Match Day Programmes Sittingbourne v VCD 22/6/19 & Haywards Heath 26/1/2019
Joint Match Day Programmes Sittingbourne v VCD 22/6/19 & Haywards Heath 26/1/2019
Joint Match Day Programmes Sittingbourne v VCD 22/6/19 & Haywards Heath 26/1/2019
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SITTINGBOURNE FC<br />
OFF ICAL MATC HDAY PROGRAMME - 2018-<strong>19</strong><br />
BOSTIK LEAGUE SOUTH EAST DIVISION
<strong>Sittingbourne</strong> Football Club is a UK company limited by<br />
guarantee: Company registration number, 11360242.<br />
Registered office: Woodstock Park, Broadoak Road,<br />
<strong>Sittingbourne</strong>, ME9 8AG<br />
Who’s who<br />
President: Alan Barty<br />
Vice Presidents: Tania Spice, Andy Spice, and John Cooper.<br />
Directors: Maurice Dunk (Chairman), Ken Medwyn (Vice<br />
Chairman), Peter Pitts (Company Secretary), John Pitts<br />
(Football Secretary / Treasurer). Colin Page, Alan Barty, Glen<br />
Parkes, Mick Sayce.<br />
Other Committee members : Danny Appleton (Turnstile<br />
Manager). Roger Pudner (Groundsman)<br />
Other Key Personnel: Faye Goatham (Turnstile), Jackie<br />
Mount (Programme sales), Tony Rickson (<strong>Match</strong> reporter),<br />
Sandra Pitts (Boardroom), Clive Phillips (Club shop), Dudley<br />
Hird & Tony Rickson (Club Historians). Roger Wilkins (Head<br />
Steward)<br />
Manager: Chris Lynch, Psychologist: Alex Brunette-Leach<br />
Coaches: Jon Barrett, Josh Hall<br />
Physio: Mark Wheeler<br />
Kit Man: Warren Chambers<br />
Playing Management Assistant: Harry Chambers.<br />
Development Manager: Davis Sheepwash<br />
The Isthmian League and Singbourne FC strongly supports the FA<br />
statement that there should be a zero tolerance approach against<br />
racism and all forms of discriminaon. Accordingly any form of discriminatory<br />
abuse whether it be based on race or ethnicity , sexual<br />
orientaon, gender, faith, age, ability or any other form of abuse<br />
will be reported to the Football Associaon for acon by that Associaon.<br />
(The FA 0800 085 0508 / kick it out 020 7253 0162)
SITTINGBOURNE V <strong>VCD</strong> ATHLETIC<br />
Bostik South East, Tuesday <strong>22</strong>nd January 20<strong>19</strong>, KO 7.45 PM<br />
Manager: Chris Lynch<br />
Coaches: Jon Barrett, Josh Hall<br />
Physio: Marc Wheeler,<br />
Psychologist: Alex Brunette-Leach<br />
Kit Manager: Warren Chambers<br />
<strong>Match</strong> <strong>Day</strong> Assistant: Harry Chambers<br />
Manager: Keith McMahon<br />
Asst Manager: Danny Lee<br />
Head Coach: Mel Ramsey<br />
GK Coach: Steve Watt<br />
Physios: Alan Woodward<br />
MATCH OFFICIALS<br />
Referee: Kirsty Dowle (Ashford Kent)<br />
Assistants: Richard Joss (Margate), Aivaras Lukauskis (Lewisham)<br />
GOALS<br />
SUBSTITUTE<br />
PLAYER NO<br />
PLAYER NO<br />
SUBSTITUTE<br />
GOALS<br />
Patrick LEE (GK)<br />
Chris WEBBER<br />
Ardel NDEW<br />
Arben MUSKAJ<br />
Ben FITCHETT<br />
Rob LOFTING<br />
Lewis CHAMBERS<br />
Tim BABBINGTON<br />
Joe MANT<br />
Tyrone GUTHRIE<br />
Emmanuel UDOJI<br />
Joe DENNY<br />
Junior BAKER<br />
Dominic ODUSANYA<br />
Alex GAGGIN<br />
Dominic VINENT<br />
Tom LOYNES<br />
Ali FUSEINI<br />
Henry WOODS<br />
Tommie FAGG<br />
Johan CANEY-BRYAN<br />
Billie LEWINS<br />
Liam MIDDLETON<br />
Khalel McFARLANE<br />
Matt FUNNELL(GK)<br />
Remell DAVIS<br />
Billy LEWINS<br />
Charlie MacDONALD<br />
Courtney BARRINGTON<br />
Aymun El-MOYHALBEL<br />
Malachi HUDSON<br />
Tom CECIL<br />
Jeffery GYAMFI<br />
Jake McINTYRE<br />
Jack STEVENTON<br />
Moses ASHIKODI<br />
Roman CAMPBELL
SITTINGBOURNE V HAYWARDS HEATH TOWN<br />
Bostik South East, Saturday <strong>26</strong>th January 20<strong>19</strong>, KO 3.00PM<br />
Manager: Chris Lynch<br />
Coaches: Jon Barrett, Josh Hall<br />
Physio: Mark Wheeler<br />
Psychologist: Alex Brunette-Leach<br />
Kit Manager: Warren Chambers<br />
Assistant: Harry Chambers<br />
Manager : Shaun Saunders<br />
Team Admin: Roy Staughton<br />
Team Admin: Stuart Morgan<br />
MATCH OFFICIALS<br />
Referee: Isaac Searle (Dover)<br />
Assistants: Simon Cutler (Sheerness), Joshua Smith (Tunbridge Wells)<br />
GOALS<br />
SUBSTITUTE<br />
PLAYER NO<br />
PLAYER NO<br />
SUBSTITUTE<br />
GOALS<br />
Patrick LEE (GK)<br />
Chris WEBBER<br />
Ardel NDEW<br />
Arben MUSKAJ<br />
Ben FITCHETT<br />
Rob LOFTING<br />
Lewis CHAMBERS<br />
Tim BABBINGTON<br />
Joshua HEYBURN<br />
Sean RODDY<br />
Luke ROBINSON<br />
Byron NAPPER<br />
Nathan COOPER<br />
Joshua SPINKS<br />
Callum SAUNDERS<br />
Kane LOUIS<br />
Tom LOYNES<br />
Melford SIMPSON<br />
Henry WOODS<br />
Tommie FAGG<br />
Johan CANEY-BRYAN<br />
Billie LEWINS<br />
Liam MIDDLETON<br />
Khalel McFARLANE<br />
Matt FUNNELL(GK)<br />
Remell DAVIS<br />
Billy LEWINS<br />
Karl AKEHURST<br />
Alex LAING<br />
Max MILLER<br />
Alusine BANGURA<br />
Omar FOLKES<br />
Tyrese GRAY-BRANFORD<br />
Anthony ENDER<br />
George FENTON<br />
Vincent FOELLA<br />
Roman CAMPBELL
The Secretary’s Jottings<br />
Good evening everyone, welcome to Woodstock<br />
Park. Our visitors on Tuesday are <strong>VCD</strong> Athletic<br />
and on Saturday, <strong>Haywards</strong> <strong>Heath</strong> Town. Welcome<br />
to the players, Officials and Supporters of<br />
both clubs and the match officials.<br />
Lots to mention in my notes. The big news of<br />
course was our manager of nearly one year,<br />
Aslan Odev, resigning after we had a board meeting<br />
a couple of weeks ago after a run of poor results<br />
that gave us the worst recent record in our<br />
division. We would like to place on record our<br />
thanks for all the hard work and dedication he put<br />
into the job. I’m sure the experience will bode well<br />
for his future in the game. Aslan’s replacement is<br />
Chris Lynch. As usual when a job comes up at<br />
our level, we were inundated with applications<br />
despite not actually advertising the vacancy. We<br />
studied CV’s that were all very good. Mo and I<br />
decided to meet with Chris and spent two hours<br />
with him. In that time, he impressed us with his<br />
knowledge of the club and the players we had in<br />
our squad. He also detailed where he hoped to<br />
take us and how he intended to move us out of<br />
the relegation threat we have found ourselves in.<br />
Chris was Head of development at Dover Academy<br />
and has played at a professional level. He has<br />
managed before but not at this level. We have a<br />
reputation for giving new managers a chance.<br />
Some like Steve Lovell and Richard Brady have<br />
been successful, others not so. In general, though<br />
they have all done a good job one way or another<br />
for us. Chris has been very busy since we appointed<br />
him having signed six players with more<br />
to follow. The board do not expect a miracle overnight.<br />
New players will not necessarily gel immediately<br />
together or with our existing players. We<br />
know that our fantastic supporters will back him<br />
all the way as will the board.<br />
Tuesdays and Saturdays matches are difficult<br />
games for a settled team in this league let alone a<br />
team like ours going through some major changes.<br />
The task facing our new manager is a formidable<br />
one and you will see a number of new signings.<br />
Details of them will be in future programmes.<br />
Chris’s first game in charge was a baptism of fire<br />
with our much-changed team finding it difficult<br />
against a very good and strong Ramsgate team.<br />
Still they never gave up despite going down 4-0.<br />
Some of Chris’s strongest signings were not available<br />
to play on Saturday and we will see some<br />
more new faces for these two games as Chris<br />
tries to find his strongest eleven.<br />
At last work has started on our new dressing<br />
rooms. We are very grateful to Greg McHardy<br />
who is involved with our Development side and<br />
