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Ryman League
Division One
South
www.sittingbournef.co.uk
BRICKIES
V
Godalming
Town
Saturday
4th March 2017
Kick off 3.00pm

Sittingbourne FC
The DMA Stadium, Woodstock Park, Broadoak Road,
Sittingbourne, Kent, ME9 8AG
Tel: 01795 410777 www.sittingbournefc.co.uk
Sittingbourne FC is a members club
CLUB OFFICIAL
President: Allan Crowshaw
Vice President: Alan Barty
Hon Vice Presidents: Tania & Andy Spice
Chairman: Maurice Dunk
Vice Chairman: Ken Medwyn
Secretary/Treasurer: John Pitts
OTHER COMMITTEE MEMBERS
John Cooper (Commercial).
Peter Pitts (Media, Web site, Programme editor,
stadium announcer,)
David Brown (Youth development),
Colin Page (Ast Treasurer),
Danny Appleton (Turnstile Manager)
Board Room Hospitality: Sandra Pitts & Carol
Cooper,
Lottery Secretary: Hilary Joines.
Club Historian: Dudley Hird.
Programme Sales: Sian Goatham.
Turnstile Operator: Faye Goatham
Club Welfare Officer: Lee Tappenden
Match Reporter: Tony Rickson
Groundsman: Roger Pudner
Club Photographer: Ken Medwyn
Club Shop: Clive Phillips
Playing Management
Manager: Nick Davis
Assist Manager: Tony Cornwell
Coaches: Warren Chambers, Jono Richardson.
Team Assistant: Harry Chambers
Physio: Tom Martin
Under 21 Managers: John Embury and Jermaine
Darlington.
WOODSTOCK GROUND REGULA-
TIONS
1. All persons entering the ground are subject to
the rules and regulations of The Football Association.
2. The club reserves the right to eject or prosecute
any person who within the club premises is considered
by the club committee or its employees to
be or have been behaving in the following ways:
a) Entering the field of play before or during
the course of the game.
b) Using obscene, abusive or racist language
or persistently swearing.
c) Being intoxicated by drink or drugs.
Further, persons will not be allowed entry to
Woodstock Park if in the opinion of the gatemen,
stewards or any members of the management
committee they are intoxicated.
3. NO bottles or metal cans, glasses or weapons of
any kind are allowed in the ground. The stewards
have the right to search a spectator if they have
grounds to believe that the person is in possession
of any item that is deemed to be a danger to other
spectators.
4. Alcohol must only be consumed within the confines
of the club house.
5. The climbing of fences or floodlight pylons and
all buildings within the ground is strictly forbidden.
6. All vehicles parked within the boundaries of the
club’s car park must be parked within a designated
space unless otherwise directed by a steward.
No responsibility is accepted for any mishap that
may occur. Car parking is at owners risk.

TEAM CHECK
Ryman League Div 1 South
SATURDAY 4TH MARCH 2017
SITTINGBOURNE V GODALMING TOWN
Manager: Nick Davis
Assistant: Tony Cornwell
Coaches: Jono Richardson,
Physio: Tom Martin
Coach / Kit Manager: Warren Chambers
Manager: Dan Turkington
Coach: Sam Rafique
Physio: Lorna Francis
MATCH OFFICIALS
Referee George Warren, Assistants: Michael Begley, Marlon Williams
Red & Black Stripes Shirts,
Black Shorts, Black Socks
PLAYED
SUBSTITUTE
GOALS
PLAYED
SUBSTITUTE
GOALS
Shirts: Yellow
Shorts: Green
Socks: Yellow
1, Simon OVERLAND
1. Oneal GARNES
2. Sam WELCH
2. Sean MASON
3. Tom CARLSE
3. Carl GASTANG
4. Jack STEVENTON
4. Keith EMMERSON
5. Jono RICHARDSON (C)
5. Steve BROWN
6. Conrad LEE
6. Chris WALES
7. Kane PHILIP
8. Joe LOFT
7. Bobby DORMER
8 Matthew BUNYAN
9. David ABE
9. Piers OLDLAND
10. Connor WILKINS
10. Darren WHEELER
11. Hicham AKHAZZAN
11. William EFAMBE
12. Tom BRUNT
12. Joe STOCHETTI
14. Josh WISSON
14. Nick SOWDEN
15. Gil CARVELHO
15. Rory SELLICK
16. Bradley ACHAFER
16. Dave HILL
17. Nick DAVIS
17.

