Fareham Town 0--Falmouth Town 1 (F A Vase)

[Mike Odgers]

A  late winner from young James Swan (1--0)  takes Falmouth to their   6th. consecutive  F A Vase 2nd Round appearance-Well done Westy with two ever presents  out (Tom Annear & Jack Webber)- attendance 229 at Fareham (Hampshire) the first ever meeting.

Who was there yo give a report ?

Fareham T, Manager Graham Rix the former England and Arsenal player.

James Swan became the 16th. different Town scorer this season  (17th. if you coint his Own Goal last week)

[mattelot]

9 hours ago, Mike Odgers said:

A  late winner from young James Swan (1--0)  takes Falmouth to their   6th. consecutive  F A Vase 2nd Round appearance-Well done Westy with two ever presents  out (Tom Annear & Jack Webber)- attendance 229 at Fareham (Hampshire) the first ever meeting.

Who was there yo give a report ?

Fareham T, Manager Graham Rix the former England and Arsenal player.

Will give the match report a go Mike.

Town returned home to Bickland at midnight after a very long but pleasing day.When we left at 7am in the pouring rain ,there was a little apprehension as to wether we would get the dreaded phone call en route to say the game was off as a pitch inspection the previous afternoon gave the odds as 50/50. 

The journey itself was straightforward no holdups with Westy entertaining us en route with his 100 question quiz.Thanks must go to you Mike for providing the history of Falmouth Town questions.

On arrival we were greeted by a club official who was pleasantly surprised at the amount of supporters that were getting off the players coach and we were pleasantly surprised at the facilities and welcome .Always good to see a level pitch as well.

The game started with both sides cautiously psyching each other out. After the 1rst 15 mins Town were getting into their stride stroking the ball around with James Swan and Bradley Leivers making probing runs down the wings.After 20 mins Luke Braybn saw a header hit the crossbar and the tireless Luke Barner was causing problems with his running at the Fareham defence.

Fareham had reasonable passages of play which mostly involved leading scorer sam kessick but any threat was quickly snuffed out by captain James Ward and the impressive Kayden Gordon Dunn replacing the absent Tom Annear.

The 2nd half saw Fareham come out fired up and for the 1rst 10 mins Town had to repell some dangerous attacks with keeper Morgan Coxhead making some important confident saves.

As the half wore on Fareham were visibly tiring on what was now becoming a heavy pitch and made 3 substitutions. Town manager Andy westgarth made 3 changes of his own with the luxury of bringing on 3 impact subs in Olly Walker, Cam Hutchison and Jayden Gilbert.

Olly Walker was soon terrorising the Fareham right back with his pace and trickery delivering cross after cross into the box either just eluding a Falmouth player or hacked clear by desperate Fareham defending,Olly himself having a goalbound dipping drive tipped over the bar.

With 5mins of normal time remaining and myself fearing the lottery of penalties an Olly Walker cross was cleared out to the right wing where James Swan calmly collected the ball ,cut inside the box and rifled the ball inside the post past the despairing dive of the Fareham keeper.

Cue the celebrations of the 39 travelling f troopers who never stopped willing the boys on throughout the game, as a Fareham  supporter laughingly said after" you had a 12th man out there today "

[Mike Odgers]

41 minutes ago, mattelot said:

Will give the match report a go Mike.

Town returned home to Bickland at midnight after a very long but pleasing day.When we left at 7am in the pouring rain ,there was a little apprehension as to wether we would get the dreaded phone call en route to say the game was off as a pitch inspection the previous afternoon gave the odds as 50/50. 

The journey itself was straightforward no holdups with Westy entertaining us en route with his 100 question quiz.Thanks must go to you Mike for providing the history of Falmouth Town questions.

On arrival we were greeted by a club official who was pleasantly surprised at the amount of supporters that were getting off the players coach and we were pleasantly surprised at the facilities and welcome .Always good to see a level pitch as well.

The game started with both sides cautiously psyching each other out. After the 1rst 15 mins Town were getting into their stride stroking the ball around with James Swan and Bradley Leivers making probing runs down the wings.After 20 mins Luke Braybn saw a header hit the crossbar and the tireless Luke Barner was causing problems with his running at the Fareham defence.

Fareham had reasonable passages of play which mostly involved leading scorer sam kessick but any threat was quickly snuffed out by captain James Ward and the impressive Kayden Gordon Dunn replacing the absent Tom Annear.

The 2nd half saw Fareham come out fired up and for the 1rst 10 mins Town had to repell some dangerous attacks with keeper Morgan Coxhead making some important confident saves.

As the half wore on Fareham were visibly tiring on what was now becoming a heavy pitch and made 3 substitutions. Town manager Andy westgarth made 3 changes of his own with the luxury of bringing on 3 impact subs in Olly Walker, Cam Hutchison and Jayden Gilbert.

Olly Walker was soon terrorising the Fareham right back with his pace and trickery delivering cross after cross into the box either just eluding a Falmouth player or hacked clear by desperate Fareham defending,Olly himself having a goalbound dipping drive tipped over the bar.

With 5mins of normal time remaining and myself fearing the lottery of penalties an Olly Walker cross was cleared out to the right wing where James Swan calmly collected the ball ,cut inside the box and rifled the ball inside the post past the despairing dive of the Fareham keeper.

Cue the celebrations of the 39 travelling f troopers who never stopped willing the boys on throughout the game, as a Fareham  supporter laughingly said after" you had a 12th man out there today "

Thanks Nige-I love the mix of match report and the rest of the day activity.

