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Ryman League
Division One
South
www.sittingbournef.co.uk
BRICKIES
V
South
Park
Sat 27th August
2016
Kick off 3.00pm

Sittingbourne FC
The DMA Stadium, Woodstock Park, Broadoak Road,
Sittingbourne, Kent, ME9 8AG
Tel: 01795 410777 www.sittingbournefc.co.uk
Sittingbourne FC is a members club
CLUB OFFICIAL
President: Allan Crowshaw
Vice President: Alan Barty
Hon Vice Presidents: Tania & Andy Spice
Chairman: Maurice Dunk
Vice Chairman: Ken Medwyn
Secretary/Treasurer: John Pitts
OTHER COMMITTEE MEMBERS
John Cooper (Commercial).
Peter Pitts (Media, Web site, Programme editor,
stadium announcer,) David Brown (Youth
development), Colin Page (Ast Treasurer),
Danny Appleton (Turnstile Manager)
Board Room Hospitality: Sandra Pitts & Carol
Cooper,
Lottery Secretary: Hilary Joines.
Club Historian: Dudley Hird.
Programme Sales: Sian Goatham.
Turnstile Operator: Faye Goatham
Club Welfare Officer: Lee Tappenden
Match Reporter: Tony Rickson
Groundsman: Roger Pudner
Club Photographer: Ken Medwyn
Club Shop: Ann Morrison & Clive Phillips
Playing Management
Manager: Nick Davis
Assist Manager: Tony Cornwell
Coaches: Warren Chambers, Damian Hopkins and
Jono Richardson.
Team Assistant: Harry Chambers
Physio: Tom Martin
Under 21 Managers: John Embury and Jermaine
Darlington.
WOODSTOCK GROUND REGULA-
TIONS
1. All persons entering the ground are subject to
the rules and regulations of The Football Association.
2. The club reserves the right to eject or prosecute
any person who within the club premises is considered
by the club committee or its employees to
be or have been behaving in the following ways:
a) Entering the field of play before or during
the course of the game.
b) Using obscene, abusive or racist language
or persistently swearing.
c) Being intoxicated by drink or drugs.
Further, persons will not be allowed entry to
Woodstock Park if in the opinion of the gatemen,
stewards or any members of the management
committee they are intoxicated.
3. NO bottles or metal cans, glasses or weapons of
any kind are allowed in the ground. The stewards
have the right to search a spectator if they have
grounds to believe that the person is in possession
of any item that is deemed to be a danger to other
spectators.
4. Alcohol must only be consumed within the confines
of the club house.
5. The climbing of fences or floodlight pylons and
all buildings within the ground is strictly forbidden.
6. All vehicles parked within the boundaries of the
club’s car park must be parked within a designated
space unless otherwise directed by a steward.
No responsibility is accepted for any mishap that
may occur. Car parking is at owners risk.

TEAM CHECK
Saturday 27th August 2016
Ryman League Div 1 South
SITTINGBOURNE V SOUTH PARK
Manager: Nick Davis
Assistant: Tony Cornwell
Coaches: Jono Richardson, Damian Hopkin
Physio: Tom Martin
Kit Manager: Warren Chambers
Matchday Asistant : Harry Chambers
Manager: Malcolm Porter
Coaches: Joe McElligott, Paul Robinson,
Roy Jacobsen
Physio: Stacey Miller
MATCH OFFICIALS
Referee: Mr Daniel Bonneywell, Assistants: Mr Craig Burton
Mr Olly Fife
Red & Black Stripes Shirts,
Black Shorts, Black Socks
1, Danny RAMBUL
PLAYED
SUBSTITUTE
GOALS
PLAYED
SUBSTITUTE
GOALS
All Blue
1. James WASTELL
2. Tom BRUNT
2. Jerry O’SULLIVAN
3. Tom CARLSE
4. Dan TANNER
3. Jack STAFFORD
4. Dylan MERCHANT
5. Jono RICHARDSON (C)
5. Asa RIXON-NICHOLLS
6. Jack STEVENTON
6. Nathan AYLING
7. Hicham AKHAZZAN
7. Kieran LAVERY
8. Stefan WRIGHT
8. Kofi QUARTEY
9. Remell DAVIS
9. Dale BURGESS
10. Miles CORNWELL
10. Dean LOVEGROVE
11. Hicham AKHAZZAN
11. James McELLIGOTT
12.Conrad LEE
12. Dan MOODY
14. Steven ITA
14. Jake GILL
15. Josh WISSON
15. Joe JACKSON
16. Ben BRIDLE-CARD
16. Ryan SMITH
17. Connor WILKINS
17. Luke ELLIOTT

FROM THE PROGRAMME EDITOR
Welcome to Woodstock Park
The welcomes have been left to me today as our secretary John is on (another) cruise!
