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Tiger Roar frontpage archive - 2013 Q4
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| Saturday December 28th 2013 |
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Connor Waldon
stunning volley
Joe Parker
better than Kotwica?
Mike Green
put off Moore
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Can we play you every week?
City have now won every one of their last five encounters against near rivals Worcester City and how well received were these precious points with both teams fighting for their lives at the bottom of the Skrill North.
Another similarity is both clubs are homeless with Worcester forced to share with Kidderminster Harriers at their superb Aggborough stadium. The Tigers were well backed with 160 making the short trip closer to the source of the River Severn, a number which concerned the home club leading them to impose last minute segregation thus denying Tigers' fans to refreshments.
That led to some half time pie throwing!
Tyler Weir was at left back for Worcester but there was no sign of Shabir Khan, while Matt Coupe lined up for City. Was there a handshake prior to kick off? That said Tyler came in for some horrible abuse that he didn't deserve, the kind of abuse that should only be aimed at the likes of Ethan Moore!
The first half was all City and having seen Connor Waldon shoot wide, Darren Edwards head over and the impressive Joe Parker see his shot cleared off of the line by Weir after the winger had beaten goalkeeper Jose Veiga it was Waldon that scored the only goal of the game with a stunning volley on the turn. It was a goal worthy of winning any game.
Given their dominance City should've really been more than one goal up at the break especially as Worcester looked crap. There's no other way to put it, but they offered very little in an attacking sense.
That said they improved in the second half but should've been down to ten men almost straight away when Daniel Nti stamped on Darren Mullings' knee when he was on the ground. It didn't even produce a card from a referee who might've been letting things go like a great ref or just ignoring everything like a shit one.
City had to make do with breakaway attacks and Waldon had two good opportunities before he got involved in sillyness with Weir, of his own doing when he kneed Tyler as he walked past. Both players were booked. Coupe and Lewis Hogg also saw yellow.
Hogg might've ended up red faced when his backpass was seized upon by a Worcester player and goalkeeper Mike Green did well to put off the hopeless Moore who shot wide of an open goal.
It was a relief to hear the final whistle as much for the three points as for the dropping temperatures. A revenge win against Oxford on New Years Day (k/o 3pm) will see the Tigers back in touch with the mid-table nucleus of the Skrill North.
City : Mike Green, Michael Green, Giglio, Coupe, Harris, Hogg, Parker, Mullings, Edwards, Waldon (Wilson 72), Groves. Subs n/u : Phillips, Kotwica, Haile, Binns
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| Connor Waldon and Tyler Weir have a disagreement |
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| Thursday December 26th 2013 |
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Lewis Hogg
star man
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All I want for Christmas is points.
Today was a disappointment but not all doom and gloom, we were the better team, just didn't create enough chances or when we did the damn thing wouldn't go in, or even debatably over the line. When Oxford's Tom Winters got the chances he absolutely smashed the ball past Mike Green.
Lewis Hogg almost scored a wonderful volley which orbited towards the top corner from the outside of his boot but as luck would have it, it stayed out.
Where do we go from here? If we get nothing from the next two games it's time to think about panicking.
City : Mike Green, Michael Green, Haile, Coupe, Harris, Liddiard, Kotwica (Parker 65), Hogg, Morford, Waldon (Wilson 65), Groves (Edwards 78). Subs n/u : Phillips, Mustoe
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| Zack Kotwica is denied by ex-City man Paul Stonehouse at Oxford |
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| Saturday December 21st 2013 |
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Connor Waldon
hit post
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City have started to develope a nasty habit of losing their last home league game before Christmas in an abject fashion, as this 0-1 defeat to Gainsborough Trinity has shown.
At the start of the season I had the Lincolnshire side down as a dead cert to be relegated after their moneybags chairman Peter Swann, err, swanned off to Scunthorpe but they've surprised me so far and disapponted me further today.
Despite having the best of the chances City couldn't score and Trinity pinched one just before the hour mark.
It was a game fractured by an overzealous referee (from Worcester) as Neil Mustoe found to his cost getting sent off just before full time when he rightly criticised the Tigers for pulling back play from our own attacking thrown in.
Connor Waldon hit the post twice but supporters were left asking questions as one by one Boris pulled off the young attackers and replaced them with slower but more experienced players. The move didn't pay off and the Gainsborough goal was rarely threatened leaving them with a comfortable win.
