Sittingbourne v Peacehaven & Telscombe 190316

John’s Jottings
Welcome to Woodstock Park from The Club Secretary
Good afternoon everyone. We welcome to Woodstock the players, officials and supporters of Peacehaven
& Telscombe and also the match officials.
We played Peacehaven & Telscombe in mid-December and came away with a slightly flattering 6-2 victory.
The home sides problems have been well documented and on the day they played with a number of
youngsters in the side. For two thirds of the match they gave a good account of themselves and at one
stage, just after half time, went 2-1 up. However, tiredness and our greater experience finally told and we
returned home with all three points. On Saturday they earned their first point of 2016 with a 1-1 draw at
home to Tooting & Mitcham. This was an excellent point against a team that I personally rate as one of
the best we have played this season. Tuesday night they played Molesey, another team that has impressed
me this season. They took an 18 th minute lead but conceded two goals just before half time and
that is the way it finished.
Our last home game saw us complete a double over East Grinstead Town. The first half was fairly even
but we generally bossed the second. We left it late though! New signing from Whitstable Town, Michael
Hurcomb, who only came on in the 78 th minute, scored the winner with 89 minutes on the clock.
Last Saturday it was the long trip to Guernsey that was made even longer with fog delaying the outbound
flight. In the end the players got to the ground with no time for a proper warm up or any of the normal
preparations that would normally take place on match days. Adding to this the hanging around for a few
hours at the airport it was no surprise that Guernsey looked the team more likely to win. The match eventually
got under way one and a half hours late! If we had taken some of our chances it would have been
a lot closer than the 3-0 final score line. The attendance at Guernsey was 804 which was their fourth
highest of the season – Ourselves and Peacehaven & Telscombe could do amazing things with the income
that level of support would generate! The support from our twenty to thirty fans that were at the
ground was (as usual) amazing. Thanks to everyone who made the effort to travel. The tremendous support
did not go unnoticed amongst the Guernsey faithful who only had good things to say about it. One
thing that our supporters who particularly took a liking to Roary (their mascot) may not know is that he
originally was not going to be able to attend the game. He flew out on the early Saturday flight to Gatwick
to attend a friend’s birthday party in London. Because of the fog the plane was unable to land and flew
back to Guernsey where he decided to abandon his plans and go to the game instead. Whilst writing
about the Guernsey trip and on behalf of everybody at the club I would like to thank Mark Broad for taking
all the kit to Guernsey in his car. This was a tremendous help and meant that far more could be taken
than would have been possible if it had to have gone on the plane with the players.
Next match for Sittingbourne is next Saturday when we visit Merstham to play Walton Casuals. On Bank
Holiday Monday we play Faversham Town here. This is a 3:00pm kick off.
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