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Season 2012/13 No.3 20Th August 2012 in This Issue… Weekly News & Match Bulletin – Season 2012/13 No.3 20th August 2012 One of the league’s new grounds, Three Bridges, is pictured as the home side and visitors Sittingbourne pay their respects to the late Ingram Whittingham on Saturday (picture courtesy of Ken Redwyn). In this issue… All Saturday’s action Forthcoming fixtures Farewell to two Friends All the Weekend Action By Peter Butcher – Ryman League Communications Administrator Premier HE SAYS it will be his last season, and Wealdstone striker Richard Jolly looks in the mood to go out in style. Last season’s Golden Boot winner struck after 26 minutes of his side’s home opener against Met Police, intercepting a scuffed goal-kick by Police keeper Jamie Butler and firing home what proved to be the only goal of the game to get Stones’ title challenge off to a successful start. Lowestoft, beaten play-off finalists for the last two seasons, came from a goal down at half-time to chalk up an impressive 3-1 win at Whitehawk. The Brighton side, making their Premier debut, took an early lead with a penalty from summer signing Scott McGleish, veteran of 692 Football League games. McGleish went close to doubling the lead with a header but the Trawlerboys showed their class with three goals in eight minutes midway through the second half. Chris Henderson twice fired home from outside the box with Dale Cockrill netting in between them. Fancied Margate were comfortable 2-0 home winners over Hendon. Two new signings, Sam Long and Alex Rhodes, hit the bar in the early stages and it was the 65th minute before Richard Avery gave the hosts a deserved lead. Carl Rook added the second with 12 minutes left. Last season it was November 15th before Hendon conceded their second away goal! Two promoted sides started Premier life with away victories and in the case of Enfield Town it was their first-ever game at this level. Lewes, another team expected to do well, took the lead with a 12th-minute header by Karl Beckford. Mark Kirby replied for Town five minutes before the interval and last season’s Ryman North Golden Boot winner, Liam Hope, lobbed the winner nine minutes after the break. Bognor enjoyed their return to the top division, deservedly winning 3-1 at Concord who paid the penalty for missing first-half chances. They should have been ahead before Ashley Robinson struck for the visitors on the half-hour. Tony Stokes immediately replied with a 20-yard free-kick but Mu Maan restored Bognor’s lead in the 39th minute and James Crane netted from close range to seal it on the hour. The other promoted side, Leiston, were held to a 1-1 home draw by Cray. There were three second-minute goals in the league on opening day: impossible to tell which was first, but Cray’s Mark Willy must be a strong candidate for his effort, timed at 86 seconds. Leiston took a while to get into the game but they had the upper hand after Luke Hammond equalised with a 32nd-minute free-kick. The scoreline was the same at East Thurrock, where Kingstonian were aggrieved not to leave with all three points. Wade Small was fouled by keeper Jamie Riley in the 90th minute and, although he found the net anyway, the whistle had already gone. Riley was sent off and the free-kick came to nothing. The game finished with 19 men: the hosts’ Steve Sheehan and visitor Andre McCollin were dismissed for a clash shortly after Kye Ruel equalised for Rocks on 61 minutes. Dean Lodge had given K’s a 32nd-minute lead. There was a third 1-1 draw at Bury and there, too, the visitors will feel they should have won. Carshalton striker Paul Vines had a penalty saved by Marcus Garnham with 16 minutes left. Vines and Jack Clark hit the bar for the Robins, who took command after falling behind to a John Sands strike on 47 minutes. Vines headed home Clark’s cross to level it four minutes later and it was all Robins after that. Harrow were off to a flying start at home to relegated Thurrock, who had already cleared the ball of their line twice before Rob Wooleaston’s ninth-minute opener. Alwayne Jones and Simeon Akinola made it 3-0 by the 16th minute, and Thurrock did well to keep the final score down to 4-1. Gary Jones stretched the lead with a 51st- minute penalty and Joel Barnett replied with ten minutes left. The other relegated side, Hampton, fared better, beating visitors Hastings with a lone 43rd-minute header by Max Hustwick. Zac Attwood was inches away from a late leveller. Bradley Woods-Garness pounced