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Match Day programme for Sittingbourne v Faversham Town 2nd March 2019. Bostik South East League Match Day programme for Sittingbourne v Faversham Town 2nd March 2019. Bostik South East League
SITTINGBOURNE FC OFF ICAL MATC HDAY PROGRAMME - 2018-19 BOSTIK LEAGUE SOUTH EAST DIVISION SATURDAY 2nd MARCH 2019 SITTINGBOURNE V FAVERSHAM TOWN Kick off 3.00PM
- Page 2 and 3: Sittingbourne Football Club is a UK
- Page 4 and 5: The Secretary’s Jottings Good aft
- Page 7 and 8: From the Manager Tuesdays great vic
- Page 9 and 10: Faversham Town — A Brief History
- Page 11 and 12: Sittingbourne FC Appearances Sonia
- Page 13 and 14: 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 14 15 16 17 Webber
- Page 15 and 16: Bostik South East—Form Guide
- Page 17 and 18: Meet The Sittingbourne Squad Patric
- Page 21 and 22: Brickies Lottery Results The lotter
- Page 23: Sponsorship Opportunities Match Day
SITTINGBOURNE FC<br />
OFF ICAL MATC HDAY PROGRAMME - 2018-19<br />
BOSTIK LEAGUE SOUTH EAST DIVISION<br />
SATURDAY 2nd MARCH 2019<br />
SITTINGBOURNE V FAVERSHAM TOWN<br />
Kick off 3.00PM
Sittingbourne Football Club is a UK company limited by<br />
guarantee: Company registration number, 11360242.<br />
Registered office: Woodstock Park, Broadoak Road,<br />
Sittingbourne, ME9 8AG<br />
Who’s who<br />
President: Alan Barty<br />
Vice Presidents: Tania Spice, Andy Spice, and John Cooper.<br />
Directors: Maurice Dunk (Chairman), Ken Medwyn (Vice<br />
Chairman), Peter Pitts (Company Secretary) , John Pitts<br />
(Football Secretary / Treasurer). Colin Page, Alan Barty, Glen<br />
Parkes, Mick Sayce.<br />
Other Committee members : Danny Appleton (Turnstile<br />
Manager). Roger Pudner (Groundsman)<br />
Other Key Personnel: Faye Goatham (Turnstile), Jackie<br />
Mount (Programme sales), Tony Rickson (Match reporter),<br />
Sandra Pitts (Boardroom), Clive Phillips (Club shop), Dudley<br />
Hird & Tony Rickson (Club Historians). Roger Wilkins (Head<br />
Steward)<br />
Manager: Chris Lynch, Assistant: Nathan Elder,<br />
Coaches: Jon Barrett, Josh Hall. Physio: Marc Wheeler<br />
Alex Davies Psychologist: Alex Brunette-Leach<br />
Kit Man: Warren Chambers<br />
Playing Management Assistant: Harry Chambers.<br />
Development Manager: Davis Sheepwash<br />
The Isthmian League and Singbourne FC strongly supports the FA<br />
statement that there should be a zero tolerance approach against<br />
racism and all forms of discriminaon. Accordingly any form of discriminatory<br />
abuse whether it be based on race or ethnicity , sexual<br />
orientaon, gender, faith, age, ability or any other form of abuse<br />
will be reported to the Football Associaon for acon by that Associaon.<br />
(The FA 0800 085 0508 / kick it out 020 7253 0162)
SITTINGBOURNE V Faversham Town<br />
Bostik South East, Saturday 2nd March 2019, KO 3.00PM<br />
Manager: Chris Lynch<br />
Ast Manager: Nathan Elder<br />
Coaches: Jon Barrett, Josh Hall,<br />
Physios: Mark Wheeler Alex Davies<br />
Psychologist: Alex Brunette-Leach<br />
Kit Manager: Warren Chambers<br />
Team Assistant: Harry Chambers<br />
Managers: Danny Chapman, Phil Miles<br />
Physio: Wayne Jones<br />
GK Coach: Scott Davenport<br />
Kit Manager: Bill Friend<br />
MATCH OFFICIALS<br />
Referee: Simon Finnegan<br />
Assistants: Joshua Smith, Matthew Goldsmith<br />
GOALS<br />
SUBSTITUTE<br />
PLAYER NO<br />
PLAYER NO<br />
SUBSTITUTE<br />
GOALS<br />
Patrick LEE (GK)<br />
Chris WEBBER<br />
Will GOODMAN<br />
Harry DAY<br />
Abdel NDEW<br />
Jamie MAXTED<br />
Jack MORRELL<br />
Matt BOURNE<br />
Ben FITCHETT<br />
Dan CARRINGTON<br />
Kwasi AMOAH<br />
George MONGER<br />
Lewis CHAMBERS<br />
Danny WALDER<br />
Tim BABBINGTON<br />
Ryan HUCKLE<br />
Izzy ADEBEYO<br />
Ashley MILLER<br />
Henry WOODS<br />
Luke GRIFFITHS<br />
Billy LEWINS<br />
Dave COOK<br />
Johan CANEY-BRYAN<br />
Ben CHAPMAN<br />
Roman CAMPBELL<br />
Liam MIDDLETON<br />
Jack McFARLANE<br />
Joshua SPENCER<br />
Tommie FAGG<br />
Thomas LAWRENCE<br />
Chris BARNARD<br />
Donvieve JONES<br />
Charlie OWEN<br />
Liam KING<br />
Rolando ONU<br />
Will RISDEN<br />
Danny DEVINE<br />
Michael FREITER
The Secretary’s Jottings<br />
Good afternoon everyone, welcome to Woodstock Park.<br />
Our visitors are local rivals, Faversham Town. Welcome to their players, officials and supporters.<br />
I’m sure, given how close we are in the league table, that both teams will consider this a “six<br />
pointer”. When we played Faversham in the league earlier in the season we really didn’t turn up<br />
and Faversham deserved their (3-1) win. Both teams have had some good results recently so<br />
an exciting game is in prospect.<br />
The improvement under Chris Lynch continues at a pace. Chris has signed some exciting players<br />
who have given their all in the games since he took over. The victory over VCD Athletic was<br />
particularly pleasing VCD hardly had a look in in the first half with Patrick Lee having one of his<br />
quietest halves of the season. A change of personnel and formation improved VCD in the second<br />
half but Sittingbourne continued to play well and were deserved winners at the end. The<br />
Saturday before a victory over East Grinstead Town after going one goal down was again down<br />
to the players showing tremendous commitment. Last Tuesday was another high. Five goals at<br />
Three Bridges without reply and our first clean sheet of the season as we had our best result of<br />
the season.<br />
Given that we have used 44 players in the first team this season I thought you may be interested<br />
in where some of those who have left us are plying their trade. I have also included some<br />
players who featured for us last season.. As we saw at VCD Athletic last Saturday, Jack Denny<br />
and Jack Steventon feature in their defence and Tyrone Guthrie was an unused substitute. Also<br />
of interest at VCD Athletic was the goalkeeper, Jordan Beeney who is the son of our ex manager,<br />
Mark Beeney. Ira Jackson is at Folkestone Invicta and another striker, Kane Rowland is at<br />
