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Is Kev Keehan back and available for this one?

Blame Willis :)

Nice headache to have for Dom. As the old cliche goes you shouldn't change a winning side but in all honesty Dom made it clear that he likes numbers in the squad so he has different options for different games to combat and capitalise on opposition weaknesses.
I believe Keehan is back on Saturday and missed just one game. The midfield was quite dominating on Saturday Dan and Shelley added a lot to the game.

Kevin is suspended .

Searching the FA Disciplinary list can't See anything for Keehan.

From Kevin himself : he got a 2 game ban. He sent me a pm.

Windy wrote:

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Ha ha !!! One nil to Holland !! Well done Bert !

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  face  it Windy, Holland always beat us when it comes to anything football related! ⚽️

General wrote:

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You're forgetting Euro 96 Lenny, England 4 Holland 1 Shearer 2 Sheringham 2 and a late Kluivert goal to put Scotland out I think. One of the best England performances in my lifetime. I take your general point though.

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To be honest  I did think of that General, I was really thinking of an over all situation. In my opinion Holland are the best team in the world to have never won the World Cup. 

I see that tom Vickers has played for the u21s the last couple of games, how was his fitness after injury and was there any others in the u21 team that could provide good back up?

Not on Monday's performance Sindy. Jordan looked a lot slimmer and played well as did Tom but there was little else to fire the passions. They were 4 or 5 regulars short I believe but not a good performance.

Just look at that pitch! 

Not available today:

Ade Olorunda is away and Kevin Keehan is suspended, while Sean Ray is unlikely to be fit and fellow centre-half Marc Pullan is also struggling. Ronnie Dolan has joined Folkestone Invicta .

 

And Mitchell Hand is maybe leaving HUFC.

-- Edited by BertNEC on Saturday 15th of November 2014 11:52:13 AM

Disappointingly straightforward game for Walton and Hersham who never seemed to be out of their comfort zone.

Very disappointing performance today after last weeks great victory.
First half was very poor with only one decent effort from KP. We just seemed short of ideas and I felt Archibald didn't have the physical presence needed to lead the attack at this level. Think we need Ade back fast. Liked the look of Shelley...I think he can be a useful acquisition but Farmer was disappointing...his distribution was poor but probably not as bad as poor Sam C. whose passing was awful at times today.
Second half was a little better......but not much and we didn't really ever look like getting anything until the last four minutes. What was encouraging was to see Jordan looking a whole lot trimmer and proving a real threat when he came on.
Poor ref but won't blame him for the defeat. Still early days in Dom's reign but based on what we saw today the play-offs seem a long way away from becoming a reality.

 

ps Hadn't read your assessment when I wrote this, John. Interesting that our assessment of Archibald was exactly the same.

-- Edited by Mick on Saturday 15th of November 2014 07:08:39 PM

Quite depressing really, was really looking forward to today, all the hype and that !
and then it hit me, because I missed two home games whilst on holiday this year, I haven`t seen United win a game since last season, bit of a worry, don`t you think? and today did nothing to make me think it will improve in the near future. I remember when we went down, some people were saying we would be straight back, but others saying, its a god awful league to get out of...............

So you only spend your £10 on guaranteed wins or good performances Gaz? Blimey based on that thought you would have been gone from Hastings ages ago. Proper supporter! Even people like Barry and Chrisb who I tend to disagree with on certain things go week in week out bad and earn my 100% respect for that. We may disagree but they are proper Hastings supporters. But the fact that this was your first for 7 or so games suggests you are not.

See you on the next winning run then! #nonleaguefairweatherfan 

To be clear am not saying that today's game was anything like the quality we want and also I have to now re-sit the entire experience for many hours to edit the 'highlights' for the benefit of the people on here who may want to watch them Which is neither a club role or paid but something hopefully some may appreciathe apart from just me So put your £10 In context against that plus the hours spent doing the programme and FB page and maybe not post as if your being ripped off in a sport where unless you support Chelsea or Real Madrid you may be disappointed sometimes..... 

 

 

 

It's entirely understandable that there are some pretty negative views after this performance. Walton are an average side but one who didn't look stretched at any point; and we just didn't have any sort grip on the game. Yes, there were injuries and unavailabilities, we were (again) at the wrong end of most of some pretty poor refereeing, and an unaccustomed error by Josh (and some good fortune for Walton) led to the second goal conceded. But still, as others have said, it is plain that without Ade we are a side with little cutting edge. I thought Archibold tried hard, but it really is clear that he is not up to the standard of this league. Put simply, we will not get near to the play offs without another quality striker. Ade, as was said at the start of the season, cannot be expected to play in every (or perhaps even in most) games. Yes good strikers are hard to come by and we doubtless will have to pay good money to bring one in; but a number of players have left who (I presume) were in the higher wage categories, so if there is money in hand it should be expended now. That would not just be a 'quick fix', because I think that much of what Dom has attempted is working - but we are still I think at least two maybe three players short of a fully competitive team that can play as Dom would wish and so keep us in the hunt in this season.

I'm just wondering if anyone thought they saw a better midfielder on show today than Ronnie Dolan? Just can't work out why he was dropped after being a such a major part of Dom's first 2wins. And did we really try our very best to keep Jamahl?

The striker department does worry me and has worried me for a while but stick Razor, Keehan, Ade and a fit Vickers back in the side and we are not a million miles away. Just think we are all so disappointed with the performance today after a month without a home game and last weeks win.

Even I must confess that it is getting harder and harder to keep watching these woeful performances over the past few seasons which are very lightly sprinkled with  good wins. 

Bitterly disappointing today and only one team wanted to win and they did.

Gaz - Your last post was spot on.

I still love u Dan

Definitely poor today. Just wondering why Gaz judges on one performance and Barry instantly forgets last week. ( ok he posted to complain about the lack of match reports)

It was poor and with no desire. We all said that we would give Dom until the end of the season and up to today he had got 10 points out of 15 in the league. Thats not a bad haul.

Of course we should be disappointed today and I agree with John entirely, but Gaz - giving up on a team based on a poor performance seems a bit shallow to me. Barry - you have just said the same as someone called "Fawlty " on the other forum. Im sure its coincidence.

Poor performance today and we looked disinterested at times. Wont stop me following the team though. This is just the beginning of a long repair job.

Appreciate that comment at least, we have had quite a while to get prepared for it though with all the away games! Relevance is the most important thing for us tbh.

Highlights are uploading and should be ready by tomorrow morning, looks better the second time round to fe honest but the chances were there to be finished!

I think my overriding worry here is that once again time is needed by Dom and we need to give it to him. Theres going to be some ups and downs on the way back im sure.I do agree with Barry that we have only had a smattering of good performances but lets see how the response is again next week - dont get me wrong, I was as disappointed as anyone yesterday and we all have a right to say how we feel . It was poor and why did we not have some under 21s at least filling the bench gaps?

Gaz - I enjoy our chats but still maintain that this is an issue that the manager and he alone has to address.He has full board support in this and I just hope supporters also give him time.

I very much agree with Pat. Dom needs time. I think a great deal of what Dom has done thus far has been spot on. It seems to me though that there are currently at least two or three points which we as supporters can usefully make by way of constructive criticism / comment: in my view we need a quality central striker in addition to Ade; it was unfortunate we were not able to retain Ronnie Dolan; we need to ensure we do not lose any more of our more experienced players without a suitable replacement; and we should not have only three substitutes on the bench for a competitive match.