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Ryman League<br />
Division One<br />
South<br />
www.sittingbournef.co.uk<br />
BRICKIES<br />
V<br />
Godalming<br />
Town<br />
Saturday<br />
4th March 2017<br />
Kick off 3.00pm
Sittingbourne FC<br />
The DMA Stadium, Woodstock Park, Broadoak Road,<br />
Sittingbourne, Kent, ME9 8AG<br />
Tel: 01795 410777 www.sittingbournefc.co.uk<br />
Sittingbourne FC is a members club<br />
CLUB OFFICIAL<br />
President: Allan Crowshaw<br />
Vice President: Alan Barty<br />
Hon Vice Presidents: Tania & Andy Spice<br />
Chairman: Maurice Dunk<br />
Vice Chairman: Ken Medwyn<br />
Secretary/Treasurer: John Pitts<br />
OTHER COMMITTEE MEMBERS<br />
John Cooper (Commercial).<br />
Peter Pitts (Media, Web site, Programme editor,<br />
stadium announcer,)<br />
David Brown (Youth development),<br />
Colin Page (Ast Treasurer),<br />
Danny Appleton (Turnstile Manager)<br />
Board Room Hospitality: Sandra Pitts & Carol<br />
Cooper,<br />
Lottery Secretary: Hilary Joines.<br />
Club Historian: Dudley Hird.<br />
Programme Sales: Sian Goatham.<br />
Turnstile Operator: Faye Goatham<br />
Club Welfare Officer: Lee Tappenden<br />
Match Reporter: Tony Rickson<br />
Groundsman: Roger Pudner<br />
Club Photographer: Ken Medwyn<br />
Club Shop: Clive Phillips<br />
Playing Management<br />
Manager: Nick Davis<br />
Assist Manager: Tony Cornwell<br />
Coaches: Warren Chambers, Jono Richardson.<br />
Team Assistant: Harry Chambers<br />
Physio: Tom Martin<br />
Under 21 Managers: John Embury and Jermaine<br />
Darlington.<br />
WOODSTOCK GROUND REGULA-<br />
TIONS<br />
1. All persons entering the ground are subject to<br />
the rules and regulations of The Football Association.<br />
2. The club reserves the right to eject or prosecute<br />
any person who within the club premises is considered<br />
by the club committee or its employees to<br />
be or have been behaving in the following ways:<br />
a) Entering the field of play before or during<br />
the course of the game.<br />
b) Using obscene, abusive or racist language<br />
or persistently swearing.<br />
c) Being intoxicated by drink or drugs.<br />
Further, persons will not be allowed entry to<br />
Woodstock Park if in the opinion of the gatemen,<br />
stewards or any members of the management<br />
committee they are intoxicated.<br />
3. NO bottles or metal cans, glasses or weapons of<br />
any kind are allowed in the ground. The stewards<br />
have the right to search a spectator if they have<br />
grounds to believe that the person is in possession<br />
of any item that is deemed to be a danger to other<br />
spectators.<br />
4. Alcohol must only be consumed within the confines<br />
of the club house.<br />
5. The climbing of fences or floodlight pylons and<br />
all buildings within the ground is strictly forbidden.<br />
6. All vehicles parked within the boundaries of the<br />
club’s car park must be parked within a designated<br />
space unless otherwise directed by a steward.<br />
No responsibility is accepted for any mishap that<br />
may occur. Car parking is at owners risk.
TEAM CHECK<br />
Ryman League Div 1 South<br />
SATURDAY 4TH MARCH 2017<br />
SITTINGBOURNE V GODALMING TOWN<br />
Manager: Nick Davis<br />
Assistant: Tony Cornwell<br />
Coaches: Jono Richardson,<br />
Physio: Tom Martin<br />
Coach / Kit Manager: Warren Chambers<br />
Manager: Dan Turkington<br />
Coach: Sam Rafique<br />
Physio: Lorna Francis<br />
MATCH OFFICIALS<br />
Referee George Warren, Assistants: Michael Begley, Marlon Williams<br />
Red & Black Stripes Shirts,<br />
Black Shorts, Black Socks<br />
PLAYED<br />
SUBSTITUTE<br />
GOALS<br />
PLAYED<br />
SUBSTITUTE<br />
GOALS<br />
Shirts: Yellow<br />
Shorts: Green<br />
Socks: Yellow<br />
1, Simon OVERLAND<br />
1. Oneal GARNES<br />
2. Sam WELCH<br />
2. Sean MASON<br />
3. Tom CARLSE<br />
3. Carl GASTANG<br />
4. Jack STEVENTON<br />
4. Keith EMMERSON<br />
5. Jono RICHARDSON (C)<br />
5. Steve BROWN<br />
6. Conrad LEE<br />
6. Chris WALES<br />
7. Kane PHILIP<br />
8. Joe LOFT<br />
7. Bobby DORMER<br />
8 Matthew BUNYAN<br />
9. David ABE<br />
9. Piers OLDLAND<br />
10. Connor WILKINS<br />
10. Darren WHEELER<br />
11. Hicham AKHAZZAN<br />
11. William EFAMBE<br />
12. Tom BRUNT<br />
12. Joe STOCHETTI<br />
14. Josh WISSON<br />
14. Nick SOWDEN<br />
15. Gil CARVELHO<br />
15. Rory SELLICK<br />
16. Bradley ACHAFER<br />
16. Dave HILL<br />
17. Nick DAVIS<br />
17.
