Avro (H) .. Northern Premier League - West

[Del]

Saturday 13 April 2024 .. kick-off 15.00hrs

We extend a warm welcome to first-time visitors and away fans, here's what you need to know about Keys Park.

https://www.hednesfordtownfc.com/stadium

Local weather forecasts can be found here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/2653883
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weat ... /gcqe9zm6y

Admission Prices:
£6 Adults
£3 Concessions – (students, disabled and over 60’s)
£1 Under 16’s
£3 Parking
£2.50 Award-winning programme.

TODAY`S MATCH SPONSORS : HIGGS LLP
https://www.higgsllp.co.uk/

[Glyn]

Match sponsors as mentioned there.

Surprised it doesn't mention the reduced prices but then I'm not a graphic designer and don't know if there would have been room..

[Glyn]

Enough said

[Glyn]

Preview..

https://www.hednesfordtownfc.com/2024/0 ... own-v-avro

[Glyn]

Injury update..

https://www.hednesfordtownfc.com/2024/0 ... adam-paget

[Perton Pitman]

Very good to see information like this being shared. We also appear to have a very well informed sports therapist at the club.

The injuries don't sound good - hopefully Rowe will be able to play the last game or two if we really need him and credit to Jai Verma for carrying on. Brown and Endall sound like they are out for the season

[sheriff]

im out at a wedding

[Lee K]

My takeaway tonight will be on Mr Gwilt! Thanks

[sheriff]

be glad when the seasons over so we can get rid of this shit

[Del]

PITMEN(0) 0 - 3 (2)AVRO

: Jervis.

Official : 807

[PitmanKeith]

It's getting too close for comfort now. Grantham win and are.replaced by Brighouse in the bottom two, their PPG os 0.857 ours is 0.889.

[njp]

That was nearly as bad as Widnes away!

[PitmanKeith]

PPG

Harry Harris 1.065
Paul Moore 1.125

Just saying

[TMVP]

post-match interview

[PitmanKeith]

post-match interview

Same old, same old

[PitmanKeith]

Get Rob and Larry out of retirement, they love this club they'd walk here.

[Lee K]

Still 6 points to play for lads and 4 behind. Let’s not lose hope just yet

[Perton Pitman]

I've run out of superlatives to describe our performances, especially at home, this season. Today was as abject as we have been all season. A carbon copy of the Clitheroe fixture and as error strewn as the home game against Hanley.
I knew we were in trouble when the team was announced. We started with gwillt and Delfonseu when both have had very little game time. I'm sure the manager will have his reasons, but today was a game where we had to get something and if fit then Farmer should have started.
It would have made little difference as the gulf between Avro and us was a chasm.

One constant over the last few years is that we are ponderous, second to almost every ball and generally lightweight. That was evident more than ever today and we didn't have the energy or ability to counter Avro's physicality. Avro were big and fit - other than that they were no great shakes going forwards, although I though their number 2 was the best player on the pitch as both Verma and Jervis got no change out of him.

We don't need an analyst to tell us where the problems are!

I was expecting changes at half time as we were dismal in the first half. The manager decided that what we had on the bench wouldn't improve us and as the game wore on it was clear that verma isn't fit and he should have been hooked as the game was gone and we need a big performance from him in the next game. Not sure what the thinking was but it was flawed.

Thought Griffiths was decent, but the rest were poor. I couldn't see too much from 100 yards away, but perhaps a keeper big enough to boss his 6 yard box may have prevented a goal or two today. The humiliation of Boucher by Moore looms large.

We shot ourselves in the foot and many players mentally threw the towel in after the second goal went in. There is no fight nor belief and given that Winterton and grantham defied the odds today I do think that our second place in the PPG league is under serious threat. If we can draw one of the remaining two games it gives us half a chance, but at present I can only see two defeats coming our way and all we need then is for 2 of Grantham , Winterton (they meet on the last day) or Brighouse to get to 33 points then we are down.

[Perton Pitman]

Still 6 points to play for lads and 4 behind. Let’s not lose hope just yet

Trafford have to play Kidsgrove - their run in is easier than ours

[Glyn]

[akb junior]

Get Rob and Larry out of retirement, they love this club they'd walk here.

If memory serves me correctly they left us twice previously didn’t they to go back to Telford and to Halesowen? Some will say there were justified reasons for them leaving us in the lurch twice, but if they loved the club so much they wouldn’t have done this in my opinion.

We need to look forward instead of back. I stand by my previous statement when I say that we need to get people in who are currently involved in the game and know how non-league works now, which isn’t the same as it was 10-20 years ago.

[TMVP]

Highlights

[Lee K]

Rob & Larry aren’t the answer. Are we saying they wouldn’t leave us this time (for what would be the third time) because they’ll probably have a big budget. That ain’t love.

[sheriff]

I think we are a team who can't wait for the season to end

[akb junior]

People seem to forget they had a decent budget when they were with us before. Yes they did a cracking job, but the resources they had allowed them to assemble a good squad. You don’t sign the likes of Neil Harvey, Aaron Rey and Mickey Lennon on a small budget, when they probably scored 50+ goals between them the season before.