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I'll take a point on Saturday but this its going to tough to get that. Razor,I expect will be doubtful still and Keehan is suspended for a sending off (2 yellows) whilst at EP.

Result today 1-5
I repeat 1-5

Ade Olorunda 2x
Shelley 1x
Hassan 1x
O.G. 1x

Fantastic result.

4th has been given to Kenny Pogue now rather than a OG

An excellent win, we had three chances in the first half and took all three, Farmer scored the first not Shelley. A few minutes under the cosh at the start of the second half ,weathered the storm and won fairly comfortably. One proviso, can anybody at the game tell me how Faversham are top of the league. They were extremely average. How they have scored 57 goals in 25 games is beyond me. Onward and upwards.

Superb performance and Doms record of p5 w3 d1 l1 is a good start to his management in Ryman south. If we match that for the rest of the season we will end up on or about 80pts which must give us a play off chance. Well done everyone today.

Great afternoons entertainment, I thought we were a little more direct than we have been in previous games but great to see us actually taking our chances. Really pleased for Tas in finally getting his first goal for us, it was certainly deserved, he run their defence ragged this afternoon but that was down to their own doing for giving him so much room. Doms record has got off to a great start must give credit to Brownie too, his work with the lads in training is superb, giving them clear instruction, not being afraid to stop the session to explain what he expects. Maybe Faversham took us a bit lightly but we are certainly playing much better football lately.
Not sure what anyone else thought of their supporters but blimey didn't they moan? Claimed every little thing was a foul and questioned everything awarded to us. Took the shine off a good day, maybe they thought they didn't deserve to loose but in my book there was only one side who was ever going to win today.

What a shock. Very surprising after all that's gone before. Who'd have thought that Lenny and Chris would be getting along!

Great result at faversham too.

From the faversham forum

No, come to think of it, I'm not depressed at all. Our weaknesses were exposed today, and we can work on that. I'm sure Ray and Clive can put things right. It was a day when far to many shots were blasted over the bar. A day when we seemed vulnerable to the quick break. All credit to Hastings Utd. If they continue playing like that, surely they'll be creeping up the table now, and might even make a play-off spot by the end of the season.

First of all, congratulations on your fully deserved win yesterday - you were better than us. Plain and simple!

I will calm any nerves now and say the match videos tend to be submitted in the days after the game, regardless of the result.

I don't want to come across as an opposition supporter, coming on here for a bit of a moan.

However, I do find the topic of how a team managed to get to the top of the table to be quite an interesting and slightly weird one.

On the one hand: I completely understand that (unless we meet in a cup, which looks unlikely this season) you will only see us play twice this term.

Naturally, you will judge us on what you see over the two matches, which is fair enough.

On the other hand: last season, we played Peacehaven twice. We won 3-0 at home and were the better team in a goalless draw away.

To most of our fans, they didn't look all that great but they managed to get 106 points from their other 44 league fixtures - evidently, they weren't bad and nobody came close to contesting the title with them!

We had to deal with similar talk throughout most of the 2012/13 season when we made the play-off final - I just find it a little strange at times because the season isn't built on two games.

For what it's worth, I don't think we underestimated you yesterday.

This term we have an u21 squad for the first time and we do have a bigger squad as a result. But, we probably just had one or two too many absentees on the day (we had been coping with two or three absentees per-game, before yesterday).

I think most Faversham fans feared the worse before the game because, considering this, we knew you were better than your league position suggests and could well take full advantage - which you did.

In fact, I would go as far to say - considering the size of your club and some of the players you have - you should be beating any team in this league that don't put out their best 11 against you!

I thought Taser Hassan and Ade Olorunda were excellent and your defence looked organised, so I can certainly see you climbing up the table in the near future.

I noticed you have taken some quotes from our forum and I would tend to agree with them. You should be in the top 10 with an outside chance of sneaking into the play-offs come the end of the season in my opinion.

I don't think there was anything majorly wrong with how we played, your clinical finishing meant you were 3-0 up at half-time after a fairly even first half that you had probably edged.

At 1-0 down, a Faversham player had his shot cleared off the line - had that gone in (the old cliche), it would have been a totally different game!

