Dulwich Hamlet FC 2013-2014 season - chat, rumours, reports
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Tricky Skills
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ACE Dulwich day out. I came dangerously close to missing it though with some right Ruislip cock ups. Ended up being escorted to the ground (in a very friendly manner...) by a lovely TfL / Wealdstone fan.
The first half wasn't great football wise. This was just the warm up, both on and off the pitch.
The second half was probably the most fun I've had at a football match since the 1989 Simod Cup Final - THAT good. I looked at my watch at one stage, thinking we were about 20 minutes in. It was 4:45!
Superb day out.
The first half wasn't great football wise. This was just the warm up, both on and off the pitch.
The second half was probably the most fun I've had at a football match since the 1989 Simod Cup Final - THAT good. I looked at my watch at one stage, thinking we were about 20 minutes in. It was 4:45!
Superb day out.
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Scutta
Live Fast Die Bizarre
Grreat pics Tricky Skills
Pinner Stones
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Not sure if you guys saw Mishi's article in the programme y/day? Writing with great feeling about the old school Dulwich fans embracing and loving the new infusion of support, though he seem to suggest you are mostly middle class East Dulwichites
Scutta
Live Fast Die Bizarre
Not sure if you guys saw Mishi's article in the programme y/day? Writing with great feeling about the old school Dulwich fans embracing and loving the new infusion of support, though he seem to suggest you are mostly middle class East Dulwichites
Brixtonites
Stoneforlife
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Echo everything said previously. As an "Old School" grizzled Stone I was gutted to draw yesterday and a tad p*ssded off. So desperate for us to win the league and pessimistic until I know we are up. Pride as well. I think our lack of singing was due to tension. We care you know. But on reflection. A cracking event, brilliant crowd, supplemented by your enthusiastic band of colourful fans it was truly refreshing and even melted my dark, bitter and twisted heart. Your fans are unique, friendly and a pleasure to chat to. We are liked by a few clubs but many dislike us and think it good to goad, We don't react well. Mutual respect and love of football and our clubs oozed yesterday. Rarely seen apart from maybe Bognor (contentious?), plus Maidenhead and Stortford from the past.
So cheers and here's to the way forward..
BTW liked Mishi article in the programme. He's reborn ;-)
PS Message to your newer supporters. if things don't go well in the future stick by and fight for your club. The rewards are worth it. The dark days make the good even more satisfying.
So cheers and here's to the way forward..
BTW liked Mishi article in the programme. He's reborn ;-)
PS Message to your newer supporters. if things don't go well in the future stick by and fight for your club. The rewards are worth it. The dark days make the good even more satisfying.
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hiraethified
Do you think you could sling that on YouTube so I can embed it on the forthcoming match report?
vornstyle76
Dundela FC, Transpontine Diaspora Brigade
We'll be "the middle-class new fans" until we're priced out of London and the crowds go back to 200, tear-stained program notes lamenting the loss of the precariat fans.
Pinner Stones
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Here's a link to the match highlights.
Brixton Hatter
Home is south London mate
Great day out. Well oiled. Nice to bump into a few Stones fans I know. Liked the randomness of Wealdstone's ground, with all those different little terrace/seating areas along one side. Stewards very charitable towards us! Shame no lubricating beers allowed in the ground, that must be why we've all got sore throats today.
And great to see Ahmed Deen respond to our new song about him by cracking in a screamer from 30 yards. FIT.
And great to see Ahmed Deen respond to our new song about him by cracking in a screamer from 30 yards. FIT.