City : Mike Green, Michael Green, Giglio, Coupe, Harris, Liddiard, Kotwica (Hogg 61), Mullings, Wilson (Morford 63), Waldon (Edwards 68), Groves. Subs n/u : Parker, Haile
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| Scott Wilson is denied a simple goal by a Gainsborough defender |
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| Saturday December 14th 2013 |
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Matt Liddiard
goal
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City's recent revival was ended abruptly today at Harrogate, a ground which we've never won in front of a bumper crowd of almost fifteen hundred people.
Harrogate are one of those teams with sugar daddy, in this case, the managers dad and invited adults in for £1 and kids for free, that was the reason for the big crowd, although we'd like to think that they only came to watch City!
They'd have been disappointed though because the Tigers' camp had been struck down with flu and Boris was forced to field his eleven healthiest players.
City : Mike Green, Liddiard, Giglio, Coupe, McKenzie, Webb (Edwards 55), Kotwica (Parker 78), Mullings, Wilson, Morford, Groves. Subs n/u : Phillips, Edwards, Parker, Mustoe, Green
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| Tuesday December 10th 2013 |
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Connor Waldon
brace
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Connor Waldon enhcnaced his growing reputation with two goals of varying fortune as City secured their second victory in two games with a comfortable two-nil win against promotion hopefuls Altrincham.
Disappointingly as soon as Kotwica was pulled off his entourage left with the immortal words of "He's not playing, I'm not watching" being spoken by his father.
City : Mike Green, Michael Green, Giglio, Coupe, Harris, Webb, Kotwica (Parker 67), Mullings, Wilson (Morford 63), Waldon (Edwards 75), Groves. Subs n/u : Liddiard, Haile
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| Saturday December 7th 2013 |
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Kirtys Mackenzie
injured
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The league is upside down!
I'm not going to suggest that someone was going to be on the end of a beating sooner or later because the way we've been playing we've either had no luck or shot ourselves in the foot, this time, neither failed us and we gave title chasing Hednesford Town a right hammering.
Before we scored they could've when Wayne Riley glanced a header onto the far post, however young loanee Zack Kotwica put his side a goal to the good when great play between Scott Wilson and Darren Mullings saw the latter poke a sumptuos pass through to the teenager who round goalkeeper Dan Crane to score, despite the efforts of defender Darren Campion.
Before that new left back Marcus Giglio had stung Crane's hands with a superb shot before Hednesford captain Campion got involved with his keeper in a shoving match after some slapstick defending had almost cost them a second goal.
Campion might be an angry little bastard and brave enough to pick on the keeper but he clearly didn't have the balls to take on centre back Francino Francis after his lethargic clearance was charged down by Connor Waldon for Mullings to swivel and score one of the easiest goals he's ever got.
The pacy City attack was too much for the team from Birmingham and whilst we were a constant threat they came very close to pulling one back when Kris Taylor saw his shot from distance just evade the top corner. It would've been no surprise had it gone in because everyone seems to score Worldy's against us!
Hednesford began the second half like they'd had a good bollocking yet the next goal came from Waldon with an audacious effort that may or may not have been a cross which flew had the legs to loop over Crane and into the far corner.
The nerves only started to twitch when substitute Nathan Wolfe headed home top scorer Elliott Durrell's cross yet it was a man from City's bench who killed the game when Will Morford bagged a special brace; the first a cheeky flick to turn Matt Groves' centre in and then a sublime lob to give David Mehew's men an aggregate victory over the Pitmen!
City : Mike Green, Michael Green, Giglio, Coupe, Harris, Webb (Liddiard 64), Kotwica, Mullings, Wilson (Morford 72), Waldon (Edwards 84), Groves. Subs n/u : Binns, Parker
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| Goalkeeper Dan Crane dives at the feet of City striker Connor Waldon |
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| Saturday November 30th 2013 |
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Kirtys Mackenzie
injured
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City : Mike Green, McKenzie (Morford 37), Binns, Coupe, Harris, Liddiard, Goddard, Mullings, Edwards, Parker (Wilson 54), Kotwica (Waldon 54). Subs n/u : Phillips, Turl
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| Saturday November 23rd 2013 |
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Darren Edwards
fired home
Darren Mullings
volley
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City have that sinking feeling and have now gone bottom of the Conference North after this latest defeat, 2-3 at Vauxhall Motors.
Despite playing well, David Mehew's men went behind three times, equalising twice through Darren Edwards and Darren Mullings but despite bossing large periods of the second half were unable to find a killer third goal, something their hosts did with an excellent free kick with a couple of minutes left to play.