our Under 18’s for his sponsorship on this.<br />
Thanks also to a few Swale and Kent councillors<br />
who have donated part of their cash allotments to<br />
us. We will need some volunteers to help with<br />
some finishing tasks such as painting. Please let<br />
me know if you are able to spare some time. The<br />
Dressing rooms should be ready in around three<br />
weeks’ time and will replace our existing dressing<br />
rooms that do not meet (in a very minor way) the<br />
new FA ground grading regulations that will become<br />
compulsory on 31 st March 20<strong>19</strong>.<br />
Some youth team members with the help of board<br />
members Glen Parkes and Mick Sayce have<br />
completed turning the old bowling green into a<br />
floodlight training area and the old Bowling green<br />
pavilion into offices and storage areas. The youth<br />
teams and the ladies’ teams have already taken<br />
advantage of the new facilities. We also intend to<br />
erect lights so that floodlight training will be possible<br />
on pitch 2.<br />
On Saturday we welcome our Danish visitors,<br />
supporters of Fremad Amager who are a Professional<br />
side who play in the Danish First Division.<br />
Much more on this later on in the programme.<br />
Now for some very sad news. Sonia Crayford,<br />
who was well known for selling raffle tickets at the<br />
ground, has passed away. Sonia always took<br />
pride in telling anyone who would listen that she<br />
was 94. She would pop outside to have a “crafty”<br />
cigarette. She always said it was a way of remembering<br />
her husband. She was a lovely old lady<br />
who loved the club. She really looked forward to<br />
our home games so that she could have a chat<br />
with everyone. Sonia raised a tremendous<br />
amount of money for the club from selling the raffle<br />
tickets. She really will be missed by everyone<br />
who knew her. She leaves a son who lives in<br />
America<br />
On Saturday we have another home game when<br />
we welcome <strong>Haywards</strong> <strong>Heath</strong> to Woodstock Park.<br />
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From the Programme Editor<br />
As this is the first programme of 20<strong>19</strong> I want to<br />
wish you all a very happy and prosperous new<br />
year. We certainly need a new year boost and I<br />
am sure that Chris and his team will deliver the<br />
goods. We all know though that with so many<br />
departures and changes it will take time to turn<br />
round our fortunes. All of the comings and goings<br />
means that I have temporarily omitted our<br />
player profiles, also I ran out of space when I<br />
was guessing our current squad! This is an<br />
updated version for the <strong>Haywards</strong> <strong>Heath</strong> Town<br />
Game. Updated are appearances, League table<br />
and middle<br />
pages.<br />
I well remember<br />
some seasons<br />
back, I believe it<br />
was season<br />
2008-09, when<br />
we technically<br />
got relegated<br />
that year! However<br />
the demise<br />
of a club somewhere<br />
in the<br />
pyramid saved<br />
us, I’m sure we<br />
won’t need that<br />
luck this year.<br />
The reason I<br />
remember that<br />
season is that I<br />
put some music<br />
on the website<br />
during the period<br />
of the deciding games. That tune was the<br />
“The final Countdown”. I remember it because I<br />
had a complaint that someone opened the site<br />
in their office and out blasted the tune, much to<br />
their embarrassment !<br />
Talking of the website I’m going to redesign it<br />
so that its more mobile friendly.<br />
I use Google analytics to monitor the usage of<br />
the site and you may (or may not) be interested<br />
to know that there have been 1,100 users<br />
to the website in the period 15th to 21st January.<br />
47.7% of these accessed the site via a<br />
mobile, 35.9% via a desktop and 16.5% via a<br />
tablet. The peak number of page views recently<br />
was on 10th January when 1,125 pages<br />
were accessed. So you can see it’s quite a<br />
popular site...now for the advertisement! I’m<br />
going to include ads now on the match report<br />
and preview pages of the website. Cost will be<br />
just £50 for every ad on either the match reports<br />
or £100 for match reports and previews.<br />
ALL proceeds will go straight to the club.<br />
Please let me know via e mail to peter@sittingbournefc.co.uk<br />
if you would like to<br />
participate. I can provide shots of the analytics<br />
reports that show a monthly user total of<br />
around 4,500.<br />
Our Twitter feed is also quite a success with<br />
nearly 5,500 follower.<br />
In the next few weeks you will notice some<br />
ground improvements. John has already mentioned<br />
that we are to get new dressing rooms,<br />
but there will also be some new fencing going<br />
up, and it’s a great big thank you to <strong>Sittingbourne</strong><br />
based Heras fencing for gifting us<br />
some £2000 worth of Heras fencing and gates.<br />
On the subject of new dressing rooms there<br />
has already been one club who have resigned<br />
themselves to relegation at the end of the season,<br />
as they can’t afford to upgrade their dressing<br />
rooms to the new FA standard. That Club is<br />
Aylesbury Utd who are in Division 1 Central of<br />
the Southern League, which is the same level<br />
as us. I can’t believe that there won’t be more<br />
clubs at our level and above who will find themselves<br />
in the same plight as Aylesbury. I have<br />
reproduced Aylesbury Utd’s statement on the<br />
issue later on in the programme. .<br />
Peter<br />
The Three Hats Pub<br />
Sponsors of <strong>Sittingbourne</strong> FC<br />
93 High Street, Milton Regis
<strong>VCD</strong> Athletic — A Brief History<br />
<strong>VCD</strong> Athletic FC is one of only a few clubs to<br />
have originated during the Great War when, in<br />
<strong>19</strong>16 it was formed by workers employed at the<br />
Vickers armaments factory in Crayford. The<br />
Company originally played only interdepartmental<br />
games until it was decided that<br />
the best players from the various sections would<br />
be elected to represent the firm. The club have<br />
played at the firm's sports ground, Oakwood, in<br />
Old Road, Crayford, from the outset right up to<br />
the present time, except for eight seasons spent<br />
ground sharing whilst trying to get permission<br />
for the erection of floodlights.<br />
In the early days, only friendly matches were<br />
played as there were no official competitions<br />
during the war years, and records show that a<br />
club called Vickers (Erith) joined the re-formed<br />
Kent League in <strong>19</strong><strong>19</strong>, changing their name to<br />
Vickers (Crayford) a year later. In their first season<br />
in the Kent League they visited Maidstone<br />
United on Boxing <strong>Day</strong> and played in front of a<br />
crowd of 13,500. The Vickers team that day<br />
contained seven Arsenal players who were finishing<br />
off their war service. Two years later,<br />
Vickers joined the Dartford & District League,<br />
followed by entry into the newly formed Kent<br />
Amateur League, Division One in <strong>19</strong>23. Their<br />
first trophies came in <strong>19</strong>27 when they won the<br />
Kent FA Junior Cup and the Kent Benevolent<br />
Cup.<br />
It was a further 25 years before more silverware<br />
came their way, when they won the Kent<br />
Division One title in <strong>19</strong>53. The Kent Amateur<br />
Cup was won in <strong>19</strong>62 and in <strong>19</strong>64 but the following<br />
season saw a spectacular slump and relegation,<br />
with a record of P24 W0 D2 L<strong>22</strong>, goals<br />
for 25, goals against <strong>19</strong>9.<br />