Thimble Queen
Called away to another place
I want this everyday x
Thimble Queen
Called away to another place
My two mates really enjoyed it too. It's nice to have a bit of bird solidarity at the footy
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hiraethified
Some photos form the game:
http://www.brixtonbuzz.com/2014/03/...cure-a-2-2-draw-at-league-leaders-wealdstone/
http://www.brixtonbuzz.com/2014/03/...cure-a-2-2-draw-at-league-leaders-wealdstone/
sankara
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Saturday was amazing. I can't help but feeling that the Rabble are getting our voice back at the moment. We've come away with creditable draws at two of the teams that are amongst the toughest to beat in the league. Not only that, but we turned around goal deficits and actually played exceptionally well in large portions of both games. Having Phil in goal makes such a difference. In a way, it's a bit of a shame that the next few games are at home. It's important that we try and create that away atmosphere as much as we can tomorrow - it's such a great opportunity to break our run of games without a win. Our singing and the performance on the pitch can have an almost symbiotic relationship at times so I suggest that the loudest of us all stand together tomorrow (like MIshi always says we should) and get going early in the first half. Also, it would help if Gavin changed his policy of dropping all of the players that we have a lot of songs about. Good to have Ellis Green back though.
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hiraethified
Monkeygrinder's Organ
Dodgy geezer swilling vapid lager
We really need to win tomorrow to make sure we don't slip out of the playoffs. I actually think the team is back in form already. Draws at Hornchurch and Wealdstone are good results and we were unlucky before that. It was the games against Lewes and especially the Met Police that were the low point. With some easier games coming up though we need to start winning again.
EDC
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Pink Panther
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We've got all sorts. East Dulwich itself, where I spent my entire childhood, has become very gentrified over the past ten years or so. The pubs along Lordship Lane (effectively East Dulwich High Street) have all been trasformed from fairly rough and ready boozers into into more trendy establishments featuring large ranges of "craft beers" with many customers appearing to be affluent postgraduate types, often with young families; there are lots of restauraunts and cafes but very few takeaways; independent specialist shops, but even more estate agents. The neighbouring districts of Brixton and Peckham are more eclectic and cosmopolitan, and we seem to have pulled in a fair number of our new supporters from these areas. I think it's great. As recently as five years ago we were a typical down-on-its-luck Division 1 South club - too big to drop into the nether regions of county league football, but slumming it at a lower level than we'd been accustomed to. The dwindling band of supporters consisted mainly of males aged from mid-30's to mid-70's who had beenborn and bred in the area. We now seem to have discovered some sort of niche market for football supporters throughout the densely populated Inner South London boroughs of Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham. These boroughs havea a very transient population, a very high percentage of whom have moved into the area from other parts of the country, or indeed other countries. A lot of them are too far from home to continue following their hometown clubs and have adopted the Hamlet. The club has become big enough to feel like a "proper" football club, but intimate enough for everyone to have a good laugh in a boisterous yet relaxed atmosphere free from the various negatives associated with League football. Mishi's article summed it up pretty well. There's been no real marketing campaign, it's more or less been a word of mouth thing with people bringing mates along, who then get hooked and bring their own mates along. The biggest factor has probably been our club's good fortune in finding the right manager for our particular club, and his success in developing a team that plays attractive entertaining football and wins most of the time!Not sure if you guys saw Mishi's article in the programme y/day? Writing with great feeling about the old school Dulwich fans embracing and loving the new infusion of support, though he seem to suggest you are mostly middle class East Dulwichites
I've never had the slightest problem with Wealdstone and echo Mishi's article comments about your exemplary conduct in the aftermatch of that play-off final a decade ago. (By contrast a number of Leatherhead's followers were more interested in chanting "3-1 and you fucked it up" instead of celebrating their own success after turing us over in the D1S play off final in 2011.) I think too many supporters think that "hating" everyone else, or revelling in their misfortunes, somehow reinforces their commitment to their own club. The whole point of being in a "league" is that it's mutually beneficial for all of us. Our clubs need each other and it wouldn't be much fun withut all the others! Of course there are a few clubs I really detest for a variety of reasons, mostly relating to the attitude of too many of their supporters: Gloucester City, Stevenage Borough, Borehamwood.
I can vouch for that after 36 years, and a run of ten seasons throughout the 90's when I saw every home game and missed only two away league games, including every game in a season when we finished well adrift at the foot of the table!
BTW Mishi had a nerve referring to some of our other supporters as "beardie weirdies" in his programme article. He spent most of this winter looking like Karl Marx before finding his razor a couple of weeks ago!
el-ahrairah
forward communism, forward gerbils!
a man with a big beard nodded and smiled at me yesterday when he saw my beard. beard club is awesome.
