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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
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- Page 4 and 5: FROM THE PROGRAMME EDITOR Welcome t
- Page 6 and 7: MACRON OFFICIAL BENCH WEAR AND BALL
- Page 8: TONY’s NOTES There’s other thin
- Page 11: FROM THE CHAIRMAN Very exciting sta
- Page 14 and 15: SOUTH PARK—A BRIEF HISTORY South
- Page 16 and 17: DATE OPPOSITION COMP Sc ATT 1 2 3 4
- Page 19 and 20: PLUMBING, HEATING & BATHROOMS YOUR
- Page 22 and 23: Match Reports by Tony Rickson Tuesd
- Page 25: WE’RE less than a month into the
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Ryman League<br />
Division One<br />
South<br />
www.sittingbournef.co.uk<br />
BRICKIES<br />
V<br />
South<br />
Park<br />
Sat 27th August<br />
2016<br />
Kick off 3.00pm
Sittingbourne FC<br />
The DMA Stadium, Woodstock Park, Broadoak Road,<br />
Sittingbourne, Kent, ME9 8AG<br />
Tel: 01795 410777 www.sittingbournefc.co.uk<br />
Sittingbourne FC is a members club<br />
CLUB OFFICIAL<br />
President: Allan Crowshaw<br />
Vice President: Alan Barty<br />
Hon Vice Presidents: Tania & Andy Spice<br />
Chairman: Maurice Dunk<br />
Vice Chairman: Ken Medwyn<br />
Secretary/Treasurer: John Pitts<br />
OTHER COMMITTEE MEMBERS<br />
John Cooper (Commercial).<br />
Peter Pitts (Media, Web site, Programme editor,<br />
stadium announcer,) David Brown (Youth<br />
development), Colin Page (Ast Treasurer),<br />
Danny Appleton (Turnstile Manager)<br />
Board Room Hospitality: Sandra Pitts & Carol<br />
Cooper,<br />
Lottery Secretary: Hilary Joines.<br />
Club Historian: Dudley Hird.<br />
Programme Sales: Sian Goatham.<br />
Turnstile Operator: Faye Goatham<br />
Club Welfare Officer: Lee Tappenden<br />
Match Reporter: Tony Rickson<br />
Groundsman: Roger Pudner<br />
Club Photographer: Ken Medwyn<br />
Club Shop: Ann Morrison & Clive Phillips<br />
Playing Management<br />
Manager: Nick Davis<br />
Assist Manager: Tony Cornwell<br />
Coaches: Warren Chambers, Damian Hopkins and<br />
Jono Richardson.<br />
Team Assistant: Harry Chambers<br />
Physio: Tom Martin<br />
Under 21 Managers: John Embury and Jermaine<br />
Darlington.<br />
WOODSTOCK GROUND REGULA-<br />
TIONS<br />
1. All persons entering the ground are subject to<br />
the rules and regulations of The Football Association.<br />
2. The club reserves the right to eject or prosecute<br />
any person who within the club premises is considered<br />
by the club committee or its employees to<br />
be or have been behaving in the following ways:<br />
a) Entering the field of play before or during<br />
the course of the game.<br />
b) Using obscene, abusive or racist language<br />
or persistently swearing.<br />
c) Being intoxicated by drink or drugs.<br />
Further, persons will not be allowed entry to<br />
Woodstock Park if in the opinion of the gatemen,<br />
stewards or any members of the management<br />
committee they are intoxicated.<br />
3. NO bottles or metal cans, glasses or weapons of<br />
any kind are allowed in the ground. The stewards<br />
have the right to search a spectator if they have<br />
grounds to believe that the person is in possession<br />
of any item that is deemed to be a danger to other<br />
spectators.<br />
4. Alcohol must only be consumed within the confines<br />
of the club house.<br />
5. The climbing of fences or floodlight pylons and<br />
all buildings within the ground is strictly forbidden.<br />
6. All vehicles parked within the boundaries of the<br />
club’s car park must be parked within a designated<br />
space unless otherwise directed by a steward.<br />
No responsibility is accepted for any mishap that<br />
may occur. Car parking is at owners risk.
