Chester V Sutton Match Thread

The philosophy of every football fan should be to support the club through thick and thin, good times and bad. There are too many so called supporters at our club who do not fit in to this category. Yes it's poor, boring, lack of tactics etc etc but it is our club. Let's get behind the lads, you never know it might work

Weather is dreadful on the Wirral this morning but my phone's telling me it's OKish in Chester. No chance of the game being called off, is there?

Weather is dreadful on the Wirral this morning but my phone's telling me it's OKish in Chester. No chance of the game being called off, is there?

First time poster. Supporter since the early 70s. My 85 yr old dad still a regular. Have stayed away from these sites as they generally negative and 75% nonsense.

BUT need to agree with Bing I too have seen some woeful football at Chester over the years and this team is NOWHERE near the worst.

This post is supposed to be about the game on Saturday but is just a slag McCarthy fest. After 3 games undefeated ! Really ! Just reinforces my views about the negative nature of a lot of posts on here.

While I'm on - prob first and last time. I was at Hartlepool, my first game this season, and sat with their fans (I hate watching football from the end of the pitch). When we scored the early goal, they were really rattled. We then played well for 20mins and had a couple of chances to go 2 up. That would have been game over. The creativity came from Mahon and Dawson with Akintundes pace really worried them. We were also the better team in early periods of the second half and as the game started to get stretched both teams had half chances. I think McCarthy didn't like it and went 4-5-1 to tighten it up. When the game is stretched our two centre back are too slow to cope, BUT they are very good at defending the edge of the box.

It was a good point. Hartlepool did not play like a bottom 4 club and I suspect will be in the playoffs by the end. We're solid and worked massively hard for each other. Much better full backs. More solid centre mid but not creative - a concern. Thought Mahon played well and caused them problems. - for me losing him was the main reason we struggled after xmas last year. Surprisingly Akintunde and Hannah did well up front together. Whites cameo was ok.

On balance, even after losing Hughes and Alabi, thought we looked a stronger side than last year.

Back to the game on Saturday. Very important. 1W 3D is a much nicer place than 3D 1L. Get behind your team.

Maybe. But if it gets one person back for the next 20 games that is £240 for the club. It's worth it.

Some people still seem to miss the point about a fans owned club. Or maybe they just don't care. Either way we need everyone. One person stops coming, maybe their mate does too. Then the people they sit/stand with stop coming.

Hopefully he's read it, felt guilty and decided to go after all. 

Was hoping for a draw - but starting with ten men, no chance !