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RYMAN FOOTBALL LEAGUE – WEEKLY NEWS AND MATCH BULLETIN Season 2008­2009 No: 39 ­ : ­ 11 th May 2009 RYMAN LEAGUE NEWSLINE 09066 555 777 Calls cost 60p per minute LEAGUE NEWS LEAGUE NEWS Premier Division Isthmian League Cup Champions Dover Athletic Winners Tilbury Runners­up Staines Town Runners­up Harrow Borough Promoted Dover Athletic Semi­Finalists Ashford Town (Middx) Staines Town Billericay Town Leading Goalscorer – 31 goals Isthmian Youth Cup Richard Jolly (Carshalton Athletic) Winners AFC Wimbledon Runners­up Boreham Wood Division One North Champions Aveley Semi­Finalists Staines Town Runners­up East Thurrock United Tonbridge Angels Promoted Aveley Isthmian Youth League – North Waltham Abbey West Division Champions Staines Town Leading Goalscorer – 39 goals Runners­up AFC Wimbledon Martin Touhy (East Thurrock United) Isthmian Youth League – South Division One South East Division Champions Kingstonian Champions Tonbridge Angels Runners­up Cray Wanderers Runners­up Lewes Promoted Kingstonian Cray Wanderers Isthmian Veterans Cup Winners Bromley Leading Goalscorer – 32 goals Runners­up Northwood Bobby Traynor (Kingstonian) Semi­Finalists Redbridge Thamesmead Town La Senza Women’s Cup Tilbury won their third consecutive ‘Division Winners Enfield Town One North Team Performance’ award of the Runners­up Merstham season for their excellent win in the Final of the Isthmian League Cup competition, with a 2­0 win over Premier Division opponents Semi­Finalists AFC Wimbledon Harrow Borough. Billericay Town A difficult first season saw Crowborough Manager of the Season Athletic relegated, but they surprised (Sponsored by Vandanel Sport Ltd) everyone, including themselves, with their 1­0 home win against title chasing Cray Premier Division th Andy Hessenthaler – Dover Athletic Wanderers, to record their first win since 8 F.C. November, winning the Club the Team Performance award for Division One South for April. Division One North Rod Stringer ­ Aveley F.C. This season these awards are being sponsored by Vandanel Sport Limited, the Division One South League’s Official Benchwear Supplier and Alan Dowson ­ Kingstonian F.C. Preferred Kit Supplier. As part of the sponsorship of these awards, Vandanel Sport MONTHLY AWARDS will provide a ‘Manager of the Month’ trophy The ninth and final series of the Ryman and Jacket for each Manager of the Month, Football League Monthly Awards for season and a trophy and £100 credit voucher for 2008/9, covering the month of April 2009, are each Team of the Month. announced today as follows: Manager of the Month (Sponsored by Vandanel Sport Ltd.) Premier Division Hayden Bird – Carshalton Athletic F.C. Division One North Danny Scopes and Danny Cowley – PLAY­OFF SEMI­FINALS REVIEW Concord Rangers F.C. The semi­finals threw up plenty of shocks, with Division One South none of the teams finishing third in their Alan Dowson – Kingstonian F.C. Division advancing to the Finals. Both Staines Town in the Premier Division and Cray Team Performance of the Month Wanderers, who coincidentally beat (Sponsored by Vandanel Sport Ltd.) Metropolitan Police in the 2008 semi­final, will Premier Division be looking to go one better than last year when Boreham Wood F.C. they lost in their respective Finals. Division One North Tilbury F.C. In Division One North, home advantage meant Division One South nothing at all because both hosts were Crowborough Athletic F.C. eliminated. Waltham Abbey will host Concord Rangers, with both clubs hoping to reach the The award for the “Team Performances of the Premier Division for the first time. Month” recognises a particularly noteworthy performance by a Club during the month from Premier Division any of its first team matches in all competitions Staines Town (1) 3, Sutton United (0) 0 played. H. Newton 22 Griffith 49 Boreham Wood won the ‘Premier Division Chabaan 81 Team Performance’ award for the month of Attendance: 738 April with their 2­1 win at Dover Athletic on the day their hosts were presented with the Staines Town, runners­up in the Premier League Championship trophy, and thus Division, made no mistake against Sutton ensuring that the Hertfordshire winners would United. Having put their recent bad form to bed see their Premier Division place secure at the with a win on Saturday, they took the lead at end of the season. Wheatsheaf Park midway through the first half of their Playoff semi­final against Sutton United when Howard Newton was put through by CARSHALTON: Stroud, Cooper, Gonsalves, Leroy Griffiths and he scored. Barely 30 Graves, Harwood, Alimi, Stevens (Beckford), seconds after the start of the second­half kick­ Toppin, Ide (Kadi), Jolly, England (Martin). off Staines doubled their advantage, this time Unused subs: Duff, Wilson. the veteran Griffiths finishing off a chance created by Darti Brown, albeit with a deflection Division One North of Tim Bond. Chasing the game, Sutton made Brentwood Town (0) 1, Waltham Abbey (3) 4 three changes, including the introduction of Glozier 82 M. Sontag 12 Saturday’s match­winner Steve Watts, but Gayle 21, 51 although the Us had their best period of the H. Elmes 30 match, the Staines defence held out, with Attendance: 419 Louis Wells making a couple of fine saves. With eight minutes to go, substitute Ali The home fans in a Brentwood Arena record Chabaan, an early replacement for the injured attendance (for a competitive match) of 419 Richard Butler, put the game beyond Sutton’s pretty much knew their fate inside the opening reach with a third goal, curling a shot into the half hour. In the 12th minute Marc Sontag saw top corner. his shot take a deflection to wrong­foot Billy McMahon and give Waltham Abbey the lead. Teams: Seven minutes later, Aaron Gayle rose highest STAINES: Wells, Scarlett, J. Newton, Gordon, and headed home a free­kick to make it 2–0. Ifura, Brown, H. Newton (Taylor), Thomas, And it got worse for Brentwood, just three Butler (Chaaban), Griffiths, Watters. Unused minutes later, when Steve King and Steve subs: Sargent, Cumberbatch, Onochie Good left the ball for each other, allowing SUTTON: Nicholls, Downer, Bray, Hughes Harry Elmes to nip in, take the ball around (Hamici), Bond, El­Salahi, Hann, Palmer, McMahon and add the Abbots’ third. It wasn’t Eribenne (Watts), Dundas, McCallum. Unused all good news for Waltham Abbey, because subs: McKimm, Dunn. they were reduced to ten men after 38 minutes when full­back George Chandra received a red Tonbridge Angels (0) 2, Carshalton Athletic card for a challenge on Danny Glozier. Six (1) 3 minutes into the second half, Gayle was sent Rook (p) 70 Jolly 22, 82 through down the middle and he scored his Booth 81 Ide 47 second and the Abbots’ fourth. Glozier did Attendance: 1,249 score a consolation for Brentwood with eight minutes to go, converting a penalty after King There was another dramatic encounter at had been pushed, but Waltham Abbey were Longmead Stadium. Carshalton Athletic took not unduly pressured thereafter. the lead through the Premier Division Golden Boot winner Richard Jolly after 22 minutes, the Teams: striker finishing off a rapid counter­attack. The BRENTWOOD: McMahon, Ashby, Glozier, Robins doubled their lead four minutes after Good (c), King, Street (Henty), Holmes, the resumption when a defensive mix­up gifted Symons (Carroll), Stanley (Crowther), Higgins, Charlie Ide the chance to slip the ball into an Perry. Unused subs: Aylett, Pyne. empty net. But Tonbridge Angels, cheered on by a crowd of 1,249, fought back and Carl WALTHAM ABBEY: Hayward, Chandra, Rook halved the deficit with 20 minutes to go, Webb, Bostock, White, Ayres, Sharman, J. nervelessly converting a penalty after Lewis Elmes, Gayle, H. Elmes, M. Sontag. Subs: Gonsalves was penalised for a foul on Steve Holland, Morgan, Power, Sheenen, Tilbrook. Ferguson. Paul Abbott, with the aid of a deflection, levelled matters in the 81st minute, East Thurrock United (0) 0, Concord set up by Anthony Storey and Lee Minshull, Rangers (1) 1 Barely 60 seconds later, Carshalton regained Heale 28 the lead when Jolly held off the challenge of Attendance: 370 Simon Glover and beat team­mate Barry Stevens in the race to slip the ball past Lee Concord Rangers moved to within 90 minutes Worgan. of a second consecutive promotion as a wonder goal from Danny Heale put the Canvey Teams: Island club in the Playoff Final. For East TONBRIDGE: Worgan, Starkey (Minshull), Thurrock United, the misery of Saturday’s 3–2 Glover, Tyne, Dayes (Olorunda), Gooding, defeat at home to Aveley – when a draw would Ferguson, Storey, Booth, Rook, Clarke. have earned the Rocks automatic promotion Unused subs: Westcott, Heath, French. back to the Premier Division – was compounded by this loss, which consigns down the right flank, but the Blues were them to a second season in Division One otherwise comfortable in defence. And they North. This match was often feisty with the showed how to take chances when, in the 28th tension of the situation getting to both teams. minute, a headed ball from Scott Forrester fell But the goal which decided it would have to Gary Drewett. The striker controlled the ball graced any contest. A through ball was played well, beat his defender and despatched a shot to Heale – last season’s golden boot winner in past Dave Smalley. Fleet tried to come back the Essex Senior League – and he struck a before half­time, but they couldn’t create any magnificent dipping drive from well outside the clearcut chances. Manager Andy Sinton penalty area and it left Richard Wray groping replaced Steve Hemmings and Seth McClurg at thin air as it flew over him. East Thurrock with Nathan Campbell and Tyron Smith, have scored goals for fun this season, but they respectively, and the latter nearly set up Will left their shooting boots behind as Dale Salmon, but his header from a good position Brightly was rarely inconvenienced in the went wide.

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