Barwell (A) on Sat 20th Aug, KO 15:00

[Daedalus]

Southern League Premier Division -
Barwell (10th) v St. Albans City (12th)
Saturday 20th August 2011, KO 15:00

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Kirkby Road, Barwell, Leicestershire LE9 8FQ
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STATTO'S CORNER (written by Daedalus):

Barwell Quick Guide:
Club founded: 1992
Nickname: Kirkby Roaders
Club colours: Yellow and green
10 year record:

01-02	02-03	03-04	04-05	05-06	06-07	07-08	08-09	09-10	10-11
MidAl 8th	MidAl 12th	MidAl 18th	MidAl 13th	MidAl 9th	MidAl 6th	MidAl 10th	MidAl 2nd	Midal 3rd	NPLD1S 1st

Read more about Barwell's club history by clicking here.


Interesting links:

Barwell official website

Location Details

Details of away travel arrangements

A report of Barwell's last match, which was a 3-1 win at home to Banbury United

Barwell FC on Wikipedia

Pyramid Passions Ground Guide

Barwell FC Fans' Forum


Current Form (last 5 matches in the league):
Barwell FC - LW (home form - W)

St. Albans City - WL (away form - L)


Top league goalscorer(s):
Barwell FC - Luke Barlone scored a brace in mid-week against Banbury United at home, whilst Jamie Towers also hit the back of the net in that match.

St. Albans City - It was four different goalscorers for the Saints on Saturday in their opening game. Strikers Rob Haworth and Paul Furlong hit the back of the net, as well as tricky winger Sean Shields and composed central midfielder Sol Shields. No goals against Cambridge City in mid-week.


Latest Saints team news:

- James Bent is away and won't be back until after the Hemel Hempstead match.

- Paul Furlong missed the mid-week match but will be available on Saturday.

- Danny Hart has a week or so to go with his injury until he will be back in contention.

- Keep up with the new players in the SACFC squad in the Saints Chat 'City Squad Tracker' thread - saintschat.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=799 - please feel free to contribute to this thread if you have any information regarding our players this season!


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

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Quick Stats Guide (league matches only):

Coming back soon once we have some meaningful stats to analyse!

[Daedalus]

THE FINAL WORD - written by Saint (Jake Ellacott)

How did the Saints get on against Cambridge City?

The Saints fell to a heavy and rather sobering 4-0 defeat away at Cambridge City on Tuesday evening. Cambridge City are seen by many as one of the favourites for the league this coming season and so we all knew this was going to be a tough game. The manner of the defeat, however, will have given City a real wake up call and will have reminded them of how tough the Southern League will be, especially with a new side coming together for the first time this season.

The scoreline could have been much worse for the Saints if it wasn't for some wasteful finishing from the Lilywhites.

Cambridge were 3-0 up by half-time. The second half, at least, saw a better performance from the Saints, but they never looked like scoring and Cambridge City ended up as comfortable 4-0 winners.


What did David Howell have to say about it?

David Howell gave a calm and deep analysis of the 4-0 defeat at Cambridge City on Tuesday night in his post-match interview.

The manager said that he was very disappointed and that his players had failed to followed instructions

Howell felt that the players picked the wrong options, made poor decisions, and suggested that if it wasn't for Cambridge's profligacy, the Saints could have lost by more.

He summed it up as a cruel lesson, concluding that the team need to learn from our mistakes.

You can listen to his post-match interview on the SACFC.co.uk website by clicking this link - Howell Looks for Team to Bounce Back.


How did Barwell Town do in their last game?

The Kirkby Roaders came out 3-1 winners at home against Banbury on Tuesday. A brace from Luke Barlone, along with a solitary strike from Jamie Towers saw Barwell overcome an early Banbury goal and help them to their first win of the season.


Finally:

Will the Saints bounce back from Tuesday evening's defeat? Or will Barwell cause more misery for City? Get involved in the pre- and post-match discussion in the thread below.

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[Daedalus]

The City Archives - Coventry City, Pre Season Friendly 1995-96

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 week, as we have never played Barwell before, Brummie has given us a typed copy of a match report from pre-season friendly in 1995 against Coventry (as one of the nearest places to Barwell).

Pre Season friendly 1995-96

ST ALBANS v COVENTRY CITY

Big Ron Atkinson promised to return to Clarence Park after watching his Coventry City side canter to a 7-1 victory in Monday night’s hastily arranged friendly against St Albans City.

The battle of the Cities may have turned out to be a total mismatch on the pitch with City boss Allan Cockram resting key players for last night Guardian Insurance Cup clash with Worthing while Coventry’s colourful manager fielded all his big guns with highly talented Zimbabwean international Peter Ndlovu partnering £2 million striker Dion Dublin up front. But Atkinson was still impressed with the St Albans set up, in particular the Clarence Park pitch.