TEAM CHECK<br />
Saturday 27th August 2016<br />
Ryman League Div 1 South<br />
SITTINGBOURNE V SOUTH PARK<br />
Manager: Nick Davis<br />
Assistant: Tony Cornwell<br />
Coaches: Jono Richardson, Damian Hopkin<br />
Physio: Tom Martin<br />
Kit Manager: Warren Chambers<br />
Matchday Asistant : Harry Chambers<br />
Manager: Malcolm Porter<br />
Coaches: Joe McElligott, Paul Robinson,<br />
Roy Jacobsen<br />
Physio: Stacey Miller<br />
MATCH OFFICIALS<br />
Referee: Mr Daniel Bonneywell, Assistants: Mr Craig Burton<br />
Mr Olly Fife<br />
Red & Black Stripes Shirts,<br />
Black Shorts, Black Socks<br />
1, Danny RAMBUL<br />
PLAYED<br />
SUBSTITUTE<br />
GOALS<br />
PLAYED<br />
SUBSTITUTE<br />
GOALS<br />
All Blue<br />
1. James WASTELL<br />
2. Tom BRUNT<br />
2. Jerry O’SULLIVAN<br />
3. Tom CARLSE<br />
4. Dan TANNER<br />
3. Jack STAFFORD<br />
4. Dylan MERCHANT<br />
5. Jono RICHARDSON (C)<br />
5. Asa RIXON-NICHOLLS<br />
6. Jack STEVENTON<br />
6. Nathan AYLING<br />
7. Hicham AKHAZZAN<br />
7. Kieran LAVERY<br />
8. Stefan WRIGHT<br />
8. Kofi QUARTEY<br />
9. Remell DAVIS<br />
9. Dale BURGESS<br />
10. Miles CORNWELL<br />
10. Dean LOVEGROVE<br />
11. Hicham AKHAZZAN<br />
11. James McELLIGOTT<br />
12.Conrad LEE<br />
12. Dan MOODY<br />
14. Steven ITA<br />
14. Jake GILL<br />
15. Josh WISSON<br />
15. Joe JACKSON<br />
16. Ben BRIDLE-CARD<br />
16. Ryan SMITH<br />
17. Connor WILKINS<br />
17. Luke ELLIOTT
FROM THE PROGRAMME EDITOR<br />
Welcome to Woodstock Park<br />
The welcomes have been left to me today as our secretary John is on (another) cruise!<br />
So a warm welcome to Woodstock to all those from South Park, the officials, our own<br />
supporters, and everyone else!<br />
Its been a disappointing last two matches when we literally crashed out of the Emirates<br />
FA Cup to a very good Hythe Town team...but we had a great opportunity to progress in<br />
the first match but couldn’t take advantage. We have a very young team at the moment<br />
with a few exceptions!, the average age of the squad that lost at Hythe was 23.<br />
Sometimes the FA Cup can be an expensive competition for us when we are defeated at<br />
the first stage but at least this time Hythe, being fairly local, didn’t have a coach so after<br />
the split of income although there still isn’t enough to meet our outgoings from the game,<br />
its not as bad as it could be!<br />
South Park are yet to get off the mark in the league having lost 4-1 at Hastings and 3-2<br />
at home to Corinthian-Casuals but they had a good win over Phoenix Sports by 2-0 to<br />
progress in the Emirates FA Cup. Last season we defeated them 2-0 here at Woodstock<br />
and drew 1-1 at their place.<br />
Latest news from the FA is that new chairman, Greg Clarke, has chosen a Ryman<br />
League Division 1 South game as his first game to watch on the same evening that he<br />
begins the job. Clarke, a former chairman of Leicester City, has chosen to see our opponents<br />
today, South Park, in action against Dorking Wanderers in the first qualifying<br />
round of the Emirates FA cup. Sorry to mention the Emirates FA Cup again!<br />
I am hoping that the new web site will be live over the weekend but we are waiting for<br />
the domain name transfer to be confirmed, and also there is still a lot of work if its to<br />
have the same comprehensive information as the existing site so there are likely to be<br />
lots of diverts to the old pages until I have time to create the new pages. The address<br />
stays the same!<br />
We make our first visit to Greenwich Borough for our next game which is being played<br />
on Bank Holiday Monday with a 3.00PM kick off. Greenwich Borough are another team<br />
(like Hythe Town) who are tipped to do well in the league as they seem to have a bit of<br />
money to spend, so this will be another difficult game. Direction to their ground are in this<br />
programme. For those of you going by train the nearest station seems to be Eltham and<br />
the National Rail web site shows that there are trains running however (there are extensive<br />
rail works over the holiday period). Depending on what service you get there are 1<br />
or 2 changes to make. Google Maps says that its 1 mile from the station and a 20 minute<br />
walk (although to me it looks longer!)<br />
Finally because Corinthian-Casuals are in the 1st Qualifying round of the Emirates FA<br />
