29Th October 2012

Weekly News & Match Bulletin – Season 2012/13 No.13 29th October 2012 At it again . Richard Jolly (right), who scored no fewer than 13 FA Trophy goals last season during Wealdstone’s run to the semi-finals, slots home his third of this year’s competition as Stones win 6-2 at Merstham on Saturday Picture: Steve Foster/Wealdstone FC In this issue… Picture: Andy Nunn. Reports on all the League and FA Trophy action Tables and forthcoming fixtures Respect update and Youth League latest All the Weekend Action By Peter Butcher – Ryman League Communications Administrator Ryman Premier MARGATE climbed three places to fourth in the table with a 1-1 home draw with Hastings in the division’s only game on Saturday. But they were left regretting a series of missed chances which cost them victory and left them still four points behind leaders Hampton, who have two games in hand. Always on top, Margate went close in the first half when Alex Rhodes hit a post and took the lead four minutes after the break through Dan Stubbs. But they were unable to increase their advantage and paid the price when Brad Goldberg fired in a free-kick with eight minutes left. Ryman North GETTING the better of things in an early rush of goals, Maldon returned to the top of the table on Saturday with a 3-1 victory at Needham Market. James Robinson headed the visitors into a third-minute lead but the Marketmen, still seeking their first home win of the season, hit back through Kieran Leabon in the seventh minute. Their delight was short-lived: Jamie Guy restored Maldon’s lead within 30 seconds. The action slowed after that and Johnathan Glowacki completed the scoring in the 36th minute. Previous leaders Grays, who were in FA Trophy action, were handed a bonus. They fell only to second place as the next two sides in the table both dropped points. Potters Bar boss Adam Lee, for whom it was the 200th game in charge of the Scholars, was unhappy to see his side held to a 2-2 home draw by bottom club Ware. The visitors, the only club in the league without a win, grabbed an early lead through Tony Martin and held it until seven minutes before half-time, when Danny Johnson equalised. Chris Doyle put the Scholars ahead with 20 minutes left but Wes Beckles deflected a shot into his own net to square it again. Two long-range shots by Corey Whitely ended fourth-placed Aveley’s six-match winning run in all competitions. Whitely launched his rockets about 20 minutes into each half for hosts Waltham Forest, who held on to win 2-1 after Jay Leader replied with 11 minutes left. Heybridge moved up to fifth and piled on the pain for the Sudbury defence with their 4-2 home win. Sudbury, who have conceded 14 goals in the past week, were two down in 12 minutes thanks to a Michael Cheek penalty and a Luke Callander strike. Callander was on target again before the half-hour, becoming the first player in any division to reach 11 league goals this season, and Russell Malton made it 4-0 with 20 minutes left. Tom Webb and Lee Boylan, with a penalty, provided a little consolation. Thamesmead, now sixth, could be a real threat. They have a 100 per cent home record and chalked up their first away win with a lone goal at Tilbury, knocking their hosts out of the top five. Enoch Adjei was the scorer after 21 minutes. Romford picked up their fourth away win and inflicted Harlow’s fifth home defeat, though such an outcome looked very unlikely as the game went into its 45th minute. Harlow had completely dominated and might have led by more than the two goals netted in quick succession midway through the half by Gary Bowes and Tom Davie. Yet a penalty by Hussain Isa and a goal in added time by Nick Reynolds meant that it was all square at the interval, and Paul Clayton’s last-minute goal completed a 3-2 Romford victory which takes them to 19 points, just one short of manager Paul Martin’s original pre-Christmas target. Redbridge landed their first home points of the season at the sixth attempt with a 2-1 win over slumping Cheshunt, a result that leaves Ware four points adrift at the bottom. Visiting keeper Glenn Williamson punched Joe Bricknell’s corner into his own net to give the Motormen a first-half lead and Glenn O’Hanlon made it 2-0 with 20 minutes left. Danny Gudgeon replied as time ran out. It was a game of two halves at Wroxham, where James Peagram and Clark Akers gave Waltham Abbey