Leamington (a) on Sat 26th Nov, KO 15:00

[Daedalus]

Southern League Premier Division -
Leamington (4th) v St. Albans City (12th)
Saturday 26th November 2011, KO 15:00

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New Windmill Ground, Harbury Lane, Whitnash, Warwickshire CV33 9JR
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STATTO'S CORNER (written by Daedalus):

Leamington Quick Guide:
Club founded: 1891 (formed as Leamington Town)
Nickname: The Brakes
Club colours: Gold & Black
10 year record:

01-02	02-03	03-04	04-05	05-06	06-07	07-08	08-09	09-10	10-11
MCm1 2nd	MCmP 3rd	MCmP 2nd	MCmP 1st	MidAl 5th	MidAl 1st	SthM 2nd	SthM 1st	SthP 10th	SthP 5th

Read more about The Brakes' club history by clicking here.


Interesting links:

Leamington's official website

Directions to the ground can be found here.

Pyramid Passions Ground Guide

Leamington fans' forum

You can see Leamington's results so far this season by clicking here. Match reports are also available on that page.

Leamington's last outing saw them draw 1-1 away at Chesham United. See the front page of their site for brief details. The full report isn't currently available on their website.

At the time of writing, there have been no announcements regarding CITYLIVE coverage of this game. Regardless, we hope to have some updates here on the forum.

We'll add any other interesting links to this thread as they appear.


Current Form (last 5 matches in the league):
L:eamington - WLWWD (home form - WLDWW)

St. Albans City - LLWDL (away form - LDLLL)


Top league goalscorer(s):
Leamington - Forward, Jacob Blyth, has scored 7 league goals.

St. Albans City - The Saints have had 12 different goalscorers in the league so far this season. Sakho Bakare is currently leading the goalscoring charts for the Saints with 5 league goals.


Latest Saints team news:

- James Gray returns from suspension. Chippenham Town, on Tuesday, was the last match of his suspension so he will be available to play against Leamington this coming weekend.

- Paul Furlong will be available to return after his absence against Chippenham. Furlong is not able to play in mid-week matches and he is only able to play at the weekends.

- Mo Shariff went off during the first-half on Tuesday night complaining of a lower-back injury. He may well be doubtful for this match.

- We'll add any other team news here as it comes out nearer to the game.


Possible Saints starting XI (in a 4-4-2 formation):

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Quick Stats Guide (league matches only):

Leamington:
- The Brakes have the 5th best record in the league for goals conceded per game (1.00, having conceded 17 goals in 17 games)
- One loss in 8
- Scored in last 5 games
- 17 points out of the last 24


St. Albans City:
- The Saints have the worst record in the league for goals conceded per game (2.11, having conceded 38 goals in 18 games)
- The Saints had managed to score in each of the last 12 league games until they drew a blank against Chippenham Town on Tuesday night.
- Not won away for 7 games
- One win in 5
- 9 points out of the last 24

[Daedalus]

THE FINAL WORD - written by Saint (Jake Ellacott)


How did the Saints get on against Chippenham Town?

The Saints fell to a disappointing 4-0 defeat away at Chippenham Town on Tuesday evening.

With Chris O'Leary having returned to Wealdstone, and Paul Furlong not available, manager David Howell was forced to make two changes. He brought Rob Haworth and Barrie Matthews back into the side.

The hosts opened the scoring in the 13th minute, when Osman found himself in space and released a strong shot, which went past Jupp's right and into the back of the net.

Chippenham doubled their lead a short time later when Stearn hit a cross towards Jupp's goal, and it somehow managed to find its way into the back of the net.

City could have got back into the game, as efforts from Bakare and Haworth hit the woodwork after half-time. However, the home side put the result beyond any doubt in the 70th minute when Powell headed home a Stearn cross.

With 1 minute of normal time remaining, Powell scored the fourth goal with a long-range strike.


What did David Howell have to say about it?

Howell talked about the spark among the players recently and the positivity around Clarence Park in recent games. However, he felt that the team weren't positive enough coming into this game. The Saints boss said that he felt the players were lacking in commitment on Tuesday night and that was the reason for this poor result. He concluded that it 'just wasn't good enough'.

