New website - Bashley FC

NEW WEBSITE: Bashley FC

BASHLEY FC have today launched their new website on the Pitchero network in conjunction with theonionsack. 


The new site can be found here: http://www.pitchero.com/clubs/bashleyfc/


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Report: Wimborne Tn 0-1 Paulton Rovers - Southern S&W

QUICKFIRE STRIKE:
Nick McCootie

WHEN you ship a goal 17 seconds after your own side has kicked off, you just know your luck’s not in.

Wimborne Town’s barren home run has halted their push for the Southern South & West play-offs in recent weeks and Steve Cuss’ men missed the chance to turn the corner against their fellow contenders.

Four defeats in five at Cuthbury leave the Magpies seven points adrift of the top five, but of greater concern will be a lack of spark in the final third. With Town collecting just one league clean sheet all season, back in October at Paulton, their profligacy becomes a real headache.

Visiting stopper Kyle Phillips was largely a spectator in a dour clash in Dorset as Paulton, buoyed by Nick McCootie’s opportunistic strike, looked the likelier to add to the scoring throughout.

For their spells of nice possession outside the two penalty areas, Wimborne took a step back towards last season in the two danger zones as hesitant defending and a lack of end product undermined some decent play.

Rovers’ defensive partnership of Stuart Pearson and Scott Brice stood firm to any pressure, while in the second half, McCootie’s ability to offer his defence some respite put wind in Paulton’s sails.

A long ball forward found James Billing who slid McCootie in to tuck the ball past Jason Harvell early on with Adam Costello and Nathan Peprah-Annan statuesque, their minds seemingly still in the dressing room.

Rovers' Marcus Mapstone wasted a good opportunity to double the visitors lead before Dan Cleverley’s shot was snuffed out. Craig Loxton drew a fine save from Harvell while Ben Lacey’s rebound pelted the post as Wimborne were over-run during the first 20 minutes.

The hosts eventually settled but offered little in attack and McCootie almost made it two for Paulton before the break, darting past two defenders with ease and beating Harvell at his near post only for Peprah-Annan to clear off the line.

Tom Jeffes could only force a routine save from Phillips with a close range header, and while Wimborne offered more after the restart, there was no killer instinct.

Cuss made three changes in three minutes and the introduction of AFC Bournemouth loanee Alex Moth, along with strikers Matt Kemble and Steve Smith, added impetus in the closing stages.

Kemble and Smith combined for the former to give Phillips his biggest test of the afternoon before Pearson’s last ditch tackle stopped Smith racing away one-on-one.

The overwhelming feeling, though, was that this was again not to be Wimborne’s day and Jon Blake’s harsh late dismissal for a second booking confirmed it.

It would be wrong to talk too much about fortune though – Paulton thoroughly deserved their victory and looked by far the better bet for this season’s play-offs. Meanwhile, if Wimborne want to make an impact on the top five, they need to address last season’s problems in the two penalty areas, even if they aren’t as prevalent as they were a year ago. 

*STEVE Cuss' post match thoughts given to the Bournemouth Echo can be found here.  



WIMBORNE TOWN: Harvell, Arnold, Case, Costello (Smith 70), Peprah-Annan, Blake, Sainsbury, Hubbard, Jeffes (Kemble 67), Davidson (Moth 67), Webb. Unused subs: Maybury, Ackerman (g/k). 


PAULTON ROVERS: Phillips, Tovey, Allward, Pearson, Brice, Mapstone, Loxton (Egan 80), Lacey, Billing, Cleverley, McCootie (Norris 90). Unused subs: Jeffries, Vyner. 



STAR MAN: Nick McCootie (Paulton Rovers)


After catching Costello and Peprah-Annan cold early on, Paulton's burly bruiser gave all of the Magpies defence a torrid afternoon. Powered through at will during the first half and was unlucky not to add to his tally, then offered an outball when the pressure came after the break. Classic centre forward play making Rovers' classic away performance possible. 

News: Bashley loan Pompey midfielder Colson for a month

BASHLEY BOUND:
George Colson

BASHLEY have secured the services of Portsmouth youngster George Colson on a month's loan ahead of this weekend's trip to Barwell. 


Colson, 19, made his Pompey debut in the League Cup against Plymouth Argyle before spending a a two month loan spell with Dorchester Town. 