Cup our scheduled game on 3rd September against them has been moved to Tuesday<br />
25th October.<br />
Enjoy the game!<br />
PETER
Theo Paphitis, Chairman, Ryman<br />
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From the Manager<br />
We are 4 games in including a replay from our FA cup draw last Saturday. The real<br />
opportunity was on Saturday when the opposition keeper was dismissed early<br />
on. We were disappointed we never tested the stand in keeper as much as we<br />
should. It was always going to be tough to go away and get anything form the replay<br />
but I thought in the first half we were excellent and really frustrated the home<br />
side and should have done better with the chances we created. Nearing the end<br />
of the half we changed a set piece from what has been very successful for us and<br />
players were out of position and we were caught on the break. I let my feelings<br />
known at half time that this was not acceptable. Unfortunately the second half was<br />
a non-contest and we were very disappointing.<br />
With a young side this will happen from time to time and I’m not one to dwell on<br />
the past but to put things right for the future and now I want a response. South<br />
Park will be tough opposition along with Greenwich away on the Monday but they<br />
are games we are looking forward to.<br />
Nick<br />
Away Travel<br />
Bank Holiday Monday 29th August, 3.00 PM. Greenwich Borough, DGS Marine<br />
Stadium Middle Park Avenue Eltham SE9 5HP<br />
By Car: M2, A2, to Eltham then take the A205 turn off (signposrt A20/A21/<br />
Catford/ Shooters Hill and South Circular) and turn left onto the South Circular<br />
Road A 205. At next Roundabout take 2nd exit Middle Park Avenue (Google<br />
streetview April 2016 shows a white house<br />
on the corner!.) Ground is a little way along<br />
on the right (Used to be Badgers Sports<br />
Ground.).<br />
Nearest Station: Eltham<br />
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TONY’s NOTES<br />
There’s other things we can find to do on a Tuesday night than travel across Kent to see our<br />
team crash out of the FA Cup 5-0.<br />
So what makes us do it? Is it football’s that so special? Or is it Sittingbourne themselves? Or is it<br />
optimism that this might just be the night for a huge surprise and we’d be cross if we didn’t bother<br />
to go and missed it?<br />
It’s probably something of all them. Plus the feeling that all us fans, too, like to be part of a team,<br />
part of a family. We like standing with each other, enjoying the banter, enjoying the company,<br />
enjoying the good days and consoling each other on the not so good ones.<br />
Look at Guernsey and how much it means to the fans to get on the trip and have a night out together<br />
afterwards.<br />
What made me think about what makes supporters of us all was the Olympics.<br />
I like more or less all sports but football’s been pretty much my favourite for more years than I<br />
care to remember.<br />
So how much football did I watch during the magnificent Olympics fortnight? Well none, to tell<br />
the truth.<br />
That’s because you can’t physically watch everything<br />
so – like everyone else – I began to pick and choose<br />
what I thought I’d like most.<br />
And that was, for instance, the cycling, the rowing, the<br />
hockey, the gymnastics – the events where Team GB<br />
were at the forefront and likely to do best.<br />
It became not ‘isn’t that Laura Trott superb’ or ‘isn’t<br />
that Max Whitlock incredible’ but ‘we’re brilliant, aren’t<br />
we?’<br />
‘They’ became ‘we’ and we shared their delight, their<br />
tears even. And that’s why we loved it – well I did, certainly.<br />
And of all the incredible success for British sport, the<br />
one I enjoyed the most was the women’s hockey.<br />
We were, to put it politely, outplayed by the Dutch in<br />
the final but somehow we dug in, took our chances<br />
when they didn’t, and then grabbed the gold medals<br />
with our prowess and coolness in a penalty shoot-out.<br />
It was a magnificent win against all odds, and all the<br />
more enjoyable for that.<br />
There’s lessons to be learned for football from hockey,<br />
such as when to press for possession, when to sit<br />
back, when to defend in depth, when to attack in numbers.<br />
You have to be fit, strong and well organised to pull it<br />
