RYMAN FOOTBALL LEAGUE – WEEKLY NEWS AND MATCH BULLETIN Season 2007-2008 No: 09 - : - 8th October 2007 RYMAN LEAGUE NEWSLINE 09066 555 777 LEAGUE NEWS LEAGUE NEWS MONTHLY AWARDS Golden Boots Award The first series of the Ryman Football League (Sponsored by Snapshot Poker) Monthly Awards for season 2007/87, covering Premier Division the months of August and September 2007, Held over to October 2007 have been announced this morning as Division One North follows: James Rowe – AFC Sudbury with 8 League Goals Manager of the Month Division One South (Sponsored by Errea Sport Ltd.) Reggie Savage – Croydon Athletic F.C. Premier Division with 9 League goals Gary McCann – Hendon F.C. Division One North The Premier Division Golden Boots award will Steve Witherspoon – Brentwood Town be held over to next month to become a F.C. double award for August, September and Division One South October. With eight players all having scored Billy Smith – Tooting & Mitcham United six League goals at the end of September, it F.C. is clearly not possible to select the one leading goalscorer, and therefore two awards Team Performance of the Month will be presented at the end of October. (Sponsored by GX Soccer) Premier Division The award for the “Team Performances of the Harrow Borough F.C. Month” recognises a particularly noteworthy Division One North performance by a Club during the month from Ware F.C. any of its first team matches in all competitions Division One South played. Chipstead F.C. Harrow Borough had commenced the season Golden Gloves Award with four straight League defeats, and the (Sponsored by Snapshot Poker) omens were stacked against them when they Premier Division travelled to one of the title favourites, AFC Shaun Allaway – Staines Town F.C. st Wimbledon, on Saturday, 1 September. But Division One North they returned home with an excellent and hard Rob Blackburne – Edgware Town F.C. won 2-1 victory and their first three points of Division One South the season to clinch the Team performance Luke Garrard – Kingstonian F.C. award for the Middlesex club. Division One North Ware Football Club ISTHMIAN LEAGUE CUP achieved a notable win in the Second Round The draw for the Third Round of the Isthmian Qualifying of the FA Cup on the last day of the League Cup has been made as follows: month, beating Conference South club Thurrock 3-2 in a match when they were never Hendon or Boreham Wood vs. Wealdstone behind their visitors from two Leagues higher Potters Bar Town vs. Edgware Town in the soccer pyramid. Ashford Town (Middx) vs. Metropolitan Police Chipstead are playing in Division One South Walton Casuals vs. Ware for the first time in their history, and their initial Kingstonian vs. Tooting & Mitcham United results left them rooted at the foot of the table Eastbourne Town vs. Horsham after six matches without a single point. Then Carshalton Athletic vs. Leatherhead against all the predictions, they returned home Burgess Hill Town vs. Whyteleafe from a midweek trek to Whitstable Town on East Thurrock United vs. Ramsgate the last Tuesday of the month with three points Dartford or Aveley vs. Whitstable Town having recorded their first Ryman league Tonbridge Angels or Chipstead vs. success from a 2-1 victory. Horsham YMCA or Folkestone Invicta AFC Hornchurch or Tilbury vs. Maidstone This season the Manager of the Month United Awards, based on a Club’s performance in AFC Sudbury vs. Chelmsford City Ryman League matches only, will again be Redbridge vs. Great Wakering Rovers sponsored by Errea Sport Ltd. The Manager Waltham Abbey vs. Wivenhoe Town or of the Month in each Division will receive a Heybridge Swifts memento and items of clothing from Errea Arlesey Town or Enfield Town vs. Witham Sport. The Company will also sponsor the Town or Maldon Town annual award at the end of the season. Matches are to be played week commencing The Team Performance of the Month awards Monday, 12th November 2007. will again be sponsored by GX Soccer, with all first team games in all competitions being WEEKEND REVIEW considered for this particular award. A day for away teams in the Premier Division as the visitors recorded six wins and two The Golden Gloves monthly award will this draws from the eleven games. Top scorers season be sponsored by Snapshot Poker. were East Thurrock United, 5-2 winners at Each Divisional winner will receive a pair of Billericay Town, and Tonbridge Angels at goalkeeper’s gloves and a framed certificate. Boreham Wood, where they rattled in four without response. Also hitting four goals were For the Golden Boot monthly award, also two home teams at different ends of the table, sponsored by Snapshot Poker, the player Heybridge and Horsham, victors against scoring the highest number