One of the most important things about writing a Newsletter is to allow people to have a right to reply. Not this Newsletter though, ha! Only kidding. Richard Soan has written to me and if you receive this letter via e-mail you’ll get it as an attachment. If you get it through the post, its enclosed. If anyone has a view or an inclusion, please send your admission through by next Sunday.
Football this week goes like this - on Tuesday the first team play away to Eastbourne United at the Oval, 7.45pm ko. The meet is 6.30pm there and we’re leaving the club at 6pm sharp. Call Deb if you need a lift. On Thursday our reserves/18s mix play at home against Eastbourne Town, 7.30pm ko. You’ll be notified of your inclusion in either game.
Strangely, the club’s booking with Ringmer College ended last week meaning that we now train at the ground. Fortunately we have privately arranged training sessions at Falmer, but they start in early September on Tuesday nights. So until then we’ll work it out at the Caburn. When September gets here we’ll all do Tuesday nights at Falmer then Thursday nights at the ground (weather permitting). I’ll be speaking to our grounds people to see if we can actually make the perimeter area into a more playable surface for training aspects and less like a farmers field. I think with a bit of TLC we can do something with it. Anyhoo, 2 games this week so no training.
Unless you’ve been living in a cave you’ll know our season started on Saturday and I aint gonna bang on about the win. I thought we played ok but Shoreham weren’t at their best and they’ll probably feel they did enough to get something from the game. I guess they did get something - a player sent off - but so did we. Still it was important to get a good start in terms of the result and we got it. Irrespective of that though, I thought our attitude and application was brilliant. Well done to everyone who contributed to the success of the day.
We have a new first team sponsor in Harvey Self Drive and their Managing Director is Michelle Marshall. I am hoping that Shell will come to some home games and I know we can count on her continued support through this season. Shell lives in Ringmer and its great to have someone in the village as a first team sponsor.
Next Saturday we play Rye in the first round of the FA Cup. Unusually, the FA have asked that we play extra time in this first game, should the scores be level after 90 minutes, as Rye’s ground is not ready to be used yet and they hope that will prevent a replay. If there is to be a replay, it’ll be at the Caburn once more on the following Tuesday.
See you all at Eastbourne on Tuesday night.
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