Loanee Kurtys Mackenzie was beaten all ends up for their first before Edwards made room and fired a shot into the top corner. That said they'd hit the post and the crossbar before we scored, then they went ahead again with a speculative shot across Mike Green which the City keeper failed to stop but Daz Mullings levelled things with a lovely full volley into the bottom corner.
Things weren't helped by a wanker of a referee though. He booked four City players in about as many first half minutes including Mullings when he didn't even seen the supposed foul on Danny Fearnehough, a player who went down holding his head in the second half, screaming after no contact had been made. The cheating Scouse twat.
But the biggest complaint against the referee was a ball to hand incident where the defenders hand was as high as his head as Edwardinho tried to connect with a through ball. That was ignored but Connor Waldon was penalised minutes later when the ball was blasted at his hand (by his side) from five yards. They say these decisions even themselves out over the season but we all know that thats plain bollocks.
So where do we go from here? After the Trophy game only the most optimistic of City fans will think we can beat Hednesford and Altrincham while Histon have a habit of bringing the worst out in City.
Time to start writing to Santa methinks.
City : Mike Green, Michael Green, Mackenzie, Coupe, Harris, Webb (Liddiard 88), Goddard, Mullings, Edwards (Morford 88), Waldon (Wilson 88), Groves.Subs n/u : Parker, Haile.
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| Darren Edwards fires home City's first equaliser at Vauxhall Motors |
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| Monday November 18th 2013 |
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Steve Portway
ex-Gravesend man
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City's reward for their victory near to Albert Square on Saturday is an away tie against a train station in Kent.
Ebbsfleet United, who used to be known as Gravesend & Northfleet are another Conference South side and the Tigers will have to be at their best to get anything from the game in twelve days time. City last played against the Stonebridge Road outfit sixteen years ago and were the team that we signed both Steve Portway and Simon Ullathorne from. |
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| Saturday November 16th 2013 |
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Connor Waldon
strikers goal
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City have now beaten as many Skrill South sides as Skrill North sides following todays battling 1-0 win against Boreham Wood at their version of Meadow Park in the FA Trophy.
Whilst the distracion of cup runs may put our league woes to one side I don't think anyone will complain as the Tigers snatched a victory when hot looking shot Connor Waldon seized onto a poor backpass to grab the only goal of the game.
City's passage was made easier when substitute Raheem-Sterling-Parker flew in two footed on Matt Groves leading to both men having to go off, however we were allowed to bring a player on in his place.
The draw is on Monday.
City : Mike Green, Michael Green, Haile, Coupe, Harris, Webb, Goddard, Mullings, Edwards, Waldon (Morford 78), Groves (Liddiard 85). Subs n/u : Turl, Wilson, Parker.
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| Tuesday November 12th 2013 |
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Connor Waldon
home debut brace
Matt Groves
played well
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Things just don't go for you when you're at the bottom do they?
Among other things the Welsh side might've had a player sent off for an over the ball tackle, Sam Rawlings was injured after just half an hour, Tom Webb's first act at right back was to give away a penalty which Mike Green saved but no-one followed in thus giving their man a tap in. The only good thing from the first half was a delicious finish from loanee Connor Waldon to level the scores at the break.
A minute after the restart Waldon headed home his second and the turning point probably came when strike partner Darren Edwards lobbed the keeper but sent his effort agonisingly wide of the open goal. Bay equalised from a corner where the reshuffle of positions probably added to the confusion and even then Matt Groves, having his best game of the season shanked his effort wide from six yards, but Gareth Evans showed him how it was done with his twenty-five yard worldy that won the game.
Despite our dominance, we lost.
Bugger.
City : Mike Green, Michael Green, Rawlings (Parker 28), Mackenzie (Liddiard 66), Harris, Webb, Goddard, Mullings, Edwards, Waldon (Wilson 73), Groves. Subs n/u : Morford, Turl.
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| A rueful miss as Darren Edwards lobs the keeper but misses the target |
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| Saturday November 9th 2013 |
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Jordan Goddard
City's best chance
Tom Webb
scything challenge
Darren Edwards
led the line well
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Beaten but not disgraced would be a fair way to describe this encounter against a side who have grown somewhat since we last met three years ago.
Two goals were all that seperated the two team, one scored early and the other late but with a bit more luck the Tigers would've pegged back their big spending opponents.
As it happened David Ball's strike which took a deflection off of Darren Mullings and was then diverted beyond Mike Green by a deft header from Matt Coupe might've been enough to win the tie but pantomime villain Jon Parkin sealed the win by finding room in between two City defenders to chase a through pass, round Green and score.
