West Kent Sunday League News Report – 3rd October 2021
Despite Saturday's torrential rain, most games went ahead as scheduled. There were plenty of goals.
Division One / Two
With Odukwe idle, Simla were able to take over as leaders with a comprehensive 5-0 win at home against Goudhurst United.
That more than made up for their poor performance the previous Sunday.
Scorers were Ian Parsons with a hat-trick, Matt Coleman and Brett
Milham. In goal, Joe Cullip in goal kept his sheet clean.
Artois United followed up last week's win over Simla with an 8-0 thrashing of AFC Valour
at East Peckham. The excellent drainage at East Peckham made way for a
smooth and slick playing surface. Unfortunately for the hosts, Artois'
football was just as smooth and slick as the pitch. Valour trailed
3-0 at half-time, despite countless heroic saves from Paul Redfern in
goal, rolling back the years to keep the score down.
In the second half Artois squandered a few chances and Valour actually
nearly nicked a goal to make it 3-1 but a solid defensive block meant it
wasn’t to be. Artois, who had been superb throughout, made Valour pay
with two more quick fire well worked goals. ‘How long left ref’? Was the
shout at six minutes to go. Valour, showing some naivety, kept pushing
for a goal and were caught on the break, shape went out of the window
and Artois notched up another three goals in such a short space of time.
A bad day at the office, but hats off to Artois, since Valour were
formed 17 years ago, we’ve never faced such strong opposition. We’ll
learn from it and full credit to Tim (Thirlaway) and his
lads. The full goal tally for Artois was a hat-trick for
Regan Corke, also there were two each for Peter Shaw and Lewis Murrain
plus a single strike from max Carbune. Dave Holdstock kept the clean
sheet in goal
AFC Borough were also among the goals, doing the damage with seven different scorers in their seven nil win over AFC Tonbridge.
James Heir, Jacob Feasey, Ed Handford, Jack Holmes, Ben Simmonds, Sam
Edmunds and Matt Taylor were the names on the scoresheet.
Dormansland Rockets hit St John's Yard
for six at Colin Anderson Field. After two successive defeats at the
start of the season, Dormansland Rockets now have two successive
victories, this time with a win over St John's Yard. Though the final
score was emphatic, the result was always in doubt until Rockets' scored
their second midway through the second half against a team that never
stopped working and battling to the end. Indeed, if they had bought
their shooting boots when they had their opportunities the scoreline
could have been different.
Rockets' scorers were Rich Wetton (3), Ali Jones, Tom Poulter and
Ashley Hollom. Nick Elwood kept the clean sheet, confirming Rockets
second successive win
after starting the season with two defeats..
In complete contrast to the other games, the Paddock Wood local derby between Insulators and Paddock Wood
was a low scoring affair. Paddock Wood were on the front foot from the
beginning and it was perhaps no surprise when Simon Hammond scored from a
tight angle at the near post on 12 minutes. The away side continued to
have the better possession, but it was Insulators that scored next with
Cole Walsh calmly slotting home from the penalty spot in the 35th
minute. In the second half Paddock Wood continued to have more of the
ball and created the better chances. Despite that, Insulators will be
disappointed that the winner was a tap in by Hammond following
indecision in the home defence.
A few half chances came the home side's way but overall the visitors had
the better of the game. Final score Insulators 1 - 2 Paddock Wood.
