Completely outclassed first half by a very good team, and they didn’t need to move out of second gear to see out the second half.  A few passengers for us tonight I’m afraid.
What’s the story with Jordan Young’s injury?

Last edited by Insideleft (15/11/2022 11:50 PM)

Has to be said, Havant are a quality football team. Maybe I’m naïve but I still have this overriding sense of “we’ll be alright”

We’ve still got 2/3 of the season to play and once the (welcome) distraction of the FA Cup is out the way, we can go in to games with clear heads. It’s always going to be in the heads of semi-professional footballers that they want to protect themselves for those bigger games, it’s human nature.

I just can’t see the chairman allowing this club to sleepwalk into a relegation battle. We’re a mid table team and once Fasanmade and Young are back to full fitness (good to see the former back tonight), I think we’ll be a threat once again.

Reginald74 wrote:

As stated several times on here of course the Chairman won't allow relegation, facts are, we must be financially in the black, already have a strong squad, due to finances we can strengthen again so no concerns about relegation for me.

Think our present squad IF fit is good enough to pull us away from relegation zone, problem is you cannot know if that will be the case. Recruitment may be a problem. When Trowbridge Town we’re the Bees knees (excuse pun) when they were in the Southern League then Conference, they were always pinching players from us and the other local sides. That talent doesn’t appear to be there, how many players have we signed from Melksham, Westbury, Devizes etcetera In the last six years? Conversely there are no National League clubs in our area from whom we might sign players who cannot quite make it at that level. Furthermore we have to compete with Bath City who have obviously at present got a bigger budget than us. 

Last edited by Charlie Bird (16/11/2022 9:23 AM)

6 months ago ( May 7th) we ran rings around Havant on their own turf.  They returned the compliment last night with a quality performance, dominating all areas of the pitch and finishing clinically.  They were hunting down the 4th goal with real intent, too. This was a  team with a few thoroughbreds in it, enough to put 5 past Dulwich  on Saturday.  We could offer little except a willingness to compete and a complete reliance on poor old Harry up front to pursue a series of speculative long passes, although he stuck to his task doggedly despite being  bossed by a very efficient, well  organized defence. One or two of our players looked pretty at sea positionally. The whole game was conducted in near silence, too... such was H&W's capacity to kill it off within 25minutes. As I've suggested  before, The FA Cup exacts a price.  It may be heresy to say that, without breaching the bounds of good sportmanship/ fair play, we should be more than "relaxed" about the FA Trophy.  It just seems the wrong competition at the wrong time for us. Only when we're clear of these hugely lucrative diversions , which are ultimately draining of focus and energy, the sooner Gary H and the team get on with the business of the League and our ultimate purpose in life. As with many of the comments  above, we have everything in place in the club to ensure safety. We just need to be free now to focus on it.... after we've  beaten The Brewers, of course!!
 

Hopefully with Harry Parsons,Craig Fasanmade and Jordan Young all up front.Will Henry ,Will Richards and Will Tizzard at the back,we will score more and concede less and everyone will be happy. Only my take but could be pounds(£) be worth more than points at the moment