West Kent Sunday League News Report – 17th October 2021
Two more WKSFL teams progressed to the third round of the Kent Sunday
Junior Cup. Dormansland Rockets successfully began their Surrey Cup
campaign.There was a full programme of League matches with plenty of
goals.
Kent Sunday Junior Cup
Odukwe are in the third round after a narrow 3-2 victory over
Red Heathens of the Ashford League. In that round they will face
another team from the Ashford area, Egerton.
They will be joined by Charcott, who beat TW Ridgewaye 6-2 with goals
from two goals from Jay Pring, one each from Luke French, Ryan
Silvester, Jools Walker and an own goal. Ridgewaye's goals came from
Tyler Markwell and Johnny Hughes. For one reason or another this
was Ridgewaye's first game for a month, so maybe they were a bit rusty.
In the next round Charcott will meet Paddock Wood, thus guaranteeing a WKSFL club in Round Four.
The draw for the third round of the Kent Sunday Cups includes these ties for our teams. Matches are scheduled for 21st November.
Sunday Premier Cup : Artois United v Mersham Sports; Green Lane v Market Hotel; Simla v Aldington
Sunday Junior Cup : AFC
Tonbridge v Sutton Valence; AFC Valour v Yalding & Laddingford;
Goudhurst United v Leeds Athletic**; Odukwe v Egerton; Charcott v
Paddock Wood
** this game is shown on the KCFA website as a walkover for Goudhurst. I cannot find Leeds Athletic FC as still going.
Sunday Junior Trophy :AFC Borough Reserves v Tenterden Town; White Horse Jaguars (Eccles) v Royal Oak
Surrey Sunday Lower Junior Cup
Dormansland Rockets have had a good run in this cup in recent
seasons. On Sunday they began their campaing with a trip to Morden in South London.
Despite being on top, against a workmanlike but willing side it took
until half way through the first half for Rockets to take the lead
through Tom Poulter. Further goals were added before half time by
a Rich Wetton penalty and the lively Rhys White on his full debut.
After a good passing move, Rockets scored straight from the kick off in
the second half when Tom Poulter was in the right place again to
extend the lead.
There then followed five minutes of madness from the away team when lax
defending allowed Morden United to score two quick goals. Rockets
resumed control and a further strike from Rich Wetton and Ollie
Muggeridge's second header in two weeks saw the Rockets comfortably
home, with the final score 6-2 in their favour.
Division One / Two
In the top tier, the top three are beginning to pull away from the
pack, but Green Lane are behind with their fixtures and are as yet the
only unbeaten team. Sunday saw then scrap out a 1-1 draw at Pembury
Sunday, who may be ruing those two dropped points later. Johnny
Phillips scored for the Lane, Charlie Johns for Pembury.
Leaders Simla made it two 5- 0 wins in a row after that big defeat
at the hands of Artois United three weeks ago. Victims this time were
AFC Borough, scores for Simla being Alex Carey with two,Ian Parsons,
Luke Leppard and Elliott Moon. Our man in the know says that the score
was perhaps a little misleading, with Simla's 'keeper Joe Cullipp making
two tremendous first half saves to deny AFC Borough. Borough worked
their socks off for the whole game, facing up to their powerful
opponents. Simla certainly knew they had been in a game.
Artois United leap-frogged over Paddock Wood into second place
with a resounding 7- 1 home win. Goalscorers were Peter Shaw, Ryan Hine
with a couple, Regan Corke, Nathan Moseley, Taylor Galvin and Lucas
Murrain.
Insulators have recruited Ben Boodle to their ranks. In season 2018 -
2019, Boodle scored 41 times for Cassidy's Phoenix and he started off
his Insulators service with a hat-trick in their 5-4 home win over
Goudhurst United.
This game didn't start well for the home side when a weak back pass was
pounced on by a Goudhurst forward to open the scoring in the first
minute. Insulators grew into the game and Ben Boodle scored from close
range on his debut to equalise. After 15 minutes Kane Ramsell crossed
for Cole Walsh to score from close in to put the home side ahead. After
half an hour Boodle added a second from close range after a rebound fell
kindly. Half time 3-1 to Insulators.