on a loose ball to score for Canvey three minutes into the second half at Wingate and that was enough to earn all three points. North THERE was no shortage of surprises in Ryman North, starting at Sudbury where the hosts, widely reckoned to be the title favourites, crashed to a 3-1 home defeat by Cheshunt. Jose Espinoza was the man of the hour for the visitors, heading them into the lead shortly before half-time and then, after Sudbury had wasted chances to hit back, adding the second on 80 minutes. Leon Antoine’s 89th-minute header gave Sudbury a little hope and there was time for a further goal. But it came from Cheshunt’s John Megicks. Promoted Wroxham are expected to be among the promotion challengers but their Ryman debut brought a 2-1 defeat at Potters Bar. James Gershfield did the damage with two goals in five minutes in the middle of the second half and Matthew Blake’s 83rd-minute counter could not save the Yachtsmen. “We won’t win a game all season,” one pessimistic Redbridge follower told me this week. Their young side wasted no time in proving him wrong as they came from behind to chalk up a 2-1 away victory over Romford, who are now sharing Thurrock’s ground at Ship Lane. It certainly didn’t look good for the Motormen when Romford skipper Jack Barry headed them into a 14th-minute lead. Romford had more of the game after that but Sibi Muwanua emerged as the Redbridge hero with an equaliser six minutes after the break and the 87th-minute winner. Relegated Aveley were another side with pessimistic supporters but they came close to a home victory over fancied Maldon before drawing 2-2. Junior Dadson gave Millers a second-minute lead which was answered by an Ollie Berquez header midway through the half. Although the visitors then took control, it was Aveley who regained the lead through Paul Burnett in the 63rd minute. But they had Ellis Sands sent off for a ‘professional foul’ on Mitchell Das with ten minutes left and further punishment followed when Jamie Guy hammered home the resulting free-kick. Brentwood are also expected to be in the promotion mix but they needed a Steve Butterworth goal in the third minute of added time to salvage a home draw against last season’s play-offs semi-finalists Tilbury. A header by promising 18-year-old winger Tom Wraight had given Dockers into a 74th-minute lead. Striker Warren Mfula made something of a name for himself when he scored more than half Clapton’s Essex Senior League goals in the season before last. He has now stepped up to the Ryman League with Ilford and so far has 100 per cent of their goals! Two, in fact, and they gave the Foxes a 2-1 victory at Soham. The hosts should have scored several times before Mfula netted on 43 minutes. Robbie Mason headed the equaliser before half-time but Mfula had the last word with a 65th-minute penalty. Needham Market’s prolific scorer Sam Newson lost his touch last season after suffering a bad injury before Christmas but regained it with a hat-trick in their play-off semi-final and looks set to shine again this season after his double gave the Marketmen a 2-1 victory at Ware. The hosts, who had a reprieve from relegation last season, took a shock lead after seven minutes when Ryan Fleming floated a shot into the net from close to the halfway line. Newson pounced on a loose ball to equalise shortly before the interval and polished off Danny Bloomfield’s pass for the 69th-minute decider. Grays launched their promotion bid with a 3-0 win at Waltham Forest. Danny Bunce gave them the lead with an 18th-minute penalty, James Bunn fired the second from a tight angle on 70 minutes and the talented Joao Carlos added the third seven minutes later. Chatham romped to the top of the season’s first table by trouncing visitors Waltham Abbey 4-0. Two goals came from vastly-experienced summer signing Jean-Michel Sigere, the opener after 18 minutes and a second immediately after the interval. Gary Tilley got the other two, on 38 and 78 minutes, and three of the goals were set up by another debutant, former Maidstone man Ryan Palmer. Promoted Witham celebrated their return to Ryman League football after three years with a 2-1 home victory over Thamesmead. Jason Fontaine got on the end of a long clearance to put them ahead on 40 minutes and Danny Emmanuel netted in similar fashion in the 56th minute. Thamesmead threatened to rally when home skipper Scott Pethers was shown a second yellow card after conceding a 76th-minute penalty which Ashley Probets converted.
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