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Can everyone please share this poster around? Thanks!

I'll certainly share this!

Actually, inspired by the fact that Saturday is the first game that I'll attend, Non-League Day 2015 and the fact that I hadn't seen too much club promotion since I moved here, I offered the club marketing person some promo posters that were politely declined (comes with the territory of being an artist/designer!) as she said that they already had stuff in place. 

I wanted to do something a bit different (as it feels like an arty town) to make people look again at non-league football/see it in a different light.

Anyway, if the supporters club ever need anything designed then I'm happy to pitch in. 

Remember Tommy Killick scoring a great goal at the Pilot Field for Dorchester Town and a game or two against Poole back in the 70's?

Two of Whyteleafe's finest 

-- Edited by Windy on Monday 5th of October 2015 08:08:06 PM

Ah, great stuff. Will do.

Here's some rough ideas.

 

 

 

Isn't that your nickname Simod, the smart giant or is it the daft giant?

Have to agree, excellent designs although the 3rd one gave an epileptic fit. Exactly the kind of people we need on board with new and fresh ideas.

love the designs

Smartgiant I have PM'd you!

I'll just say also that Ryan Light make that poster, his are much much better than mine!

Only 2-1? We beat bottom Club Chipstead 6-0 on the opening day! This'll be easy!!!!....

You may be less confident if only you realised that we've completely planned this disappointing start to the season and to be lying in 15tj place just so that if we got to this round of the FA Cup again we would lure you into a false sense of security and thrash you :)

Damn, just given the plan away! :(

In all seriousness should be a great game, will be filming it in HD and will share the highlights on your forum too.

Your club sec reckons you'll bring 60-70 fans as well which will be good to see!

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You may be less confident if only you realised that we've completely planned this disappointing start to the season and to be lying in 15tj place just so that if we got to this round of the FA Cup again we would lure you into a false sense of security and thrash you :)

Damn, just given the plan away! :(

In all seriousness should be a great game, will be filming it in HD and will share the highlights on your forum too.

Your club sec reckons you'll bring 60-70 fans as well which will be good to see!

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 Damn! Now I'm feeling less optimistic,  here comes a 5-1 spanking!

-- Edited by BD on Wednesday 7th of October 2015 04:11:00 PM

Probably fair odds really

I very rarely put on here any rendezvous before the game as I always put it in the programme, but I just found this one particularly interesting;
No. Day 1936/37 Comp Opponents Venue Result Attend Goalscorers

17 Sat 02/01/1937 AFA/SC/R2 Poole Town Away 1-2 Barker (C)

09 Sat 14/09/1985 SL/SD 3 Poole Town Home 2-1 327 Pea****; White (Terry)

56 Sat 22/03/1986 SL/SD 24 Poole Town Away 2-0 151 Barnett; Pea****

08 Sat 30/08/1986 SL/SD 4 Poole Town Home 2-1 284 Hopkinson; Newton

43 Sat 21/02/1987 SL/SD 19 Poole Town Away 1-3 210 Batten

46 Sat 27/02/1988 SL/SD 25 Poole Town Away 0-1 183 ~

58 Tues 12/04/1988 SL/SD 35 Poole Town Home 4-1 188 Dunlop; Heritage; McNab; Pea****

14 Sat 24/09/1988 SL/SD 7 Poole Town Home 1-1 305 Giles

43 Sat 28/01/1989 SL/SD 23 Poole Town Away 0-0 454 ~

14 Wed 13/09/1989 SL/SD 7 Poole Town Away 1-1 394 Pea****

32 Tues 05/12/1989 SL/SD 17 Poole Town Home 2-2 247 Giles; Stock

Was thinking exactly the same Tim, oh to have some of those guys available today. I still remember Wayne Peac**k maraulding up and down that right wing, one of my favourite ever players. Very rare you see a winger these days who is 6ft 4 plus. Ernie Batten was a terrific striker for us also. Even when he was in his twenties he looked like he was 50 with those strands of hair stuck on his head. And what about Matt Stock? Never used run more than 5 yards before he was out of breath and that's if you could get him to run, but what a passer of the ball and what vision.

 

Cant believe that was 30 odd years ago. Anyone know where those three players in particular are now? Bet Mr Stoddart knows?

