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Post by findonrebel on Nov 28, 2023 17:36:48 GMT
Eastbourne V Torquay and Maidstone V Havant tonight aswell, big night for the 2 down the bottom! Be interesting to see where Eastbourne are come our double header at Christmas
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Post by rebellious on Nov 28, 2023 18:10:55 GMT
Why on earth is Rowan Liburd playing for Sevenoaks 😳🙄 Probably because Joe Taylor is playing for Ramsgate!
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Post by dutchboy74 on Nov 28, 2023 18:35:52 GMT
Eastbourne V Torquay and Maidstone V Havant tonight aswell, big night for the 2 down the bottom! Be interesting to see where Eastbourne are come our double header at Christmas A draw in both games will suits us. Or a win by Havant and Eastbourne would be even better.
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Post by Keithsson on Nov 28, 2023 20:46:18 GMT
Line-up* - Twitter/X*albeit Klass is a sub and Ricky started 🤷🏻 Pretty dire fare first half - 1-2. Our 'heatmap' if they did them for games this low down would be a solid crescent round their box. Nothing brave tried, just keep knocking it round left to right to left and repeat. One moment of deadball quality from Ricky but apart from that we've created nothing.
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Post by Keithsson on Nov 28, 2023 21:19:38 GMT
Attendance 607?
They must all be in the bar as there's no more that 400 watching this game 🤷🏻
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Post by Bally on Nov 28, 2023 22:06:44 GMT
Focus on the league. Not a good performance. Terrible officiating. Shithousery ruining us but scenes for them.
...on to Saturday and the return of football to Woodside!
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Post by dutchboy74 on Nov 28, 2023 22:17:12 GMT
The only thing we won tonight were the possession stats. Poor performance really. And in the end when we started to cross the ball in things started to happen. But left it too late. Now concentrate on the league and see what we can do there. But we need to be much better than this.
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Post by broadwaterred82 on Nov 28, 2023 22:18:46 GMT
Yet another case of nice football not bite...
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Post by findonrebel on Nov 28, 2023 22:30:25 GMT
Any team that plays a low block against us and sits back with every man behind the ball we CAN'T break them down, it's the same time and time again! It's so obvious yet we don't seem to do anything about it!?
Going to be a meh season this one, I don't think we are as good as we think we are and we don't have enough quality!
As for that penalty from Klass... my dog could have done better than that!
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Post by broadwaterred82 on Nov 28, 2023 22:37:13 GMT
Focus on the league. Not a good performance. Terrible officiating. Shithousery ruining us but scenes for them. ...on to Saturday and the return of football to Woodside! Don't expect anything less from county league officials... the amount of play acting from the Littlehampton players wouldn't warrant a part in a Christmas panto! We were woeful though.
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Post by Keithsson on Nov 28, 2023 22:45:42 GMT
Going to be a meh season this one, I don't think we are as good as we think we are and we don't have enough quality! There's a not inconceivable possibility of it being worse than 'meh'. The table is so tight this season that no-one can consider themselves safe... least of all as you said, a team that can be nullified as easily as we can. With virtually all our experienced players sidelined currently I fear a long hard winter awaits 😔 To the game itself I can't decide what was more embarrassing, their manbaby antics or our inability to be able to beat them. Why wait until the last 20 minutes to try crossing the ball?, to try urgency?, to try something other than 'crabbing' across the pitch?, to try and win a game of football? Its becoming tedious.
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Post by wwrebel on Nov 28, 2023 22:55:54 GMT
Thought Littlehampton fully deserved the win. Capitalised on another defensive mistake to go in front and then defended superbly for the remainder of the contest. Got ourselves level with a fine free kick from Ricky, our only effort on target in the first half, before conceding again moments after they had hit the bar.
Second half was more of the same, no real invention, just safe passing side to side in front of their defence until a scrambled goal gave us some momentum for the final minutes which saw us play with the intensity that was missing for the preceding 80+ minutes.
5 excellent penalties from them saw them through to the next round whereas our season now appears to be drifting to mid table obscurity and below.
Rocco apparently carrying an injury and shouldn't have played but we have no back up and Brighton have loaned out all their young keepers.
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Post by Keithsson on Nov 28, 2023 23:06:40 GMT
Rocco apparently carrying an injury and shouldn't have played but we have no back up and Brighton have loaned out all their young keepers. Hinsh does know we can source keepers from clubs other than BHA right? Wow, it just gets better and better doesn't it. No real cover in defence all season, no cover in goal and no apparent urgency or imagination to rectify either situation. Presumably we're hamstrung by budget restraints... and rightly so, I'm not advocating spending what we don't have. But if we did blow our budget pre-season it makes it all the more frustrating to see two of our more 'high profile' summer signings, signings 1&2 as I recall, playing and having little impact against a team two divisions below us. Not getting much value for money from Luque and Luer are we really 🤔
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Post by findonrebel on Nov 28, 2023 23:08:53 GMT
Going to be a meh season this one, I don't think we are as good as we think we are and we don't have enough quality! There's a not inconceivable possibility of it being worse than 'meh'. The table is so tight this season that no-one can consider themselves safe... least of all as you said, a team that can be nullified as easily as we can. With virtually all our experienced players sidelined currently I fear a long hard winter awaits 😔 To the game itself I can't decide what was more embarrassing, their manbaby antics or our inability to be able to beat them. Why wait until the last 20 minutes to try crossing the ball?, to try urgency?, to try something other than 'crabbing' across the pitch?, to try and win a game of football? Its becoming tedious. I don't think it's that bad, this is a side that's beaten Bath and Farnborough away recently and they are fortresses! We just don't have enough quality in all departments. I'm sorry Greg Luer but you aren't good enough, that showed tonight that he isn't someone to lead a line at all, no presence! Go get Mo Faal in from Havant, he can't get game time so get him in, hes direct, quick and something we don't have. We don't have any Midfield muscle, Ricky is a great technical player and I like Odei but where is that bulldog rough em up 6ft 3 CM? that's what we need and then without Aarran or Joel at the back we have no leaders so we need a CB and we probbaly let's be honest need a keeper! Mid season overhaul?
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Post by dutchboy74 on Nov 28, 2023 23:16:07 GMT
There's a not inconceivable possibility of it being worse than 'meh'. The table is so tight this season that no-one can consider themselves safe... least of all as you said, a team that can be nullified as easily as we can. With virtually all our experienced players sidelined currently I fear a long hard winter awaits 😔 To the game itself I can't decide what was more embarrassing, their manbaby antics or our inability to be able to beat them. Why wait until the last 20 minutes to try crossing the ball?, to try urgency?, to try something other than 'crabbing' across the pitch?, to try and win a game of football? Its becoming tedious. I dint think it's that bad, this is a side that's beaten Bath and Farnborough away recently and they are fortresses! We just don't have enough quality in all departments. I'm sorry Greg Luer but you aren't good enough, that showed tonight that be isn't someone to lead a line at all, no presence! Go get Mo Faal in from Havant, he can't get game time so get him in, hes direct, quick and something we don't have. We don't have any Midfield muscle, Ricky is a great technical player and I like Odei but where is that bulldog rough em up 6ft 3 CM? that's what we need and then without Aarran or Joel at the back we have no leaders so we need a CB and we probbaly let's be honest need a keeper! Mid season overhaul? Didn’t I read somewhere Havant want a lot of money for Faal? But is he the solution? Fell down the pecking order at Havant. And re the keeper yes I agree.
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