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i predict our players will be more hungover than theres and we have a narrow loss

Hey mick aren't we already in a very uncomfortable position in the league, and hey FatBloke, I wonder why the fans are depressed. We have tried to be positive all season but look where we are for the New Year. Hey BertNEC every game is a must win from now on if we want to be in this league next season. Still positive we can win at Hythe. Good Luck team.

Hi again all

These days I am filming games for Hythe, having done a number for Hastings in the past. This means that you will be able to view match highlights via the BKVP Sport forum around two days after the game is finished.

Here's looking forward to a great contest.

I will post details of highlights when they are ready.

Getting very serious now.Can see us in bottom 3 by end of January

The conversation in our car was along the lines of your penultimate sentence, John. As things stand we simply are not good enough and we have to accept that relegation is a real possibility, however unthinkable, unless there are some drastic improvements.
The first half was probably as bad as anything I have seen. We looked slow, unfit, disorganised and generally clueless about creating anything and were lucky to be only one down at the break. Yes, the pitch was dreadful but Hythe still managed to cause us problems while we barely got within 50 yards of their goal. It was woeful. Tom and Sam seemed to get us a bit more fired up after the break but the extra bit of quality/skill/pace that would bring us an equaliser was always lacking.
I have to say Dom seems to see things in players that I can't see. In my opinion this Paul Robinson just lacks the mobility to play at this level. There's no comparison between him and, say, Ronnie Dolan......which probably explains why we are in the position we are in now. Good players have been replaced by inferior ones.
I hate being so negative....but we simply don't seem to be progressing at all at the moment and, even more worryingly, think the large number of travelling supporters could have expected a whole lot more effort in what was effectively a vital 'six pointer' today.
I will be there again on Saturday.... but more in hope than expectation !

agree John Mick, nothing more to add but just 1 fit sub no tim, jordan, fraser, adam, i said our players would be more hungover is that why only 12. i have no idea how we are playing we look like a school team where you can play where you want, depressing very depressing but yes still be there saturday

Why would anyone think Horsham and East Grinstead are easy? I would guess both teams are looking forward to playing us at present and EG have just won their last 3 games. Hurts to say but based on today I will be hoping that our goal difference does not take a hammering on Saturday and would settle for a narrow defeat.........that's what it has now come to.

I have a few thoughts going through my mind about this current situation particularly how we can move forward. It is easy for us to play the blame game but how far will that really get us?

My interpretation (agree or disagree) as a fan is that there is something missing at the club but I don't know what that is. A number of excuses/ reasons have arisen over the last few weeks on this board such as fitness issues, availability, desire, the manager, the chairman, playing surfaces and playing style. Some of the things the majority of supporters would agree on and some of them attract more debate.

When Dom took over things were looking bleak in my opinion. Just 2 of these things were fitness and the football we were playing. I wonder if he came in and thought which would pick up more points. Hitting the fitness hard or working on the football that was being played by experimenting with tactics and players. I believe that dom chose to focus on the latter. By doing this he needed players in that he knew would understand what he wanted to do and would be happy to give it a go. Some of the players he would have chosen might not be as good as what we already had or could get but he needed a skeleton a players to build from. I believe we train twice a week? At this level can we try a different structure and work fitness levels to a point where they should have been after a good pre season.

If a number of players were missing today for whatever reason and it was a last minute thing then I really feel for the coaching staff who probably knew today was going to be a struggle.

So moving forward what do we do? Get rid of the coaching staff and leave ourselves in an even more precarious situation. Look for yet more players to play and run the risk of getting in ones that are only interested on their terms and for their own career? I think we are now at a point where we have to just dig in and graft. The table doesn't lie so we need to work and work and work.

When the end of the season comes around (hopefully we stay up) the manager (whoever that is) can be given good time to work on building a decent squad, can weed out some of the players he doesn't want, can get the players fit and can build a structure to move forward. Building a structure for the future was not conceivable half way through a season. At a professional club with more time on the training ground and with more money things could have been different.

I don't really know what the answers are and am not going to criticise things without knowing the ins and outs. I more wanted to share opinions I have with my friends at games or after them. I should also mention I wasn't at the game today so am simply basing this on gut feeling.

Yup....read it on Facebook......just trying to assess the impact.
Inevitably, some players will follow him back West.....will we even get a team out on Saturday ?
What a ******* mess !

tried his best but never got settle side and player he got in not as good as ones that went especially Dolan and wonder if in end players did not want to play for him giving number not there today being final straw for him. think we thought it was a good brave move to get young manager but gamble that failed.
It is a mess good luck mark think burgess hill will like that as think we struggle to get side out saturday.