Hi All,

Apologies but that last post wasn't from me - dunno who wrote it but I need to sort the blog out for a little while to make sure it can't happen again... Not the sort of place for things like that to be discussed in detail.

Sorry Matt I deleted your response as well so you can repeat the rest of it if you like.

If you can hold off posting for a couple of days I'll see if I can track what happened.

Cheers,

Shane (actual Shane)

I wont be training this week, I've blagged myself a ticket to see Arsenal vs West Ham. I love the fact that the eight years of success have coincided with my eight years on the season ticket waiting list, and the year I'm going to get one is the year in which we are going to be shit.

Do you know, Colchester are 1000/1 for the F.A. Cup?! Surely thats worth a quid...

Here's an interesting little article for you...

Great result today boys, the unbeaten run starts here...

Sorry guys - I know my attendance at training has been shoddy at best. I am trying my hardest to work more sensible hours but it's just not happening at the moment. As the evenings get a bit lighter we can start to maybe consider going back outside again and doing some 'actual' training cos otherwise we're running the risk of being caught up in another league restructure and finding ourselves in the bottom div again. Don't make me go back there.

Not that accurate Mr Sills,the penguin missed useless out from in front of cu*t

These Penguins can be very rude at times. One called me a cu*t yesterday, so I guess at least they're accurate.

Away to Chav Friend at Brimpton again.

Have we got a game this week?

Charming!!

A message from our Penguin friends...

http://www.paperboy.nl/index.cfm?PID=02AD1EB8-06F3-D9B6-1523498404902A57

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TRAINING !!

Tonight - 8.30pm - Park House School.

We need more than last weeks 'five' - anymore weeks where the number of people doesn't cover the cost of hiring the hall and unfortunately it'll have to be cancelled.

...and as Shane said, we need need all the fitness we can get at the moment!

Well I did have a think through the squad, wondering whether to put "our defence" or "our midfield" and I figured that more midfielders come to training/come on the blogger/are closer to me whenever I'm on the pitch, so "our defence" it was.

I actually thought our defence played quite well on Sunday - we've never been the best in the air and they got two goals through that route which is just a shame, nobody really to blame for any of their goals and other than that we kept them down to very few chances.

The best bit was when we went 3 at the back and they really didn't get much of a look in for those last 20 minutes, now Smurf knows you don't need 4 of you back there should make selection a little easier... ;-)

Who is this sillsy person? he keeps ranting on about league 1....oh well.
Thanks for your motivational techniques Shane, by calling our entire defence 'the average by-stander' I'm sure it will give us all confidence in the up coming games and inspire us on to better things....sheer genius!

By the way, has everyone seen the League One table this weekend...

Was it windy?

Yeah it's no shame losing 3-2 to the top team. Just a shame that the top team really aren't that convincing - I reckon if our start of the season had been only slightly different that we'd be up there competing and that makes it a lot easier when you're 3-1 down to motivate yourself to get back into it.

But if we're losing by one goal to them (and being damn unlucky not to have given them a real turning over - imagine of those first few chances we'd had had all gone in, they'd have been blown apart) then we don't really need to fear anyone else in the league, we just need to find that motivation during the 90 minutes, especially if we go behind, we seem to drop our heads very easily at the moment.

And Miller doesn't need to be scared for his place, he showed a few touches of brilliance in the first half and was just bizarrely unlucky not to score twice in the first 45 minutes. I came on, got knackered running over to the ref to tell him my name, got caught offside twice, fell over for a penalty (not fair to call it a dive, even I was laughing on the way down) then tried to get in the way of a Dave Lewis shot, then hassled a defender with my last breaths and as the ball spilled out I had no energy to run with it so had a dig and my god what a dig!

Dunno how it looked to the average by-stander (our defence) :-) but I kind of caught it right and it looped up and curled in, dipping snugly under the bar. A bit further to the right it would have looked better, proper top corner job, but I was happy enough. Nice to make their keeper look stupid cos he was a gobby bastard.

Unlucky Yesterday lads. I was tucked up in bed hoping you could notch a win. Unfortunately not with anyone!!!! Should be back this week now i have recovered from Man-Flu. Shane with a sreamer or was it really just another mishit cross!!!!! Miller's gotta be worried about his place now!!!!! PLEASE SMURF!!!!! Anyway shame you could'nt quite find the ammunition, better make sure we win next weekend then really just to get us back into the winning habit.

Unlucky yesterday boys, only one goal in it (again) and I think it'd be fair to say that if the result had been the other way around no one could have complained. We were dead unlucky in that first 25 minutes not to be 3 goals up but then from where I was stood it seemed like fitness was the main culprit. We got pegged back and didn't really seem to have the motivation to fight back with much conviction - if you think about all the chances we had in the first half and then think of the lack of chances in the second half, that says it all.

That said, we played some good stuff and tore them apart in the first half so it's nothing ot be ashamed of - just no points to show for all the good work.

I'll talk you through my goal once I've stopped telling all my colleagues and clients about it.

http://www.dropitlikeitshoff.com/

Check it out before Friday...

Sunday we are away to Hampstead Norreys at Brimpton