Promotion was gained in <strong>19</strong>69, but after a mediocre<br />
period during the <strong>19</strong>70s, they were relegated<br />
in <strong>19</strong>80 back to Division Two. A season<br />
later they were promoted back to Division One<br />
and in <strong>19</strong>85 won the championship, gaining promotion<br />
to the restructured Premier Division. By<br />
now the Kent Amateur League had changed its<br />
name to the Kent County League and the club<br />
enjoyed further success when they won the<br />
Kent FA Intermediate Shield in <strong>19</strong>88. In the<br />
same year the club was involved in the last ever<br />
match played at Maidstone United's London<br />
Road ground when they won the West Kent<br />
Challenge Cup.<br />
In <strong>19</strong>93, Martin Ford joined the club as manager<br />
and, in season <strong>19</strong>95/<strong>19</strong>96 a unique cup treble<br />
was achieved with wins in the Kent Intermediate<br />
Shield, Kent County League Cup, and the Erith<br />
Hospitals Cup. Season <strong>19</strong>96/<strong>19</strong>97 then saw the<br />
club win the Kent County Premier Division title<br />
for the first time in their history, and by a record<br />
15 points. Senior status was awarded that same<br />
year and a successful application was made to<br />
join the Winstonlead Kent League where, in<br />
their first season in modern times, <strong>VCD</strong> Athletic<br />
finished in a creditable ninth place. The following<br />
season saw the club begin a ground-share<br />
with Thamesmead Town, finishing up in seventh<br />
place but also reaching the final of the Kent<br />
League Cup, where they lost 1-0 to Deal Town<br />
in a closely fought match. Deal at this time were<br />
assembling the side that was later to win the FA<br />
Vase at Wembley.<br />
A season later the club went one better, beating<br />
Faversham Town 4-0 in the final to bring the<br />
club a first ever senior trophy, and the season<br />
after that the club made its third consecutive<br />
cup final appearance when they reached the<br />
final of the Kent Senior Trophy. However, they<br />
narrowly missed out on more silverware when<br />
they went down 10-9 on penalties to Whitstable<br />
Town. The club eventually spent five seasons<br />
as tenants of Thamesmead Town before Lordswood<br />
FC kindly took their place for two seasons.<br />
Then the club embarked on a one year<br />
term with near neighbours Greenwich Borough,<br />
and despite the handicap of having to groundshare,<br />
<strong>VCD</strong> were consistently one of the<br />
league's strongest members during their time in<br />
the league.<br />
The club reached the final of the League Cup in<br />
2002/2003, but on the day there was no celebration<br />
as <strong>VCD</strong> were comfortably beaten 2-0 by<br />
Cray Wanderers. The following season was a<br />
disappointment as far as the cups were concerned,<br />
but a creditable third place was<br />
achieved in the league. Continued
<strong>VCD</strong> Athletic — A Brief History<br />
Further cup success followed however when, in<br />
season 2005/2006 the club reached the final of<br />
the Kent Senior Trophy for the second time.<br />
Having suffered a loss in the first final on penalties,<br />
there was a reversal of fortune this time<br />
when, after having drawn 1-1 with Tunbridge<br />
Wells at the end of extra time, the <strong>VCD</strong> players<br />
held their nerve to win the penalty shoot-out 3-<br />
1.<br />
During 2005 the long awaited news the club<br />
wanted to hear finally arrived when planning<br />
permission for floodlights and the development<br />
of the Oakwood ground was granted by Bexley<br />
Council. This, together with a substantial grant<br />
from the Football Stadia Improvement Fund,<br />
part of the Football Foundation, enabled work<br />
to commence early in 2006. The pitch was levelled,<br />
rotated 90 degrees and re-laid. New perimeter<br />
paths were laid, along with perimeter<br />
fencing to enclose the pitch. Floodlights were<br />
erected in June 2006, at the same time that<br />
work on enhancing the changing rooms also<br />
began. The spectator stand was re-sited and<br />
extended, and further additions included a new<br />
raised hospitality area situated to overlook the<br />
pitch, and a new tea bar adjacent to the popular<br />
members bar.<br />
At the end of the 2007 season Martin Ford resigned<br />
as manager, and the club are grateful<br />
for his vision and enthusiasm over the years<br />
that took <strong>VCD</strong> from being a Kent County<br />
League side to one that was always around the<br />
top of the table in the Kent League, and on his<br />
departure the club had just reached the last 16<br />
of the prestigious FA Vase for the second consecutive<br />
season. Head coach Dean Frost took<br />
over as caretaker manager, and under his<br />
guidance the club obtained runners up spot in<br />
the league, narrowly missing out to Whitstable<br />
Town, and then the following season Paul Foley<br />
was appointed manager of the first team,<br />
with Dean Frost reverting to his former position<br />
of head coach. Under their stewardship the<br />
club finished runners up once more. A year later,<br />
the club finally won the Kent League Premier<br />
Division title together with the Kent Senior<br />
Trophy, culminating in the long awaited promotion<br />
to the Ryman Football League.<br />
The first season was a success with an 8th<br />
place finish, but the club were left stunned<br />
when the Ryman League deemed ground issues<br />
warranted demotion, and despite an appeal<br />
to the Football Association, the decision<br />
was upheld and the club went back to the Kent<br />
League. Manager Paul Foley resigned to join<br />
Chatham Town, taking virtually the whole team<br />
with him, and the club appointed former reserve<br />
team manager Ricky Bennett his replacement.<br />
Under his leadership <strong>VCD</strong> achieved<br />
third place in his first season, and in the 2nd<br />
season won the Kent League Cup, beating Corinthian<br />
2-0 in the final. We also lifted a second<br />
trophy with a 3-2 victory over league champions<br />
Herne Bay in the Kent League Challenge<br />
Shield. Midway through season 2012/2013<br />
Ricky Bennett left the club due to outside pressures,<br />
and in his place the club secured the<br />
services of Tony Russell, previously manager<br />
of Erith Town FC, who joined with his assistant<br />
Ray Powell. With most of the players leaving<br />
with the previous manager the club was in disarray,<br />
but a side was quickly formed by the<br />
new management, and a magnificent record<br />
breaking run of 17 victories and 2 draws in the<br />
last <strong>19</strong> league fixtures enabled the club to once<br />
more gain promotion to the Ryman Football<br />
League Division 1 North. On the last day of the<br />
season, sitting in 2nd place the Vickers defeated<br />
Romford FC 6-0 while leaders Witham<br />
Town could only draw their last game which<br />
saw us secure the title by a point, taking the<br />
club to the Premier Division, its highest ever<br />
level in the pyramid. The club struggled for a lot<br />
of the season, spending most of the time in the<br />
relegation places but winning the last 6 games<br />
saw us climb to safety, finally finishing in 18th<br />
position to maintain our place in the division.<br />
Manager Tony Russell immediately resigned,<br />
joining Cray Wanderers FC in Division 1, taking<br />
his entire side with him but the club acted<br />
quickly to secure the services of Keith McMahon<br />
as new First Team Manager. Keith worked<br />
tirelessly and brought in some excellent players,<br />
but the club was relegated back to Division<br />
1 (North). The club finished 17th out of 24 last<br />
season.