John’s Jottings
Good afternoon everyone. Welcome to Woodstock.
Our visitors today are Godalming Town. Welcome to their player’s officials and supporters.
Godalming transferred from the Southern League to the Ryman League for this season and have had a
difficult time of it. They are, at the time of my writing these notes, eighteen points from safety. They
made us work hard when we played them at Wey Court. A 2-1 victory for the Brickies with goals from
Steven Ita and John Embery was the result. Godalming will be formidable opponents though. They had a
very good 3-0 win over Guernsey recently and have been ahead a few times in matches but have been
unable to hold on to that advantage. Last week they came across a very good Tooting & Mitcham Side
who are currently top of the league and who defeated them 3-0 at home.
Congratulations to our longest serving player, Hicham Akhazzan. Hicham notched up his 100 th goal of his
Sittingbourne career. That gives him and average of scoring one goal every four games – a magnificent
achievement considering he has played in mid field in recent seasons. Hich joined us in 2006 and has
been a magnificent example to other players. I watched the Arsenal V Sutton United FA Cup match and
was struck by the similarities between Hich and Theo Walcott. I know many people, including myself,
think Hitch looks like Walcott. Interestingly Walcott is Arsenal’s longest serving player and has also just
scored his 100th goal for Arsenal.
We have a new signing in Kane Phillip who joins us from Herne Bay, welcome Kane.
Our last home match was against Molesey, another team fighting to keep out of the relegation battle.
They played some good football and were probably the better team in the first half. However, we gradually
got on top in the second and a great headed goal by Jono Richardson and a fine solo run and excellent
finish from the hard-working David Abe. I know Nick was not that happy about the performance but
in the end it was a good result for the Brickies. What was disappointing was the size of the crowd.
Crowds of 100 do not bring anywhere near enough gate receipts to sustain our playing budget. If we
hope to progress gates must increase. We have no money men/ women backing us. We rely on what we
can bring in in sponsorship which John Cooper has done a great job with this season, our lottery (if you
are not a member yet please join) and gate receipts.
Last week we came a cropper at Hythe Town who defeated us by 2 goals to 1. It was a disappointing
performance and we only came in the game towards the end when Jason Ngandu scored our consolation
with his first touch of the game coming as a substitute in the 77th minute, his goal being scored in
the 78th minute!! We could have got something out of the game in that final spell with Hythe down to
10 men after Dave Cook was sent off for a second yellow card offence, but in truth our best player was
Simon Overland who made several excellent saves and Hythe also missed a couple of sitters.
With the help of Jace media we are updating and improving our social networks. We now have a “You
Tube” Channel and a “blogspot”. We have also opened up our Facebook group to everybody although it
will be a moderated group. To add all this to our excellent web site, our Twitter account and of course
Ken Medwyn’s photographs plus the Match day programme being available with the home match reports
on the web site we must have some of the best social networking of any non league club.
Jace media will continue to support us so look out for their postings on our sites.
John

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From the Programme Editor
Hello everybody, first of all an apology as due to work commitments, holidays and print deadlines
some stats are slightly out of date with the tables only up to date to Tuesday 27 th Feb and
the appearance / goals stats 1 game out.
I suppose the biggest story of the last week has been the sacking of Claudio Rainiere. It seems
very harsh and certainly this club doesn’t usually get rid of the manager if results are not good,
the last managers to leave were all let go for other reasons! The strange thing is that Leicester’s
performance last Monday against Liverpool was
almost back to their performances last season.
I am very disappointed that the Amazon link on the
web site isn’t being used as we haven’t had a single
penny from it according to Amazon, I’d be interested to
know if you have purchased via the link! Anyway I shall
be removing the link shortly and giving up as an affiliate.
We are having a pay what you want game on 1 st April
against Whyteleafe (Its not an April fools joke!) although
obviously we hope that we don’t lose by that,
especially as we are now into our overdraft.
I was hearing about Ashford Town’s 3 G pitch and
what went wrong, apparently the contractors weren’t
paid and left the site half way through leaving it to volunteers
to complete the foundation, unfortunately they
didn’t do a very good job and the pitch has o be replaced
at a cost of around £250,000 so not sure where
that is coming from. !) More gossip in the next programme!!
There is also apparently still a court battle
over the ownership of Homeland. All of which is a pity
as Ashford regularly get 250 (roughly twice our crowd
average) and away supporters are extremely important
to us in our attempts to break even (so a special welcome
to anyone from Godalming!)