He mentioned that he will have to look at bringing in some new players over the coming weeks.

One interesting thing to come out of the interview was that Howell talked about O'Leary leaving the club, saying that O'Leary's heart was at Wealdstone and that the player felt he would be happier there.


How are Leamington getting on this season?

The Brakes find themsleves sitting in 4th place in the table, with an impressive 32 points from 17 games. Just 2 points behind league leaders AFC Totton.

In their last league match, Leamington drew 1-1 away at Chesham United. Jacob Blyth scored a 62nd minute leveller for the visitors.


Finally:

So will the Saints get back on track on Saturday? Or will the Brakes ensure that City's disappointing away form continues? Get involved in the pre- and post-match discussion in the thread below.

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[Daedalus]

The City Archives - Ware, 1974 (Part Two)[/u]

We have a new feature to place alongside our previews this season, as one of Saints Chat's regular posters, Brummie, delves into the history books to provide us with match reports from the past. This gives a chance to walk down memory lane, or learn a little about City's past, before the next match in the present!

This time, Brummie has given us a typed report of a cup match that took place in 1974 against Ware. This is 'Part Two' of the report, with the first report having sat alongside our Chippenham Town preview. Over to Brummie for the report!

MITHRAS CUP Second round 2nd leg

December 30th 1974

St Albans City v Ware

(1st leg score Ware 5 St Albans City 0)

Salute the super Saints of St Albans!. After crashing 5-0 to Ware in the first leg of the Mithras Cup, they replied in the best possible way by crushing the Athenian League side 9-3 in the second leg to win 9-8 on aggregate.

And what a match it was!. Manager Tommy Barnett adopted the old style
2-3-5 formation, and how it paid off!. Ware were overrun by as many as eight attackers as City hit five second half goals to force the tie into extra time.

But the scoreline doesn’t tell all of the drama. St Albans got off to a great start with a goal in seven minutes but then their hopes seemed to have been dashed when Ware scored from the penalty spot.

So the second half started with an aggregate score of 6-1to Ware and although City started to find the back of the net with regularity it wasn‘t until injury time that Peter Robinson popped up with the all important equaliser.

Two goals in the first period of extra time seemed to have settled Ware once and for all but they pulled another back in the second period only for Ray Aggio to score the ninth immediately afterwards.

Another penalty gave Ware the ghost of a chance but there was barely time to restart the game before the final whistle gave City a famous and memorable victory.

And it wasn‘t as if Ware were a bad side. Their direct running against City‘s three man defence always threatened goals but sheer bad luck and fine goalkeeping by Brian Godfrey ensured that City were able to keep up the pressure at the other end.

On a night when every City player was a superman, its hardly possible or even fair to name a man of the match but special mention must be made of Kenny Bevens whose wing mastery tormented Ware from start to finish. Phil Wood, who drove City on from midfield and Dave Bain who was robbed of City’s first hat-trick in three years by a matter of inches. Matt Hughes whacking home the eighth goal as Bain’s shot came to a stop just before the line.

Afterwards Tommy Barnett slumped against the wall i9n the dressing room and gasped. “I can’t believe it. I’m still in Mother Goose land. It was obvious we had to do something to pull those goals back and the old W-formation looked the only way. I never dreamed it would work so well“.

The Timetable of goals.
Seven minutes. (1-0, 1-5 on aggregate). Alan Ayling, making his senior debut, chips over Ware’s slow advancing defence and DAVE BAIN laps unmarked to head home.

Thirty eight minutes (1-1, 1-6 on aggregate). Ware equalise through GARY HAYES penalty after Boob Murphy brings him down.

Forty Seven Minutes (2-1, 2-6 on aggregate) Murphy makes amends by slipping through a static defence to control Matt Hughes’ free kick and knock it across the goal mouth for BAIN to hammer home.

Sixty two minutes (3-1, 3-6 on aggregate) Peter Robinson smacks Ray Aggio’s pass against a post and the rebounded ends up in the net off Tony LOCK’S ankle.

Seventy minutes (4-1, 6-4 on aggregate) Ware stand and wait for a handball decision against Phil Wood in their own penalty area Alan AYLING doesn‘t and hammers in number four.

