West Dean FC Legend

I'm sure I've posted this before many times - I am a boring old man - Roger East is a Saints supporter - I've been to the Dell with him, all of his famiy support Saints, I've played football with him too - so him saying he didn't support Saints was 'hmmmm' and him saying he wasn't good at football was an underplaying part. He wasn't brilliant but in the standard we played in he was a good defender. If you ever played in The Commericial Houses League for Hospital Sports he played in the Minnows Cup Final you lost - and I was the goalie.... 1985 Minnows Cup Final The Kings Arms 2, Hospital Sports 1

Might help us and other teams too - some forwards/players will get inside the box and think it is easy to plonk a shot at the near post and a normal goalie will save it. I watched it and it was just the way it pongled in - but also from a goalies point of view [you all know now I have never stopped banging on about it] I felt his positioning was bad, as the player cut in I would have be further off the line - first thing that does is either make him try and square it or probably shoot to the left where it might be easier to save. I wasn't great but I was good at angles and saving shots - my height runined it for me, crosses etc I was useless, also when it started that the goalie needed to be able to play football [I always remember you weren't allow to pick up passbacks, I hated that] I was just getting close to retriing thank goodness.

I'd have saved that......now. I'm 64.

I might be misremembering or something be didn't he say the team didn't play the way he wanted in some stages of that game and it didn't sound like he was joking. As for the unbeaten run, well leading 3-0 or something with 20 minutes to go and passing back and forth on the halfway line and then back to the penalty area - back to the goalie - out wide - back up the halfway line, across the halfway line again.....they could have gone 1000 games unbeaten and I wouldn't have watched them. It is supposed to be entertainment too.

Odd isn't it? That's what teams did with us so many times last season - Leicester City away being the big one, if they'd have managed the game correctly, Saints would have lost that match. Football is a confusing sport at times.

Hey folk, anyone tell me how JWP performed for the second half - I didn't see the game, not even a 'link' today.

Yup, I wonder if they will be a team to keep an eye on?

Funny, I noticed that and was just about to post that. He was on the bench their last game, didn't come on though. I wonder if they did that so that it looked like he was okay and keep the fans quiet and now he is back to the treatment room for a few weeks.

When are we allowed to 'melt-down'? I need to mark it in my diary.

Also change the club name and badge, if we do this things will get easier and better....

I don't post very often now - I don't know that much, when I make comments I'm often wrong but this Bazuna thing is driving me insane. I do not know how he became a professional goalkeeper - honestly. I have said this about a half a dozen times I used to play in goal for 32 years - various standards, none superb and I was not successful or that good. That is me being honest...BUT....if this is your experience you can watch Bazuna and see when the opposition is attacking - he's not involved he's just 'ready' - he stands in the wrong position and gets his angles wrong every time. It is mental. When I watched him I was always saying - I don't shout - 'What is he doing?', Why is he standing there? Why is the angle he is set up like that?' Every.Single.Time! He is not very good - full stop. He is the biggest con, worst buy we have had. If he has a fantastic league breaking defence in front of him he'll look better - when I played in goal with really good defenders in front of me I looked good too.

Totally agree. Blasting home a chance that you weren't expecting, or one you were but with Saints expecting it to be bobbled past the post or into the goalie's arms. That's why last season was so bloomin' amazing. We looked like a might goal-scoring maching at times. When you've 'super forwards' missing the ball entirely or bobbling it anywhere except the back of the net it was fantastic. Just attacking too - looking like we wanted to score more than one goal! If they get it wrong it'll be back to the usual for us. All of which of course had literally nothing to do with spying on the opposition. Getting rid of Armstrong was a good move - I think he was a bad attitude influence myself [no evidence or proof].

Hey thanks for that - I didn't even realise it existed [proves how on the ball I am]. I geniunely don't want to pee anyone off - well you know no more than I do normally. I'll do that - if it is like the rest of the stuff on my design site and my art and books, it'll get ignored 😂 Weston-super-Mare? My wife went to school there - La Retraite Covent School - it no longer exists but they helped her during some difficult times - she's not even religious!

Well my 'The Cheats' design products are now online. But because I am geninuely not some sort of rip off, self-promotion bloke, I haven't put up the link to the page. Ironically it is Spreadshirt so they are printed and posted from Germany! I genuinely am only making about £1 or so a product and that is covering my costs and time. Anyone wants the link to the page let me know - if not tell me to f-off I'm sure someone will 🤣