RYMAN FOOTBALL LEAGUE – WEEKLY NEWS AND MATCH BULLETIN Season 2009­2010 No: 17 ­ : ­ 30th November 2009 LEAGUE NEWS LEAGUE NEWS MONTHLY AWARDS there were also eight goals at Harrow and at The fourth series of the Ryman Football Wingate & Finchley. League Monthly Awards, covering November, will be announced on the League’s website Four players netted hat­tricks, including a rare on Tuesday, 1 st December. penalty treble for a man with the wonderfully­ inappropriate name of Fowler! The rush was The Divisional awards cover: started by Fleet Town’s Joe Nwoko just 13 • Vandanel Manager of the Month seconds into their game at Merstham though, • Vandanel Team of the Month remarkably, that was the only goal anywhere before the tenth minute. It finished with 11 This season these two awards are being goals in added time, the last of them probably sponsored by Vandanel Sport Ltd, the by Sanchez Ming of Dulwich who won 4­1 at League’s Official Benchwear Supplier and Whyteleafe in a game that was all square after Preferred Kit Supplier. As part of the 90 minutes. sponsorship of these awards, Vandanel Sport will provide a ‘Manager of the Month’ trophy Most of the top scorers contributed to the and Jacket for each Manager of the Month, feast, although Croydon Athletic’s Gary Noel, and a trophy and £100 credit voucher for who headed the list for league goals with 13, each Team of the Month. was involved in one of the 0­0 draws. He was one of two Athletic men to miss penalties and CLUBS MEETING now shares the lead with Kingstonian’s Bobby A meeting of all Clubs will be held on Traynor. They were among four players who Thursday, 7th January, 2010 at Dartford had also scored the most goals in league and cup matches, with 18, until Concord’s Lyle Football Club, commencing at 7.00 p.m. An th agenda for the meeting will be sent to Clubs Taylor scored his second of the day and 19 of in due course. the season in added time. WEEKEND REVIEW When Martin Grant completed his hat­trick for The Ryman League went goal­crazy on Walton Casuals, taking his tally to 16, he had Saturday, with no fewer than 118 goals being scored more than half his club’s goals in all scored in 31 games – despite the fact that two competitions this season, although he finished with exactly half when Leon Yarnie scored of them were goalless and 19 teams in all nd failed to hit the target. Ten Premier Division their 32 late in the 4­1 win over Chipstead. games produced 37 goals, ten completed Ramsgate goalkeeper Danny Twyman scored matches in Division One North yielded 38 and nd there were 39 in 11 Division One South his side’s 92 ­minute winner and Kento fixtures. The top scorers were Lowestoft, who Nakashima, of Harrow, became the first player hit eight without reply against Leyton, and from Japan to score in the Ryman League – unless you know better! Page 1 Premier Division hour, from Scott Harrison (his 16 th of the Amid Saturday’s mad rush of Ryman League season) and Paul Johnson put Ashford 3­2 up goals, it took a single fluke to provide the and that was how it finished. shock of the afternoon as Dartford’s unbeaten Premier Division record was wrecked by Harrow had their second 5­3 victory of the visitors Hornchurch. Darts had been looking season, this time at home to Waltham Abbey. vulnerable at home where, in their last two Toby Jinadu gave Harrow an early lead, games, they needed a last­minute equaliser James Elmes levelled before half­time with a against lowly Bognor and then had to come free­kick and Harry Elmes put Abbey in front in from 2­0 down to beat Tooting. the 47th minute. Ryan Watts made it 2­2 only for Billy Holland to restore Abbey’s advantage. There was no escape on Saturday after Billy Jinadu struck again on the hour and further Coyne’s harmless­looking cross three minutes goals by Kento Nakashima and Dewayne before half­time somehow eluded keeper Andy Clarke settled it. Young and bounced into the far corner of the net. It proved to be the only goal of the game. Two goals in seven first­half minutes by James Dartford applied all the pressure in the second Parker and Peter Dean were enough for half but a determined Urchins defence kept Hendon at Aveley, who replied through Martin chances to a minimum. Tuohy but could not draw level. Billericay doubled their win total and moved off the Despite seeing their unbeaten run halted after bottom with a 2­0 