<strong>Haywards</strong> <strong>Heath</strong>, a brief History<br />
The first match played by a team representing <strong>Haywards</strong> <strong>Heath</strong> was in March 1888,<br />
which provided the impetus for the formation of '<strong>Haywards</strong> <strong>Heath</strong> After a brief<br />
change of name to 'Excelsior' in 1894, the club adopted the name '<strong>Haywards</strong> <strong>Heath</strong> FC'<br />
in 1895. Without a home the club led a somewhat itinerant existence in its early<br />
days, playing most of its games away until 1895 when it was offered the use of the field<br />
in South Road which was later to become Victoria Park and club's home until<br />
<strong>Haywards</strong> <strong>Heath</strong> FC lifted its first silverware in <strong>19</strong>00 when it won the Sussex Cup<br />
and played in the<br />
League of which it was one of the founding members.<br />
<strong>19</strong>01-<strong>19</strong>06 the club finish as runners-up in the senior division in four of its first five<br />
seasons, then division 2 winners in <strong>19</strong>11-12 after relegation<br />
<strong>Haywards</strong><br />
<strong>Heath</strong> were Mid-Sussex League without a They won the<br />
title again in and went on retain for the next two losing only one<br />
match in each<br />
In <strong>19</strong><strong>26</strong> the club transferred to the Hove & District League and, after<br />
the league tle at the very first attempt, joined the Sussex County League the following<br />
The first seasons in the County League (<strong>19</strong><strong>26</strong>-<strong>19</strong>32) saw the club finish in the<br />
top four but they were sadly to finish bottom of the league in the <strong>19</strong>32-33 season.<br />
<strong>19</strong>41-42, the club won the Sussex<br />
Senior Cup and, after the war, were the league's Eastern Division winners of <strong>19</strong>45-46. A<br />
single division league was re-introduced the following year which the club won both<br />
<strong>19</strong>49-50 and again in <strong>19</strong>50-51.<br />
<strong>19</strong>52 saw the club finally move from Victoria Park to the newly finished Hanbury Stadium<br />
which enabled it to join the Metropolitan League which the reserve sides of<br />
professional clubs such as West Tottenham, Chelsea and Arsenal After a promising<br />
first season in fifth place, the club struggled against the professional opposition<br />
bottom in 61, elected to re-join the Sussex County<br />
The Division 1 title was won in 70 and the League Cup in The club was<br />
also runners-up in <strong>19</strong>74-75 but were relegated at the end of the <strong>19</strong>79-80 season. The<br />
Division 2 Cup was won in <strong>19</strong>83-84 as runners-up in the club gained promotion<br />
back into senior <strong>19</strong>88 the present name of <strong>Haywards</strong> <strong>Heath</strong> Town<br />
Football Club was in it's centennial year to reflect the status of <strong>Haywards</strong><br />
<strong>Heath</strong> itself.<br />
Two successive relegations in <strong>19</strong>92 and <strong>19</strong>93 saw the club drop into the third<br />
where won the Division 3 Cup in The following year as Division 3<br />
HHTFC promoted back to 2 but were again relegated after only one<br />
season. The Division 3 Cup was won in 2008-09 however and in 2012-13 (again as<br />
) the club gained promotion back into Division<br />
On the rebranding of the Sussex County League to the Southern<br />
was renamed Division 1 and the title was won in that first season, earning<br />
<strong>Heath</strong> Town FC promotion to the Premier The club finished top of<br />
the division following season and were due to be promoted to the Isthmian League.<br />
Unfortunately, was following a deduction awarded due to an<br />
inadvertent off-field administrative error. The club however responded by the<br />
Premier again in 2017-18 along with the Peter Bentley League and are<br />
now proud members of the Bostik South East Division of the Isthmian league.
DATE OPPOSITION COMP Sc ATT 1 2 3 4<br />
5<br />
11 Aug 2018<br />
18 Aug 2018<br />
21 Aug 2018<br />
25 Aug 2018<br />
27 Aug 2018<br />
01 Sept 2018<br />
04 Sept 2018<br />
08 Sept 2018<br />
15 Sept 2018<br />
23 Sept 2018<br />
25 Sept 2018<br />
29 Sept 2018<br />
02 Oct 2018<br />
06 Oct 2018<br />
13 Oct 2018<br />
20 Oct 2018<br />
27 Oct 2018<br />
30 Oct 2018<br />
03 Nov 2018<br />
10 Nov 2018<br />
17 Nov 2018<br />
24 Nov 2018<br />
08 Dec 2018<br />
15 Dec 2018<br />
23 Dec 2018<br />
29 Dec 2018<br />
05 Jan 20<strong>19</strong><br />
<strong>19</strong> Jan 20<strong>19</strong><br />
<strong>22</strong> Jan 2018<br />
<strong>26</strong> Jan 20<strong>19</strong><br />
02 Feb 20<strong>19</strong><br />
05 Feb 20<strong>19</strong><br />
09 Feb 20<strong>19</strong><br />
16 Feb 20<strong>19</strong><br />
23 Feb 20<strong>19</strong><br />
02 Mar 20<strong>19</strong><br />
09 Mar 20<strong>19</strong><br />
16 Mar 20<strong>19</strong><br />
23 Mar 20<strong>19</strong><br />
30 Mar 20<strong>19</strong><br />
06 Apr 20<strong>19</strong><br />
13 Apr 20<strong>19</strong><br />
20 Apr 20<strong>19</strong><br />
<strong>22</strong> Apr 20<strong>19</strong><br />
27 Apr 20<strong>19</strong><br />
Horsham<br />
Greenwich Borough<br />
Tonbridge Angeks<br />
Bearsted<br />
Cray Wanderers<br />
Thamesmead Twn<br />
Phoenix Sports<br />
Gosport Borough<br />
Whyteleafe<br />
Guernsey<br />
Ashford United<br />
Ramsgate<br />
South Park<br />
<strong>Haywards</strong> <strong>Heath</strong><br />
Faversham Town<br />
Phoenix Sports<br />
Wingate & Finchley<br />
Folkestone Invicta<br />
Hythe Town<br />
Whitstable Town<br />
Three Bridges<br />
East Grinstead T<br />
Faversham Town<br />
Sevenoaks Town<br />
Cray Wanderers<br />
Herne Bay<br />
Hastings United<br />
Ramsgate<br />
<strong>VCD</strong> Athletic<br />
<strong>Haywards</strong> <strong>Heath</strong><br />
Phoenix Sports<br />
Ashford United<br />
Three Bridges<br />
East Grinstead Town<br />
<strong>VCD</strong> Athletic<br />
Faversham Town<br />
Sevenoaks Town<br />
Whitstable Town<br />
Hythe Town<br />
Geenwich Borough<br />
Horsham<br />
Whyteleafe<br />
Hastings United<br />
Herne Bay<br />
Guernsey<br />
League<br />
League<br />
Kent Snr Cup<br />
FA Cup (Prel)<br />
League<br />
League<br />
Velocity Trop<br />
FA Cup (1 Q)<br />
League<br />
League<br />
League<br />
League<br />
Velocity Trop<br />
League<br />