of goals in Harrow Borough and Wealdstone respectively. League matches in the respective month will In respect of Heybridge Swifts, it was their first receive a pair of leading brand football boots League win of the season. and a framed certificate. Top League crowd watched AFC Wimbledon The Board of Directors wishes to record their win 2-0 at home to Maidstone United. sincere thanks to all the companies supporting the League and its Clubs through There were twenty matches in the Preliminary the sponsorship of the various awards this Round of the FA Trophy, with thirteen of those season. ties between two Ryman League clubs. With four of the ties going to a Tuesday evening replay, twelve are through to the First Round Qualifying in a fortnight’s time. On a day when there were thirty goals in thirteen League matches, two hat-tricks were SnapshotPoker scored – George Purcell for Heybridge Swifts and Paul Barnes for Arlesey Town To register go to Premier Division www.snapshotpoker.com Hendon retained top spot in the Premier and press download. Division following a sound 2-0 victory at Carshalton Athletic, under control of new recorded a 7-0 win – Paul Barnes hitting a manager Haydn Bird in his first Premier first half hat-trick. Brentwood Town continued Division game in charge at Colston Avenue. with their Cup successes, beating visitors Dulwich Hamlet 1-0 to set up another tie with Second and third placed Horsham and Harlow Town, who they had beaten seven Chelmsford City both had comfortable days ago in the FA Cup. victories to keep pace with the leaders from Middlesex, but fourth placed Ramsgate, A crowd of 506 watched Dover Athletic beat suffering from a number of injuries to their Potters Bar Town 3-0, whilst Walton & defenders, lost at home 0-1 to Staines Town, Hersham recorded a similar scoreline at allowing the Middlesex club to leap above Berkhamsted Town. Chatham Town pulled their hosts into the play-off positions. off a surprise win as they beat Division One Horsham won 4-0 at home against South leaders Kingstonian 3-1. Wealdstone, whilst Chelmsford returned home to Essex from their seaside visit to Sittingbourne had a good 2-1 win at Rothwell Hastings, having beaten the United 3-0. AFC Town, whilst Cray Wanderers won 2-0 at Wimbledon, undefeated since 4th September, Whitstable Town. continued their home winning form with a 2-0 victory against Maidstone United, moving up RYMAN YOUTH LEAGUE to ninth place in the process. A quiet week in the League with just two League games completed alongside the first At the foot of the table, Heybridge Swifts three matches in this season’s Isthmian Youth recorded their first win of the season, 4-0, Cup competition. In the League, Tooting & against Harrow Borough, allowing them to Mitcham United moved up to second place as move up three places above the new a result of their 7-2 home win against bottom basement clubs Leyton, losers at home to placed Horsham YMCA. The Sussex Folkestone Invicta by the only goal of the youngsters, three goals down after the first match, Wealdstone, having crashed 0-4 at thirty minutes, came back into the game with Horsham, and Ashford Town (Middx), who goals either side of half time. However the kept one point from a goalless draw against home side proved too strong and ran out Margate. Harlow Town also finished up comfortable winners by the end of the game. goalless in their Essex derby match at home to AFC Hornchurch. Staines Town beat Carshalton Athletic 2-0 on Wednesday evening. Lyle Taylor scored one Division One North of the goals to take the Staines youngster to Only one match in Division One North, where the top of the goalscoring charts for the Youth top placed AFC Sudbury travelled to Edgware League. Town, just three points behind in third place before the start of the match. And the game Three matches took place in the Isthmian was settled when the only score game from Youth Cup. Worthing beat AFC Wimbledon on the penalty spot for the home side just ten Monday evening 3-0 in a match well refereed minutes into the match. by Simon Griffiths, whilst three nights late Maidstone United won 4-2 at Margate, and Division One South Tonbridge Angels beat home team Dulwich Just one game also in Division One South, it Hamlet by the only goal of the game scored by also finished with an early single goal, as Ashley Dann. visitors Leatherhead scored after three minutes at Eastbourne Town This week the FA Youth Cup dominates the FA Trophy local scene, with eight teams playing in the Generally a reasonable day in the FA Trophy Second Round Qualifying. There are just two – a competition in which Clubs from the league matches – both in Horsham on Ryman league knock each other out round by Thursday evening.