First, I want to say hello to Josh Lawrence who gets this Newsletter and is currently unavailable to play football. Josh, - keep your head up mate and we all wish you the best and hope to see you out and about real soon. Keep yourself fit son.
The changes within our football club are slow and predictive and both Steve and I have to take a view on next season. Lets be frank – its unlikely that RFC Ltd will be out of Administration in the time-scales we have referred to previously when we said that we’d stay on if asked. But Steve and I really like not only the club but the people of Ringmer too and have really enjoyed our nearly complete season here. We wouldn’t leave without good reason and we recognise that certain people have worked really hard to get the club right and it would be a slap in the face to those people should we just cut and run to one of the clubs offering football. So if asked officially by whoever it is running this club now we would stay provided there was one – and only one as far as we are concerned – one change. Everyone knows what it is.
Our reserves found it tough to challenge the conditions and the Hassocks reserve side at the Caburn on Friday evening – us losing the game 0-1. Geoff will re-structure and re-build for next term with new faces and new goals being set by all in the proposed football management team and it was quite noticeable that body language and attitudes were not as Geoff will have wanted through the game. Looking to next term irrespective of youth football application that’s been discussed, we will be running our U18s next term with Kev Allen at the youth football helm. He’ll be working closely with Geoff feeding players through and utilising players from each squad in each side. We have new goals and ambitions for next term and more detailed standards. The standards in this football club need to be improved. This is not a cost factor – this is a standards issue.
Ringmer scored their 100th goal in all competitions on Saturday in our dramatic late equaliser courtesy of Dave Altendorf. We have tired players at the moment and it’ll be good to welcome back to the squad Dan Craghill, Matt Percival and Mark Price for the Tuesday encounter with East Grinstead. We beat East Grinstead 0-1 at their place and since then they have had a major upheaval with players coming and going and more importantly to the club perhaps, Steve Johnson and Tommo going there as the management team. They are in a dog-fight for survival and they need to come to the Caburn and get something from the game here on Tuesday night. We have a different agenda despite being robbed of 10 points and will look to get all 3 on Tuesday night.
We have taken 10 points from a possible 12 having beaten Lingfield, Whitehawk and the Championship contenders Arundel and we now have East Grinstead on Tuesday night, Three Bridges on Saturday then Arundel away for the last game of the season on Saturday week. The game v Arundel should be interesting as they may need to win it perhaps to win the title.
Have a safe and enjoyable week.
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