Any Poole fans reading ? Just to let you know that I see on your forum that someone has pointed out that there is no parking near our ground . It's not strictly true . There is usually space in the surrounding roads . Just be careful not to block residential driveways please and make sure you don't park at all on the kerb ways otherwise the parking plods will stick a ticket on you . Take it from me I know ... I've got the TShirt for parking one inch on a kerb ...rules is rules I guess , but you have been warned ! 

This would be a great game for us to win but we are going to have to be at our best to have a realistic chance. Tom and Ollie Rowe have done well at the back so I wonder if Sean will get back in if fit? Interesting to see what our starting team will be.

Game day then! What do you you reckon on team then? This is my preferred.

Can't go 442 in this game imo but both Adams & Cole can support and get forward as needed.

 

-- Edited by Dan on Saturday 10th of October 2015 10:13:34 AM

-- Edited by Dan on Saturday 10th of October 2015 10:16:44 AM

Halftime 0-2

Well that was anti climax of the century. What a dreadful, lacklustre, uninspired performance against an opponent that never had to get out first gear. I have supported the management team throughout the dross and mediocrity all season but today they have to be held accountable. Poor team selection, poor tactics and just no plan B. Someone please come on here and tell me why, yet again, from the first minute to the last minute, we hoofed it long? Hoofed being the appropriate word. They had a central defender who must have been 6ft 8 and all we did was stick it on his head. I could see it, my 11 year old son saw it, the people either side of me saw it, so why didn't our management team see it!!!! why did they not change it ? I am lost for words and this is now becoming a real concern and the first time I have heard some real anguish from the supporters aimed at the manager today over our tactics. So perhaps people can answer these questions.

Why are we now playing long ball every game with the obvious quality we have in the squad?

Why are we not learning from previous games like Carshalton and Worthing, when the same long ball tactics failed miserably. 

Why was Walder put straight back in the team. He was dreadful yet again and what sort of message does that send out to young Crutts who was probably MOM last game. Best midfielder in the league I was told at the managers forum. B****cks I say!

Why is Medlock playing in midfield? He has scored goals everywhere he has played and yet we persist with Harris who has now scored 1 in 14.

Is Razor fit or not? he has been on the bench for 3 games now. This was the game when you needed that type of player.

This was a huge opportunity for the club today and I just feel so sorry once again for the large crowd and also for the directors that appear to be bankrolling a hopeless cause at the moment. People can come on here and defend the team as much as they like but today was not good enough. We have been here many times before and I just hope Gary and Danny are not starting to lose the players.

Well done to Poole by the way. Thoroughly deserved win and I doubt they will ever get an easier win this season. Rant over!!

 

The problem is Winchy, how easy is it to practice set pieces when you train at Hastings Academy or indoors? Never mind, just cheered myself up by looking at the Ryman league this evening, 19th place, happy days!

Thought both teams were really poor.Expected Poole to be much better than that given their position but they really had very little to offer and relied on us to play to their strengths(if you can call them that) by punting the ball up to the big lump down the middle.If we had an ounce of knowledge we would have changed tactics very early but for some unknown reason we didn't and just plodded on like a stubborn mule.When we finally did change we at least looked mildly threatening by getting wide.As mentioned in previous posts,I have found team selection puzzling and agree with names mentioned not bringing much to the team.We must shuffle the pack,ruffle some feathers and give others a chance.

Taxi for Wilson and Bloor they can share one don't deserve 1 each. For 75 minutes today we were worse than ever, its awful to watch, and I would imagine our players hate the game plan. I don't know what the 2 in charge see that the rest of us don't. Poor medlock a prolific goal scorer is played in midfield why? Why do we keep getting crap managers.

So dead brain do you enjoy watching us perform so badly week on week?

ChrisB ..what do you mean by "US" ? that suggests that you veiw yourself as a genuine supporter !! yeah right !! you walk around smiling like the cat that got the cream when "we" loose, followed by bile filled posts on here ... but when we win, you`ve got aface like a slapped arse, and strangely very little if any comment on here, thats not a supporter, thats a troll.
and as for week on week !! ok, todays result could have been better, but it was our 7th cup game ... which means we have won 6 cup games alone, add to that 5 league wins and we are 4 games in hand over most in the league. But NO that's not good enough for you, is it ?? heads must roll ... again !!. Just do one.

-- Edited by dead ball on Saturday 10th of October 2015 07:36:06 PM

Please let us focus on the football we play. The comments above show that many supporters didn't had a great afternoon.

