PitmanKeith wrote:Congratulations to Rob Smith who last night, with the superb victory against AFC Fylde, achieved his 150th win from 257 games as HTFC manager.
We're still waiting for the 151st win aren't we? It must be your fault then Keith!!
We’re on our way, we’re on our way, to the EFL, we’re on our way (26/01/24)
PitmanKeith wrote:Congratulations to Rob Smith who last night, with the superb victory against AFC Fylde, achieved his 150th win from 257 games as HTFC manager.
We're still waiting for the 151st win aren't we? It must be your fault then Keith!!
Quite correct Lee.
When do you move to Devon where all the other are.
Congratulations to Kyle Patterson who, when coming off the bench last night, registered his 50th appearance in a Hednesford shirt, going on to celebrate the occasion with a fine goal, the 21st of his Pitmen career.
Kyle was first brought to the club by former manager Bernard McNally and made his debut on 28/08/2010 scoring two goals in a 3-0 win at Didcot Town. He is currently in his third spell at the club.
Congratulations to Tom Thorley who made his 100th appearance in a Hednesford shirt when starting the game versus Chorley last Saturday at Keys Park.
Tom made his Hednesford debut on 5th November 2013 in the home Conference North 2-1 win over Colwyn Bay. Tom has made 89 full and 11 substitute appearances as well as scoring 5 goals.
Congratulations go to Danny Glover who made his 50th appearance for Hednesford in the recent away game at Stockport County.
Danny made his debut for The Pitmen in the 4-0 home win v Workington on 22nd March 2014 and scored his first goal for the club in the 3-2 home win v Guiseley on 12th April that year.
The goal most fans remember him for though was the strike against Altrincham in the 2013/14 play off semi final, scoring from out on the touchline after sustaining a bad head injury.
His full Hednesford record to date is: App 51 (inc 5 at sub) and 16 goals.
I imagine most of those clubs wish their appearances in the NPL were somewhat fewer, and in the NLN (whatever it is/was called) proportionately higher!
The last time we won four on the bounce was the 2013/14 season, the sequence started with a 4-2 home win over Boston Utd (11/01/14) and ended with a 3-2 win away at Solihull Moors (25/01/14), with wins against Bradford Park Avenue and Stockport County sandwiched in between.
The last time we won more than four on the bounce was earlier in the same season when we managed five, 14/09/13 - 05/10/13, Vauxhall Motors (H) 2-0, Histon (A) 1-0, Guiseley (A) 2-1, AFC Telford Utd (A) 3-1 and Gloucester City (H) 4-1.
PitmanKeith wrote:The last time we won four on the bounce was the 2013/14 season, the sequence started with a 4-2 home win over Boston Utd (11/01/14) and ended with a 3-2 win away at Solihull Moors (25/01/14), with wins against Bradford Park Avenue and Stockport County sandwiched in between.
The last time we won more than four on the bounce was earlier in the same season when we managed five, 14/09/13 - 05/10/13, Vauxhall Motors (H) 2-0, Histon (A) 1-0, Guiseley (A) 2-1, AFC Telford Utd (A) 3-1 and Gloucester City (H) 4-1.
Our current losing sequence of five on the bounce is our worst since 2009, when with Dean Edwards as manager we lost seven in a row between 14/02/2009 and 07/03/2009, those matches were as follows;
14/02/2009 Kendal Town (A) League 1-4
17/02/2009 Stafford Rangers (H) Staffs Senior 1-2
21/02/2009 Eastwood Town (H) League 0-1
24/02/2009 Ilkeston Town (H) League 0-1
28/02/2009 Bradford Park Ave (A) League 0-3
03/03/2009 North Ferriby Utd (A) League 1-2
07/03/2009 Ossett Town (H) League 0-3
There has been a lot of talk around Keys Park of late with people asking me the question have we beaten Phil Starbucks record for the amount of players used in a season yet.
The answer is an emphatic no, in fact we are not even that close at the moment.
2007/08 under Starbuck we used 62 players.
This season under a succession of managers we have used 49, still some way to go.
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