The problem for Ashford is that they appear to have
missed the deadline to apply for promotion, they are
currently top of their league under manager Danny
Lye, who of course has played for us. Also despite the
fact that there will be a new division in the South at our
level, with less teams in the existing leagues there will still only be 1 automatic promotion from
each step 5 league. Its interesting that Whitstable Town’s gate doesn’t seem to have suffered
much with their relegation to step 5 – this is not to say that any of us want to go down a step,
we don’t, the committee aim is to at least reach step 3 in a few years…but of course this is not
going to happen unless gates and with it revenue increase (I know it’s an old Chesnut but sadly
true.)
Peter

Godalming Town History
The club has its origins as Godalming United FC, formed in 1950 by ex-pupils of Godalming
Grammar School. Between 1950-71 the club played at the Recreation Ground. However, in 1970
Surrey Senior League side Farncombe collapsed, leaving their ground in Meadrow vacant. Godalming
took over the debts and tenancy, changing their name to Godalming and Farncombe
FC, and the ground to Wey Court in the process.
The original pitch was where the nearby Wey Court Sheltered Housing stood and considerable
amount of work was undertaken on the new playing area, which was built on the site of an old
waste tip. The club was helped by Waverley Council when drainage problems and subsidence
meant they had to find a temporary home at Broadwater Park.
The club was accepted into the Combined Counties League for the start of the 1978 season, and
a year later the name was changed again, to Godalming Town FC.
In 1985, another local club, Addlestone & Weybridge, was disbanded and, before their ground at
Liberty Lane was demolished, Godalming purchased the stand and perimeter fence for £225 and
£50 respectively. The stand was re-erected at Wey Court, with seating and fascia added.
The next development came in 1992 when the Guildford Football Appeal (formed in an attempt
to return the towns name to senior football, following the collapse of Guildford City in 1977) donated
a sum of money towards floodlights, and in return the name of the club was changed again
to Godalming & Guildford FC.
Further recycling followed in 1995, when a new turnstile building was erected incorporating a
turnstile from Millwall’s old ground and in 1996 the clubhouse was refurbished.
During 2005 close season, the club changed its name for a fifth time, albeit back to one of its
previous incarnations, that of Godalming Town. A fantastic 2005/06 season saw the side take the
Combined Counties League Championship and League Cup by storm. Godalming Town were
then accepted by Isthmian League officials following extensive ground improvements.
At the end of a tough season, Godalming found themselves at the bottom of a very competitive
division. However, events elsewhere meant that Godalming were reprieved from relegation and
were transferred into the Southern League’s South & West Division for the 2007/08 season.
Chuck Martini replaced Roger Steer as Manager in October 2007. Town were moved back to the
Ryman League for the 2008/09 season and eventually finished in another record high position,
9 th . Godalming also progressed further than ever before in the FA Cup by reaching the 3 rd Qualifying
Round before losing 2-1 at Conference South side Havant & Waterlooville.
The 2009/10 season was arguably the best season in the history of the club. Town finished a
record high position 4 th in the Ryman South but were eventually beaten 2-1 in the Playoff Final at
Folkestone Invicta. The club progressed further than ever before in the FA Trophy and won the
Surrey Senior Cup by beating Sutton United 2-1. The season also saw local boy Shaun Elliott
became the club’s record appearance holder after reaching 360 games in a Godalming shirt.
Chuck Martini was replaced by joint-managers Jon Underwood & Neil Baker in October 2010 and
the club finished an unpredictable season in mid-table. The 2011/12 season saw a lot of new
faces join, but the team quickly gelled, reaching the 4 th Qualifying Round of the FA Cup, beating
Wimborne, Moneyfields, Worcester City & Bodmin before bowing out to Maidenhead United in
front of 700 at Wey Court. The G’s finished 5 th in the league, and travelled to Bognor Regis Town
in the playoff semi-final, drawing 4-4 after extra time but Godalming lost 5-3 on penalties.
Continued further on in the programme

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A Brief History of Godalming Town—Cont
2012/13 saw Jon Underwood and Neil Baker guide Godalming to their highest ever finish in
the pyramid, finishing in 3 rd place. The G’s lost in the
playoff semi-final for the second year running, this time
losing 2-1 to Biggleswade at Wey Court. The season finished
on a high however, as Godalming lifted the Surrey
Senior Cup for the second time in four years, beating
Sutton United 1-0 at Gander Green Lane, thanks to a last
minute goal from Scott Harris. The close season saw Godalming
moved to a third different league in as many
years, this time to the South & West Division. With divisional
change came a managerial change; Jon Underwood
and Neil Baker left Godalming to join Slough Town,
taking the majority
of the squad with
them. Andy Hunt was appointed manager in June
2013, assisted by Neil Selby.