off, and – painful as it is to think it – you have to appreciate<br />
what we might call the dark arts.<br />
Such as letting the referee know when you consider you’ve been fouled, pulling back players<br />
when you think you can get away it, or committing a little foul to stop a counter-attack and give<br />
yourselves the chance to get back into position.<br />
Not that I’m saying the terrific hockey girls for one minute did any of these – or any other football<br />
team I’ve seen recently.<br />
But there’s a lot that goes into winning any sporting contest, and sometimes it’s down to more<br />
than just who’s the most talented and clever on the ball.<br />
Meantime, we just continue to enjoy the game and enjoy watching it alongside like-minded people<br />
we want to be with. And wait for the moments we can celebrate together.<br />
Tony Rickson
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Locations: Sparshatts operates in Sittingbourne,<br />
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Sparshatts' accolades<br />
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FROM THE CHAIRMAN<br />
Very exciting start to the season lots of great attacking play and lots of goals at<br />
both ends!<br />
Four games three draws and a cup replay defeat is not too bad a start let's hope<br />
we can start to score more than we let in. If we do then all will be fine.<br />
The first Saturday home gate was a disappointing gate at just below 100 but it was<br />
a good crowd for the FA Cup home game with over 150.<br />
If we could only average 150 things would be so much better, so please continue<br />
to try and get more people along. It is the increased gates that would help us improve<br />
along with the lottery and sponsorship. Our new family season ticket is very<br />
competitive.<br />
Hopefully our attacking style will get a few more through the gate. I have a friend<br />
involved with a club same level as us that try to survive on gates of 50 or 60 and it<br />
is nearly impossible.<br />
Warm welcome to our visitors today lets hope for another entertaining match<br />
MO<br />
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787837—<br />
Sponsors of the new Sittingbourne<br />
FC web site.<br />
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“The Ryman Football League strongly support recent FA statement that there should<br />
be a zero tolerance approach against racism and all forms of discrimination. Accordingly<br />
any form of discriminatory abuse whether it be based on race or ethnicity, sexual<br />
orientation, gender, faith, age, ability or any other form of abuse will be reported to<br />
The Football Association for action by that Association.” (Useful numbers:-The FA<br />
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SOUTH PARK—A BRIEF HISTORY<br />
South Park Football Club was formed in 1897 and immediately<br />
became founder members of the Redhill &<br />
District Football League along with other local clubs<br />
Godstone, Meadvale and Reigate Priory Reserves. The<br />
club remain members of the league today.<br />
Although the facilities were basic the early matches<br />
were played in the original sports field which was in upper<br />
South Park between Crescent Road and Church<br />
Road. In 1925 under the direction of Canon Gregory<br />
from the local church, the football club together with the<br />
village cricket club formed the South Park Sports Association<br />
with the aim of the Association to provide sport<br />
and sporting facilities for the people of South Park. Within<br />
a few years it was realised that this new concept<br />
would be better served by an improvement in facilities<br />
and playing conditions. Fortunately for both club’s suitable<br />
land existed in Whitehall Lane, the clubs current<br />
home and with the co-operation of the public spirited<br />
landowner, Harold Swannack, four acres of ground were<br />
purchased there. Always strapped for cash in these early<br />
years, the money was raised for the field largely by<br />
public subscription, which included door to door collections.<br />
in order to preserve the land as a permanent sports<br />
ground, great foresight was exercised in vesting the land<br />
and subsequent purchases of further lots of two acres<br />
and four acres making ten acres in all in the National<br />
