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John’s Jottings
Good afternoon everyone. Welcome to Woodstock Park.
Our visitors are Hythe Town. Welcome to their players, officials and supporters. A welcome also to
today’s match officials.
Amongst the players in the Hythe Town squad are two ex Brickies, Jamie Coyle who made 105 appearances
for us, many as captain, has recently joined Hythe after a period as Dartford FC manager.
Jamie left us just after the 2011-12 season started to join Richard Brady at leatherhead.
Hythe had a difficult start to the season and after not having the results they felt they should have had
changed managers. Ex Margate manager Steve Watt was appointed to replace ex Herne Bay manager,
Sam Denly. Steve then appointed Nathan Elder as Assistant manager, a post, he of course,
held with us. Steve was previously manager at Margate.
On Saturday, Hythe were beaten in the Buildbase FA Trophy by Hastings United. We have drawn
Tooting & Mitcham at home next Saturday (26 th ) in the first qualifying round of the Trophy. A difficult
task as Tooting & Mitcham, as I write these notes, have not lost a league match and are joint top of
the Isthmian South-Central Division.
Our Trophy match at home to another Isthmian South-Central side, South Park was a hard-fought affair.
Played in very wet conditions it was never going to be a classic game of football. However, all
those present saw two committed sides give their all in an entertaining game. Full marks to the referee
who was willing to talk to an Assistant after South Park scored a “goal” after a player took a free
kick but touched the ball twice.
On Tuesday we played the first and as it turned out, last Kent Senior Cup tie of the season. Our opponents
were Ramsgate who we beat away when Nick Davis was in charge. Since then another ex
Brickie, Jason Lillis, has taken over. His was a much changed team for this match. It was a hard
fought match but one we were generally in control of. Two early goals, one for each side was the result
at the end of 90 minutes. Ramsgate got the better of the penalty shoot out to go through to the
next round.
Enjoy the game!