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Post by ozbrit on Sept 5, 2015 22:10:51 GMT
A Kenny Davis penalty just before the break settled this one. We'll miss Alex Woodyard for I believe three matches after he received a straight red later on in the game. But three points and up to eighth spot isn't to be sneezed at.
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Post by Iron Webbo on Sept 5, 2015 22:25:54 GMT
Dave Ward's take on it:
BRAINTREE UP TO EIGHTH
Skippers penalty sets up fourth win in six
Iron made it three away wins on the trot and their first ever victory over the Harriers in five seasons thanks to a solitary goal from the penalty spot by skipper Kenny Davis three minutes before the interval at the Aggborough on Saturday.
In truth it was no more than the Iron deserved because they were far the better side dominating throughout, created several clearcut goal scoring chances and in essence they should have won by a bigger margin.
It moves the Iron up to eighth place and left manager Dan Cowley delighted at his side's comeback from Bank Holiday's home defeat by Aldershot feeling they fully deserved the three points on the day.
"It was vital that we got back to winning ways quickly after Monday's game where we really beat ourselves and this also means three away wins on the trot which is really good at this level," he explained. "I felt we defended much better in this game with far more substance and we were worked better as a group and were the better organised side.
"We were well in control for the first half and early in the second we had three good chances to have added to our penalty goal but with a slender lead the home side are always going to come back and have a go which they did," he continued. "Between the 45th and 60th minute we had a lot of pressure but this time round we coped with everything they tried and their only real one goal chance saw our keeper Will (Norris) pull off a good save.
"We still need to be a bit more ruthless with those chances going begging because here we should have won by a bigger margin but it's three points and that's what matters," he added.
The only black mark of the day came with the 82nd minute dismissal of Alex Woodyard who a minute earlier had been deliberately stamped on by home defender Luke Maxwell and was deservedly shown a straight red card by referee Adam Hopkins.
But the Iron midfielder reacted wrongly to some subsequent baiting by a section of the home crowd and he too was then shown a straight red card for what was officially called making an inappropriate gesture towards those fans.
"I am disappointed because since joining the club he has been one of our most consistent players but he has let himself down in what was a moment of petulance and immaturity," he explained. "He should know better not to react like that to the crowd and now he will miss three games."
Cowley made three changes to his starting line-up bringing in striker Sean Marks up front, dropping loanee defender Tom Dallinson to the bench replacing him with Chez Issac and pushing the ever reliable Matt Paine into the heart of the defence alongside Mark Phillips.
"I asked Sean to do a specific job up front, particularly in holding the ball up and laying off to on-coming players as well as causing them problems in the heart of their defence and he gave us a fantastic performance," said Cowley.
Although the overall game was hardly a showpiece affair of football excellence it was the Iron who always looked the more dangerous and they should have had a penalty on nine minutes when Issac was blatantly bundled over running into a shooting position in the area but referee Hopkins dismissed the strong appeal from Iron players.
On 24 minutes Dan Sparkes cut inside and drilled a low shot towards goal which keeper Alex Palmer did well to hold and on 33 minutes it was Sparkes again who could have opened the scoring when Simeon Akinola, who proved a handful all game for the home defenders, weaved in from the right wing but his pinpoint cross was headed straight at the keeper by the Iron winger.
The breakthrough came on 41 minutes when Issac was through on goal leaving left-back Lathaniel Rowe-Turner to haul him to the ground and this time referee Hopkins had no hesitation pointing to the penalty spot from where Davis duly obliged driving it hard into the roof of the net.
The second half saw the Iron continue to push for that crucial second goal and they should have found it on 56 minutes when Sparkes broke completely clear of the home defence only to beat keeper Palmer with his shot which unfortunately rattled a goal post before being cleared.
Ten minutes later another chance went begging when Akinola weaved his way through struggling home rearguard only to see his final effort charged down and cleared.
The visitors did retaliate slightly afterwards with two free-kicks on the edge of the Iron box but they were cleared by the Iron defence and on a counter attack from one Akinola was put through by Sparkes but his shot hit keeper Palmer before being kicked clear and the goal chance gone.
The two sendings off late on didn't really change the course of the game with the Iron still well in control and again Issac dribbled clear along the byline and his cross was only inches from making contact with Akinola.
Braintree Town: Norris; Clerima, Paine, Phillips, Habergham; Issac, Davis, Woodyard, Sparkes (Brundle 83); Marks (Cheek 78), Akinola (Miles 89). Unused subs: Dallinson, Chiedozie. Attendance: 1,670.
Next game for the Iron is at home this coming Saturday against Barrow, kick off 3pm.
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Post by ozbrit on Sept 6, 2015 6:36:52 GMT
Going by Dave Ward's report we played reasonably well. Then I read the report from "carpetland" and to be honest it came over as sour grapes, with a fair squeeze of BBB. Read for yourself:
Harriers 0 Braintree Town 1
Date: 05-09-15 Venue: Aggborough att: 1670 away fans: 40
Another shocking result for Harriers
Report: Phil Lench
The Harriers terrible season continued in vengeance today with this embarrassing home defeat to part time Braintree Town. Add in a senseless penalty, a harsh sending off (for both sides), hardly a shot on target, poor defending and a clueless management team then you can see why the Harriers fans are calling out change.
