I’m not aware of any County league games played over the weekend so our focus is re-directed to next Saturday’s encounter against Pagham at their place. I like this lot - they’re honest and you have to take them as you find them. The Chairman is Gary Block who, evidently, with his wife, runs the entire set up. He’s the manager, barman and groundsman. So lets reflect upon that when we consider (even in these times) that we have a few people involved and that its not down to one person. Pagham, who have been vying for a top place (on a very limited budget I hear) will meet our side in 5 days.
Last Thursday night we played an Eastbourne Borough 11 that consisted of 4 or 5 of their first team and the rest were under 18s/reserves. The centre back who came on for them was Simon Johnson who is now in the final U18s England squad so we were up against some quality. In the game Joe Mactiffin went off with a suspected busted ankle but fortunately after a scan it turned out to be ligament damage. He’ll be out for a few weeks. Win lose or draw, I never report friendly game scores. It was a good workout and thanks to Paul and Shaun for coming over.
In Saturdays scheduled game against Chichester, we were no less than 6 players out. Med had a family do, Sam Sowter was, well, you’d better ask him about his trip and night out, Simon and Will were doing their level 2, Percy got dragged off to Venice and Pricey had to work. Dave Altendorf went on the missing but re-emerged Saturday morning. Next Saturday we have them all back and available and we have an ex-Ringmer player re-signing for us again this week having played for us last term. Who is he? E mail me at bobmunnery@tiscali.co.uk with your guess or go on the RFC forum and see if you can work it out. Give me the name of the player who scored our first goal in the County League this term and the name of the player signing and win £10 prize. First one in gets it.
Our pitch resembled a picturesque lake at 10am on Saturday when I checked it out for the reserves. I didn’t have to walk it - it was quite apparent that there’d be no activity on that day or on Sunday when Ringmer Rovers U14 side were due to use it. Sorry everyone. Not a chance.
Training is on Tuesday for all. Its an intensive hour 8-9 and is becoming relevant to team selection for the first eleven. Neil has a long standing arrangement on Tuesday which I knew about prior to him taking on the job but I’m hoping that Geoff Mactiffin will be available to be involved to view reserve players training too.
I have received an e mail in from the acting Chairman of Ringmer Football Club Limited regarding Herve King. I have said that Ringmer should be sorting this remembrance game out themselves. I’m pleased to report that Richard Soan has been speaking with Herve’s partner Sarah and a game has started to take shape to be held at the club next February. If this game is organised I can state that irrespective of whether the Limited Company is in Administration or if things have turned even worse for the directors’, the game, once organised, will take place.
I watched Lewes U18s fail in their attempt to get to the next round of the FA Youth Cup against Hull City and I know they’ll be disappointed with the result. I thought they could’ve changed the game and won it had they played their second year substitutes. To be fair, both sides were not particularly great but apart from the most outrageous piece of nepotism I’ve ever seen in youth football when it came to making changes, it was an interesting game. Bad luck Steve and your players.
I read somewhere that Lewes can now be bought for a reported £150,000 which sounds cheap but what exactly do you get for that? If they go into Administration and as they don’t own their pitch, I wonder if anyone will be wanting to sort that out?
We may be having a training game on a third generation pitch on Thursday but you’ll hear about that on Tuesday night. See you there.
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