| Phase One - each team plays the others once |
| Pos |
Team |
P |
W |
D |
L |
F |
A |
GD |
Pts |
| 1 |
Simla |
5 |
4 |
0 |
1 |
19 |
8 |
11 |
12 |
| 2 |
Odukwe FC |
4 |
3 |
0 |
1 |
27 |
7 |
20 |
9 |
| 3 |
Artois United |
4 |
3 |
0 |
1 |
19 |
5 |
14 |
9 |
| 4 |
Paddock Wood |
4 |
3 |
0 |
1 |
10 |
10 |
0 |
9 |
| 5 |
AFC Valour |
4 |
2 |
1 |
1 |
7 |
12 |
-5 |
7 |
| 6 |
Pembury Sunday |
3 |
2 |
0 |
1 |
11 |
2 |
9 |
6 |
| 7 |
Green Lane |
2 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
9 |
2 |
7 |
6 |
| 8 |
AFC Borough |
4 |
2 |
0 |
2 |
13 |
9 |
4 |
6 |
| 9 |
Dormansland Rockets |
4 |
2 |
0 |
2 |
11 |
14 |
-3 |
6 |
| 10 |
Goudhurst United |
4 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
7 |
18 |
-11 |
4 |
| 11 |
Charcott |
4 |
1 |
0 |
3 |
13 |
10 |
3 |
3 |
| 12 |
Insulators |
4 |
1 |
0 |
3 |
9 |
14 |
-5 |
3 |
| 13 |
TW Ridgewaye |
2 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
4 |
11 |
-7 |
0 |
| 14 |
Saint John's Yard |
3 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
0 |
17 |
-17 |
0 |
| 15 |
AFC Tonbridge |
3 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
0 |
20 |
-20 |
0 |
Division Three
Royal Oak made it four wins from four games with a good 5-2 home win over Insulators Reserves,
who had problems with players not getting out of bed! Despite that,
Insulators started strongly against top of the table Royal Oak but
couldn’t make their early dominance count. Royal Oak started to get into
the game and create chances of their own
Mid way through the first half the deadlock was broken with a long cross
field ball and smart low finish beating Craig Smith for his first goal
conceded in over 200 minutes of football, 1 – 0 to the Oak. The game
continued to one of few clear cut chances and remained at 1 -0 till half
time
Insulators again started strongly in the second half and some good
interplay between Lewis Disbury and Harry Mascall resulted in Disbury
lobbing the keeper from outside the box to bring the game back to all
square. This seemed to kick Royal Oak into life and they were back in
front on 60 minutes. With Insulators pushing for an equaliser, they
exposed the gaps in the defence to go 3 – 1 up on 77 minutes. Bailey
Wright was then fouled in the box to win a penalty for Insulators which
Harry Mascall coolly slotted home to set up a frantic finale
Royal Oak won a penalty from a corner which was adjudged to have been
cleared off the line by a hand and it was finished confidently on 89
minutes. There was still time to make it 5 -2 deep into injury time as
Insulators 1 – 0 – 9 formation certainly left space for a long ball
which was snapped up and calmly finished.
Final score 5-2 to Royal Oak which included a hat.-trick by Ashley Bell and a goal each from Dan Lazell and Joe Rutland.
Brenchley kept up the pressure, winning 3-1 at Westerham with all three coming from Conor Williams. Taylor Strange marked Westerham's only reply.
Sedlescombe Rangers had an almost local derby against Ticehurst Village.
in which eleven goals were scored. Rangers scored seven of them,
keeping their unbeaten record. There was a hat-trick from Alvin Scott
and goals from Harry Loates, Ben Steadman, Charlie Webbe and Tom
Swatton. Ticehurst won't have scored four very often and been beaten,
certainly not in the last two truncated seasons. Jason Marsh 2, Oli
Marsh and Leon Fisher scored but they are still winless.
Speldhurst Rangers
stay fourth after a 3-3 draw away at Artois United Reserves.
Definitely a
game of two halves. Speldhurst went behind to an early goal by Alfie
Owen then soon hit back with three quick-fire goals through an Ollie
Crees header and a James Hughes double. Artois fought back in the second
half to level the scores through Dan Edmonton and Rhys Newton. Artois
then squandered several chances to take the points said our man on the
spot.
On the next pitch at Tonbridge Farm, AFC Borough Reserves put five
unanswered goals past Tonbridge United. Scorers were Oscar Harrison with
2, Marcus Alexander, Max Scott and Ryan Hackworth
| Pos |
Team |
P |
W |
D |
L |
F |
A |
GD |
Pts |
| 1 |
Royal Oak |
4 |
4 |
0 |
0 |
19 |
8 |
11 |
12 |
| 2 |
Brenchley |
5 |
4 |
0 |
1 |
18 |
10 |
8 |
12 |
| 3 |
Sedlescombe Rangers |
4 |
3 |
1 |
0 |
14 |
6 |
8 |
10 |
| 4 |
Speldhurst Rangers |
5 |
2 |
2 |
1 |
16 |
13 |
3 |
8 |
| 5 |
AFC Borough Reserves |
4 |
2 |
1 |
1 |
15 |
10 |
5 |
7 |
| 6 |
Westerham |
5 |
2 |
1 |
2 |
10 |
13 |
-3 |
7 |
| 7 |
TW Ridgewaye Reserves |
3 |
2 |
0 |
1 |
16 |
7 |
9 |
6 |
| 8 |
Artois United Reserves |
5 |
1 |
3 |
1 |
15 |
9 |
6 |
6 |
| 9 |
Insulators Reserves |
5 |
2 |
0 |
3 |
10 |
10 |
0 |
6 |
| 10 |
Dunton Green |
4 |
1 |
0 |
3 |
6 |
14 |
-8 |
3 |
| 11 |
Ticehurst Village Club |
4 |
0 |
1 |
3 |
8 |
15 |
-7 |
1 |
| 12 |
Tonbridge United |
4 |
0 |
1 |
3 |
4 |
21 |
-17 |
1 |
| 13 |
Riverside Colts |
4 |
0 |
0 |
4 |
4 |
19 |
-15 |
0 |
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