So a warm welcome to Woodstock to all those from South Park, the officials, our own
supporters, and everyone else!
Its been a disappointing last two matches when we literally crashed out of the Emirates
FA Cup to a very good Hythe Town team...but we had a great opportunity to progress in
the first match but couldn’t take advantage. We have a very young team at the moment
with a few exceptions!, the average age of the squad that lost at Hythe was 23.
Sometimes the FA Cup can be an expensive competition for us when we are defeated at
the first stage but at least this time Hythe, being fairly local, didn’t have a coach so after
the split of income although there still isn’t enough to meet our outgoings from the game,
its not as bad as it could be!
South Park are yet to get off the mark in the league having lost 4-1 at Hastings and 3-2
at home to Corinthian-Casuals but they had a good win over Phoenix Sports by 2-0 to
progress in the Emirates FA Cup. Last season we defeated them 2-0 here at Woodstock
and drew 1-1 at their place.
Latest news from the FA is that new chairman, Greg Clarke, has chosen a Ryman
League Division 1 South game as his first game to watch on the same evening that he
begins the job. Clarke, a former chairman of Leicester City, has chosen to see our opponents
today, South Park, in action against Dorking Wanderers in the first qualifying
round of the Emirates FA cup. Sorry to mention the Emirates FA Cup again!
I am hoping that the new web site will be live over the weekend but we are waiting for
the domain name transfer to be confirmed, and also there is still a lot of work if its to
have the same comprehensive information as the existing site so there are likely to be
lots of diverts to the old pages until I have time to create the new pages. The address
stays the same!
We make our first visit to Greenwich Borough for our next game which is being played
on Bank Holiday Monday with a 3.00PM kick off. Greenwich Borough are another team
(like Hythe Town) who are tipped to do well in the league as they seem to have a bit of
money to spend, so this will be another difficult game. Direction to their ground are in this
programme. For those of you going by train the nearest station seems to be Eltham and
the National Rail web site shows that there are trains running however (there are extensive
rail works over the holiday period). Depending on what service you get there are 1
or 2 changes to make. Google Maps says that its 1 mile from the station and a 20 minute
walk (although to me it looks longer!)
Finally because Corinthian-Casuals are in the 1st Qualifying round of the Emirates FA
Cup our scheduled game on 3rd September against them has been moved to Tuesday
25th October.
Enjoy the game!
PETER

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From the Manager
We are 4 games in including a replay from our FA cup draw last Saturday. The real
opportunity was on Saturday when the opposition keeper was dismissed early
on. We were disappointed we never tested the stand in keeper as much as we
should. It was always going to be tough to go away and get anything form the replay
but I thought in the first half we were excellent and really frustrated the home
side and should have done better with the chances we created. Nearing the end
of the half we changed a set piece from what has been very successful for us and
players were out of position and we were caught on the break. I let my feelings
known at half time that this was not acceptable. Unfortunately the second half was
a non-contest and we were very disappointing.
