East Thurrock Utd on Sat 1st Oct, KO 15:00

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FA Cup Second Qualifying Round -
East Thurrock United v St. Albans City
Saturday 1st October 2011, KO 15:00

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Rookery Hill, Corringham, Essex SS17 9LB
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STATTO'S CORNER (written by Daedalus):

East Thurrock Utd Quick Guide:
Club founded: 1969
Nickname: Rocks
Club colours: Amber/Black/Black
10 year record:

01-02	02-03	03-04	04-05	05-06	06-07	07-08	08-09	09-10	10-11
Isth2 8th	Isth1N 17th	Isth1N 12th	SthE 2nd	IsthP 12th	IsthP 16th	IsthP 20th	Isth1N 2nd	Isth1N 5th	Isth1N 1st

Read more about East Thurrock United's club history by clicking here.


Interesting links:

Official website of the Rocks

Directions to the ground can be found here.

The Rocks' page on Wikipedia

A report of the Rocks' last league match, which was a 1-3 home defeat against Lowestoft Town, can be found by clicking here

This link is a report of East Thurrock United's FA Cup first round qualifying match against Bedford Town, which they won 1-0.

Pyramid Passions Ground Guide

Details of away travel for Saints fans

Ryman League club stats page for East Thurrock


Current Form (last 5 matches in the league):
East Thurrock United - LWDLL (home form - DWWLL)

St. Albans City - WLWLL (away form - LWLLL)


Latest Saints team news:

- Jack Pattison suspension kicks in on Saturday and he will therefore miss this FA Cup tie.

- According to Owsy's Twitter, strikers Rob Haworth and Paul Furlong are both doubtful for this weekend's FA Cup match.

- Diminutive forward, Ben Seymour-Shove, made his debut last weekend after the 17-year-old joined from Peterborough United. He may well get a start in this FA Cup tie.


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

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Quick Stats Guide (league matches only):

East Thurrock United:
- Lost their last 2 matches at home in the league
- Scored in their last 5 matches (including the FA Cup tie versus Bedford Town)
- 8 points from a possible 27 in the league so far this season

St. Albans City:
- Scored in the last 5 matches
- 10 points out of the last 24

[Daedalus]

THE FINAL WORD - written by Saint (Jake Ellacott)


How did the Saints get on against Stourbridge?

The Saints slumped to 2-1 defeat away at 3rd placed side Stourbridge last Saturday.

City opened the scoring with just 10 minutes gone on the clock, when Rob Haworth headed home from a Barrie Matthews corner.

The rest of the first half lacked much goal mouth action. However, Stourbridge ended the half strongly and almost made the Saints pay. City managed to hold on until the interval.

After the break, the Glassboys had most of the play and got themselves on equal terms in the 62nd minute when Rowe stabbed home.

Six minutes later, it was 2-1 to Stourbridge when Rowe grabbed his second of the game. The Saints failed to threaten a come back, and the Midlands' side saw out the game rather easily.


What does David Howell say about the FA cup tie on Saturday?

Howell has said that if City want to win the upcoming FA Cup tie, they will need to match the passion and commitment shown from their opponents.

He stated that these one off matches are all about who wants it more, and the team that does will be the one that comes out with the victory and a passage through to the next round.

Howell was speaking to the St Albans & Harpenden Review. You can read this interview by clicking here.


How did East Thurrock do in their last game?

The Rocks lost 3-1 at home to Ryman Premier League leaders Lowestoft Town on Tuesday evening. Despite opening the scoring with just 3 minutes gone, East Thurrock were soon pegged back, and the gulf in class between the two sides started to show. The result left the Rocks in 17th place, with 8 points from 9 games.

In the last round of the Cup, the Rocks beat Southern Premier League side Bedford Town 1-0 at Rookery Hill, courtesy of a Petrit Elbi header. A big warning to the Saints that they will need to be at their best on Saturday to get a result in this cup tie.


Finally:

Will the Rocks be broken down by the Saints? Or will the home side end City's FA Cup run for another season? Get involved in the pre- and post-match discussion in thread below.

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[Daedalus]

The City Archives - A Special Edition![/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!

As we have never played East Thurrock United, Brummie has given us something a little different which will be of major interest to all Saints fans. He has reproduced two notices as they appeared in the Herts Ad regarding the foundation of the first St. Albans club in 1881 and the present one in 1908. Over to Brummie for the details!

