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ANGELS V BROMLEY • SATURDAY, 19 SEPTEMBER, 2020 • 13:00 PRE-SEASON FRIENDLY • SPECIAL ONLINE MATCH PROGRAMME Proud Stadium Sponsor of Tonbridge Angels FC Halcyon Wealth financial advisers are a client focused, innovative financial services consultancy. Financial advisers with offices in London. Canary Wharf and Tunbridge Wells. www.halcyonwealth.co.uk City of London Head Office 27 Austin Friars, London EC2N 2QP. Tel: 0203 755 1949 37th Floor, One Canada Square, Canary Wharf, London E14 5AA. Tel: 0207 956 8553 22 Mount Ephraim Road, Royal Tunbridge Wells Kent TN1 1ED Tel: 01892 671 273 BOARDROOM DIARY Good afternoon everyone and welcome You will have read that the club has to Boardroom Diary. It’s also a warm moved to an e-ticketing system as part welcome to our very good friends and near of the requirements by the National neighbours from just up the A21, Bromley League to reduce queues at turnstiles, FC, to whom we are most grateful for lessen or eliminate cash handling, control accepting our invitation to come and play attendances that may have to be reduced, here this afternoon. and to support the NHS with contact tracing. These aims all make perfect sense and we The Ravens are a club who have made would have probably moved to an on line tremendous progress in the right direction ticketing system in the immediate future both on and off the pitch in recent years and in any case. Some National South clubs had quite deservedly find themselves playing already moved to an optional e-ticketing at the pinnacle of non-league football. system last season. For any supporters Under Neil Smith’s direction and guidance a little fearful of the new system please its certain they will be challenging for a don’t worry. We will have advance ticket place towards the top end of the National sales at the club where full assistance will League table in the upcoming campaign. be given – you just need to have your debit We wish them all well in that journey. or credit card with you. Please remember Once again, frustratingly, you are having you can sponsor your favourite player via to read these words without being able this platform including some Longmead to attend the match in person which is a Legends from days gone by. great shame particularly bearing in mind Another step into the world of new the quality of the opposition. Nevertheless, technology has been an investigation into we thank Dan Couldridge and all the pay per view live streaming of games. contributors for once again putting In fairness under normal conditions this together a quality edition and hope that version of media is not best suited to at least it helps you to keep in touch with Tonbridge Angels. We are a club that what’s happening at the club. thrives on socialising and with the vast As these words are being penned majority of our supporters living close regrettably there is still a degree of by we want to see them in the ground uncertainty. Will fans be allowed into cheering on the team. When games go a National South stadiums for the start little flat and they do occasionally even of the season on 3rd October and if so, with The Angels playing then we all like how many? It would be nice to think to have a bit of a natter or a joke with our that our final pre-season friendly here at mates on the terrace. The Halcyon Wealth Longmead Stadium Clearly if we were forced to play ‘behind against Aldershot Town next Saturday 26th closed doors’ then live streaming would September might provide the opportunity have to come into operation, but we hope for some kind of pilot fixture but we will this won’t be forced upon as the loss of have to wait and see. revenue would be very serious. There is a lot of lobbying going on with Restricted attendances however might be Government to allow at least a limited more relevant and this could occur when number of supporters back in to coincide we play some of our Kent Derbies. Once with the start of the campaign for National again as with so much at the moment we League clubs but as yet no definite answer will have just have to wait and see how just optimistic aspirations peppered with this one plays out but we have to be ready plenty of caveats. In fairness to Government for all eventualities. we should remember that they have the big picture to consider in terms of the virus Finally, please remember to read through itself. With cases seemingly on the rise it the ‘Supporters Guide to Enjoying Football is a precariously difficult balancing act in at Longmead’ on the website which will trying to bring the country back to some tell you all you need to know about how sense of normality while at the same time you can once again start supporting The attempting to control the progress of the Angels. We hope it won’t be long before virus. we can all come together in our stadium. 