The 2013/14 season was probably one of the hardest
the club has dealt with. Andy Hunt was given the task
of putting together a squad that will compete in the
league and secure step four football. At Christmas
2013 the clubhouse, kitchen and changing rooms were
ruined by flood
water. Godalming
finished the season in 18 th position. Godalming
were then moved into another division again and will
play in Southern League Central Division for the
2014/15 season.
Godalming finished in 10 th position in the 2015/2016
and reached the Surrey Senior Cup Final for the 3 rd
time but lost 4-0 to Merstham.
2016/2017 sees the G’s transfer to the Ryman League
Division One South for the 2016/2017 season.
Ryman South Games Today
Carshalton Athletic v Greenwich Borough
Chatham Town v Horsham
Corinthian-Casuals v Dorking Wanderers
Cray Wanderers v Walton Casuals
Faversham Town v Molesey
Guernsey v Three Bridges
Herne Bay v East Grinstead Town
Lewes v Hythe Town
Ramsgate v Hastings United
Tooting & Mitcham United v Chipstead
Whyteleafe v South

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Match Reports by Tony Rickson
Tuesday 14th February 2017
Ryman Div 1 South
Sittingbourne 2 Herne Bay 2
Attendance 121
Not much love around on Valentine’s Day as these
Kent rivals battled – and that was the right word at
times – for the points.
Despite handing out nine cards, and not always for
the worst fouls it seemed, the referee struggled for
much of the time to control the match.
He infuriated Herne Bay by reducing them to 10
men in the first half and after that almost every decision
was questioned and argued over.
So what should have been a night to remember for
Sittingbourne legend Hicham Akhazzan as he
scored his 100th goal for the club will probably stick
in the mind for all the wrong reasons.
Sittingbourne gave a debut in defence to Jardel
Bunda-Kamara, who put in a mature performance,
and up front after a gap of at least 18 months David
Abe returned and he worked hard all night.
Bay started the stronger and Sittingbourne ‘old boy’
Mark Lovell put a free header wide in the first minute.
With goalkeeper Simon Overland on the ground,
Sittingbourne were rescued by Jono Richardson
clearing off the line in the 12th minute but Bay maintained
the attack and Williams shot them ahead with
a low drive into the far corner.
Sittingbourne responded and a magnificent through
ball by Josh Wisson put Abe clear on goal in the
25th minute, but he was brought down by Sayer as
he prepared to shoot.
It looked a clear penalty and the referee gave it, as
well as bravely sending off Sayer for the foul, all under
enormous pressure from the Bay players.
Akhazzan, though, struck the penalty against the
post and what followed until half-time was an unsavoury
20 minutes with fouls all over the pitch.
The worst – in my opinion, though it somehow didn’t
merit a yellow card – was on Connor Wilkins which
left him with stud marks up the length of his thigh.
Plenty of bottle shown by him to carry on after treatment.
Sittingbourne had obviously talked at half-time
about the wisdom of moving the ball about up
against 10 men and they took control of the match.
With just 10 minutes of the half played,
Wilkins closed in from the right and when the ball fell
loose, Akhazzan swept it first time into the corner
from the edge of the box for the equaliser.
He celebrated by sprinting to his Dad, and having
seen virtually all the 100 goals he’s got in his remarkable
10-year service to the club, I would say
this was as sweetly struck as nearly any of them.
The momentum was truly with Sittingbourne now
and they went ahead on 76 minutes when Akhazzan
and Wisson both had shots blocked and Akhazzan
then kept his cool to play it across the goal where
courageous youngster Wilkins raced in to stab it
over the line.
Overland made a couple of good saves as Bay tried
to rally but surely Sittingbourne would be able to see
it out, even though they’ve been vulnerable to losing
leads late in games previously this season.
It all got a bit silly as the referee started flourishing
cards for players rolling the ball back to where a free
-kick should have been taken, yet ignoring blatant
fouls.
But there was nothing silly about Bay’s 90th minute
equaliser, a beautifully-struck free-kick by Turner
from 25 yards that somehow got past the defensive
wall and in at the far post.