I also felt there were some vital spells either side of half-time but Pelling showed what a good keeper he is and you managed to keep us at bay (my view was blocked by the floodlights,although, I'm not sure what the Faversham goal just after half-time was ruled out for).

Anyway, like I have said, I haven't come on here for a moan - just wanted to congratulate you on a very efficient performance.

Good luck for the rest of the season and see you in April (second to last game of the season, we both might need to prove our worth with final points up for grabs).

FAV Army

-- Edited by FAV army on Sunday 9th of November 2014 01:24:50 AM

Lenny The Lion wrote:

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philg wrote:

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An excellent win, we had three chances in the first half and took all three, Farmer scored the first not Shelley.

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 Not sure whether Bert was following the Faversham Twitter account or not but they credited Shelley with the first so  if he was I think he can be excused for that minor mistake. 

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 This is what i read:

 

Full-time: Faversham Town 1-5 Hastings United

Half-time: Faversham Town 0-3 Hastings United

 

90'       hassan scores

82'       harris scores

65'       brown scores (og)

40'       a olorunda scores

15'       a olorunda scores

 

9'         shelley scores

-- Edited by BertNEC on Sunday 9th of November 2014 09:55:53 AM

Our friend from Faversham alludes to a point that has irritated me for ages.

After so many games, opposition teams are routinely described as poor or ordinary by various contributors on here. I fully appreciate that this is usually intended to highlight our own shortcomings, but it can only be viewed as rather disrespectful by other clubs.

To have suggested a similar thing after we have just beaten a team so handsomely on their own ground surely borders on utter contempt though, and I can't imagine that many of us would have offered such a constructive response as FAV Army has above.

On an unrelated subject, I am pleased to nominate Barry for the Cretinous Comment of the Year Award. If you have something big and clever that you wish to say about the website, how about having the grace to address it to me personally?

Sean you are sinking to new lows, you are coming across as a pathetic individual, perhaps as someone involved with the club, you should take a step back and engage the brain before you post. Talking at the game yesterday with other supporters, my post was commented on and most were in agreement with me. Yes you are a volunteer but that does not give you the right to say and do as you please. I volunteer for a lot in sport and I just cant pick and choose when to attend meetings and events, with volunteering comes responsibility as well.

Pat you have a nerve to say that about me commenting, look at my post last week about the lack of a report, which had nothing to do with anyone apart from Sean, yet you, Lenny, Liam and Dan all had to wade in. Is it a case as do as I say not as I do?

No Chris it isn't a case of that at all. Maybe I should take a leaf out of my own book as well. Point is that some things are best discussed. Very sad indeed to see the last few lines of Sean's post. I do hope that doesn't happen

-- Edited by Pat on Sunday 9th of November 2014 01:18:30 PM

As Dan and Pat have eluded to the comments over one missed match report are ridiculous and obviously the cheap comment about someone being bothered to write a report up quickly was said to provoke a reaction. Sean commits a lot of time to give supporters information via the website, match reports, player profiles, stats etc etc etc the list goes on and on. If he was to step down through comments made towards him, just stop and ask yourselves who would dedicate the time and passion he does to do the unpaid job he does? No one that's who and for that reason those comments would put pay to the many hundreds of other loyal supporters missing out on a lot more than just one match report, all for the sake of a mindless comment.

I don't post on here often, more of a lurker these days. But one thing is obvious, there's always one or two regular posters on here who seem to log in with the intention to argue against what everyone says and make slight digs and remarks just to get a reaction... Now that's pathetic.

Believe it or not some of us have a life away from the internet and this forum and Sean does a cracking job writing up his detailed and neutral match reports and getting them on the website. Not forgetting the other work he puts into updating the website, those of us who spent time getting our head around the technical side of updating and creating websites will know how long you can spend on it.

And no Barry he didn't call you cretin... 

Certain people are always so quick to play the victim after spending exhausting amount of time on this site provoking and attention seeking, it gets quite tedious and childish after a while guys. It's good to see how lively this forum can get at times, but try to keep it grown up, like 99% on here are capable of!

