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Match postponed huge sink hole opens up on Guernsey runway and they cant travel. game played on sunday instead after hastings fishermen go and collect the guernsey team. unfortunately they make Allen walk plank so that hastings win on sunday keeping clean sheet wirth a sawyer hattrick being only goals, crowd 497 and fish and chips all round brought with the fishermen

Like Terry said it will be a huge game ; not only if the new attacking spirit of the team will again bring us 3 points but also if we can keep up with our promotion goal.
Guernsey won 4 and drew 2 of their last 6 games with a goaldif. of : 14-7.
Almost everything depends on the shoulders of Ross Allen, who scored 147 goals in 110 matches for Guernsey !! If our back 3 can stop him then we have a big chance !

3-1 with Heaume scoring for the visitors and Adams,Sawyer and Olorunda for us.

377 people watching the game and at least one foreigner on Twitter.

Thought we played well against them in the Cup game but gifted Guernsey their 2 goals, switching off when a free kick was awarded to them and the penalty debacle. Looking forward to the match and what team and formation Terry will go with. They are vulnerable at the back as Rye showed last year when Andy Atkin terrorized their defence. Unfortunately, Ross Allen was doing the same at the other end! Really need Tom to be fit for this vital match which could revitalize our season. Hope we go for the following team:- Pelling, Kelly, Jirbandey, Judge, Cruttwell. Camara, Adams, Vickers, Dolan. Pogue and Sawyer. We could alternate between 4-4-2 and 3-5-2 as we seemed to do on Monday.

Form guide says we should win,having lost one of our last eight league games at home,with Guernsey only winning one away in the same period.But as I have said in the past,teams seem to raise their game against us and I wouldn't be surprised to see the form guide turned upside down.
In contrast to our early season form,I can see us scoring goals but we look a bit more vulnerable at the back.Always appear nervy around 45th and 90th minute.
Desperately hope for a win today as I believe it could be a real boost to our run-in.
Come on you U's

Line-up:

1 Josh Pelling
2 Andy Henson
3 Sam Cruttwell
4 Josh Jirbandey
5 Ben Judge
6 Ronnie Dolan
7 Bailo Camara
8 Sam Adams
9 Frankie Sawyer
10 Kenny Pogue
11 Tom Vickers

Subs:

12 Tim Olorunda
14 Tom O'Connor
15 Danny Ellis
16 Trevor McCreadie
17 Sean Kelly

Bloody awful with lack of effort and commitment. Either very tired or lazy or not bothered.

Well i'm usually fairly critical on here but today I am going to totally disagree with Hamilton. I thought the effort and commitment from the Hastings players today was fantastic. We lost 4nil to a very, very good side and in Ross Allen had quite possibly the best player i have ever seen at this level, but lack of effort.... sorry i cannot agree. First half in particular we were full of energy and endeavor going forward and could have quite easily gone in 3-2 up. It really was a thrilling first half and every time a team attacked they looked like they would score. Unfortunately Gurnsey know how to defend, we do not. Our defending at times was shocking and without Timmy giving them some cover in front we looked open all game. My biggest surprise was this was evident very early on but for whatever reason the management decided not to change things and that cost us at the end of the day.

So i am not going to be over critical today. It was one of those games and we could quite easily have got something out of it but just one point. Someone please tell me what has happened to JJ. He is a complete shadow of the player that left us. He does not look fit, he has certainly put on a few pounds and has struggled ever since he returned. Why break up the Kelly Judge partnership? On current form JJ and Henson are not good enough and they seem to be dragging Judge down with them.

And just finally, we have all been critical of certain players this year and they have all had some stick at various times on this forum, but I though  some of the abuse Ronnie Dolan got today from certain people was unacceptable. I thought he did okay and i cannot see how that sort of abuse helps anyone in a Hastings shirt.

No idea how anyone can say that was 'bloody awful'.... Yes, the result was a disaster and if you weren't there you may think that this was really one sided....but it absolutely wasn't !
I actually thought the first half was as entertaining as anything I have watched this season. Guernsey are quality going forward and agree with John's assessment of Ross Allen. Just different class and roasted JJ twice in setting up two of their goals. However we contributed massively to that first half and could easily have gone in all square or even 3-2 up. We just didn't get the necessary break or produce that moment of additional quality that Guernsey are capable of. I would also have to agree that at times our defending was pretty woeful.
The second half we had all the possession and oh so predictably just got totally undone on the break, thanks mainly to the genius of Mr.Allen. But had Kenny not missed that sitter at 2-0 it may have been a very different last twenty minutes.
So, all in all, a horribly disappointing result which doesn't give me a warm glow regarding our play off prospects. Clearly to beat Guernsey we need to defend a whole lot better and put away those chances and half chances. I would agree that at times our passing was poor but it was our crossing that really frustrated me. How often did we get numbers in the box only for the cross to never leave the ground and get cleared by the first man ?
I still think we'll make the playoffs because we won't face Ross Allen every week.....but unfortunately we may very well meet him there.

