Bob, of course it's an incentive to get the young jabbed! Some ex retailer boss on TV last night saying the young should be given £250 of tax payers money to have the jab!

Blue - we didn't look lightweight against Dartford. We had by my count 5 chances in the first half either cleared out of the 6 yard box or hit a post/cross bar. We clearly have the right ideas on how to break down defences, just couldn't put the ball in the onion bag.

According to today's papers vaccine passports could be required in order to attend matches down to league two.

I guess we replaced Dobson with Marsh, Reilly with McCormick, Thomas with Charles. No Piggott replacement as the Brentford lad is untested at this level. McLaughlin and O’Neill not been replaced. We do look weaker this time round and last years team never pulled up any trees until we hit that purple patch starting with Accy. Worry was that we tailed off for the last four games. Has the squad currently got enough about them this time round? Not so sure as we looked light weight against Hampton.

Bob, to gain entrance to yesterday’s Flat Earth Society annual conference held in Penge (pronounced ‘Ponge’’) and this year sponsored by the Penge Tourist Board, one had to be double jabbed. The key note speaker, Mike Oxlong, gave a rousing address about Covid compliance with his message essentially being ‘people comply because they want it to end…..but it’s because of their compliance that it will never end’. He received a standing ovation.

Hope everyone is double jabbed that has to be.

Cracking bit of egg-chasing yesterday and one of the house-mates made me a delicious plate of tandoori chicken as well. The latest delivery of Abel & Cole radishes were also very flavourful (never buying them from Sainsbury's again). All in all, not the worst day of my life :-)

morning sparters

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Spit - maybe Robbo going back to the, "before easter" style of play and not being so positive is his way of bedding the new players into getting them to adapt to his way of playing (hopefully) and thinking and we will start the season in the style of the 4 wins period with everyone singing (playing) from the same hymn sheet. Fingers crossed.

Morning Wombles, morning Ginge.

morning troops

I'm starting to think (Gallant Defeat) heading will be used quite a lot on the official site this season.

Spit, Robo is good friends with crouchy. And Eaves. We’ll be golden.

Pass

Exiled don,have the same concern. Goals wont be easy to come by.someone commented that at dartford we had lots of possessions backwards and sideways.if everyone looks at the exciting 4 wins,we past forward and attacked ,with plenty of crosses.have we gone back to that easter and before impotent football.please no!

Just been watching the Women's Olympic 3x3 between China & Romania and I'm sure that 2 of the Chinese squad weren't women.

DO- I know Robinson and Fisher are the two options but they are both completely untried at senior level along with Pressley so we have three of four strikers who haven’t played league football. That to me is a worry.

Exiled - Zach Robinson & David Fisher makes four! I also strongly suspect at least one of MR's remaining targets is a striker - if so either Zach or David is likely to go out on loan too.

I’ve been looking at our current squad and I’m very concerned about the forward line. We need at least four strikers to rotate and apart from Pressley (unproven at this level) and Palmer (injury prone) we have nothing ! Our two main back up strikers are Andrews and Cosgrave and we’ve loaned them both out for someone else to benefit from and ironically both scored today. I can’t help but think those two lads shouldn’t be going anywhere. Certainly not until we’ve got more than just two main strikers. We look seriously undercooked going forward and that has been proved with just two goals (one from a penalty) from five ore season games so far. I was hoping we’d have more forward options.

Has the Phil Ledger Memorial Cup been played for every year since 2010?

I see Cosgrave and Andrews both did something our remaining strikers failed to do today….score goals !

And Brazilians, OI.

Not wishing to get into trouble Wags but the guy was a better penalty taker than some of the England players.

Yeah great news. Looking forward now to a packed out and rocking Plough Lane for the Bolton game !