I thought I would reproduce the very first item that appeared in the Herts Advertiser with relation to the first club that bore the St Albans name. It appeared on September 14th 1881

“A meeting will be held on Wednesday evening next at eight o’ clock at the Crystal Palace Inn, London Road. The meeting will take into consideration the proposed formation of a football club for the city.. All those interested in the pastime are invited to attend”.
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Within a month the very first official game was arranged. It was against a team from Hemel Hempstead. This was reported in the Herts Advertiser edition of October 15th 1881.

“The first football match of the season of the St Albans club was played on Saturday afternoon in drenching rain on their ground in Hatfield Road kindly lent by Mr J Reynolds. The local team competed with the Hemel Hempstead club and, owing to the want of sufficient practise and to most of the members being new to the game, the former club were defeated by four goals to nothing. The play of Winter, the visitors captain, being most noticeable. T L Brash officiated as captain to the local team. The following were the sides.
St Albans. J R Ball, G Brown, T Harris, F J Preece, A Webdale, H C Webdale,(forwards) F Gentle, Herbert Slade,(halfbacks) L Sell and T L Brash (backs) and R Cook (goals)
Hemel Hempstead F St J Badnock, Roget, Winter, Puddifoot, Clarke and Woodman (forwards) Burrage, Balderson (half backs) Hancock and Collins (backs) and Bethorn (goal)
Mr W Masters officiated as umpire. The next match will be with Luton Excelsior to-day (Saturday) at 3 o’clock on the same ground, when, in all probability, there will be better play than shown a week ago.”
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Let’s go forward in time to April 1908 when the present club was formed. A meeting was held at the Queens Hotel in Chequer Street. Here’s how the Herts Advertiser reported it.

“INAUGRAL MEETING”

“The newly formed St Albans City Football Club set its house in order on Wednesday evening when a meeting was held at the Queens Hotel, there being a fairly good attendance.

Mr G W Simmons was voted to the chair and he retraced the circumstances which had led to the formation of the club. He said that a meeting was arranged to take to form an F A club to be called St Albans City. On the previous Monday however, a meeting was called to form a St Albans City AFA Club and it therefore became necessary for those intending to form the FA club to attend the AFA meeting and carry resolutions that a City FA club should be formed to affiliate with the FA. They would remember that those resolutions were carried and the meeting that evening was to perfect the formation arrangements.

A letter was read from the Town Clerk agreeing to let the new Club have the use of Clarence Park on the condition that the Corporation should take one-fourth of the “gate” and one-half of the stand receipts. That the club should pay £4 4s for the use of the dressing rooms etc and that four Saturdays should be reserved for the Old Albanians.

Mr R W Fox, secretary, who read the letter, said he ad extended an invitation to Councillor Horace Slade to attend that meeting but that gentleman, in view of his position on the Clarence Park Committee declined to take any part in the management of any club using the Park. An apology was also received from Mr F Gladden.

The Chairman said that Mr Cliff and Mr Lindley, on behalf of the Old Albanians, had asked him whether the new club could set aside more Saturdays for the Old Albanians. He promise he would lay the matter before the next meeting.

Replying to a question as to how the Club would be affected by giving up a certain number of Saturdays if a reserve team were run, the Chairman replied it would leave five Saturdays for a reserve team. If they could meet the wishes of the Old Albanians without prejudicing the chances of success of the new Club he would be very pleased.

At a later stage of the meeting, it was decided that two teams would be run.

Mr Simmons stated that he had done all he could to bring in the AFA people. He had, however met with no success.

Proceeding with the election of officers the Chairman suggested the Mayor should, for the time being, be president, this was unanimously agreed to. For vice president, a number of names were suggested, but it was decided to leave the election to the committee.

Mr R W Fox was unanimously elected as Hon treasurer and secretary. In his reply Mr Fox said that he was secretary of a football club at 14 years of age which had finished their fixtures and paid their way.

Mr Anderson was appointed assistant secretary.

It was decided to run two teams, the first entering for the Association Cup, the Association Amateur Cup, the Herts Senior Cup, the Herts Charity Cup and the Herts County League. The second team will enter Herts Junior Cup. The Bingham-Cox cup and the Mid Herts League Division 1. The Chairman mentioned that there was every prospect of a strong County League next year, as Redbourn and Harpenden were probably declaring as senior clubs.

It was decided that the club colours should be blue and gold.