I have no intention of joining in with this 'discussion' but would just like to say what a fantastic job Sean has done over many years with his match reports. They are always totally objective and fair and without fail reflect the overall performance as well as giving an accurate account of the key incidents. Long may they continue.

Hey Barry - if you think you can do a better job then please feel free to throw your hat in the ring - otherwise...!!

would be very bad if you stop doing it sean, i dont see anything wrong with your posts in responding to the negative comments you got which very unfair. the website is excellent, match reports best in this league, twitter stuff brilliant would be huge loss if you go and cant see you call barry a cretin

As Mick rightly says you can rely on Sean's reports to be totally objective. He made some good points in his post. Hope he can be persuaded to change his mind, but if not, thanks for providing so many excellent reports over the years.

Like Pat said things on this forum should not be that personal in a way that it is not normal anymore.
Hastings is a big club but small in numbers. Each member of this forum attend matches and all the volunteers who are doing such a great job are all easy to approach on a match day. Sean please stay ! Your reports are great to read !

Naff response ?? He finished work and drive to Tolworth to do a ninety minute Twitter feed so that supporters who could not go were able to get realtime updates- a service many depend on ( more than a match report in cases). After that poor performance I'm not surprised he didn't have the inclination on that one occasion not to do a report. Think you are wrong here Chris .Most people would be grateful he even went and did the Twitter. I think we get spoiled with the match coverage at this club. 

-- Edited by Pat on Sunday 9th of November 2014 10:56:06 PM

-- Edited by Pat on Sunday 9th of November 2014 10:59:55 PM

Eastbourne town and Eastbourne united both county league sides do a very good twitter feed, so its nothing special what we do

What a shame that after a result like that, we are not talking about the football on this thread.

Night and Day! I stand by what i said - i think we have an excellent service and are spoilt. I think the comment "nothing special" is completely wrong and the comparison with the twitter feeds is obvious. All of them good, but one goes the extra mile.

Yes Cliff, it is sad but some just seem to want to pick holes in anything

I wasn't aware Sean did Saturday and yes Saturday was far better than normal. If Sean did them I apologise

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Eastbourne town and Eastbourne united both county league sides do a very good twitter feed, so its nothing special what we do

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 That's brilliant....nothing special what we do? I'd say its no where near in comparison. i think what Dan has proved that in his screen shots. We even have someone who updates the U18 games for the club to retweet, ok it's not as in depth as the first teams but close to what both Town and United do for their first teams, with Eastbourne Town you're lucky at times if you get a full time score for their under 18. 

Im sure these comments are being posted to get a reaction, it's quite clear that the comment re Twitter is far from the truth. We come away from a great result against the league leaders and all we get is petty comments about how quick the match report was added.  

I think it is absolute ludicrous how people who sit back and moan can criticise volunteers who work hard for the benefit of others. Sean is a volunteer whose work rate and passion for the Club is outstanding and the way people can criticise him for having a delayed match report is extremely unfair. For all the years Sean has been doing it, and people have been enjoying it, it's the picky and pedantic people who only pipe up when there's something missing.

Forum comment of the year does go to Sean by nominating Barry for the Cretinous Comment award and he's totally hit the nail in the head. What was meant to be probably the most positive thread on the forum has turned in to absolute pandemonium, because of one little silly silly comment. Barry, your comment about Sean and his match reports was 'so last week'.

Like many of the volunteers of the Club, they have families, jobs and other commitments, so the spineless comments of some people are so unfair.

ChrisB, yes, I did in fact 'wade in'. This is because I thought it was necessary. Necessary to defend the hard-working volunteers that make the Club what it is. I honestly think that we are the biggest, most passionate Club that is run by mainly volunteers in the Ryman South/North and bigger than most of the Clubs in the Ryman Prem too.

I agree with Dan by saying that I don't think there will be another person capable of writing such match reports and completing stats, tables, Twitter and Football Web Pages. On top of this, a lot of the Ryman Clubs have their websites run by Pitchero, so we are so lucky to have our own one, which is independently run. Sean is an extraordinary worker and I really hope he doesn't jack it all in.

Rant over.