We all had high hopes that this first game of September, coming at the end of an August chock full of tough games against tough sides, would have seen our first win of the season against one of the lesser sides and, to be honest, Braintree are one of the lesser sides on their own performance today. We have all been saying that a poor result today could see the end of Gary Whilds tenure as manager but we didn't expect one this poor. This ramshackle. This incompetent. This boring.
Following the final fifteen minutes at Tranmere last Monday, when we came back with a flurry of goals to draw level, we all thought that with that the new found confidence in the side we would be going into todays game in the same confident mood. Sadly that had all dissipated between the Wirrall and Worcestershire.
We had two changes to the side from Monday with Aman Verma taking over from Tahvon Campbell while Andre Wright stepped aside for Gurjit Singh with both the Albion boys going to the bench. We were all expecting Singh to team up with Reece Styche as a dual strikeforce but this is Gary Whild we're talking about so Styche went wide and left Singh all alone. Yes, one up at home yet again!
The game got underway and, as expected, we did sod all. In fact neither side did sod all. The Iron had a penalty appeal turned down when Verma challenged Sean Marks in the box with Marks going to ground although Verma got the ball cleanly.
Braintree then had a chance from the edge of the box that Alex Palmer collected easily then another from a header also saved cleanly by the Albion youngster. We didn't even get to see a chance on goal at all in the first period due to poor passing from the back and midfield, poor decision making by Adam Dawson when he did get the ball with the tricky winger opting to do it all by himself yet again. The lack of team work between Styche and Singh was also a worry with the former often nearer the halfway line that the goal mouth.
The penalty came about when Lathaniel Rowe-Turner was turned by Chez Isaacs just inside the area and, instead of shepherding the player away from goal, LRT decided to push him instead. Although it was the slightest of touches no striker is going to turn down a chance of going down for a penalty. Kenny Davis made no mistake from the spot sending Palmer the wrong way.
A few minutes later we realised what LRT's first calling should have been. A Shepherd. Jared Hodgkiss passed the ball back towards Palmer but with it going out for a corner (it was that far from the keeper) LRT followed it back with a Braintree player following him and failed to deal with it correctly by playing it to Palmer or into touch. Luckily for him the corner came to nothing.
Hopefully we would see a better second half.
HT: 0 - 1
The second half started with a change to the line-up within the first five minutes when Gurjit Singh was withdrawn from the game to be replaced by Tahvon Campbell. Apart from the ludicrous decision to make a change within minutes of leaving the dressing room there was also the decision to take off your leading scorer with the game in arrears and also the only one that had looked likely to score so far. That said once Campbell came on he did put himself about a bit and looked good.
Thankfully the Iron missed a glorious chance to increase their lead just after when Dan Sparkes missed a one on one with the keeper with the ball hitting the post when he could easily have steered the ball into the net. We responded with our only two direct strikes on goal in the whole match.
First Campbell tried a shot at the near post but the keeper was well placed to save then Styche was played in by Campbell to take the ball forward but hesitated too long and the keeper came out and smothered the ball, bringing the Harriers man in the process but the referee waved the penalty appeal away. A lack of confidence was on show today.
Just after Luke Maxwell had tested the keeper with a shot from distance came the games controversial moment.
Maxwell went in with Adam Woodyard for a fifty fifty ball on the halfway line. No real danger to it but Maxwell did go in slightly hard but only enough to warrant a lecture or a yellow card. Instead the referee immediately brandished a red card and the young Harrier walked off the pitch while Woodyard limped away to the side of the pitch. With the game about to restart the referee called Woodyard over and brandished a red card at him too for reasons that weren't obvious to anyone else in the ground.
The game fizzled out with both sides lacking any interest in playing and the fans any interest in watching.
Some fans applauded that rubbish at the final whistle. Some fans are deluded!
FT: 0 - 1
Goal for Braintree: Davis 43 (pen)
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Post by braintreeboy on Sept 6, 2015 7:41:19 GMT
After 4 very decent solid seasons at this level n going hopefully into a 5th, still some deluded people linked to opposing sides feel we are easy pickings. Tut tut
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Post by rustynail on Sept 6, 2015 8:42:19 GMT
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Post by 4whatitsworth on Sept 6, 2015 10:23:39 GMT
This was another well deserved away win and the score could well have been more in our favour. If Dan Sparkes had scored early in the 2nd half when clean through, but
he hit the post when Sean was unmarked and would have had an easy tap in. A goal then would have further demoralised a poor Harriers side who after that let off did have
a spell of possession but our defence stood up to all they could muster with Remy Clerima and Mark Phillips outstanding.
Also we should have had another penalty in the 2nd half when once again Chez was through on goal and was upended in the box but the Ref bottled it. Up to 8th now and as
the TEAM settle into the the new style of play set by Dan & Nicky who knows how high we can go!
