RESULT Southport 1 Forest Green 3

Forest Green were 3-0 up within 31 minutes against Southport in the Blue Square Bet Premier at Haig Avenue tonight (Tuesday 29th November 2011).

Goals from Jamie Turley on 7 minutes, and a brace from Yan Klukowski on 20 and 31 minutes saw Forest go into the interval 3-0 up. Karl Ledsham was sent off on 17 minutes for a professional foul. Sandgrounders staged a fight back with a goal from Andy Owens on 64 minutes.

Southport face next to bottom Alfreton Town at the weekend. Fleetwood destroyed Kettering 3-0 tonight and go top of the league on 47 points.

A full match report will appear later

TEAMS

Southport FC

1. Tony McMillan 14. James Smith 3. Chris Lever 4. Steve Akrigg 6. Simon Grand 8. Alan Moogan 19. Godfrey Poku 17. Karl Ledsham 12. Jonathan Brown 9. Kurtis Guthrie 15. Andy Owens

Subs

13. Matt Nemes (GK) 5. Earl Davis 20. Russell Benjamin 11. Andrew Parry 23. Adam Carden

Forest Green

30. Jonathan Bond 2. Jared Hodgkiss (46) 3. Chris Stokes 5. Jamie Turley 22. Eddie Oshodi 8. Yan Klukowski 20. Alhassan Bangura 21. Jake Thomson 7. James Norwood 14. Matty Taylor 24. Liam Henderson

Subs

1. James Bittner (GK) 10. Charlie Griffin 16. Luke Graham 19. James Rowe (46)
23. Michael Uwezu

REFEREE: Richard Wigglesworth



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What are the sheep going to use as an excuse this time?

The referee was dreadful, it was far too windy, we went down to 10 men, just face it the team have had their fair share of luck over the past few months and it's about to change from tonight. Don’t forget to turn up. Pay up and shut up.

Clap trap clapham OUT

OTS in

Ripped apart by pace skill and greater determination in first half but the port battled well with 10 men to shade the second half.
It is clear we have 11 very good players who can compete at this level but no strength in depth when key players go missing.
Two players now serving suspensions will leave the port vunerable, on the plus side new signing Parry is a big improvement on Watsons favourite Smith. Will Watson have the guts to keep Parry at right back next week?

Disappointing, but beaten fair and square. It obviously didnt help going down to 10 men but showed some spirit in the second half and battled well. We must take stock and realise that we are still 3rd.....if we had been offered this at the start of the season it goes without saying that we would have snapped their hand off. Only worry is that the small squad that Liam says has created a close tight knit set of players, has its downside with the lack of strength in depth. But we will fight on and still get behind them at every opportunity starting again against Alfreton then the big away trip to Wrexham on Tuesday. We need to make a quick start against Alfreton on Saturday and try to keep 10 men on the field! OTS out.....Yellows.

they were cheats and the ref was shocking.

Originally Posted by grim_reaper

Disappointing, but beaten fair and square. It obviously didnt help going down to 10 men but showed some spirit in the second half and battled well. We must take stock and realise that we are still 3rd.....if we had been offered this at the start of the season it goes without saying that we would have snapped their hand off. Only worry is that the small squad that Liam says has created a close tight knit set of players, has its downside with the lack of strength in depth. But we will fight on and still get behind them at every opportunity starting again against Alfreton then the big away trip to Wrexham on Tuesday. We need to make a quick start against Alfreton on Saturday and try to keep 10 men on the field! OTS out.....Yellows.

It might be better if we can keep 11 men on the field.

Daveball Yawn Yawn Yawn! how predictable are you, when you say excuses again dont think there have been any of late becuase results have been good which has clearly upset you. Must be grim to be so disliked.

Originally Posted by tonyhey

It might be better if we can keep 11 men on the field.

ooops ha ha - i must have momentarily forgot that we do actually start games with 11 men! I hope im not tempting fate by saying that we hope to keep 10 men on the field though!

It seems that Southport get at least one player sent off every game, surely this is down to bad anger management by the manager and his backroom staff.

It seems we have played 22 games and it seems that we have had 6 sent off!! hardly one every game is it? Its still not good though I must admit. Lets hope last night was a small hiccup in what has been a fine season so far and it makes it even better when DB cant get the usual rants in! OTS out!

southport are shi te and will never win this tin pot league simply because they are not good enough and we all know the current chairman won' t put his sticky fingers in his pocket now or never he is one complete to$$er .

Youve took the words right out of my mouth SPANNER! Clap-rat clapham is a multimillionaire and he wont spend a penny towards any players, he is just a waste of space and i really dislike the multimillionaire!!!! If i had as much money has him i'd be dead by now, id of drunk myself into a grave!!! Thats why im glad ive got no money! I will be backing OTS until the day i die and it might not be long if i continue drinking like i am and it will be all down to you charles for banning OTS for no reason at all! CLAP-RAT CLAPHAM OUT!!!! OTS OR DAVE BALL IN!!!!!!!!!