With a young side this will happen from time to time and I’m not one to dwell on
the past but to put things right for the future and now I want a response. South
Park will be tough opposition along with Greenwich away on the Monday but they
are games we are looking forward to.
Nick
Away Travel
Bank Holiday Monday 29th August, 3.00 PM. Greenwich Borough, DGS Marine
Stadium Middle Park Avenue Eltham SE9 5HP
By Car: M2, A2, to Eltham then take the A205 turn off (signposrt A20/A21/
Catford/ Shooters Hill and South Circular) and turn left onto the South Circular
Road A 205. At next Roundabout take 2nd exit Middle Park Avenue (Google
streetview April 2016 shows a white house
on the corner!.) Ground is a little way along
on the right (Used to be Badgers Sports
Ground.).
Nearest Station: Eltham
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TONY’s NOTES
There’s other things we can find to do on a Tuesday night than travel across Kent to see our
team crash out of the FA Cup 5-0.
So what makes us do it? Is it football’s that so special? Or is it Sittingbourne themselves? Or is it
optimism that this might just be the night for a huge surprise and we’d be cross if we didn’t bother
to go and missed it?
It’s probably something of all them. Plus the feeling that all us fans, too, like to be part of a team,
part of a family. We like standing with each other, enjoying the banter, enjoying the company,
enjoying the good days and consoling each other on the not so good ones.
Look at Guernsey and how much it means to the fans to get on the trip and have a night out together
afterwards.
What made me think about what makes supporters of us all was the Olympics.
I like more or less all sports but football’s been pretty much my favourite for more years than I
care to remember.
So how much football did I watch during the magnificent Olympics fortnight? Well none, to tell
the truth.
That’s because you can’t physically watch everything
so – like everyone else – I began to pick and choose
what I thought I’d like most.
And that was, for instance, the cycling, the rowing, the
hockey, the gymnastics – the events where Team GB
were at the forefront and likely to do best.
It became not ‘isn’t that Laura Trott superb’ or ‘isn’t
that Max Whitlock incredible’ but ‘we’re brilliant, aren’t
we?’
‘They’ became ‘we’ and we shared their delight, their
tears even. And that’s why we loved it – well I did, certainly.
And of all the incredible success for British sport, the
one I enjoyed the most was the women’s hockey.
We were, to put it politely, outplayed by the Dutch in
the final but somehow we dug in, took our chances
when they didn’t, and then grabbed the gold medals
with our prowess and coolness in a penalty shoot-out.
It was a magnificent win against all odds, and all the
more enjoyable for that.
There’s lessons to be learned for football from hockey,
such as when to press for possession, when to sit
back, when to defend in depth, when to attack in numbers.
You have to be fit, strong and well organised to pull it
off, and – painful as it is to think it – you have to appreciate
what we might call the dark arts.
Such as letting the referee know when you consider you’ve been fouled, pulling back players
when you think you can get away it, or committing a little foul to stop a counter-attack and give
yourselves the chance to get back into position.
Not that I’m saying the terrific hockey girls for one minute did any of these – or any other football
team I’ve seen recently.
But there’s a lot that goes into winning any sporting contest, and sometimes it’s down to more
than just who’s the most talented and clever on the ball.
Meantime, we just continue to enjoy the game and enjoy watching it alongside like-minded people
we want to be with. And wait for the moments we can celebrate together.
Tony Rickson

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FROM THE CHAIRMAN
Very exciting start to the season lots of great attacking play and lots of goals at
both ends!
Four games three draws and a cup replay defeat is not too bad a start let's hope
we can start to score more than we let in. If we do then all will be fine.
The first Saturday home gate was a disappointing gate at just below 100 but it was
a good crowd for the FA Cup home game with over 150.
If we could only average 150 things would be so much better, so please continue
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SOUTH PARK—A BRIEF HISTORY
South Park Football Club was formed in 1897 and immediately
became founder members of the Redhill &
District Football League along with other local clubs
Godstone, Meadvale and Reigate Priory Reserves. The
club remain members of the league today.