Bay probably deserved a point for their resilience,
while Sittingbourne will be kicking themselves for
not seeing out the game safely to the end.
What a learning curve, though, for the promising
young players they’ve been able to bring on this
season, proving to them you’ve got to be tough and
brave at times to complement all their obvious skills
and potential.
Sittingbourne: Simon Overland, Sam Welch
(Yellow card) (Tom Brunt, 51 min), Tom Carlse, Jardel
Bundu-Kamara, Jono Richardson, Jack Steventon,
Connor Wilkins (Bradley Schafer, 76 min), Conrad
Lee (Yellow card), David Abe, Josh Wisson
(Yellow card), Hicham Akhazzan (Gil Carvaho, 84
min, Yellow card). Subs not used: Jake Embery, Jason
Ngandu.
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Match Reports by Tony Rickson
Saturday 18th February 2017
Ryman Div 1 South
Sittingbourne 2 Molesey 0
Attendance 100
Victories over top teams like Greenwich Borough,
Hythe Town and Walton Casuals have been high
points of Sittingbourne’s season.
But it’s been their consistent ability to see off sides
near the wrong end of the table that has made
them a top-half team.
It took them over an hour to get the better of struggling
Molesey, but it was comfortable in the end
and gave home supporters their first chance to
cheer a Sittingbourne win at Woodstock since early
December.
But even more important was keeping a clean sheet
– for the first time in 15 games.
Sittingbourne made just one change from the team
that played Herne Bay on Tuesday night, with Joe
Loft resuming in midfield and Jack Steventon
switching back to central defence. After an impressively
cool debut, Jardel Bunda-Kamara was unlucky
to miss out.
It was a lovely afternoon, with an air of spring about
it, and there was a lovely start to it, too, with the
presentation of an award – and a spectacular picture
by Ken Medwyn - to the legendary Hicham
Akhazzan to mark his 100th goal for the club.
Sittingbourne began the match strongly and frontrunner
David Abe might even have scored in the
opening minute when his pace surprised Molesey
keeper Allen. Abe blocked his clearance but the ball
rebounded over the goal.
There was a lovely move down the right by youngsters
Josh Wisson and Craig Wilkins, combining with
a third W in Sam Welch, but soon after Wilkins went
off injured and Sittingbourne lost their early momentum.
They conceded possession a bit too easily, but Molesey’s
finishing wasn’t anywhere near as efficient
as some of their build-up play, and Simon Overland
was comparatively untroubled in the
Sittingbourne goal, apart from having to come out
to block with his legs a shot by Lodge just before
half-time.
Molesey went even closer just after the break when
Welch cleared off the line after Grobler had a free
header from a corner.
Sittingbourne began to get more of a grip on the
game but it still needed an immaculately-timed
tackle in his own area by impressive sub Gil Carvaho
to stop a dangerous Molesey move.
The breakthrough arrived on 71 minutes when Conrad
Lee’s right-wing corner was powerfully met by
captain colossus Jono Richardson to head home his
sixth goal of yet another excellent season.
Molesey tried to press forward but left themselves
under-manned at the back and when Sittingbourne
broke from defending a corner they had a three-ontwo
advantage. Abe used the supporting runners as
dummies and kept racing in on goal before scoring
his first goal for the club in nearly three years with a
powerful strike.
It could have been three near the end when popular
unsung hero Lee worked his way clean through on
goal but he just failed to beat the keeper in a oneon-one.
No late alarms this time as Sittingbourne eased
calmly to a welcome win with the defence taking a
major share of the honours for ending the run of
goals conceded.
It was nothing like as dramatic or confrontational as
the midweek clash with Herne Bay, but enjoyable
and ultimately more rewarding in the end.
Sittingbourne: Simon Overland, Sam Welch (Yellow
card), Tom Carlse, Jack Steventon, Jono Richardson,
Conrad Lee, Connor Wilkins (Tom Brunt,
26 min), Joe Loft, David Abe, Josh Wisson (Bradley
Schafer, 69 min), Hicham Akhazzan (Gil Carvaho, 54
min). Subs not used: Jardel Bunda-Kamara, Jason
Ngandu.
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5 , 10, and 15 years ago
15 Years ago — From the East Kent Gazette of 6th
March 2002 : Sittingbourne were second from bottom
of the Dr Martens East Division and manager,
Mark Beeney, was unhappy that they had to travel
all the way to Grantham on a Tuesday night and
then had two weeks with no game. They were then
going to face championship contenders Hastings an
Grantham (again). They then had to squeeze in seven
games in April.
