Hamlet v Lewes, FA Trophy, Saturday 28.10.23

[Pink Panther]

The first of 3 meetings with Lewes this season, whose squad includes Ronnie Vint, Deon Moore and Kalvin Kalala.

Once again there are no trains between London Bridge and Tulse Hill via East Dulwich, and no Overground between Surrey Docks and Clapham Junction via Denmark Hill. (Replacement bus service on both routes.) They could probably have completed HS2 by now with the amount of resources that seem to go into engineering works on those two lines.

 

[Nivag]

Reminder: this is a Cup game - season tickets aren't valid - advance tickets can be purchased here https://app.fanbaseclub.com/Fan/Tickets/SelectType?fixtureId=4281

Also, there are tickets available on the day, turnstiles open 1:30 pm - arrive early to avoid the queues near kick-off.

 

[DHFC_Programmes]

Front page of tomorrow's programme is dedicated to our friend Mishi. Get yours at the usual places.

 

[DHFC_Programmes]

DHST and the Programme team bring you 'We are going on a bat hunt!'

At 2.15pm tomorrow, a halloween bat will be hanging out somewhere in the ground. If you find the bat take it to the boardroom and collect your reward! 12 year olds and under only.

 

[Alex W]

DHST and the Programme team bring you 'We are going on a bat hunt!'

At 2.15pm tomorrow, a halloween bat will be hanging out somewhere in the ground. If you find the bat take it to the boardroom and collect your reward! 12 year olds and under only.

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For God's sake, no one show this to the council

 

[scousedom]

For God's sake, no one show this to the council

Maybe hide a Peter John in the ground instead.
Suggestion would be somewhere flushable.

 

[muel18]

Anyone know at what stage of the FA Trophy the draws would no longer be regionalised ? You know.. just in case

 

[Pink Panther]

Anyone know at what stage of the FA Trophy the draws would no longer be regionalised ? You know.. just in case

It's the round scheduled for 13th January, which is the last 32, and the stage at which we hosted Guiseley 9 seasons ago. Therefore we'll need to win today, again on 18th November, then again on 9th December. By carelessly getting relegated, we've had to enter 2 rounds earlier than last year.

 

[Pink Panther]

Today's team.

 

[bkbk]

Losing 2 nil to a team that has Glenn Tamplin's son playing for them. A nadir.

 

[RdStrPrisHilton]

Losing 2 nil to a team that has Glenn Tamplin's son playing for them. A nadir.

Or is the attempt to start a Mexican Wave in the Tommy Jover at half time…

 

[Pink Panther]

Or is the attempt to start a Mexican Wave in the Tommy Jover at half time…

The last thing I want to do when we're 2-0 down at half time is a Mexican wave!

 

[Paula_G]

Or is the attempt to start a Mexican Wave in the Tommy Jover at half time…

The sort of individuals that start Mexican waves are the sort who not there for the football but for the “experience”

 

[EDC]

Very impressed with Lewes.

 

[Taper]

Oh so awfully dull.

 

[lwrs79]

Lewes were decent.. we made Ronnie look like a rolls Royce.. only turned him around once and he gave away a yellow. Criminal to not try and play more down the channels.

Both their cb’s were good and the 6 who was at welling last season, was excellent and protected the backline brilliantly. He’s too good for this level.

We Never looked that up for it from the start, clearly Tuesdays win still in the system.

Felt 2nd half as lewes sat on their lead if we got one maybe we could’ve kicked on but it wasn’t to be.

Deon Moore was excellent too, really gave scarlet an awful time.

 

[JohnD58]

Or is the attempt to start a Mexican Wave in the Tommy Jover at half time…

Don't normally sit in the TJ Stand but needed to plot a quick getaway to do a Heathrow pickup. It says a lot for the atmosphere, or lack of, in the stand that we weren't aware of the Mexican Wave. Left before the end, heard a huge roar and assumed we'd scored. Anyone like to tell us what happened?

 

[Hamlet Pete]

So that's the FA Cup and FA Trophy in the bin for yet another season. Just the League Cup and London Senior Cup to go...

 

[Pink Panther]

We totally lost that game in the first half. Behind after 10 minutes, the biggest surprise was that it took almost another half hour for Lewes to score their second. In fairness they were the most impressive team I've seen us play so far, although I missed Hornchurch away. Their quick and confident passing in the final third was reminiscent of the Hamlet teams of 5-10 seasons ago, with the similarities including a tendency to look for a square pass into the centre of the box instead of shooting from an angle. Our best first half efforts were a snapshot from Wanadio that clipped the crossbar and a rather wasteful shot off target from the same player after Clifton did well to set him up.