Green had performed heroics all afternoon including guessing right to keep Steven Schumacher's penalty out when his namesake at right back had commited a really soft foul. Had that gone in the Blackpool team may well have run away with it but a belief from David Mehew's men kept the scoreline within reach until Parkin's killer strike.
With the game featured on ITV's highlight's show our usual camcorder was replaced by at least six behemoth's placed around the perimeter and both presenter Matt Smith and commentator Jon Champion were at the game.
For City Darren Edwards might've scored on three occasions whilst Jordan Goddard had the best chance of the game but shot over the bar from twelve yards. Tom Webb and Goddard were booked for City, while penalty misser Schumacher could've easily seen red for his reaction to Webb's challenge but got away with a talking to.
A memorable afternoon for the Tigers with over a thousand fans in their borrowed ground with a disappointing number making the trip down from the seaside but had this been played in Gloucester the crowd would've been four times the size. Get us home now!
City : Mike Green, Michael Green (Morford 80), Weir, Coupe, Harris, Webb, Goddard, Mullings, Edwards, Wilson (Groves 67), Liddiard (Parker 53). Subs n/u : Phillips, Rawlings, Turl, Batten.
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| Monday November 4th 2013 |
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Boreham Wood
Trophy opponents
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Is it Boreham Wood?
Yes it is.
Gloucester City are finally returning to Meadow Park, although this Meadow Park belongs to Boreham Wood FC and will be the venue for their third qualifying round tie with the cockney team on Saturday 16th November (3pm)
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| Saturday November 2nd 2013 |
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Darren Edwards
scored penalty
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City's woeful run on form continued with a 1-3 defeat at Bradford Park Avenue.
To be fair only the most optimistic of fans would've expected more than a point from this game but with Bradford down to ten men for the final half hour one would've expected the Tigers to at least get an equaliser having been 1-2 down but the ten men scored the games only goal as City fell into the relegation zone.
City : Mike Green, Michael Green (Wilson 65), Weir, Coupe, Harris, Webb, Goddard, Liddiard, Edwards, Waldon (Binns 76), Turl. Subs n/u : Batten, Rawlings, Parker.
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| Tuesday October 29th 2013 |
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Tom Webb
icing on the cake
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An absolutely forgettable evening tonight as City were toyed with by Solihull Moors as the Birmingham team showed their class, for which David Mehew's men had no answer.
It seemed only a matter of time before the Moors scored and once they did there was no doubt about where the points were going. Their goals came from Rob Elvins, Dominic Langdon and Omar Bogle.
City : Mike Green, Michael Green (Batten 46), Weir, Coupe, Harris (Liddiard 20), Webb, Parker, Mullings, Edwards, Morford, Wilson (Turl 60). Subs n/u : Rawlings, Binns.
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| Sunday October 27th 2013 |
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FA Cup
shit draw
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Encyclopiedia's can now re-write their definition of anti-climax after the draw for the first round proper of the FA Cup gave City a home draw with League Two side Fleetwood Town, a game which should be played on Saturday November 9th because the Scuzz are away and there is virtually nil chance of the game being televised. The Cod Army are more likely to be cod bites with the number of fans that they'll bring and being a team that we've faced in a league game within the past five years they're hardly a big draw even if they are a league side now.
Previous results against the bankrolled Blackpool team are a 1-2 defeat at Cirencester and 1-3 at their Highbury stadium. I'm off to slit my wrists. |
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| Saturday October 26th 2013 |
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Darren Mullings
fired equaliser
Sam Turl
put City ahead
Tom Webb
icing on the cake
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Oh the magic of the FA Cup!
On paper, to me at least this game was won no sooner than it had been drawn out of the Talk Sport hat. It was the same case against Chippenham last year and that, as this, turned out to be a much tougher encounter when played on grass.
Cockney teams are something of an enigma to us northerners and over the years haven't had the best of times against teams with pearly Kings and Queens.
Player of the round Joe Parker kept his place ahead of the brilliant Scott Wilson and it wasn't until the latter came on in the second half that City turned in a performance worthy of progressing to the competition proper. The first half had been spoiled by the wind and the fact that they'd scored.
A poor free kick had been quickly returned back into the City penalty area and the sun shone on Charlie Moone who deftly headed the ball over the stranded Mike Green. The scouting had described Moone as "not quick, but clever" and that goal probably backed that up.
Tom Webb had had a chance for David Mehew's men but was denied as he was about to turn his shot it from twelve yards out.