Playing Fields Association, now known as Fields in trust.<br />
The land became known as the ‘King Georges Field’<br />
from 1935. The changing rooms were located on the far<br />
side of the field from Whitehall Lane at the bottom of the<br />
number two football pitch. Although the facilities were an<br />
improvement on their previous home they remained<br />
basic.<br />
The football club flourished in the years leading to the<br />
Second Great War but obviously declined during and<br />
immediately after it. A handful of stewards rallied to the<br />
cause however and quickly resurrected its fortunes. One<br />
legacy of the hostilities, the air raid shelter, became the<br />
focus of attention when it became clear that further improvements<br />
were needed to the facilities if sporting aspirations<br />
were to be advanced. Thus it was that a shower<br />
room and toilet block and a modest clubhouse were attached<br />
to this building. Funding for this was achieved<br />
through the tireless efforts of the ‘Friends of South Park<br />
Sports Association’ organisation. Despite these commendable<br />
efforts, the Association lived for many years<br />
on a hand to mouth basis with the management all too<br />
frequently having to put their hands into their own pockets<br />
to ensure its survival.<br />
During this period the playing side of the football club<br />
flourished with numerous honours won in the local<br />
leagues and cups together with appearances in County<br />
Cup finals. The club were also honoured in the fact that<br />
a number of players progressed to senior football with<br />
clubs such as Redhill and Eastbourne Town in the fifties<br />
and sixties, the heyday of non league football.<br />
The seventies and eighties brought further improvements<br />
to the changing facilities and clubroom and the<br />
purchase of the land that is now our main pitch were<br />
made. In the early seventies the football club started the<br />
junior’s section. Over the years the number of teams<br />
has increased on a regular basis and today we have<br />
boy’s teams from under eight’s through to under sixteen’s.<br />
In 1997 the football club celebrated its Centenary year,<br />
the highlight of which was a celebratory dinner held at<br />
Reigate Manor Hotel at which over 150 people attended.<br />
Many players both past and present attended along with<br />
guests from The Football Association and Surrey County<br />
Football Association. The club was presented with its<br />
own unique framed certificate from the Football Association<br />
to mark this occasion.<br />
The club was once again celebrating in 1998 when Geof<br />
Thatcher was awarded a Gold Medal by the Football<br />
Association to commemorate over 50 years service to<br />
football, the whole period with our club dating back to<br />
the war years when the club only played friendly matches<br />
as their was no competitive football during the war.<br />
2001 saw Reigate Town Football Club move to South<br />
Park and the club became known as South Park & Reigate<br />
Town Football Club. In 2002 the club saw the formation<br />
of the first girl’s team to play under the clubs<br />
name and we now have four girl’s teams. The following<br />
the year saw the introduction of the youth team who are<br />
currently playing in the Southern Youth Floodlight<br />
League. The youth team played their home matches at<br />
Merstham Football Club from 2003–2007 as at the time<br />
we did not have floodlights.<br />
For the 2003/04 season the club reverted back to its<br />
original name of South Park Football Club. In February<br />
2004 the club became only the fifth in Surrey to be<br />
awarded the status of ‘FA Charter Standard Community<br />
Club’. In 2006 the first team were promoted to the Combined<br />
Counties Football League and as our new changing<br />
facilities were being built played their home matches<br />
at Cranleigh. In their first season in the Combined Counties<br />
League the team finished in seventh place in the<br />
league. 2007 saw the completion of our new changing<br />
rooms and the erection of floodlights around our main<br />
pitch. This ensured that our first and youth teams could<br />
now play their home matches in South Park.<br />
The 2008/09 season saw another landmark in the history<br />
of the club when we hosted Shoreham in our first ever<br />
