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Post by finbarr_in_z on Dec 26, 2023 12:52:47 GMT
Looking good football weather for this one. COYS!
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Post by finbarr_in_z on Dec 26, 2023 15:06:28 GMT
Folkestone Invicta
1Joe Coleman
2Chris Sessegnon
3Toby Byron
4Ian Gayle
5Will Moses
6Seidou Sanogo
7Andy Drury
8Kane Penn
9Thomas Derry
10Joseph Boachie
11Ruben Soares-Junior
12Callum Davies
14Ade Cole
15Scott Heard
16David Smith
17Luke Watkins
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Post by finbarr_in_z on Dec 26, 2023 15:07:12 GMT
0-1 down. 3 minutes.
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Post by finbarr_in_z on Dec 26, 2023 15:18:56 GMT
Now 0-2
12 minutes
Same scoret.
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Post by tedtordis on Dec 26, 2023 15:19:05 GMT
Bench looks stronger than the starting eleven!
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Post by finbarr_in_z on Dec 26, 2023 15:44:27 GMT
Cray vs Margate abandoned in injury time. Serious injury.
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Post by finbarr_in_z on Dec 26, 2023 15:50:37 GMT
HT 0-2
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Post by finbarr_in_z on Dec 26, 2023 16:17:42 GMT
0-3 48 minutes
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Post by finbarr_in_z on Dec 26, 2023 16:18:13 GMT
0-4 onb56 minutes.
What's going on?
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Post by plymouthseasider on Dec 26, 2023 16:21:31 GMT
0-4 onb56 minutes. What's going on? A manager keen to maintain his 100% record. |
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Post by rdg on Dec 26, 2023 16:24:40 GMT
0-4 onb56 minutes. What's going on? We're shite? |
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Post by finbarr_in_z on Dec 26, 2023 16:42:26 GMT
880 there to see it. The majority not happy bunnies I’m sure.
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Post by finbarr_in_z on Dec 26, 2023 16:58:12 GMT
0-5
87 minutes
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Post by finbarr_in_z on Dec 26, 2023 16:58:42 GMT
FT 0-5
Merry Christmas.
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Post by finbarr_in_z on Dec 26, 2023 16:59:59 GMT
4th from bottom and in a regation spot now.
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Post by plymouthseasider on Dec 26, 2023 17:05:13 GMT
4th from bottom and in a regation spot now. No need to panic, the commercial success of signing up a few dart and pool teams to the dugout is what success is measured by these days it seems. |
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Post by andy3 on Dec 26, 2023 17:06:38 GMT
Thanks for the updates Finbarr !
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Post by gazza41 on Dec 26, 2023 17:12:00 GMT
No passion , No organisation, whoever was in the dugout on the pitch was quiet. Tackling non existent passing poor . Left at 4-0 first time I’ve left a game early.
Are the academy lads registered so we can use them Saturday?
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Post by stumpy on Dec 26, 2023 17:27:25 GMT
At least we can't get any worse, can we?...........
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Post by damo on Dec 26, 2023 17:30:40 GMT
I just have one comment SHIT  |
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Post by finbarr_in_z on Dec 26, 2023 18:02:42 GMT
Thanks for the updates Finbarr ! Other sources of updates are available. But thank you. |
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Post by finbarr_in_z on Dec 26, 2023 18:13:39 GMT
At least we can't get any worse, can we?........... Form table: Last 6, Hashtag tip Last 4, us bottom You never know.... |
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Post by philj on Dec 26, 2023 18:20:47 GMT
Hastings showed today it is possible to play decent football on our cabbage patch. But it is much easier when the opposition have no apparent game plan, no energy and no apparent appetite for the game. I would normally say new manager, a number of new players then perhaps they need time. But I saw no positives today.
Half time 2-0 down changes necessary. The two front men, couldn't tell you their names, had been poor and we were to easy to play through. So Smithy to come on alongside Derry and Heardie in midfield? Smithy came on and Penn a midfielder off. Baffling and we concede another three, could have been more.
