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Post by minstermann on Apr 23, 2024 21:10:05 GMT
Tavistock scored a winner in the dying seconds to deny the Magpies. Lovell and Baker had earlier scored. Now its down to the last game of the season away to Melksham on Saturday. Frome have a tough game against Bristol Manor Farm but are probably favourites to get the automatic promotion place as they are at home controversial I know but just being realistic] . Have the Magpies faded at the end of the season like they did last season. We need a good away attendance to push the lads on.
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Post by coatsforgoalposts on Apr 24, 2024 6:47:17 GMT
After the initial dissapointment (which faded by the time I'd got back as far as about Okehampton!), I still think we're in the driving seat. We are more than capable of beating Melksham and I don't think it's a forgone conclusion that Frome wil beat BMF anyway (certainly, if things were the other way round, we wouldn't be taking beating them as a given). But then, as somebody who supported Bournemouth through from the mid 70s and through the 80s and 90s, you learn to be the eternal optomist!
If it doesn't work out on Saturday then we can still go up via the play offs at New Cuthbury (which would be great - although perhaps not so great for the blood pressure!).
If it's not to be then it will still have been a great season and, at very worse, we can do it all again next year!
I thought Tavistock scored three cracking goals last night (hopefully we won't have that to contend with again on Saturday!). I'd love to see Baker and Lovell start at Melksham (we just look more dangerous when they're playing).
Up the pies!
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Post by bezza on Apr 24, 2024 9:55:28 GMT
Tavistock won because they were fired up by a perceived slight on their club and they weren't afraid to shoot. We got our noses in front and just seemed to let them get back into it.
Sorry but our players seem reluctant to shoot. Lots of passing around the goal.
My advice. Be positive and stay humble. Don't anyone give melksham any additional incentive to beat us and just go for it. Goals win matches !!!
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Post by newmagpie on Apr 24, 2024 10:57:50 GMT
Unfortunately I couldn't go yesterday, but followed on Twitter and have been saying it for weeks now, we need to shoot when we get a chance rather than trying to walk the ball in. It sounds like we created so many chances yesterday but our finishing let us down, as it was going to at some point.
Hopefully everyone will have this out of their system come Saturday and we can finally get the win we need and in my view thoroughly deserve.
One other point regarding the post match interviews - I appreciate that most people want to get off after a home game, but could the interviews be delayed a little so that the emotion of the game has gone to try to avoid anyone saying anything controversial or derogatory about opposing teams, or their clubhouses, as this seems to have backfired a little 🤔
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Post by Admin on Apr 24, 2024 11:23:09 GMT
Graham's Match Report -
Tavistock AFC 3 Wimborne Town 2 - Southern League - 23 April 2024
For the second time in four days, Wimborne were unable to grab the win which would give them the league title. Despite Jack Lovell opening the scoring, and Harry Baker getting a late equaliser, Tavistock took the points by scoring three times from their four goal attempts with the winner in time added-on a wonder strike from 25 yards.
Manager Tim Sills made three changes to his starting XI - Lewis Beale, Josh Carmichael and Jack Lovell coming in. The bench was packed with attacking intent.
The area of the pitch which had caused the original game to be postponed on Easter Saturday had been replaced with grass - credit to the Tavi groundstaff who'd made those repairs. On a sunlit but chilly evening, on a hard, bobbly surface, and in front of a hundred travelling supporters, Wimborne made a promising start. Josh Carmichael pinched the ball in midfield and picked out Lewis Beale wide on the right who shot just wide. Beale then found Bedford who jinked his way into the box on the right only to go down in a sea of flailing legs - the referee waved aside penalty appeals. More chances were created: Sam Jackson's header from Oakley Hanger's cross lacked power; Sam Roberts headed Carmichael's corner over the bar; and Beale's goal-bound snapshot was well saved by keeper Dearing. The pressure was building, and on eighteen minutes it was turned into a goal. Jackson's long cross from the left was headed inside by Beale for Jack Lovell to make space and finish well.
The visitors forced two more corners before the hosts surprised everyone by equalising with their first real attack just before the half-hour mark. A low cross from the right was only half-cleared to Elkington on the left of the box who rifled the ball past Ross Flitney. It was to be the first of three cracking strikes by the Lambs from their four goal attempts.
Wimborne looked to restore their lead. Lovell had a shot blocked for a corner; Carmichael's delivery ended in a mass meleé with two more shots bravely blocked. But the game was now a proper contest, and flowed from end-to-end. Ben Scorey stopped a counter-attack; Billy Walker mopped up the next then stopped a third with two crunching tackles.
The second-half started in similar fashion: Carmichael's drive from thirty yards is best described as a "sighter"; Tavi's Prynn came in from the left forcing Flitney to make a low diving save; Jez Bedford jinked his way to the left by-line before his cross was scrambled away; Lovell challenged the keeper for a high ball for Harry Morgan's instant shot to be deflected wide for a corner; Morgan was next crowded out as he tried to get a shot on target from Bedford's pass; keeper Dearing punched Hanger's cross away, then caught Jackson's cross form the left.
On seventy-one minutes Cunningham put Tavi in front. Coming in from the left wing he fired low and hard into the bottom corner from the edge of the box beating Flitney's dive. The intensity of the game went up another gear. Bedford's volley from Neale's corner was flicked on by Morgan to hit the post before Dearing grabbed the ball; Walker had to hit a dangerous low cross behind for a corner. Crosses from left and right were hit into Tavi's penalty area, Stuttle steered one into the net but it was ruled out for off-side. Then, on ninety minutes, came the equaliser. Stuttle raced clear on the right and played the ball across the danger area where Baker picked it up, rounded his defender, and fired into the net. Cue celebrations behind the goal.
But the drama wasn't over. Four minutes of time to be added-on. From a throw-in on the right, the ball sat up for Tavi skipper Harrison to volley into the far top corner from twenty-five yards - it was a wonder strike. And shortly after the final whistle went.
Credit to Tavi's young team who gave everything to the cause in the second-half, and scored three cracking goals. Wimborne dominated the goal attempt stats 17 - 4, but it's goals that win games. Of course it was a disappointing result. But all the hard work and super performances of the rest of the season means that winning promotion is still in Tim's team's hands. A last push at Melksham on Saturday - players, management and supporters together - can bring the title home. What a season end this could be!
For now, however, the wait for Wimborne's first league title for twenty-four years continues!
Wimborne: Flitney, Hanger, Walker, Roberts, Jackson, Scorey (Neale 55), Carmichael (Baker 78), Beale (Stuttle 72), Morgan, Bedford, Lovell
Unused subs: Griffin, Munn
Attendance: 201
Match stats:
Magpies/Lambs
Goal attempts on target 5/4
Goal attempts off target 8/0
Goal attempts blocked 4/0
Corners 8/2
Fouls conceded 12/7
Offside 5/5
Cards 0/2Y
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