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Bin Man 87

18-10-2009

In need of lessons in love

"Increasingly, our attempts to make furtive eye-contact with the play-off places have been met with a thousand-yard stare and a frown you could stir concrete with."

Mmm, the season's good start is unravelling a bit. A return to league combat after our FA Cup exit did not exactly send out an emphatic message to our support, let alone the rest of the league.

More words and a couple of pics from our 1-0 defeat at Bishop's Stortford occurs at the dubSteps site.

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11-10-2009

Up for the cup, now down with a frown

The thing with the ‘magic of the FA Cup’ is that, if you subscribe to it, you can’t really complain when fate crams a dusty dog-log through your letterbox rather than streamers and glitter.

To cut a long story short, there will be no cup run for Havant & Waterlooville this year.

For the first season in four, we will not be lining up in the rounds proper. The rounds proper were being consoled by relatives last night.

Chippenham Town might well be however, having beaten us 2-1 at West Leigh Park, and the very best of luck to them in the 4th qualifying round.

They are now just 90 minutes from them potentially lucrative propers. The Chips n’ Ham have been there twice before but four years ago their reward was a home game (and then losing replay) against Worcester City and in 1951/52 they made a trip to Leyton. Not even for a game against Orient either, only the east London town’s non-League reps.

In circumstances like these, one might say, well, we’ve had our fun for three years, we’ve been greedy really, perhaps Chippenham are due some funtime boppery.

However, missing out will always tweak the old regret, and being the scalped rather than the scalper can do nothing but hurt.

We will now clutch hold of that famous straw (y’know, the “opportunity to focus on the league campaign” straw) like a child clinging onto their mother’s leg as their first day of school is about to begin.

Yet, the nature of our second half collapses at home in the last two weeks is starting to chip away at the confidence a little bit.

Still, at least we can now distract ourselves by taking a keener interest than usual in the Hampshire Senior Cup which, for us, begins on Tuesday away at Hythe & Dibden.

A mug’s a mug, I guess.

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04-10-2009

The art of throwing it all away

"However good a start to a season you’ve had, a first home defeat to your arch local rivals will always be a heavy kick to both your tubular and your bells and, frankly, this 2-2 draw felt as much like a defeat as the same result against Bath earlier this season felt like a win. We like, down at West Leigh Park, to cast Eastleigh as villainous and wicked. Yet, our second half performance meant that it is now all Hawk faces that adorn our “WANTED. For crimes against football” posters."

1545: beaming faces
1650: long faces

The highs and lows of a big derby game are covered with more words than strictly necessary at the dubSteps site.

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