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| Hardy Pinto-Moreira is
denied by Andy Walker |
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Darren
Behcet |
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| 2 |
Jamie
Cumming |
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| 3 |
Nathan
Simpson |
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| 4 |
Mark
Robinson |
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79 |
| 5 |
Alex
Browne |
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| 6 |
Roy
O'Brien |
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| 7 |
Wes
Fogden |
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| 8 |
Jamie
Gleeson |
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| 9 |
Jones
Awuah |
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| 10 |
Ivan
Forbes |
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71 |
| 11 |
Charlie
Henry |
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| 12 |
Gary
Bowles |
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| 14 |
Brian
Dutton |
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| 15 |
Jon
Docker |
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79 |
| 16 |
Hardy
Pinto-Moreira |
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71 |
| 17 |
Simon
Evans |
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| 1 |
Andy Walker |
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| 2 |
Mark Corneille |
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46 |
| 3 |
Steve Clark |
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| 4 |
Bobby Bowry |
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| 5 |
Francis Duku |
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| 6 |
Tutu Henriques |
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| 7 |
Peter Adeniyi |
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| 8 |
Barry Moore |
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| 9 |
Gareth Williams |
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46 |
| 10 |
Danny Hockton |
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81 |
| 11 |
Sam Wood |
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| 12 |
Garath McCleary |
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46 |
| 14 |
Ben Judge |
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| 15 |
Jerrome Sobers |
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81 |
| 16 |
Carl Gibbs |
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| 17 |
Nic McDonnell |
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46 |
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| C. Berry (Slough) |
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Saturday
20th October 2007 |
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Dorchester Town |
2 |
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Awuah 14, Gleeson
27 |
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Bromley |
3 |
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McDonnell 67,
Hockton 75, McCleary 77 |
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Ravens rock Magpies
by
Ky Capel
After staging a stunning comeback from two goals down in their last
outing, Dorchester found themselves on the wrong end of an emphatic
turnaround on Saturday as Bromley snatched all three points at the
Avenue Stadium despite being 2-0 behind at the interval.
The Magpies raced into a two-goal lead thanks to strikes from Jones
Awuah and Jamie Gleeson.
The former pounced on a parry by keeper Andy Walker, and Gleeson
fired home following a free-kick routine straight from the training
ground.
But the Ravens, inspired by a gung-ho approach from manager Mark
Goldberg, staged a remarkable fight-back and condemned Dorchester
to their fifth home defeat of the season with goals from Nic McDonnell,
Danny Hockton and Garath McCleary.
Bromley came out and bossed possession in the early exchanges but
failed to make any inroads on Darren Behcet's goal.
An unchanged Magpies side had the first real sniff at goal when
Charlie Henry almost capitalised on a poor clearance by Andy Walker.
Henry's subsequent shot, which looked goal-bound, was blocked
though by Tutu Henriques to save the blushes of the Ravens' stopper.
Then on 14 minutes the hosts took the lead. A good interchange
between Wes Fogden and Awuah saw the Brighton loanee's cross parried
by Walker straight into the path of the oncoming Awuah, who comfortably
smashed home.
The next action saw Dorchester extend their advantage with a cleverly
taken free-kick. Awuah was felled and Henry, Fogden and Gleeson
set about their masterplan.
Henry and Fogden stood over the ball and fooled everyone before
the ball was switched into the path of Gleeson whose left-footed
strike flew past Walker and into the top left corner.
Hockton became the first Bromley player to go close on 32 minutes
when his curled effort whistled past the far post.
Seven minutes later Behcet was called into action to catch a header
from Peter Adeniyi after he climbed highest at the back stick.
A good half from the home side was soon to be forgotten though
as Goldberg plotted the turnaround by bringing on McDonnell and
McCleary at the break, and switching to a 3-4-3 formation in the
process.
In a similar scenario to the one England suffered in midweek, Dorchester
were unable to hold on to the ball in the second period and allowed
the visitors to advance into their area.
Although the Magpies had withheld any early pressure in the half,
that was all about to change on 66 minutes.
After the combination of skipper Alex Browne and keeper Behcet
produced an excellent block to deny McCleary, the resulting corner
was taken by Barry Moore and, despite having to generate much of
the power in his effort, McCleary was on hand to head past Behcet
and hand Bromley a lifeline.
Another saving block by Browne denied the visitors an equaliser.
But in a frantic 60 seconds the game turned on its head.
Mark Robinson led a Magpies breakaway from a Ravens corner, and
found Henry with a well-placed pass. The Dorchester winger then
burst towards Bromley's goal only to see his left-footed effort
squirm through Walker's body and bobble the wrong side of the far
post.
From the subsequent corner, at the second time of asking, Henry
whipped the cross in to find Awuah with no defender for company,
but the Ghanaian could only divert his header straight at the grateful
Walker. Had he converted, it surely would have knocked the stuffing
out of the away side.
The Ravens though, flew up the field and Adeniyi led the charge
before playing in Hockton to lift the ball over the advancing Behcet
and pull his side back on level terms.
Two minutes later the comeback was complete, and deservedly so,
as McCleary found himself with enough room to drill his effort low,
beyond the outstretched palm of Behcet.
The only response Dorchester offered was through substitute Hardy
Pinto-Moreira, but he was to be thwarted on two occasions as the
hosts tried desperately to find parity.
However, the Ravens came closest to adding to the score-sheet in
the final few minutes as Behcet denied Henriques before McDonnell
hit a post having dashed past two home defenders.
With three away points in the bag, the 1,000 attendance target
not met, and a Bromley fan winning the big raffle prize, it was
certainly a day to forget for the county town side.
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