The View from the Bar I have to admit to being partly at fault for our defeat to Lymington a couple of weeks back. With Cowes battling away in what had been a pretty even game – including a hatful of chances for us in the first half – the clock ticked past eighty minutesRead More
The View from the Bar Sometimes I start this column with the words ‘here we go again’, although more generally that means we’re back for another home game, rather than here we go starting our season again. But we’re back – football is back – and after a few weeks off hopefully everyone is raringRead More
The View from the Bar The Portchester match seems a long time ago, somehow (although it was only ten days ago) but wasn’t it something? It genuinely was one of the best, most exhilarating, and most complete performances I’ve seen from Cowes for a good few years. You’d be hard-pressed to find a better exampleRead More
The View from the Bar There goes the 100% record then. Heheh. I opened this column on Saturday with reference to our consistent start to the season, but it wasn’t a bad way to lose it, truth be told… I’m not sure many (any?) of us were expecting that when we arrived at Westwood onRead More
The View from the Bar It’s not often we start the season with a 100% league record, but we’ve managed it this year. Not in quite the way most supporters would have been hoping for, granted, but hey – hopefully today we can get off the mark and on our way up. Many of ourRead More
The View from the Bar So, it’s been a strange start to the season. Not the first time I’ve written that, I’m sure, although this season has certainly been stranger than most. League form has been disappointing, as far as results go, although the actual performances have been very encouraging (apart perhaps from last Saturday,Read More
The View from the Bar Here we go then. From the lofty heights of the Premier League, the Football League, or even the upper echelons of the non-league pyramid this stage of the F.A. Cup may look like a mere trifle – a place in the First Round proper is still four games away, afterRead More
The View from the Bar Art’noon. And here we go again, still on one road to Wembley and yet here we are setting out on the other one too. I wonder if we’ll still be heading in that direction (on either road) this time next week? We’ll find out over the next four days… OneRead More
The View from the Bar I can remember as a teenager at school, someone would bring in a little pocket radio and we’d crowd around, listening for the F.A. Cup draw. Of course, back then we were waiting for the third round or onwards, and Cowes weren’t even entering the F.A. Cup at the timeRead More
The View from the Bar It had to happen. After years of bemoaning other clubs for not managing to produce a programme for our visit (“the printer’s away”, “the dog ate them”, “they exploded” and other such excuses), on Tuesday evening our copier decided to run out of toner unannounced, and we were left withoutRead More
