[ Sat 23rd Dec ] v Hanwell Town, KO 3pm ESE AWAY

[Dazzler]

Official Match Preview

http://www.afcdiamonds.com/hanwell-town ... d-december

[Brownie]

Needs to start warming up a bit as round this way the ground temperature hasn't been above freezing for more than a few hours in the past week. A few games tonight guess those with the best chance of going ahead are ones in more sheltered built up areas, Hanwell should be playing Ashford at home, and Uxbridge host Hartley W, presume Moneybags will make an early call to avoid Aylesbury Utd making a long wasted trip, and doubt there is any chance that Kempston will get to play Thame given we are the coldest part of the country.
Not sure this is helping us at all, our recent winning run has been achieved playing good football on decent surfaces and the last thing we want is to play on a great leveler, part frozen or swamp of a pitch, but momentum is also very important and we certainly had plenty of that. The 2 week break would have allowed recovery of any minor injuries being carried but we could do with getting back out on the pitch before Christmas so fingers crossed for a temperature rise over the next few days.

[rushdenman]

Forecast temperatures for Wednesday onwards are double figures, with no frost at night, so we should be o.k. by Saturday.

[sussexdiamond]

Theoretically this should be good game to restart after the break, but we never take anything for granted. I wonder what their ground is like now having received £50k from Buildbase for ground improvements.

[Brownie]

Theoretically this should be good game to restart after the break, but we never take anything for granted. I wonder what their ground is like now having received £50k from Buildbase for ground improvements.

Hard one to call, after all The Wobblers received about 10 million and having driven past this afternoon Sucksfield looks little different.

[Three of Diamonds]

Theoretically this should be good game to restart after the break, but we never take anything for granted. I wonder what their ground is like now having received £50k from Buildbase for ground improvements.

Hard one to call, after all The Wobblers received about 10 million and having driven past this afternoon Sucksfield looks little different.

It'll be down the back of the sofa.

[sussexdiamond]

Who of top teams will drop points today? Only Beaconsfield at home.
Hanwell v AFC RD
Beacomsfield v Aylesbury Utd
Kempston v Moneyfields
Fleet v Dunstable
Ashford v Cambridge City
Northwood v Hartley Wintney

Beaconsfield would seem to be a banker home win, AFCRD and Dunstable should be confident but the others all have tricky away games.

Lets at least get the game played and carry on where we left off!!

[Three of Diamonds]

That counts as a great away win in my book. Well done to the management and team, have a Merry Christmas and looking forward to Boxing Day.

[sussexdiamond]

That counts as a great away win in my book. Well done to the management and team, have a Merry Christmas and looking forward to Boxing Day.

Any away win in this league is a good win. You only have to look at Money and Hartley today. Diamonds and Beaconsfield are the ones setting the pace at the moment.

[Formic]

It’s always nice to get an away win just before Christmas, especially after that sequence of losing the equivalent game three seasons in a row prior to last season. It was a game where many aspects of our game shone through, with the home side under the cosh for most of the first half, and just as it began to look like we could drop points in such in winnable game, MR-Dependable Tom Lorraine got the reward for his work rate and willingness to go in where it hurt. It wasn’t quite a copy of the Michael Rankine goal at Aldershot, but was perhaps from a similar distance.

Lots of positives, and more chances to accept the management team approach is getting results, even if it is a tad frustrating we don’t seem to make changes very quickly when a player is struggling and there are a couple of quality replacements on the bench. I wonder whether Ben Diamond has fully recovered from his recent illness.

In most seasons we might have been wondering how the players might now cope with the busy festive period, but with only the two games, and the recent break they will hopefully be ready for a stiffer challenge than Hanwell provided today.