City started the second half as though they'd finally found their way out of Hampton's maze and before the stormclouds of doubt could gather Darren Mullings had steamed his way through from the right and lashed home a shot that seemed to deflect beyond Rodney Chiweshe in the Borough goal.
Thoughts of a midweek replay seemed to have been set aside when Jack Harris powered a header in but it struck a defender, rolled along the line and was cleared!
City's second substitution was key; the lethargic looking Will Morford was taken off and youngster Sam Turl came on and within minutes was celebrating his first ever City goal as he somehow beat Chiweshw with the World's slowest ever shot.
The Tom Webb spoiled that nervous wait for the final whistle when he drove into the area to meet a sublime cross from Wilson and divert a header home and send the City faithful wild.
As the chant went, one-nil and they did indeed f**k it up!
City : Mike Green, Michael Green, Weir, Coupe, Harris, Webb, Parker, Mullings, Edwards, Morford (Turl 76), Liddiard (Wilson 46). Subs n/u : Phillips, Rawlings, Batten, Binns, Haile.
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| Saturday October 19th 2013 |
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Will Morford
tap in
Darren Edwards
hit it harder
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In what was possibly City's highest ever profile league match away at Stockport County David Mehew's men showed their new found belief following their midweek cup win by coming back from two goals down and holding on under severe pressure to grab a valuable point.
A poor defensive header from Jack Harris caught City's defence out of shape and Rhys Turner was put through to slot a smart shot past Mike Green and the home side went two up courtesy of a Tom Webb own goal as he got his feet mixed up and turned a cross from goalscorer Turner into his own net.
The introduction of Scott Wilson seemed to spark life into the Tigers and they scored twice in five minutes to draw level.
A long clearance from Green was flicked on by Darren Edwards into the feet of Wilson who cut the ball back to the City number nine. Edwards' shot to the keepers right was smartly parried but Will Morford was Johnny on the spot to roll the ball into the empty net.
Much to the chagrin of the Stockport manager, the second goal was nearly identical, however this time Edwardinho put his foot through the ball and netted before the keeper could reach it.
The rest was left for brave defending and fine goalkeeper to see City come away from Edgeley Park with their well earned point and leave Stockport fans calling us a pub team. Job done!
City : Mike Green, Rawlings (Wilson 49), Weir, Coupe, Harris, Webb, Parker, Mullings, Edwards, Morford, Liddiard. Subs n/u : Phillips, Binns, Michael Green, Mustoe.
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| Wednesday October 16th 2013 |
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Darren Edwards
first of the season
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If Joe Parker suffered any sleepless nights following his late chance to win the game on Saturday then he more than made up for it tonight with a stunning twenty-one minute first half hat-trick that laid the foundation for a resounding 7-0 drubbing of Yate Town.
Don't think for a minute that the Bristol side (that's Yate, not City; for the benefit of any bitter Gloucester based footballers), they had two experienced ex-pro's up front in Michael Meaker and Lewis Haldane and gave as good as they got from the first kick until the last, however, for once, City's class shone through and the final score didn't flatter David Mehew's team at all.
It will be a night to forget for Yate centre-half Joe Chandler, being watched by his City Legend father Ricky. OK, former City favourite. No? Ex-Tigers midfielder? He did score a hat-trick against Ashford once!
City's opener came after just five minutes, a perfect way to settle the nerves with the knowledge that the next round would see another home game against lower league opposition with Cockney side Hampton & Richmond Borough drawn against the winners. Former Yate man Matt Groves appeared to be fouled in the penalty area but the referee waved play on and Parker bore down on goal before lifting a shot over the dive of Martin Horsell.
Having taken the lead through a deflected strike on Saturday Yate could hardly complain when Darren Mullings' strike took a similar ricochet and leaped up over the stranded goalkeeper to double the lead and add a comfort zone in this banana skin of a tie so when Parker drove in two more goals in just over two minutes Bluebells boss Rob Cousins couldn't have looked more purplexed stood by his dugout.
For the second game running Groves was taken off, something he may not have been pleased about considering Yate was his former club but in England terms the player that we'd hoped with an Andros Townsend is turning out to be more of a James Milner and will need to make an impact soon in a City shirt.
His replacement was Scott Wilson, a player who might well turn out to be our new Jimmy Cox. He certainly knows where the goal is and showed as much when he turned in Darren Edwards' cross to make it five early doors in the second half. That goal was a relief because quite often games that have one team winning heavily at half time often see no further goals.
