Elam, Elam what's the score????

ha ha ha have that you blonde one trick show pony. 

Weymouth carried on where they left off at Kidderminster last weekend with a comfortable 3-0 home win over woeful Northwich Victoria at the Wessex yesterday. 

You can be sure with the way my prescence curses the Terras that the fact I stayed away in the end contributed to the result so for that reason I am giving myself the man of the match award. 

Hot property Stuart Beavon scored twice in the first ten minutes of the first half to end the match as a contest. It was left to Lee Phillips to add the third on the half hour on his second home debut. 

It is brilliant to see the way the team has responded to all of the trauma surrounding the ownership issue, I am very proud of the way they have been. As we get nearer the end of the window you only hope that we can keep the team together until the end of the season. 

I am not going to hold my breath too much though as The Echo mentioned gong part time and administration, both options would break up the current squad. 

I accept all of the criticism that comes my way for not being ultra positive about Malcolm Curtis' departure. In fact I think we are actually in an even worse position if no-one comes in and takes the club on. 

But the general opinion seems to be to keep positive and keep trying to keep optimistic. 

Let's see if I can keep that up when recording the podcast tomorrow !

Amazingly it looks like Weymouth might actually be playing a football match tomorrow when they visit Kidderminster Harriers in the Blue Square Premier.

I can barely remember the one nil home defeat to Torquay over Christmas and it is a bizarre scenario that has seen us go three weeks without a match (and valuable income).

Kidderminster are a good side, having recently run Coventry City close in the FA Cup and in Justin Richards and that Barnes-Homer Simpson bloke they have a strike pairing that will cause us problems at the back.

Weymouth will of course have an increased goal threat with the return of Super Lee and if we can have him in tandem with Beaver (until he is inevitably sold) then we could return from the wastelands of the midlands with something tomorrow.

It is a real key time of the season for Terras now. They have to start getting some points together so we keep in the mix in the top half. If we get nothing tomorrow then the pressure against Northwich at home next weekend will be even more intense. Get a point tomorrow and the pressure eases a little.

I am going to punt (as I did on the BlogCast) for a 1-1 draw. Come on you Terras!

Very, very little to report in Terras-land this morning. No midweek match gives everyone time to recover after a less than satisfactory week of off the park speculation.

It is clear that most people you speak to (including Terras fans in this part of the world)  have their reservations about the true financial position of the club, but the longer we go without a fire sale or some other negative actions the better. 

On the park and a week that started with a home defeat, middled with a draw with the leaders and ended with a win at the bottom club kind of sums up Weymouth FC... inconsistent!

The defeat has been felt more firmly by Northwich who have put manager Dino Maamria on garden leave. It is a shame if his time is up in Cheshire as he was doing a grand job with resources as limited as those available to JHMBE. If the fans and the board have now turned on him this says a lot to me about the continuing diminshing standards of behavior in British football.

On a positive note, Terras striker PJ Dubios has told the Dorset Echo (here) that he is keen to keep a starting place in the Weymouth line up. Unfit at the start of the season he is now beginning to get amongst the goals and as he says, with Money Michael Malcolm, Chris McPhee and the Beaver we should be able to unlock defences. 

Right, off to work for me... 

Transfer listed Weymouth substitute James Coutts came off the bench to score a stoppage time winner for the Terras in their away clash with Northwich yesterday.

After taking the lead early in the second half through and own goal, it looked business as usual for the visitors after they shipped in two quick goals. 

But Weymouth are made of sterner stuff under the leadership of JHMBE and despite my updates on the match being through the internet of my mobile ( I was at another match, but more of that later) I was still able to launch into a celebration when "Beaver" levelled. 

The game I was watching was over and I was nearly back to my mate Tim's car before another quick check of the cell phone saw Couttsie had given us three absolutely vital BSP points. And when I say vital, I mean vital. We had been in freefall down the table over the last month and there remains a back drop of uncertainty off the park. So to dig in and come from a goal down late on is thoroughly satisfying and has made the shoulder injury a little less sore!!

JHMBE called himself "The points collector" in the Dorset Echo earlier in the week and he is going to have a long hard winter of trying to keep up that record and securing our status in this division. 

It is too early to say we have turned a corner, and there are still whispers that what is going on behind closed doors in the boardroom could make what's happening on the field irrelevant, but it was nice to spend a Saturday evening feeling proud of the lads and their result. 

