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Pity Burgess Hill today, they may suffer for our frustrations from the past weeks! I think Dom brought in too many county league players that were unable to compete at Ryman level every week. We must get players and manager with Ryman experience now before it is too late.

@SimonRudkins: Pitch has passed inspection and game is on although final decision will be with match referee. Ko 3pm @hastingsufc v @Official_BHTFC

More positives to take away than previously before. Battled well. The clumsy red card really cost us today. Only lost to a deflection. 2 big games coming up now in the next week

Having been pretty disgusted by Thursday's effort I thought this was a far better showing all round and only a total fluke goal robbed us of the point we fully deserved.
Burgess Hill actually looked no better than a good number of teams we have seen this season and we matched them all over the pitch throughout. I can only guess they must have had a bad day today and will know they stole the points from us. Then of course there is the ref who did us absolutely no favours today and the red card only came about because he felt he needed to make an impact on the game, booking for trivial offences.
Ade was definitely my MotM....not just because he scored but because he played the target man role brilliantly today, winning and holding the ball up for others to join in. The BH defenders will be very pleased they won't be facing him next week as he gave them a really torrid time.
No surprise whatsoever that Farmer has disappeared. (Baaaah! ) Can I assume that Keehan has gone the same way ? Ironically Archibald who has been the least impressive of everyone who has 'popped in' from West Sussex is still with us ! One other comment...please can Logan not take any more free kicks around the opponent's area.
I'm afraid it has to be said......there appeared to be much greater desire today than I have seen for a while. If we play like we did today for the rest of the season we will be safe from relegation.

Certainly a better performance and effort today and the players should be proud of their efforts but sadly still no cutting edge and our passing continues to be average at best. Didn't think Burgess Hill were light years ahead of us but also felt they could always step up a gear if required. As on Thursday I thought Tom was our best player and defensively we looked as solid as we have all season but Taser continues to drive us all mad with his final ball whilst Evan still does not look good enough, although he does try hard and fair play to him for sticking it out when Keehan and Farmer have decided to move on. Gutted when the late winner went in as I thought we deserved a point but today was always going to be damage limitation in my mind and the next 2 fixtures are now absolute must wins. Well done to Stapes for getting the lads up for today at the end of an incredibly difficult week.

Glad we got this one out of the way to be honest and anything from it would have been a bonus...green shoots of recovery maybe? or are we are just pleased we didn't get trounced 5.0 so losing by a small margin didn't seem too bad. Great to see some spirit back in the team at last, actually looked like they wanted to play today.
Massive game now against managerless Horsham now next week, a team who have only managed to win on 4 occasions this season and the first team in the division that have come adrift from the pack. County league now looking a deed cert for them. Biggest challenge for us will be playing on their ploughed field which they groundshare with Hosham YMCA. Think if we get 4 points from next 2 games we will be ok as it looks as though Horsham and Redhill are now becoming new year relegation favourites. Not sure who will occupy that final place though.....

Burgess Hills match report is a little bit favourable towards them, I understand that some clubs always want to seem as if they were the better side but the bit about their winner mentions nothing about the wicked deflection off Vickers head which was so clear to everyone in the ground and was obviously instrumental in the winner. Gives us a bit of credit please. 

bhtfc.co.uk/2015/01/03/resolute-hill-defeat-spirited-hastings-side/

Agree with Barry, dreadful report from Burgess Hill. It's like some lucky girl won the half time raffle to write the report. Poorly written and inaccuracies throughout the report. Wasn't Ade's equaliser a header to the keepers right, not a shot into the top corner? Perhaps she was watching in between knitting. Makes you thankful for Sean's excellent, informative and un biased reporting.