03/09/11
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Truro FC (Home) 7th
Brackley Town 2-1 Truro FC
Jefferson Louis (23')
Barry Hayles (29')
Steve Diggin (53')
Pre-Match: I am looking forward to the first game of the new month. It will not be an easy game by any means so a draw would be a good result for me. Truro are in good form and they will be pushing for play-offs this season too. This will be a good test.
Post-Match: It was a tremendous performance and it felt un-just that after one shot in the whole first half, they scored. I was so pleased with the performance that instead of usually complaining about how we were not winning, I decided to passionately congratulate them. It seemed to work well however they came more into the game. We really should have won by more but what is important is that we have the 3 points.
Mark Rawle received the player of the month award where I came close and got 2nd place for the Manager of the Month behind Bath City's manager who had led them to 1st position. Really chuffed for Rawle, division's top goal scorer with 8 goals in 6 appearances Not a bad return... not bad at-all.
*Moved up to first place
P:7 W:5 D:2 L:0
GF:14 GA:7 GD:+7
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10/09/11
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Dorchester Town FC (Home) 10th
Brackley Town 2-5 Dorchester Town FC
Rico Wilson (15')
Neil Martin (45+1')
Rico Wilson (48')
Ashley Nicholls (51')
Jefferson Louis (71')
Jefferson Louis (82')
Rico Wilson (86')
Pre-Match: They are a mid-table side and I will certainly be looking for a win. We have a few injuries but thankfully they are not key players. Oh yeah, and Rawle is injured for 2 weeks, this is going to be tough.
Post-Match: We started tremendously again and I thought we were going to dominate this game but once they scored their first from a free-kick, everything changed. They were clinical, only managing 5 shots... 5 goals. We lacked the quality in front of goal as we hit the crossbar twice and we had a shot cleared off the line. The goals did not come until too late when I decided to risk putting on the injured Solkhon. We were bound to lose at one point and I have certainly learnt a-lot about my team.
*Drop to 3rd
P:8 W:5 D:2 L:1
GF:16 GA:12 GD:+4
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17/09/11
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Bromley FC (Away) 2nd
Bromley FC 0-3 Brackley Town
Jefferson Louis (5')
Steve Diggin (8')
Tom Winters (22')
Pre-Match: I will certainly take a point, considering we are missing our top scorer and they are in 2nd. It will be a very difficult game but if we come out with a draw, it will be a morale victory.
Post-Match: A point is what I wanted but it wasn't what the players wanted. I could see the anger from the last game passing onto this and they wanted to set things straight. I thought it was going to be incredibly difficult to get a result today, missing our star players but I was wrong. It was easy! Superb performance. Out of superlatives...
Free Transfers In:
Anthony Ashman 20 Year Old English CD
Stevland Angus 31 Year Old Jamaican CD
Goma Lambu 26 Year Old Congolese AM
Steven Lozano-Calderon 20 Year Old Colombian AM
Tom Lyskov 20 Year Old Danish DL
*FA Cup 2nd Qualifying round draws us with Truro (01/10/11)
*Moves up to 2nd
P:9 W:6 D:2 L:1
GF:19 GA:12 GD:+7
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20/09/11
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Bath City FC (Away) 5th
Bath City FC 4-1 Brackley Town
Scott Murray (3')
Gethin Jones (7')
Goma Lambu (12')
Jamie White (19')
Sekani Simpson (47')
Pre-Match: Although Bath occupy 5th, I think this will be the toughest fixture all season. They have a point to prove and their fans expect promotion. They will not hold back. A draw would be a more than satisfying result.
Post-Match: We lost 4-1 and probably played better than them. It just goes to show that if you don't score your chances, you are going to get penalized for them at the higher levels.
*Stays Second
P:10 W:6 D:2 L:2
GF:20 GA:16 GD:+4
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24/09/11
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Basingstoke Town FC (Home) 15th
Brackley Town 1-0 Basingstoke Town FC
Jefferson Louis (32')
Pre-Match: This is a must win match. They are struggling to get results and we have to maintain/increase the points gap between us and Bath who are now 3rd by one point. Nothing more I can really put apart from we MUST get the 3 points.
Post-Match: We could have won by much more and so was dissapointed in that aspect however they never had a chance and the defence was quality. It was an important result to keep us in 2nd place a quarter of the way through the season!
*Stays 2nd
P:11 W:7 D:2 L:2
GF:21 GA:16 GD:+5
