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This is a joint programme that covers the BetVictor Isthmian League fixture versus Guernsey
and the midweek game in the Velocity Trophy versus VCD Athletic.
A warm welcome to the Guernsey and VCD Athletic Players, Committee, and fans, and also the
match officials.
Both teams have started better than us with Guernsey especially doing well despite the fact that
they have played all of their 6 league games so far away owing to work being done at their
Footes Lane ground. This hasn’t stopped them from being the league’s highest scorers and
having a decent record of winning 2, drawing 3, and losing 1. These are exciting times for
Guernsey as they progress on their wish to have their own ground. Their current ground, Footes
Lane, is owned by the State of Guernsey and they share that with the Guernsey Rugby Club.
VCD Athletic have also started well winning 4, drawing 1 and losing 1. VCD are likely to include
in their squad two ex-Sittingbourne players in Raphe Brown and Jack Steventon, so welcome
back to them.
Player news now and I start with the sad news that Roman Campbell’s loan period has now
ended and will not be renewed, Roman has again looked impressive whilst on loan to us from
Gillingham and he will be missed.
Patrick Lee, is recovering from an injury and has also decided to move on and we wish both him
and Roman well.
Since the last programme I think it’s fair to say that we have underwhelmed by going out of the
FA Cup to Bognor Regis Town away 3-0 and losing to our local rivals Faversham Town by a
goal to nil. We were rarely in the game at Bognor but against Faversham Town we had what
was probably our best half of the season before succumbing to an unfortunate goal right at the
end of the first half. Faversham took sustenance from this and improved in the second half and
we couldn’t make the break through.
Finally the new website is now on line. It certainly looks better on mobile devices but there are
still teething problems which are probably down to me still trying to get to grips with the Word-
Press approach, principally embedding the photographs and match day programme into the
web page of the match report. However, I managed to save the extensive archive which goes
back to 1996 when the first Brickies website went live so I am pleased with that. As time goes
on I will try and get more links working on that archive. I have to say that there are some pretty
dismal football club websites out there as although they look OK they lack content and I have
always thought that with social media now often being the main communication platform the
website should be for confirmed news and information as well as an archive, as with paper being
more and more side-lined where, will the fans and historians of the future get their history
from? This is probably even more important now that many clubs have gone over to e programmes.
Don’t believe all you read on social media!
Staying with the website I had to take the Mitre shop items off as Mitre and the league have an
arrangement with Stadium Sports that they are supplier of Mitre kit to us, I am assured that Stadium
have these items and also our shirts. To be fair to Stadium they have subsided the teams
Mitre kit to the tune of around £1000.
Enjoy the games
Peter
From the Programme Editor