The three points gained on Saturday against Lingfield ensured safety and Sussex County division one football next term and from here on I’ll be referring to our position with the 10 points as if they weren’t taken. Mainly because they should never have been taken in the first place. Administration clearly did not change ownership of the ground - thank goodness- and it would seem that that was the intention of those that signed the paperwork which consigned us to a season of concern over our future here at the Caburn.
So our position is now seventh, one point behind Redhill and a game in hand. Our maximum points level is 70 and thats our target figure. Technically, we could have still won the league but with our mid-term blip - which had nothing to do with directors, Administrators’ or ten points being deducted - we would have fallen short.
Tomorrow (Tuesday night) our reserves play against Crawley Down reserves at the Caburn. We welcome back Sam O’Reagan who signed for us pre-season but the had to go to work in Ireland in this game and hope he stays with us for the remainder of the season. Together with a few other players lending a hand we feel confident of getting three points tomorrow. Geoff found himself particularly short of personnel on Saturday when they encountered Eastbourne Town. Town, let us not forget play their first team football in the Ryman League so quite naturally their reserves will be pretty good. And on the day they were better than us with Geoff taking part in the competition.
On Thursday night we have a re-scheduled game against Arundel who could well win the top spot in the County. They have a couple of games in hand over the top sides and will come to us fully expecting to get three points. I don’t believe in needle games and if they’ve still got the hump over our postponed game earlier in the season I couldn’t give a toss to be honest. They are like any other side - coming to us to win a game and we are looking for three points too. It should be interesting. Almost as interesting as the last game of the season - Arundel away on Friday May 1st. They may need to win that perhaps to clinch the title…
Today, Monday, we met Whitehawk to whom we lost to earlier in the season - and we lost Aaron Last in too. We scored three times and won the game 2-1 - a free-kick winning the tie after, (once more) we went behind, only to drag ourselves on and win the game.
On Saturday the first team play Redhill at home and the reserves are at home to Hassocks on the Friday night - so lets all get there and get behind Geoff’s side and then with us all together on Saturday.
So a win against Arundel on Thursday night followed by a win against Redhill will give us a further 6 points and quite possibly - by my reckoning - could take us to third place.
I think we’d all agree that in different circumstances and with clever people, this could have been a fantastic season.
Have a safe and enjoyable week.
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