Saturday 2nd March 2002, Chatham 0 Sittingbourne
0, Att: 358
Tony Rickson, East Kent Gazette editor, wrote that
Sittingbourne were the better team on the day but
the game was boring in the extreme! Chatham were
comfortable in mid table but Sittingbourne were
fighting against relegation. Sittingbourne’s danger
man was on loan striker, John Ayling (from Dover)
but his finishing didn’t live up to the other parts of his
game. A the other end, ex Sittingbourne player,
Tommy Plank, was Chatham’s danger man in only
his second game for the Chats since being persuaded
by another ex Sittingbourne player, Steve Herne,
now player/manager at Chatham, to come out of
retirement. Team: Hopper, Everitt, John Guest,
James Campbell, Paul Campbell, Bradley Spice,
Kieran Marsh, Sammy Okafor, Andrew Drury, Guiver,
John Ayling ( Ovard). Subs, not used: Tom Berry
and Cunningham
10 Years ago— Saturday 3rd March 2007, Tooting
& M 2 Sittingbourne 2. Att:303
Sittingbourne’s quest to end their recent awful run of
results got off to a bad start at Imperial Fields when
inspirational goalkeeper Steve Williams broke down
in the warm up so young Josh Willis was drafted in
as his replacement. However with James Campbell’s
now recovered from his injury manager Steve
Lovell was able to bring back his defensive partnership
with Paul Ainsworth. Tooting got off to a flyer
when Eben Allen found himself in acres of space in
front of goal and he tapped home the opener after
just 5 minutes.
Sittingbourne spent the rest of the half on the offensive.
It was encouraging stuff from Sittingbourne and
two minutes into the second half a crashing shot
from Steve Searle gave the Tooting keeper
no chance and Sittingbourne were back on level
terms. On 63 minutes the Brickies had a great
chance to take the lead when Browning was brought
down in the Tooting area for a penalty. With Lovell
having missed a couple of penalties up-stepped
Marsh to take the kick but his effort was tipped onto
the left hand post by keeper Dave King, however
much to the home crowd’s displeasure referee Mr
Lewis deemed that King had moved. Hogg then was
elected to take the retake but he made a terrible
hash of it and sent his shot well wide of the right
hand post. Sittingbourne went all out for the winner
and the Brickies were inevitably leaving gaps at the
back and with just three minutes to play Tooting
retook the lead when a cross-field ball found an unmarked
Ronnie Green who curled an excellent shot
round Willis and into the net. Sub, Jon Neal saved a
point for the Brickies when he scored after good
work by Mark Lovell and Lee Browning
Team: Josh Willis, Toby Ashmore, Joe Dowley,
Paul Ainsworth, James Campbell, Kieran Marsh,
Anthony Hogg, Steve Searle, Mark Lovell, Lee
Browning, Mitchell Sherwood,. Subs used, Hicham
Akhazzan, Sabeur Tabelsi, Jon Neal. Sub not used,
Lee Hockey
5 Years ago — Saturday 3rd March 2002, Sittingbourne
0 Whyteleafe 0, Att: 101
Sittingbourne halted a run of 5 defeats in a row with
those goalless draw over Whyteleafe. Mark Seager
assisted by Steve Nolan, two familiar names to Sittingbourne
supporters, took charge for this game
with Joe Dowley not available. Three new names
were in the starting line up, Rob Lyall, Calum
McGeehan, and James Darvill and all 3 acquitted
themselves well. Both sides had just one real opportunity
in the game, Whyteleafe's coming with
barely 2 minutes on the clock when Reggie Savage's
header went straight to Matt Reed in the Sittingbourne
goal, Sittingbourne's best chance came
at the other end of the game when on 88 minutes
Darvill shook off his marker but his attempted lob
went wide. Matt Reed played most of the game with
a back problem that he sustained in the warm up .
Neither side can be truly happy with just one point
as their two month form, as reported in the form table,
put them both joint bottom with just 0.57 points
from the games in that period. In the table proper
Whyteleafe are bottom, 12 points behind the Brickies
who are 4th from bottom. Team: Matt Reed,
Ryan Cooper, Dan Palfrey, Anthony Hogg, Rob Lyall,
Calum McGeehan, Luke Girt, Joe Goldsmith Joe
Nwoko, James Darvill, Hicham Akhazzan. Subs
(none used) Jonathan Hogg, Luke Coleman, Richard
Atkins, Vince Holness, Bradley Spice.

