Hastings Utd Vs Brighton & Hove Albion ( Development ) Tuesday 9th July 2013, 7.45PM K.O

[BHAZiggy]

They're not fooling me though. I know that they're Hastings Town. I supported the REAL Hastings United until they went bankrupt.
Away match in my home town? It'd be rude not to.

 

[GreersElbow]

Hopefully this'll help both sides. Definitely some hungry youngsters in the dev squad for first team experience with a new manager. And newly relegated united who obviously wanna get back into the ryman premier. Can't make it, but will follow on twitter.

 

[BHAZiggy]

Last season Hastings scored 2 screamers to pull off a surprise win.

 

[Hastingsfan]

There seems to be a load of Brighton fans in Hastings and area, hopefully there will be a good Brighton contingent, Hastings fabs usually make some noise so should be a decent occasion!

Crowd for last years match was about 1300 but just hoping to get as many as possible for this one!

 

[HastingsSeagull]

I'll be going to this then bit of a mad dash from work but

 

[Hastingsfan]

Imagine there will be a couple of released Brighton lads playing for Hastings too as usual

 

[BHAZiggy]

There seems to be a load of Brighton fans in Hastings and area,

There always has been. It is the reason that I got together with a few mates and created the A21 club. It's still going strong 22 years later.

 

[Hastingsfan]

Will you and the people in the A21 club be going to the Hastings match too?

 

[BHAZiggy]

Yes but not as part of an organised trip.

 

[Hastingsfan]

Great stuff, the more the merrier hoping for a crowd in the high hundreds at least

 

[Steve.S]

Hastings Utd Vs Brighton & Hove Albion ( Development ) Tuesday 9th July 2013, 7.45PM K.O

There always has been. It is the reason that I got together with a few mates and created the A21 club. It's still going strong 22 years later.

I did not think the A21 was still going, the website is no longer there.

 

[BHAZiggy]

That's just because the only committee member who is technically minded doesn't have time to do it. There's a blog but the same person hasn't updated it in a while.
http://a21albionsupportersclub.blogspot.co.uk/
I'm pretty sure that there's still a facebook page too but I don't use Facebook any more.

 

[BHAZiggy]

Just found the new website. It is here...
http://www.a21albionsupportersclub.bravesites.com/

 

[Hastingsfan]

How many people are in the A21?

 

[BHAZiggy]

It's been a while since I was chairman (Stuart Adams has that role these days) but from memory there were around 200 when we were still at Withdean.

 

[Hastingsfan]

I see that Jack Shonk is likely to play for Hastings in this match, what type of player is he? Sounded highly rated but injury prone?

 

[dougdeep]

Trains leave Ore at 8:22, 8:50, 9:22, 10:22 and 11:14pm.

 

[BHAZiggy]

Where would you take those trains to Doug? Every other station is further from the Pilot Field.
Edit: Having said that, a train to Hastings and then a bus would save a lot of walking.

 

[dougdeep]

Where would you take those trains to Doug? Every other station is further from the Pilot Field.
Edit: Having said that, a train to Hastings and then a bus would save a lot of walking.

To Brighton. They have timetables on the internet you know.

 

[Hastingsfan]

Apparently there will be a couple of foreign trialists playing tonight at Hastings, could be interesting to see what their like. Nice evening for it anyway!