John’s Jottings<br />
Good afternoon everyone. Welcome to Woodstock.<br />
Our visitors today are Godalming Town. Welcome to their player’s officials and supporters.<br />
Godalming transferred from the Southern League to the Ryman League for this season and have had a<br />
difficult time of it. They are, at the time of my writing these notes, eighteen points from safety. They<br />
made us work hard when we played them at Wey Court. A 2-1 victory for the Brickies with goals from<br />
Steven Ita and John Embery was the result. Godalming will be formidable opponents though. They had a<br />
very good 3-0 win over Guernsey recently and have been ahead a few times in matches but have been<br />
unable to hold on to that advantage. Last week they came across a very good Tooting & Mitcham Side<br />
who are currently top of the league and who defeated them 3-0 at home.<br />
Congratulations to our longest serving player, Hicham Akhazzan. Hicham notched up his 100 th goal of his<br />
Sittingbourne career. That gives him and average of scoring one goal every four games – a magnificent<br />
achievement considering he has played in mid field in recent seasons. Hich joined us in 2006 and has<br />
been a magnificent example to other players. I watched the Arsenal V Sutton United FA Cup match and<br />
was struck by the similarities between Hich and Theo Walcott. I know many people, including myself,<br />
think Hitch looks like Walcott. Interestingly Walcott is Arsenal’s longest serving player and has also just<br />
scored his 100th goal for Arsenal.<br />
We have a new signing in Kane Phillip who joins us from Herne Bay, welcome Kane.<br />
Our last home match was against Molesey, another team fighting to keep out of the relegation battle.<br />
They played some good football and were probably the better team in the first half. However, we gradually<br />
got on top in the second and a great headed goal by Jono Richardson and a fine solo run and excellent<br />
finish from the hard-working David Abe. I know Nick was not that happy about the performance but<br />
in the end it was a good result for the Brickies. What was disappointing was the size of the crowd.<br />
Crowds of 100 do not bring anywhere near enough gate receipts to sustain our playing budget. If we<br />
hope to progress gates must increase. We have no money men/ women backing us. We rely on what we<br />
can bring in in sponsorship which John Cooper has done a great job with this season, our lottery (if you<br />
are not a member yet please join) and gate receipts.<br />
Last week we came a cropper at Hythe Town who defeated us by 2 goals to 1. It was a disappointing<br />
performance and we only came in the game towards the end when Jason Ngandu scored our consolation<br />
with his first touch of the game coming as a substitute in the 77th minute, his goal being scored in<br />
the 78th minute!! We could have got something out of the game in that final spell with Hythe down to<br />
10 men after Dave Cook was sent off for a second yellow card offence, but in truth our best player was<br />
Simon Overland who made several excellent saves and Hythe also missed a couple of sitters.<br />
With the help of Jace media we are updating and improving our social networks. We now have a “You<br />
Tube” Channel and a “blogspot”. We have also opened up our Facebook group to everybody although it<br />
will be a moderated group. To add all this to our excellent web site, our Twitter account and of course<br />
Ken Medwyn’s photographs plus the Match day programme being available with the home match reports<br />
on the web site we must have some of the best social networking of any non league club.<br />
Jace media will continue to support us so look out for their postings on our sites.<br />
John
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From the Programme Editor<br />
Hello everybody, first of all an apology as due to work commitments, holidays and print deadlines<br />
some stats are slightly out of date with the tables only up to date to Tuesday 27 th Feb and<br />
the appearance / goals stats 1 game out.<br />
I suppose the biggest story of the last week has been the sacking of Claudio Rainiere. It seems<br />
very harsh and certainly this club doesn’t usually get rid of the manager if results are not good,<br />
the last managers to leave were all let go for other reasons! The strange thing is that Leicester’s<br />
performance last Monday against Liverpool was<br />
almost back to their performances last season.<br />
I am very disappointed that the Amazon link on the<br />
web site isn’t being used as we haven’t had a single<br />
penny from it according to Amazon, I’d be interested to<br />
know if you have purchased via the link! Anyway I shall<br />
be removing the link shortly and giving up as an affiliate.<br />
We are having a pay what you want game on 1 st April<br />
against Whyteleafe (Its not an April fools joke!) although<br />
obviously we hope that we don’t lose by that,<br />
especially as we are now into our overdraft.<br />
I was hearing about Ashford Town’s 3 G pitch and<br />