Although the facilities were basic the early matches
were played in the original sports field which was in upper
South Park between Crescent Road and Church
Road. In 1925 under the direction of Canon Gregory
from the local church, the football club together with the
village cricket club formed the South Park Sports Association
with the aim of the Association to provide sport
and sporting facilities for the people of South Park. Within
a few years it was realised that this new concept
would be better served by an improvement in facilities
and playing conditions. Fortunately for both club’s suitable
land existed in Whitehall Lane, the clubs current
home and with the co-operation of the public spirited
landowner, Harold Swannack, four acres of ground were
purchased there. Always strapped for cash in these early
years, the money was raised for the field largely by
public subscription, which included door to door collections.
in order to preserve the land as a permanent sports
ground, great foresight was exercised in vesting the land
and subsequent purchases of further lots of two acres
and four acres making ten acres in all in the National
Playing Fields Association, now known as Fields in trust.
The land became known as the ‘King Georges Field’
from 1935. The changing rooms were located on the far
side of the field from Whitehall Lane at the bottom of the
number two football pitch. Although the facilities were an
improvement on their previous home they remained
basic.
The football club flourished in the years leading to the
Second Great War but obviously declined during and
immediately after it. A handful of stewards rallied to the
cause however and quickly resurrected its fortunes. One
legacy of the hostilities, the air raid shelter, became the
focus of attention when it became clear that further improvements
were needed to the facilities if sporting aspirations
were to be advanced. Thus it was that a shower
room and toilet block and a modest clubhouse were attached
to this building. Funding for this was achieved
through the tireless efforts of the ‘Friends of South Park
Sports Association’ organisation. Despite these commendable
efforts, the Association lived for many years
on a hand to mouth basis with the management all too
frequently having to put their hands into their own pockets
to ensure its survival.
During this period the playing side of the football club
flourished with numerous honours won in the local
leagues and cups together with appearances in County
Cup finals. The club were also honoured in the fact that
a number of players progressed to senior football with
clubs such as Redhill and Eastbourne Town in the fifties
and sixties, the heyday of non league football.
The seventies and eighties brought further improvements
to the changing facilities and clubroom and the
purchase of the land that is now our main pitch were
made. In the early seventies the football club started the
junior’s section. Over the years the number of teams
has increased on a regular basis and today we have
boy’s teams from under eight’s through to under sixteen’s.
In 1997 the football club celebrated its Centenary year,
the highlight of which was a celebratory dinner held at
Reigate Manor Hotel at which over 150 people attended.
Many players both past and present attended along with
guests from The Football Association and Surrey County
Football Association. The club was presented with its
own unique framed certificate from the Football Association
to mark this occasion.
The club was once again celebrating in 1998 when Geof
Thatcher was awarded a Gold Medal by the Football
Association to commemorate over 50 years service to
football, the whole period with our club dating back to
the war years when the club only played friendly matches
as their was no competitive football during the war.
2001 saw Reigate Town Football Club move to South
Park and the club became known as South Park & Reigate
Town Football Club. In 2002 the club saw the formation
of the first girl’s team to play under the clubs
name and we now have four girl’s teams. The following
the year saw the introduction of the youth team who are
currently playing in the Southern Youth Floodlight
League. The youth team played their home matches at
Merstham Football Club from 2003–2007 as at the time
we did not have floodlights.
For the 2003/04 season the club reverted back to its
original name of South Park Football Club. In February
2004 the club became only the fifth in Surrey to be
awarded the status of ‘FA Charter Standard Community
Club’. In 2006 the first team were promoted to the Combined
Counties Football League and as our new changing
facilities were being built played their home matches
at Cranleigh. In their first season in the Combined Counties
League the team finished in seventh place in the
league. 2007 saw the completion of our new changing
rooms and the erection of floodlights around our main
pitch. This ensured that our first and youth teams could
now play their home matches in South Park.