a well- deserved 2-0 half-time lead. The Yachtsmen hit back strongly after the break: Ross Durrant pulled one back on 57 minutes and supplied the cross from which Remi Gordon headed the point-saver with 14 minutes to go. Ryman South KEEPER Darren Behcet was the star as Tooting climbed off the bottom of the table with a lone-goal victory at Walton & Hersham on Saturday. Behcet pulled off a series of outstanding saves to defy the Swans and Lee Hall’s 50th-minute goal lifted the Terrors all the way up to 16th place with their fourth away win of the season. At the other end of the table, leaders Crawley Down continued their poor run of form with a 2-1 home defeat by Hythe. Luke Blewden’s fifth-minute goal gave the Anvils hope of a return to winning ways but they were behind by the 21st minute thanks to strikes by Craig Thompson and Ronnie Dolan, and there was no further scoring. The Anvils stay on top, however. The winners of the match between Dulwich and Faversham would have displaced them, but it ended in a 1-1 draw. Frankie Sawyer put Dulwich ahead in the 48th minute as they looked to maintain their 100 per cent home record, and their prospects of doing so improved when Faversham’s James Peacock was shown a second yellow card shortly afterwards. But Jamie Maxted levelled the scores from 20 yards in the 66th minute and that was how it finished. Faversham moved up to second, Dulwich to fourth. Chipstead also hit back to draw despite being a man short. The vastly-experienced Rob Haworth scored his first goal for them midway through the first half at Sittingbourne, who replied through Joe Taylor in the 33rd minute. Chips had Craig Vernon sent off just before half-time and fell behind with eight minutes left when Ryan Golding converted a penalty. The ten men were then awarded a spot-kick of their own and Connor French took the chance to equalise with the last kick of the game. Two second-half goals by James Cottee earned Corinthian-Casuals a 2-1 home win over Eastbourne, who had led at half-time with a 31st-minute volley from Ben Austin. FA Trophy MUCH was left undecided in the 16 FA Trophy ties involving Ryman League clubs at the weekend, with seven of them requiring replays. Nine of the games were all-Ryman affairs, but in the other seven matches the league recorded three wins, three draws and only one defeat, having held the lead at some stage of all but one of them. Our clubs were unbeaten against Southern League opposition. Bognor were comfortable 3-0 winners at home to struggling Bridgwater, taking charge with a penalty by Ashley Robinson and a goal by Harvey Whyte in the last few minutes of the first half. Robinson clinched it with 15 minutes left, another penalty after Whyte was fouled. Maidstone had a more difficult-looking task at Bedford but won more easily than the 3-2 result suggests. Ex- Bedford man Ian Draycott headed them in front just before the half-hour and they missed a number of chances before Ollie Wilkinson diverted Shaun Welford’s shot into his own net to make it 2-0 on 58 minutes. Welford needed no help when he slotted home the third with 13 minutes left. Late goals by Jamaine Ivy and, in the 90th minute, Michael Built caused a fright at the end. Canvey were set for an easy victory at Uxbridge when Rob King and Jay Curran put them two up in 20 minutes. But it was level by half-time as Danny Julienne and Chris Moore, with a penalty, hit back for the hosts, and Moore put them in front in the 65th minute. The islanders salvaged a Tuesday replay when King netted his second 11 minutes from time to make it a 3-3 draw. Wingate also let a two-goal lead slip and must travel to Hitchin for a replay tomorrow (Monday). Ryan Gardiner pounced on a sloppy back-pass to give Wingate the lead on the half-hour and it was 2-0 almost at once when Anderson Pinto netted. John Frendo reduced the arrears before half-time and made it 2-2 with a 78th-minute penalty. Two goals by Andre McCollin saw Kingstonian through to the third qualifying round of the FA Trophy with a 2-1 home win over Burnham in one of Sunday’s two ties. McCollin put K's 2-0 up in the first half and missed several chances to complete a hat-trick. He was not the only culprit. Burnham, who pulled one back just before half-time through Josh Webb, had their chances as well but could not punish K's for their wastefulness.

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