what went wrong, apparently the contractors weren’t<br />
paid and left the site half way through leaving it to volunteers<br />
to complete the foundation, unfortunately they<br />
didn’t do a very good job and the pitch has o be replaced<br />
at a cost of around £250,000 so not sure where<br />
that is coming from. !) More gossip in the next programme!!<br />
There is also apparently still a court battle<br />
over the ownership of Homeland. All of which is a pity<br />
as Ashford regularly get 250 (roughly twice our crowd<br />
average) and away supporters are extremely important<br />
to us in our attempts to break even (so a special welcome<br />
to anyone from Godalming!)<br />
The problem for Ashford is that they appear to have<br />
missed the deadline to apply for promotion, they are<br />
currently top of their league under manager Danny<br />
Lye, who of course has played for us. Also despite the<br />
fact that there will be a new division in the South at our<br />
level, with less teams in the existing leagues there will still only be 1 automatic promotion from<br />
each step 5 league. Its interesting that Whitstable Town’s gate doesn’t seem to have suffered<br />
much with their relegation to step 5 – this is not to say that any of us want to go down a step,<br />
we don’t, the committee aim is to at least reach step 3 in a few years…but of course this is not<br />
going to happen unless gates and with it revenue increase (I know it’s an old Chesnut but sadly<br />
true.)<br />
Peter
Godalming Town History<br />
The club has its origins as Godalming United FC, formed in 1950 by ex-pupils of Godalming<br />
Grammar School. Between 1950-71 the club played at the Recreation Ground. However, in 1970<br />
Surrey Senior League side Farncombe collapsed, leaving their ground in Meadrow vacant. Godalming<br />
took over the debts and tenancy, changing their name to Godalming and Farncombe<br />
FC, and the ground to Wey Court in the process.<br />
The original pitch was where the nearby Wey Court Sheltered Housing stood and considerable<br />
amount of work was undertaken on the new playing area, which was built on the site of an old<br />
waste tip. The club was helped by Waverley Council when drainage problems and subsidence<br />
meant they had to find a temporary home at Broadwater Park.<br />
The club was accepted into the Combined Counties League for the start of the 1978 season, and<br />
a year later the name was changed again, to Godalming Town FC.<br />
In 1985, another local club, Addlestone & Weybridge, was disbanded and, before their ground at<br />
Liberty Lane was demolished, Godalming purchased the stand and perimeter fence for £225 and<br />
£50 respectively. The stand was re-erected at Wey Court, with seating and fascia added.<br />
The next development came in 1992 when the Guildford Football Appeal (formed in an attempt<br />
to return the towns name to senior football, following the collapse of Guildford City in 1977) donated<br />
a sum of money towards floodlights, and in return the name of the club was changed again<br />
to Godalming & Guildford FC.<br />
Further recycling followed in 1995, when a new turnstile building was erected incorporating a<br />
turnstile from Millwall’s old ground and in 1996 the clubhouse was refurbished.<br />
During 2005 close season, the club changed its name for a fifth time, albeit back to one of its<br />
previous incarnations, that of Godalming Town. A fantastic 2005/06 season saw the side take the<br />
Combined Counties League Championship and League Cup by storm. Godalming Town were<br />
then accepted by Isthmian League officials following extensive ground improvements.<br />
At the end of a tough season, Godalming found themselves at the bottom of a very competitive<br />
division. However, events elsewhere meant that Godalming were reprieved from relegation and<br />
were transferred into the Southern League’s South & West Division for the 2007/08 season.<br />
Chuck Martini replaced Roger Steer as Manager in October 2007. Town were moved back to the<br />
Ryman League for the 2008/09 season and eventually finished in another record high position,<br />
9 th . Godalming also progressed further than ever before in the FA Cup by reaching the 3 rd Qualifying<br />
Round before losing 2-1 at Conference South side Havant & Waterlooville.<br />
The 2009/10 season was arguably the best season in the history of the club. Town finished a<br />
record high position 4 th in the Ryman South but were eventually beaten 2-1 in the Playoff Final at<br />
Folkestone Invicta. The club progressed further than ever before in the FA Trophy and won the<br />
Surrey Senior Cup by beating Sutton United 2-1. The season also saw local boy Shaun Elliott<br />
became the club’s record appearance holder after reaching 360 games in a Godalming shirt.<br />
Chuck Martini was replaced by joint-managers Jon Underwood & Neil Baker in October 2010 and<br />
the club finished an unpredictable season in mid-table. The 2011/12 season saw a lot of new<br />
faces join, but the team quickly gelled, reaching the 4 th Qualifying Round of the FA Cup, beating<br />
