I’m not sure anyone knows. From the outside if you lose your management team and best player (Harry Shooman) it looks like an upward hill. But Gerry Murphy knows his stuff, and the core of the team has been retained and added to, so whilst a difficult season is anticipated we live in hope...
Steyning 4 Hilltop FC 0
After a difficult opening 30 minutes the Barrowmen took control off the game and in the end it was a comfortable afternoon that included a penalty save from the Steyning keeper and a Hilltop red card.
Interesting club Hilltop. Apparently from Wembley but groundsharing...
Top thread. Long term Weber user but recently appreciated there was a new world of bbq cooking when son and son in law regularly slow cook on their Webers using chimney to start the coals and temperature probes for the body of the Weber and for the meat. This thread is another level. I admire...
Who knows. Not me. There are shades of Hyypia with one successful season and arriving without his right hand man. We’ve lost big players off and on the pitch. The division looks stronger. A poor start could leave us looking over our shoulders.
And yet, incoming players look exciting. We’ve...
Cheers, that’s good to hear. The Isthmian League really is a different level. I’m delighted your lads are settling in. And it makes more sense that Woody has been appointed coach - it would have been quite a jump.
Good reports from Crowborough and Loxwood btw. We played Loxwood in a friendly and they might get a reputation at this rate. Crowborough have Danny Wood in charge who is a great guy and I really hope they do well this season.
Sussex Community Shield on Wednesday at Lancing - Steyning v Horsham. SCFL Champions v Sussex Senior Cup winners. Amazing to see the Barrowmen in this type of fixture. Should be a good test before Saturday and ………
The FA bloomin’ Cup. It’s the Extra Preliminary Round v Hilltop FC (from...
And that was a great thing about England games. You just didn’t get the chance to see these players otherwise. I saw Brazil and when they came out in their kit it was magical.
We still booed their anthem mind.
Respect for venturing out in that. Strange for Div 2 clubs that don’t have the facilities for promotion, but Upper Beeding are an important part of the local football scene.
I was going to post - my memory was we lost …….. but you’re correct we won.
Lots of home games late 70s early 80s. Cheap night out. Just rock up if you fancied it. I loved seeing the opposition stars, and of course our players in an age when not a lot of live football was on the box.
Wembley...
Really? They did look good particularly going forward. Difficult to make sense of a first friendly, but promising on the pitch from the Barrowmen. Work also being done off the pitch for new changing rooms and hospitality etc (needed whatever division we’re in).