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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npLcBuN-YdI

Goals from Gloucester City v's Colwyn Bay in the Skrill North last night. Connor got both of ours, the first is a lovely strike into the top corner.

Hi Connor.

Good on him.

I have friends who support Gloucester, so have a soft spot for the club.  (Sorry if that sounds patronising.  Not intended.)  And saw this earlier this evening, which made me very sad.

Gloucester City: The Non-League Nomads who Can't Go Home (http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/24802846)

Horrible situation.

;)

I'm not Connor. Honestly.

I'm not Connor and neither is my wife.

I'm Connor

I'm Connor's wife.

I'M CONNOR

Sarah Connor?

Surely the first goal shouldn't have stood. He takes the pen and kicks the rebound in off the post without anyone else touching it

Waldon's first goal was a cracker.

I thought that, but I swear I saw it happen in the Championship recently too! Maybe you can now...

I saw one ruled out the other day on TV. Most likely the refs don't know law 14:

Procedure
• After the players have taken positions in accordance with this Law, the
referee signals for the penalty kick to be taken
• The player taking the penalty kick must kick the ball forward
• He must not play the ball again until it has touched another player

The commentator said the goalkeeper might have touched it.....

Yes I heard the commentator say that. I think he was surprised it stood - certainly didn't look like the keeper touched it. Anyway, superb first goal by Waldon

I think it was Mooney for Leyton Orient at Tranmere.

ta. I had no sound

Some cracking goals in that game.

Talk to someone at Glos City who says that Waldon's 1st goal was even better than it looks. He deliberately started the ball several feet outside the post and curled it into the top corner.

He also said that he has only lasted 70 mins thus far and has been dead on his feet - Not used to the physicality of it all yet.

Scored again today seizing on a poor backpass for us to win 1-0 at Borehamwood.

Love the commentary

Connor obviously getting a better football education at City than he could ever get with us.  It's a decent loan move...for all parties.

So when he comes back and forces his way into the first team, we can sing "Ooooooh, Connor Waldron, used to play for City but he's all right now" :)

His goal is about five minutes in - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eJYPah6aHM

If you watch the whole highlights you'll see we did a proper daylight robbery job on them ;)

Yep, he's obviously quite talented. Not sure what his long term prospects are at Swindon but when I saw he was an 18 year old who'd previously got one in six at Frome Town my heart sank because we need some real nous to get us out of the shit that we're in, thankfully Connor is proving me wrong.

 Not sure what he'd be doing at Swindon if he wasn't out on loan.

Slight change of subject: is there any realistic prospect you'll be able to return to Gloucester any time soon, or are you stuck at Cheltenham/Forest Green for the forseeable future?  Given that you don't need a ground that holds thousands, seems odd that there is no site in Gloucester (a city that's not much smaller than Swindon) that you could relocate to.

I know these things don't happen overnight (and appreciate that rugby is the bigger sport in Gloucester) but it's been a number of years since you left now.  I went to your old ground a number of times.  Seems a real shame it's fallen in to disrepair.

It's a long, long process. There seem to be options, the local MP has brokered a deal with a housing firm for a plot on an old social club but the owners aren't too keen on that for their own reasons.

Work has been done and is ongoing with the EA regarding raising the land at MP which is considered a flood plain. I'm a Hempsted resident so I should be dead set against it but i'm also a City fan who is pissed off with this nomadic existence. But it takes t   i   m   e, lots of time....

I don't see us being back any time soon. We've lost a generation of support since we've been away.

We're bottom of the league and we beat top of the league Hednesford Town 5-1 today :)

Here is Connor's contribution -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UqxBvqXByY&feature=youtu.be

Not sure if it was luck or judgement.

He went for the lob into the box and sliced it,  however the bit of skill on the previous attack was worth a goal anyway..

Lad certainly seems to have some talent. Would have no problem with him coming off the bench in games instead of El Gabas (if we wanted to release him).

Isn't it a bit shit when non League clubs have better cameras than us. About time the camera chap upgraded to HD. STFC highlights always look shite

There is a lot shit things like that at STFC, like the pitchside announcer who creams himself at the sight of the absurd Rockin Robin and the crap music they play before the game!

Yeah and they got Stephen Merchant to do the commentary...

Isn't it about time they put in a proper loudspeaker system as well? It's embarrassingly bad.

To be fair, all of this stuff is done by supporters. I don't do the video but the camera belongs to me, it's like that at most non-league clubs, all voluntary with our own time and money!

In most cases, if it was left to the clubs, there would be the absolute minimum.

Two more for Connor tonight as we beat Altrincham 2-0

http://youtu.be/fCYna4rdXZE

Cheers for these. How many has he scored now?

The commentary for all these videos is class. It's Hot Fuzz meets Roy of the Rovers.

I think that takes his tally to 7 ................

Reports I've heard is that he is a very good attacking threat at that level, but doesn't track back.

That's interesting, I spoke to Boris about him after the game and he commented on his all round game http://cof.tigerroar.co.uk/showthread.php?213-Altrincham-Interviews-amp-Goals

Still, he's young, if he listens he'll be better for it.

I suspect before he comes back to us a may be moved up to play at a higher level to continue his education he has time on his hands being a youngster

Scored another beauty today to win 1-0 against Worcester at Kiddy. They normally put match highlights up so I'll post the link then.

Boris has been quite critical of him lately, in line with what was put earlier in the thread I think.

The commentators in them nice highlights however are terrible. Worse than the carp the free radio from bookies like bet365 offer.

You've cod to be joking?

http://youtu.be/5f49kknLH5A?t=1m40s

Lovely volley on the turn.

It's done by supporters, of which we don't have many and among that number there aren't any trained journalists. It's better than nothing, which is precisely what we get from any of the local TV or radio stations. You should count yourselves lucky that the team you support gets the kind of coverage that you can take for granted :)

The boy Groves looks a bit good!

Groves, for us? Matt Groves?

him in the video

He's taken a while to step up to this level after doing well for Yate last year. Ex-Bristol Rovers youth.

Withdrawn from last nights squad as gone on loan to Skrill prem team Tamworth for a month

http://nonleague.pitchero.com/news/lambs-borrow-swindon-striker-28199/?utm_campaign=nonleague&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Are they higher up the leagues than Glouscester? Can't be arsed to check.

Yeah...Conference level, same as Oxford up til recently.

Not sure if Waldon in the squad but Tamworth live on BT sports 2 tonight v Alfreton
For those that can be assed

You would have to pay me good money to sit through that.

It's off anyway.

I reckon the club have/ are doing a great job with this lad.

Steadily upping the level he is playing at to see if he can continue to be competitive.

Would he have had this chance under PdC?

He gave Storey a chance.

And Nath.

And Louis.

And Callum Kennedy in his first season.

etc.

Haha this is superb, farmed out on loan to the likes of Frome Town and Gloucester and you make it sound like he is a first team regular!  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

Not at all. He has been stepped up and now is at Conference level - or League 3 if you like.

Not sure PdC would have had the patience with a young player he didn't think was ready to go straight into the first team.

Not sure how you thought I rated him as a regular starter from my post.

Surely that is the way to go about things, step them up gradually.

And Billy Bodin until he got too big for his tiny boots

Aye, but he went on loan so wasn't as good an example.

The fact that he's absolutely dire probably contributed to his demise