FA Trophy<br />
League<br />
FA Trophy<br />
Velocity Trop<br />
League<br />
League<br />
League<br />
League<br />
League<br />
League<br />
League<br />
League<br />
League<br />
League<br />
League<br />
League<br />
League<br />
League<br />
League<br />
League<br />
League<br />
League<br />
League<br />
League<br />
League<br />
League<br />
League<br />
League<br />
League<br />
League<br />
League<br />
A<br />
H<br />
A<br />
H<br />
H<br />
A<br />
H<br />
H<br />
H<br />
A<br />
A<br />
H<br />
A<br />
A<br />
A<br />
H<br />
H<br />
A<br />
A<br />
H<br />
H<br />
A<br />
A<br />
H<br />
A<br />
H<br />
A<br />
A<br />
H<br />
H<br />
A<br />
H<br />
A<br />
H<br />
A<br />
H<br />
A<br />
A<br />
H<br />
A<br />
H<br />
A<br />
H<br />
A<br />
H<br />
2-1<br />
4-2<br />
2-3<br />
2-0<br />
0-2<br />
4-5<br />
2-0<br />
0-1<br />
2-1<br />
2-1<br />
1-1<br />
0-1<br />
2-1<br />
0-2<br />
2-0<br />
1-1<br />
1-2<br />
1-3<br />
2-3<br />
1-2<br />
0-1<br />
1-2<br />
1-3<br />
4-1<br />
1-2<br />
2-3<br />
0-5<br />
0-4<br />
1-2<br />
<strong>19</strong>5<br />
148<br />
218<br />
204<br />
149<br />
139<br />
80<br />
154<br />
1<strong>22</strong><br />
634<br />
246<br />
171<br />
51<br />
113<br />
310<br />
155<br />
155<br />
121<br />
252<br />
<strong>19</strong>8<br />
132<br />
84<br />
296<br />
77<br />
259<br />
273<br />
432<br />
244<br />
120<br />
Lee<br />
Lee<br />
Brooks<br />
Lee<br />
Lee<br />
Lee<br />
Brooks<br />
Lee<br />
Lee<br />
Lee<br />
Lee<br />
Lee<br />
Lee<br />
Lee<br />
Lee<br />
Lee<br />
Pritchard<br />
Lee<br />
Lee<br />
Funnell<br />
Lee<br />
Funnell<br />
Lee<br />
Lee<br />
Lee<br />
Lee<br />
Lee<br />
Lee<br />
Lee<br />
Lofting<br />
Lofting<br />
Hatfull<br />
Dorling<br />
Dorling<br />
Hatfull<br />
Webber<br />
Webber<br />
Webber<br />
Webber<br />
Webber<br />
Webber<br />
Dorling<br />
Webber<br />
Webber<br />
Dorling*<br />
Webber<br />
Webber<br />
Webber<br />
Webber<br />
Webber<br />
Webber<br />
Webber 1<br />
Devine<br />
Devine<br />
Devine<br />
Devine<br />
Ndew*<br />
Muskaj*<br />
Dorling<br />
Dorling<br />
Dorling<br />
Crimmen<br />
Crimmen<br />
Crimmen<br />
Crimmen<br />
Dorling<br />
Dorling*<br />
Dorling<br />
Dorling<br />
Crimmen<br />
Crimmen<br />
Crimmen*<br />
Dorling*<br />
Crimmen<br />
Dorling*<br />
Crimmen+<br />
Crimmen<br />
Crimmen<br />
Crimmen<br />
Ishanzadeh*<br />
Crimmen<br />
Webber<br />
Webber 1<br />
Webber<br />
Lofting<br />
Webber<br />
Lofting<br />
Parkinson<br />
Parkinson*<br />
Parkinson 1<br />
Parkinson<br />
Parkinson*<br />
Parkinson 1<br />
Hatfull<br />
Parkinson<br />
Parkinson<br />
Allan<br />
Parkinson*<br />
Parkinson*<br />
McFarlane*<br />
Parkinson<br />
Hatfull 1<br />
Hatfull*<br />
Parkinson 1<br />
Parkinson*<br />
Parkinson 1<br />
Parkinson+<br />
Chambers*<br />
Chambers*<br />
Chambers<br />
Chambers<br />
Parkinson<br />
Chambers<br />
Riches<br />
Muskaj<br />
Webber<br />
Allan<br />
Allan<br />
Allan<br />
Allan<br />
Allan<br />
Allan<br />
Dorling<br />
Allan<br />
Allan<br />
Fitchett<br />
Allan<br />
Allan<br />
Fitchett<br />
Allan<br />
Allan<br />
Fitchett<br />
Fitchett<br />
Fitchett<br />
Denny<br />
Allan<br />
Denny<br />
Allan<br />
Allan<br />
Allan<br />
Allan+<br />
Allan<br />
Fitchett<br />
Fitchett<br />
Fitchett<br />
KEY to above grid:<br />
@ = After Extra Time<br />
& = Lost on Pens<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
6 7 8 9 10 11 12 14 15 16 17<br />
Webber<br />
Webber<br />
Crimmen<br />
Webber<br />
Webber<br />
Webber<br />
Fitchett 1<br />
Fitchett<br />
Fitchett<br />
Chambers<br />
Fitchett<br />
Fitchett<br />
Denny<br />
Fitchett<br />
Fitchett<br />
Allan 1<br />
Denny<br />
Denny<br />
Fitchett<br />
Fitchett*<br />
Fitchett<br />
Denny<br />
Fitchett<br />
Fitchett 1<br />
Fitchett<br />
Fitchett<br />
Webber<br />
Chambers<br />
Chambers<br />
Jackson 1<br />
Jackson 2<br />
Adebayu 1<br />
Jackson 2<br />
Jackson<br />
Jackson<br />
Ke Orenuga*<br />
Jackson+<br />
Adebeyo<br />
Loynes 2<br />
Adebeyo*<br />
Jackson<br />
Jackson<br />
Jackson<br />
Jackson<br />
Jackson<br />
Jackson<br />
Fagg*<br />
Fagg*<br />
Jackson 1<br />
Jackson<br />
Jackson<br />
Carvalho*<br />
Carvalho 1<br />
Carvalho*<br />
Carvalho<br />
Carvalho<br />
Woods<br />
Adebeyo<br />
Adebayo<br />
Chambers<br />
Chambers*<br />
Chambers<br />
Chambers*<br />
Chambers 1<br />
Chambers*<br />
Chambers<br />
Chambers*<br />
Parkinson*<br />
Chambers<br />
Chambers<br />
Chambers<br />
McFarlane<br />
Chambers*<br />
Chambers<br />
Chambers<br />
Chambers<br />
Chambers<br />
Chambers<br />
Dawodu*<br />
Dawodu*<br />
Woods<br />
Parkinson*<br />
Chambers<br />
Woods* 1<br />
Chambers<br />
Fagg<br />
Fagg*<br />
Dawodu*<br />
Dawodu*<br />
CaneyBryan*1<br />
Dawodu*<br />
Dawodu<br />
Dawodu*<br />
Dawodu*<br />
Dawodu<br />
Dawodu 1<br />
Dawodu<br />
Dawodu<br />
Dawodu<br />
Caney-Bryan1*<br />
Caney-Bryan*<br />
Elder* 1<br />
Elder*<br />
Elder<br />
Jackson<br />
Jackson<br />
Elder*<br />
Smith<br />
Smith<br />
Smith*<br />
Smith* 1<br />
Smith*<br />
Smith* 1<br />
Elder<br />
Loynes*<br />
Campbell 1<br />
Fagg*<br />
Fagg<br />
Dawodu*<br />
Fagg*<br />
Fagg<br />
Fagg<br />
Fagg<br />
Fagg*<br />
Fagg 1<br />
Fagg*<br />
Fagg 1<br />
Fagg#<br />
Fagg<br />
Dawodu<br />
Dawodu<br />
Dawodu*<br />
Dawodu<br />
Dawodu 1<br />
Dawodu<br />
Fagg<br />
Fagg<br />
Fagg 1<br />
Fagg<br />
Fagg<br />
Fagg<br />
Fagg<br />
Fagg*<br />
Lewins<br />
Lewins*<br />
Loynes* 1<br />
Loynes* 1<br />
Loynes*<br />
Loynes*<br />
Loynes*<br />
Loynes* 1<br />
Adebeyo 1<br />
Adebayo*<br />
Loynes*<br />
Adebeyo<br />
Loynes<br />
Loybes*<br />
Hatfull<br />
Loynes<br />
Loynes<br />
Loynes<br />
Loynes*<br />
Loynes<br />
Loynes* 1<br />
Loynes<br />
Loynes<br />
Liynes<br />
Loynes*<br />
Loynes* 1<br />
Woods*<br />
Jackson<br />
Adebeyo*<br />
Middleton<br />
Middleton<br />
Hatfull<br />
Hatfull<br />
Jackson*<br />
McFarlane*<br />
Hatfull<br />
Caney-Bryan<br />
Caney-Bryan*<br />
Loynes*<br />
Hatfull*<br />
Crimmen<br />
Crimmen<br />
Elder*<br />
Webber<br />
Dorling*<br />
Crimmen*<br />
Denny*<br />
Crimmen<br />
Dorling*<br />
Dorling<br />
Dorling<br />
Dorling*<br />
Waritay*<br />
Riches<br />
Dawodu*<br />
Lofting<br />
Lofting<br />
Otuadinma*<br />
Lofting*<br />
Spencer<br />
McFarlane*<br />
McFarlane*<br />
Elder*<br />
Adebayo*<br />
Adebayo*<br />
Dorling<br />
Loynes<br />
Elder*<br />
Crimmen*<br />
Hatfull*<br />
Denny<br />
Dorling<br />
Allan<br />