The attacking midfielder goes straight into the Bash squad for tomorrow's trip to Barwell in the Southern Premier. The Canaries won the reverse fixture 5-0 in September.


*The story for the Bournemouth Echo can be found here, as well as a preview of tomorrow's match. 

Betting blog: Southern Premier - Saturday 26th January 2013

IN the first of a new column theonionsack takes a look at betting in the Southern League Premier Division and picks the hot tips for the forthcoming weekend’s action.

Despite the weather forecast being pretty grim for most fixtures, we’ve plucked four matches out for potential profit this week with some of the less obvious selections looking the best bet.

There may not be a lot between AFC Totton and St Neots Town in the league table, but with the Saints’ form plummeting and Steve Riley’s charges winning seven of their last eight outings at the Testwood Stadium the Stags are great value for a home win at 11/10.

We should get two more home wins from promotion chasing clubs in the Midlands with Barwell, on the back of three straight wins, hosting a Bashley side who are winless in six and the Canaries won 5-0 at Bash back in September. Elsewhere, high-flying Stourbridge welcome strugglers Hitchin Town. Both are odds on (Barwell 4/7, Stourbridge 4/9) but added to our final selection, the odds add up to nearly 9/1.

Cambridge City, who are 11/10 to win at Frome Town make up the quartet. The hosts are without a win at The Aldersmith Stadium in six matches while the Lilywhites have won six out of eight away games with the only blots on their copybook being narrow defeats at Hemel and Barwell, bothcurrently in the top five.

We’re avoiding the top two this week as Leamington travel to an in-form Arlesey Town and Hemel host improving Weymouth. Elsewhere, Chesham’s form is too good to discount as they travel to Gosport Borough who top the form table.

TOP TIP: A cheeky tenner on those four returns just shy of £100 with Bet365 at the current odds, but get on it quickly if you’re going to, the odds are getting shorter pretty quickly.

*Prices correct at time of publication. 

Exclusive: Pompey star Paul Hall joins Romulus coaching staff

NEW ROMS COACH: Paul Hall

FORMER Portsmouth star and Jamaican international Paul Hall has joined the back room staff at Northern Premier League club Romulus theonionsack can exclusively reveal.

Hall, 40, will come in as First Team Coach as the Roms shake things up behind the scenes with current coach Dave Barnett stepping up to the role of joint manager alongside the long serving Richard Evans.

The former Pompey striker or winger returns to the game after a year out following a spell as assistant manager at Mansfield Town, who reached the FA Trophy final, and as coach at Tamworth who got to the 3rd Round proper of the FA Cup.

That came on the back of a successful Football League career, totalling more than 500 appearances and scoring over 100 goals for a succession of clubs including a successful five year stint at Fratton Park.

But he really made his name by receiving the call to represent the Reggae Boyz in the 1998 World Cup with his displays in France earning Hall a £300,000 move to the Premier League with Coventry City before helping another Midlands club Walsall to promotion.

His latest move may raise a few eyebrows, but despite the Roms sitting second bottom of the Northern Premier League Division One South, Hall is relishing the task ahead.

“This will be the biggest challenge of my life,” he said “people may look at that and think it is a strange thing to say with some of the highlights I have had in my career, but that has gone and it is all about now.

“The league position means the lads can’t be very happy at the moment, but that is a good thing, you don’t want people who are happy to be down there struggling.

“We need to create a good atmosphere because wherever I have had success there has always been that togetherness.”

Hall has already got to work, attending his first training session and meeting the players, and insists that the Roms’ young charges were not overawed by his arrival.

“Everyone was very welcoming and it was quite relaxed. I have always considered myself to be one of the lads and I respect these players in the same way I would respect the top players I have played with.

“There are some familiar faces in the squad that I have come across before and we are all in it together. We just need to try and improve what we have done already. We need to make ourselves hard to beat again.

“We’ll set our own targets amongst ourselves but you have to be realistic and remember that we are here for the long term, to build the team and get everyone doing the right things.”

Meanwhile, new joint-manager Barnett added: “The management team are united in achieving better results during the second half of the season.

“The players will get all the information they need and we will be well organised. It is now down to team spirit, hard work, raising confidence and individual standards, so that we become a more consistent, solid unit.”