Ramsgate. Conrad Lee has gone from Phoenix Sports to Greenwich Borough. Also going to<br />
Greenwich Borough (from Herne Bay) is Ollie Bankole. One move last week featuring an ex<br />
Brickie is that of Jake Embery who has gone to Maidstone United from Herne Bay. A “strange”<br />
statement on the Herne Bay web site includes the following “'The Club have been advised that<br />
Jake will be signing for Maidstone United tomorrow. The Club are not at all happy about this but<br />
Jake’s agent has done a deal with Maidstone United and we have been left we no choice”.<br />
Strange, as of course Jake’s father is John Embery the Herne Bay manager. Ashford United<br />
have Tom Carlse, Afolabi Coker and Josh Wisson. Also making an appearance for Ashford last<br />
Saturday was Lee Hook. Lee was with us way back in 2003. Another ex-Brickie goalkeeper<br />
started the season with Ashford and that is Ben Bridle -Card. More on ex Brickies in later programmes.<br />
Congratulations to both Canterbury City and Cray Valley PM who have made the FA Vase semi<br />
-finals. A magnificent achievement for both clubs and a feather in the cap of the Southern<br />
Counties East Football League. They have been drawn against each other in the semi-finals so<br />
guaranteeing a Kent club being in the final.<br />
Next Saturday we visit Sevenoaks Town. On Saturday 16 th March we also have an away match<br />
when we go to Whitstable Town. Next home match for our first team is Saturday 23 rd March<br />
when we host Hythe Town.<br />
John
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From the Manager<br />
Tuesdays great victory saw us, for the first<br />
time this season, put together a winning sequence<br />
which<br />
takes us now to<br />
four wins in five<br />
games, that’s<br />
twelve points<br />
from a possible<br />
fifteen. That<br />
puts us within<br />
the top five in<br />
the recent form<br />
table, again the<br />
best we have been all year.<br />
The great news is that this new look team are<br />
now ahead of schedule, and making each fixture<br />
count, there’s still work to do, but this gives<br />
us a little breathing space now in order to reflect<br />
upon just how far we have come in such a<br />
short period of time. It’s also great to see us<br />
move up to 15th place in the league for the first<br />
time since my arrival. However, it’s important to<br />
remember the job is not done, and all the time I<br />
am manager we ‘can always do better’, and we<br />
will always look to achieve the highest possible<br />
standards both on and off the field.<br />
This is the new mentality, and to the players<br />
credit they have all bought into the new Team<br />
Ethos and Philosophy. Now we are starting to<br />
see the rewards continuous growth brings.<br />
The VCD game what you saw was a committed,<br />
hard working group of individuals, who now<br />
have the audacity to believe in themselves, to<br />
see a winning position out, against a very good<br />
opposition and away from home. VCD are a<br />
strong team, Keith has done a good job there,<br />
so it’s always nice to hear positive feedback<br />
about the performance from the opposing manager<br />
and fans.<br />
This week I would like to praise a generally unsung<br />
hero within the squad, Lewis CHAM-<br />
BERS, his work rate and ball winning skills in<br />
the game v VCD was immense, he did not stop<br />
running until the final whistle, he won 90% of all<br />
challenges both in the air and on the ground,<br />
and managed to put some decent forward balls<br />
into dangerous areas. That was the best performance<br />
I have seen from Lewis so far. He is one<br />
of those players who have really bought into<br />
everything we are doing here, he already looks<br />
ten times the player he was. With Chris Barnard<br />
linking up with him now, these two are<br />
looking a dangerous midfield combination.<br />
Congratulations also must go the Chris Bernard<br />
who listened to his instructions, working hard to<br />
get into the right places at the right times and<br />
was rewarded with two fine goals.<br />
This week I would like to praise the character of<br />
the squad. Football is a team game, and players<br />
can easily get lost in the fact that they did<br />
not participate in a particular game, sometimes<br />
this, if not managed effectively, can turn from a<br />
positive challenging environment into negative<br />
individual mind set. Part of my job is to manage<br />
expectations, and get the best out of every<br />
player, this, again, can be a difficult balancing<br />
act at times, there will always be players who<br />
miss out for a variety of reasons, However,<br />
what I look for in a player is the attitude, the determination<br />
to progress, if you’re not willing to<br />
fight for your place then your with the wrong<br />
manager, and ultimately the wrong club, therefore,<br />
go show me on the training ground why<br />
you should be in the starting line-up. If you’re<br />
not up to that challenge then you’re on borrowed<br />
time.<br />
I would also like to congratulate the youth and<br />
development teams for their work this week,<br />
one of my main priorities when I arrived was to<br />
get to grips with the youth set up and provide a<br />
clear and progressive way forward, a new development<br />
model. I will be looking to put this in<br />
place for next season with help from the existing<br />
youth set up. A great display from the development<br />
side also saw them beat Herne Bay<br />
4-1 on Saturday, so a good day all round for<br />
the club.<br />
Lastly, I would like to thank the fans who are<br />
ever present, and encourage the wider Sittingbourne<br />
population to come along to Woodstock,<br />
there’s a great atmosphere around the<br />
club at present, you will see a team who are<br />
playing some really good football, a team full of<br />
heart and desire, a team who understands what<br />
it means to wear our famous colours with pride<br />
and dedication. You are all welcome old and<br />