I dont think you do respect  what we do at all Chris or you wouldnt keep dragging on a point about one missing report and a twitter feed you call nothing special.  Well thanks for that. Not that any of us do it for slaps on the back at all. Would be nice just to be left in peace now and again though to get on with the job...

-- Edited by Pat on Monday 10th of November 2014 01:43:50 PM

What? Where have I said that, all I did was to ask where the Corinthian report was, it was you who said you did not feel inclined to do one, if you had said family and time commitments had stopped you all this would not have dragged on. Frankly I have had enough of this thread where I have been accused of saying things I didn't. Pat what has this thread got to do with any of your volunteering activities? I know you tweet but at no stage have I crticised this or anyone else who volunteers. Apart from the said report obviously.

I've been away for a few days, can anyone tell me how Hastings got on Saturday? I assume we got spanked as I can find very little about the game on Saturday

This is one solution: keep it please by the subject.
I try always to give a '' prematch '' little piece on the game to come.
My hope is that supporters who attended the match gave their honest comments.

Sidelines in this topic have nothing to do with this great victory. Please open a new topic if you want to express other things.

Thanks for the kind words FIFC. I think you'll find that the vast majority of our supporters are in the same mindset as yourself, unfortunately we seem to have a very small percentage who don't appreciate the great work that Sean does by posting unnecessary comments as previously posted in this thread.

Thank you for those kind comments FIFC. Much appreciated. It does show that no matter what our colours, we can all appreciate good work when we see it.

Right, I'm off to lurk elsewhere again but thought id leave you with a 'Motion Picture' version of how this thread looks to outsiders using a well know internet 'meme',

Meant in good humour! :)

youtu.be/j5sN0wQrMT0

( yes I had some spare time! )

absolutely bloody brilliant ! , I hope EVERYONE can laugh at this, and also take note, I`ve seen this clip before but never as funny and personal as this , well done Mark, come back soon please and add your humour a little more often.

Always look at the Lewes forum myself, like a more polite version of ours but still very much a soap opera! Entertaining and proof that even at fan owned clubs there is plenty of moaning at the owners ( And plenty of dissent against the manager too! )

Made me laugh so much. Agree with Rev - I hope everyone can have a chuckle. I remember that Dover Post Mick. Razor pinned it on the dressing room wall before the semi at Crabble. The rest as they say is History!

We do have a very large and active forum and I know lots of people from other clubs who read it and they often comment on the varied opinions but also the " hand wringing" that Mick refers to. A bit embarrassing that we are seen like that but nevertheless very very funny.

Very funny. good see light side of this. has been on a lot of forum and this from horsham which show how poor some of our fan look at other clubs.
One can't help but admire the time and dedication you have given to our football club Mark as Tim has already said a full match report on line within two hours of the match ending is nothing short of a miracle!! One thing I have to ask, if you can perform these miracles why the hell couldn't you arrange a lift to the station or at least turn the rain off during your power walk?!!!! On another frustrating night for the club it makes writing a match report that much more difficult but you always seem to be able to construct such an unbiased report giving both sides credit where necessary, this one clearly stating that Worthing deserved their victory. Having read the Hasting's forum after their victory against Faversham (assuming we were playing them last night) I couldn't believe some of the comments, having thrashed the top of the table away, instead of commenting on the positives someone criticises the speed of their match report going on line, then having the audacity to complain that there wasn't one produced after their defeat against C.Casuals. This stupid comment has now put their match reporter in a position that he feels he doesn't want to continue which is perfectly understandable in the circumstances. I could never see that happening within our club but it also shows how hard working family committed people are totally taken for granted as they try to keep everyone informed. We are extremely fortunate to have so many people within our ranks giving up their valuable time to make sure this club is successful and for that we should all be truly grateful.

Embarrassing is the word Pat. Makes you wonder why you do things. Then again most supporters are complimentary and supportive so I just ignore the trolls.

You don't think it embarrassing when we beat the league leaders at home- when they haven't been beaten there all season and average 3 goals a game and the thread turns into a fiasco? Fair play but I personally disagree

i do agree that other clubs postings do reinforce the worth of not just Sean but all volunteers

-- Edited by Pat on Wednesday 12th of November 2014 11:22:49 PM

Now that I do agree with Matt.