East<br />
Parkinson*<br />
East<br />
Hatfull*<br />
Elder<br />
Hatfull<br />
Hatfull<br />
Hatfull*<br />
Adebeyo*<br />
Elder<br />
Lofting<br />
Dawodu*<br />
Phipps<br />
Latunde*<br />
McFarlane<br />
Woods*<br />
Adebayo*<br />
Adebayo*<br />
McFarlane*<br />
Caney_Bryan*<br />
McFarlane*<br />
Elder* 1<br />
Jackson*<br />
Crimmen<br />
Caney-Bryan*<br />
Caney-Bryan*<br />
Hatfull*<br />
Denny<br />
Riches*<br />
Denny<br />
Caney-Bryan*<br />
Parkinson*<br />
McFarlane<br />
Hatfull*<br />
Carvalho#<br />
Caney-Bryan*<br />
Otuadinma<br />
Elder*<br />
Dawodu*<br />
Elder*<br />
Latunde*<br />
Dawodu*<br />
Loynes<br />
Adebeyo*<br />
Morrell<br />
CaneyBryan*<br />
CaneyBryan*<br />
Fagg<br />
Caney-Bryan*<br />
Canry-Bryan*<br />
Adebeyo*<br />
Riches*<br />
Hatful<br />
Elder<br />
Denny<br />
Caney-Bryan*<br />
Hatfull*<br />
Dawodu 1<br />
Hatfull<br />
Denny<br />
McDarlane<br />
Caney-Bryan*<br />
Caney-Bryan*<br />
Latunde*<br />
Dawodu*<br />
Elder*<br />
Lofting<br />
Jackson*<br />
Otuadinma<br />
Otuadinma<br />
McDonagh*<br />
East<br />
Orenuga**<br />
Caney-Bryan*<br />
Brooks<br />
Brooks<br />
Lee<br />
Brooks<br />
Brooks<br />
Lee<br />
Brooks<br />
Brooks<br />
Brooks<br />
Brooks<br />
Brooks<br />
East<br />
Elder*<br />
East<br />
Canry-Bryan*<br />
East<br />
Pritchard<br />
Pritchard<br />
Lee<br />
Funnell<br />
Lee<br />
Adebeyo*<br />
Woods*<br />
East<br />
Funnell<br />
Funnell<br />
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Aylesbury FC—Statement re Dressing Rooms<br />
This is how Aylesbury FC announced the news that they are unlikely to be able to provide<br />
dressing rooms to the new FA requirement.<br />
“Following the latest committee meeting of Aylesbury FC the club would like to make the following<br />
announcement.<br />
The football club were contacted earlier this season regarding ground grading requirements for<br />
next season. One of the main stipulations was regarding the changing areas, specifically the<br />
total floor area in each of the three changing rooms, whilst the home and away changing rooms<br />
are very close to the minimums needed the officials room would be considerably undersized.<br />
After consultations with a local building contractor and his surveyor we were advised that a major<br />
reconstruction would be needed to achieve the minimum requirements. This project would<br />
need to be completed by March 31st, if not we would need to have planning/ finance/ and a<br />
guarantee from the contractor that these works would be carried out by an agreed date. We<br />
were informed that failure to achieve the ground grading would result in relegation.<br />
The club began the process of putting together a plan regarding the funding and management<br />
of the project to achieve the ground grading, but unfortunately very soon realised that the deadline<br />
was simply not achievable.<br />
Earlier this week we were contacted by the league to discuss this situation and were assured<br />
that there would be no exceptions, the FA have made this very clear to them.<br />
The decision was taken to make this announcement as relegation is now unavoidable despite<br />
all of the hard work undertaken by the management, players and all the staff at the football club.<br />
Although all the people involved with the club are obviously devastated by this situation we are<br />
even more committed now to ensuring the future of Aylesbury FC, taking a step backwards to<br />
once again move forward. Twenty years ago the club were playing local football and went on to<br />
spend a sustained period at Southern League level - and will do so again!”
The Managers View<br />
Our new manager Chris Lynch gives his view on Saturdays game:<br />
My thoughts on the Ramsgate fixture.<br />
It was always going to be difficult coming into<br />
our first fixture away versus a recently in form<br />
Ramsgate side, who's squad have been together<br />
all season. We in contrast have had<br />
several weeks of change, with many players<br />
leaving and a massively depleted squad in<br />
terms of actual numbers and back up options<br />
for every position.<br />
We knew defensively it would be a challenge,<br />
with the injury last Saturday to Centre back<br />
Lex Allan with no back up options available at<br />
the club. Therefore, we gave debuts to two<br />
new signings (none of which are centre<br />
backs). Obviously no manager would plan on<br />
major chances to the back line before a game,<br />
nor playing players out of position, however,<br />
that was the situation we faced, it was also unfortunate<br />
knowing four of our new signings wouldn't arrive until next week.<br />
I felt had Billy Lewins shot gone in, in the first minute, the game could have panned out a little<br />
different, you take an early lead, confidence grows and the home side are immediately put on<br />
the back foot, however, it wasn't meant to be, to be fair to Ramsgate they took full advantage.<br />
What did encourage me was the never give up attitude of the players after the second and<br />
third goals went in. They carried on trying - which is great testament to their character.<br />
I was told before I came here how good the fans here are, they never stopped singing even<br />
after the final whistle, amazing support, which everyone of us are truly thankful for. We aim to<br />
show you how much that means to us over the next few months. I would ask you all to keep<br />
showing that great support for us, as you are our 12th man on the field, together we can<br />
achieve the ambitions of the club.<br />
We truly begin our resurgence on Tuesday evening where we face <strong>VCD</strong> Athletic. In the mean<br />
time, I would just like to thank you all for your continued support and we hope to very quickly<br />
start picking up the points we need on the road to safety.<br />
WE ARE IN IT TOGETHER, AND THE TIDE WILL TURN.<br />
Welcome Party for the Danes<br />
You are invited!! (If you read this at the <strong>Haywards</strong> <strong>Heath</strong> game then I’m sorry but the party’s<br />
finished!)<br />
SFC are hosting a welcome party for their Danish Friends from Fremad Amager and you<br />
are all invited!<br />
FREE buffet and FREE entry for all Brickies and their friends.<br />
Two live bands:<br />
1) Surrey Based Indi Rockers- “Left Of The Dial”<br />
2) Local 60’s to 80’s Rock and pop covers band- “Marvellous Mo and The Back Line Ferrets”<br />
Hope to see you there!