Seventy five minutes (5-1, 5-6 on aggregate) Dave Abbey punches the ball away under pressure and Phil WALLER heads firmly back into the net.

Ninety minutes (6-1, 6-6 on aggregate) With City’s hearts in their boots Peter Robinson crosses from the right and Bain’s volley smacks against the crossbar. ROBINSON quickly runs in to loop a header into the top corner of the net.

One hundred minutes (7-1, 7-6 on aggregate) Phil WOOD puts City ahead on aggregate for the first time by hitting a diagonal pass to Ken Beaven and races in to meet the low cross with a diving header at the near post.

One hundred and two minutes (8-1, 8-6 on aggregate) HUGHES dashes in to finish off after Bain’s second attempt at scoring from Hughes’ low cross stops just before the line.

One hundred and four minutes Aggio taps the ball into an empty net after great work by Beven but the goal is ruled out for offside.

One hundred on twelve minutes (8-2, 8-7 on aggregate) Hayes lays off a pass for Martin DAWES to sweep home a shot from the right.

One hundred and fourteen minutes (9-2, 9-7 on aggregate) AGGIO slams a sweeping cross field pass from substitute Colin Bonner for what proves to be the winning goal.

One hundred and twenty minutes (9-3, 9-8 on aggregate) Hughes pushes HAYES off the ball giving away a penalty and is scored by the same player.

TEAM. Brian Godfrey, Tony Lock. Matt Hughes, Phil Wood, Bob Murphy, Alan Ayling, Peter Robinson, Ray Aggio, Phil Waller, Dave Bain, Kenny Beven. Subs Colin Bonner (for Waller), Dave Clark (for Bain)

Thanks, as always, go to Brummie for delving into the City Archives to provide us with an interesting read alongside our usual match previews!

[Boomer]

I doubt the manager will start with Bakare and Furlong together up front. After Tuesday night, Walker should definitely start, either wide left with Shields or Hart wide right (can't say I am bothered which) or up front if Shariff isn't available.

Let's hope we see two or three new faces to replace those who have gone. Preferably a centre back, a defensive midfielder and a striker.

[webbo]

Just a suggestion but what about "On this day in History"...

Anyway history is not on our side as we have lost 6 of the 9 games we have played away on this day...

Venue Matches W D L Goals Plus / Minus
H 5 3 1 1 18 - 12 +6
A 9 3 0 6 16 - 16 +0
N 0 0 0 0 0 - 0 +0

26.11.2005 FA Trophy 3rd QF Heybridge Swifts St Albans City 253 0 - 1
26.11.1996 Herts Senior Cup 2nd Rd St Albans City Hertford Town 107 6 - 5
26.11.1994 FA Trophy 3rd QF St Albans City Purfleet 4 - 3
26.11.1988 Vauxhall Premier League Slough Town St Albans City 496 4 - 3
26.11.1985 League Cup 2nd Rd Lewes St Albans City 2 - 1
26.11.1983 Isthmian League 2 Rainham Town St Albans City 0 - 4
26.11.1977 Isthmian League 1 Wokingham Town St Albans City 4 - 3
26.11.1974 PML Boreham Wood St Albans City 1 - 0
26.11.1966 Isthmian League St Albans City Walthamstow Ave 605 0 - 0
26.11.1955 Isthmian League St Albans City Wimbledon 3 - 4
26.11.1949 Isthmian League Corinthian Casuals St Albans City 3 - 2
26.11.1938 Amateur Cup 3rd QF(r) St Albans City Horsham 5 - 0
26.11.1932 Isthmian League Tufnell Park St Albans City 2 - 1
26.11.1921 Athenian League Luton Clarence St Albans City 0 - 1

[Daedalus]

Nov 25, 2011 16:44:37 GMT Boomer said:

I doubt the manager will start with Bakare and Furlong together up front.

You are probably right Boomer. Thinking about it, I'm not sure how well they would complement each other.

I hope Shariff might be available. Otherwise Walker is a good shout.

Let's hope we see two or three new faces to replace those who have gone. Preferably a centre back, a defensive midfielder and a striker.

Indeed.