Wimborne, Moneyfields, Worcester City & Bodmin before bowing out to Maidenhead United in<br />
front of 700 at Wey Court. The G’s finished 5 th in the league, and travelled to Bognor Regis Town<br />
in the playoff semi-final, drawing 4-4 after extra time but Godalming lost 5-3 on penalties.<br />
Continued further on in the programme
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A Brief History of Godalming Town—Cont<br />
2012/13 saw Jon Underwood and Neil Baker guide Godalming to their highest ever finish in<br />
the pyramid, finishing in 3 rd place. The G’s lost in the<br />
playoff semi-final for the second year running, this time<br />
losing 2-1 to Biggleswade at Wey Court. The season finished<br />
on a high however, as Godalming lifted the Surrey<br />
Senior Cup for the second time in four years, beating<br />
Sutton United 1-0 at Gander Green Lane, thanks to a last<br />
minute goal from Scott Harris. The close season saw Godalming<br />
moved to a third different league in as many<br />
years, this time to the South & West Division. With divisional<br />
change came a managerial change; Jon Underwood<br />
and Neil Baker left Godalming to join Slough Town,<br />
taking the majority<br />
of the squad with<br />
them. Andy Hunt was appointed manager in June<br />
2013, assisted by Neil Selby.<br />
The 2013/14 season was probably one of the hardest<br />
the club has dealt with. Andy Hunt was given the task<br />
of putting together a squad that will compete in the<br />
league and secure step four football. At Christmas<br />
2013 the clubhouse, kitchen and changing rooms were<br />
ruined by flood<br />
water. Godalming<br />
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were then moved into another division again and will<br />
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2014/15 season.<br />
Godalming finished in 10 th position in the 2015/2016<br />
and reached the Surrey Senior Cup Final for the 3 rd<br />
time but lost 4-0 to Merstham.<br />
2016/2017 sees the G’s transfer to the Ryman League<br />
Division One South for the 2016/2017 season.<br />
Ryman South Games Today<br />
Carshalton Athletic v Greenwich Borough<br />
Chatham Town v Horsham<br />
Corinthian-Casuals v Dorking Wanderers<br />
Cray Wanderers v Walton Casuals<br />
Faversham Town v Molesey<br />
Guernsey v Three Bridges<br />
Herne Bay v East Grinstead Town<br />
Lewes v Hythe Town<br />
Ramsgate v Hastings United<br />
Tooting & Mitcham United v Chipstead<br />
Whyteleafe v South
The Buildbase FA Vase and The Buildbase<br />
FA Trophy- Non League Finals Day
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Cray Wanderers<br />
Three Bridges<br />
Hythe Town<br />
Hythe Town<br />
South Park<br />
Greenwich Borough<br />
Hastings Utd<br />
Whyteleafe<br />
Ramsgate<br />
Horsham<br />
Lewes<br />
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East Grinstead<br />
Ramsgate<br />
Bury Town<br />
Molesey<br />
Three Bridges<br />
Tooting & Mitcham<br />
Tonbridge Angels<br />
Guernsey<br />
Corinthian Cas<br />
Chatham Town<br />
Herne Bay<br />
Godalming Town<br />
Hythe Town<br />
Ramsgate<br />
East Grinstead Town<br />
Lewes<br />
Walton Casuals<br />
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Chipstead<br />
Faversham Town<br />
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Greenwich Borough<br />
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Guernsey<br />
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Chatham Town<br />
Tooting & Mitcham<br />
Herne Bay<br />
Molesey<br />
Hythe Town<br />
Godalming Town<br />
Chipstead<br />
Dorking Wanderers<br />
Corinthian-Casuals<br />
Whyteleafe<br />
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138<br />
242<br />
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111<br />
162<br />
176<br />
121<br />
100<br />
204<br />
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Welch<br />
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KEY to above grid:<br />
@ = After Extra Time<br />
+ = Own Goal<br />
# = Sent Off<br />
1,2,3, etc after players name = goals scored<br />
* = Subs used and players substituted<br />
** = Sub was Substituted<br />
KSC = Kent Senior Cup<br />
Lge Cup = Isthmian League Cup<br />
League = Ryman Isthmian Lge Div 1 South<br />
FAT = FA Challenge Trophy<br />
FAC = FA Challenge Cup<br />
KSC = Kent Senior Cup
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Match Reports by Tony Rickson<br />
Tuesday 14th February 2017<br />
Ryman Div 1 South<br />
Sittingbourne 2 Herne Bay 2<br />
Attendance 121<br />
Not much love around on Valentine’s Day as these<br />
Kent rivals battled – and that was the right word at<br />
times – for the points.<br />
Despite handing out nine cards, and not always for<br />
the worst fouls it seemed, the referee struggled for<br />
much of the time to control the match.<br />
He infuriated Herne Bay by reducing them to 10<br />
men in the first half and after that almost every decision<br />
was questioned and argued over.<br />
So what should have been a night to remember for<br />