young/new and a little older, I look forward to<br />
seeing you there helping us turn this club<br />
around.<br />
Chris Lynch
From the Programme Editor<br />
The programme this week features a copy of<br />
the middle pages of a Sittingbourne v Faversham<br />
programme from April 1954. I always<br />
think that the adverts are as interesting in<br />
these old programmes as the team line ups!<br />
Wow what a turn round from the players. We<br />
have always had good support but at Three<br />
Bridges on Tuesday it looked to me as though<br />
Brickies made up more than a third of the<br />
crowd. It always amazes me that there are still<br />
Brickies supporters who I don’t recognize despite<br />
being involved with the club for more than<br />
20 years. At<br />
Three Bridges<br />
I was<br />
talking to a<br />
Gillingham<br />
based supporter<br />
who I<br />
had never<br />
seen before<br />
and I could<br />
tell that he<br />
was passionate<br />
in<br />
supporting<br />
the team.<br />
News of one<br />
ex players<br />
now. Bola<br />
Dawodu,<br />
who isn't<br />
technically<br />
an ex player<br />
as we retain<br />
his registration<br />
at our<br />
level, is<br />
now part of<br />
the Canterbury City team that is almost at<br />
Wembley in the FA Vase. Canterbury play fellow<br />
Kent club Cray Valley PM in the Vase semi<br />
final over two legs...but its singing that Bola<br />
has hit the headlines for when he had to sing<br />
as a forfeit for being the last Canterbury player<br />
to turn up for the quarter final tie against Biggleswade.<br />
His performance was captured on<br />
film and at the time of writing this has had<br />
501,000 views on Twitter and Bola has featured<br />
on BBC Radio Kent, the BBC sport website<br />
and Sky news! The other ex Brickie to<br />
have made the news this week is Jake Embery<br />
and John has already mentioned this in his<br />
notes! I know that Jake loved it here and was<br />
sorry to leave us.<br />
Many of you know Brian Edwards and if you do<br />
you will know that he is stats mad!! He has<br />
provided me with details of Sittingbourne’s<br />
playing record to date in the Isthmian League<br />
which is: Played 548, Won 201, Drawn 126,<br />
Lost 221, For 759, Against 861, points 729. I<br />
can still though remember our Southern<br />
League days vividly and I know that some of<br />
you can still remember the Kent league days!<br />
If you like to reminisce then don’t forget that<br />
you can always go to our website and read bygone<br />
match reports going back to 1996. I wrote<br />
many of them and those that especially spring<br />
to mind are two friendlies (against Arsenal and<br />
Tottenham) and Burton Albion. Mainly because<br />
Arsene Wenger had just joined Arsenal and<br />
Burton Albion are now of course an EFL side.<br />
Talking of our ex players, Matthew Bourne has<br />
now made 393 appearances for Faversham<br />
Town, which is a fantastic record, so well done<br />
to him, but of course I am hoping that this won’t<br />
be a happy return!!<br />
Peter<br />
The Three Hats Pub<br />
Sponsors of Sittingbourne FC<br />
93 High Street, Milton Regis
Faversham Town — A Brief History<br />
The club was formed in 1884, and experienced<br />
many ups & downs during the early years, the<br />
storey below takes you from the 1970’s to one<br />
of its most successful periods which arguably<br />
has been the last 5/6 years.<br />
After a brief flirtation with the Athenian League<br />
in the mid seventies, the club returned to the<br />
Kent League, winning the Kent Senior Trophy in<br />
1977. The following season they repeated this<br />
success and were also crowned Kent League<br />
champions, completing a famous "double".<br />
The Lilywhites won the Kent League again in<br />
1990, but league form dipped in the 92/93 season<br />
and was to stay that way for several seasons.<br />
The club managed to to reach the final of<br />
the Kent League Challenge Cup in 2000, but<br />
things were in rapid decline. Matters reached<br />
crisis point in 2003, when the KCFA suspended<br />
the club for nonpayment of fines, with the club's<br />
operators blaming just about everyone for the<br />
mess except themselves.<br />
In the following months, the once proud Salters<br />
Lane ground was systematically wrecked by<br />
vandals. Meanwhile, club trustees led by businessman<br />
Ray Leader fought a desperate battle<br />
to heal a widening rift with the previous regime<br />
over the ownership of the club and ground.<br />
In a separate development, the Faversham<br />
Town Independent Supporters Club had been<br />
formed, and quickly gained a membership of<br />
over 300 paid up members in the market town.<br />
This was despite the fact the club had no team,<br />
no manager, and a ground that had been totally<br />
wrecked by vandals and now resembled a<br />
bomb site. Perhaps the real turning point came<br />
when trustees and Independent Supporters<br />
Club committee members got together and declared<br />
an alliance to get the club back on its<br />
feet. An interim club committee was formed,<br />
and the long road to recovery was started.<br />
The revival was slow, but things finally started<br />
to happen. The ownership dispute was settled<br />
and access to the ground obtained. Volunteer<br />
workers were confronted with <strong>complete</strong>ly<br />
smashed and vandalized buildings, and shoulder-height<br />
grass on what had been the pitch. A<br />
massive clear up operation began but it was<br />
back breaking work. Meanwhile, paperwork was<br />
put in order with a new club constitution written<br />
and agreed.<br />
Kent County FA allowed the club to retain their<br />
coveted senior status subject to several conditions.<br />
Local authority grants were applied for<br />
and secured, sponsorship deals obtained, and<br />
the club embarked on a range of fund raising<br />
initiatives. Slowly but surely, Salters Lane was<br />
returned to its former glory, before the future<br />
became even brighter with the erection of brand<br />
