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A break from league action as we face Eastbourne in the FA Trophy. They currently sit in 3rd place in the league with 3 wins from their last 5 although they did lose 3-0 away at Chippenham last time out on Saturday.
Hard to tell what kind of team Marc will go for but you would expect it would be a good opportunity to rest some of the more highly used players this season (Muitt, Craig, etc) and get some minutes in those than need them (Briggs, B.Taylor, Francomb, etc). I assume Josh Brooking will be available despite his red card at Slough as it takes 7 days for the suspension to kick in.
Not sure if Randall will be available for this but I imagine he will be otherwise there was not much point in Ebbsfleet loaning him out to us for this period.
Predictions:
Dorking 0-0 Eastbourne Borough (Eastbourne win on pens)
1,152 att.
Foulkes
Brooking Francomb Milsom
Briggs Gallagher Williams B.Taylor
Carter Young
Alexandrou
Subs: Camp, Craig, Norville-Williams, Myles, Randall, Rutherford, Rawlins
(Could also give one of Gallagher or Young a much needed rest and start Rutherford, Myles, Rawlins, etc instead)
Marc said it would be a strong team but I’m sure there will be a 3 or 4 changes from Slough. Fancy a 2-1 home win
Dorking (2) 4 Eastbourne B (1) 3 (Carter 2, Briggs, Rutherford)
1,199 (101 from Sussex)
Sounds like Bobby-Joe is going out on loan today so expecting Randall to start and Muitt to take his place on the bench. I really hope we don't start Jimmy, he's not a player we can afford to get injured...
Given that Marc is going to play a pretty strong side, and I assume Eastbourne will rest a lot of players. You have to favour us to win this one 3-1.
Eastbourne manager quite open that he wasnt too bothered about the trophy and their only priority is promotion but still had enough to get past us
Looked less and less like getting a 2nd goal as the second half went on
Cue the usual failure to keep a clean sheet and when it went to pens knew that unless Eastbourne missed the target they would be going through
Didn't expect Prior to try a Panenka though, really stupid
Dont think Harrison has saved a single pen all season (in any game) though? Slav would have saved at least one of those even now in his career.
If we get to sign a 7th player during this season, please be a new keeper!
Hugely peed off that yet again, no cup run!
It's a cup with a trip to Wembley, that almost all NL clubs dont care about! A chance to put the club on the map.
I'll watch Deano's no doubt dull summing up later when I am a bit less annoyed than I am at the moment!
"Why would I leave to join a League Two club? We're going there anyway!" - Marc White
@dorking-eagle Spare yourself. Bit dull and no insight.
I had zero confidence in Foulkes saving any penalties - just doesn't seem that kind of player.
Had to literally get a taxi from the stadium at the final whistle to head to the airport for that trip to a pub in New York 🙄
"Why would I leave to join a League Two club? We're going there anyway!" - Marc White
@dorking-eagle 👍 🇺🇸 … we really didnt want penalties today did we for all sorts of reasons …
‘We’re the red and white army’ 🐔 ⚽️
I had zero confidence in Foulkes saving any penalties - just doesn't seem that kind of player.
Same. I won't put it on a wider forum such as twitter but have to say I am seriously unimpressed with Foulkes - he's so average it's unreal. I have zero faith in ever nicking a 1-0 win, and even less confidence that he could save a pen. He is costing us.
That doesn't exonerate Prior and his idiotic pen today of course.
"Why would I leave to join a League Two club? We're going there anyway!" - Marc White
@dorking-eagle Spare yourself. Bit dull and no insight.
Had to watch it, you weren't wrong! 😆 2 mins 51 seconds of Zzzzzzz and he thought it was a 'really good game'
Love this club, huge way to go to take anything big from this season now.
"Why would I leave to join a League Two club? We're going there anyway!" - Marc White