Sittingbourne legend Hicham Akhazzan as he<br />
scored his 100th goal for the club will probably stick<br />
in the mind for all the wrong reasons.<br />
Sittingbourne gave a debut in defence to Jardel<br />
Bunda-Kamara, who put in a mature performance,<br />
and up front after a gap of at least 18 months David<br />
Abe returned and he worked hard all night.<br />
Bay started the stronger and Sittingbourne ‘old boy’<br />
Mark Lovell put a free header wide in the first minute.<br />
With goalkeeper Simon Overland on the ground,<br />
Sittingbourne were rescued by Jono Richardson<br />
clearing off the line in the 12th minute but Bay maintained<br />
the attack and Williams shot them ahead with<br />
a low drive into the far corner.<br />
Sittingbourne responded and a magnificent through<br />
ball by Josh Wisson put Abe clear on goal in the<br />
25th minute, but he was brought down by Sayer as<br />
he prepared to shoot.<br />
It looked a clear penalty and the referee gave it, as<br />
well as bravely sending off Sayer for the foul, all under<br />
enormous pressure from the Bay players.<br />
Akhazzan, though, struck the penalty against the<br />
post and what followed until half-time was an unsavoury<br />
20 minutes with fouls all over the pitch.<br />
The worst – in my opinion, though it somehow didn’t<br />
merit a yellow card – was on Connor Wilkins which<br />
left him with stud marks up the length of his thigh.<br />
Plenty of bottle shown by him to carry on after treatment.<br />
Sittingbourne had obviously talked at half-time<br />
about the wisdom of moving the ball about up<br />
against 10 men and they took control of the match.<br />
With just 10 minutes of the half played,<br />
Wilkins closed in from the right and when the ball fell<br />
loose, Akhazzan swept it first time into the corner<br />
from the edge of the box for the equaliser.<br />
He celebrated by sprinting to his Dad, and having<br />
seen virtually all the 100 goals he’s got in his remarkable<br />
10-year service to the club, I would say<br />
this was as sweetly struck as nearly any of them.<br />
The momentum was truly with Sittingbourne now<br />
and they went ahead on 76 minutes when Akhazzan<br />
and Wisson both had shots blocked and Akhazzan<br />
then kept his cool to play it across the goal where<br />
courageous youngster Wilkins raced in to stab it<br />
over the line.<br />
Overland made a couple of good saves as Bay tried<br />
to rally but surely Sittingbourne would be able to see<br />
it out, even though they’ve been vulnerable to losing<br />
leads late in games previously this season.<br />
It all got a bit silly as the referee started flourishing<br />
cards for players rolling the ball back to where a free<br />
-kick should have been taken, yet ignoring blatant<br />
fouls.<br />
But there was nothing silly about Bay’s 90th minute<br />
equaliser, a beauti<strong>full</strong>y-struck free-kick by Turner<br />
from 25 yards that somehow got past the defensive<br />
wall and in at the far post.<br />
Bay probably deserved a point for their resilience,<br />
while Sittingbourne will be kicking themselves for<br />
not seeing out the game safely to the end.<br />
What a learning curve, though, for the promising<br />
young players they’ve been able to bring on this<br />
season, proving to them you’ve got to be tough and<br />
brave at times to complement all their obvious skills<br />
and potential.<br />
Sittingbourne: Simon Overland, Sam Welch<br />
(Yellow card) (Tom Brunt, 51 min), Tom Carlse, Jardel<br />
Bundu-Kamara, Jono Richardson, Jack Steventon,<br />
Connor Wilkins (Bradley Schafer, 76 min), Conrad<br />
Lee (Yellow card), David Abe, Josh Wisson<br />
(Yellow card), Hicham Akhazzan (Gil Carvaho, 84<br />
min, Yellow card). Subs not used: Jake Embery, Jason<br />
Ngandu.<br />
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zero tolerance approach against racism and all forms of discrimination. Accordingly any<br />
form of discriminatory abuse whether it be based on race or ethnicity, sexual orientation,<br />
gender, faith, age, ability or any other form of abuse will be reported to The Football Association<br />
for action by that Association.” (Useful numbers:-The FA 0800 085 0508 / Kick it<br />
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Match Reports by Tony Rickson<br />
Saturday 18th February 2017<br />
Ryman Div 1 South<br />
Sittingbourne 2 Molesey 0<br />
Attendance 100<br />
Victories over top teams like Greenwich Borough,<br />
Hythe Town and Walton Casuals have been high<br />
points of Sittingbourne’s season.<br />
But it’s been their consistent ability to see off sides<br />
near the wrong end of the table that has made<br />
them a top-half team.<br />
It took them over an hour to get the better of struggling<br />
Molesey, but it was comfortable in the end<br />
and gave home supporters their first chance to<br />
cheer a Sittingbourne win at Woodstock since early<br />
December.<br />
But even more important was keeping a clean sheet<br />
– for the first time in 15 games.<br />
Sittingbourne made just one change from the team<br />