<strong>Match</strong> Reports by Tony Rickson<br />
Sunday 23rd December 2018<br />
Bostik League South East Division<br />
Cray Wanderers 2 <strong>Sittingbourne</strong> 1, att 259<br />
Outclassed for the first 20 minutes, <strong>Sittingbourne</strong><br />
eventually made quite a game of it and Cray, unbeaten<br />
at home all season, will have been glad to<br />
eventually settle for all three points.<br />
4-1 in their previous game, influential top<br />
goalscorer Tommy Loynes out injured with Henry<br />
Woods replacing him.<br />
Midway through the first half Cray took the lead,<br />
Dadson outwitting an isolated Danny Devine in a<br />
one-on-one down the left and although Ben Fitchett<br />
blocked the low cross it fell nicely for Pritchard<br />
to follow up and lash it high into the net.<br />
Either Cray sat back or more possibly <strong>Sittingbourne</strong><br />
began to play themselves into the<br />
game and Gil Carvalho hit over a fine cross from<br />
the left that Smith couldn’t quite reach.<br />
<strong>Sittingbourne</strong> were making a determined effort to<br />
win the ball back over the pitch and when a Cray<br />
defender slipped in possession just outside his<br />
own area in the 35th minute, Smith was onto it.<br />
He jinked past the last man and was about to<br />
close in on goal with the ball on his favoured left<br />
foot when Nelson brought him down. It looked a<br />
red card all day, but the referee gave the Cray<br />
player the benefit of the doubt which he didn’t extend<br />
to unlucky Lex later on.<br />
Cray doubled their lead just after some good<br />
chances for <strong>Sittingbourne</strong>, when a shot pinged off<br />
the far post and fell nicely for the following-up<br />
Mundele to score comfortably.<br />
<strong>Sittingbourne</strong> were rewarded after 87 minutes for<br />
their when a corner was cleared to captain Chris<br />
Webber. He shrugged off one challenge, steadied<br />
himself, and hit a terrific shot over the keeper and<br />
into the net from all of 30 yards out.<br />
The drama wasn’t over as Taylor and Allan jostled<br />
each other for a 90th minute through ball, the<br />
referee, chasing to catch up with play, ruling that<br />
Allan was the offender and sending him off.<br />
Saturday 29th December 2018<br />
Bostik South East<br />
<strong>Sittingbourne</strong> 2 Herne Bay 3. Att 273<br />
On a grey day that was perfect for football, <strong>Sittingbourne</strong><br />
attracted by far their biggest home<br />
crowd of the season but ended up second best to<br />
a Herne Bay side including eight of their former<br />
players. And one of the other three’s the son of<br />
ex-<strong>Sittingbourne</strong> player Paul Carlton.<br />
<strong>Sittingbourne</strong> made a bright start to the game.<br />
Under-pressure Bay cleared a fifth minute freekick<br />
out of their area but <strong>Sittingbourne</strong> captain<br />
Chris Webber headed it back in, and David Smith<br />
read the situation perfectly to nip behind the defence<br />
and easily lob it home past the advancing<br />
Simon Overland.<br />
<strong>Sittingbourne</strong> were flying, full of confidence at this<br />
stage, and added a second seven minutes later<br />
when Henry Woods pounced on a loose ball after<br />
Danny Rumbol blocked a shot and coolly leftfooted<br />
it first time into the corner of the goal.<br />
Although <strong>Sittingbourne</strong> continued to dominate the<br />
first half-hour and both Tommy Fagg, with a shot<br />
that was deflected for a corner, and Jackson, with<br />
a close-range header, both went close.<br />
Bay hadn’t shown much at all but they were given<br />
a lifeline in the 33rd minute when Fagg clipped a<br />
Bay player when back helping defend a corner<br />
and the referee awarded a penalty which Jake<br />
Embery comfortably converted.<br />
At first, <strong>Sittingbourne</strong> looked to be controlling the<br />
second half but their finishing was poor with Lewis<br />
Chambers blazing a shot too high and Smith<br />
shooting tamely after a good turn had put him in<br />
with a chance.<br />
The game changed on 55 minutes with a simply<br />
amazing goal by Bay substitute Ronald Sobowale.<br />
He raced from the halfway line into the <strong>Sittingbourne</strong><br />
area but when forced wide, he simply<br />
kept on feigning to shoot and avoiding tackles,<br />
working his way back into a central position before<br />
firing home. <strong>Sittingbourne</strong> lost their way after<br />
this and they’ve been vulnerable to late goals for<br />
a while now, and they conceded the winner in the<br />
87th minute from a set piece. A ball played in<br />
from deep on the left was headed back across<br />
goal and Connor Wilkins tucked in the winner at<br />
the far post.<br />
<strong>Sittingbourne</strong>: Patrick Lee, Danny Devine, Chris<br />
Webber, Dan Parkinson (Yellow card), Lex Allan<br />
(Red card), Ben Fitchett, Gil Carvalho (Chimidi<br />
Otuadinma, 82 min), Lewis Chambers, David<br />
Smith (Bola Dawodu, 62 min), Tommie Fagg,<br />
Henry Woods (David Latunde, 73 min) . Sub not<br />
used: Rob Lofting.<br />
<strong>Sittingbourne</strong>: Patrick Lee, Danny Devine, Chris<br />
Webber, Lewis Chambers (Yellow card), Lex Allan,<br />
Ben Fitchett (Yellow card), Gil Carvalho,<br />
Henry Woods (Bola Dawodu, 42 min), David<br />
Smith (Xavier McDonagh, 84 min), Tommie Fagg<br />
(Yellow card), Ira Jackson (Yellow card). Subs<br />
not used: Rob Lofting, Franklin Phipps, Mason<br />
East.
<strong>Match</strong> Reports by Tony Rickson<br />
Saturday 5th January 20<strong>19</strong><br />
Bostik South East<br />
Hastings United 5 <strong>Sittingbourne</strong> 0, Att 430<br />
On a chilly Sussex afternoon, Hastings began<br />
like a club in hot pursuit of Cray Wanderers at<br />
the top of the table and seemed to take absolute<br />
control of the midfield area with more bodies in<br />
that area than <strong>Sittingbourne</strong>.<br />
They set up a huge scramble in the <strong>Sittingbourne</strong><br />
six-yard box after nine minutes following<br />
a throw-in that was even longer than Lewis<br />
Chambers can manage.<br />
And they took the lead five minutes later when a<br />
corner from the left beyond the far post was<br />
headed back across goal for Dixon to score from<br />
close range. It was an identical move to the one<br />
that gave Herne Bay their winning goal in the<br />
previous <strong>Sittingbourne</strong> match.<br />
One soon became two when Mongoy showed<br />
great skill to cut in from the left and score Hastings’<br />
only goal from open play as he drove the<br />
ball past Patrick Lee from a narrow angle – it reminded<br />
me of Raheem Sterling scoring, and<br />
that’s a compliment.<br />
<strong>Sittingbourne</strong> were rocking and captain Chris<br />
Webber and Lewis Chambers were booked in<br />
quick succession before Hastings got a third on<br />
25 minutes. And it was the same tactics as for<br />
the first goal with an overhit corner headed back<br />
across for Ajakaiye to score from a couple of<br />
yards out.<br />
After Hastings hit the post they got a fourth after<br />
43 minutes when a huge throw-in from way out<br />
was back-headed straight in by Dixon. Who says<br />
that long throws never produce goals.<br />
And the Hastings midfielder completed his hattrick<br />
two minutes later, outjumping everyone to<br />
score with a powerful header from yet another<br />
home corner.<br />
‘We’re going to win six-five’ sang the <strong>Sittingbourne</strong><br />
fans to greet the second half and although<br />
nobody believed them at least their later<br />
chant of ‘nil-nil in the second half’ was on target.<br />
In cricket terms, Hastings declared on five and<br />
basically played out the half with a lot of possession<br />
at the back and the occasional quickfire<br />
raids up front by lively and pacy substitutes.<br />
<strong>Sittingbourne</strong>: Patrick Lee, Danny Devine, Rob<br />
Lofting, Dylan Riches, Chris Webber (Yellow<br />
card), Ben Fitchett (Yellow card), Gil Carvalho,<br />
Lewis Chambers (Yellow card), Nathan Elder,<br />
Tommie Fagg (Chukwumdike Otuadinma, 66<br />
min), Izzy Adebayo (David Latunde, 69 min).<br />
Subs not used: Tom Loynes, Mason East.<br />
Saturday <strong>19</strong>th January 20<strong>19</strong><br />
Bostik South East<br />
Ramsgate 4 <strong>Sittingbourne</strong> 0, att 245<br />
On a chilly afternoon near the coast, <strong>Sittingbourne</strong><br />
were swept aside early doors and<br />
Ramsgate were ahead in just two minutes. A<br />
blocked clearance fell nicely for Kane Rowland,<br />
on loan from Folkestone, and he sent Millbank<br />
through to shoot past Lee and inside the far post.<br />
Just a few minutes later and <strong>Sittingbourne</strong> shot<br />
themselves in the foot. Lee tried to play a short<br />
goal-kick out to Fitchett and Rowland reacted<br />
quickest to nip in and score an easy goal.<br />
<strong>Sittingbourne</strong> were just trying to keep in it and<br />
mount the occasional counter-attack and Fitchett<br />
saw his effort cleared off the line and Henry<br />
Woods went close with a header.<br />
Loynes, who had been playing as the main striker<br />
in his first game for a month because of injury,<br />
limped off in the first half and although <strong>Sittingbourne</strong><br />
stuck manfully to their task, there was<br />
clearly quite a gap between themselves and<br />
Ramsgate. Not on the terraces, though, where<br />
<strong>Sittingbourne</strong>’s fans were again outstanding and<br />
unstinting in their support – after all, they’d seem<br />
their team lose 5-0 last time out, and it must be<br />
tough to stay so optimistic as they watched another<br />
heavy defeat. Ramsgate added a third just<br />
before the hour when Smith’s shot went in off<br />
Lee, and they completed the scoring on 76<br />
minutes when Chapman was sent clear in the<br />
inside-left channel and went round the advancing<br />
keeper to score.<br />
<strong>Sittingbourne</strong>: Patrick Lee, Ardal Ndew (Rob<br />
Lofting, 45 min), Chris Webber, Arben Muskaj,<br />
Ben Fitchett (Yellow card), Lewis Chambers,<br />
Henry Woods, Tommie Fagg, Tom Loynes (Keith<br />
Orenuga, 36 min) (Izzy Adebayo, 72 min), Billy<br />
Lewins, Liam Middleton. Subs not used: Khalel<br />
McFarlane, Matt Funnell.
