Magpies 1 Hendon 4 SLPS 04.12.21 [Match report added]

Not great today, basically the same team that did very well against Gosport on Wednesday, I see naughtypoole on Twitter blaming the management for lack of coaching etc AGAIN, I don’t know but I’m guessing this is Gemma who was saying how well the same team and management did on Wednesday.

Hi there, I’m not on Twitter so it’s not me posting on there.

Disappointing today though, the team didn’t play anywhere near as well as they did on Wednesday sadly.

My guess would be that it’s a Poole fan on the wind up!

First half was good, and it’s a shame that we didn’t take some of our other chances, Curtis went clean through on the left and could have scored, we also had a couple of clear headers from corners, Bragg right on the half time whistle.

Second half was poor, it’s almost like you could feel the confidence drain once Hendon went in front.

Curtis should have passed it to rose for a tap in. We looked very dangerous on the counter today. But again 2 new players doesn’t solve the problem and like I said it’s going to take take to change it I’m sure.

I don’t have profs and that’s why I said I don’t but but I’m GUESSING!!

Just a coincidence like I said after

Graham's Match Report:-

Wimborne Town 1 Hendon 4 - Southern League Premier South - 4 Dec 2021

For a ninth successive home league game, Wimborne failed to record a victory at their brand new
stadium. After a sparkling first quarter of the game, including a goal by Lewis Beale in the first
minute, Wimborne were once more let down by a poor second half showing which saw Hendon
score three times in 17 minutes.

Manager James Stokoe gave home debuts to loanees Xander McBurnie and Ahkeem Rose from
Weymouth, dual-signing Jack Torniainen from Eastleigh, and returning fans favourite Louis
Kellaway. Dan Strugnell partnered Tom Bragg in central defence, with Jez Bedford playing a more
central role.

Following the news of the Club takeover earlier in the week, the influx of new players, and the
encouraging performance at Gosport mid-week, optimism among Wimborne supporters was
palpable. And it was heightened by that cracking start. Coming in from the right, Rose controlled
the ball on his chest before flicking an inviting ball behind the Greens' backline. Lewis Beale was
onto it in a flash and fired past Fred Burbidge to open the scoring.

And it could so easily have been two in the fifth minute. Bedford played Curtis Young down the
inside-left channel. With Rose in space in the box, the flying winger went on his own only to be
thwarted by the long legs of the visiting keeper. Rose the fulcrum of much of Wimborne's attacking
play, was bringing others into the game with his clever dummies, flicks, and passes; the start was
scintillating. Torniainen set Beale though on the right before his cross was headed wide by
Bedford; and Bedford's dinked cross caused chaos in the Hendon area.

At the other end Tom Bragg headed Clarke's shot behind for a corner; then the young defender
blocked another shot, before Billy Maybury did likewise. To home disappointment, on 28 minutes
Hendon equalised. Centre-forward White, who had an excellent game, stole in front of his marker
to head home a right-wing cross at the near post.

Wimborne created more opportunities: Rose, coming infield from the right, made room for a shot;
McBurnie drove low but wide from 20 yards; and Bragg's header was at a catchable height. It was
an encouraging first half for home supporters. Could that elusive first win be just 45 minutes away?
It was end to end on the resumption too. Kellaway made a perfectly-timed reverse tackle to
dispossess the charging White; and Bragg got his body in the way of a Hendon shot. On 50
minutes the ball fell to Rose on the right of the visitors' box. And with the home crowd willing the
ball into the net to give the striker a goal his first-half performance deserved, he pulled his shot
wide of the far post. And that was as close as Wimborne would come to bagging a second.
Bedford and Bragg shot from distance, but the Magpies were unable to create clear-cut chances.

Not so Hendon. On 71 minutes a corner from the right was headed by a Wimborne defender onto
the back of a man in blue, and Brooks pounced on the rebound at the far post to give the Greens
the lead. In their next attack Brooks made space for a shot but shanked his effort well wide.
However, the respite would only last until the 75th minute. Semakula picked up a wayward
Wimborne pass in the inside-left channel, strode forward and unleashed an absolute corker into
the top far corner. Misery was compounded for the home side in the 86th minute. Kinali's soft cross
from the right by-line was tapped in by substitute Crichlow.

Not for the first time this season, it was a game of two halves for Wimborne. That scintillating start
became a distant memory the longer the game went on. Rose looked a class act in the first half,
but he had little to play with in the second. Of course it takes time for new players to bed in, and we
had four who've signed in the past week in the starting line-up. But two points from a possible
twenty-seven is not what we anticipated when we began our first season at New Cuthbury.

Wimborne: Hall, Torniainen, Strugnell, Bragg, Maybury, Kellaway, McBurnie, Young (Mason 82),
Bedford, Rose, Beale Unused subs: Arnold, Henry, Jamison, Langdon (gk)

Attendance: 301

Match stats:

Magpies Greens
Goal attempts on target 4 7
Goal attempts off target 12 10
Corners 4 8
Fouls conceded 10 7
Offside 1 1
Cards 0 1Y

As the Administrator I am disappointed with the comments on here asssuming Gemma has posted on twitter. Can we not cast aspersions and can we put it to bed please NOW. Thanks