that played Herne Bay on Tuesday night, with Joe<br />
Loft resuming in midfield and Jack Steventon<br />
switching back to central defence. After an impressively<br />
cool debut, Jardel Bunda-Kamara was unlucky<br />
to miss out.<br />
It was a lovely afternoon, with an air of spring about<br />
it, and there was a lovely start to it, too, with the<br />
presentation of an award – and a spectacular picture<br />
by Ken Medwyn - to the legendary Hicham<br />
Akhazzan to mark his 100th goal for the club.<br />
Sittingbourne began the match strongly and frontrunner<br />
David Abe might even have scored in the<br />
opening minute when his pace surprised Molesey<br />
keeper Allen. Abe blocked his clearance but the ball<br />
rebounded over the goal.<br />
There was a lovely move down the right by youngsters<br />
Josh Wisson and Craig Wilkins, combining with<br />
a third W in Sam Welch, but soon after Wilkins went<br />
off injured and Sittingbourne lost their early momentum.<br />
They conceded possession a bit too easily, but Molesey’s<br />
finishing wasn’t anywhere near as efficient<br />
as some of their build-up play, and Simon Overland<br />
was comparatively untroubled in the<br />
Sittingbourne goal, apart from having to come out<br />
to block with his legs a shot by Lodge just before<br />
half-time.<br />
Molesey went even closer just after the break when<br />
Welch cleared off the line after Grobler had a free<br />
header from a corner.<br />
Sittingbourne began to get more of a grip on the<br />
game but it still needed an immaculately-timed<br />
tackle in his own area by impressive sub Gil Carvaho<br />
to stop a dangerous Molesey move.<br />
The breakthrough arrived on 71 minutes when Conrad<br />
Lee’s right-wing corner was power<strong>full</strong>y met by<br />
captain colossus Jono Richardson to head home his<br />
sixth goal of yet another excellent season.<br />
Molesey tried to press forward but left themselves<br />
under-manned at the back and when Sittingbourne<br />
broke from defending a corner they had a three-ontwo<br />
advantage. Abe used the supporting runners as<br />
dummies and kept racing in on goal before scoring<br />
his first goal for the club in nearly three years with a<br />
powerful strike.<br />
It could have been three near the end when popular<br />
unsung hero Lee worked his way clean through on<br />
goal but he just failed to beat the keeper in a oneon-one.<br />
No late alarms this time as Sittingbourne eased<br />
calmly to a welcome win with the defence taking a<br />
major share of the honours for ending the run of<br />
goals conceded.<br />
It was nothing like as dramatic or confrontational as<br />
the midweek clash with Herne Bay, but enjoyable<br />
and ultimately more rewarding in the end.<br />
Sittingbourne: Simon Overland, Sam Welch (Yellow<br />
card), Tom Carlse, Jack Steventon, Jono Richardson,<br />
Conrad Lee, Connor Wilkins (Tom Brunt,<br />
26 min), Joe Loft, David Abe, Josh Wisson (Bradley<br />
Schafer, 69 min), Hicham Akhazzan (Gil Carvaho, 54<br />
min). Subs not used: Jardel Bunda-Kamara, Jason<br />
Ngandu.<br />
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15 Years ago — From the East Kent Gazette of 6th<br />
March 2002 : Sittingbourne were second from bottom<br />
of the Dr Martens East Division and manager,<br />
Mark Beeney, was unhappy that they had to travel<br />
all the way to Grantham on a Tuesday night and<br />
then had two weeks with no game. They were then<br />
going to face championship contenders Hastings an<br />
Grantham (again). They then had to squeeze in seven<br />
games in April.<br />
Saturday 2nd March 2002, Chatham 0 Sittingbourne<br />
0, Att: 358<br />
Tony Rickson, East Kent Gazette editor, wrote that<br />
Sittingbourne were the better team on the day but<br />
the game was boring in the extreme! Chatham were<br />
comfortable in mid table but Sittingbourne were<br />
fighting against relegation. Sittingbourne’s danger<br />
man was on loan striker, John Ayling (from Dover)<br />
but his finishing didn’t live up to the other parts of his<br />
game. A the other end, ex Sittingbourne player,<br />
Tommy Plank, was Chatham’s danger man in only<br />
his second game for the Chats since being persuaded<br />
by another ex Sittingbourne player, Steve Herne,<br />
now player/manager at Chatham, to come out of<br />
retirement. Team: Hopper, Everitt, John Guest,<br />
James Campbell, Paul Campbell, Bradley Spice,<br />
Kieran Marsh, Sammy Okafor, Andrew Drury, Guiver,<br />
John Ayling ( Ovard). Subs, not used: Tom Berry<br />
and Cunningham<br />
10 Years ago— Saturday 3rd March 2007, Tooting<br />
& M 2 Sittingbourne 2. Att:303<br />
Sittingbourne’s quest to end their recent awful run of<br />
results got off to a bad start at Imperial Fields when<br />
inspirational goalkeeper Steve Williams broke down<br />
in the warm up so young Josh Willis was drafted in<br />
as his replacement. However with James Campbell’s<br />
now recovered from his injury manager Steve<br />
Lovell was able to bring back his defensive partnership<br />
with Paul Ainsworth. Tooting got off to a flyer<br />
