On Wednesday night we were unceremoniously dumped out of the Brighton Charity Cup at the quarter-final hurdle by Seaford Town at The Crouch. In a game which we should have wrapped things up in the first half, we didn’t. We didn’t play particularly well and our managerial motivation probably wasn’t at the level required to take us through to the semis. Best of luck to Seaford in their efforts to win this cup and I watch with interest as to whether other teams succumb to this second division side.
On Saturday we continued our efforts to ensure our division one status encountering St Francis Rangers at their place. Steve and I have been up there five times in two years with the 18s, the reserves and front side with SJ last term and we’re pretty sure we’ve never got a single point. So we went up there full of confidence and without Ryan Mac, Huggy, Percy, Jo Jo, and with As Hasan on the bench with Pricey neither player 100% fit and As Mac complaining about something or the other - we knew the day would be an adventure. But our players are no shrinking violets and with full use of our squad we showed strength in depth taking the lead late in the first half. We went in one up upon 45 minutes and to be honest - in my opinion - we should really have had the game sown up. But we didn’t and very late in the second half we conceded and the points were shared. Honestly .. a point was our minimum requirement in this game but make no mistake 3 points against a resurgent Selsey United at home this coming Saturday is not a requirement - it’s a demand. You’ll see an attacking Ringmer side that’ll be going for it and hopefully playing some great attractive football that’ll be entertainment personified.
Geoff took his reserves to Arundel after the problems we encountered there with the first team and I hear we took a good account of ourselves. At the time of writing I haven’t spoken to Geoff but I understand that his young side did well and with several players out we were unlucky not to get something from the game. We are all working hard to try to ensure our safety in the Reserve Premier League - particularly Geoff who is doing no end of communication work during the week together with the match day effort - to say nothing of the two training sessions. Great work Geoff.
This week sees a series of events at The Caburn in which we play host to semi-finals in various cups. On Monday night we have a game and on Wednesday night too. On Thursday night we intend to have a training game (to be sorted) whilst the reserves will train at Falmer on Tuesday night.
Football can be a funny game but there’s no humour attached to Administration. A little known fact is that if you are in Administration at the point where Leagues are being decided - usually at around this time of the season or over the next few weeks - then its likely that the FA step in to advise the level that a side should play at for the next season. I am advised that Ringmer Football Club are on the precipice of returning to normality in terms of a County league club and I hope that that can be sorted before that mechanism of decision from the FA would become a necessity. We now need 7 points from 11 games to reach the 40 point mark and in real terms we would now be in sixth place and a game in hand over Three Bridges and seriously pushing for a top three place.
I’m sorry we’re not there……
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