Your absolutely right Bert and what a shame in front of a bumper crowd today. You are just not going to get these supporters back playing that style of football. Thought we would have had a real go today but barely won a tackle or had a shot on goal.  All seems very similar to last season sadly but Gary has a much better team than Terry White had.

Well said Tim, some good points, and yes, a dismal way to exit the FA Cup.

Totally agree Geoff.

Listen guys we have the players to play football so why do we sky ball. billy what a good striker he is
but wasted the way we are playing ? management can't be that stupid. can they ?
the mind boggle's it's so simple pass and move on the grass on and of the ball not many better sides
in this league. no calling for heads? just using heads would be a starter. D & G.

Well it's difficult not to agree with most of what's been said but the one thing I CANNOT agree with is it's time for the manager to go !
I think Poole were very tough opponents today....they pressed us high up the pitch which quite often forced us into hurried punts forward which their 4 just gobbled up. At times we did TRY to play a little bit of passing football but everything seemed to end with a final hopeful punt as the man on the ball ran out of time. It was simply a matter of a difference in class/speed between the two sides. Totally agree that Tom was MotM, no one else in the running though Josh did pretty well too. Walder ? Yes VERY disappointing again in midfield and I would definitely give young Crutts a decent run in the side alongside Sam and Simon who did ok on his debut but nothing special.
Clearly there are failings right in the engine room that MUST be resolved asap because today's kick and don't-even-bother-to-chase football resulted in a woeful spectacle and 300 locals who turned up today won't be there for the next one. That's probably the biggest disappointment...we didn't even appear to give it a go today !

I only wish our management team would learn, but these comments are similar to what appeared on the Lewes forum about a year ago, so I wouldn't hold your breath. Tuesday will probably see us play a lot of reserve/back up player's. But I hope not as surely we need to get our strongest side out, and learning to play proper football with each other.

What summed the day up for me was at the end i was chatting to some Poole Town fans and as they left to get their Taxi they said with all honesty and meaning well "don't worry im sure things will improve for you guys and you wont go down"....

The thought that there was even a remote chance of this happening this season hadn't occurred to me until then but the games in hand situation does worry me after our experience last time. i would swap going out of all other cups at this point just to avoid that situation happening again.

But 100% need to stick with and support D&G for the whole season, but a change in the style of play is surely required soon. If we were grinding results out with it and were sitting top 3 or 4 then fine and i think we'd all accept that gladly but we're much lower and the crowds wont accept both long ball football with poor results for long.

We do have some really good players who could probably easily cope with Ryman Prem possibly even at Conference South level if required and we need to play to those players strengths as some look so ill suited at the moment.

-- Edited by Dan on Sunday 11th of October 2015 09:36:57 AM

I also disagree with the comments about Poole being poor. I thought they were a solid and well disciplined side. But I do agree with the comments about us having a bad day at the office. We let it two sloppy goals which could've easily been prevented. The first goal was not closing the man down quickly enough and the second one straight from a corner. Poole had a very tall side, but it does worry me how both goals yesterday came from a set-piece. We should be well drilled on those set-pieces, I think especially on corners but having Alfie Hall (possibly the smallest guy on the pitch) on the near post was a bad idea.

Sam Cole easily had the beating of his man, especially in the first half and beat him countless number of times. The second half not so much as he read the game better and stopped any crosses from Cole or from him cutting inside.

Tom Vickers has most definitely man of the match yesterday with one of his best performances in a Hastings shirt, in my opinion. I've never been quite sure if having him as a centre back is a good idea as I much prefer his style of play as an attacking midfielder, but he proved what an asset he can be at the back. The match sponsor hit the nail on the head giving him the man of the match award, excellent performance.

Once again the long ball was played over and over again, and once again it didn't work for us. Having Billy Medlock trying to receive a ball from the air against someone about six feet taller than him is never going to work. Their defence was solid and well drilled and their number four is an absolute giant.

Our play got better when Bright Temba came on, because he had pace. I don't think the Poole defence had a great amount of pace, just height so when Bright came on he ran at the and round them, which they struggle to deal with. A couple of decent chances in the last ten minutes or so, much I'm pretty sure if the match was still going on now (nearly 24 hours later), we still wouldn't have scored. But that's the way it goes sometimes.

Think it's totally unnecessary calling for the managers head. We've been through way to many managers in the past couple of years and calling for another sacking right now is just ridiculous. But let's not forget that exactly one year ago today, Dom Di Paola took charge of his first game and we best Guernsey 4-1!