A lot of people have asked me about the Ringmer Football Development Centre which is planned to open next season. Although there was some high degree of secrecy about this, the rumours have been flying about and I feel I should make some sort of a comment. Its been noted by a lot of top quality coaches (mainly from Eastbourne and Burgess Hill clubs) that there is a total void of quality coaching in this area for young and up and coming players. With outside sponsorship, its true that we intend to start a Development Centre for footballers in this region. We plan for it to be totally innovative and be run by top invited coaches in Sussex. The details of all of this will emerge later in the season but suffice to say it’ll wipe the floor clean in coaching terms in this area and we plan on having the top players coming through our Development Centre. Exciting times huh?
On Tuesday our first team travel to Wick to play a SCFL Div 1 game. Winning it will mean a lofty second place in the County League but to me and Steve it would mean three points closer to safety. A 1-14 win secured third place and I have to say I felt sorry for Worthing United. They worked hard and didn’t deserve to get spanked but hey, we were written off at the beginning of the season so we are all out of sentiment. Give me the game again and we’d do the same in reality.
Just a word about Simon Greatwich’s selection for the Philippine national side to tour Cambodia. Its great to have international players at Ringmer and we wish Simon every success and wish him a safe and enjoyable tour - we have to wait and see if he returns back to the UK as there are rumours that they may ask him to be part of their newly formed league. We’ll wail and see how it develops.
Having taken a 2 nil lead against the academy side from Margate, you’d think that our 18s were favourites to progress in the FA Youth Cup. Before I’d got back to the safety of the dugout for the second half, we’d conceded twice and were very much on the back foot. We lost the game 3-5. To be honest we were (in my opinion) the better side. Their coach remarked that our youth side was “a really great side” and the Reading scout there was astonished that we lost having dominated the game so thoroughly. Hey its about learning and development - I think we learnt in this game but I’m not sure we developed.
As I was with the front side on Saturday I didn’t see the reserve game on Saturday. We lost 1-3 to Pagham reserves and our new manager Neil Thorneycroft probably felt he had a baptism of fire. The next reserve game is on Friday night and I’m confident of a reversal of fortunes for our illustrious rezzies. They’ll do well - you’ll see.
So football this week goes like this. Tuesday night training for the reserves and 18s at Falmer, 7.30 till 9pm. A training game will be the order of the day up there on that night. The front side travel to Wick on the same night. Deb will text you your involvement if selected. On Thursday the 18s play at home to Eastbourne Borough and on Friday night the reserves play Eastbourne Town at the Caburn. On Saturday we travel to Kent to play in the FA Vase game against Lordswood. They are level nine and stand in our way if we are to succeed in competing in the next round.
Check Malc’s details on kick off times etc on the web site together with Rob, Steve’s and David’s detailed deliberations for each game we play.
If they just get the politics sorted this could become a golden era for our club…….
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