new floodlights. The revival of club and ground<br />
from the jaws of death was nothing short of a<br />
miracle - a story that would surely rival the efforts<br />
to revive both "The Valley" at Charlton, and<br />
Accrington Stanley F.C.<br />
The revived club played their first season back<br />
in 05/06, competing in the Kent County League<br />
and finishing as runners-up. Having passed<br />
ground inspections and fulfilled minimum criteria,<br />
promotion to the Kent League was confirmed,<br />
and Faversham Town had at last "come<br />
home".<br />
Season 2007/08 saw the arrival of Justin Luchford<br />
and Jimmy Strouts taking over the management<br />
with Town second bottom of the<br />
league. The team sunk to bottom before the pair<br />
gradually steered them up to mid table. Strouts<br />
soon left for personal reasons and Luchford,<br />
along with Clive Walker, took the Lilywhites to<br />
the Kent Senior Trophy final in season 2009/10,<br />
beating Greenwich 2-1 to lift the trophy. A week<br />
later, they were crowned Kent League Premier<br />
Division champions.<br />
Towards the end of his first season in the Ryman<br />
League, and with Town within touching distance<br />
of the play-offs, Luchford resigned. His<br />
place was taken by his assistant Ray Turner.<br />
Turner took charge of the last seven league<br />
games securing eighth spot - the highest position<br />
of any Kent team competing at that level.<br />
Another significant milestone was reached in<br />
2010 when the revamped stadium was renamed<br />
Shepherd Neame Stadium after a sponsorship<br />
deal with the town's famous brewery.<br />
Having consolidated their position as a midtable<br />
Ryman South side during the first two<br />
years of Turner's reign, Faversham embarked<br />
on one of the best seasons in the club's history<br />
during the 2012/13 season.<br />
The Lilywhites lost just three away league<br />
games all campaign on their way to finish third<br />
and reach the Ryman South play-off final<br />
against all odds. However, at Maidstone United's<br />
newly-built Gallagher Stadium in front of a<br />
2,226 strong-crowd, Town were unable to pull<br />
off one final upset against a side with huge investment<br />
and backing. Maidstone cruising to a<br />
3-0 victory to deny Faversham their first taste of<br />
Ryman Premier League football. Cont
Faversham Town—A brief History Cont<br />
Town spent the majority of the 2013/14 campaign<br />
just outside the play-offs, and ultimately<br />
had to settle for tenth position in their fourth<br />
season in the Ryman South. Off the pitch, Town<br />
continued to grow with another significant advance.<br />
They came together with nearby Faversham<br />
Town Youth & Juniors to form a new<br />
youth section, meaning boys were now playing<br />
in the famous white and black kit from the age<br />
of five. The move also created a route through<br />
from youth development into the senior side<br />
and enabled the newly-expanded club achieved<br />
FA Charter Standard Community Club rank,<br />
marking their rise in status.<br />
The Lilywhites took another step forward in<br />
February 2014 with the announcement of an<br />
ambitious project to redevelop Shepherd Neame<br />
Stadium. The plans - broken down into five<br />
phases - include rebuilding the changing rooms,<br />
adding hospitality an function rooms, extra seating<br />
in the stands and a new stadium entrance.<br />
A coffee shop and retail store will then be added,<br />
with meeting rooms and offices also being<br />
built to bring in additional revenue. A new 120-<br />
seater stand, fitness centre and sports hall will<br />
also be built. Fundraising for the project then<br />
began.<br />
Faversham had a productive 2014/15 season,<br />
scoring 111 league goals - more than any other<br />
Ryman League side that campaign - and<br />
amassing a record 97 points to finish in third<br />
place in the Ryman South for the second time<br />
in three seasons. But the club suffered more<br />
play-off heartache, as they lost 5-4 on penalties<br />
at home to Merstham in their Ryman South<br />
Play-off Semi-Final following a goalless draw<br />
away.<br />
Faversham came fifth at the end of the 2015-16<br />
season, again reaching the play-offs, but after<br />
beating Dorking Wanderers 2-1 in the semi-final<br />
they lost 3-0 to Worthing in the final, leaving<br />
them knocking once more on the door of the<br />
Ryman Premier Division.<br />
The 2016/17 season was one of transition for<br />
the Lilywhites on the pitch, and success off it as<br />
they forged ahead with Phase One their ambitious<br />
rebuilding programme.<br />
A tenth place finish was achieved with a young<br />
squad as manager Ray Turner dealt with a<br />
number of unexpected player departures,<br />
which led to a mid-season wobble. However,<br />
in May 2017 MP Helen Whately opened the<br />
new changing rooms as the first stage of the<br />
stadium redevelopment was finally <strong>complete</strong>d.<br />
Another significant advance came when,<br />
for the first time, the club were able to field<br />
Kent Youth League standard squads at every<br />
age group from Under 13s upwards in the<br />
2017/18 campaign, a mark of their growing<br />
stature in the region and of their commitment<br />
to a successful youth policy.<br />
In a further development, the Under 21s also<br />
switched to become an Under 23 Development<br />
team with the aim of helping young players<br />
bridge the gap from the Under 18s to the<br />
first team.<br />
The progress marked the fruition of a vision set<br />
out five years earlier by Ray Turner and Head<br />
of Youth Chris Greenfield, who was promoted<br />
to Under 23s Manager.<br />
Long serving manager Ray Turner resigned in<br />
October of this season and his assistant Clive<br />
Walker held the fort for us until 27 th . November<br />
when Danny Chapman & Phil Miles became<br />
joint managers, Clive Walker was then asked to<br />
join the Board as Director of Football, a post<br />
that he accepted.