In the second half Goudhurst pulled one back from close in after 53
minutes and with fifteen minutes remaining equalised from 10 yards.
Anyone's game at this point. Soon afterwards, Reece Beecroft scored a
fine goal direct from a free kick 25 yards out to put the home side back
in front. In the 87th minute Boodle completed a fine hat trick from 25
yards. There was still time for Dan Marks to pull off an excellent save
in the home goal in the 93rd minute which was fortunate as Goudhurst
scored in the 95th minute via an own goal perhaps, but claimed by a
Goudhurst player. A bit of a thriller and played in excellent spirit by
both teams. Goudhurst's scorers were Jonny Riordan with two, John
Bartram and James Found.
A 2 -2 draw between AFC Tonbridge and St John's Yard gave both their
first point of the season. Callum Donoghue and Tyler Richardson scored
for AFC Tonbridge, Dan Hunter, Kyal Loring for the Yard.
| Phase One - each team plays the others once |
| Pos |
Team |
P |
W |
D |
L |
F |
A |
GD |
Pts |
| 1 |
Simla |
6 |
5 |
0 |
1 |
24 |
8 |
16 |
15 |
| 2 |
Artois United |
5 |
4 |
0 |
1 |
26 |
6 |
20 |
12 |
| 3 |
Paddock Wood |
6 |
4 |
0 |
2 |
16 |
18 |
-2 |
12 |
| 4 |
Pembury Sunday |
5 |
3 |
1 |
1 |
13 |
3 |
10 |
10 |
| 5 |
Odukwe FC |
4 |
3 |
0 |
1 |
27 |
7 |
20 |
9 |
| 6 |
Dormansland Rockets |
5 |
3 |
0 |
2 |
15 |
16 |
-1 |
9 |
| 7 |
Green Lane |
3 |
2 |
1 |
0 |
10 |
3 |
7 |
7 |
| 8 |
Goudhurst United |
6 |
2 |
1 |
3 |
17 |
23 |
-6 |
7 |
| 9 |
AFC Valour |
5 |
2 |
1 |
2 |
9 |
16 |
-7 |
7 |
| 10 |
AFC Borough |
5 |
2 |
0 |
3 |
13 |
14 |
-1 |
6 |
| 11 |
Insulators |
5 |
2 |
0 |
3 |
14 |
18 |
-4 |
6 |
| 12 |
Charcott |
5 |
1 |
0 |
4 |
13 |
11 |
2 |
3 |
| 13 |
Saint John's Yard |
5 |
0 |
1 |
4 |
3 |
24 |
-21 |
1 |
| 14 |
AFC Tonbridge |
5 |
0 |
1 |
4 |
2 |
28 |
-26 |
1 |
| 15 |
TW Ridgewaye |
2 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
4 |
11 |
-7 |
0 |
Division Three
Sedlescombe Rangers kept top spot with a huge 19 - 0 win at home
against bottom side Riverside Colts. Colts could muster only eight
players for the long trip but sportingly went ahead to play the game.
The long list of Rangers scorers : Alvin Scott with six, Zack
Mceniry hit five, there was on each from Rhys Daniels, Hugh Lane, Archie
Irving, Alfie Shand, Ross Chambers, Josh Pool, Henry Lankston and
an own goal.
Royal Oak dropped their first points of the season, being held 3-3
at home by Ticehurst Village. It was a close fought game, with the Oak's
Matt Last opening the scoring against the run of play, Ticehurst
responded with Nathan Green’s first goal for the club and a 30 yard
bullet from Leon Fisher took them into the lead. Royal Oak equalised
through Dan Hunter. Ticehurst went ahead again with Mehmet Coskun’s
first touch on his debut. It was looking like a well earned three points
for the away team until a hopeful long shot unfortunately was spilled
through keeper's legs in the final minute own goal.