when Eben Allen found himself in acres of space in<br />
front of goal and he tapped home the opener after<br />
just 5 minutes.<br />
Sittingbourne spent the rest of the half on the offensive.<br />
It was encouraging stuff from Sittingbourne and<br />
two minutes into the second half a crashing shot<br />
from Steve Searle gave the Tooting keeper<br />
no chance and Sittingbourne were back on level<br />
terms. On 63 minutes the Brickies had a great<br />
chance to take the lead when Browning was brought<br />
down in the Tooting area for a penalty. With Lovell<br />
having missed a couple of penalties up-stepped<br />
Marsh to take the kick but his effort was tipped onto<br />
the left hand post by keeper Dave King, however<br />
much to the home crowd’s displeasure referee Mr<br />
Lewis deemed that King had moved. Hogg then was<br />
elected to take the retake but he made a terrible<br />
hash of it and sent his shot well wide of the right<br />
hand post. Sittingbourne went all out for the winner<br />
and the Brickies were inevitably leaving gaps at the<br />
back and with just three minutes to play Tooting<br />
retook the lead when a cross-field ball found an unmarked<br />
Ronnie Green who curled an excellent shot<br />
round Willis and into the net. Sub, Jon Neal saved a<br />
point for the Brickies when he scored after good<br />
work by Mark Lovell and Lee Browning<br />
Team: Josh Willis, Toby Ashmore, Joe Dowley,<br />
Paul Ainsworth, James Campbell, Kieran Marsh,<br />
Anthony Hogg, Steve Searle, Mark Lovell, Lee<br />
Browning, Mitchell Sherwood,. Subs used, Hicham<br />
Akhazzan, Sabeur Tabelsi, Jon Neal. Sub not used,<br />
Lee Hockey<br />
5 Years ago — Saturday 3rd March 2002, Sittingbourne<br />
0 Whyteleafe 0, Att: 101<br />
Sittingbourne halted a run of 5 defeats in a row with<br />
those goalless draw over Whyteleafe. Mark Seager<br />
assisted by Steve Nolan, two familiar names to Sittingbourne<br />
supporters, took charge for this game<br />
with Joe Dowley not available. Three new names<br />
were in the starting line up, Rob Lyall, Calum<br />
McGeehan, and James Darvill and all 3 acquitted<br />
themselves well. Both sides had just one real opportunity<br />
in the game, Whyteleafe's coming with<br />
barely 2 minutes on the clock when Reggie Savage's<br />
header went straight to Matt Reed in the Sittingbourne<br />
goal, Sittingbourne's best chance came<br />
at the other end of the game when on 88 minutes<br />
Darvill shook off his marker but his attempted lob<br />
went wide. Matt Reed played most of the game with<br />
a back problem that he sustained in the warm up .<br />
Neither side can be truly happy with just one point<br />
as their two month form, as reported in the form table,<br />
put them both joint bottom with just 0.57 points<br />
from the games in that period. In the table proper<br />
Whyteleafe are bottom, 12 points behind the Brickies<br />
who are 4th from bottom. Team: Matt Reed,<br />
Ryan Cooper, Dan Palfrey, Anthony Hogg, Rob Lyall,<br />
Calum McGeehan, Luke Girt, Joe Goldsmith Joe<br />
Nwoko, James Darvill, Hicham Akhazzan. Subs<br />
(none used) Jonathan Hogg, Luke Coleman, Richard<br />
Atkins, Vince Holness, Bradley Spice.
Take yourself back 15 or 20 years. You’d have needed to be watching BBC One as Sutton United<br />
substitute goalkeeper Wayne Shaw munched down on his pie to have any idea what went on.<br />
Now? You can read about it, and even rewatch the moment, within minutes on social media.<br />
Yes, Shaw’s pie-eating may have all been a gimmick, but if it wasn’t for social media, it would<br />
have never been blown up as far as it has. Perhaps Shaw has to take some of the blame, but it<br />
was all a bit of harmless fun.<br />
Don’t get me wrong, social media is a brilliant outlet for Non-League clubs in general. It is perhaps<br />
strange how having your phone in your hand every second you’re awake can now be seen<br />
as social, but with the rise of Facebook and Twitter, it is exactly that.<br />
Social networking has proven a key way for Non-League clubs to keep their fans in the know,<br />
with transfer news and results often posted on Twitter as the pen squiggles on the dotted line or<br />
as the man in black blows his final whistle.<br />
Gone are the days where, if you weren’t following your team on their away day, you would sit<br />
through 12 pages of Ceefax before it scrolls back round to your team. Soccer Saturday on Sky<br />
Sports is basically the same, just with a presenter!<br />
Of course, to watch these things you generally need to be at home although social media has<br />
changed all this. You can now follow your team when on the move and some clubs are taking <strong>full</strong><br />
advantage to gain their club a cult following.<br />
Hyde were doing it on their winless run in the Conference a few years back, and now most clubs<br />
jump on the tweet bandwagon. It seems to be more about the retweets and shares than it does<br />
content.<br />
It’s not all bad though. Used correctly, it’s a great way to meet fellow fans and read others opinions.<br />