There were two more and probably should've been more but both goals came on the break with again Edwards starring as he metaphorically put the ball on a plate for Will Morford to sidefoot home before Wilson set up Tom Webb to finish with aplomb, the perfect way to end the game in front of a noisy bunch of his pupils from Chosen Hill school in Churchdown.
Yate had their chances, their player, the midfielder etc etc but City keeper Mike Green was in fine form to stop anything that came his way, including a backpass which he got booked for.
A great night for Gloucester City, with some excellent football and brilliant goals which will leave Boris wondering why they can't play like that every week!
City : Mike Green, Liddiard (Binns 79), Weir, Coupe, Harris, Webb, Parker (Turl 71), Mullings, Edwards, Morford, Groves (Wilson 46). Subs n/u : Phillips, Rawlings, Mustoe, Lee.
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| Saturday October 12th 2013 |
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Darren Edwards
saviour
Darren Mullings
first of the season
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Gloucester City's season was teetering on the brink as Darren Edwards stepped up to take a 93rd minute penalty at Yate to keep alive their FA Cup hopes. I don't know about you but as he sent the keeper the wrong way and the ball struck the net I let out a Vesuvius like cheer, That goal really mean't something. Thank God for Edwardinho's cool head.
Some will say that City got out of jail today, maybe rightly so as the home team had twice taken the lead but David Mehew's men had created a number of half chances and better than those, so much so that after Edwards had netted Joe Parker spurned a gilt edged chance to win the game when he headed over Yate goalkeeper Martin Horsell but narrowly wide of the far post.
City included three former Yate players in their starting eleven; Edwards, Scott Wilson and Matt Groves whilst the Bristol team had former Pirate Lewis Haldane as a very real threat up front while centre-back Tom Seery actually lives with Wilson in Gloucester!
The home fans thought they were cheering a goal when Haldane got a touch to a left wing cross only to see it skip wide of the post whilst another effort arrowed inches wide of the top corner, for the Tigers Lewis Hogg was denied by a last ditch tackle from left back Jake Cox as well as other chances where Will Morford and Wilson didn't really get any purchase on their shots.
Moments before the break Yate did find the net thanks to a comedy of errors that saw the ball hit Matt Coupe in the face as the ball sat us for Mike Bryant to shoot, deflecting his effort off of Sam Rawlings' leg as goalkeeper Mike Green dived for nothing one way with the ball moving away from him towards his unguarded net. On the balance of chances City were unlucky to go into the break behind.
Worse was to come as Hogg limped off to be replaced by Edwards just after the onset of the second half and Wilson soon followed as Parker was the better option as a right sided player.
But it was from the left where we equalised when Tyler Weir strode forward, oozing quality, he cut back inside before providing an inswinging cross that Darren Mullings bravely threw himself at to glance the ball beyond Horsell.
Yate were forced onto the back foot as City looked to win the game and should've gone behind when a bizarre occurance saw the goalkeeper drop the ball at Morford's feet while attempting a drop kick clearance but Morf's shot was charged down with an open goal beckoning. I think the locals will have gone apeshit had that gone in.
Needless to say they had the last laugh (almost) when the impressive Cox sidestepped two challenges before rifling a shot into the top right hand corner. Had that turned out to be the winner then it would've been a worthy one!
But with the game in injury time Groves impressed for the first time as he ran into the box and was tripped by Bryant to give Edwards the chance to set up Wednesday's replay at Whaddon Road (k/o 7.45pm).
City : Mike Green, Rawlings (Liddiard 79), Weir, Coupe, Harris, Webb, Hogg (Edwards 51), Mullings, Morford, Wilson (Parker 63), Groves. Subs n/u : Phillips, Turl, Michael Green, Mustoe.
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| Saturday October 5th 2013 |
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Matt Groves
opened scoring
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City set up a third qualifying round tie at Yate Town thanks to a superb 3-2 win at Westleigh Park against Havant and Waterlooville.
City : Mike Green, Rawlings, Weir, Coupe, Harris (Michael Green 72), Webb, Liddiard, Mullings, Morford, Wilson, Turl (Parker 64). Subs n/u : Groves, Edwards, Mustoe.
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| Tuesday October 1st 2013 |
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Matt Groves
opened scoring
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City set up a third qualifying round tie at Yate Town thanks to a superb 3-2 win at Westleigh Park against Havant and Waterlooville.
City : Mike Green, Rawlings, Weir, Coupe, Harris, Webb, Hogg (Liddiard 69), Mullings, Morford, Wilson (Parker 80), Groves. Subs n/u : Phillips, Edwards, Lee, Binns, Michael Green.
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