Saturday 3rd October 2015 @3pm
FA Vase 2nd Qualifying Round
ABBEY RANGERS 1aet1 TYTHERINGTON ROCKS
Addlestone Moor, Addlestone KT15 2QH
Admission: £5 including Programme: (A5, 28pp)
Attendance: 60 h/c
Refreshments: Guinness, £3.30. Oasis soup, £1.20.
A trouble free 1 hour drive around the M25 to a new ground
for me. I arrived just after 2pm as the
away team coach pulled up. Plenty of
parking at the ground to the side of the club building which has food and drink
on offer and I had a lovely veg soup homemade by one of the catering staff. The pitch this season which has been
developed is the ex-training pitch, closest to the clubhouse, has an overhang
and wooden tables and bench seating in front.
The pitch is fully railed with hard standing around, with dugouts and
floodlights. Some work still to do to
reach sufficient grading to remain at step 6 or rise any higher but they appear
to have a plentiful amount of committee and volunteers at the club.
Having watched the last half an hour of Palaces dominating
win against WBA and chatting with a North London based traveller from Oldham,
the game kicked off and The Rocks had much the better of the first half hour,
with the home side struggling to settle and guilty of some aggressive
tackling. The away side wished they had
converted opportunities in the first period as on a counter attack, Abbey went
a goal up and this seemed to settle them and they ended the half in a
controlling mood.
The second half was fairly even but the combative nature of
both sides threatened to boil over several times before Rocks managed a late
equaliser. Amazingly about a 1/3 of the attendance left not bothering to watch
extra time, including Barry the T### and his similarly tailored
acquaintance. Despite a last period of
pressing by The Rocks on the near goal the teams have to battle it out near
Bristol on Wednesday. I just hope someone
tells the catering manager that Tytherington is not near Birmingham!!
