4 clean sheets and 8 points at a possible 12 at home is a solid start to the season. We could do with being stronger in attack but we created chances yesterday which is more than can be said about other games so far. Only caught a little of the game yesterday but the referee was very poor. Way too quick to whistle and what's the point of this 5 second rule at throw ins. Never actually used.

Missed TWO golden chances first half, gotta convert at least one of those......being 'kettled' by the police on the way to the station afterwrads so the away fans could leave was unfortunate!

OI - security checks were just the wand, which I guess picks up metal like knives and guns (I brought neither on this occasion, so they let me in…) - basically the same as you get at court when you’re on jury service, minus the walk-through arch thingy…

Mark L - me too :(

Some of them came as empty seats

A4E - they do do retrospective bans in Div 1. If they do one, sadly I fear he will get a ban

Anyone know how many Franchise fans - clearly not the 950/sold out they are claiming

What were the security checks Laurence? Pat downs?

I do hope yesterday was not a pre-cursor to more security checks in the main stand every match hidden under 'Martyn's Law'?

Looking closely at the highlights, I’d say that if the ref saw the potential penalty handball by the MK player, he must have decided that it hit his arm at the top, not far enough down to make it a handball offence… As for the Stockley challenge on their player right at the end of the first half, there’s no penalty there either, he just touches the player on the shoulder, who then decides to throw himself to the floor. I do hope there aren’t retrospective punishments for offences not seen at the time, because Stockley could well get a ban for deliberately standing on Gilbey’s leg - a really stupid thing to do. Stockley was about half a toenail’s length from reaching that lovely Richards cross - it would have been a perfect goal for him to score, but at least we didn’t concede late, so a point is OK. Weirdly, if we had scored one goal, we’d be in second place with a negative goal difference.

A lack of strikers i presume, Stockley inefective for most of the game, fouled every time he went for the ball but we continue to lump the ball forward. Certainly missing Tilley. Jackson still lacking a plan B. We don't seem to have the confidence to play on the deck unfortunately.

I worked out I had a Franchise fan near me in the first half (wasn't wearing colours). Didn't see him second half. No idea how he got into Cappagh Stand.

We stand win Stockley

Neal Ardley becomes Director Of Football at Walton & Hersham

And have only got debentures, not STs.

Every time we have a home match, Trig, even though we haven't been to one for about eighteen months.

Anybody else get the tone deaf matchday experience survey email?

[Link] Wimbledon putting their bodies on the line to win those headers.

AI gets it wrong again in OTD. Hounslow Town always played at home in Red and Black halved shirts. I was a regular at Denbigh Road in the fifties.

I didn’t think the game was too bad for a 0-0 draw. We started strongly but maybe ran ourselves out a bit. Two very decent chances and a clear handball penalty. They then enjoyed the middle of the match but once JJ made his subs we went forwards again and they struggled to do anything effective in our final third.

That was a strange game to throw Richards into. He didn't do too much but had a couple of good moments. His kicking didn't quite seem hard enough. Hopefully, that will come.

I hope we didn't sell programmes in the away end. If one if their scum followers got hold of one then it would be from somewhere they shouldn't have been to start with.

It hasn't got quite the same edge to it playing them nowadays with no Winkleman, no Robinson and no Lewington, and many players who weren't even born in 2002. Fairly mundane 0-0 draw. Stating the obvious... Defence fine, we need more goals Did Sky cover Ivor's trip to Wembley before the match?

Glad it was an awful game for Sky. It might encourage them to stop pissing about with our fixtures dates and kick off times. That was the worst franchise team I've seen. I can see why they are winless and struggle to score. They were there for the taking but we were too poor and too one dimensional to take advantage. They were scared of Hippolyte and just ganged up on Stockley. One of them appeared to try to replicate what Jones did to Gascoigne 38 years ago right in front on the 4th official and spent ages arguing with him after play had carried on. I'm glad it's over for another year. I still hate this match and it still feels weird. It's all internal for me as win, lose or draw, I don't know anybody who cares whether we beat them or not.

Nice six-page article with photos of the 1988 cup final by Andy Thorn to wind up the franchise ..