ANOTHER DEFEAT AT GOLDSDOWN ROAD

CURRENT RYMAN DIVISION ONE (NORTH) TABLE 
                          P  W  D  L GF GA  GD PTS  HOME  
1. Needham Market         27 21 3  3 69 31  38 66   TBP
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2. East Thurrock United   28 20 4  4 61 28  33 64   0-4
3. Wingate and Finchley   28 15 6  7 51 40  11 51   1-2
4. Maldon and  Tiptree    30 14 7  9 57 51   6 49   0-1
5. Brentwood Town         28 13 7  8 49 41   8 46   0-1
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6. Heybridge Swifts       28 12 7  9 55 37  18 43   TBP
7. Romford                24 13 4  7 40 28  12 43   1-1
8. Enfield Town           27 13 3 11 54 35  19 42   -
9. AFC Sudbury            26 12 6  8 53 47   6 42   2-0
10. Harlow Town           27 12 4 11 35 39 - 4 40   5-0
11. Potters Bar Town      29 11 6 12 47 54 - 7 39   2-3
12. Waltham Abbey         26 10 8  8 51 38  13 38   2-1
13. Grays Athletic        24 10 6  8 39 32   7 36   2-0
14. Thamesmead Town       26 10 4 12 33 41 - 8 34   0-1
15. Great Wakering Rovers 29 10 3 16 47 58 -11 33   0-3
16. Cheshunt              29 9  6 14 41 54 -13 33   1-2
17. Ware                  27 8  3 16 36 56 -20 27   4-0 
18. Redbridge             25 6  5 14 31 52 -21 23   TBP
19. Tilbury               28 7  2 19 27 51 -24 23   TBP
20. Ilford                27 4  4 19 24 54 -30 16   TBP
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21. Waltham Forest        27 3  6 18 25 58 -33 15   TBP 

HOME denotes ETFC results at Goldsdown Road..TBP = To be played  

Brentwood Town got some revenge for the 1-6 defeat Town recorded at The Arena a few weeks ago by winning 0-1 at Goldsdown Road yesterday to take a very important three points back to Essex in the race for the play-offs. I wasn't present but reports back to Cold End HQ are grim as Town turned in another poor performance at home. 

If Town don't make it to the play-offs at the end of the season it'll be the team's home form that is to blame. Out of the seven teams above us in the table Town have lost at home to East Thurrock United, W&F, M&T and Brentwood Town (the four team's currently in the play-off zone) and have drawn against Romford. We still have to play Needham Market and Heybridge Swifts which are the next two scheduled home games and then play the current bottom four in the final home games of the season. It could be considered an easier run in at home than some of the other teams in the mix-up but the cold end will use the old saying that no game is ever easy and that seems especially true at Goldsdown Road at present. Maybe in the game against Needham Market the team should wear the red and yellow away strip????

With all the postponements because of the snow earlier in the season and now the rain which wiped out the fixture list yesterday apart from Town's game and Heybridge Swifts 2 Potters Bar Town 0 and Tilbury 1 AFC Sudbury 2 the league table still has a somewhat dis-jointed appearance to it. Romford have a good number of games to make up and if they are successful in those they should take one of the play-off spots with Wingate and Finchley and either Needham Market or East Thurrock United. As always for teams in the Boro's position the argument/question of are points in the bag better than games in hand could be asked??
They have run of five home games and three away games in March including playing two local derby games versus Tilbury and also Harlow Town at home and away.  

If Romford do win some of their games in hand that would leave in the cold end's opinion eight teams (Maldon and Tiptree, Brentwood Town, Heybridge Swifts, Enfield Town, AFC Sudbury, Harlow Town, Waltham Abbey and Grays Athletic) of fighting it out for the coveted fifth placed spot. I haven't included Potters Bar Town as due to their points total and amount of games played I think fifth place now may be beyond them.

Town still have thirteen games to play making a total of 39 points to play for so anything is possible??? Lots of luck will be required and no more home defeats!!

All the players were rightly gutted about the performance yesterday and will be fully committed to putting things right in the next game on Tuesday night at Waltham Abbey. To all supporters of ETFC let's get behind the lads and hope for a win against our local rivals.

I don't know the state of the pitch at Capershotts but their home game versus Maldon and Tiptree was postponed yesterday. Some light rain is forecast for Monday in the Waltham Abbey area but otherwise it's hopefully going to be nice and dry for the game to get the go-ahead.

COME ON YOU TOWN!!