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Fustrating, but not the end of the world
at 10:36 14 Dec 2023

My opinion for what it's worth is that the sending off changed the game for good and bad (in the frustrating way). Up until then it was all them and I was sure we were going to concede at some point. After that it was predominately all us but as each minute passed it just seemed like they were more then happy to defend more than attack and get the point. Think we were looking for that opening and people are free to say that we could have tried to mix it up a bit more but when you're trying to find that gap, pass or cross with them having all of their 10 players around and within the penalty box, it becomes frustrating. Agree that Smyth should have come on earlier as thought he was then one of the only players trying to get in behind their back line and get balls into the box. Bit disappointed with Richards with the game time that he had. To me, seemed to be making too many wrong decisions as to when to lay off a pass. At one point he tried to take it through three of their players which was never going to happen when a pass out to Dixon-Bonner or Smyth was the better option. Anyway, minor details. It's a point and another clean sheet so that's always a positive. Onwards and hopefully upwards...is the playoffs now out of the equation LOL!!!

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Palestine
at 12:27 22 Nov 2012

There has never been a state of Palestine and this is one of the myths that gets fed. There has been a Jewish presence on this land going back thousands of years and long before the first recorded documentation of Arabs settling there. The UN voted for a two state solution back at the end of 1947 which Israel accepted and the Arabs didn't. There was never anybody termed as a Palestinian. They were just Arabs from various other countries that had settled there. Israel declared its State and the Arabs subsequently declared war and at the same time told all their fellow Arabs to leave their homes in Israel temporarily whilst they destroyed the new Jewish State. This obviously didn't happen. The area known as the West Bank was then controlled by Jordan and Gaza by Egypt but they never gave the people now living there citizenship and have just left them to become political pawns. Suddenly after the 1967 war when again the Arabs were defeated, these people suddenly called themselves Palestinians and were crying out to the world for their own State. Israel annexed certain areas of land and since 1967 has returned the whole Sinai region to Egypt in return for a peace agreement and SEVEN years ago returned the whole Gaza strip to Palestinian control in the hope it would bring further peace. All that has happened is Hamas, which is a recognised terrorist organisation have taken control of this area and used it to fire rockets into Israel to kill as many people as possible regardless of age or gender. it is also worth noting that Israel did not start the so called blockade until about two years after handing back the land when it became obvious the security was required. Even then trucks regularly cross into Gaza from Israel with various supplies and continued even last week during the fighting. People talk about the hardship of the Palestinians but I would urge people to google Roots club, Gaza university and Shopping centre, Gaza. Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah are not interested in peace or two states. They just want to wipe Israel off the map. The worst thing is they teach this to their children so what hope have they for the future????

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