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Click Here for pictures from our home fixtures. Taken by David Pillman |
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CAPTAIN Armo's comments Whitehawk VS Worthing Well Winter has finally set in and last Saturday, for the first time this season, we have had a game postponed. With the game against Croydon falling foul to their financial troubles today is our first game for three weeks. In our last game against a stubborn Burgess Hill I thought over the 90 minutes we gave a good professional performance and even though we went down to 10 men at 0-0 we deservedly went on to win 2-0. Today's game will be tough as we know from how well Worthing played back in Woodside Road last year and we know they have some good players, as we played with some of them last year, but we also know that we are capable of beating any team in this league if we work hard enough during the game. Let's hope the work ethic that's got us to second place continues today and we get the right result. Enjoy the game.
Player update - injuries (02/02/12) Mark Knee - Thankfully fully recovered from his horrific eye injury sustained away at Three Bridges, Mark played in the midweek friendly (Tuesday) at East Grinstead and came trough that all ok... Playing 45 minutes Andy Pearson will go and play at Shoreham FC for a 'few' games as he steps up his recovery from ankle ligament damage. Andy also played in the East Grinstead friendly for 45 minutes, playing the second half and looking good. Although a long way off from playing, Will Berry has had his Cruciate op and is on that slow road to recovery but we are talking to him and assisting him all the way to his recovery... Sami El Abd is fully recovered, just in need of a little match fitness and sharpness but he is ok from his hamstring strain. Jerahl Hughes is still recovering from a groin strain and maybe in contention for 2/3 weeks time. Tommy Fraser is back in training and just needs to sharpen up but he is not long away at all from getting back into the squad. Everyone else is good, fit and raring to go. Ben Godfrey starts a three match ban from this Saturday at Crawley Down. He will be missed but he is determined to keep fit and sharp ready for when that ends. Tuesdays friendly at Three Bridges gave us a chance to see the fringe players in action as well as give a debut (albeit) in a friendly to Charlie Walker - dual signed from Lancing and John Lansdale recently signed from Worthing. Both Charlie and John played 45 minutes, Charlie looked sharp and scored and both players enjoyed it. A big thank you to East Grinstead for allowing us to play them and it is much appreciated. All the lads look sharp, bright and are all excited about the idea of the final run in to the season being a close call |
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Comments from Darren Freeman Whitehawk VS Bognor
A warm
welcome to everyone from Bognor.
We hope you have a good
afternoon with us here at the
enclosed ground. |
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Comments from Darren Freeman Whitehawk VS Folkestone Invicta
A warm
welcome to everyone from
Folkestone Invicta. We hope you
enjoy your stay with us and have
a safe journey home. |
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CAPTAIN Armo's comments Whitehawk VS Folkestone Invicta
After a great
result and performance last week
against Corinthian Casuals we
face what should be a tougher
task against Folkestone this
Saturday. In probably what was
our most disappointing result of
the season so far, with both Sam
Gargan and myself getting sent
off and losing the game, we hope
to make amends and reverse the
result we got down in Kent. Some
of the ref’s decisions were very
poor that night and combined
with a good Folkestone
performance will hopefully see
us chomping at the bit get three
points. It’s never good to get
nothing from the opposition over
both games of the season. If we
play as we did last Saturday
there is no reason why we can’t
beat any team in this league.
With Joe Gatting going off on
cricket duty, he was devastated
to be going to a warm country to
mess about with a bat and ball
and drink nice local lager, we
welcomed Tommy Fraser to the
squad and we’ll all agree he
looked very good in his first
game. Hope you all enjoy the match. |
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Comments from Darren Freeman Whitehawk VS Corinthian Casuals
Hello
everyone and a warm Welcome to
our guests from Corinthian
Casuals. |
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CAPTAIN Armo's comments Whitehawk VS Corinthian Casuals
After last
weeks Tuesday fixture against
Eastbourne United we find
ourselves in the quarter final
of the Sussex Senior Cup. A good
6-1 win saw off Eastbourne and
keeps our hopes alive of a date
at the AMEX next year.
Unfortunately we weren’t able to
follow that up with a win
against Chipstead on Saturday.
Without really playing that well
we dominated Chipstead in the
first half and should have been
ahead at the break but had to
settle for a 0-0 draw. And not
getting ourselves ahead cost us
in the second half with
Chipstead going ahead with what
I think was their first effort
on our goal. Josh Jones managed
to get us an equaliser and from
then on I thought we were going
to go and win the game but it
wasn’t to be and a 1-1 draw was
the final result. |
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Comments
from Darren Freeman
Whitehawk VS Eastbourne United |
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CAPTAIN Armo's comments Worthing VS Whitehawk
Good evening
and welcome to tonight's Sussex
Senior Cup game against
Eastbourne Town. Well we've
another Saturday, Tuesday week
since our last home game against
Crawley Down, but 10 days which
has been pretty productive for
us in terms of getting points on
the board. Since the win against
Crawley Down we've picked
another 4 points with the 1-0
win away to Walton and Hersham
obviously being the highlight.