“We really enjoyed the match” Said Atkinson as he sipped pink champagne in the directors boardroom. ”We were crisp. Sharp and we moved the ball about and the players played with a good attitude and in a very entertaining way”.

“When we arrived and saw the pitch I thought to myself ’smashing’ and the lads really enjoying playing on it. I’ve got a lot of time for clubs like St Albans and they have been very hospitable to us. They have obviously got their own standards and they keep to them quite well and the ground and the pitch are a credit to them“.

Monday night‘s friendly was the second against FA Premier league opposition inside a month. Three weeks ago a 4,000 plus crowd saw Dennis Bergkamp’s first goal on English soil in an Arsenal shirt defeat the Saints after Bruce Rioch kept his promise to bring a full strength Arsenal side back to Clarence Park. Now Ron Atkinson has also given the same promise.

It was Atkinson’s right and man, Gordon Strachan, who was the star of the match of the Premier League team. Striker Peter Ndlovu scored a stunning first half hat trick but he was still overshadowed by Strachan. Despite being 38, the Sky Blues player/assistant manager showed that he was still a class act..

Strachan, a model professional, seemed to be everywhere and approached the game with the enthusiasm of a teenager.

It was Strachan who carved out the opening goal after a darting run which saw Andy Polston deflect the ball into his own net. The pace and trickery of Ndlovu threatened an avalanche of goals in the first half. After twice hitting the woodwork Ndlovu finally scored in the 28th minute. He grabbed his second four minutes later with a rasping shot. In the 37th minute he made it a hat trick with a sweetly struck drive.

With both sides making a string of substitutions the second half was a bit of an anti- climax . Scott Walters carried the loudest cheer of the night when he scored the St Albans City goal after 80 minutes. Strachan, Lamptey and Erskine Smart (own goal) completed the Coventry scoring.

Thanks, as always, go to Brummie for providing the report! For the next time, we'll have a past report from our many meetings with Hitchin Town!

[caretaker]

A long time ago (40 years!!) I actually played against Barwell when they were in the Leicestershire Senior League.

I was only 16 / 17 at the time and just making my way into senior football with Leicester City. My memory is that they were a very big physical side at that time drawing on a lot of players from the surrounding mining communities. I think I still have one or two bruises to show for my troubles

This will have obviously changed now, but I would still think this is going to be a tough fixture if our approach is slightly off.

[Deleted]

0-0 HT not a lot of finese out there but both keepers pulling off great saves to keep it scoreless

[Deleted]

1-0 sol shields 57mins

[Saint]

Goal: Saints 1-0 Barwell. Sol Shields, 57 mins.

[Saint]

FT: Saints 1-0 Barwell!

COYS!

[Daedalus]

Fantastic three points. Wonderful stuff!

Well done you Saints!

[Hatboy]

Great response to Tuesday nights stuffing

[Canary Saint]

Nice to see a clean sheet.

[northamptonsaint]

It wasn't pretty, but at least it was three points. Nice to see forwards that put it about, but the quality of some of the controlling, passing and clearances was dire. Fortunately, Barwell weren't much better and missed several good chances, especially towards the end. A great party atmosphere in the village with the carnival but it didn't find its way to the football ground.

[newton45]

If truth be told we were lucky to win that game, if it wasnt for the woeful finishing from Barwells attack we certainly would have been going home with a point / nothing! We were unlucky not to go into the half in the lead, two good saves prevented Howarth opening the scoring.

Sol Shields scored a scrappy goal but a goal is a goal and we created a couple of chances after that.

Cant complain though a wins a win and onto Tuesday!

[Deleted]

Post match interview available on the club site :-

www.sacfc.co.uk/index.php/news/-manager-interview/1634-howell-qwe-derserved-winq.html

Match report is on the Review site :-

www.stalbansreview.co.uk/sport/localsport/9207882.Sol_strike_boosts_gritty_Saints/

[Boomer]

This was the tough game that most Saints fans probably expected or should have done. A lot of teams will go to Barwell this season and come away pointless. Looking at last season, Barwell lost just 2 games at home out of 31 played.

northamptonsaint is right, it certainly wasn't pretty but it was a battling performance by the Saints and we just about deserved the three points. I didn't think Sol's goal was scrappy; the build up with their keeper spilling the ball may have been but Sol's finish from about 10 yards out was clinical and gave their keeper no chance. I thought Rob Haworth and David Ijaha were outstanding.

Looking forward to another set of Canaries on Tuesday night.

COYS

[Daedalus]

The goal at Barwell -

Nice finish by Sol!

[Hatboy]

No one behind the goal

[euclid]

I think there were a few of us behind the goal!

My first look at the new Saints on Saturday. Agree with most that we were fortunate to win but overall I was reasonably impressed with the performance. Rob Haworth was my MOM, but was also impressed with Sol Shields and David Ijaha. Plenty to be hopeful about for the future!