All of sudden we don't want the season to end, however this coming Saturday our squad travel to Hayes Lane, home of Bromley FC for their penultimate away fixture of the season.
Bromley FC are coming to the end of their very first season in the non-league top flight, and I'm sure as a club they'll will quietly satisfied with their efforts, but maybe it could have been better for them, 9 wins across September and October saw The Ravens sat in the top 4 places, and in Moses Emmanuel who ripped us a new one earlier in the season, they have a real match winning front man.
However a very poor end to the calendar year, which continued on through to mid February saw Bromley slip away from contention for promotion to the football league, although of late The Ravens have recovered some of their form, but are set for mid table finish now, as they can't achieve the play-offs and have been safe from relegation for some time.
Bromley during the course of their first ever season at this level broke one particular club record, it's day we at Torquay United will want to forget, Bromley's highest recorded aggregate away win thanks to that match now stands at 10, with their 3.7 win earlier in the season.
For Gulls fans attending the match
http://www.footballgroundguide.com/leag ... -lane.html
Bromley top goalscorers
Moses Emmanuel 20
Jack Holland 6
Adam Cunnington 5
Louis Dennis 5
Bradley Goldberg 5
Sean Francis 3
Alex Wall 3
Ali Fuseini 2
Pierre Joseph-Dubois 2
Ben May 2
Joe Anderson 1
Rohdell Gordon 1
Lee Minshull 1
Paul Rodgers 1
Robbie Swaine 1
Current form
Bromley FC; L-D-L-D-W-D
15 Mar Eastleigh 2 - 0 Bromley
19 Mar Barrow 1 - 1 Bromley
25 Mar Braintree 1 - 0 Bromley
28 Mar Bromley 2 - 2 Forest Green
2 Apr Bromley 2 - 0 Lincoln City
9 Apr Altrincham 0 - 0 Bromley
Last time out
Altrincham 0 - 0 Bromley
1 Julian
6 Holland
5 Swaine
4 Fuseini
13 Anderson
19 Francis (Gordon 46'minutes)
7 Joseph-Dubois
15 Minshull
20 Coombes (Higgs 74'minutes)
18 Emmanuel
10 Goldberg
Substitutes
23 Crean
24 Stanic-Stewart
25 Gordon
27 O'Connor
29 Higgs
Bromley unable to break down relegation-threatened Altrincham
Bromley gained a point in their penultimate away game at relegation threatened, Altrincham, on Saturday afternoon.
In an easily forgettable first half, both sides had a couple of chances but were unable to find the net, as their efforts were either blocked, off target or, in Altrincham’s case, were denied by the Bromley goalkeeper, Alan Julian.
For full match report;
http://www.newsshopper.co.uk/sport/1442 ... ltrincham/
From a Torquay United point of view
Well who'd have thought we'd see our team go into the Bromley match in the position our club now finds itself in, go on be honest. Now only a freak sequence of results could see still see our club relegated, of course it can happen, but now highly unlikely, Kevin Nicholson and the squad our aware of it and no doubt will remain focused.
Great to see Luke Young back for a full 90 minutes, just watching his calmness on the ball, and not just quality of his passing, but quality of balls played into the box, and specific areas around the pitch, he gave master class, and showed us what we'd been missing all season, particularly with his goal, all about the position he took up and technique.
On to the Bromley game, who can forget the 3.7 defeat earlier in the season, when Dean Edwards had a dream, that he was actually a football a manager, don't know about that early season chant about Deano having a dream, think this bloke as far as Torquay United concerned may just have a total nightmare on more that one issue.
Bromley will not find us to be the total pushovers as last time out, our team will give them a much tougher test this time out, although it will be difficult game for us to win, but I think we'd all settle for a 0.1 revenge victory, as that would settle relegation once and for all.
Torquay United top goalscorers
Nathan Blissett 7
Andre Wright 3
Iffy Allen 3
Dan Butler 2
Nathan Smith 2
Shaun Harrad 2
Luke Young 1
Toby Ajala 1
Durrell Berry 1
Exodus Geohaghon 1
Angus MacDonald 1
Courtney Richards 1
Aman Verma 1
Current form
Torquay United; L-L-W-W-L-W
26 Mar Dover Athlet. 5 - 0 Torquay Utd
28 Mar Torquay Utd 0 - 1 Eastleigh
2 Apr Gateshead 1 - 2 Torquay Utd
5 Apr Torquay Utd 2 - 0 Chester
9 Apr Torquay Utd 0 - 1 Tranmere
12 Apr Torquay Utd 2 - 0 Altrincham
Last time out
Torquay United 2 - 0 Altrincham
26 Moore
25 Verma
5 MacDonald
8 Young
3 Butler
22 Gerring
4 Rees
16 Richards
7 Allen (Ajala 84'minutes)
12 Harrad (Wright 63'minutes)
17 Blissett
Substitutes
1 Fisher
6 Geohaghon
14 Ajala
19 Chaney
28 Wright
LET'S GET THE JOB DONE
“I am happy for the lads,†he said. “They worked hard and got their just rewards out there.
“The job is not done yet, though; there is still plenty of work to be done, but we’ll enjoy this win and then get ready to go again at the weekend.
“I know that these lads can play under pressure because they’ve had to do it for a while now. We played well on the night; we defended well and scored two good goals. My only complaint is that we should have had more than two goals.
“That said, it’s an important three points for us. We were on top for long periods and soaked up the pressure well when Altrincham had their spell on top at the start of the second half.
“Once we saw that through, there was only going to be one winner and credit to the lads for the way they performed.
“I was delighted to see Youngy and Shaun on the scoresheet, both of them thoroughly deserved it.
“Now we move on to Saturday’s game and the battle to get three more points to get this job done.â€
English National League
19.09.2015 Torquay United 3-7 Bromley
Cup Results
24.11.1951 r1 Torquay United 3-2 Bromley
F.A Trophy
15.1.2015 r2 Torquay United 4-0 Bromley