FA Vase game. The 2009/10 season saw the club finish<br />
in their highest position (6 th ) since joining the Combined<br />
Counties League. The club has continued to progress<br />
and in August 2010 our stand will be erected which will<br />
give us the ground grading required for the first team to<br />
gain promotion. The 2010/11 season will saw the club<br />
participate in the FA Cup for the time with an away tie<br />
against Greenwich Borough in the extra preliminary<br />
round. This game was covered by ITV Sport to start<br />
their Road to Wembley coverage as were our subsequent<br />
ties against Horsham YMCA and Cray Wanderers.<br />
The first team won the Surrey Premier Cup Final<br />
and the Lemon Recordings Division One Challenge Cup<br />
in addition to being promoted to the Premier Division of<br />
the Cherry Red Records Combined Counties League.<br />
Continued after the fixtures list
PLAYER SPONSORSHIP<br />
Hicham Akhazzan Sponsored<br />
by Drakes Plumbing merchants<br />
Jack Steventon Sponsored<br />
by Kieran Payne & Sittingbourne<br />
Youth<br />
Miles Cornwell Sponsored by<br />
John Cooper<br />
Jono Richardson, sponsored<br />
by Kiearan Payne<br />
Tom Brunt Sponsored by Dino<br />
Creasey<br />
Josh Wisson, sponsored<br />
by Sittingbourne Youth.<br />
All other players and team management are<br />
available. To sponsor a player / team management<br />
member please see myself (Peter Pitts)<br />
or any member of the committee. Cost is £40<br />
SOUTH PARK—A BRIEF HISTORY—Cont<br />
The 2011/12 saw South Park finish in eighth position in their first season in the Combined<br />
Counties League Premier Division. A good run in the FA Carlsberg Vase saw us reach the<br />
Fourth Round where we were beaten by Whitley Bay, the Vase winners for the previous three<br />
seasons. Playing in the Surrey Senior Cup for the first time Park beat Ryman Premier League<br />
Kingstonian and Leatherhead before finally being knocked out in the quarter finals by Conference<br />
South Sutton Utd. Season 2012/13 saw the club reach the 4 th Qualifying Round of the FA<br />
Cup with Budweiser where we played Metropolitan Police in front of a club record attendance<br />
of 643. The team finished the season in 4 th place in the league and reached the league cup final.<br />
The 2013/14 season saw South Park win the Combined Counties League Premier Division and<br />
in doing so gain promotion to the Ryman League Division One South. Our first season at step<br />
four saw us finish in a creditable 14 th position. Last season saw an 11 th place finish.. Our reserve<br />
team our in their second season at Step 6 in the Combined Counties League Division<br />
One.<br />
It must also be noted that without the tireless efforts of the late Fred Dearmun, Geof Thatcher,<br />
Ray Wilson and Geof Arnold to name but a few, the club would not be in the position it is today.<br />
Sponsors of the Woodstock stadium—www.dma-group.co.uk
DATE OPPOSITION COMP Sc ATT 1 2 3 4<br />
5<br />
Sat 13 Aug<br />
Tue 16 Aug<br />
Sat 20 Aug<br />
Tue 23 Aug<br />
Sat 27 Aug<br />
Mon 29 Aug<br />
Tue 6 Sep<br />
Sat 10 Sep<br />
Tue 13 Sep<br />
Sat 17 Sept<br />
Tue 20 Sept<br />
Sat 24 Sept<br />
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Match Reports<br />
By Tony Rickson<br />
Saturday 20th August 2016<br />
FA Cup Preliminary Round<br />
Sittingbourne 1 Hythe Town 1, Att 158<br />
On a blustery day, Sittingbourne looked to have been handed a huge advantage with just six<br />
minutes played when Hythe goalkeeper Joe Mant stepped out his area to take a long ball<br />
through the middle with Remell Davis racing to close him down.<br />
The referee harshly, though presumably correctly, judged it a red card offence and off went<br />
Mant, though in midfielder Sam Adams they had a more than adequate replacement who’d<br />
clearly done the job before.<br />
Sittingbourne failed to make much use of the numerical<br />
advantage in the first half, too often running<br />
into trouble with the ball, and not making<br />
enough of finding space out wide.<br />
Hythe sensed there was a goal in it for them and<br />
worryingly for Sittingbourne their twin strikers<br />
Frankie Sawyer and Alfie May both got clear for<br />
one-on-ones with Wallace.<br />
May mishit his shot while Sawyer beat the keeper<br />
only to see Sittingbourne man-of-the-match<br />
