Most of you will know that Herve King’s brother Oliver was killed recently. I have been contacted by a friend of mine, Steve Ibbotson, who in turn has put me in contact with Andy Brogan of Croydon Athletic who has made arrangements to play a charity game in memory of Herve King and his brother Oliver. It will be at Croydon Athletics ground on Sunday 30 November at 3pm. They are sending me down 100 tickets that they are asking us to sell. They are £5 each so e-mail me a nes-sales@btconnect.com if it’s a game and an event that you can be at. We are organising a coach and there will be a charge of £10 per person for those travelling. The squad on that day will be as close as possible to the squad that played on the day Herve died, with the exception of Jack Johnson who is in the USA. Steve Johnson, Paul Thompsett and Ian Fairs will manage events on the day as they did on that Saturday. Croydon expect some 3000 people to be in attendance.
I went to look at our pitch on Sunday after the game on Saturday which resembled a game of water polo. The pitch is damaged but hopefully with a bit of TLC we’ll get it back into good condition for the next home game which is against Arundel next Saturday, 3pm ko. I wish I’d called it off before we started, as the ref certainly wasn’t going to as the game progressed. The trouble is that if I go on about it “should have been stopped” people say its sour grapes but the Pagham bench and I agreed that it should stop when the game was all equal at 1-1. Any road up Pagham to got the rub of the green in the last 15 minutes and scored twice to our one goal. Pagham winning the event 2-3. For the record, we had Dave Altendorf, Craig Brown, Simon Greatwich Aaron Macmillan, Ryan Macmillan, Dan Craghill, Chris Greatwich and Jayson Sowter all unavailable for the game.
Our reserves battled out a contest in equally Noah’s Ark type conditions running out second best in this (apparently) dire contest.
So not a great day for Ringmer FC on the face of it. BUT with Redhill losing we still remain the top side in the County, adding to the frustrations of the Ringmer haters that are so desperate for us to fail.
I went to watch Selsey play Arundel during the week. Mate that is a long way down there innit. Talk about the back and beyond. By the time you get there its time to come home. Gotta say though what a lovely place. Nice pitch and nice civil people from both sides. Arundel ran out winners 3-1(?) and I’ll reserve my view on the game till later as we play Arundel next as I said earlier.
There is a members meeting tonight at the club to have a vote regarding a move and re-location. Most of you already know about this meeting and you are advised that if you want to have a say in the clubs future, its 7.30 for 8 at the Caburn. Bring your Members card if you’re coming.
Training is not yet confirmed for this week. A text will be sent tonight to notify you all.
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