Sittingbourne FC Appearances<br />
Sonia Crayford, who passed away at the<br />
grand old age of 94 on the 15th January<br />
this year, was laid to rest at the Garden of<br />
remembrance, Bobbing last Monday.<br />
Sonia Crayford<br />
Members of the committee were in the congregation<br />
at her funeral and the wake was held at Woodstock.<br />
Sonia will be remembered for selling raffle<br />
tickets at our home games and in the approximately<br />
3 years that she has been doing this has raised<br />
several thousand pounds for the club.<br />
The congregation heard how she and her husband<br />
married in 1954 and subsequently ran 3 pubs, the<br />
first being the Carpenters Arms in Eastling, Nr Faversham.<br />
They subsequently took on the Blue Anchor<br />
in Blindley Heath on the A22, and finally the<br />
Deal Cutter at 44 King Street Ramsgate.<br />
Sonia became interested in the club through their<br />
association with John & Carol Cooper who used to<br />
drive her to her hospital appointments.<br />
Sonia will be greatly missed.
DATE OPPOSITION COMP Sc ATT 1 2 3 4<br />
5<br />
11 Aug 2018<br />
18 Aug 2018<br />
21 Aug 2018<br />
25 Aug 2018<br />
27 Aug 2018<br />
01 Sept 2018<br />
04 Sept 2018<br />
08 Sept 2018<br />
15 Sept 2018<br />
23 Sept 2018<br />
25 Sept 2018<br />
29 Sept 2018<br />
02 Oct 2018<br />
06 Oct 2018<br />
13 Oct 2018<br />
20 Oct 2018<br />
27 Oct 2018<br />
30 Oct 2018<br />
03 Nov 2018<br />
10 Nov 2018<br />
17 Nov 2018<br />
24 Nov 2018<br />
08 Dec 2018<br />
15 Dec 2018<br />
23 Dec 2018<br />
29 Dec 2018<br />
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Lofting<br />
Amoah*<br />
Amoah*<br />
McFarlane*<br />
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Latunde*<br />
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Woods*<br />
Middleton*<br />
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Lawrence*<br />
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Caney-Bryan*<br />
Parkinson*<br />
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Hatfull*<br />
Carvalho#<br />
Caney-Bryan*<br />
Otuadinma<br />
Elder*<br />
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Elder*<br />
Latunde*<br />
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Loynes<br />
Adebeyo*<br />
Morrell<br />
Lofting<br />
Middleton*<br />
Middleton*<br />
McFarlane<br />
Middleton<br />
Lawrence*<br />
CaneyBryan*<br />
CaneyBryan*<br />
Fagg<br />
Caney-Bryan*<br />
Canry-Bryan*<br />
Adebeyo*<br />
Riches*<br />
Hatful<br />
Elder<br />
Denny<br />
Caney-Bryan*<br />
Hatfull*<br />
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Hatfull<br />
Denny<br />
McDarlane<br />
Caney-Bryan*<br />
Caney-Bryan*<br />
Latunde*<br />
Dawodu*<br />
Elder*<br />
Lofting<br />
Jackson*<br />
Otuadinma<br />
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McDonagh*<br />
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Orenuga**<br />
Caney-Bryan*<br />
Caney-Bryan*<br />
Caney-Bryan*<br />
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Woods*<br />
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Brooks<br />
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Lee<br />
Brooks<br />
Brooks<br />
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Brooks<br />
Brooks<br />
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Funnell<br />
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Todays archive features Sittingbourne v Faversham in the Kent League, played on the 3rd<br />
April 1954 at the Bull Ground.
Bostik South East—Form Guide
Match Reports by Tony Rickson<br />
Saturday 23rd February 2019<br />
Bostik South East<br />
Sittingbourne 2 East Grinstead Town 1, att 175<br />
This was the result and performance that Chris<br />
Lynch had been talking about since he took over<br />
last month as Sittingbourne manager.<br />
The fightback from trailing at half-time was all<br />
about passion and determination, persistence<br />
and enthusiasm. He promised his team would<br />
never be short of that sort of commitment, and<br />
they didn't let him down, And praise for the manager’s<br />
bravery in having made all his substitutions<br />
with 25 minutes still to play, and gone three at the<br />
back in a bid to turn it round.<br />
How important it was, too, as all three teams at<br />
the foot of the Bostik South East League won –<br />
with close rivals Herne Bay and Greenwich Borough<br />
also pulling off impressive victories against<br />
high-placed opponents. Without their three points,<br />
the league table would make grim reading for Sittingbourne<br />
at this point.<br />
Sittingbourne went into the match on a pleasant<br />
mild afternoon with four changes from the team<br />
that lost their previous match, at home to Ashford.<br />
They were without the suspended Tommie Fagg,<br />
and on-loan striker Roman Campbell had been<br />
recalled by Gillingham, but Tom Loynes, Ben<br />
Fitchett and Billy Lewins were all back after injury<br />
and Chris Bernard came straight into midfield for<br />
his debut.<br />
You would never have guessed that Sittingbourne<br />
had lost seven out of their last eight games the<br />
way they started, looking confident and full of<br />
positivity.<br />
They forced a flurry of early corners and attacking<br />
throw-ins, and Bernard had a shot from the edge<br />
of the area deflected past a wrong-footed keeper<br />
but sailing just wide.<br />
East Grinstead hadn’t showed at this stage but<br />
were still gifted the lead after 14 minutes as Sittingbourne’s<br />
long wait for a clean sheet went on.<br />
The otherwise immaculate Jack Morrell underhit a<br />
back pass that was too straight as well, and keeper<br />
Patrick Lee was rushed into a wild kick clear. It<br />
fell nicely for East Grinstead’s Cundle who hit an<br />
imaginative diagonal pass for Dos Santos to slip<br />
the ball in at the near post.<br />
Sittingbourne sagged a bit in response and couldn’t<br />
recapture their earlier verve, and neither keeper<br />
was called on for most of the rest of the half,<br />
though Lee made one nice full-length save.<br />
At the other end, Sittingbourne got forward a bit<br />
more towards the end of the half but shots from<br />
determined captain Chris Webber, by now limping<br />
Loynes, and the hard-working Johan Caney-<br />
Bryan were nowhere near the target.<br />
In only his second start under Lynch, again<br />
Loynes sadly failed to last more than 45 minutes,<br />
and both wide players were replaced at half-time,<br />
with Izzy Adebayo and Liam Middleton coming<br />
on.<br />
East Grinstead had been winding the clock down<br />