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Post by dbbn on Sept 6, 2015 15:18:08 GMT
Going by Dave Ward's report we played reasonably well. Then I read the report from "carpetland" and to be honest it came over as sour grapes, with a fair squeeze of BBB. Read for yourself:Harriers 0 Braintree Town 1
Date: 05-09-15 Venue: Aggborough att: 1670 away fans: 40
Another shocking result for Harriers
Report: Phil Lench
The Harriers terrible season continued in vengeance today with this embarrassing home defeat to part time Braintree Town. Add in a senseless penalty, a harsh sending off (for both sides), hardly a shot on target, poor defending and a clueless management team then you can see why the Harriers fans are calling out change.
We all had high hopes that this first game of September, coming at the end of an August chock full of tough games against tough sides, would have seen our first win of the season against one of the lesser sides and, to be honest, Braintree are one of the lesser sides on their own performance today. We have all been saying that a poor result today could see the end of Gary Whilds tenure as manager but we didn't expect one this poor. This ramshackle. This incompetent. This boring.
Following the final fifteen minutes at Tranmere last Monday, when we came back with a flurry of goals to draw level, we all thought that with that the new found confidence in the side we would be going into todays game in the same confident mood. Sadly that had all dissipated between the Wirrall and Worcestershire.
We had two changes to the side from Monday with Aman Verma taking over from Tahvon Campbell while Andre Wright stepped aside for Gurjit Singh with both the Albion boys going to the bench. We were all expecting Singh to team up with Reece Styche as a dual strikeforce but this is Gary Whild we're talking about so Styche went wide and left Singh all alone. Yes, one up at home yet again!
The game got underway and, as expected, we did sod all. In fact neither side did sod all. The Iron had a penalty appeal turned down when Verma challenged Sean Marks in the box with Marks going to ground although Verma got the ball cleanly.
Braintree then had a chance from the edge of the box that Alex Palmer collected easily then another from a header also saved cleanly by the Albion youngster. We didn't even get to see a chance on goal at all in the first period due to poor passing from the back and midfield, poor decision making by Adam Dawson when he did get the ball with the tricky winger opting to do it all by himself yet again. The lack of team work between Styche and Singh was also a worry with the former often nearer the halfway line that the goal mouth.
The penalty came about when Lathaniel Rowe-Turner was turned by Chez Isaacs just inside the area and, instead of shepherding the player away from goal, LRT decided to push him instead. Although it was the slightest of touches no striker is going to turn down a chance of going down for a penalty. Kenny Davis made no mistake from the spot sending Palmer the wrong way.
A few minutes later we realised what LRT's first calling should have been. A Shepherd. Jared Hodgkiss passed the ball back towards Palmer but with it going out for a corner (it was that far from the keeper) LRT followed it back with a Braintree player following him and failed to deal with it correctly by playing it to Palmer or into touch. Luckily for him the corner came to nothing.
Hopefully we would see a better second half.
HT: 0 - 1
The second half started with a change to the line-up within the first five minutes when Gurjit Singh was withdrawn from the game to be replaced by Tahvon Campbell. Apart from the ludicrous decision to make a change within minutes of leaving the dressing room there was also the decision to take off your leading scorer with the game in arrears and also the only one that had looked likely to score so far. That said once Campbell came on he did put himself about a bit and looked good.
Thankfully the Iron missed a glorious chance to increase their lead just after when Dan Sparkes missed a one on one with the keeper with the ball hitting the post when he could easily have steered the ball into the net. We responded with our only two direct strikes on goal in the whole match.
First Campbell tried a shot at the near post but the keeper was well placed to save then Styche was played in by Campbell to take the ball forward but hesitated too long and the keeper came out and smothered the ball, bringing the Harriers man in the process but the referee waved the penalty appeal away. A lack of confidence was on show today.
Just after Luke Maxwell had tested the keeper with a shot from distance came the games controversial moment.
Maxwell went in with Adam Woodyard for a fifty fifty ball on the halfway line. No real danger to it but Maxwell did go in slightly hard but only enough to warrant a lecture or a yellow card. Instead the referee immediately brandished a red card and the young Harrier walked off the pitch while Woodyard limped away to the side of the pitch. With the game about to restart the referee called Woodyard over and brandished a red card at him too for reasons that weren't obvious to anyone else in the ground.
The game fizzled out with both sides lacking any interest in playing and the fans any interest in watching.
Some fans applauded that rubbish at the final whistle. Some fans are deluded!
FT: 0 - 1
Goal for Braintree: Davis 43 (pen)
What a poorly written article, summed up in these 2 sentences "The game got underway and, as expected, we did sod all. In fact neither side did sod all.". Work it out for yourselves.
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Post by ironhorse on Sept 8, 2015 8:25:38 GMT
Blimey I hope I come across a bit better than that!!! Not bad for us doing "sod all" in the first or second half.........half a dozen corners three clear penalty shouts and quite a few efforts towards goal if not entirely accurate ones. The first kiddy shot was 35 minutes into the game, now that is sod all!!!! Oh and there was Kenny's pen!!
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