Looking forward to a home game after 4 weeks away, although the team have done pretty well 5 games with three wins and two draws. Hope for a bumper gate so come to the Pod to get your Matchday Programme and 50/50 ticket, will be a good new year for somebody. So wrap up warm ,4 or 5 layers I would suggest , and come along tomorrow ,hopefully for 3 points.
First of all congratulations to supporter Tony on winning £187.50 on the 50/50 with ticket 11577. As for the game did not see much of the first half but fellow supporters told me that overall we should have won. Excellent crowd today 2107 highest of the season .Onto the next game.
While I feel Dulwich had territorial advantage taking the game as a whole, I thought we always looked the more threatening……well, after that rather alarming first 15 minutes when we barely got out of our half. Could easily have had two more before they got their first equaliser and then found ourselves sitting deeper and deeper before they got their second. So a bit disappointed not to get the win. So good to see Tom back and thank goodness he was ! Still ghosting past defenders like he always did ! And finally what a remarkable attendance. I know Dulwich have huge home gates but they certainly didn’t bring a thousand with them today. Presumably Hastings fans have suffered with the complete lack of any home games over the Christmas period.
Great to have over 2000 at the Pilot Field with supporters of both sides creating a good atmosphere. Hastings played well enough to be leading at half time but so encouraging to have Tom Chalmers back, playing well and scoring goals. Dulwich piled on the pressure in the last 20 minutes and it needed some desperate defending to keep the scores level. Thought we missed Jack Bates's ability to find a defence splitting pass - has he returned to Derby?