Dan Tanner race back and clear it off the line.<br />
But from the resulting corner, ex-Sittingbourne<br />
stalwart Nick Reeves found space in the six-yard<br />
box to easily put Hythe ahead. That means Sittingbourne<br />
have conceded the first goal in all<br />
three games so far this season.<br />
Sittingbourne tried to edge their way back into the game but either side of half-time Remell Davis<br />
and Steven Ita blazed chances over the bar.<br />
But they equalised on 50 minutes when a wellworked<br />
routine freed up Tanner to sidefoot<br />
home as Ita’s well-placed corner found him in<br />
the six-yard box. Pretty similar goal to Hythe’s<br />
really, and also scored by a central defender.<br />
It was a case now of whether Sittingbourne<br />
could do enough to find a winner against a<br />
Hythe defence that was tough enough to get<br />
them into the promotion play-offs last season.<br />
Davis had a shot cleared off the line when<br />
stand-in keeper Adams was beaten for once,<br />
Hicham Akhazzan neatly manouvered himself<br />
into space for just the sort of opportunity he’s<br />
scored many times from over the years but saw<br />
his shot blocked, and sub Wisson probably had<br />
the best chance when fellow youngster Jake<br />
Embery laid the ball off to him but he shot over the bar.<br />
Sittingbourne: Overland, Lee, Carlse, Tanner, Richardson, Steventon (Wisson 60 mins),<br />
Akhazzan (Brunt 76 mins), Wright, Davis (Embery 82 mins), Cornwell, Ita.<br />
(Photographs by Ken Medwyn)
Match Reports by Tony Rickson<br />
Tuesday 23rd August 2016<br />
FA Cup Preliminary Round Replay<br />
Hythe Town 5 Sittingbourne 0 Att 209<br />
The score doesn’t lie and, of course, this was an FA Cup hammering for Sittingbourne in their<br />
Preliminary Round Replay.<br />
And yet for 45 minutes there was nothing between these two teams and a repeat of Saturday’s<br />
draw looked a strong possibility. Not that it could have been a draw as extra time, and penalties,<br />
would have eventually sorted out a winner.<br />
And the game did swing – in my opinion – on a hugely controversial decision by the referee in<br />
the 55th minute when Sittingbourne were a goal down and battling to get back into it.<br />
A good move down the left ended with Tom Carlse trying to go round a Hythe defender in the<br />
penalty area but when his run was blocked and he went to ground the referee penalised him<br />
and booked him for simulation.<br />
It looked harsh in the extreme, such a tight call, and almost immediately after an incident at the<br />
other end when Hythe’s jack-in-the-box Alfie May had theatrically tumbled past a challenge by<br />
Brickies captain Jono Richardson and instead of getting a booking was rewarded with a freekick.<br />
If the decision had gone Carlse’s way and a penalty had been awarded who knows what<br />
would have happened, but as it was the last half-hour was a nightmare for Sittingbourne as<br />
Hythe rubbed it by hitting four goals past unfortunate 17-year-old stand-in keeper Adam Wallace.<br />
Of course, Sittingbourne’s big opportunity in this tie was on Saturday at Woodstock when<br />
Hythe were reduced to 10 men after just six minutes as goalkeeper Joe Mant was sent off for<br />
handling outside his area.<br />
But they couldn’t break down a determined Hythe defence and they had the same problem in<br />
this game, despite, I thought, playing better attacking football in the first half.<br />
They’d made two changes from Saturday, Josh Wisson coming in to give an assured performance<br />
in midfield in his first game back after a broken arm, and Tom Brunt returning at rightback.<br />
Dropped down to sub were Jack Steventon and Hicham Akhazzan.<br />
Using the full width of the pitch, they got good early crosses in from Carlse and Steven Ita, after<br />
one terrific run, but couldn’t turn them into goal chances.<br />
Miles Cornwell shot wide as Sittingbourne won lots of loose balls and big challenges, while at<br />
the other end Wallace got down well to fist away a shot from May.<br />
Sittingbourne forced a 45th minute corner which Wisson hit beyond far post and Hythe raced<br />
the ball up the other end for Adams, who’d played as a stand-in goalkeeper for 84 minutes on<br />
Saturday, to drill it in low from 25 yards. It’s not the first time this season that Sittingbourne<br />
have conceded straight from an attacking corner.<br />