[pauline]

Hi Saints fans, we are looking forward to welcoming you all to our ground tomorrow.
The picture you have is out of date and that is now a terraced stand, there are no seats there. There are two small seated stands on opposite sides of the pitch, one level with the halfway line known as the 'sheepside' stand and the other near the end of the pitch on the opposite side. As you can see, the 'Harbury Lane End' stand is covered, the 'North Bank' end, although terraced, is not. Bring your winter coats/hats/gloves - it is a cold ground, particularly if it is windy.
We have:-
a club shop,
programme shop
Food outlet (Berties) - Burgers/hot dogs/chips/pies/curry sauce etc. plus tea.
Sweet shop which also sells Tea/Coffee/Hot Chocolate/Soup.
There is a licenced bar in the clubhouse and we have our own bottled beer - Brakes Fluid (brewed and bottled by a local brewery)

Pubs nearer station within 5 mins walk- Jug & Jester (Wetherspoons but a decent one), TJs (just down the same street and favoured by most Brakes fans), Exchange - nearest to station , Avenue (ok). Lunch & pint at most of these available. Many more pubs up in town.

Buses go from Parish Church (next to Jug & Jester) at 12.44, 13.44, 14.44 (latter not recommended), 15 mins to ground. £3.something return. Taxi about £6-8 from station, 4 sharing not too bad. Bus back from ground to town at 1734. Dark spot in the verge, but there is a bus stop!

The town in general is very nice, as St Albans is, although it's very different. I recommend getting here a bit earlier and taking a stroll up into town. Bus (65 or 66) goes all the way down the Parade (main street) if you work it out.

Regards the entry prices, the only reduction is Student 'Special Offer' - Half price off the normal student entry price of £6 for this match..making it a very affordable £3 on production of a valid Student ID card. We have a large student population thanks to Warwick University and are trying to attract more of them to the ground on matchdays.

Have a pleasant safe journey up but please leave the 3 points behind when you leave

[Daedalus]

Nov 25, 2011 17:10:59 GMT webbo said:

Just a suggestion but what about "On this day in History"...

Anyway history is not on our side as we have lost 6 of the 9 games we have played away on this day...

Venue Matches W D L Goals Plus / Minus
H 5 3 1 1 18 - 12 +6
A 9 3 0 6 16 - 16 +0
N 0 0 0 0 0 - 0 +0

26.11.2005 FA Trophy 3rd QF Heybridge Swifts St Albans City 253 0 - 1
26.11.1996 Herts Senior Cup 2nd Rd St Albans City Hertford Town 107 6 - 5
26.11.1994 FA Trophy 3rd QF St Albans City Purfleet 4 - 3
26.11.1988 Vauxhall Premier League Slough Town St Albans City 496 4 - 3
26.11.1985 League Cup 2nd Rd Lewes St Albans City 2 - 1
26.11.1983 Isthmian League 2 Rainham Town St Albans City 0 - 4
26.11.1977 Isthmian League 1 Wokingham Town St Albans City 4 - 3
26.11.1974 PML Boreham Wood St Albans City 1 - 0
26.11.1966 Isthmian League St Albans City Walthamstow Ave 605 0 - 0
26.11.1955 Isthmian League St Albans City Wimbledon 3 - 4
26.11.1949 Isthmian League Corinthian Casuals St Albans City 3 - 2
26.11.1938 Amateur Cup 3rd QF(r) St Albans City Horsham 5 - 0
26.11.1932 Isthmian League Tufnell Park St Albans City 2 - 1
26.11.1921 Athenian League Luton Clarence St Albans City 0 - 1

Nice suggestion Webbo.

Feel free to post it up if you want. Otherwise, I can always link to the page on the official site. No images allowed -http://i811.photobucket.com/albums/zz40/Crouchaldinho_SACFC/thup.gif

[webbo]

Nov 25, 2011 17:29:32 GMT pauline said:

.. but please leave the 3 points behind when you leave

I wouldn't worry too much on that front.

[webbo]

Oh btw the ressies are at home tomorrow in the Cup. Bar open etc. etc. plus showing Arsenal v Fulham after the game.

[Daedalus]

Today's team:

Jupp; Harriman, Moran, Jinadu, Scott (from MWY); Shields, Gray, Ijaha, Watts; Furlong, Walker.

