Dulwich Hamlet FC 2013-2014 season - chat, rumours, reports
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el-ahrairah
forward communism, forward gerbils!
*kicks the dog in rage*
sleaterkinney
Well-Known Member
Shit result but one of the best football matches I've been to.
Brixton Hatter
Home is south London mate
Gutted 
What a great advert for non-league football though - 7 goals and so many fans the kick off had to be delayed. 2,296 puts many conference and half the league 2 clubs to shame.
What a great advert for non-league football though - 7 goals and so many fans the kick off had to be delayed. 2,296 puts many conference and half the league 2 clubs to shame.
Brixton Hatter
Home is south London mate
Time to find some form and push on for the play offs. Catching Wealdstone requires some sort or miracle now...
Any of the new signings play yesterday?
Any of the new signings play yesterday?
SDE
Well-Known Member
Apparently there were around 3,000 there yesterday but they have to declare less than their fire safety capacity of 2300. Tremendous day on all levels - except the eventual result, of course. I really like going to the Gallagher, despite the fact that's 3 games there now and we've lost them all. Maidstone will have to be a bit careful with their 'home end'. A lot of fans in there who don't seem to fully understand why we were in there with them in big numbers first half when attacking that end. Mainly good natured stuff but could have got out of hand on another day, especially if it had been nasty ON the pitch.
Yep. Whitnell played up front and scored on debut. Looked decent and it was a nice novelty having a player getting in proper centre forward positions! Should have scored in the first half but fluffed his shot... made up for it in the second with a tidy finish.
Brown started in goal. Didn't make any howlers but I think the defence looked a bit shaky as it tried to get used to our 4th 'keeper of the season. I think we'd still be in the title hunt if Wilson has stayed fit.
Kavanagh played in midfield again and looked useful - I think he could be a very important player in the season run-in and (hopefully) play-offs.
Brixton Hatter
Home is south London mate
Brixton Hatter
Home is south London mate
Cheers
Think Kav could be the missing link we need. Great to have a proper number 9 too!
Maggot
The Cake of Liberty
Went to my first Dulwich game yesterday and, despite the result, I really enjoyed it. Great bunch of fans, fantastic atmosphere and some brilliant songs. Saw editor, but he disappeared before I got a chance to say hello.
Thanks to Monkeygrinder's Organ for inviting me.
Thanks to Monkeygrinder's Organ for inviting me.
Monkeygrinder's Organ
Dodgy geezer swilling vapid lager
Strange - no segregation but the home fans still prefer to be farthest away from the goal they are attacking?!
Who do they think they are? A league club?!
There are home fans at both ends, a quiet end and a noisier end. I thought it was great in there yesterday, just a little bit of edge but in the right spirit and made for a good atmosphere. SDE is right that the potential for trouble is obvious. It wouldn't take a lot for it to tip over. One of the Maidstone fans we were chatting to in the pub afterwards said that it had got a bit lairy when they played Wealdstone.
Monkeygrinder's Organ
Dodgy geezer swilling vapid lager
Time to find some form and push on for the play offs. Catching Wealdstone requires some sort or miracle now...
Any of the new signings play yesterday?
Yeah I think the league is gone now. Yesterday really was a return to form though, despite the result. Three goals against a team who are unbeaten at home (and very close to a fourth before they nicked it at the end) is very different from the last three games when there's been no real goal threat at all. Keep that up and we'll be picking up wins again.
Scutta
Live Fast Die Bizarre
what fucking awesome day out. great fun despite the result..... had a great time with the maidstone fans that we had a chance to hang out with...just a shame of a few knobs in the first half......but with a crowd that big your gonna get it.. just annoyed there isnt an other game sooner....
Fingers
From Tuscany SE22
From the Maidstone forums
"What a great game and great show of character from us to snatch the late goal and hang on for the win. Sorry, OIM, but the general good behaviour, friendliness and sporting acceptance by the Dulwich fans of what would have been a hard defeat to take, makes them a credit to non-league. Plus they share our dislike of Wealdstone's band of herberts and have a great taste in late '70s music, judging by their very different choice of songs. Many of them wouldn't have looked out of place at a left-wing political meeting and footy-mad bearded hippies are fine by me. Hence the 'Dulwich love-in'."
"What a great game and great show of character from us to snatch the late goal and hang on for the win. Sorry, OIM, but the general good behaviour, friendliness and sporting acceptance by the Dulwich fans of what would have been a hard defeat to take, makes them a credit to non-league. Plus they share our dislike of Wealdstone's band of herberts and have a great taste in late '70s music, judging by their very different choice of songs. Many of them wouldn't have looked out of place at a left-wing political meeting and footy-mad bearded hippies are fine by me. Hence the 'Dulwich love-in'."
Brixton Hatter
Home is south London mate
Erhun on the front page AND back page of the Non League Paper today - says Palace are interested. Also Luton and Wimbledon.
Also a good report and a few pictures from the game yesterday - and a 5 star rating for entertainment value. Gavin Rose saying the performance wasn't bad but you can't expect to win when you concede 4 goals.
Also a good report and a few pictures from the game yesterday - and a 5 star rating for entertainment value. Gavin Rose saying the performance wasn't bad but you can't expect to win when you concede 4 goals.
Joe K
no al calcio con orchestra di ukulele
A good day out, ultimately, and the Maidstone fans we were talking to before the game in Wetherspoons were class. Definitely a few dicks around us in the first half, though - idiots (18-year-old half-price hoolies in quilted jackets rocking the 2009 'look') lobbing beer and then making innocent faces whenever you turned around. Their loss, at the end of the day. As others have said, it's inevitable that you're going to get some of that in a crowd that size, but I don't believe the ground is made for that many people. If they have long-term ambitions to go league-wards - which would of course require them sorting out the issue with the surface - they're going to have to work out a way of segregating and develop the far side, as it just doesn't seema safe or convenient set-up for more than about 2,000 fans and, even then, a lot relies on the visitors being as amicable as we are.
Game itself - well, seemed to encapsulate much of the season. Some lovely attacking play/ phases, but we got done when we switched off. Some bad refereeing at points, but that in itself doesn't explain the result. Think we should have been two or three up by the time they equalised. Thought Whitnell made a big difference and it's fantastic to have a proper number nine again; Kavanagh impressed too, and I liked the Vidal-on-the-wing thing. Seems a bit more like his natural position.
Game itself - well, seemed to encapsulate much of the season. Some lovely attacking play/ phases, but we got done when we switched off. Some bad refereeing at points, but that in itself doesn't explain the result. Think we should have been two or three up by the time they equalised. Thought Whitnell made a big difference and it's fantastic to have a proper number nine again; Kavanagh impressed too, and I liked the Vidal-on-the-wing thing. Seems a bit more like his natural position.
Monkeygrinder's Organ
Dodgy geezer swilling vapid lager
Segregating the fans would be quite easy in practical terms I think. The issue would probably be that they'd be booting a group of home fan out of their preferred section of the ground in favour of whats often going to be a small handful of away fans. They'll have to do it if they go much higher though I agree.
editor
hiraethified
Apart from a very small minority of muppets, I'm sharing the Maidstone love right back at 'em!
http://maidstoneunitedfc.proboards.com/thread/2969/best-game-gallagher
Jamie Wyatt
Well-Known Member
They segregated Wealdstone fans for a cup game this season. They was down one side towards a corner I believe not behind a goal!
EDC
A Slightly Less Invisible Cyber Fan These Days
Reading through the Maidstone Forum, it would appear that beer chucking resulted in some unsavoury incidents during the league game prior between the two clubs.
