Statement from Board

[CamPie]

That's often said on here but it's just not true. I suggest you watch the Boreham Wood game again, while not at our best we were very worthy winners. We dominated the game and had far more chances than them, and if Ruben hadn't have had a shocker we would have hammered them. The final was closer, again we were below par and I thought we got a bit lucky while watching at Wembley, but when I watched the full replay stress-free I thought we were at least as good as Chesterfield over the 120 minutes.

Totally agree with this especially with the final. I came away thinking we’d been fortunate to win, but talking to some Chesterfield fans staying at the same place as me that evening they felt we fully deserved the win. This was confirmed when I watched the full match replay.

[the_anticlough]

Totally agree with this especially with the final. I came away thinking we’d been fortunate to win, but talking to some Chesterfield fans staying at the same place as me that evening they felt we fully deserved the win. This was confirmed when I watched the full match replay.

Those play-off games are a classic case of Jimmy's 'the best team wins and the rest is gossip'

The Boreham Wood game was an all-time classic. We were chasing all game really, therefore on top. They could've killed us on counters.
At those times, in any team sport, you need your best players to step up. It's no coincidence Baldwin and Jones had to be the ones. They're the players who could well be playing at a higher level than us next year.

The Chesterfield game was like one of those nightmares, where time's running out but you're helpless to do anything. In games like that, the game comes down to force of will. I thought we edged it, but the ball was going in their net twice one way or the other, and winning a penalty shoot out is a skill (mostly mental) in itself. Posts saying we didn't deserve it are wrong, and just gossip as per Jimmy.

[Elite_Pie]

The Boreham Wood game was an all-time classic. We were chasing all game really, therefore on top. They could've killed us on counters.

It certainly was an all-time classic, I vividly remember leaving the game with tears of joy in my eyes for the first time ever! But we were only chasing the game because Ruben missed a couple of sitters early on and then a penalty. How anyone can say we didn't deserve to beat Boreham Wood is beyond me.

[the_anticlough]

It certainly was an all-time classic, I vividly remember leaving the game with tears of joy in my eyes for the first time ever! But we were only chasing the game because Ruben missed a couple of sitters early on and then a penalty. How anyone can say we didn't deserve to beat Boreham Wood is beyond me.

Stunning game, can understand the tears. After that, we were going up.
The pressure probably got to Ruben that day. The gods shined on him at Wembley though, and his penalty in the shoot out was all down to him.

I remember writing on here about Boreham Wood weeks before the tie with them was set. I even remember a row with CBP about it! I knew in my bones that our escape from non-league went thru Boreham Wood!

[i961pie]

I thought Chesterfield just shaded the final and we rode our luck when Slocombe got away with a booking for kicking the ball twice from a goal kick.He was later booked for giving away the penalty. But in the season overall it would have been an injustice if we hadn’t gone up.