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-- Edited by Dan on Friday 31st of January 2014 10:24:17 AM

Look abit of a beast need someone who will win a header

Thought we had signed Benteke for a minute.

www.tunbridgewellsfc.co.uk/player.asp

 

http://www.courier.co.uk/goal-hero-wants-Tunbridge-Wells-league-title/story-20472471-detail/story.html

 

http://www.thisiskent.co.uk/Old-Bhoy-wonder-main-man-Wells/story-20494121-detail/story.html#axzz2sReGBYA2

 

Ex Celtic?... He's only just joined you though?

Also mentions that he has no knee cartilage left after ACL and MCL injurys! Shame for the lad as he does sound like he could have been a decent player in scotland

Seems strange if true, we now have 6 or 7 strikers.

so terry white look to bring more players in. wonder who the scoring midfielder is in our league? anyone know or guess.
www.hastingsobserver.co.uk/sport/football/united-recruitment-drive-continues-1-5861683

Is he back in our league then? I can't keep up with him!

Worthing now apparently!

since Bexhill he's also played for Redhill mate! you missed that one as well! lol

I wonder if he's as illusive as Lord Lucan to pin down?

Liam that's way before your time, you should google it!

Who is Willie Nilly ? Is he left or right back?

No I think you've both got it wrong, it's just poor punctuation it should read Willy and Nilly. Two more signings this is brilliant.

"I’ve put a seven-day letter in for a midfield player in our league with an extremely good goalscoring record."

Any ideas who this could be?

Matt Stock?

I know he's a winger and hasn't scored many goals but I'd love to see Taser Hussein from Hythe come in. He's probably one of the best wingers I've seen at this level.

Lenny The Lion wrote:

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I know he's a winger and hasn't scored many goals but I'd love to see Taser Hussein from Hythe come in. He's probably one of the best wingers I've seen at this level.

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Right club , wrong player. Hythe have only got one midfielder that scores any goals so its not hard to work out. When you do that's the player you put in a 7 dayer for.

Lenny The Lion wrote:

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Thanks for trying to point that out Ryeman but I know who I was on about I just wasn't sure if he's still at Hythe or not as he went to America. Their website says he is. I know who we put a 7 day letter in for and I know it certainly wasn't the player I was thinking of but thanks again.

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Yeh Hassan is a decent player, was it not Turkey he went to , somewhere like that. As for the player you put a 7 dayer in for , if you know who it is then you'll know its irrelevant now as it seems you've lost out to Ashford for his signature. 

Good to see Charlie Bachellier is back and playing for the Under 21's - though he looked a good prospect and not at all out of place when playing for the first Team last year.

Personally I don't think he's any better than what we have already. He's normally a centre midfield player but has previously played centre half for our reserves and u18 squads. Not an option in my opinion. 

Just never worked out for him here, came with a good rep but never showed the assists and goalscoring he was known for at Hythe.

So Ashford are getting ambitious again?.. Dolan will be a good signing and Dave Cook is a great signing. Just hope they don't go bust again as would be a decent local derby if they make it back to our level. How many leagues are they below us? One?

If they go under and results expunged we would loose six points, not a good situation to be in but then I'm not sure how clubs above us would fair either? I would think they'd see the season out to be honest as its a very hefty fine in the region of £1000 for withdrawing from the league I believe.

A board statement taken from their website.....

Following a board meeting at Reachfields last evening (24th February), the Board have released this statement:

In common with many other football clubs, Hythe Town FC have been experiencing decreasing revenues which has been caused by both the current economic climate and the recent spell of poor weather. Countless postponements have led to a full programme of midweek games, but these will strain playing resources and can mean a drop of anything up to 50% in match receipts. Supporters also need to know that the quality of players seen at Reachfields in recent seasons are funded by a variety of sources, and when those sources diminish, players with families and mortgages will look to increase their incomes elsewhere whether it be inside or outside football.

It is no secret that our playing budget has had to be reduced somewhat, but we are still confident that in this transitional season our remaining players and management team will pull things round so that we can all look forward to a more successful time next season. It is not the club's style to be asking for donations but we do appeal to all supporters to turn up in good numbers (and voice) for our remaining fixtures, and also for some fund raising events we will be holding. The first of these is a "Race Night" at the Hythe Imperial on Saturday March 15th, full details to follow on our website and in our match programmes.