So where was I watching my soccer yesterday?

Yaxley? Nope! although I did have a lengthy chat with their ex-manager and club legend "Super" Jimmy Watson as he watched his lad warming up for his Stamford team.

Stamford, known as the "Daniels" (after Britains largest ever man Daniel Lambert) were visiting York Street to play Boston United in the FA Cup.

Those longer term Terras travellers will remember it as being a bloody horrible place to go and watch football with the local chav population always up to try and intimidate opposing fans. It was a bit better than my last trip with the Terras in the late 90's when there were 12 away fans watching a defeat with a chorus of "worst support we've ever seen" being sung by the home contingent. Coins and cans were hurled at us when David Laws scored for us but after the match the players, led by the great Matthew Hale were keen to seek out the Weymouth fans in the bar and buy a drink for us for putting up with the intimidation.  

Boston hasn't changed much and if ever a club had deserved the various punishments it has had on its way back down the pyramid then it is them...

One thing that did inspire me was the large amount of fund raising activities they were getting involved in, albeit to pay off some CCJ or something. 

Football boots, mobile phones and other electrical equipment were being collected to raise money and you wonder how closer the community could become to the Terras if this 'backs against the wall' and 'us and then' approach were used to galvanise Weymouth...

It's nice to have a midweek off, god knows what I will blog about, but with this club I am sure something will happen to keep us entertained!!

And so another day passes and the stories about administration and the impending doom for the club seem to diminish.

Seven matches without tasting victory for the Terras is reason enough to be miserable and the 50-50 rated chance star man Stuart Beavon has of playing casts a further shadow of frustration.

Something needs to happen to the club to give it a jolt, a kick start, getting the feel good factor back. Some sort of spark (and by that I dont mean selling your best players) to get a positive run of results on the field and a positive vibe off it.

But what? and where and when? Whenever things appear tough for the club (almost always through financial reasons) the fans start to fall out and there are cliques appearing. Some dead against the establishment, some blindly for. The truth of course (as with this weeks bizarre transfer listings) is almost always in between, and I am sure I am not the fan to think "on no not again" this week when rumours began to surface.

The sad thing is though that everytime we face the possibility of the money having run out I care just that little bit less and part of me always thinks "it isn't viable, just shut up shop and spare me this pain every year or so".

But we fight on, always. And that is what is special about football fans.

I took a fair amount of stick for suggesting "Weymouth FC 2008", but I stand by that project. If it were needed I would be there again. I care too much to do nothing. And the great thing is, I know there are others who feel the same.

As for tomorrow, I have a niggly feeling it could be another draw, but as JHMBE says, he is a points collector. And let's hope he gets one or more at Northwich tomorrow.

Damn my paper shoulders and neck.

This injury is keeping me off the bike and away from training and I did it washing my hair in the shower. Stil I got a massage to relieve the stress and ease off the broken body, but to say I am feeling a little under the weather is an understatement. 

Thank goodness for the Terras and their 2-2 draw with Crawley Town the other night. I was away from Solent so we had a better chance of getting something from the match. 

Our ex-captain Simon Weatherstone opened the scoring early doors for the Creepies. What a let down he was. Scored goals at every club he has been at apart from Weymouth... and then comes back and bangs one in within a minute. Chump. 

We got back into the match and even went ahead. It was nice to see the 'Nanny' get back among the goals and you hope that the players are keeping their heads despite all of the off the field bollocks that attaches itself to our club. 

Crawley got back into it with less than 10 minutes to go, but we would have taken the points beforehand so we should still be happy now. 

On to the off-field stuff and it is interesting to note that there has been (according to JHMBE) been no interest in any of the players on the list. Now whether or not you believe the reasons given for the players being made available or not is up to you. I have an open mind. 

But whatever Michael Malcolm and Scott Doe may or may not have been up to off the park shouldn't be serious enough to get listed. 

It sends out the wrong signal from the club and if I were a predator waiting to sign the players I would wait a little longer to see how desperate Weymouth were going to get for money and if they would accept less. 

I don't see why it was neccessary to make public the names... 

As with everyone else though I have to sit tight and await the official word from the Wessex.

It is important thought that JHMBE is allowed to get on with preparing his players for Northwich this weekend. That is a great opportunity for us to get back on track with a win, and despite being the sort of fixture we usually get nothing out of, I hope we can return with 3 points. 

Keep the faith.