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Bert, always read your post with great interest. Your English is excellent , my Dutch is not existant. However I'm not sure that the last line of your post is what you meant to say.

philg wrote:

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Bert, always read your post with great interest. Your English is excellent , my Dutch is not existant. However I'm not sure that the last line of your post is what you meant to say.

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Hi Phil,

 

what last line....................

Football is like a marriage; in good and bad times you stick together.......................

A supporter you stay for life ( see me supportering NEC for almost 45 years now) Think the comments on this forum shows that 95% of the posters really care for this club. If you not moan,complain or what else about HU then we are truly lost.

If this is what you meant.....

Ok Phil,

my english is not that good........ Yes you are right ! That is really 100% what i mean!

Vernon wrote:

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Pitch inspection required.

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 Yes Vernon I just saw it on Peacehaven Twitter.

Apparently there is a pitch inspection at 11am.

-- Edited by Adrian on Monday 28th of March 2016 08:54:58 AM

Game is on.

Halftime: Medlock 3 - Peachehaven 0

Good win for the lads today but lets put things into perspective before everyone starts saying how fantastic we are once again. The saying "flat track bullies" has been used by many supporters many times this season and this was the case again today against a team, who quite honestly, would struggle against Westfield in County 3. We are capable of putting 4 or 5 past any team in the bottom half of the table but its the rest we struggle with. Nevertheless, we had a job to do and did it very comfortably with Billy Medlock imperious and once again proving he is as good as any in this league and possibly above. Whatever happens this season lets all just prey that we can keep hold of him next season and if money is the issue, then get rid of some of the rubbish as he is almost worth 4 or 5 other players. He will be sorely missed at South Park next week when he serves his one match ban.

Still think we need to win all five of our remaining games to make the play offs, especially looking at Corinthians run in and the form of those above, although Worthing appear to be imploding, and that may well now be our best route in to the top 5 now.

Happy days Hammerfan, that's good to hear, ill shoot down to Beachy Head now. If that is the case then I suggest Dave O and Dave N chip in for a very expensive company car, or we hope he goes out and gets another long ban.

Heartwarming win for large crowd.But 6 goals against very mediocre defence. How can we beat Southpark without Billy. However this game should boost confidence going in to run in to playoffs. Keep going U's

Guess we're all thinking the same, John.
It's all very well annihilating the absolute dross in this league (and Peacehaven were as awful as anything we've seen this season) but we MUST be able to match the decent sides if we are ever to progress.
Agree that Billy had far too much know-how for Peacehaven today and most of his goals simply came from intelligent movement and anticipation. Don't think any were that spectacular but his little diagonal runs today and clinical finishing reminded me of the great Ernie Batten....and in Sam Cruttwell we have another little gem who played a number of terrific through balls (a la enigmatic Matt Stock while we're back in the 80s !)
Not too much more to say about today other than the gulf in quality between the two sides was probably as great as anything I have witnessed.......and we really should have recorded double figures.

And so on to our last five games. Agree we may need to win all five to do it and that may well be beyond us. But the next two are very winnable and, if we achieve that, others will begin to feel the pressure.

If we don't do it, well, I'll comfort myself with the fact that this season has actually been far more entertaining than last. A fact that clearly will not be good enough for some.

Full Hastings highlights 

A live streamed interview we did from the Facebook page ( to over 3350 people ) with Billy Medlock

www.facebook.com/HUFCPF/videos/1133394973357960/

Very good point Dan.
As you say, many of the non regulars may not appreciate how awful Peacehaven were and hopefully some at least will think its worth splashing out £10 next time.
It does make you realise though that the current entrance fee is prohibitive for a good number of potential supporters....which is a real shame.
Would halving the entrance fee every week actually increase the clubs overall revenue ?

did not go yesterday but good to see we made easy work of a side that now let in 116 goals which must be some record? crowd good but less than double what we normally get and admission price lot less than half so a smaller gate at 10 quid i think would mean more money than yesterday. so think Mick half entrance fee all the time would reduce money for club cos need gate every week of 700 to be in same position. i think a winning side is only way to increase gate but when i have try to get friends and colleagues along they usually dont want to give it a go and when they have been they have witness poor game and think im mad. i really dont think this town is bother by football that much unless we get to 3rd round of fa cup and even that season the supporters that came as new ones did not hang around. shame we should have gate much bigger for town size we are every year gates go down. but maybe yesterday a few will come back although from the video of game (thanks dan) i think it was pretty obvious how bad peacehaven was.you think after medlock gets two goals the defenders might stay tight to him but they look clueless

Peter, "clueless" was not the word for them, on the occasion they drifted into our penalty area, they looked positively frightened, I don`t think they have been in the opponents area before, it was quite sad really. It should have been double figures easily.

The average gate this year is around 350 so yesterday was almost double and Peacehaven brought virtually no-one..... so these were 99% locals. OK we charged £2 not £5 but it would have been interesting to see what the gate would have been if it had been exactly half price. By the time you add on the 'extras' from yesterday and those who don't normally come but return for the next game, I 'm sure the club won't have missed out too much. And wasn't it great for US to see a really decent crowd for once.

I totally agree with you though Peter. People will only come if they feel they get value for money and this is solely down to the performance/entertainment served up by the team. Different people of course will have a different breaking point at which they stop coming. I mean, the club could probably increase income further by upping the entrance fee to £15 and 250 die hard idiots like me would continue to turn up each week. (I'm not suggesting this, by the way.)

I thought there may be a minimum charge, Dan, which I find a bit annoying because clubs should really be allowed to charge what they see fit. Let's be honest, Hastings is a huge town but I bet the average disposable income is way below that of other more affluent places like Worthing. Clearly the £10 admission is simply too much for some, however well we play.

OK....it won't happen but it would be interesting to see how many we get each week if we halved the entrance fee.

i be happy paying 5 quid a game just think after initial interest if team arnt doing well then we would be back to the diehards Mick. dont know how much profit there is in bar and tea bar problem ive had when there been bigger crowds it hard to get served so how many people spend or just end up bringing own food and drink

Vernon wrote:

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Admission price is an interesting point, and £10 is top price for football at this level.

But the point I would like to make, is why do about half the clubs in this division, and non league clubs in general, charge children?

Firstly Hastings DO NOT, which is fantastic news for parents (including me). I cannot understand why clubs do not want to encourage parents to bring their children, the next generation of supporters. This is so important for continued club survival.

You will notice, the clubs that charge have very few children at their games, are they really blind to the obvious.

Most children are now in full time education until they reach the age of 18, they are not earning, so the only people being penalised is the parents.

I personally rarely visit away grounds more than once, that charge entry for children. And when I do, I don't bother with golden goals or raffle tickets etc.

An adult and two children at Hastings will cost you £10, at Walton and Hersham £18, no chance.

In this day and age, when there are so many distractions, (XBox, Sky TV, Internet etc) clubs should be encouraging parents to bring their  children, nephew's, niece's, and their friends, but so many do not.

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 Spot on Vernon, indeed are the children the next generation supporters.

My suggestion : under 12 Free 13-18 years 2 pound