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Another visit to the dreaded Hop Oast Stadium this Good Friday as we face local rivals Horsham and aim to edge closer to the league title. The Hornets have had a good first season at step 2, but currently sit 15th with just 1 win from their last 5 games. They also have a few ex-Wanderers in the form of Isaac Philpot, Charlie Hester-Cook and Lewis Carey.
No weekly update yet but recent updates suggested that we may see the return of Brennan Camp, Dennon Lewis, Niall McManus and possibly even Pat Casey this Easter weekend. Louie Annesley played 90 mins for Gibraltar away in Latvia last night, so you would imagine he would be a doubt to start for this one. Alfie Rutherford and Liam Vincent limped off with injuries against Hemel last weekend so may also be doubts.
Predictions:
Horsham 0-1 Dorking (Carter)
2,118 att.
Foulkes
Camp Craig Norville-Williams
Enslin Pybus Pinchard Pearson
F.Vincent
Prior Carter
Subs: Annesley, Francomb, McManus, Sidwell, Lewis, McCallum, Lawrence
Let's hope the fixture doesn't attract too many teenagers looking for some trouble and that the Wanderers massif can amass together at one end, untroubled.
On the pitch, I expect Horsham will come out the blocks fast. I am now more confident than on previous visits we are capable of weathering any storm and finishing strongly. Horsham 1 Dorking 2 (Carter, Enslin).
Wouldn't surprise me if both Camp and Annesley started. PMac too.
Horsham don't have any rowdy teenagers causing trouble, so shouldn't be any issue unless fans from other clubs turn up. Marc said he felt Camp may not feature tomorrow.
Cheltenham sacking is strange. They still have a fairly good chance of making playoffs, but owner obviously expected top 3 or higher.
@baggy I’m hoping we can get the end behind the goal opposite the club house. The cup last year we seemed to stand on the side down that end but was packed in
@gary-munnery It's a strange one as others have said, and does leave it open for potential flashpoints especially if any banned fans get hold of tickets and other non regulars turn up.
Anyway, last couple of times we all seemed to gather along one side towards the far end, but given the numbers tomorrow it's hard to predict who will go where - especially as the normal practice of standing behind the end we are kicking towards is a bit tricky down by the clubhouse as there's so little room.
Despite that, personally I'll do my best to be behind whichever goal we are attacking, even if it's to the side. I suspect we will be attacking the clubhouse end first half.
Yes @AdeB, Horsham often kick towards the clubhouse end in the second half, so I agree Dorking will be probably attack towards that in the first half. Horsham's ground is hard to get to by teenagers - not near town pubs or a station, so most come with parents. The Stewards there are really good, the best I have seen, so really don't expect any issues unless people come for that reason only.
The jinx was back after a minor blip vs Mhead so going for a Horsham 2-1, Carter for us
This is a hard one to predict. With fitness levels and injuries all over the place, I'm worried about cohesion. Since this is an away game, I'm going with 1 - 2 to Dorking.
Terrible performance and result. Can't say any player played well. Horsham were better team all over the pitch. Probably the best I have seen Horsham play this season, and certainly the worst Dorking performance I have seen this season. Just let Horsham control the whole game, and get ahead. Had a few chances but crosses and chances were poor. I expect Marc will be fuming, and rightly give the players a talking to at end of game. All to do now if going to win title.
I only watched it on the YouTube link, but from what I saw we were terrible. No stand out performance but Horsham were easily the better team. I am very afraid for Monday when I will be watching from Oslo. It could well be the playoffs now.
Absolutely atrocious, as per usual. No one above a 3/10 across the park. Marc got almost every decision wrong as well.
Monday now an absolutely must win, otherwise it will be a 3rd league title bottled in 5 years.
- @crawleysth I think Hemel away probably just shades it for me in terms of worst away performance of the season, but that was indeed dire. Out fought, out played, out scored and out coached. Set pieces were awful. And yet..we had some good chances. If PMac's header goes in straight after half time (and it really should have done) then it's a different game.... maybe. Still top though and all to play for. Win on Monday and we are in the driving seat.
The worst possible result and performance at this time of the season. Nowhere near good enough. Horsham wanted it more, which is absolutely inexcusable seeing as they have nothing to play for. Why?
Liam Vincent at RCB who is possibly the most left footed player didn’t work, and as others have said I don’t think anyone had a good game.. we just weren’t at the races.
Need to dust ourselves and go again on Monday against an in-form Worthing. Right now we are stumbling our way into the playoffs..
Horsham were excellent. We were terrible.
Could see from the first minute we were doomed. Totally wrong formation and team. TC had a really tough time but was always going to struggle against the Horsham striker. Our quality of passing etc was absolutely awful as well down the sides in the first half especially. We had 7/8 chances to slide the attacker or winger in but we just hit the defender. Our midfield disappeared at times, destroyed by Horsham moving the ball quickly.
In the second half, the attempted long balls we went to, and flicks on, were equally as embarrassing as well. See no value in JP anymore attacking, at best he’s handy when defending. Even when we, on a rare occasion, won the first header it just went straight to a Horsham player and we were then back under the cosh.
Never rated the Horsham keeper but he was solid today. Have a feeling Marc will blame the ref considerable but whilst he got a few wrong, we were also on the receiving end of a few benefit of doubts. Thought JNW was extremely lucky not to see a red for his rugby tackle when the Horsham player was away in the second half.
Can’t get much worse than that, so Worthing Monday we should be on the up! Still in our hands.
Yes really really disappointing afternoon, terrible performance. Nothing seemed to come off and Horsham very much deserved that. Really don’t want to visit that ground again.
Monday is going to be some afternoon
That was utter garbage today.
Not pressing the panic button but need a big performance against Worthing.
Hopefully Paul Mac was taken off with that game in mind and not any sort of injury.
Please god can we have Pat Casey back, the guy is a goal machine and just what we need.
"Why would I leave to join a League Two club? We're going there anyway!" - Marc White