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had not really paid much attention to three bridges this season but surprise how bad they are doing when they did quite well last year. on paper it should be 3 points and a red card for crellin or whitehead probably

Very bad day 0-1

What a total and utter shambles that was and totally unacceptable from players and management. If I was Gary Wilson I would be digging deep into my pockets and paying back the entry fee to every single Hastings supporter today. No heart, no passion, poor selection, poor tactics and all this against a quite awful Three Bridges team who had lost 9 of their last 12 games. If anyone comes on here and defends that performance in any way they need their head seeing too. It was flat from the first to the last minute with just no drive or change of plan coming from the touchline. Ill let others comment on individual performances but again today we had at least 3 players starting who are no better than county league and in Jack Walder, the luckiest player alive,  after he clearly head butted their central defender straight in the face and got away with it. It really is just getting boring making the same comments week in week out. For me and all those around me that was one of the worst performances I have seen for many year from Hastings but how can that be? there just has to be some really huge issues now at the club for us to play like we did against Guernsey to now produce two totally inept performances in a week. I hope everyone else is as angry and frustrated as me today.

Absolutely livid.Agree with everything John has said plus we had to put up with diabolical officials.Just wish,as supporters,we would get the reasons for their stupid decisions.I have come away from the game not knowing why we had a goal disallowed and why we didn't get two blatant penalties.On any other area of the pitch they would have been given as fouls.As for the incident at the end with the Three Bridges player rolling around in the penalty area after being felled by Walder,what decision did the referee give,the answer was NONE! Why was that? Was he so badly fouled that no one came to his aid,even though he was on the floor for so long,or was he attacked?Why wasn't one of them sent off?
I have come away from the game feeling very let down by my team and totally confused by the officials

Totally agree John, absolutely dire. Can't blame officials...we are not good enough.

A very disappointing performance today and certainly hard to believe that this was the same team that were so impressive against Gurnsey.
I do however feel (and I appreciate I run the risk of being 'sectioned' by John here) that this was one of those days that we SHOULD have been able to sum up by saying "The sign of a good team is one that wins when it plays badly".
Yes the quality of our performance was well below what is needed but, let's be totally objective here, we didn't get a single break today, did we ?
Their goal resulted from a challenge that broke kindly for their player who scored off the post. Other than one other first half chance they produced NOTHING the whole game.
We were awful first half but did at least show much more fight after the break and would have got SOMETHING from the game with just a little more good fortune.
The disallowed goal looked questionable (admittedly from the main stand) and we appeared to have at least one decent penalty shout. We also peppered their goal with numerous attempts that on another day may have found a way in.
Don't get me wrong. I'm not defending our performance today....but if there had been any justice we would have been the team that 'sneaked the win they didn't really deserve rather than them'.
Have to agree with Tim. I never rated Jamie Crellin in his Hastings days but thought he had an extremely effective game against our naive tactics today.
Sam Cruttwell was my MotM today...the only player who looked capable of delivering a telling pass,
One final point, I can't remember a game with so many free kicks. The ref seemed to blow for a foul every 30 seconds. And the "stop start" game was another thing that made it such a frustrating spectacle today.

I was actually bored by the football. Apart from the good company at the clubhouse, I wasted my money.
Three bridges obviously came for a fight, which you have to match and then use your superior football to overcome. Neither happened. They targeted walder from the start. A lot of late and off the ball challenges expecting him to react. In the end he obliged and was lucky to stay on.

White coats for Mick........quick question, when Ollie Rowe was surprisingly subbed anyone know why Sam Adams was stuck in at right back? Everyone agreed against Guernsey that Sam was back in his best position, leading the line, so why so out of favour just 2 games later? Would it not have been better to take Liam off, go 3 at the back, with Ollie in his preferred central role, and really push on With Sam up top? Another quick question.......Alfie Hall? Could swear he is still our player, the same player that was MOM in his last appearance against Merthyr. Final quick question, anyone have any idea what has happened to all these possible new signings we were looking at? Only 4 subs named again today including, Tyrell, who's confidence looks shot, out of favour Bright and young Foster, who is far from ready yet. Where is the pressure coming from on those players playing each week. Doesn't matter how they play, they know they are guaranteed to start.

Looks like I had a lucky escape not being there today, but am very surprised that any of you are shocked, disappointed or dismayed As long as club keeps on appointing unproven managers, and having players that don't always give 100% then this type of season will stay the norm. We need a manager who can motivate and not de motivate, and players who want to play for Hufc and not just turn up to collect the money.

not much i can add that not been said but that was a shocker yesterday. we look like 11 individuals with no plan a and when no plan a did not work plan b not even worked on. instead bloor is laughing and joking with the sub bench. was he laughing at how bad it was? we was less motivated, less fit than three bridges and they are a poor side but had a game plan and we didnt. total waste of 10 quid yesterday maybe players and management can have a collection for supporters at next game

Always liked the idea of only paying players expenses and then having a payment by results system in place. Nothing for a defeat, lets say £50 for a win if in the lower half of the table and more if in the play off positions. You could add other bonuses for size of crowd etc. Perhaps for games like Three Bridges a wage deduction system could be instigated for inflicting such hardship on spectators!

I think we are still in with a chance of the play-offs but these last two home games have given our prospects a severe dent. Certainly, I'd agree the next three games are very important; as are the next 10 games given that 8 of those are away. I was expecting we would get at least 4 points from our last two games and then look to get an absolute minimum of 15 from these next 10. That no longer looks at all good enough, particularly given that our final run-in is far from easy. So, yes, if we get next to nothing from our next three games we are really up against it.

Fair comment, Peter; but I think we have no alternative but to stick with and give full support to the current Management Team for the remainder of the season. I felt though, with the budget made available by the owners, that it was always understood to be a minimum requirement for Garry that he should get us to the play-offs. Should we not, then at the least, I would expect there to be a searching review before we go into next season.