Hamlet were better after the break, and Binnom-Williams was very unlucky not to score with a ferocious free kick from almost 30 yards that shook the goal frame with the keeper rooted to the spot. If that, or any of a sequence of efforts that missed the target by varying distances, had gone in I'm sure it would have made for a more exciting climax. However Lewes ultimately enjoyed a pretty comfortable and efficient away victory.

 

[Roger D]

The sort of individuals that start Mexican waves are the sort who not there for the football but for the “experience”

Paula, I seem to recall you were a hopper who turned up and stayed. Personally I loath the Mexican Wave but we both turned up for the first time once and stuck around. Many years ago. But did either of us really stick around for the football quality or did we we enjoy the experience?

 

[Alex W]

Was not expecting Lewes' fans to be the most obnoxious visitors to Champion Hill so far this season, but the more you know.

I hope we do them in the league, for all of their cute image, their fans seem like a bunch of Billericay-esque wankers.

 

[Al Cunningham]

Second best in the first half which cost us . Jeffrey since his phased return has always make a positive difference and i like the look of Ayuk in central midfield with Jeffrey and Wanadio out wide. Impressed with their young keeper on loan from Gillingham i think. Lot of composure and he is not the biggest but looked in control

 

[Roger D]

Was not expecting Lewes' fans to be the most obnoxious visitors to Champion Hill so far this season, but the more you know.

I hope we do them in the league, for all of their cute image, their fans seem like a bunch of Billericay-esque wankers

Their nice fans were probably at Farnham Town today. Personally I've moved away from London and am a season ticket holder at Farnham. I met a lovely family today, they live in Farnham but the dad still wears a Lewes scarf...

 

[Paula_G]

Paula, I seem to recall you were a hopper who turned up and stayed. Personally I loath the Mexican Wave but we both turned up for the first time once and stuck around. Many years ago. But did either of us really stick around for the football quality or did we we enjoy the experience?

Im using “experience” in modern marketing term where it’s all those add-ons rather than the actual football that people turn up for.

 

[Roger D]

Im using “experience” in modern marketing term where it’s all those add-ons rather than the actual football that people turn up for.

Are you suggesting we both chose to watch the Hamlet in the 90's due to the quality of the footy? Personally I moved to London and ended up at Hamlet as I enjoyed the day out. If you chose to watch Hamlet due to the quality of the football back then then fair enough. But given you used to appear on the Farnborough proggie cover I'm not totally sure about that.

 

[Alex W]

Indulging stag dos and mexican wave nonsense is pretty cringe, but then again, it's probably a sensible thing for the club to do and it's not like anyone was having any fun anyway.

The football was crap, the weather was rubbish, and on a day without season tickets the crowd had too many day trippers to absorb. The atmosphere was wretched.

Basically, pretty much everything about today was profoundly depressing, but the one good thing was when the women's team came to join the rabble in the second half. They really are the best thing about this football club at the moment.

 

[Paula_G]

But given you used to appear on the Farnborough proggie cover I'm not totally sure about that.

That’s something I’m totally unaware of! I’m definitely going to need to engage some legal people over my image rights if that’s the case!

 

[Paula_G]

That said I have kudos to the club for getting the numbers in today. There’s not been many bigger crowds for an “All Pay” game in my memory. Off the top of my head only Carlisle in the FA Cup and a Spurs friendly in July 2019 have had more punters parting with their “cash” at the turnstiles since Dulwich arrived at the current incarnation of Champion Hill. The Hampton “Pay What You Want” game in September 2014 could be regarded as “All Pay” as every season ticket through my turnstile contributed though can’t assume all did. The Southport FA game had had “official” crowd of 1835 back in 1998. Though it was pretty certain that attendance figure did not reflect the actual attendance hard to say how many were there at that game.

 

[lwrs79]

Second best in the first half which cost us . Jeffrey since his phased return has always make a positive difference and i like the look of Ayuk in central midfield with Jeffrey and Wanadio out wide. Impressed with their young keeper on loan from Gillingham i think. Lot of composure and he is not the biggest but looked in control

Yeah keeper was very good. Some of his passing out was excellent

 

[PartisanDulwich]

Lewes a community club