Agreed that Guernsey were a good quality and dangerous team, but we were very lacklustre. I don't know if it's the lack of games or a lack determination. We looked slow in recovering to defend from attacking positions and slow to attack from defending positions. Maybe we are struggling on fitness levels and if that is the case a team like Guernsey will certainly find us out. Our work rate box to box by midfield was missing and our defence looked slow, cumbersome and awkward.

It may be that Guernsey were just too good for us and as has been said it may have been different had we converted our chances early on. But I can't help feeling we made a poor account of ourselves today and if our defenders struggled today they certainly weren't helped by midfielders that were slow to recover and help them out.

I also agree and I don't think giving our own players abuse from the sidelines is the right thing to do, however the slow recovery and low work rate may have been the frustration that led to fans doing this.

Totally agree with John W. Masses of effort but if we are going to play3-5-2 we must protect the defence better

We played 3-5-2 for 2 games don't think its the formation that's costing us we had one clean sheet in twelve games says something

Don't see us thumping anybody,anytime soon.
I think we will be lucky to get a point in the next two away games.Games we would probably have expected to win at the beginning of the season.As well as I thought we played today,on the whole,I think it will dent our confidence

We haven't got the players to play 3/5/2 as the 2 wide mid field players need to defend, yes its good and entertaining, but it wont win us enough games.

Really pleased TW is looking at shaking things up and playing attacking and entertaining football.

Looking forward to Redhill on Tuesday.

Fair comment JohnW.

My comments were aimed at the players and not the tactics of TW. I like a Manager to be brave and try new things and I also believe that the players owe it to the fans, club, manager and themselves to ensure they maintain their fitness. If you get paid to do a job (no matter how much) you should be as professional as you can in doing that job.

If, as ChrisB noted, that the players aren't capable of fulfilling their roles, then maybe we should look at whether that is truly a lack of capability or whether it's a lack of commitment. If I was TW I would be demanding a more committed attitude from some of the squad.

Looked brilliant in the first half, didn't deserve to be 2 down at half time. Second half we completely forgot how to play football, with us failing even simple passing. Left on a downer this afternoon. We knew it's be tight, but I didn't to expect to lose by such an amount.

I thought it changed after half time too, I remember commenting that to shore up the defence it needed to change and that was definitely just before halftime. I could be wrong, I think I was a bit dazed at the time.

Missed Tim and Danny, without them no real ball winner in midfield.

I for one came away a little more hopful than I have after some games we`ve won this season, 4-0 was not a true refection of the game, I agree whole-heartedly with John and Mick, but not Hamilton, but more importantly John, where did you get that magic phone you have, or can I borrow it? I need to make a call to my Agentinian contact in the Vatican to have word with the Boss about some play-off place at the end of the season ?

Some people have been saying for a while that we're going to give someone a good thrashing some day soon. I have to say that that was not a belief that I have held up to now as I have watched us limp to unconvincing one goal victories against pretty poor opposition.
So how ironic that it takes a 4-0 defeat to actually convince me that this actually MIGHT happen some time.
If we can produce the sort of 'devil may care' football (that actually proved our undoing yesterday) against some of these struggling teams and combine it with some ruthless , or even lucky finishing, then I feel we really could bag a hatful of goals.
If nothing else I am certainly looking forward to rather better entertainment from what's left of this season.

very hard to lose that 4-0. at times we battered guernsey in first half and was a shock we losing 2-0 at half time. 2nd half thought we were not so good but guernsey only had to defend there lead so harder to play against them. our attack play now very entertaining as people have said but we need to be clinical to score. but our defending is getting worse and Jirbandey is a bad advert for going to america to improve your football. what has happened to him, very poor and hope kelly starts on tuesday. and judge to had a poor game hope it was a one off.
frustrating but probably best game of football this season and at least it entertaining at last even though we lose 4-0

With webbed hands and feet and all that......