StephenMac
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Absolutely. Maybe restrict entry to a tenner, tops, if we're just expected to turn up to provide a bit of colour for the team phoning in cup performances.
Dulwich Hamlet v Bedfont Sports, FA Cup, 18 September 2021
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The other team has to agree to reduce prices and there is no reason for them to agree.
I believe.
StephenMac
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That's fine. Charge half price and give all the income to the opposition. Can probably file it under something or other to do with being a 'community club'.
tonysingh
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StephenMac
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But...no, fair play.You big cynic.
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hiraethified
It marked the end of my honeymoon period with the club, because what they did was really fucking shitty.
EDC
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You’re forgetting the Tooting shambles.
Stuart Fordyce
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Or Hornchurch or Wingate and Finchley.
Second half yesterday was old bad Hamlet compared to the improvement last week. People trying to win the game on their own. Dayton and McGregor are both neat, tidy footballers, but there was too much distance between them and the forwards. I don't think they can play together - and like Christchurch last year, going into a cup game against lower league sides with two defensive midfielders?
We're all ears....
Bugpowder Dust
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Why didn't Timlin play yesterday?
Moroccan Sunset
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I didn't attend yesterday but when I saw the line-up my reaction was that it looked unbalanced, pretty top heavy. We're probably a CB or CM light in all honesty. Quade cant fill in for both a missing Holland and Timlin sadly.
Still, that team should have enough to overpower Bedfont Sports.
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Stuart Fordyce
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He's 36 or so, we can't expect him to play every game and a lower league side in the cup should be an opportunity to rotate.
LinesmanIan
Linoian
Was talking to Kads before the game. Timlin was injured in training. Green also injured
Moroccan Sunset
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Oooooooh! So that's why we're doing it! The contract with Discovery must be larger than the FA Cup prize money. Genius.
Cor - for a moment there I thought it might have been another expensive Cup-related fuck up.
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hiraethified
Don't be daft. I'm not suggesting anything as ridiculous as a conspiracy - I'm just saying this will feed in nicely to the 'Football legend/hero Peter Crouch is coming to save the struggling club' narrative, which is what this documentary will no doubt try to sell itself on, regardless of the facts.
Moroccan Sunset
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I know you weren't, Ed - I was just been being silly.
Although, to be fair, I reckon a nice conspiracy subplot would add an extra level of engrossing suspense to the documentary...
A conspiracy where the reveal is that Clasper admits that Peter Crouch was only appointed a director in name only or DINO purely for the TV show.
Plus that no one can control Gav and inevitably whatever happens at the end of the season will be based on whether he can get a better offer elsewhere.
Moroccan Sunset
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scousedom
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A three part series “The Cancellation of Philip Baker” is, I’m told, being pitched to GBNews first thing tomorrow.
Bugpowder Dust
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I just reread the thread from when we lost 1-0 away to Hornchurch in the FA Trophy. Very similar to yesterday's debacle.
FA Trophy 1st Round Hornchurch v Dulwich Hamlet Saturday 14th December
That was the point I decided that Gav had taken the club as far as he could. More sensible heads than mine cautioned against a knee jerk decision. Almost 2 years have passed since then, with Covid disrupting a large chunk of it, and here we are with yet another cup shocker from players that just don't seem that interested.
Being honest, I don't want us to go up, so poor performances in the cup hurt more. But if the club are serious about wanting to keep progressing up the pyramid, then surely we need to start looking for a manager capable of getting us there.
FA Trophy 1st Round Hornchurch v Dulwich Hamlet Saturday 14th December
That was the point I decided that Gav had taken the club as far as he could. More sensible heads than mine cautioned against a knee jerk decision. Almost 2 years have passed since then, with Covid disrupting a large chunk of it, and here we are with yet another cup shocker from players that just don't seem that interested.
Being honest, I don't want us to go up, so poor performances in the cup hurt more. But if the club are serious about wanting to keep progressing up the pyramid, then surely we need to start looking for a manager capable of getting us there.
Pink Panther
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Whilst Hornchurch were a stronger and more experienced team than Bedfont, that was a far worse performance in my view. We were outfought and barely created a chance in 90 minutes at Hornchurch. On Saturday we battered Bedfont for large spells but just couldn't score. The results may be the same but I don't think the performances are at all comparable. I wasn't watching a team of players who "don't seem that interested" on Saturday.
That particular season was a car crash apart from the FA Cup run, and even that ended with the sour note of established players being dropped for two newcomers against Carlisle. Perhaps there would have been a change at the end of that season had it not been interrupted and Gavin may well have taken the club as far as he can, but last season can't really be used as evidence either way.
Right now I believe we have our best squad since promotion and we've made our best start to a league season at this level. Five matches into a league season with the team occupying a play-off place is an odd time to suggest sacking the manager, unless of course you already wanted a change anyway.