home victory over Boreham 13 wins and two draws, Darts retained their Wood. Danny Green gave them a half­time eight­point lead as nearest rivals Hastings lead which Billy Bricknell doubled ten minutes went down 4­2 at Horsham. A burst of goals after the break. The dismissal of James Baker either side of half­time tipped the scales after left the hosts with ten men for almost a quarter Ade Olorunda had given Hastings the lead. of the game but they held out. Claude Seanla’s 41st­minute penalty squared it, Pat Harding put Horsham ahead moments That means that Bognor are back on the before the break and Seanla grabbed his bottom after a 3­0 defeat by Tooting at second four minutes after the restart. Lee Nyewood Lane. The scoresheet was blank Carey quickly replied for the visitors but until the 63 rd minute when, predictably, it was Harding clinched the points with seven Paul Vines who broke the deadlock. He added minutes left. his 18 th of the season before Simon Parker completed the scoring at the death. Canvey stayed in third place with a convincing 3­0 victory at Maidstone. Rob King headed There were more goals at Cray on Sunday, their opener just after the half­hour and James where the 3­2 win over Margate brought the Rowe added a goal in each half, taking his Ryman League total for the weekend to 123. season’s haul to 14. Bobby Traynor’s 18 th of A goal down in eight minutes, Margate were the campaign lifted Kingstonian to fourth with a level at half­time through Curtis Robinson and 1­0 home win over Carshalton. It came in the went ahead nine minutes after the break when 87 th minute after the visitors had been on top Sammy Cliff hit their second. George Porter for much of the game. made it 2­2 with his second of the afternoon and Delano Sam­Yorke grabbed the winner Sam Gargan hit a superb hat­trick as Sutton with five minutes to go. thrashed Wealdstone 5­0 and moved into a play­off spot. Alan Pouton opened the scoring Division One North and, after Gargan’s party piece, Steve Watts Great Wakering Rovers must be feeling like wrapped it up. It was only Wealdstone’s Private Frazer in Dad’s Army – “We’re second league defeat of the season and they doomed, we’re doomed”. Despite being held are down in 10 th place although, thanks to their to a 2­2 draw at Waltham Forest on Saturday, FA Cup exploits, they have plenty of games in they are still on top of Division One North. But hand on most of the sides above them. Lowestoft are just one point behind after thrashing Leyton 8­0 and have no fewer than Brian Haule gave Ashford (Middx) a 41 st six games in hand. minute lead at home to Tonbridge, who equalised before the break through Liam Ty Benjamin gave Wakering the lead midway Harwood and went ahead just after it through through the first half but was later sent off, Paul Booth. Two in two minutes just after the along with Forest’s Victor Renner. The double Page 2 dismissal came just after a quick exchange of after one of the floodlight pylons failed. Rocks goals in which Luke Stanley hit a 65 th minute were leading by a Max Cornhill goal. equaliser only for Jimmy Webb to restore Wakering’s advantage moments later. There were three­goal defeats for the bottom Shamraz Darr denied the leaders two points two. Harlow went down 3­0 at Concord, for with eight minutes left. whom Lyle Taylor’s second goal of the match, in added time, made his haul 19 for the Lowestoft, meanwhile, made hay at the season. Ross Wall also scored. Ware, the expense of an inexperienced Leyton side with team above Harlow, crashed 4­1 at home to four goals in each half. Gary McGee started Potters Bar. Joe O’Brien put the visitors the rout, Scottish international Gary Holt ahead after 38 minutes and Lewis Payne opened his account for the club and Matt made it 2­0 after 55. Phil Turner pulled one Nolan added two before the break. Andy Fisk back a few minutes later but Ellis Remy got the fifth in the 47 th minute and Nolan restored the two­goal gap with a 70th­minute completed his treble with a 63 rd minute penalty and scored again at the end. penalty. Lowestoft introduced substitute Ross Maldon beat Ilford 4­0. Steve Wareham gave King at that point and he made it 7­0 within 20 them a half­time lead which was doubled after seconds. Double figures looked very much on 70 minutes by former West Ham junior Jack the cards but, in the end, the Trawler Boys Jeffery.