I've never spoken to anyone about why they were on the bench??? Especially not the new lads.
And i didn't want to run the team your right. I have absolutely no problems with the way smurf runs the team or his decisions. And i am not bitter about what has happened either, i have told smurf in person about my dissapointment from the other weekend, i felt that i had been asked to pick the teams in our friendlies before and tactics which i had happely done but then in the first game i wasn;t even told to my face i was on the bench. Again i don't mind fighting for a place or being on the bench but i did feel pushed out of the frame after pre-season. At half time and before the game i wasn't even asked if i wanted to add anything into the team talk. Which again is fair enough, thats smurfs decision. But i expected to at least of been given an apology for not getting 5 minutes or an explanation as to why i wasn't considered. Especially as last season other people had. I felt like i wasn't needed in the team and i have explained all of this to smurf. I had a week to think about it and calm down at which point i thought maybe if i was still wanted within the setup then i might have had a call but i didn't so i feel i have no choice but to leave. I came down on sunday to cheer the team on and i haven't spoken to any of the new lads about being a sub or anything else for that matter. I was annoyed that on sunday some of the more senior players ignored me and didn't even ackowledge i was there especially after last season and the build up to this one. I wish the team all the success this year but at no point have i ever tried to destabalise the team. Maybe people should ask Wayne what my opinion is on this if you think i want to take players away from the team. You'll find its quite the opposite.
Anyway rant is over. thanks.

Grundy i can see where this has come from. Myself and a couple of other people heard you telling a small group (Mainly the new lads) the reasons they were on the bench. I.E that its easy to drop them beacuse they wouldn't argue with the decision. My own oppinion on this is that it seemed you were a bit bitter/annoyed and were trying to put smurf down, which did annoy me. Whether this was the case or not im sure you'll let me know.

Out of curiosity, how did you "not feel part of the setup"? You said at the start of the season you didn't want to be the manager. You had been taking training every other week and picked the team while smurf was getting to know the new lads in the friendlys. How were you not part of it?

No one wants any bad blood especially seeing as its all going so well and im sure no one is feeling threatened by you being there or wishes you not to come and watch.

Ok - must have reached me wrong then. You never can tell these days...

Shane....What!?!?!?!?
I was there cheering on the team.
Ghenghis asked why i was leaving so i told him. that was all i said.
As for systematically poisoning the new players!??!?! when was i supposed to have done that???? If you had been there you would have got your story straight. I have not wanted to leave shefford but don't feel like i am a part of the setup so thats why i am going. simple as that. I have no desire to upset the balance of a team with so many friends in. In fact quite the opposite as i hope you all go on and win the league this season. But if people feel so threatened by me watching a game then i'll make sure i won't come again.

*cough...wanker...cough* !!

Don't worry about not making training Matt, after Dave, Wayne, Andy, Gareth, Ben, Macca and JT scored on Sunday and you didn't, doesn't look like there's much point you being there anyway :-)

I can't make training tonight - Hope it rains :o)

Grundy I'm sure you must check the blogger now and then to see if there's any mention of you - so maybe you could explain to us why you thought it was relevant to come down to the game on Sunday and attempt to systematically poison the minds of our new players while they were on the bench?

Not necessary mate. If you want to walk away from the club then that's one thing, but to come back and cause hassle, that's out of order.

I don't really understand why there seems to be such bad blood between you and the club and it's a shame, but please leave us to get on with our season because we want to enjoy our footy.

Cheers.

Matty you was close here are last weeks results:

Berkshire Arms 7 1 Meadway
Blue Ball 4 4 Q Associates
Paggies 2 0 Wagon And Horses
Shalbourne 2 5 Post Office Ressies

Cup Games

LMP 2 9 NST
The Swan 3 0 Bucklebury

And just for information on Kennet who we play in the cup this week here is their league result from last week.

Westwood 6 2 Kennet

That's cracking. So, shall we start Blogging more then? Sharing our football related thoughts with the world?

If we move to Henwick, and therefore start training slightly later in the day, I should be able to come along more. Apologies for last week, pathetic really.

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Where are these pics then Crabbeman? Why not email them to me in a format that I can 'adapt' them if I have some spare time...? :-)

That's what I like to see...


Looks like there'll be a few teams that we need to beat this season though. Stupid to say "no easy games" when you've just won 11-0 but you have to assume that the other decent teams will get similar results against them, so that makes the crunch games even more important, and goal difference a factor too.

So Meadway went from a 7-0 win to a 7-1 defeat. The way I see those results suggests that Berkshire Arms might be a good side and someone to be reckoned with, but that also we should be top! Bring them on.

Berkshire Arms 7 - 1 Meadway
Paggies Bar 2-1 Wagon & Horses
Blue Ball 4-4 Shalbourne
SHEFFORD 11-0 Coopers Arms
Post Office 5 - 2 Q Associates (I think it was Q Ass...)

Lmp played a cup game. Bucklebury?

I'm pretty sure they were the results, I read them yesterday, and my little brain struggles to remember!

Any news on the other results from Sunday? And is it the cup game against Blue Ball this week?

Training as usual on Thursday, try to get there for as close to 7pm as possible so we're not losing the light too soon. We'll see how it goes this week and then maybe make the switch to Henwick very soon as the evenings get darker.

Goal machine Dave Lewis must be looking forward to another 30 goal season then. Will have to see if we can put together a couple of decent cup runs - they always help releave any squad build up because you can chop the team around and "disobey the rules" a bit.

Smurf are you sending in a write up to the paper? I can do it if you want, but you'll need to send me a bit of a write up for me to get an idea of what to say happened. Otherwise goal machine Shane Bellamy might just be up for a hell of a review...

Nice one!....... although it would have been 15 had i been playing but nevermind you all tried your best I'm sure.......

Great result sunday lads sounds like a great performance by everyone. I am desperate to get back playing football but i decided to take the physio advise that i am seeing and leave it for two more weeks so i should be back a week on thurday. Just so you can all take this piss out of me while im not there (well i dont want to be forgotten) i have been chosen to model halifax new uniform!!!! luckily for me and them it is not a topless shoot as i would be in real trouble i dont fancy becoming that bloke from 40 year old virgin!!! only funny if you have seen the film. Good luck for sunday and i cant wait to get back playing again

Great team performance played some cracking football and scored some great goals to go with it