Due to suspension I didn't get
to see the game but from all
accounts we delivered an
excellent away performance, 1-0
away wins, especially mid week,
are the type of results that add
so much to keeping the push
going for success come the end
of the season. Of course we
would have liked to have gotten
a result on Saturday but a 1-1
draw, with a Worthing side who
are having a good season, is in
my mind a well earned point. We
probably weren't at our best and
scoring so late in the game is
on reflection a good measure of
our spirit and determination not
to be beat. |
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Comments from Darren Freeman Whitehawk VS Crawley Down
A warm welcome to everyone at
Crawley Down. We hope you enjoy
your day and it is great to be
playing our second Sussex derby
this week... Our match sponsor for today is Marcus Morley of Sussex Building Company. Thank you for your continued support of the club and hope you enjoy your day with us. |
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Comments from Darren Freeman Whitehawk VS Hythe Town A warm welcome to the Enclosed Ground to everyone from Hythe Town. A new fixture for us both at this level which is always a good thing to see. We hope you enjoy your stay and have a safe trip back. Well, this week has yet again been filled with incidents, both good and bad! Incidents and events from our players and officials have certainly tested our nerve. I am pleased to say that we have had two wins from two since my last set of programme notes and I do still feel we have not yet hit our best form but are coming through with positive results. As good as this is it is not ideal as we have enough quality in the squad to make games safer than we are at present. We have to earn the right to win our games and play our football... With a further note of caution that we cannot and should not be letting in 2 and 3 goals every game and rely upon scoring more in order to see us through to winning ways... Clean sheets and a strong team work ethic are required week in week out to reach our goals. Can I take this opportunity to thank Sammy Donnelly and Simon Lockwood for helping us out on Tuesday for the game Vs Sittingbourne. It was good of them both to help us out and it meant we did not have to rely upon Ross 'safe' Standen to deputise for Chris Winterton! On more serious matters, Andy Pearson and Karly Akehurst had their scans this week and at the time of writing these notes we do not know the results but it is all looking positive and we hope to see them back in contention very soon. Can I thank the club for their support and assistance with these long term injury issues. On the subject of thank you's, The pitch is looking great and considering we train and play on the pitch as well as the under 18 matches on it, Keith is doing an excellent job it, Thanks Keith from myself and all the lads. Todays match V Hythe is the second game in a run of 4 at home and we are proving that the Enclosed Ground is a fortress or us, so lets continue that vein of form... Lastly remember Success is a journey not a destination... Up the Hawks! Dazza |
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CAPTAIN Armo's comments Whitehawk VS Hythe Town This week saw two very eventful games with lots of goals in both matches in which, luckily for us, we managed to outscore our opponents on both occasions. On Tuesday night we hosted Sittingbourne and three penalties, one for us (which I missed with the worst penalty ever!) and two for them which they converted, mixed together with some bad mistakes and some excellent play from us finally ended with a 4-3 win for us and well earned three points. I thought our attacking players were fantastic on Tuesday and if our more defensive players can be more solid and allow the likes of Josh Jones and Jerhyll Huges to play with the confidence they showed during the game I can’t see us losing too many more games throughout the rest of the season. Apart from the goals we conceded we seemed to enjoy ourselves against Sittingbourne and hopefully it will be another enjoyable game today as we welcome Hythe Town to The Enclosed Ground. Hope you enjoy the match |
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CAPTAIN Armo's comments Whitehawk VS Hailsham
Tonight we
welcome Hailsham for our first
taste of the Sussex Senior Cup
this year. With the final being
played at the fantastic new AMEX
stadium there is some added
incentive to go as far as we can
in the competition. Of course
our main priority is the league
and that will remain our focus
throughout the season. Having
said that lets hope we managed
to get a result in the FA Trophy
against Billericay on Saturday
as it’s always a confidence
booster to beat higher league
opponents in big cup
competitions. |
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CAPTAIN Armo's comments Whitehawk VS Met Police
After gaining
promotion last year from our
league we welcomed back Met
police last Tuesday for a tie in
the Ryman league cup. Both sides
used the game to get some of
their younger players a bit of
first team experience and it was
the higher league team which
eventually ran out winners. |
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Comments from Darren Freeman Whitehawk VS Maldon & Tiptree (FA Cup 2nd Rd Qualifying) (Posted )
A warm
welcome to Maldon & Tiptree
today for the FA cup 2nd
qualifying round. We hope
everyone linked to Maldon has an
enjoyable day at The Enclosed
Ground. |
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Comments from Darren Freeman Whitehawk VS Dulwich Hamlet (Posted 22/09/11) Good afternoon and welcome to the enclosed ground for the arrival of the the in form team Dulwich Hamlet, who haven't lost yet and won all six games so far. This will be a stern test for the lads as we know that they would have further strengthened on their squad in pre season and are looking for promotion. Looking at out lads I was very pleased with the response I got from them last Saturday beating Folkestone 3-0,we played some good football and what was more pleasing was to see Matthew Daniels at 17 making his debut and doing very well. On the player front I thought it would be nice to say a big thank you to Frazer Logan and Ryan Thompson who have moved on to seek regular football so we wish them both well and thank them for their contributions. So lets hope we can continue from last week and get another win under our belts. So get behind the boys. |
