sort of outrageous comments we don't in the team. Yes Tony is a bit of a hot head and no he's not the new big Bob. Maybe blob but definately not Bob. Lets see what our shape is on Sunday without some individuals. Im sure the management team dos'nt need telling.
Fuck you all
Don't make me angry. You won't like me when im angry!!
I've been shovelling dung all day and here I come to a blog full of negativity and nastiness.
We're all none too good now but we want to play that's the rub. So lets have no more talk of who is shite, who did this and didn't do that. Also this talk of getting in new players all the time. We are who we are in our little village world. If you want Big Jim from Fulham, little jinky Joe from Bedford or good old Gazza from whichever rehab unit he's presently kipping in then fair enough, it'll hardly be Knebworth Vets. It'll hardly be folk who socialise and fraternise in Station or Lytton Arms, or will turn up for a dinner in 2036 celebrating our 50th anniversary. (I'll be 91 then). I notice many absences from the past 10 years of those who've worn the shirt and drank the post match drink for the present anniversary drink this Friday. Perhaps Bill has had many fulsome apologies for their absences! I doubt it, they had their game provided on a plate and... Fuck 'em!
After many years plying my footballing trade, both sober and drunk, I arrived in Knebworth and found to my delight a vets' soccer team in operation. Just the job thought I. I can have a few games, try my best, be convivial ,meet a few locals in my dotage and so on. I like to think I have contributed on the pitch as well as off it. It's a bit of a struggle on the pitch now but hey who's not struggling- I've seen it!
I know I'm not a hopeless case. So I keep going. By the way I waited almost two years before I got something of a regular game, despite "training" each Thursday up the Leisure Centre.
So here we are now. A lot of folk signed and paid up for 2011-12 and we're not doing too well on the pitch and yet there's loads of attractive fixtures to come. If you want a new splurge of players at this stage you can of course call a committee meeting and iron it all out. At that meeting you could chuck out all the deadwood and has beens (but please include the never will bes). You could in fairness chuck people out and give them their £20 back. Then go ahead and recruit. Knebworth's a nice place, the rec is not bad, the Station, Red Lion, the Legion are all there for the post match conviviality. A new Vets team will be born. A fresh club likely to last and represent the village into the future? I doubt it.
I might get off me arse and organise an alternative vets side for sporadic exercise and friendlies- there is a quorum.
Stop fucking grumbling. Next week is Harpenden, the week after Therfield, it's all arranged all you lot have to do is turn up and be pleasant to each other.
I have 5 stitches in my leg and two cracked ribs taking down the goalposts with Dave. I'm hurting and I have two ton of cow shite to move out the driveway. But I'm available.
cider boy is local, when not in rehab, and is available, at least to serve the drinks.
How many of the current regulars are living in knebworth? full of outsiders and at war within i think just because were shite
Dear fed up, I think you need to be sure of your facts, the third goal came from a pass from centre back (Tony) to Chris G, Tony then made an angle for Chris to pass back as he had no other options, Chris made a bad pass and they scored! Simple. Think we need to stick to the truth.
I helped in the 7th goal. Did you see me try to pole vault over their centre forward! I nearly broke my neck. All for the fucking cause!!!!
Off to bed now, keep the faith.
IF you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!'
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
' Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch,
if neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!
Ron, you are meant to spread the shit not snort it.
Third goal fact. I dont know where Tony was standing. But the ball was with Chris and his only option was to hoof it forward down the line- safe and probably gobbled up by their man. But that was the ball. He didn't and the result was an incisive attack on our goal which led to their third. No blame just a fact. Mistakes are made and more often than not go unpunished, that one did not. There were then 47 minutes of the game remaining- we conceded another 5 not 6. They won 5-0 second half.
Maggie: Shovel it
Ronald: Shovel what?
Maggie: Shovel that
Ronald: Shovel it where?
Maggie: From here to there
Ronald: Why?
Maggie: Yours is not to reason why, yours is but to make shit pie!
"All together now" is that bloody Gavin I'll warrant.
i wish ron would take note of the knobs players code of conduct as point 15 states
15. Players must wear shin pads during matches and training
Throw im out
Get Dave Fish!
I have shinpads it's called skin.
Is John TWIGG deadwood?
Big Bob- Little Tony?
No contest- both nice lads mind!
Do as I say never as I do.
Cunts!
i am available sunday
am i deadwood?
Team for Sunday:
Paul
Ally Chris G Brendan Jihn T
Phil Chris C Ron Dave Gavin
Tommy B
Subs: John B
Twigg deadwood and he has a martin and a wren living within him.
See- all deadwood.
As for Crennellations they are so obsolete even the Tudors didn't need them.
Bring on the under 40's - the stalwarts , the face of the future, the.....
Bully, Tony, Darrens two ..
We'll have Chris Wilson. Setting up nicely for an old and new battle during the Christmas break.
Formation for Sunday. It has to be 5-1-0-2-1-1.
Biggest defeat of the season...coming this Sunday. Heard it here first.
I hear Bill has ben drafted into the squad for the Harpenden game to provide some much needed energy.
According to my calculations the "deadwood" has only been playing 14% of the available time so presumably that means the 32 goals conceded so far this season is mostly down to the 86% of "new wood" in the team.
Its therefore clear what has to be done - cut out the disaesed new wood that thinks its better than it is, that is incapable of sustaining any new growth and knows nothing about team spirit. Then we might be able to move forward. Sorry for the gardening analogy - Eric Cantona eat your heart out.
How did you calculate the "deadwood" and who are the "deadwood". i need to know to perfect my own "deadwood" algorithm
I see Don Howe's got Bully in the hole. Hope it's a big one.
The spirit is superb please do not let the flesh be the weak link.
I HHAAAAAAADDD a DREAM!
Tenerife is 32 degrees today, missing you all !
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