Take yourself back 15 or 20 years. You’d have needed to be watching BBC One as Sutton United
substitute goalkeeper Wayne Shaw munched down on his pie to have any idea what went on.
Now? You can read about it, and even rewatch the moment, within minutes on social media.
Yes, Shaw’s pie-eating may have all been a gimmick, but if it wasn’t for social media, it would
have never been blown up as far as it has. Perhaps Shaw has to take some of the blame, but it
was all a bit of harmless fun.
Don’t get me wrong, social media is a brilliant outlet for Non-League clubs in general. It is perhaps
strange how having your phone in your hand every second you’re awake can now be seen
as social, but with the rise of Facebook and Twitter, it is exactly that.
Social networking has proven a key way for Non-League clubs to keep their fans in the know,
with transfer news and results often posted on Twitter as the pen squiggles on the dotted line or
as the man in black blows his final whistle.
Gone are the days where, if you weren’t following your team on their away day, you would sit
through 12 pages of Ceefax before it scrolls back round to your team. Soccer Saturday on Sky
Sports is basically the same, just with a presenter!
Of course, to watch these things you generally need to be at home although social media has
changed all this. You can now follow your team when on the move and some clubs are taking full
advantage to gain their club a cult following.
Hyde were doing it on their winless run in the Conference a few years back, and now most clubs
jump on the tweet bandwagon. It seems to be more about the retweets and shares than it does
content.
It’s not all bad though. Used correctly, it’s a great way to meet fellow fans and read others opinions.
It’s amazing how often two people at the same match will have a completely different view
of the 90 minutes they have just witnessed.
Used incorrectly and it can come back to bite you in the proverbial. Just ask Joey Barton! Perhaps
that’s why you can almost predict a tweet when a player has joined a new club… Delighted
to have joined (insert team name). Can’t wait to get started. {insert team hashtag)
It’s hard to know who to blame. The media managers for making their players seem so dull? Or
the players for not giving a second thought to what they might be saying? Perhaps it’s why very
few top-flight managers are on social media.
Either way, if we can read fans opinions, why not let us see the true thoughts of the player/
manager?
Joshua Peck

Brickies Lottery Results
The lottery is now even more attractive. There is now an annual prize (in December) of
£500, and each month a prize of £100. In addition Each week there are draws for £40 ( 3
prizes except for the week when there is a £100 prize when there will be two £40 prizes).
Week Commencing 27th February 2017
£40 Ticket no 195, Maria Swaby, Gillingham
£40 Ticket no: 357, Jack Bright, Sittingbourne
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Week Commencing 6th February 2017
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Now is the time to join our lottery, see John Pitts or John Cooper for a form, cost is just
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Away Travel details
Sat 11th March 2017, KO 3.00PM, Chipstead : High Road, Chipstead, Surrey, CR5 3SF
By Car: Leave the M25 at junction 7 and take M23 northbound signposted Croydon. After
2 miles the M23 ends and becomes the A23. After about 1 mile at the first set at traffic lights
adjacent to a BP garage turn left into Star Lane. Follow Star Lane into Elmore Road, keeping
the church and the green on your left until reaching the crossroads with High Road. Turn left
(signposted Lower Kingswood & Reigate) and parking for away supporters is 200 yards on your
left. To walk to the ground leave via the car park entrance turn left and the clubhouse and turnstiles
are a further 200 yards along the main road.
Approx mileage from Sittingbourne: 45.6 miles, 1 Hour 07 mins
Nearest Rail: Coulsdon South or Chipstead
It is advised that if you are travelling to Chipstead FC by train that you travel to Coulsdon
South where there is a Coulsdon & District cab office and you should be able to get a cab to
the ground for about £5 and book a return journey. If you travel to Chipstead Station there is
NO cab office and it is about 1.1/2 miles to the ground, up a very steep and narrow hill with NO
pavements or street lights. If you decide to walk from Coulsdon South its just under 3 miles.

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Player Stats 2016-17
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Sponsorship Opportunities
“Sponsorship is the lifeblood of the club”
Match Day Sponsor - this gives the sponsor and guests (Up to four)
access to the boardroom to enjoy half time and post match food and
drink. Costs of this is a very reasonable £175
Matchball Sponsor - £50
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