BATH 3 HORNCHURCH 1 - report and line ups

[Dagger03]

Saturday 27-October-2012

BATH CITY 3 HORNCHURCH 1

 

BC – Glyn Garner – Dan Ball – Aaron Brown – Harry Hooman – Gethin Jones © - Joe Burnell – Josh Low – Adam Connolly (Kery Morgan 88) – Chris Allen – Sean Canham – Noah Keats

Subs – Jim Rollo – Arron Hopkinson – Luke Cummings – Mark Preece

 

HFC – Joe Woolley – Alex Bentley – Rimmel Daniel – Simon Glover – Nick McKoy – Sam Cutler (Martin Tuohy 80) – Tambeson Eyong (James Love 85) – Frankie Curley © - Wayne Gray – Lewis Smith (Leon McKenzie 59) – Michael Spencer

Sub – Elliot Styles

 

Scorers – Allen 18 (BC) – Gray 19 (H) – Burnell 34 (BC) – Canham 86 (BC)

Attendance 509

Officials – A Degnarin with T Power and I Douglas

Bookings – Curley 51 (H) – McKoy 63 (H)

Duration 45.29 + 48.00

Weather – 3 degrees, sunny, wind speed 20 mph

 

BATH CITY 3 HORNCHURCH 1

Conversation on the team coach turned to concern as the coach was unable to negotiate the extremely low bridges around Bath, necessitating an approach from the Bristol side of the city – only to encounter horrendous traffic jams in every direction. This was exacerbated by the local rugby team, who play in rugby’s premier division, also being at home, and with around eight thousand heading in the same direction, it took the worst part of an hour to travel the final three miles. Bath is a remarkable place – quaint and spectacular – but the quaintness and spectacularity loses some of its charm when you are stuck in the same place for minutes at an end.

 

The Bath ground itself has shrunk considerably – they once owned most of the land down the hill almost into the city, whilst the steep grass slopes opposite the main stand are now occupied by houses. Even so, this is still a most impressive stadium.

 

There was bright sunshine, which had dispersed the early morning frost, and a very strong wind blowing down the pitch. The Hornchurch team squad virtually selected itself – Reiss Noel, Elliot Styles and Ben Bowditch all out with injury, although Elliot was on the bench just in case, whilst Paul Goodacre has a broken rib and will the out for about a month. Joey May is at London Bari on loan, and Andy Tomlinson likewise at Heybridge Swifts, whilst Sam Cutler, on loan at Concord, returned to take his place in the starting line up.

 

Rimmel Daniel was at Gillingham before playing for Waltham Forest, and earlier this season for Aveley, whilst Nick McKoy was last season with Northampton and Tamworth, before joining Sutton Utd.

 

And Daniel had a somewhat torrid introduction to Conference football when the home side took full advantage of the strong wind to sweep the ball out to the right flank on three occasions, though all three crosses came to nothing, two being overhit and one fielded by Joe Woolley. Nick McKoy in the middle of the defence had an early clearance to make, but for the most part the play was confined to midfield.

 

Hornchurch had little to offer at the other end, apart from a long range scuffed shot by Lewis Smith, which Glyn Garner gratefully accepted.

 

Bath took the lead on 18 minutes when Tambeson Eyong lost possession close to the half way line and the ball was played through to CHRIS ALLEN in the inside left position. He made ground and fired in a shot, which seemed to surprise Joe Woolley.

 

Within a minute Hornchurch were level. Sam Cutler started the move, switching the play out to the left, where Rimmel Daniel crossed the ball into the goalmouth, for Lewis Smith to touch back to WAYNE GRAY, who glided the ball into the net.

 

Play was again confined to midfield, though a free kick for the home side almost led to a goal when a mistimed header looped back onto the post.

 

Cutler hit a shot high over the bar at the other end, before Bath again went ahead when the defence failed to clear a cross from the right wing, and JOE BURNELL slotted home, to score his first goal for Bath City.

 

Michael Spencer reacted first to a free kick, and his shot was turned out for a corner, which Lewis Smith took, and then took a return pass but was quickly crowded out and any danger was cleared easily.

 

Close to half time a centre from Josh Low was deflected for a corner, and McKoy headed Arron Brown’s serving kick to safety.

 

The wind shifted at half time and now blew across the pitch, and Hornchurch had much more of the territorial play. Wayne Gray had a volley well saved by Glyn Garner, before Leon McKenzie replaced Lewis Smith.

 

Hornchurch had a chance to level when Eyong raced away and then slid the ball across to Spencer, whose finish was too hurried and the shot was sliced wide of the post.

 

McKoy was then booked for a mistimed tackle – a somewhat harsh decision – and from the free kick and unmarked Harry Hooman headed over the bar.

 

Rimmel Daniel had recovered well after being twice caught out in the opening minutes, and it was his long throw – not quite as long as Rickie Hayles’, but much more accurate – which found Cutler, whose first time shot cannoned off a defender.

 

Dan Ball came out of defence to fire in a good shot which Woolley saved well at the other end, before Hornchurch stepped up the pace when Cutler twice in quick succession sent over dangerous looking corner kicks, the second of which was well held by Garner under the bar.

 

Martin Tuohy replaced Simon Glover, but the third substitution came at perhaps the wrong time, as James Love came on for Eyong immediately before Bath took a free kick. And with the defence still re-organising, the well flighted ball into the area found SEAN CANHAM unmarked, and he wasted no time in placing the ball firmly into the net.

 

There was little Hornchurch could do in the time remaining and the home side comfortably played out the three minutes of stoppage time.

 

It seemed that Hornchurch was doomed to spending the evening in Bath when the coach could not get out of the car park, due to a badly positioned parked car in the road, and then it was another hour long crawl through the narrow streets of Somerset’s number one city before finally escaping.

[Eastside Urchin]

thought bath was in avon,if its still a county

[Urchins]

It was, until 1996 when the county of Avon was abolished.

[Dagger03]

Bath is in Somerset - the county was only called Avon from 1974 to 1996, when it reverted to its traditional name of Somerset.

 

 

The county of AVON came into formal existence on 1 April 1974 when the Local Government Act 1972 came into effect. The new county consisted of the areas of:

• The county boroughs of Bristol and Bath,
  
• Part of the Administrative County of Gloucestershire:
  
  • Kingswood Urban District, Mangotsfield Urban District
    
  • Warmley Rural District, most of Sodbury Rural District and most of Thornbury Rural District
    

  [*]Part of the Administrative County of Somerset:

  • Municipal Borough of Weston-super-Mare
    
  • Clevedon Urban District, Keynsham Urban District, Norton-Radstock Urban District, Portishead Urban District,
    
  • Bathavon Rural District, Long Ashton Rural District, part of Axbridge Rural District and part of Clutton Rural District.
    

The county was divided into six districts. Bristol and Bath had identical boundaries to the former county boroughs. In the north the urban districts of Kingswood and Mangotsfield formed a single District of Kingswood, with the rest of the areas transferred from Gloucestershire becoming Northavon. In the south, there were two districts, Woodspring, on the coast, and Wansdyke, in the interior.

To the north the county bordered Gloucestershire, to the east Wiltshire and to the south Somerset. In the west it had a coast on the Severn Estuary andBristol Channel.

The area of Avon was 520 square miles (1,347 km²) and its population in 1991 was 919,800. Cities and towns in Avon included (in approximate order of population) Bristol, Bath, Weston-super-Mare, Yate, Clevedon, Portishead, Midsomer Norton & Radstock, Bradley Stoke, Nailsea, Yatton, Keynsham,Kingswood, Thornbury, Filton and Patchway.

 

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[Eastside Urchin]

Cheers rob