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Post by bonecrusher on Jan 7, 2018 12:46:33 GMT
Highlights now on National League siteGreat work from Akintunde for the goal, similar to his assist against Guiseley. Not sure what the keeper was doing but it's a nice confident finish from White - you wouldn't know he hadn't scored yet this season watching that. For their manager to say we didn't have to work for that goal is nonsense. It's defence to attack with a few neat touches and some intelligent running. Great save from Hornby near the end as well! Agree with that completely. Bizarre keeping for our goal and cracking stop from Hornby.
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Post by spencerwhelanleftpeg on Jan 7, 2018 14:37:32 GMT
I wonder if the individual shouting belting out yes after the final whistle will make themselves known. He obviously follows us then sadly his euphoria is lost by their supporters shouting rubbish. Their player responsible for the red card challenge. He should never be on s field of play again let alone 3 games. Dirty individual. COYB
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Post by MOC on Jan 7, 2018 15:35:32 GMT
They were chanting ‘You let your club die’ and ‘Is that all you take away’, and like most southerners referred to us as ‘Chistah’. Weird. Expect it from the likes of Wrexham and Tranmere, but laughable when it comes from non-entities like Ebbsfleet who were happy to sacrifice their traditional identity by being renamed from Gravesend & Northfleet a few years back and then sold out to that MyFootballClub lot for a time.
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Post by Hannibal on Jan 7, 2018 15:39:33 GMT
Just reading our game report in NLP. May have aready been discussed but Darren McMahon said our game plan didn't work. It worked fine for me. What a burke!!
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Post by kyle on Jan 7, 2018 15:42:44 GMT
Would we have won 5-0 if the game plan had worked?
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Post by northender on Jan 7, 2018 15:57:58 GMT
Only two seconds away from 6 points away from home in 5 days. Not the worst start to the new year. Hopefully squad morale will be a bit higher now.
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Post by Lobster on Jan 7, 2018 18:45:31 GMT
They were chanting ‘You let your club die’ and ‘Is that all you take away’, and like most southerners referred to us as ‘Chistah’. Weird. Expect it from the likes of Wrexham and Tranmere, but laughable when it comes from non-entities like Ebbsfleet who were happy to sacrifice their traditional identity by being renamed from Gravesend & Northfleet a few years back and then sold out to that MyFootballClub lot for a time. Indeed. If we let our club die, theirs has never been alive in the first place. They don't seem to have much pride in their own identity and have spent much of the last 10-15 years renting themselves out to whoever waves a couple of fivers at them. Really starting to dislike them, the more I think about it. Good to get one over on teams like that!
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Post by agl on Jan 7, 2018 19:13:51 GMT
Didn't see that one coming. A horrible 1-0 - just what we needed. Quite surprised to see us get our noses in front and not throw it away. We actually looked quite comfortable despite not having much possession. Great finish from White - had his best game for us yesterday. Held the ball up OK, posed a physical threat and kept running. Could have had a second but for a great save by their keeper. But It was really all about the defending ..all over the pitch they put a shift in and the keeper was excellent ...great save near the end and good to see him catch so many crosses rather than punch. Still feel we lack the quality to get out of the mess we are in...really struggled to get the ball down or create anything at all. Most of the time we were happy to launch it, but if that's what it takes then fair enough. I fear the home crowd won't be so patient if we play like that but may be the only way of combating the better teams. Need to follow it up on Tuesday. Someone said on here that we wouldn't win again all season...maybe feeling a bit silly now. What can I say about Ebbsfleet? Imagine a sort of post apocalyptic Barrow on the Thames estuary and you have it...asked one of the stewards if there was a decent pub near the ground and he looked at me as if I'd just landed from Mars. Just be glad you don't have to live there. Even the BBC feed in the club house looked like it was being beamed by dodgy satellite from Kazakhstan and they must have bought a job lot of swivel chairs from some old office. Thought they were friendly enough other than the couple of bell ends behind the goal who got upset with some of the Chester Yoof. As for the comments by their manager, how ridiculous. They passed it nicely but no cutting edge and makes you realise how poor the general standard is in this league.