3 Jim Rowe OUR VISITORS We welcome Bromley back to Longmead today for the first time since March 2019. It’s their first visit for a pre-season friendly since 2010 when Paul Booth and Frannie Collin scored for Tonbridge in a 3-2 defeat, although since then they’ve visited six “THE RAVENS” times. We were in the same Conference South, as it was then, in 2011-12 and 2012-13, we met in the Third Qualifying Round of FACTFILE the 2014-15 FA Trophy, which ended 0-0, Bromley winning the Founded: 1892 replay, and we’ve had three meetings in the Kent Senior Cup. Ground: Hayes Lane The Angels came out on top in 2012-13 as David Ijaha, Frannie Chairman: Collin and Mark Lovell (2) all scored in a frantic extra time to win Robin Stanton-Gleaves Manager: Neil Smith 5-1, Bromley won 1-0 in 2016-17 thanks to Tobi Sho-Silva’s first half effort, and JJ Hooper scored the only goal in a Bromley win in 2018-19. Sadly our only wins against Bromley have come in MARK COUSINS county cup football as we have not won any of the nine league games we have played against the South East Londoners. Bromley begin their sixth season in the National League having had the proverbial season of two halves last year. They had a spell top of the table in October and November and by the time they beat Dover 3-0 on New Years Day they were third in the HONOURS National League. However that remains their only competitive 3 x FA Amateur Cup win of 2020. What followed was an unexpected nine-game run 1 x National South in which they only took two points and by the time they played 4 x Isthmian League Football League new boys Harrogate Town on 7th March they 3 x Athenian League had dropped to 12th and were deemed 13th when all the maths 6 x Kent Senior Cup was done to find the final standings. 5 x London Senior Cup In terms of their pre-season programme, the club were talked LUKE COULSON about for their ability to get fans in when they played Cray RECORDS Wanderers at Hayes Lane. Because Cray groundshare at Bromley, Most appearances: they could legitimately describe Cray as the home team. It’s a George Brown (???) regular pre-season game at Hayes Lane anyway. Now, Cray are a step three side, so as they were home it meant they could Most goals: allow some supporters into the ground. The maximum 600 fans George Brown (570) attended and were treated to a game which saw Bromley win 4-3. Ollie Tanner and Michael Cheek each found the net, as did Record attendance: “Trialist B” who scored twice. Back behind closed doors they then drew 2-2 with Dartford with Most goals v Tonbridge: Michael Cheek again on target, this time twice, and in midweek Eric Nottage (7) Bromley won 1-0 against Chelmsford with Cheek again scoring, against his old club. BILLY BINGHAM FORM Neil Smith has been manager of Bromley since early 2016. Neil Last 5 Games: has also been in charge of Welling United, and on a caretaker 7/3 Harrogate a D1-1 basis, Woking. But for fans of Kent football he will most be 29/2 Sutton H L0-1 remembered for his role in Tony Pulis’s Gillingham team of the 22/2 Wrexham H L0-2 late 1990s. He was in the promotion winning team of 1996, and 15/2 Stockport a L0-1 scored the winning goal against Coventry City, who were then 8/2 Solihill H D2-2 a Premier League side, in a League Cup tie, which, at the time, was possibly the club’s finest hour in a cup match. Last 5 Seasons: 2019/20 Nat Lge 13th Neil has added to his coaching staff in the summer with former 2018/19 Nat Lge 12th Charlton defender Roger Johnson in as Under 23s coach, and 2017/18 Nat Lge 9th Andy Little as goalkeeping coach. 2016/17 Nat Lge 10th In terms of player recruitment, supporters had to wait until 2015/16 Nat Lge 14th early September before confirmation of the first new player. That signing was Liam Trotter. The midfielder made more than LIAM TROTTER 4 BROMLEY THE LAST TIME WE MET 100 appearances for Millwall, and also Finally Bromley found out this week the TONBRIDGE ANGELS 0 starred for Bolton, having started his start of their season will be delayed.

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