The new players are Drury's but they are not busting a gut for him.
Bottom four,Drury looks out of his depth. Can't see any compelling reasons to continue with him.
So where does this leave us? A poor gate today, expecting over a 1000 for Boxing Day. Other Kent clubs thriving. Those running the club have no football experience and it is beginning to show. Plenty of money spent and all loaded against the club in the form of loans. I doubt that the income currently generated within the club meets expenditure so fear that the club's debt is only increasing.
I am bound to ask why were all these individuals asked to become directors of the football club? Did those running the club see a business plan and understand that the money being spent was going to show as a debt against the club? Why were we £70k in debt at the end of last season? This after cash injections of £30k from Alcaline, the sale of Yussef and a cash injection by Josh Healy in January this year. We need answers to these questions.
The financial support we had from Paul Morgan during his time here was not left as a debt against the club. Pity those at the club didn't back him.
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Post by gerryhan on Dec 26, 2023 19:41:59 GMT
I can't comment on the business side of the club as, like others, I am not privy to that side of things.
We were outclassed today by a team that was not better than us last season. What has changed for us and them since then?
Firstly, their young manager has come in with a way of playing that he believes in. Possession based with young skilled Acadamy players heavily involved. Added to several good experienced semi-pros all buying into this way of playing. They also had some impressive individuals. The ten down the left we could not handle OR the tall eleven. So skillful for such a tall player!
The young number nine in midfield ( nineteen apparently !) virtually ran the show.
We, on the other hand, were a collection of not bad players, some excellent individuals amongst them , but that was the whole point. We played as a collection of individuals with no cohesive strategy. Understandable to a point, in that so many are newly signed players.
So now it is backs to the wall to make sure that we stay in this league.
My feeling is that 4-3-3 does not suit the players we have at the moment. Centre forward is far too isolated. Derry, and for that matter Smith, play off people and would be far more effective a a pairing up top.
We have the centre backs and wing backs to go 3- 5-2. At least try it! The set up is not working at the moment, so why continue persisting with it?
Next game against Hashtag Utd { stupid name for a team} is critical. We must win it.
COYS….Shape up!!!
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Post by folkestoneclaret on Dec 26, 2023 21:01:26 GMT
Derry looked overweight and disinterested even when we had the ball let alone when we hadn't. His main preoccupation seemed to be preening his ponytail. Hastings played through our lines today at will, and that started with Derry's non-contribution out of possession. Drury was routinely bypassed too and with Scott Heard not called upon we had little in the engine room despite the efforts of Byron, Sanogo, Boachie and Soares Jr, all worth a mention for trying. There were chances in the first half and we could have gone in on terms, but any thoughts of a second half comeback were scotched by giving away a stupid penalty - Coleman felling the Hastings player with the ball running away from trouble. A rudderless performance. Get some of the youth players to step up.
Lynn
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Post by finbarr_in_z on Dec 26, 2023 23:51:37 GMT
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Post by finbarr_in_z on Dec 26, 2023 23:52:29 GMT
Was there a Mick Cork chant on 77 minutes?
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Post by fang on Dec 27, 2023 8:15:05 GMT
No because lots of people had gone home.
Thank you to John Law for switching the floodlights on, being stand in Shopkeeper and litterpicking as usual after the match with Ludo and others.
Thanks also to the Hastings United supporters celebrating their win behind the goal for helping pick up the rubbish too.
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Post by thelawman on Dec 27, 2023 8:41:19 GMT
Yes Angie but who forgot to turn the floodlights off at the end..🤦
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Post by gerryhan on Dec 27, 2023 9:59:05 GMT
Spoke to their young manager after the game in the bar.
They look like a different team from last season, especially the way they play now. He said that they have several young players who have come through their academy and are comfortable with the type of possession football he encourages. Add to that some experienced players like the ten and eleven who have bought into the system.
Because they have local players they have switched back to training on their full-length pitch. Three times a week. Mondays are optional. Maybe some lessons for our future development?
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