Hastings Supporters Forum - 100% Unofficial!

Will be great seeing you again Bert, all ready thinking of a song for you, i'll keep it nice, i promise :)

Along with Bert's return to the Pilot Field on Saturday, we will also have the familiar face of one Trevor McCreadie!

**** trevor mccreadie ! Might bring his boot award thing with me ! If i havent thrown it away that is, i cant remember :/

He may have lost interest in football by Saturday

I think it got scrapped along with my other car to be honest lol

1-1 just about fair today with Hastings having the better chances but Worthing dominating large amounts of possession over the 90 minutes, particularly in the first half, and for me looked much more of a team than Hastings.

Another really poor opening 30 minutes with Worthing looking stronger, sharper and fitter all over the pitch and they deservedly took the lead through a Trevor McCreadie penalty. Wrong end to make a judgement on whether it was or wasn't but the Worthing fans said at half time it was a definite foul both outside and inside the box. The goal did seem to kick some life into Hastings and we could have quite easily scored a couple just before the break, with the keeper pulling off a great save from Sammy's free kick, one off the line and the keeper nearly letting a long range Taser effort squirm under his body.

Second half was a lot more end to end with Worthing again looking the better team although Hastings looking a constant danger with the long hoof up field which became all too familiar, but at times successful, throughout the 2nd half. After Frankie had one tipped round the post when one on one, Ade volleyed home after good work by Taser (I think) and then should have put Hastings 2-1 up when clean through from Sam's long ball but failed to even hit the target. After that Worthing seemed to take control again and certainly looked the fitter side going in to the closing stages and I think we were all relieved to grab a point at the end.

It was really interesting today to watch Dave Cook's performance and discuss it with other fans. He is such an offensive player that he is leaving huge holes in the middle of the park and poor Sammy was over run at times. We have seen this before this season and we have to have Timmy back in there as a holding midfielder if Cook is to be effective, but at the same time we need King fit and in form. Another positive performance from Sam at left back, who for me was our best defender for the 2nd week in a row

For me it was a real average performance yet again and nothing seems to be changing, but I guess we need another 20 odd games to gel according to some. I just do not see any positive signs at the moment and no change in the way we are playing. I think we will win some and lose some but I am struggling at the moment to see how we can compete at the top with our current level of performance.

-- Edited by johnw on Saturday 6th of September 2014 06:42:09 PM

fare result and ok performance quite exciting 2nd half but missing something and if our strikers could take more of the chances we create i think confidence would improve our performance. lot said about defence and blame certain players for mistakes but on chances felt it was another game we should have won today. Sam Adams was superb as was Sam Cruttwel. Great finish by Tim Olorunda for the equaliser.
Thought penalty was soft but guess if other way we would have appeal for it but Josh so close to saving it. Not really sure what we are missing but think we at least look more organise than early in season but need something to get more goals same story as every season

Agree that the two Sams were very good today, as was Taser first half. The centre of defence though is a worry....somehow we assumed we would be strong but how we miss Ben's calming influence and experience. He made it look easy by just being in the right place. Being in the wrong place seems to be our speciality and far too often there are yawning gaps between our back four.
Agree with John that it is great to see Cook so regularly posing a goal threat ...clearly he always expects to score like a good striker...but at what price.
Great strike from Tim but otherwise he produced a rather unconvincing performance at the back. The league is now beginning to take form and it's hard to see at this stage how we will be anything more than play-off contenders at best....but I do think we generally have better players than last season so I do expect us to improve and start climbing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZNuyn_0dfk&feature=youtu.be

Highlights are up! bit rough and ready this week but have got 15mins or so of post game interviews with Terry White, Tim Olorunda, Kenny Pogue, Richard Rose and Sean Ray which is well worth watching!

 

Hope you enjoy!

At Conquest: ok i did not watch the first 25 minutes and just missed the 0-1 but the last 15 minutes i saw from the first half we should have scored at least one goal. 2 lucky stops from their goalkeeper and one big save prevented that. The first 15 minutes of the second half we did not threaten them at all but then we had our best part. A good goal by Timmy and ADE had the winner on his toes. At the end they had some chances but i think it was a fair result. What strikes me were a few things : we have problems in defense when the other teams are playing with players upfront who are quick and switch a lot. When we play the long ball we had most of the time only 2 upfront. There was a huge gap between the lines and the midfielders did not support often enough. Their nummer 8 was a player who run constantly and switched from lef to right and was always unmarked. The player who does it and can do it Well by us is Sam Adams. But he needs a back up because he has to do too much and at the end you could see that. Also i thought at the end some players were tired/not fit enough. So why not change to 4-2-1-3 ? With Tim and Richard in defensieve midfield, Sam as the number 10 and Ade and Tasan as wingers. Two things at the end: 2 trainings sessions a week is imo not enough ! The last thing is a huge thank for the great and warm welcome again. Hastings is a very warm club and that will rest longer then the 1-1.

Well done Dan and Pat for putting that together ...I'm loving the interviews ...like John says , it gives you a bit of confidence when you hear players talking like they are ...personally thought though if we had someone like their number 8 yesterday , Hayward i think his name was , who wanted the ball and played simple small passes from midfield , then we would be getting there .                               One other thing , Taser ,,,, don't get me wrong , I love a wide player and he had a good game yesterday , but if only he could beat a man and then head to the penalty box before crossing then maybe we too would get more penalty's ...we don't seem to get that many ...compare to other clubs . He has the ability but sometimes seems a bit too eager to get a cross in , often before anyone else has even made it into the box ,,,just a thought !

I'm not sure why you bother to comment on here Chris B as it's always negative it's about time you got behind the team instead of being on there backs I await your comments of Mr Pogue now he's back(of which I'm delighted about as he gives 110%)as you seem to have a dislike also I'm interested to know how you know such top information within the club in relation to Ben White when other people who are very much involved in the club have no idea my option is you just talk garbage!!!!!!

Niel is away on holiday nothing to worry about there.

No Bert I wasn't there yesterday, hence no comments from me on the game, I shall be there tomorrow hoping for a win, and also hoping Kenny gets amongst the goals, Arrows if I am talking garbage why does it concern you so much, that you feel obliged to post.