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2 - 1, Dan.  (Not often I get the chance to correct you so I thought I'd take it ! )

Rhule didn't impress me at Lewes and I can't remember his other appearance.....I won't lose any sleep over him.

I'll be making the journey  to Merstham and I certainly expect us to get back to winning ways.

(Still have nightmares cover that 6 - 1 embarrassment a few years back !)

Somebody posted on the Guernsey thread, "does anyone post anything positive on here". Well believe me I expect this to be the most negative thread of all time. Hastings were pathetic today in every department and I don't think I can ever remember a worse performance in all my years of following Hastings. Forget the wins under Terry and forget anyone coming on here and telling you otherwise, this is one of the worst Hastings sides ever! Get tired of saying week in week out how useless the 2 fullbacks are so I'll let someone else do that. Judge and Kelly had their 1st poor game today. Midfield non existent with no creativity at all, although Danny tried as hard as ever and upfront!!!!! Well Bah did okay wide on the left, Bailo is clearly still on holiday and is a shadow of the player he used to be and poor old Kenny..... again someone else can comment as i'm just sick of it. But the biggest thing of all today and something I have not seen this season, was the lack of fight. Merstham won every header, every tackle and just battered us all over the pitch. We had no plan B and were clueless all over the pitch. A game crying out for the battling qualities of Timmy ended up with Jamie Crone and the hapless McClean playing in the middle whilst he remained on the bench. What is going on?  Just feel so sorry for the traveling masses again today as no one should have to put up with that utter rubbish and I feel I have been conservative in my criticism. Cant wait to hear what the rest of you though today.

Defence leaking like a sieve because the full backs are not good enough and they have no protection in front. Matt, Sam and Danny all too lightweight. Great going forward but as Chris says on another thread, why take Timmy out of that holding role?

Have to agree with Dave68.....this was a poor performance........but not actually much worse than any of those early wins when we were getting the breaks.   The main difference was that in the first half we were defensively worse than at any other time this season and could easily have conceded four. By the same token we should have had two at least ......So at least there was still some glimmer of hope at half -time.

That however totally disappeared with the substitutions ! McClean and Crone were never going to improve things in a quite dreadful second half in which our only attempts were forlorn 35 yard efforts when all ideas of creativity had run out.

I'm sure JM now realises he has an awful lot of work to do to even get us close to the required standard for promotion. Maybe I'm just feeling particularly pessimistic tonight but I reckon this team (and a performance like this) would get us totally annihilated in the Ryman Premier league.

A good turn out from Hastings supporters today who deserve a whole lot better than this against what was, after all, a village team.

Not sure it's the worst side ever, you can't have been supporting for very long if you think that.  Quite right the side's nowhere near good enough and eight or nine new faces urgently required.  They have to be people who will listen and play the way the new manager wants, not players that don't care.  Maggs must have plenty of contacts this time he's been in the game, but what contacts do Stapley and White have?

Have to agree that despite the good start to the season we could easily have lost all those games but luck was on our side.  Remember also that Maggs was here for the two games against Ramsgate which we won.