It’s amazing how often two people at the same match will have a completely different view<br />
of the 90 minutes they have just witnessed.<br />
Used incorrectly and it can come back to bite you in the proverbial. Just ask Joey Barton! Perhaps<br />
that’s why you can almost predict a tweet when a player has joined a new club… Delighted<br />
to have joined (insert team name). Can’t wait to get started. {insert team hashtag)<br />
It’s hard to know who to blame. The media managers for making their players seem so dull? Or<br />
the players for not giving a second thought to what they might be saying? Perhaps it’s why very<br />
few top-flight managers are on social media.<br />
Either way, if we can read fans opinions, why not let us see the true thoughts of the player/<br />
manager?<br />
Joshua Peck
Brickies Lottery Results<br />
The lottery is now even more attractive. There is now an annual prize (in December) of<br />
£500, and each month a prize of £100. In addition Each week there are draws for £40 ( 3<br />
prizes except for the week when there is a £100 prize when there will be two £40 prizes).<br />
Week Commencing 27th February 2017<br />
£40 Ticket no 195, Maria Swaby, Gillingham<br />
£40 Ticket no: 357, Jack Bright, Sittingbourne<br />
£ 40 Ticket no: 687, Malcolm Hawking, Sittingbourne<br />
Week Commencing 20th February 2017<br />
£40 Ticket no 686, Mary Flanagan, Sittingbourne<br />
£40 Ticket no: 667, Alan Crowshaw, Sittingbourne<br />
£ 40 Ticket no: 638, Nick Davis, Bexleyheath<br />
Week Commencing 13th February 2017<br />
£40 Ticket no 203, Barry Simmons, Sittingbourne<br />
£40 Ticket no: 543, Mrs M Stevens, Sittingbourne<br />
£ 40 Ticket no: 688, Zoe Findlay, Bap[child<br />
Week Commencing 6th February 2017<br />
£40 Ticket no 354, Yvonne McCarthy, Sittingbourne<br />
£40 Ticket no: 549, David Cummins, Sittingbourne<br />
£ 40 Ticket no: 364, Paul Hyatt, Sittingbourne<br />
Now is the time to join our lottery, see John Pitts or John Cooper for a form, cost is just<br />
a £1 a week! (Payable monthly. Quarterly or annually)<br />
Away Travel details<br />
Sat 11th March 2017, KO 3.00PM, Chipstead : High Road, Chipstead, Surrey, CR5 3SF<br />
By Car: Leave the M25 at junction 7 and take M23 northbound signposted Croydon. After<br />
2 miles the M23 ends and becomes the A23. After about 1 mile at the first set at traffic lights<br />
adjacent to a BP garage turn left into Star Lane. Follow Star Lane into Elmore Road, keeping<br />
the church and the green on your left until reaching the crossroads with High Road. Turn left<br />
(signposted Lower Kingswood & Reigate) and parking for away supporters is 200 yards on your<br />
left. To walk to the ground leave via the car park entrance turn left and the clubhouse and turnstiles<br />
are a further 200 yards along the main road.<br />
Approx mileage from Sittingbourne: 45.6 miles, 1 Hour 07 mins<br />
Nearest Rail: Coulsdon South or Chipstead<br />
It is advised that if you are travelling to Chipstead FC by train that you travel to Coulsdon<br />
South where there is a Coulsdon & District cab office and you should be able to get a cab to<br />
the ground for about £5 and book a return journey. If you travel to Chipstead Station there is<br />
NO cab office and it is about 1.1/2 miles to the ground, up a very steep and narrow hill with NO<br />
pavements or street lights. If you decide to walk from Coulsdon South its just under 3 miles.
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Ryman League — Division 1 South Table to 27/02/17<br />
Coloured scores are the results for 27/02/17<br />
Ryman League — Development South to 27th Feb 2017
Player Stats 2016-17<br />
To 20t th<br />
February 2017
Sponsorship Opportunities<br />
“Sponsorship is the lifeblood of the club”<br />
Match Day Sponsor - this gives the sponsor and guests (Up to four)<br />
access to the boardroom to enjoy half time and post match food and<br />
drink. Costs of this is a very reasonable £175<br />
Matchball Sponsor - £50<br />
Mascot - An ideal present for a football mad youngster = £50 Includes<br />
mascot plus three guests plus Hospitality.<br />
Man of the Match - Your chance to be the official "Man of the Match"<br />
awarder £15<br />
Sponsor a Brickie and have your name in the programme as a sponsor<br />
for the entire season, rates are:<br />
Complete Player...............................£40<br />
Socks only........................................£10<br />
Shorts only.......................................£15<br />
Shirt only...........................................£20<br />
Boots only.........................................£15<br />
Web site advertising—An exciting opportunity to advertise on a web<br />
site that has a verifiable 3000 plus hits a month.<br />
Box Advert.......£75 All enquiries for web site advertising to Peter Pitts<br />
via bournefc@hotmail.com or call 07785 906627<br />
Ground Perimeter Boards: Size 8 feet x 3 feet = £250, then £160<br />
per year renewal.<br />
Other sizes negotiable<br />
For any of the above opportunities see John Cooper or any other<br />
committee member.