Horsham 1 v 1 Bognor Regis Town

[cityboy]

A game of 2 halfs would be the best way to describe this game.
Bognor started off so slowly, constantly giving the ball away, making lots of silly errors.
At 1.0 down it looked like we could be on the way to a thrashing. Fortunately some of Horsham's decision making and final passes let the rocks off the hook and a superb header by Robbo brought Bpogn or back into a game that they had no right to be in.
Second half and after a fierce half time reminder about what was expected of them Bognor now dictated the game.
Chances came but went unpunished as Horsham now hung on. A poor refereeing delicision proved to be vital, as Howes in the Horsham goal deliberately handled outside the box. The referee waived play on the ball was put in the net, but the linesman now flagged. Goal disallowed and the keeper only yellow carded, wrong on both decisions and Horsham reprieved !!!!
In the dying minutes, Amadou saved the Bognor blushes as a defensive error gave Tucky a chance to score against the Rocks.
1.1 at the final whistle, and although unbeaten for the 3rd game on the bounce in the league, yet more points dropped when they shouldn;t have been!!
Onto Potters Bar on Saturday and hopefully a return to the winning ways

[stevebone]

Here's a report from Liam... www.bognor.co.uk/sport/football/robson-strikes-again-to-earn-bognor-a-point-at-horsham-3383252

[stevebone]

And here's some piccies from Lyn, Trev and Martin - www.bognor.co.uk/sport/football/horsham-1-bognor-1-picture-special-3383272

[jackswoolyhat]

A good summary of the game Dave.
It was a bit of a weird one. We seemed very disjointed and unorganised. There seemed to be a disconnect between our defence, midfield and our forward line. It was almost as if they hadn't played together before.
We have undoubted quality in the squad but we didn't seem to impose ourselves and apart from Craig Robson I don't see too many leaders in the team at the moment.

It's a game we could easily have lost, drawn or won. My man of the match was Amadou Tangara in the Rocks goal, which makes me feel deep inside that I'm probably happy with taking a point.
The frustrating thing for me is that I think promotion will be achieved with a low points total this season and a win at Horsham was certainly achievable.

There are a lot of decent sides that are closely matched this season who can easily beat each other on any given day. Our draw at Horsham in my eyes is a game that we needed to control and win if we want to be promoted.
A point is still a decent result against a well organised, hard working side but we'll need to be a bit more switched on at Potters Bar if we want to stay near the early front runners.

I came away from Horsham feeling flat and confused.

[Goldy]

Always been a tough place to go since they’ve had their new ground,think a draw was a fair reflection.
Only gripe I’ve got,why did we change the formation/starting line up from Saturday? Like it’s been mentioned we looked disjointed,we couldn’t get the ball to stick to us.
But what was pleasing we was creating,just worries me we wasn’t taking any chances.
All in all not a bad evening,but like jacks hat has said it could have been all 3 results.

Also think the ref had a nightmare when their goalkeeper made the foul outside the box,as the next rocks player shoots(ends up in the back of the net) he blows up and only books the keeper. But mistakes happy I suppose.

[Pete Helsby]

I would have taken a point at Horsham

[stevebone]

Some fairly strong words from Jack about the performance at Horsham ... www.bognor.co.uk/sport/football/bognor-boss-balance-of-team-not-right-they-are-not-gelling-3384751