The 2008/09 season saw another landmark in the history
of the club when we hosted Shoreham in our first ever
FA Vase game. The 2009/10 season saw the club finish
in their highest position (6 th ) since joining the Combined
Counties League. The club has continued to progress
and in August 2010 our stand will be erected which will
give us the ground grading required for the first team to
gain promotion. The 2010/11 season will saw the club
participate in the FA Cup for the time with an away tie
against Greenwich Borough in the extra preliminary
round. This game was covered by ITV Sport to start
their Road to Wembley coverage as were our subsequent
ties against Horsham YMCA and Cray Wanderers.
The first team won the Surrey Premier Cup Final
and the Lemon Recordings Division One Challenge Cup
in addition to being promoted to the Premier Division of
the Cherry Red Records Combined Counties League.
Continued after the fixtures list

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Hicham Akhazzan Sponsored
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Jack Steventon Sponsored
by Kieran Payne & Sittingbourne
Youth
Miles Cornwell Sponsored by
John Cooper
Jono Richardson, sponsored
by Kiearan Payne
Tom Brunt Sponsored by Dino
Creasey
Josh Wisson, sponsored
by Sittingbourne Youth.
All other players and team management are
available. To sponsor a player / team management
member please see myself (Peter Pitts)
or any member of the committee. Cost is £40
SOUTH PARK—A BRIEF HISTORY—Cont
The 2011/12 saw South Park finish in eighth position in their first season in the Combined
Counties League Premier Division. A good run in the FA Carlsberg Vase saw us reach the
Fourth Round where we were beaten by Whitley Bay, the Vase winners for the previous three
seasons. Playing in the Surrey Senior Cup for the first time Park beat Ryman Premier League
Kingstonian and Leatherhead before finally being knocked out in the quarter finals by Conference
South Sutton Utd. Season 2012/13 saw the club reach the 4 th Qualifying Round of the FA
Cup with Budweiser where we played Metropolitan Police in front of a club record attendance
of 643. The team finished the season in 4 th place in the league and reached the league cup final.
The 2013/14 season saw South Park win the Combined Counties League Premier Division and
in doing so gain promotion to the Ryman League Division One South. Our first season at step
four saw us finish in a creditable 14 th position. Last season saw an 11 th place finish.. Our reserve
team our in their second season at Step 6 in the Combined Counties League Division
One.
It must also be noted that without the tireless efforts of the late Fred Dearmun, Geof Thatcher,
Ray Wilson and Geof Arnold to name but a few, the club would not be in the position it is today.
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5
Sat 13 Aug
Tue 16 Aug
Sat 20 Aug
Tue 23 Aug
Sat 27 Aug
Mon 29 Aug
Tue 6 Sep
Sat 10 Sep
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Sat 1 Apr
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Cray Wanderers
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Hythe Town
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Hastings Utd
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Herne Bay
Lewes
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East Grinstead
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Bury Town
Walton Casuals
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+ = Own Goal
# = Sent Off
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* = Subs used and players substituted
** = Sub was Substituted
KSC = Kent Senior Cup
Lge Cup = Isthmian League Cup
League = Ryman Isthmian Lge Div 1 South
FAT = FA Challenge Trophy
FAC = FA Challenge Cup
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Match Reports
By Tony Rickson
Saturday 20th August 2016
FA Cup Preliminary Round
Sittingbourne 1 Hythe Town 1, Att 158
On a blustery day, Sittingbourne looked to have been handed a huge advantage with just six
minutes played when Hythe goalkeeper Joe Mant stepped out his area to take a long ball
through the middle with Remell Davis racing to close him down.
The referee harshly, though presumably correctly, judged it a red card offence and off went
Mant, though in midfielder Sam Adams they had a more than adequate replacement who’d
clearly done the job before.
Sittingbourne failed to make much use of the numerical
advantage in the first half, too often running
into trouble with the ball, and not making
enough of finding space out wide.