from about 30 minutes onwards, and Sittingbourne<br />
undoubtedly took the initiative after<br />
half-time and began to get more momentum into<br />
their play.<br />
Chances came and went for Webber and Lewis<br />
Chambers, and when Morrell burst forward and<br />
took a tumble on the edge of the area he was penalised<br />
for simulation rather than getting the freekick.<br />
Sittingbourne went three at the back when Fitchett<br />
was withdrawn for their final substitution and<br />
five minutes later they got the reward for their enterprise.<br />
After the assistant referee had signalled for a free<br />
-kick which the tolerant referee didn’t seem about<br />
to give, Morrell left-footed a beautiful kick into the<br />
six-yard box and Lewins anticipated it excellently<br />
to beat a whole host of taller players and head<br />
home from close in.<br />
Next followed a lovely moment when Adebayo<br />
fired a shot wide of the far post and Caney-Bryan<br />
committed to a magnificent full-length dive to try<br />
and head it in. Spot on for courage and enthusiasm.<br />
A draw was possibly a fairer result on balance of<br />
play but as the game reached a climax, East<br />
Grinstead missed a good chance with a header<br />
on<br />
80 minutes, and Joshua Spencer stopped a fine<br />
run by Cundle with what was a tremendouslytimed<br />
best-tackle-of-the-day.<br />
Sittingbourne were determined to give Lynch his<br />
first home win and Adebayo pulled it off with a<br />
great run on 83 minutes. He committed two defenders<br />
with his impressive speed and dazzling<br />
footwork, finishing it off with a shot that was<br />
helped over the line by the two East Grinstead<br />
players who between them were trying to stop it.<br />
Now it was East Grinstead who were regretting all<br />
the times they’d walk to take a throw-in or delayed<br />
a free-kick and they mounted some fierce<br />
injury time pressure. But Sittingbourne withstood<br />
a couple of corners and a free-kick from a dangerous<br />
position to hold out.<br />
Sittingbourne: Patrick Lee, Chris Webber, Jack<br />
Morrell, Ben Fitchett (Tom Lawrence, 65 min),<br />
Joshua Spencer, Lewis Chambers, Tom Loynes<br />
(Izzy Adebayo, 45 min), Chris Bernard, Johan<br />
Caney-Bryan, Billy Lewins, Timmie Babbington<br />
(Liam Middleton, 45 min). Subs not used: Rob<br />
Lofting, Khalil McFarlane.
Meet The Sittingbourne Squad<br />
Patrick Lee: Goalkeeper. Patrick "Patch" Lee is a young goalkeeper and a product of the Soccer<br />
Elite Football Academy. He signed for Tunbridge Wells before moving on to Chatham Town<br />
for the start of the 2016-17 season. In December 2016 he signed for Ryman Premier side, Harlow<br />
Town. After leaving Harlow he played for Margate until the end of last season.<br />
Robert Lofting: Defender. Made an impressive debut against Horsham in the first league<br />
match of this season. Previously played for Arundel.<br />
Chris Webber: Defender. Joined Sittingbourne from Canterbury City at the beginning of last<br />
season. Has also played for Billericay and Faversham Town. Made captain for this season.<br />
Lex Allan: Defender. 6’ 7” Lex was spotted playing in local football and offered a trial with Sittingbourne.<br />
It soon became clear that he had great potential. This potential has been spotted by<br />
a number of scouts and Lex was invited to play in trial matches and he has not looked out of<br />
place in the company of more experienced players.<br />
Ben Fitchett: Defender. Ben signed for Sittingbourne from Margate at the beginning of September.<br />
He came to prominence at Margate after playing a key role in their development side<br />
winning their championship. He joined Margate after impressing at SCEL Erith Town. Made his<br />
Sittingbourne debut in a 2-0 Velocity Trophy win in September 2018. He scored on his debut.<br />
Joshua Spencer: Defender: Another to join Sittingbourne in January 2019. Previous club was<br />
Margate<br />
Henry Woods: Defender. Henry joined Sittingbourne in January 2019 on loan from Gillingham.<br />
A highly thought of youngster who plays in the Gillingham FC Youth team.<br />
Arben Muskaj: Defender/Midfield. Albanian born, Arben joined Sittingbourne in January 2019<br />
from Greek side Souli Paramythias. Before joining Souli Paramythias Arben played for Albanian<br />
1 st Division side Bylis Ballash He played as a youth for Olympiacos. Arban was part of the Albania<br />
U20 side that competed in the 2013 Mediterranean Games held in Mersin, Turkey where he<br />
played in all five games<br />
Lewis Chambers: Midfield, Lewis is another to sign for then new manager, Aslan, in March<br />
2018. He impressed right from his first game for the club. He has played for Maidstone United<br />
youth. Another to have a long throw.<br />
Izzy Adebayo: Midfield. Previous club was Faversham Town. Has also played for South Park<br />
and Tilbury..<br />
Dylan Riches: Midfield. Very talented youngster who scored on his debut for the Brickies in<br />
April 2018 against Thamesmead Town. He progressed from Sittingbourne’s successful Under<br />
18 side.<br />
Jack Morrell: Midfield. Loanee from Gillingham. Joined Sittingbourne to get experience in January<br />
2019. Highly thought off at The Gills.<br />
Tom Loynes: Midfield/ Forward. Tom first played for Sittingbourne in the 2012-13 season. In<br />
between playing for us he has played at Ramsgate, Whitstable Town and Sheppey United.<br />
Since returning to The Brickies at the beginning of last season he has shown that he has lost<br />
none of his skill and enthusiasm.<br />
Tommie Fagg: Forward. Another graduate from the Soccer Elite Football Academy, and Ashford<br />
United. The tall striker then signed Harlow Town in February 2016 to bolster the attack,<br />
making six appearances for the Hawks in the Isthmian Premier Division. He signed for the<br />
Brickies at the beginning of this season<br />
Roman Campbell: Forward. Roman joined on loan from Gillingham FC. He is captain of their<br />
successful Youth team where he is a prolific goalscorer. Roman scored on his Sittingbourne debut<br />
against VCD Athletic in January 2019.<br />
Liam Middleton: Forward. Joined Sittingbourne in January 2019. Previously played for Canterbury<br />
City.<br />
Johan Caney- Bryan: Forward. Joined Sittingbourne at the beginning of the 2018-2019 season.<br />
Immediately made an impact when he scored two goals in a preseason friendly. Johan<br />
was awarded a scholarship at the University of East London whilst being a third-year sport and<br />
exercise student following an impressive display playing for The UEL football Club.<br />
More to follow!
