It was noticeable that Worthing United were picking up points and this seemed unusual for a side seemingly destined to play division two football next term. So as some (although it should have been all) trained with Steve at Falmer on Tuesday night, I went down covertly to watch them take on the Arundel side and was immediately impressed with their performance. I know we had a bit of a run in with Arundel on this “no game” crap a few weeks ago and when they’ve all calmed down - and for the record - my view is that Arundel can play a bit of football and in this game it was no different - and that’s what bothered me when it turned out to be a draw 2-2 on the night - Arundel quite fortunate to drag it back to level scores after being 2 down. So we had to get a bit clever to overcome this very effective side when they visited the Caburn on Saturday.
Losing Aaron in the warm up didn’t help our preparations but a quick change of paperwork and we worked hard to graft out a win. And to be fair it pretty much all went to plan, Ringmer winning the game by a solitary goal, 1-0. It was a tough encounter and we move on to 39 points and I guess relative safety in the top flight of the County League. Of course, it should be 49 points but lets not go there until the end of the season huh..?
We move our attention to games that now come thick and fast - but not before we turn our attention to our reserves who travelled the length and breadth of the county to go to Pagham who are situated close to Lands End in Cornwall - well it seems like it when you drag your arse all the way down there - particularly if you lose as our young blues did on Saturday. Bad luck Geoff and the fellas - re-group and with players coming back in and a couple of mid week games coming up, lets see if we can put a few points together over the last part of the season. The one thing I’m sure of is that not having an U18s side this term has certainly hindered the selection availability for the reserve manager and next term - should they ever decide to get us out of Administration - we would certainly be re-booting our youth development project - should they ever decide to get us out of Administration.
On Tuesday night we come up against the much-fancied Eastbourne United. I’ll be quick to point out that we have already taken 3 points from them with a win earlier on in the season. Since then there’s been a bit of water under the bridge and they’ve had their eye on promotion to the Ryman League and …… we haven’t. Still we meet them on level terms and on a flat pitch and although I have to be honest and say we have quite a few squad players missing on this one, we still have plenty of quality to contest their challenge. 7.30 kick off.
So no training as Falmer has now finished for training, and incidentally the club needs to get the next booking in over the next few weeks to ensure we have a facility next term. Perhaps the powers that be should take a look at that.
On Saturday the front side take on Lingfield at home followed by Whitehawk on Easter Monday followed by Arundel away on the Wednesday night followed by Redhill at home on Saturday followed by the visit of Steve Johnson and Tommo with the East Grinstead side on the Tuesday. Busy huh?
The ressies have a less busy time visiting Eastbourne Town next Saturday. Hope to see as many of you as possible on the start of events at home on Tuesday evening. Have a good week.
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