The Queen’s Hotel was selected as the Club headquarters. Mr Craddy, the tenant, promised to do all he could to help the new club.

Mr Stanley, on behalf of the old Abbey club, offered goal posts and nets to the new club which the Chairman notably acknowledged.

It was decided to nominate Mr R W Fox for a seat on the Herts F A Council.

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

[Aries]

We've played East Thurrock before in a preseason friendly about 10 years ago.

I can't remember the result.

[riddickthesaint]

GOAL: EAST THURROCK UNITED 1-0 St Albans City - Kris Newby

[Daedalus]

Saints 1-0 down.

[Daedalus]

Sorry Riddick, didn't see that you had already posted the score.

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1-1!

[Daedalus]

1-1 Jinadu! COYS!

[riddickthesaint]

Hes got to be close to being top scorer

[Daedalus]

Team today:

Jupp, Dedman, Moran, Jinadu, Ralph, Sean Shields, Matthews, Ijaha, Watts, Haworth and Walker.

[Daedalus]

I take it that City Live is down today? The link I have is stuck on Stourbridge.

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Water break.

[riddickthesaint]

2-1 Barrie Matthews penalty

[Daedalus]

2-1. Matthews scores a pen.

Number 8 is Matthews, not Magwood as I typed above.

[Daedalus]

3-1 to the Saints! Haworth! \o/

[riddickthesaint]

HALF TIME 3-2 saints

[Canary Saint]

So far so good - though it sounds as if the defence is still a bit iffy.



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[Deleted]

Their 2nd was very sloppy

[Daedalus]

3-3 now.

[riddickthesaint]

3-3 Kye Ruel

[riddickthesaint]

3-3 FT

[Saint]

Replay at CP on Tuesday then?

[Daedalus]

Yes Saint, looks like it!

Spoke to someone at the match today and they said that the Saints really ought to have won it this afternoon. City were 3-1 up and cruising at one point.

The rest of verdict was not good. The Saints can't seem to close games out and get the result. Also City can't seem to keep defensive errors out of their game.

East Thurrock stuck together and played as a team. The Saints, however... well the less said, the better, apparently. Lack of leadership on the pitch seems perhaps to be an issue.

Jerome Walker was MoM for the Saints in the opinion of my friend at the match.

Let's hope Howell gets it right for the replay!

[brummie]

Sept 30, 2011 12:53:10 GMT Aries said:

We've played East Thurrock before in a preseason friendly about 10 years ago.

I can't remember the result.

Sorry Aries I forgot about that one. Don't think I have the report anyway. Never mind. I thought I would put a couple of bits of St Albans club history on instead. Previous club and the present club.

Had we played Bedford Town on Tuesday I would have copied the match report of our historic 5-4 win against them. I'll save that one for the rearranged match.

[Hatboy]

Yeah like Lowestoft we went 1 down and then went 3-1 up but unlike them didn't close it out and let them come back to 3-3, i was told even at 3-3 we had numerous chances to win the game let's hope we can do the job back at Home.


Attendance anybody ?


P.s were we waiting to see if there was going to be a replay before releasing the new fixtures poster ?

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Finished the stronger over the last twenty mins,but I thought the defending was at times
shambolic, liked the left back but the Frank Bruno impersonator at centre half worries me,with his size he should be dominating the aerial battles,but he hardly won a header.Hopeful we should have enough firepower in the replay.

[Daedalus]

www.stalbansreview.co.uk/sport/9283213.City_progress_slowed_by_the_Rocks/?ref=rss

Tuesday’s replay at Clarence Park has a 7.45pm kick off and City’s scheduled league match for that night at Bedford Town – the side East Thurrock defeated in the previous Round of the FA Cup – will now be rearranged.

[Daedalus]

Oct 1, 2011 16:44:54 GMT Hatboy said:

Attendance anybody ?

181 apparently.

P.s were we waiting to see if there was going to be a replay before releasing the new fixtures poster ?

Not sure where the new posters are. I'll try to ask someone 'in the know' and get back to you.

[EFMTFTV]

Probably won't do the new posters until we know the cup draw

I was just looking at my fixture diary and the FA Cup and FA Trophy are played in alternate weeks for virtually every week until mid-December
In fact if we were to make the FA Cup 2nd Round and FA trophy 1st Round we'd only play this Saturdays gane v Arlsley and the Brackley game in November on Saturdays