Speldhurst Rangers move into fourth after a 3-1 win at home to lowly
Tonbridge United. Speldhurst were wasteful in their victory (especially
James Hughes). Speldhurst played liquid football for the first goal. A
goal kick taken short ended in Greg Gamm going on a mazy run. He
laid it off to Andreas Theodorou, who passed to Rich Williamson, who
scored his first goal for the club. His celebration was to rip off his
shirt and reveal his moist bulging chest hair and swing his shirt above
his head. (Ugh!)
Tonbridge United levelled in the second half through Warren Jarvis
despite appeals for offside. Speldhurst grabbed their second after an
Ollie Crees shot was spilled out to Dan 'The Badger' Kelly, who did his
best to miss by smashing the ball into the roof of the net. Super sub
Andy Watts wrapped up the game 30 seconds after coming back onto the
field of play. Rich Williamson was credited with the assist. Apparently
his general state of being was an improvement on last week.
Westerham recovered from two successive defeats with a 3-2 win over
Artois United Reserves. Ollie Sugden scored both for Artois Reserves.
This was a rather unsavourty games that saw two players from each side
sent off.
Insulators Reserves join the mid table pack with a 3-1 win at AFC
Borough Reserves. Insulators started well and dominated the opening
exchanges and only some wayward finishing keeping Borough on level
terms. An early injury to Nik Weedon didn’t impact the dominance
and the deadlock was finally broken on 23 minutes by Harry Mascall after
a great through ball from Toby Gandell.
Borough came into the game a bit more and Oscar Harrison managed to
break through the high line four minutes before the break to equalise.
1-1 at half time.
Both Insulators centre backs having to be replaced at half time wasn’t
ideal, but the makeshift back line performed well in the second half to
limit Borough to only a handful of chances. With Craig Smith in
goal excelling in his new sweeper 'keeper role and making some smart
saves, Borough weren’t able to find the back of the net.An hour into the
game and Bailey Wright closed down the Borough' keeper and intercepted
the clearance to find himself on the by line. He was able to curl the
ball into the top corner for a great finish. 2 - 1 to Insulators
Three minutes later, Harry Mascall turned provider with another
wonderful pass which was latched onto by Jacob Pingault who finished
smartly to make it three for Insulators.The game was very open for the
last 25 minutes but with no further goals it was Insulators who took the
spoils. Hopefully this will be the start of a run up towards the top
end of the division.
Dunton Green resumed activity after two weeks lay-off with a 4-4 draw
against TW Ridgewaye Reserves. Their goals were scored by Alec Gates,
Frankie Ingram with two and Luke Alleway.
| Pos |
Team |
P |
W |
D |
L |
F |
A |
GD |
Pts |
| 1 |
Sedlescombe Rangers |
6 |
5 |
1 |
0 |
41 |
7 |
34 |
16 |
| 2 |
Royal Oak |
5 |
4 |
1 |
0 |
22 |
11 |
11 |
13 |
| 3 |
Brenchley |
5 |
4 |
0 |
1 |
18 |
10 |
8 |
12 |
| 4 |
Speldhurst Rangers |
7 |
3 |
2 |
2 |
20 |
22 |
-2 |
11 |
| 5 |
Westerham |
7 |
3 |
1 |
3 |
18 |
22 |
-4 |
10 |
| 6 |
Insulators Reserves |
6 |
3 |
0 |
3 |
13 |
11 |
2 |
9 |
| 7 |
TW Ridgewaye Reserves |
4 |
2 |
1 |
1 |
20 |
11 |
9 |
7 |
| 8 |
AFC Borough Reserves |
5 |
2 |
1 |
2 |
16 |
13 |
3 |
7 |
| 9 |
Artois United Reserves |
6 |
1 |
3 |
2 |
17 |
12 |
5 |
6 |
| 10 |
Ticehurst Village Club |
6 |
1 |
2 |
3 |
18 |
23 |
-5 |
5 |
| 11 |
Dunton Green |
5 |
1 |
1 |
3 |
10 |
18 |
-8 |
4 |
| 12 |
Tonbridge United |
5 |
0 |
1 |
4 |
5 |
24 |
-19 |
1 |
| 13 |
Riverside Colts |
5 |
0 |
0 |
5 |
4 |
38 |
-34 |
0 |
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