They’ve gone behind in every game this season but each time have fought back to draw, but<br />
this time there was no such recovery.<br />
Despite Sittingbourne’s failed penalty appeal, Hythe were undoubtedly on top for much of the<br />
second half and once Webster had got their second on 61 minutes they began to turn it on.<br />
Adams scored twice in three minutes to complete his hat-trick, though for one he looked well<br />
offside, and Pogue deflected a huge clearance from his own keeper past a by now demoralised<br />
Wallace to add the fifth.<br />
It was Sittingbourne’s first defeat of the season but they’re clearly shipping too many goals at<br />
present and two games in 48 hours over the Bank Holiday weekend will be a tough ask for a<br />
team who will need to recover their confidence from this hefty setback.<br />
Sittingbourne: Wallace, Brunt, Lee, Tanner, Richardson, Wisson (Steventon 65 mins),<br />
Carlse, Wright, Davis (Wilkins 81 mins), Cornwell, Ita (Akhazzan 81 mins)
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I’ve written articles in the past, looking at the ridiculously short amount of time that is afforded to bosses in<br />
the Football League.<br />
Up until recently it was a widely held view that Non-League chairmen were far more patient and retained a<br />
sense of reality that seems to be missing higher up the divisions as big money becomes more of a factor.<br />
Well, we’re not even out of August and two National League clubs have already decided changes were<br />
needed in the dugout.<br />
Chris Todd was the first to go at Eastleigh while he was followed at the start of this week by Guiseley’s<br />
Mark Bower.<br />
Todd wasn’t a surprising one. Not because he had done a bad job, he had steadied the ship after Richard<br />
Hill’s departure and led the club to a seventh place finish last term.<br />
Of course, Eastleigh want, and should expect, the play-offs. They’ve got one of the heftiest budgets in the<br />
division and a squad full of quality and experience.<br />
Maybe it just wasn’t the right job for Todd. The likeable Welshman understandably took the chance with<br />
both hands but rookie boss and expectant owner rarely mix well.<br />
Stewart Donald has transformed the Spitfires and wants to see the club in the Football League. He has<br />
invested large sums so who are we to criticise his decision?<br />
Four points from their opening four games was seen as below par and Todd was replaced by ex-<br />
Rotherham, Tranmere and Hartlepool boss Ronnie Moore.<br />
While Moore might turn out to be the perfect appointment - I wouldn’t be surprised - you’ve got to feel for<br />
Todd.<br />
“Returns in football are based on league points and we’ve just not been earning enough to give us that<br />
two points-a-game average we need for promotion,” said Eastleigh chief executive Mark Jewell.<br />
“I know we’ll probably get criticism saying it’s madness to change the manager after four games, but it’s<br />
not just about this season, we’ve done the analysis on our points return over a period of time.”<br />
The big question has to be, if Todd wasn’t the right man four games into the season - was he really the<br />
right man at the start of the season or even the end of the last campaign? If not, why let him spend a summer<br />
recruiting a number of new players?<br />
The same can be asked of Bower - who led Guiseley to promotion to Non-League’s top tier in 2014-15<br />
before narrowly avoiding relegation last season.<br />
Yes, the Lions had lost their opening five games, the most recent a disappointing collapse at Solihull<br />
Moors, but there are 41 matches left.<br />
“We have had some tough early days and when you are playing full-time sides, it is tough,” said Guiseley<br />
chairman Phil Rogerson.<br />
“But in the last two games, we were against newly promoted sides and we felt that we should have made<br />
more of that.<br />
“After being 2-1 up and throwing it away in a five-minute spell (at Solihull on Saturday), something must<br />
have been wrong somewhere. Hopefully, we will now be able to fix it.”<br />
So Bower’s almost three-year reign that included an elusive promotion from the Conference North was<br />
ended after a dodgy five-minute spell - welcome to the cut-throat business of being a Non-League manager!<br />
Steven Coney
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