On the bench - Bakare, Lansiquot, Haworth, Taylor (MWY), Yorke.

Most likely 4-4-2 with Gray as holding midfielder.

[Daedalus]

Two MWY players.

The other new name is this guy - www.northwoodfc.com/profiles/profile-lansiquotaaron.html

[brummie]

Could have gone today but I have the flu. (Sniff sniff)

[brummie]

0-0 H T

[panshanger]

Wots happened to herts ad live coverage? Where do loan players come from?

[Daedalus]

HT 0-0.

The Saints are playing reasonably well and have even shaded the first-half, though there haven't been many chances for either side.

Jupp made a magnificent save early on from a brilliantly taken direct free-kick by Leamington which looked like it would be a certain goal.

[Daedalus]

Nov 26, 2011 15:59:01 GMT panshanger said:

Wots happened to herts ad live coverage?

I'm not sure.

They haven't even been doing their pre-match articles recently.

Where do loan players come from?

In the squad today, there is just Harriman who is on loan and he is from QPR.

Scott and Taylor come from the youth side.

Lansiquot is a new signing, I believe. See the player profile I posted above.

[Daedalus]

Here are the MWY profiles on the SACFC.co.uk website - www.sacfc.co.uk/index.php/the-teams/midweek-youth-gg/player-profiles.html

The two players are:
Myles Scott - Pacey no-nonsense fullback or centreback, previously with MK Dons. Made first team debut against Broxbourne Borough this season.

Matt Taylor - Central/holding midfielder, won County Cups with City Youth and Harvesters, played for Boreham Wood last season. Herts County Schools U18 and AFA Rep.

[Deleted]

Reserves 3 up

[Daedalus]

Walker went down in the box on 75 mins. Penalty shout for the Saints turned down.

[Daedalus]

Leamington 1 Saints 0

Leamington's goal was a pen.

[Daedalus]

Saints down to 10 men. Leamington have also had a man sent off.

Moran was sent off for the Saints.

[brummie]

Game finished yet??

[Daedalus]

FT Leamington 1 Saints 0.

The Saints were really unlucky and perhaps even the better side.

Leamington now go top but didn't really look like a top of the table team.

The referee also made some questionable decisions.

Saints fans will have every reason to feel very disappointed not to have taken something from the game.

[Daedalus]

Talking with a couple of Saints fans at the match, I found that they both said that the Saints were basically 'robbed' today.

Some poor decisions from the referee and also just some plain bad luck.

City really ought to have come away with a point or all three.

[minty]

Glad i've got a hangover which was deciding factor in not going today. Saints away day hangovers continue as well.

[Daedalus]

I'm told that it was a much improved performance today.

A great performance by James Gray and a brilliant league debut for youth player Myles Scott at left-back.

Youth player, Matt Taylor, also came on late as a sub to make his debut.

Good to see the MWY players getting a chance in the first-team.

[Hatboy]

Bashley Oliver 26, Stokoe 43 Whitley 90 3 - 3 Bedford Town Hall 34, Roberts 79p Thorne 80 238

Cambridge City Yamfam 35 1 - 2 Evesham United Quaynor 56p, Mackey 76p 306

Cirencester Town 0 - 0 Hemel Hempstead Town 101

Frome Town 0 - 1 Chesham United Thomas 49 206

Hitchin Town 0 - 0 Barwell 340

Leamington Blyth 80p 1 - 0 St. Albans City 511

Redditch United 0 - 1 Arlesey Town Dillon 74p 225

[Daedalus]

Bashley 3 - 3 Bedford Town

Cambridge City 1 - 2 Evesham United

Cirencester Town 0 - 0 Hemel Hempstead Town

Frome Town 0 - 1 Chesham United

Hitchin Town 0 - 0 Barwell

Leamington 1 - 0 St. Albans City

Redditch United 0 - 1 Arlesey Town

Thought I would just put the scores up again in a slightly easier to read way. Hope you don't mind Hatboy.

[Daedalus]

The league table - www.southern-football-league.co.uk/league-tables/premier.asp?section=league-tables

Leamington go top.

Saints stay in 12th.