Finally, we would like to thank both of our latest departures, Dave Cook and Pat Kingwell, for the fantastic service they have given the club. We would also like to take the opportunity to remind supporters that both Craig Thompson and Craig Cloke are back at Reachfields and ready to do battle for us all! We hope to see as many of our supporters as possible, this Saturday, when we face Sittingbourne at Reachfields, kick-off 3pm.

Dan wrote:

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Just never worked out for him here, came with a good rep but never showed the assists and goalscoring he was known for at Hythe.

So Ashford are getting ambitious again?.. Dolan will be a good signing and Dave Cook is a great signing. Just hope they don't go bust again as would be a decent local derby if they make it back to our level. How many leagues are they below us? One?

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Top of the Kent League (or the Southern Counties League as it's now called) with four games in hand over 2nd place Tunbridge Wells. Think it's safe to say we'll be playing them next season if we don't go up.

Lenny The Lion wrote:

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As long as their ground grading is up to it and of course they've applied for promotion Leon. Knowing how finicky the Fa are over grading it's not a given.

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 Promotion has been applied for and apparently plans for the little work that needs to be done to attain ground grading are in place. Think their only real rivals for promotion are Whyteleafe. 

looking at some of the other grounds in our league and ryman prem I wonder how they get their gradings

Zac Atwood did that at a reserve match last season, we did have that down to repair and a number of other things have taken a priority. I'll make a mental note though.

Not sure but I hear Ramsgate are in trouble too, manager sacked players walking out. Not sure how true though?

Not major losses from their complete lack of breaking into a small squad but you never know and Sod's law they'll prob both score against us now I've said this!

Amen to that John, dont think is was geographical issues with him either rather that he thought he would get higher level interest which obviously hasn't happen. Would be a great signing if at all possible.

Would prefer us to look at up and coming u21s players to cover Baillo before we lose any more and end up with a smaller back up squad. After all, that's all part of their development and one of the criticisms of Maggsy was that he didn't do enough of that with an example being young Sam.

I can't see anyone capable of covering Bailo from the U21's personally. I reckon if any of them are to break through then we should look towards next season. Wooders is the stand out player capable when he plays for them but obviously needs to get fitter. Chapman was a superb when we played them and would be a great move but as Dan eluded to and I have in the past it's a geographical stumbling block that won't see him come to us. 

Joe Dicken looked a prospect but hasn't played for a while now apart from him I feel that they're not quite ready to make the step up yet. 

I thought cb wise Horshams jahmael king was good centre half

Extract from Friday's Observer

Hastings United are targeting three players in an effort to step up their promotion bid.

The U’s lie fourth in Ryman Football League Division One South with 15 games remaining.

United manager Terry White said: “All three are very good players. One’s an old favourite shall we say with a good recent history at the club. One is what I would describe as one of the best two wingers in our league and one is a third year pro who’s just been released from his club, but he’s talking to other clubs in his area.

“Two are looking promising, but until they actually sign the bit of paper that says ‘yes I’m coming’, they’re still ‘no goes’.”

Josh Jirbandey has decided to remain at United despite a seven-day approach from Kingstonian, although the defender will return to university in California at the start of next month.

May I suggest the "third year pro" MIGHT be Jack Parter.

He was released from Gillingham on Wednesday.

I don't know that for sure and might be putting 1 + 1 together and getting 378349!

Fits the bill though, as the club clearly has some kind of relationship with the Gills after Josh Hare's loan

-- Edited by FAV army on Thursday 6th of March 2014 09:14:10 PM

Either side as a full-back.

Plays more as a right-footed left-back than right-back.

Quite attacking, so can also play wide midfield.

So we found out one teaser Hassan who do we think the old favourite is?? We need a cb seriously could it be razor ;)

Terry just confirmed its Ray Freeman.  

Yeah razor would be brilliant to have back I would love see him back in Hastings shirt!!

Razor had an outstanding game for Eastbourne United in the Vase yesterday. The Vase semi-final must be his priority this season.