Hythe sensed there was a goal in it for them and
worryingly for Sittingbourne their twin strikers
Frankie Sawyer and Alfie May both got clear for
one-on-ones with Wallace.
May mishit his shot while Sawyer beat the keeper
only to see Sittingbourne man-of-the-match
Dan Tanner race back and clear it off the line.
But from the resulting corner, ex-Sittingbourne
stalwart Nick Reeves found space in the six-yard
box to easily put Hythe ahead. That means Sittingbourne
have conceded the first goal in all
three games so far this season.
Sittingbourne tried to edge their way back into the game but either side of half-time Remell Davis
and Steven Ita blazed chances over the bar.
But they equalised on 50 minutes when a wellworked
routine freed up Tanner to sidefoot
home as Ita’s well-placed corner found him in
the six-yard box. Pretty similar goal to Hythe’s
really, and also scored by a central defender.
It was a case now of whether Sittingbourne
could do enough to find a winner against a
Hythe defence that was tough enough to get
them into the promotion play-offs last season.
Davis had a shot cleared off the line when
stand-in keeper Adams was beaten for once,
Hicham Akhazzan neatly manouvered himself
into space for just the sort of opportunity he’s
scored many times from over the years but saw
his shot blocked, and sub Wisson probably had
the best chance when fellow youngster Jake
Embery laid the ball off to him but he shot over the bar.
Sittingbourne: Overland, Lee, Carlse, Tanner, Richardson, Steventon (Wisson 60 mins),
Akhazzan (Brunt 76 mins), Wright, Davis (Embery 82 mins), Cornwell, Ita.
(Photographs by Ken Medwyn)

Match Reports by Tony Rickson
Tuesday 23rd August 2016
FA Cup Preliminary Round Replay
Hythe Town 5 Sittingbourne 0 Att 209
The score doesn’t lie and, of course, this was an FA Cup hammering for Sittingbourne in their
Preliminary Round Replay.
And yet for 45 minutes there was nothing between these two teams and a repeat of Saturday’s
draw looked a strong possibility. Not that it could have been a draw as extra time, and penalties,
would have eventually sorted out a winner.
And the game did swing – in my opinion – on a hugely controversial decision by the referee in
the 55th minute when Sittingbourne were a goal down and battling to get back into it.
A good move down the left ended with Tom Carlse trying to go round a Hythe defender in the
penalty area but when his run was blocked and he went to ground the referee penalised him
and booked him for simulation.
It looked harsh in the extreme, such a tight call, and almost immediately after an incident at the
other end when Hythe’s jack-in-the-box Alfie May had theatrically tumbled past a challenge by
Brickies captain Jono Richardson and instead of getting a booking was rewarded with a freekick.
If the decision had gone Carlse’s way and a penalty had been awarded who knows what
would have happened, but as it was the last half-hour was a nightmare for Sittingbourne as
Hythe rubbed it by hitting four goals past unfortunate 17-year-old stand-in keeper Adam Wallace.
Of course, Sittingbourne’s big opportunity in this tie was on Saturday at Woodstock when
Hythe were reduced to 10 men after just six minutes as goalkeeper Joe Mant was sent off for
handling outside his area.
But they couldn’t break down a determined Hythe defence and they had the same problem in
this game, despite, I thought, playing better attacking football in the first half.
They’d made two changes from Saturday, Josh Wisson coming in to give an assured performance
in midfield in his first game back after a broken arm, and Tom Brunt returning at rightback.
Dropped down to sub were Jack Steventon and Hicham Akhazzan.
Using the full width of the pitch, they got good early crosses in from Carlse and Steven Ita, after
one terrific run, but couldn’t turn them into goal chances.
Miles Cornwell shot wide as Sittingbourne won lots of loose balls and big challenges, while at
the other end Wallace got down well to fist away a shot from May.
