Tuesday League Results

[Chris Clapham]

Camberley 1-1 Egham

Chessington 1-1 Merstham

Dorking 2-3 Reading

Sandhurst 2-3 Guildford

 

Hartley Wintney 0-0 Staines Lammas

[Ex EL_Gaffer]

Epsom 0 Bedfont Green 1 in league cup

[Rattled07]

Gutted this morning! Another season with no trophies and the final part played with no real direction other than to jostle for the upper midtable positions...

 

Bedfont Green deserved the win to be fair to them and I hope they go on and win it from here

[johnnojudo]

Not if Ash have any say in it.

We played Ashford Town (Middlesex) last night in the Aldershot Senior Cup and they played a first team squad due to their reserves having a cup semi tonight. Only change to their line up from their Saturday 6-0 win in the Ryman Prem game was that the subs started. We conceeded in the 86th minute and lost 2-1. A very good display from the lads. We go into the derby versus Cove on Saturday full of confidence and then Egham in the quarter final on Tuesday.

Hopefully we'll see Bedfont Green in the semi.

[Gussy]

Bedfont Green have signed some very good players it'll be good to avoid them till the final i think JJ

[johnnojudo]

The draw has already been done Gussy. Ash or Egham versus Bedfont Green in the semi and Merstham or Crescent Rovers versus Farnham in the other semi.

Id rather avoid Merstham till the final i think!!

[Krooner]

Merstham for the treble

[Gussy]

Didn't know Merstham were still in it after they beat us in the same comp i lost interest ... i reckon Merstham are going to take their eye off the league the Vase will be too distracting.

[Rattled07]

BG's new signings (many ex Wembley) are cup tied but they are still a tough side as they are drilled and work hard as well as having quality up front. They can be got at if last night is anything to go by but we just weren't at the races and kept giving the ball away in midfield...again!!

 

Even more gutted cos we knocked some good sides out in the previous rounds and then after seeing the draw we felt we had as good a chance as any to make the final

[johnnojudo]

I've just looked and you beat North Greenford then Camberley then Chessington + Hook. Thats a tough draw!! Did well to beat all those good sides. Shame you couldnt keep it going!

[Gussy]

Chin up Ratto try and finish as high in the league as you can now!

[Rattled07]

Starting this Saturday at home to the mighty Bookham - bring it on Teffers!!

[johnnojudo]

The league looks a bit like this in my opinion:

 

Winners - Merstham

 

2nd place fight - Between Guildford, Camberley, Cove, North Greenford, and Chessington.

 

6th place between Ash, Wembley, Bedfont Green, Horley, Chertsey, Epsom + Ewell

 

Relegation - Dorking and one other between Raynes Park, Bookham, Cobham, Sandhurst, Reading.

 

So the season is very much alive for most teams. Although i have to say that going for 6th was certainly not Ash United's pre season target!! But thats Football for ya!

 

 

[Gussy]

I can't understand how teams run away with it so often in this league, i been looking back at past league winners on mitoo and they've all run away with it so to speak!

[Krooner]

Always seems to happen Gussy with only 1 team going up. I think that it is usually the team that has the highest budget that manages to do it. Not saying that is it all the time but that does seem the way. I reckon next year it will be Chertsey or Chessington.

[NUMBER ONE]

i m not so sure Kroons look at a few teams with big budgets Egham, Chertsey, Cove, Guidford etccc some not really doing it and others in my opinion in false positions, other than merstham (who incidently have been together for a few years now) everybody has been beating everybody all season

[Krooner]

That is a fair point Mick but the team at the top usually has a fairly large budget. It is a good point that Merstham have been together for 3 years now and that certainly helps. Everyone said last year how good this league will be without Chipstead and this year Merstham have run away with it. Now we all say that it will be great next year without Merstham but I still reckon someone will run away with it. The league is very competitive and on their day most teams can beat everyone.

[Gussy]

To be honest i can't call it next year!!!

 

 

[NUMBER ONE]

i agree i think next year will be very tough, most teams will be more equipped to challenge,

I'm not sure that its all about money though i prefer to get people that want to play for me rather than the money and this year has been incredibly hard as i have had no budget, but its been a learning curb and i have learned so much wso hopefully things will improve next year

[johnnojudo]

This is prob a stupid question but how do you know these teams you have mentioned have big budgets??

 

And how much would you say for combined counties is a big budget??