Velkommen til Fremad Amager supportere<br />
A huge welcome to the Fremad Amager supporters who have made the trip over from Denmark to see<br />
us. Hopefully that’s basically what the page heading says in Danish!!<br />
<strong>Sittingbourne</strong> FC have formed a twinning arrangement with Danish Division 1 Club Fremand Amager,<br />
fan club De Blå/Engle. (Blue and White Eagle) The initiative was prompted by ex <strong>Sittingbourne</strong> resident<br />
Mark Chapman who now lives in Denmark, and who supports both clubs. Mark married a Dane and<br />
works out of the British Embassy there.<br />
The chairman of <strong>Sittingbourne</strong> Football club, Maurice Dunk, and the club committee are firmly behind<br />
the proposals and this visit by the Danes (and Mark) is the first real step in what we hope will be a long term collaboration.<br />
I know that already a number of <strong>Sittingbourne</strong> FC supporters want to make a trip over to Denmark.<br />
This is how the blue / white engle fan club: De Blå / White Engle announced the twinning.<br />
“THE BLUE / WHITE ENGLE has fans from near and far. We also have one from<br />
Kent in England who has settled on our lovely island. This member has suggested a<br />
collaboration between our fanclub (and in due course the football club) and<br />
<strong>Sittingbourne</strong> FC.<br />
The clubs fit well together as we have as many bankruptcies on the conscience<br />
and a very loyal fan base.<br />
Initially, the plan is to exchange merchandise, but we definitely have ideas to visit each other in England<br />
and Denmark and we hope that training matches can become a reality. The fanclub will soon talk with<br />
Fremad Amager Elite and the 2nd team about this.”<br />
Fremad Amager are doing better than us in their league being exactly hallway.<br />
Pos. Team Pld W D L Pts<br />
1 Viborg <strong>19</strong> 10 5 4 35<br />
2 Silkeborg <strong>19</strong> 9 4 6 31<br />
3 FC Fredericia <strong>19</strong> 9 2 8 29<br />
4 Nykøbing FC <strong>19</strong> 8 5 6 29<br />
5 Næstved <strong>19</strong> 8 5 6 29<br />
6 Fremad Amager <strong>19</strong> 7 7 5 28<br />
7 HB Køge <strong>19</strong> 8 3 8 27<br />
8 Lyngby <strong>19</strong> 6 5 8 23<br />
9 Thisted <strong>19</strong> 5 7 7 <strong>22</strong><br />
10 FC Roskilde <strong>19</strong> 5 5 9 20<br />
11 Hvidovre <strong>19</strong> 5 5 9 20<br />
12 FC Helsingør <strong>19</strong> 4 7 8 <strong>19</strong><br />
Those we know who are making the trip are:<br />
Mark Chapman<br />
Jacob Tulinius<br />
Michael Svendborg<br />
Thomas Pedersen<br />
Poul Dudal Madsen<br />
Anders Hjarsø<br />
Jesper Ottesen<br />
Natacha Jønsson<br />
Søren Fonsgart<br />
Simone Lazare<br />
Peter Jensen<br />
Jimmy Birk<br />
Tobias Birk<br />
Carsten Leif Bendsen<br />
Søren Kristoffersen<br />
Stig Rydberg<br />
Camilla Jauch
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 />
Joining the lottery is, after attending home games, the most important way you can help to build<br />
the club. Forms are available on our web site, or from any committee member.<br />
Now is the time to join our lottery, see John Pitts, Peter Pitts (On the PA) or go to the<br />
bar for a form, cost is just a £1 a week! (Payable monthly. Quarterly or annually)<br />
Week Commencing 21st January 20<strong>19</strong><br />
£40, Ticket number 077, Madeline Bean, <strong>Sittingbourne</strong><br />
£40, Ticket number 092, Kate Hammond, <strong>Sittingbourne</strong><br />
£40, Ticket number 188, David Coveney, <strong>Sittingbourne</strong><br />
Week Commencing 14th January 20<strong>19</strong><br />
£40, Ticket number 011, Roger Pudner, <strong>Sittingbourne</strong><br />
£40, Ticket number 138, Anthony Smith, Bapchild<br />
£40, Ticket number 376, Jackie Goatham, <strong>Sittingbourne</strong><br />
Week Commencing 7th January 20<strong>19</strong><br />
£100, Ticket number 471, April King, <strong>Sittingbourne</strong><br />
£40, Ticket number 350, Alan Forster, Bapchild<br />
£40, Ticket number 134, Liam Fellows, <strong>Sittingbourne</strong><br />
Week Commencing 31st December 2018<br />
£40, Ticket number 014, Jonathan Bore, Canterbury<br />
£40, Ticket number 099, Chris Regan, Isle of Sheppey<br />
£40, Ticket number 104, Don Ralph, <strong>Sittingbourne</strong><br />
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Bostik South League Table to <strong>22</strong>/01/20<strong>19</strong><br />
P W D L F A +/- Pts<br />
1 Cray Wanderers 21 17 3 1 45 18 27 54<br />
2 Hastings United 21 14 2 5 49 24 25 44<br />
3 Ashford United 21 12 3 6 46 21 25 39<br />
4 Horsham 21 12 2 7 41 28 13 38<br />
5 Whyteleafe 21 10 5 6 42 27 15 35<br />
6 <strong>VCD</strong> ATHLETIC 21 11 1 9 39 37 2 34<br />
7 HAYWARDS HEATH TOWN 21 9 6 6 37 29 8 33<br />
8 Hythe Town 21 9 5 7 42 37 5 32<br />
9 Phoenix Sports 20 7 8 5 41 38 3 29<br />
10 Sevenoaks Town 21 8 4 9 29 30 -1 28<br />
11 Ramsgate 21 7 6 8 34 33 1 27<br />
12 Three Bridges 21 8 3 10 37 41 -4 27<br />
13 Guernsey 21 7 3 11 30 40 -10 24<br />
14 East Grinstead Town 21 6 5 10 36 43 -7 23<br />
15 Whitstable Town 21 6 5 10 18 34 -16 23<br />
16 Faversham Town 21 5 4 12 33 58 -25 <strong>19</strong><br />
17 SITTINGBOURNE 20 5 2 13 25 40 -15 17<br />
18 Herne Bay 20 5 2 13 35 51 -16 17<br />
<strong>19</strong> Greenwich Borough 21 5 1 15 28 58 -30 16<br />
20 Thamesmead Town 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0<br />
Bostik South East <strong>Match</strong>es <strong>26</strong>/01/20<strong>19</strong><br />
3pm<br />
Faversham Town<br />
v<br />
Cray Wanderers<br />
3pm Greenwich Borough v Whitstable Town<br />
3pm Herne Bay v Hastings United<br />
3pm Horsham v Ramsgate<br />
3pm Sevenoaks Town v East Grinstead Town<br />
3pm Three Bridges v Ashford United<br />
3pm <strong>VCD</strong> Athletic v Hythe Town<br />
3pm Whyteleafe v Phoenix Sports
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