So pleased for Ruth for making the journey after what's she 's been through

[Both Sides of the Tamar]

2 hours ago, mattelot said:

Will give the match report a go Mike.

Town returned home to Bickland at midnight after a very long but pleasing day.When we left at 7am in the pouring rain ,there was a little apprehension as to wether we would get the dreaded phone call en route to say the game was off as a pitch inspection the previous afternoon gave the odds as 50/50. 

The journey itself was straightforward no holdups with Westy entertaining us en route with his 100 question quiz.Thanks must go to you Mike for providing the history of Falmouth Town questions.

On arrival we were greeted by a club official who was pleasantly surprised at the amount of supporters that were getting off the players coach and we were pleasantly surprised at the facilities and welcome .Always good to see a level pitch as well.

The game started with both sides cautiously psyching each other out. After the 1rst 15 mins Town were getting into their stride stroking the ball around with James Swan and Bradley Leivers making probing runs down the wings.After 20 mins Luke Braybn saw a header hit the crossbar and the tireless Luke Barner was causing problems with his running at the Fareham defence.

Fareham had reasonable passages of play which mostly involved leading scorer sam kessick but any threat was quickly snuffed out by captain James Ward and the impressive Kayden Gordon Dunn replacing the absent Tom Annear.

The 2nd half saw Fareham come out fired up and for the 1rst 10 mins Town had to repell some dangerous attacks with keeper Morgan Coxhead making some important confident saves.

As the half wore on Fareham were visibly tiring on what was now becoming a heavy pitch and made 3 substitutions. Town manager Andy westgarth made 3 changes of his own with the luxury of bringing on 3 impact subs in Olly Walker, Cam Hutchison and Jayden Gilbert.

Olly Walker was soon terrorising the Fareham right back with his pace and trickery delivering cross after cross into the box either just eluding a Falmouth player or hacked clear by desperate Fareham defending,Olly himself having a goalbound dipping drive tipped over the bar.

With 5mins of normal time remaining and myself fearing the lottery of penalties an Olly Walker cross was cleared out to the right wing where James Swan calmly collected the ball ,cut inside the box and rifled the ball inside the post past the despairing dive of the Fareham keeper.

Cue the celebrations of the 39 travelling f troopers who never stopped willing the boys on throughout the game, as a Fareham  supporter laughingly said after" you had a 12th man out there today "

Great report. Thanks for that!

[Jeff Chambers]

7 hours ago, mattelot said:

Will give the match report a go Mike.

Town returned home to Bickland at midnight after a very long but pleasing day.When we left at 7am in the pouring rain ,there was a little apprehension as to wether we would get the dreaded phone call en route to say the game was off as a pitch inspection the previous afternoon gave the odds as 50/50. 

The journey itself was straightforward no holdups with Westy entertaining us en route with his 100 question quiz.Thanks must go to you Mike for providing the history of Falmouth Town questions.

On arrival we were greeted by a club official who was pleasantly surprised at the amount of supporters that were getting off the players coach and we were pleasantly surprised at the facilities and welcome .Always good to see a level pitch as well.

The game started with both sides cautiously psyching each other out. After the 1rst 15 mins Town were getting into their stride stroking the ball around with James Swan and Bradley Leivers making probing runs down the wings.After 20 mins Luke Braybn saw a header hit the crossbar and the tireless Luke Barner was causing problems with his running at the Fareham defence.

Fareham had reasonable passages of play which mostly involved leading scorer sam kessick but any threat was quickly snuffed out by captain James Ward and the impressive Kayden Gordon Dunn replacing the absent Tom Annear.

The 2nd half saw Fareham come out fired up and for the 1rst 10 mins Town had to repell some dangerous attacks with keeper Morgan Coxhead making some important confident saves.

As the half wore on Fareham were visibly tiring on what was now becoming a heavy pitch and made 3 substitutions. Town manager Andy westgarth made 3 changes of his own with the luxury of bringing on 3 impact subs in Olly Walker, Cam Hutchison and Jayden Gilbert.

Olly Walker was soon terrorising the Fareham right back with his pace and trickery delivering cross after cross into the box either just eluding a Falmouth player or hacked clear by desperate Fareham defending,Olly himself having a goalbound dipping drive tipped over the bar.

With 5mins of normal time remaining and myself fearing the lottery of penalties an Olly Walker cross was cleared out to the right wing where James Swan calmly collected the ball ,cut inside the box and rifled the ball inside the post past the despairing dive of the Fareham keeper.

Cue the celebrations of the 39 travelling f troopers who never stopped willing the boys on throughout the game, as a Fareham  supporter laughingly said after" you had a 12th man out there today "

Great report Nigel. THE MIGHTY TOWN GO MARCHING ON !!!. Looking forward to playing Helston at Bickland Park this Tuesday evening in the Les Philips league cup, 7:45 kick off.

Hoping more than 85 turn up  

ALL ROADS LEAD TO BICKLAND PARK. UTT.

[rocky170267]

Great report ! I thought Graham Rix was  in Prison ??

 

[Dave Deacon]

3 hours ago, rocky170267 said:

 I thought Graham Rix was  in Prison ??

 

Nope!

[RAPPO]

Great report Nige!! You’re a natural mate! No need to buy the Packet anymore! 👏🏼👍⚽️😀🧡🖤

[Buckland Jim]

3 hours ago, rocky170267 said:

Great report ! I thought Graham Rix was  in Prison ??

 

He used to be, but only served 6 months of his sentence before being released 

[Jeremy Wade]

14 hours ago, rocky170267 said:

Great report ! I thought Graham Rix was  in Prison ??

 

20+ years ago

JW