Sittingbourne forced a 45th minute corner which Wisson hit beyond far post and Hythe raced
the ball up the other end for Adams, who’d played as a stand-in goalkeeper for 84 minutes on
Saturday, to drill it in low from 25 yards. It’s not the first time this season that Sittingbourne
have conceded straight from an attacking corner.
They’ve gone behind in every game this season but each time have fought back to draw, but
this time there was no such recovery.
Despite Sittingbourne’s failed penalty appeal, Hythe were undoubtedly on top for much of the
second half and once Webster had got their second on 61 minutes they began to turn it on.
Adams scored twice in three minutes to complete his hat-trick, though for one he looked well
offside, and Pogue deflected a huge clearance from his own keeper past a by now demoralised
Wallace to add the fifth.
It was Sittingbourne’s first defeat of the season but they’re clearly shipping too many goals at
present and two games in 48 hours over the Bank Holiday weekend will be a tough ask for a
team who will need to recover their confidence from this hefty setback.
Sittingbourne: Wallace, Brunt, Lee, Tanner, Richardson, Wisson (Steventon 65 mins),
Carlse, Wright, Davis (Wilkins 81 mins), Cornwell, Ita (Akhazzan 81 mins)

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WE’RE less than a month into the new Non-League season and already some managers have had to
take a glance over ther shoulder - while two have had to clean their desks just weeks after the campaign
started.
I’ve written articles in the past, looking at the ridiculously short amount of time that is afforded to bosses in
the Football League.
Up until recently it was a widely held view that Non-League chairmen were far more patient and retained a
sense of reality that seems to be missing higher up the divisions as big money becomes more of a factor.
Well, we’re not even out of August and two National League clubs have already decided changes were
needed in the dugout.
Chris Todd was the first to go at Eastleigh while he was followed at the start of this week by Guiseley’s
Mark Bower.
Todd wasn’t a surprising one. Not because he had done a bad job, he had steadied the ship after Richard
Hill’s departure and led the club to a seventh place finish last term.
Of course, Eastleigh want, and should expect, the play-offs. They’ve got one of the heftiest budgets in the
division and a squad full of quality and experience.
Maybe it just wasn’t the right job for Todd. The likeable Welshman understandably took the chance with
both hands but rookie boss and expectant owner rarely mix well.
Stewart Donald has transformed the Spitfires and wants to see the club in the Football League. He has
invested large sums so who are we to criticise his decision?
Four points from their opening four games was seen as below par and Todd was replaced by ex-
Rotherham, Tranmere and Hartlepool boss Ronnie Moore.
While Moore might turn out to be the perfect appointment - I wouldn’t be surprised - you’ve got to feel for
Todd.
“Returns in football are based on league points and we’ve just not been earning enough to give us that
two points-a-game average we need for promotion,” said Eastleigh chief executive Mark Jewell.
“I know we’ll probably get criticism saying it’s madness to change the manager after four games, but it’s
not just about this season, we’ve done the analysis on our points return over a period of time.”
The big question has to be, if Todd wasn’t the right man four games into the season - was he really the
right man at the start of the season or even the end of the last campaign? If not, why let him spend a summer
recruiting a number of new players?
The same can be asked of Bower - who led Guiseley to promotion to Non-League’s top tier in 2014-15
before narrowly avoiding relegation last season.
Yes, the Lions had lost their opening five games, the most recent a disappointing collapse at Solihull
Moors, but there are 41 matches left.
“We have had some tough early days and when you are playing full-time sides, it is tough,” said Guiseley
chairman Phil Rogerson.
“But in the last two games, we were against newly promoted sides and we felt that we should have made
more of that.
“After being 2-1 up and throwing it away in a five-minute spell (at Solihull on Saturday), something must
have been wrong somewhere. Hopefully, we will now be able to fix it.”
So Bower’s almost three-year reign that included an elusive promotion from the Conference North was
ended after a dodgy five-minute spell - welcome to the cut-throat business of being a Non-League manager!
Steven Coney

Ryman League — Division 1 South Table
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