Saturday's goals

Brave header for the second goal

Tragic defending.

ex sheted, im sorry to say, but brave sticking his head in there, wanted it more, very sad to see

For the first goal the defender at the near post could have headed it away but clearly got a call from the keeper who then completely fluffed it. 100% keepers fault.

For the second I thought Trotman should have given clear instructions to Leadbitter. Either way he should have been told what to do - if you don't get a call you have to stick it out. Danny Liability I am afraid.

The players movement on the second goal sums it all up. No defensive urgency.

I don't want to deny Bath their moment (a chap on their thread "Literally couldn't breathe after the minute long mosh" ... its the FA Trophy for christs sake?!), nor do I want to piss all over a Clarke roasting bonfire, but I think the players were more than aware that going out of this competition actually suited us in the long run. Which it does - for me, absolutely.

It is not even just a case of the Gateshead result, we may lose on Friday but it still would not be worth us still being in that competition.

That said, our new goalkeeper looks diabolical. He made a couple of stops i'd honestly expect any keeper to make at Welling, but did drop a simple cross and almost gift them a goal, too.

Watching Wycombe riding high in League Two just makes me too angry to possibly care about anything else. We need to get back in the League and this competition wouldn't have helped that one bit.

2 dreadful goals but no way in the world was our defender favourite to get the pull back on the 2nd goal,utter rubbish to say artus wanted it more,look at it properly!
i dont agree it was good to go out of the competition but now we are out everyone from players to fans need to put it behind them

At least the teams in these competitions were moderately good.

The only good team in the competition, or division, are Barnet (who clearly gave it everything against Concord Rangers and now have to play a replay). I can't get excited over a cup competition like that. It is beyond a waste of time.

Luton managed to go up last year despite an FA Cup exit to Welling (admittedly away, but they are probably as bad as Bath) and a loss in the Trophy to Cambridge. They coped just fine.

how the fooking hell you can call bath "bad" is beyond me, they have just pizzed all over us ffs

Well played Bath City and well done to the 404 fans - they were all I could hear on the radio, and pretty much non-stop throughout the game.

As to the first goal, who has it officially gone down to?
- Rovers website says "... Chas Hemmings turned home a Frankie Artus corner."
- Bath City's website says "own goal", without stipulating which player.
- Bristol Post says "... Frankie Artus scored direct from and in-swinging corner...".
- BBC, Sporting Life, and the FA websites don't bother putting scorers names in for the FA Trophy.

Rovers are clearly wrong as there wasn't a Bath player anywhere near the ball.
The Post is wrong as it came off 2 Rovers players before going in.
Bath City have got it right with an own goal, but who does it go against? Spiess or Brown?

Spiess tries to keep it out and only succeeds in knocking it into Browners back and then it diverts into the net. When I saw the still-photos in the Sunday papers I did wonder if Lee Brown had got in the way and blocked the 'keepers sight, but then again it's the goalkeepers job to get him out the way and get to the ball.
- If it hadn't hit Brown it would have stayed out: so you could say 'Brown o.g.' as it came off him last and changed the flight of the ball. And perhaps he should have either made an effort to clear it himself, or got out of the way.
- If Spiess had caught the ball, or made a better claim for it, it wouldn't have hit Brown: so you could say 'Spiess o.g.' as it was his fault it cannoned off Brown, even though he initially stopped it going over the line.