Match Day Programme Sittingbourne v Horsham 6th April 2019

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From the Programme Editor A warm welcome to our visitors Horsham, and also to the match officials. Horsham have exciting times ahead, as after spending 10 years “in exile) at Worthing, Horsham YMCA and lately Lancing, their new ground at the Hop Oast, on the outskirts of Horsham, is coming on well. Its worth having a look at their website to see pictures of the latest building works including the laying of the pitch. This will be a difficult game with Horsham trying to seal a play-off place. There are no secretary notes today as he is on another one of his many cruises! There have been two defeats for us since the last programme, home to Hythe Town and away to Greenwich Borough, the latter one being particularly disappointing. Chris writes more about that game in his notes. We still need one win to make mathematically sure that we don’t get relegated. The good news is that following the completion of our new dressing rooms and other small works around the ground, we have now succeeded in passing our ground grading inspection. If we had not had the new dressing rooms then we more than likely would have been relegated. An FA letter has stressed that Dressing rooms must be 18 square metres by March 31st or clubs will be relegated to Step 5, unless work has started, planning permission is in place and the available finance is demonstrable. Already Aylesbury FC have been told that they wont get a reprieve and will be relegated. We can only feel sorry for those clubs who are effected as its only through the exceptional generosity of Greg McHardy that we have survived this scare. The transfer deadline for clubs at our level has now passed and we have made two new signings in Kane Phillips, who has rejoined us, and a very promising young man in Harry Taylor,who has joined us after banging in goals for Millwall youth, so welcome to these two. Chris includes some up to date news of player availability in his notes. This programme gives extensive coverage to the changes in FA rules that will be coming in on the 1st June. The article covers three pages, but I thought that it was worth the space so that you can be up to speed ready for the new season!! Locally there is extraordinary news coming out of Herne Bay FC. It appears that their budget has been far too generous and with a majority of contracted players they are fast running out of money. Joint managers, well known to us, John Embery and Jermaine Darlington, have walked out and a board statement said “The social media trolls have finally won the day. The management team have been hounded out of the club and as such the club are playing Whyteleafe with Anthony Deer taking the team. (Ed note they did defeat Whyteleafe!) Whether we will have a team to field next Saturday is in the lap of the footballing gods. Relegation back to the SCEFL looks to be inevitable. Whether there will be a club next season is unclear. The board have put so much effort over the years but the past two weeks has become so demoralising. These keyboard warriors who hide behind false titles post what they like without knowing the full facts, criticising the board and their decisions and it is these individuals who have destroyed this football club. Hopefully we can all get behind and support Anthony for the remaining matches.” You can now see why we are very reluctant to have players on contract, as most clubs with our income can’t afford to pay players who are not playing, even though we would dearly love to. Enjoy the game today. Peter
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