Page 3 - Bath City v Havant & Waterlooville - Saturday 24 October - FA Cup

JERRY SPEAKS

Good afternoon I hope everyone is keeping
well at home. It seems so long ago that we Todays front cover comes from
saw you all here at Twerton Park. We all the 1959/60 season when City
eagerly await the return of fans to football;
without you guys it really isn’t the same. were crowned champions of the
I would like to welcome Paul, his staff and Southern League and under
players today for this huge FA Cup tie. Both manager Bob Hewison reached the
clubs are fully aware of what is at stake third round of the FA Cup when a
in terms of the next round draw with the record 18,020 attended Twerton
possibility of games against the likes of
Sunderland or Portsmouth etc. Park for the visit of Brighton and
Since my last notes, we have had a busy Hove Albion.
and gruelling week of football and travel but
thankfully going into this game we have been
able to have a standard training week where
we could monitor players’ loads along with
being able to analyse all our games to date.
It was great to get another clean sheet here
against Billericay in the league last time out, at halftime. The next 45 minutes were a joke!!
along with scoring two very good goals from With the assistant pulling his calf, there was
Tommy Conway, in identical fashion. Even no replacement so after lengthy discussions
though we had to defend for spells in the and much confusion, we were told we had to
game, more than we would have liked, we wait until someone arrived at the stadium to
never really felt they were going to hurt us. It’s replace him.
important we make Twerton the fortress it has 3 Jerrys Notes
been for us in my three seasons as manager. My players were now going stiff and cold
Teams do look forward to playing here but and having spent so long on a coach and
also know they don’t get to go away with having had a tough away trip and 90 minutes 4 Commercial News
much without a huge effort. on Tuesday, I felt this was going to put us at a
We then had to travel to what was probably disadvantage when the game eventually was 6 From the Boardroom
to begin again. Player welfare and safety has
one of, if not, the toughest FA Cup tie of the to be paramount and now risk of injury was
round at Slough on the following Tuesday. I very high. The game started after a 45 minute
have to say the lads put in an outstanding shift break and we ended up losing to a single 11 Havant & Waterlooville
in effort and resilience especially when under goal early after that restart. We still had three
some pressure in the first half. We had a stone very good chances in the half and maybe History
wall penalty turned down after an obvious the disallowed Conway goal was just onside
foul on Freddie Hinds in the 1st half. The too. Dartford had to defend for their lives in 12 Getting to know
referee has since responded to our report and the last 15 minutes, so credit to our players
admitted it should have been given, which to keep pushing. The disappointment and Havant & Waterlooville
makes it even more frustrating!! reflection, as it was a bad individual mistake
I thought our strong second half performance that cost us the game, but also that Dartford 15 Last Time Out
and brilliant goal from back to front under having had a free week had an advantage
control with an excellent clip finish from physically after the delay.
Freddie Hinds allowed us to win the game On a good note Donovan Wilson has had a 25 The Pledge
and deservedly go through to this game great week training and should be available
today. for today; he and we are very excited to 29 Tactically Speaking
We were back in on the Thursday night for finally see him in a Romans shirt.
a light session and prepared for another Our new group get better as a collective
really tough game at Dartford, along with week on week so today is all about winning 30 Next Match Preview –
another day on the road spending 7 hours and seeing if we can put ourselves into the Slough Town
on a coach in total. We never seem to get excitement of the 1st Round proper of the FA
the rub of the green at their place but, in all Cup, come next week’s draw.
honesty, the first half was pretty much all them 33 Loan Defender –
in terms of territory. We had the better two Enjoy watching the game Tom Leak
chances from two outstanding crosses from
Callum Evans. We were pleased to go in 0-0 JERRY
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