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Post by Rio Doherty on Jan 7, 2018 22:33:34 GMT
National League Highlights:
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Post by jb on Jan 7, 2018 22:50:16 GMT
Didn't see that one coming. A horrible 1-0 - just what we needed. Quite surprised to see us get our noses in front and not throw it away. We actually looked quite comfortable despite not having much possession. Great finish from White - had his best game for us yesterday. Held the ball up OK, posed a physical threat and kept running. Could have had a second but for a great save by their keeper. But It was really all about the defending ..all over the pitch they put a shift in and the keeper was excellent ...great save near the end and good to see him catch so many crosses rather than punch. Still feel we lack the quality to get out of the mess we are in...really struggled to get the ball down or create anything at all. Most of the time we were happy to launch it, but if that's what it takes then fair enough. I fear the home crowd won't be so patient if we play like that but may be the only way of combating the better teams. Need to follow it up on Tuesday. Someone said on here that we wouldn't win again all season...maybe feeling a bit silly now. What can I say about Ebbsfleet? Imagine a sort of post apocalyptic Barrow on the Thames estuary and you have it...asked one of the stewards if there was a decent pub near the ground and he looked at me as if I'd just landed from Mars. Just be glad you don't have to live there. Even the BBC feed in the club house looked like it was being beamed by dodgy satellite from Kazakhstan and they must have bought a job lot of swivel chairs from some old office. Thought they were friendly enough other than the couple of bell ends behind the goal who got upset with some of the Chester Yoof. As for the comments by their manager, how ridiculous. They passed it nicely but no cutting edge and makes you realise how poor the general standard is in this league. “Post apocalyptic Barrow” absolute comedy gold. Take a bow. The description of the Kazakhstan BBC signal is class. Brilliant stuff!
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Post by norwegianblue on Jan 7, 2018 23:12:36 GMT
National League Highlights: A lot of poor defending especially Gateshead, Guiseley and Torquay.
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Post by Anders on Jan 8, 2018 11:19:23 GMT
National League Highlights: A lot of poor defending especially Gateshead, Guiseley and Torquay. Dagenham v Hartlepool as well. Like a comedy sketch.
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Post by southernblue on Jan 8, 2018 14:22:58 GMT
Just reading our game report in NLP. May have aready been discussed but Darren McMahon said our game plan didn't work. It worked fine for me. What a burke!! I just read a tweet from an Ebbsfleet fan that he is on a five year contract. No wonder he's so arrogant if that's true.
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Post by jb on Jan 8, 2018 16:20:51 GMT
Great photo of a Chester fan celebrating in and amongst the WebbedFeet fans on Social media and the Chronicle website. What a hero!
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Post by Rio Doherty on Jan 8, 2018 16:49:19 GMT
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Post by Hannibal on Jan 8, 2018 17:22:53 GMT
Reminds me of 5 years ago when we played Salisbury City (a). I think I was the only Chester fan to go in their little stand and when we went 1-0 up I gave it large to the annoyance of the Salisbury fans all around me. They had the last laugh as they won 3-1, but I stuck it out as I'd paid an extra couple of quid to sit down. That was the game that the paraglider landed on the pitch.
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Post by southernblue on Jan 8, 2018 19:10:52 GMT
Reminds me of 5 years ago when we played Salisbury City (a). I think I was the only Chester fan to go in their little stand and when we went 1-0 up I gave it large to the annoyance of the Salisbury fans all around me. They had the last laugh as they won 3-1, but I stuck it out as I'd paid an extra couple of quid to sit down. That was the game that the paraglider landed on the pitch. That parachute landing went viral. My girlfriend was back at her home in Moscow and her sister came in with her phone saying "Look at this" showing her the footage of the parachutist. My girlfriend casually replied that she'd already seen it as she was there when it happened. Her sister was puzzled and didn't believe her.
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Post by Rio Doherty on Jan 8, 2018 20:06:28 GMT
Match highlights:
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Post by jb on Jan 8, 2018 20:57:20 GMT
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