Match Reports by Tony Rickson<br />
Saturday 23rd February 2019<br />
Bostik South East<br />
VCD Athletic 1 Sittingbourne 2, Att 121<br />
Three wins out of four for rejuvenated Sittingbourne,<br />
but this was by far the best of them.<br />
A brilliant first half performance, with two outstanding<br />
goals by recent signing Chris Barnard,<br />
set up the victory, followed by a dogged, brave<br />
and committed second half to see it out.<br />
On a lovely sunny afternoon, and just down the<br />
road from where the revival began with a 4-3 win<br />
over Phoenix, Sittingbourne made two changes<br />
from the team that started in last Saturday’s victory<br />
against East Grinstead.<br />
With top scorer Tom Loynes out injured, Izzy<br />
Adebayo was the obvious replacement in the<br />
starting line-up following his outstanding solo<br />
winner in the East Grinstead game, while Roman<br />
Campbell replaced Johan Caney-Bryan upfront.<br />
But the plans were disrupted after just three<br />
minutes when Josh Spencer suffered a recurrence<br />
of a knee injury, and Kwasi Amoah came<br />
on for his debut, Jack Morrell switching seamlessly<br />
into central defence. Just like he did in the<br />
Phoenix game.<br />
Sittingbourne set their stall out straightaway with<br />
a hugely positive start, winning tackles and chasing<br />
all over the pitch to <strong>complete</strong>ly hassle VCD<br />
out of the game.<br />
In this Lewis Chambers was outstanding in the<br />
heart of the midfield battle, winning everything<br />
and all of it fairly, but every Sittingbourne player<br />
was willing to run themselves to a standstill and<br />
prevent the home side playing.<br />
The reward wasn’t long in coming. After just five<br />
minutes, goalkeeper Patrick Lee hit a long freekick<br />
forward and Campbell contested it with ex-<br />
Sittingbourne defender Joe Denny in an aerial<br />
challenge. They both reached it at once and the<br />
ball squirted sideways. Racing up from midfield,<br />
Barnard judged it perfectly, as he hit the dropping<br />
ball on the volley from the edge of the area<br />
to send it screaming into the net.<br />
When VCD got forward, Ben Fitchett picked up a<br />
booking for a rash tackle, but mainly Lee in goal<br />
was untroubled and Sittingbourne continued to<br />
dominate <strong>complete</strong>ly with some excellent play.<br />
After a few shots had failed to test home keeper<br />
Jordan Beeney – who as a nipper was a regular<br />
at Sittingbourne matches when his dad Mark<br />
was manager – Sittingbourne went two-up seven<br />
minutes before half-time.<br />
Again it was Barnard, who showed great skill to<br />
get the space to feed Timmy Babbington down<br />
the left. When Babbington cut in to try to beat his<br />
full-back, the ball rolled ahead of him and Barnard<br />
again saw his opportunity, crashing it first<br />
time inside the near post, again from the<br />
edge of the area.<br />
Two splendid strikes from a midfielder joining the<br />
attack at just the right time, and Sittingbourne<br />
were gloriously running the show.<br />
They could easily have got a third before halftime.<br />
Morrell lashed the ball forward from halfway<br />
and Beeney only just doubled back to tip it<br />
over his own bar, Barnard went for his hat-trick<br />
and forced a full-length save from the keeper,<br />
and then Billy Lewins’ header was cleared off the<br />
line.<br />
The second half was a different story, as it was<br />
always going to be.<br />
VCD got some momentum going, Sittingbourne<br />
didn’t hassle them so much, but defended stoutly<br />
and mainly set up two hard-to-break-down lines<br />
to keep out home attacks.<br />
Of course, there were the odd chances, but Lee<br />
did well, corners were well dealt with and generally<br />
Sittingbourne looked like holding on resolutely<br />
to the lead.<br />
They had the odd chance, too, relying on Campbell<br />
to plough a lone furrow up front, but he<br />
thumped one shot just wide and had another<br />
piledriver blocked after Chris Webber had played<br />
him in to a good position.<br />
Just when it looked as if Sittingbourne were going<br />
to get a long overdue first clean sheet of the<br />
season in the league, VCD finally got the experienced<br />
Macdonald into space and into the penalty<br />
area.<br />
Lee came out rapidly, down went Macdonald –<br />
he’s played too many games not to waste an opportunity<br />
like that – and then got up to score the<br />
penalty.<br />
With just three minutes and any injury time to<br />
hold out for, Sittingbourne sensibly managed it,<br />
though for the first time in what had been a clean<br />
game it all got a bit fractious.<br />
Fitchett got involved in a bit of a shoving match<br />
and probably only narrowly avoided his second<br />
yellow card of the game, while the home side’s<br />
Gordon collected a yellow for his part in that melee<br />
and then another one straightaway for a<br />
dreadful tackle on Lewins.<br />
Manager Chris Lynch had said during the week<br />
he would always opt for attitude over ability, but<br />
his players managed to dish up plenty of both on<br />
this occasion.<br />
Sittingbourne: Patrick Lee, Chris Webber, Jack<br />
Morrell, Joshua Spencer (Kwasi Amoah, 3 min),<br />
Ben Fitchett (Yellow card), Lewis Chambers,<br />
Izzy Adebayo (Khalil McFarlane, 68 min),<br />
Chris Barnard, Roman Campbell, Billy Lewins<br />
(Yellow card), Timmie Babbington (Henry<br />
Woods, 59 min). Subs not used: Liam Middleton,<br />
Johan Caney-Bryan.
