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28apr12 Conference South Westleigh Park, Havant att. 949 …saferelegatedsaferelegatedsafe. .. So, after all this, it came down to a minute in human history. A minute where our dreams were passed to us, snatched away, then returned almost instantly on a velvet cushion. A minute which will live on as long as there is a Havant & Waterlooville FC, through endless telling and re-telling, as we try

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Here we are showing off our new kit for next season then. Not for the first time, we undergo a change of name too. The URL will stay the same to save a load of hassle with links and such. Welcome to Destination Havant 'Ville Departing Waterloo (or DuhHuhVuhDuhWuh if you like).

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21apr12 Conference South Rushmoor Community Stadium, Farnborough att. 789 Well, I think we played our part. We the supporters I mean. And we must give nods to the new vice chairman, Jim Fallon, as well, forking out for some free coach action that meant a bigger Hawk mob could collect in what my terrace pal Simon describes as the ‘Fur Coat No Knickers’ stand. We had tickertape, we had balloons,

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14apr12Conference SouthWestleigh Park, Havantatt. 792Of course, there was always a danger of this. As we slide ourselves gingerly along the relegation tight rope, a cord stretched taut over a pit of infuriated, starving tigers, there was bound to be a moment where we wobble and perhaps lose a shoe. The tigers have been whipped into frenzy by this, and the beads of human marinade dripping from our

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10apr12Conference SouthWestleigh Park, Havantatt. 743So, the first two games of the Johnson/Aymes floor-sweeping, screw-tightening, general maintenance regime could hardly have gone better. First, a tough 1-0 away win at Truro in conditions more suited to stunt kite-flying, then a 2-1 home success over a Salisbury side starting the game with two Hawk old boys, tall ones, up front. You know how

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07apr12Conference SouthTreyew Road, Truroatt. 698What a pre-Easter week it has been (and it is Easter week, however much Truro tried to confuse us with their signage – see below). For the vast majority of the season up to that point, it was like travelling through a long, dark tunnel – a journey certainly, but not an enjoyable one. This week a beckoning glow has begun to appear at the end of that

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No one likes to see a man lose his job, especially a clubman who has given twelve years of service to this football club and I certainly believe this was more than just another job for Shaun Gale. However, every manager has a shelf-life and if things aren't working, it is the nature of football to make a change at the top to sort things out.I respect the board in many ways for showing loyalty to

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20mar12Conference SouthHayes Lane, Bromleyatt. 303The story of the last two months has been fairly simple to sum up. If we’re playing relegation rivals, we draw. If we’re playing anyone else, we lose. The sublime, yet at the same time ridiculous, 6-3 win at Dorchester in the middle of the previous eight weeks was merely the exception that proves the rule. It’s fair to say that this is not exactly

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21feb12Conference SouthPark View Road, Wellingatt. 381Regular readers of this site (if there are any left given the weary, grumpy tone we have adopted of late) will have noticed we have adopted a weary, grumpy tone of late. However, another day, another 3-1 defeat and, yet, I am here to praise the Hawks as though they were a dead philanthropist. In previous missives, I have responded to draws and

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18feb12Conference SouthMelbourne Stadium, Chelmsfordatt. 859Why am I even here? One of the great philosophical questions. Indeed, so existential has it got for us terminal Hawks, you'd half expect to find Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus turned among us behind the goal. Yet, dwindling enthusiasm is never likely to be turned around when your trousers are working as reservoir for enough rainwater

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New review of bubbling-under London five-piece Toy now on the Vanity Project site

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HatchedCongratulations to my fellow Hawk and sometime dubSteps contributor Adam Cole and his wife for their production of a new member for the London Branch. Now we number three, albeit with one of us as yet unaware of the fact. In years to come young Sam Cole may well look back on these early years envying the blissful ignorance enjoyed by his younger self. I am sure Adam held up his handsome

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21jan12Conference SouthThurrock Hotel, Thurrockatt. 194Thurrock have come into the New Year cast adrift at the bottom of the division, holding up the Conference South like a sunken ship supports the sea. This is in the sense that the ship lies there at the bottom motionless, only burping out the occasional air bubble, as the sea goes about its business as if the ship wasn’t there. To cut a long

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An appraisal of the highlights of a year's gigging by your correspondent can now be found at the Vanity Project site.

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26dec11Conference SouthWestleigh Park, Havantatt. 938Take 1: Boxing Day football is great. It allows those of our persuasion to get out from beneath the hillocks of wrapping paper, tear the party popper streamers off the arms of our spectacles and be amongst our brethren full of festive cheer. Take 2: Boxing Day football is awful. Hanging over the gifting and joy of the previous day like the

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17dec11Conference SouthLongmead Stadium, Tonbridgeatt. 599Any readers whose only source of H&Dub information is this site might have a skewed view of how the last few weeks have been. It has been six weeks since this site has managed to observe a fixture, and that was a barrelling 5-0 win. You join us again after a month and a half, and a workmanlike away win is here to greet you. You might be of

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Been getting a little obsessive about seeing members of the late Captain Beefheart's band play his music live just recently. A review encompassing four dates on The Magic Band's UK tour now appears on Vanity Project.

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Various other commitments (plus Weymouth away in the Trophy not appealing to my Christmas-shopping focused wallet) mean the next thing to be written up here will be H&W's away fixture against Tonbridge Angels on December 17th. Assuming it's not snowed off or something.

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A review of rockabilly icon Wanda Jackson, still gigging at the age of 74, is now up at the Vanity Project site.

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A new review of the wonderful Blurt now appears at the Vanity Project site

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29oct11Conference SouthWestleigh Park, Havantatt. 799Now, of course, it’s too soon to start saying “where did it all go right?”. After all Christmas is coming, a period when, typically, the H&W goose does not get fat. If anything it shrivels like a willy in an ice bath. Indeed, traditionally, our players treat the winter like hedgehogs, in that they slow their breathing down to a bare minimum and

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22oct11Conference SouthThe Beveree, Hamptonatt. 475When it comes to taking a decent lead but squandering it and ending up disappointed, this season we rank up there with Kevin Keegan’s first stint with Newcastle and Adolf Hitler’s ill-fated Europa League campaign. Havant & ‘Ville gaffer Shaun Gale currently remains more popular than Hitler but that’s mainly due to the lack of any crossover with

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08oct11Conference SouthWestleigh Park, Havantatt. 766After Wes Fogden had been with us about a year, the disreputable organ before you wrote the following about him: “Despite apparently being named after a minor character in Last of the Summer Wine and having such an enthusiastic proboscis you could spear a bison with it; he has fast become a terrace favourite. He has a Willo-the-Wisp-ish gait

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01oct11 FA Cup 2nd Qualifying Round Westleigh Park, Havant att. 370 Upon the announcement of the 2nd qualifying round draw, the news that Havant & ‘Ville had been drawn at home to Sholing was met with eyes darting side-to-side, fingernails being torn at by agitated teeth, knees knocking like honeymoon suite bedposts against a partition wall. To give an indication of our confidence of late, this

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24sep11Conference SouthCrabble Athletic Ground, Doveratt. 735The big action at the Crabble Ground in sunny, coastal, Frenchandtheyknowtheyis Dover was less concerned with the performances on the field as that on the terraces. With respective gaffers Martin Hayes and Shaun Gale both under scrutiny for poor performances in recent weeks, today was a Hawks v Whites grump-off. However, right from the

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