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CAPTAIN Armo's comments We managed to overcome Ramsgate two weeks ago but we failed to follow this up and lost on the following Tuesday to a very hard working side at Godalming. Consistency is a major factor in winning leagues and after going 1-0 up at Godalming we need to learn to see games out, even if we are not playing well, if we are to get to the level of consistency we need to be up there at the end of the year. In contrast to Tuesday we turned up at Folkestone on Saturday and gave a side, who have only lost once this year, a real beating with some great play and just as importantly a lot of hard work. A great goal from Gargs to start us off and with Jerhyl and Josh playing very well we controlled the game from start to finish and ran out deserved 3-0 winners. Hopefully we can take confidence from this and realise what a good team we are when we put our minds to it and play as we did Saturday. If we keep winning the manager may even pay up his outstanding fines, all £2 of it, I suppose times are hard at the moment but you never know he might give it to us!. |
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Comments from Darren Freeman Whitehawk VS Ramsgate (Posted 09/09/11) Good afternoon and a warm welcome to our opposition today from Ramsgate. This will be the third time we have played each other in a week. Both games in the FA Cup were difficult games against a strong well organised side, where we just managed to come out on top. Looking back to the game on Tuesday evening in very difficult conditions, I was extremely pleased with the response from the lads, who yet again gave 100%. I am grateful that we managed to get a result within the 90 minutes. On a less serious note, they say life is about timing. My assistant Ross can't have got it more wrong when he decided to dye his hair black on Tuesday, the wettest day of the year. He was standing there at the end with the dye running down his face. Back to the serious side of things, can I say a big thank you to Keith Collingbourne for the excellent condition of the pitch. It is certainly the best I have seen it! Without the likes of Keith , clubs of our size would struggle to function. We are very fortunate to have a few like Keith. Lets get behind the boys today and hope that we continue to match our recent performances Up the Hawks |
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CAPTAIN Armo's comments Wednesday morning and I am sure it was a bit of a struggle for some of us, especially Jeryhl, Sammy and Garg's, to get up and go to work this morning after our replay at Ramsgate. I think we probably deserved to win the tie on the Saturday but we could not score and had to settle for another go last night. Gargs got the only goal on what was a difficult night to play, with plenty of wind and rain to contend with. We now look forward to another trip to Kent where we meet Folkestone in the next round. We face Ramsgate again this Saturday and by now I am sure we both know how each other plays, its not often you play the same team three times in the same week, lets hope we get the same result as last night. Apparently we have a new member of staff, to help us eat the right things to help us perform better. He is a mysterious dietician chap called Mike, and Gargs, who knows him well, is going to introduce him to us this week, he has been helping Sam out for the last week or so via email. Lets see if he helps us as much as he has helped big Sam!. |
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Comments from Darren Freeman Whitehawk VS Ramsgate (Posted 02/809/11) A warm welcome to everyone for todays FA Cup game vs Ramsgate, for which is the 1st of their journeys to The Enclosed Ground in 7 days. We hope that Jim Ward & everyone at Ramsgate FC enjoy their day at The Enclosed Ground. A very good start to the season came crashing to an end with a 1-0 defeat at our local rivals, Bognor Regis Town on Bank Holiday Monday. A lacklustre performance not befittng of a Whitehawk team in a crunch local derby was not acceptable to us in the management team & we will be looking for a positive reaction today in a world famous competition which should not need any getting up for. I commented last week on how well we had performed in training & that we were settling into playing some great football but I also mentioned that with a lot of hard work we could achieve our goals this season. Without hard work, ability counts for nothing, so I am looking for the lads to get back to the putting in the effort & work we saw in the first 3 games & all of pre-season, which then allowed us to show our undoubted ability with the ball as we had previously done. To take positives from the Bognor game, we have not conceded from open play still & we still created 3 gilt edge chances that if we took would have won us the game. Thank you for your continued support & we hope you enjoy todays game. DARREN FREEMAN |
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CAPTAIN Armo's comments After three great results we suffered defeat, our first since The Albion in pre-season, to Bognor on Bank Holiday Monday. We know we can play much better but the best way to get over a defeat is to bounce back with a good performance and result today. It would be great to win every game but there are some good teams in our league and we need to be at our best to get results against them and unfortunately on Monday not enough of us were up to the standards we have shown so far this year. Saying that I thought Winnie was excellent in the sticks again and Kneezer should forget about the penalty because he also played well and has been playing fantastic since joining us. If he stopped getting beaten up in street fights he might be even better. Back to todays game and the F.A. Cup. It is important we get back to winning ways again and, although we might not end up at Wembley, a cup run is good for everyone involved at the club. Financially the prize money is pretty good and the club can recoup some of the money they spend on wages etc, and there is always the chance, if we get through a couple of rounds, to get a decent club from a higher division which would be a great test for us and a great confidence booster if we could beat them. Enjoy the game and let us hope we are in the draw next week |
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