Brickies Lottery Results<br />
The lottery is now even more attractive. There is now an annual prize (in December) of<br />
£500, and each month a prize of £100. In addition Each week there are draws for £40 ( 3<br />
prizes except for the week when there is a £100 prize when there will be two £40 prizes).<br />
Joining the lottery is, after attending home games, the most important way you can help to build<br />
the club. Forms are available on our web site, or from any committee member.<br />
Now is the time to join our lottery, see John Pitts, Peter Pitts (On the PA) or go to the<br />
bar for a form, cost is just a £1 a week! (Payable monthly. Quarterly or annually)<br />
Week Commencing 25th February 2019<br />
£40, Ticket number 115, Ray Mancini, Sittingbourne<br />
£40, Ticket number 300, Cliff Cork, Sittingbourne<br />
£40, Ticket number 366, Michael Blabber, Maidstone<br />
Week Commencing 18th February 2019<br />
£40, Ticket number 050, Peter Rushworth, Sittingbourne<br />
£40, Ticket number 112, Ann Knight, Sittingbourne<br />
£40, Ticket number 561, John Cooper, Sittingbourne<br />
Week Commencing 11th February 2019<br />
£40, Ticket number 065, Derek Farley, Sittingbourne<br />
£40, Ticket number 286, Lydia Griffin, Sittingbourne<br />
£40, Ticket number 551, Maurice Dunk, Sittingbourne<br />
Week Commencing 4th February 2019<br />
£100, Ticket number 056, Michael Hopkins, Sittingbourne<br />
£40, Ticket number 257, Kevin Manser, Sittingbourne<br />
£40, Ticket number 671, Linda Fulton, Sittingbourne<br />
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Bostik South League Table to 26/02/2019<br />
P W D L F A +/- Pts<br />
1 Cray Wanderers 26 20 5 1 60 22 38 65<br />
2 Horsham 27 16 4 7 51 30 21 52<br />
3 Hastings United 27 15 5 7 56 34 22 50<br />
4 Haywards Heath Town 27 14 7 6 51 36 15 49<br />
5 Ashford United 26 15 3 8 52 26 26 48<br />
6 Whyteleafe 26 12 5 9 49 36 13 41<br />
7 Hythe Town 27 11 7 9 52 45 7 40<br />
8 VCD Athletic 25 12 2 11 47 45 2 38<br />
9 Ramsgate 27 9 8 10 45 40 5 35<br />
10 Phoenix Sports 26 9 8 9 50 53 -3 35<br />
11 East Grinstead Town 27 9 7 11 48 51 -3 34<br />
12 Sevenoaks Town 27 9 7 11 38 41 -3 34<br />
13 SITTINGBOURNE 26 9 2 15 39 49 -10 29<br />
14 FAVERSHAM TOWN 27 8 5 14 42 65 -23 29<br />
15 Three Bridges 27 8 3 16 41 59 -18 27<br />
16 Guernsey 26 7 5 14 35 52 -17 26<br />
17 Herne Bay 26 8 2 16 48 67 -19 26<br />
18 Whitstable Town 25 6 8 11 20 39 -19 26<br />
19 Greenwich Borough 27 6 3 18 32 66 -34 21<br />
20 Thamesmead Town 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0<br />
Bostik South East Matches Today<br />
3pm Greenwich Borough v East Grinstead Town<br />
2pm Guernsey v VCD Athletic<br />
3pm Hastings United v Haywards Heath Town<br />
3pm Herne Bay v Whitstable Town<br />
3pm Horsham v Hythe Town<br />
3pm Phoenix Sports v Cray Wanderers<br />
3pm Ramsgate v Three Bridges<br />
3pm Whyteleafe v Ashford United
Sponsorship Opportunities<br />
Match Day Sponsor - this gives the sponsor and guests (Up to four)<br />
access to the boardroom to enjoy half time and post match food and<br />
drink. Costs of this is a very reasonable £175<br />
Matchball Sponsor - £50<br />
Mascot - An ideal present for a football mad youngster = £50 Includes<br />
mascot plus three guests plus Hospitality.<br />
Man of the Match - Your chance to be the official "Man of the Match"<br />
awarder £15<br />
Sponsor a Brickie and have your name in the programme as a sponsor<br />
for the entire season, rates are:<br />
Complete Player...............................£50<br />
Socks only........................................£10<br />
Shorts only.......................................£15<br />
Shirt only...........................................£20<br />
Boots only.........................................£15<br />
Web site advertising—An exciting opportunity to advertise on a web<br />
site that has a verifiable 3000 plus hits a month. Box Advert, £75. All<br />
enquiries for web site advertising to Peter Pitts via<br />
bournefc@hotmail.com or call 07785 906627<br />
Inside Programme Advertising: (Black & White or Colour). From<br />
£50.00 (Business card size)<br />
Ground Perimeter Boards: Size 8 feet x 3 feet = £200, then £150<br />
per year renewal.. Other sizes negotiable<br />
For any of the above see any committee member. Or email<br />
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