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forevertufc wrote: ↑22 Apr 2019, 20:46 Well what a day of mixed emotions for me. It starts with excitement at actually going to Plainmoor for once at the seasons end to see us with something to cerebrate on our own ground, rather than watching the away fans doing it, as so many times before, that turned to joy, when the 4 man syndicate I'm part of, for the second time this season won the 50/50 nice £100, that turned to disappointment as the game was lost late on, once again on high as the team come out for the trophy presentation, then my day turned to despair as I suffered a blow out on the way home over an hour and snapped jack later I finally get home, guess that's part of my winnings down the drain already

Anyway on to the match, to be fair the teams had more than a few chances to put this game to bed, Reidy hitting the bar, and shooting wide when he should have done better, Olaf with a great chance also, but as I said on the Chippenham thread, it really is difficult for players who've given much to win something, then to win, to get to the same levels of intensity and urgency, so they're forgiven in my book, as we saw there was a lack of chasing down the 50/50's we've seen all season, and not the same desire to get that tackles in.

Didn't take long for moaners corner to start up again, the squad won the league with games to spare, really what is there to moan about, cut them some slack they've given everything for the cause, and deserve to enjoy the moment, and us fans, enjoy it, this may never happen again.

Best moment of the day, Keating leading the Gerring chant

budegull1954 wrote: ↑23 Apr 2019, 13:52 According to the various match reports 'everyone' received a yellow flag (or was it orange?) to wave when they entered the ground. Well I arrived at 2.30 with my brother and there were certainly no flags being given out at the Popside entrance at that time. Neither were there any 'souvenir' programmes available. A small point maybe but it didn't take the gloss off a great occasion, even if the match itself was a huge anticlimax. Did anyone else on the left-hand side of the Popside see the blatant penalty in the second half when a Hungerford player batted the ball with his hand in the penalty area? You could hear the smack of hand against ball quite clearly from where I was standing - Conor L-Evans (best player on the pitch) was furious and rightly so.

Kingsgull83 wrote: ↑23 Apr 2019, 20:19 Yes great effort from Hungerford showing respect for the champions, real class

A few points from yesterday

It was a great thought giving out the flags, anyone else think they were a bit budget? I understand getting that many flags come at a cost but would of been a nice souverneer if they were proper flags. Programmes were sold out of the club shop at 1pm!!

Considering the match was sold out of sets the day before there were allot of empty seats in the family stand and the away end was allot emptier than the Easbourne game.

Last point or question anyone have any idea why they chose to have the presentation at the far end of the pitch miles away from any fans with the back drop of an empty stand??

All in all a day to remember can’t be critical of the team or performance after a long season and well deserved title after the start we had must be one of the greatest turn around of all time?