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bhtfc 3-1 ramsgate fc

Ramsgate came into the game on the back of two wins with clean sheets, and despite the absence of captain Ben Laslett through per-sonal commitments, confidence was high. It was a bit of a shock therefore when Burgess Hill took a 16th minute lead when a weak shot was deflected past ‘keeper Conor Quinn by Warren Schulz as Danny Curd homed in, although it was Schulz who restored the status quo 2 min-utes later with a powerful volley

from the edge of the area gave Joel Harding no chance. The Rams nearly took the lead in the 22nd minute when Mitchell Sherwood’s cross found Joe Taylor outside the area, who turned and curled it towards the far top corner, but the ball flew just outside the wood-work. Burgess Hill extended their lead 5 minutes before the interval when a corner ball flew across the goalmouth, assisted by a flick-on header and the ‘keeper’s finger tips and Lloyd Cotton headed in at the

far post. The Rams nearly equal-ised in the final moments of the half, when Sherwood put the ball over to Schulz in the middle, but ‘keeper Joel Harding did well to block the shot with his legs and, although the ball came back to Schulz he was bundled off the ball by a defender.Ramsgate introduced midfielder Paul Axon for right back Ryan Harker at the break, with a more attacking line-up, and 6 minutes in Mark Lovell swung a ball in

from the right to Schulz in the box, but his close range shot went off the crossbar. Burgess Hill extended their lead fur-ther in the 57th minute when a poor header by Liam Quinn was intercepted by Curd, who broke to the right before crossing to Steve Harper, who sidestepped a defender before volleying past ‘keeper Quinn. In the 62nd minute Schulz hit the woodwork again, when he beat the defence to Sherwood’s

looping cross from the right and headed clear of Harding, but the ball hit the upright. Four min-utes later and Darren Boswell fancied getting the Hillians’ 4th, but his long range effort flew well clear over the goal as well as the wall behind the terrace, while with 4 minutes to go Harper had another good effort, but ‘keeper Quinn saved well. Then, in the 90th minute, a ball from Lovell released Sherwood on another incisive run, but as he cut in-

side the area and shot at goal a defender’s outstretched arm blocked the shot. Sherwood took the penalty himself, but a great save by Harding kept the score at 1-3.

Don`t wish to put a dampener on a good start to the season,but why does Gary persist in playing so many players out of there normal posi-tions.

We have Lloyd Cotton who is an ex-cellent goal scoring, forceful mid-fielder playing at full back.

We have Steve Harper who is an out an out goalscorer playing on the right hand side of midfield.

We have Matt Piper who is a superb cultured full back,who was arguably are best player last season playing as a centre back,what a waste of talent!!!

I understand that money may be tight to get new players in,but Gary has a good track record of getting players from the County League.

Danny GainsfordMatt Hurley ( past )Matt PersivalDanny CurdWill Berry

So lets go in to the county league to find good players that want to step up!!!

Get those scouts out there Gary!!!

Any comments

Absolutely excellent comment by GC in the Argus today. Very funny by a man clearly frustrated by the last 2 games.Talking about the 2 new Italians, GC said;“I’ve now got two players who don’t understand me to go with the other nine who wont listen to me!”Appearing soon with Ian Holloway.....

Tony Burnett

Apparently GC is trying to bring Ben Andrews back to the club?

He used to be a solid player for us, but when I have seen him play for Wor-thing he has looked a shadow of his former self. Not sure who he is cur-rently with though.

Annon

moans and groans

Well with the Hillians not having a game it was an opportunity to pick another match to watch.

Obvious choices were Crawley Town being close and riding high in the Conference and maybe Eastbourne Borough hosting york City.At the other end of the scale was Lancings FA Vase game at home to Christchurch.However with a beerfest at Milestones at Basingstoke it seemed like a good idea to combine that with a trip to watch Farnborough playing at home to Lewes.With Chris Winterton in goal for Lewes it was a great chance to see if he could do well in the step up from Ryman 1 South.Not much has changed since The Hill-ians visit to Farnborough in the FA Cup except the stand behind the goal now has loads of seats but is out of bounds at the moment.

Entry for old gits is just £6 and a sau-sage (big one) and chips is not bad for £3.

A pint of Hardy and Hansens is just £2 80p in the bar so for a conference side

that ‘aint too bad.The football was not that brilliant but the nice part was the fact that for most of the game the ball was played below shoulder height and generally found a player from the same side.

Chris made a couple of “whoopsies”, one a throw out which went to the oppo and another when he tried to kick out from his area only to belt a player from Farnborough which for-tunately went out for a throw in.He did however tip over a point blank shot when a goal seemed likely and certainly could not be faulted when Farnborough scored the only goal of the game in the 46th minute.

With just short of 900 spectators one could be forgiven for expecting a little more noise but most of the comments within earshot were saying what a poor side Lewes were.Maybe that was because Farnborough could not breach the Lewes rearguard.Anyway Farnborough held out but I cannot help thinking that if The Hill-ians could only keep the ball down and play some quality football they could go further up the table and who knows promotion could be a reality.

on the road

hillian spies

French defender Sacha Opinel has ended his contract with Farnbor-ough after finishing his one-month loan to Burgess Hill Town FC. Opinel made 56 appearances for Farnborough Town between 2003-2005 and of course played a huge part for Farnborough last season. His entertaining style pleased Boro fans week in, week out and his contribution to Farnborough in last seasons league championship will not be forgotten. Steve King - “Sacha was great for

us last year, but it was hard for him to commit to us this season. He had to travel a long distance to get here and was disappointed not to play each week, it just doesn’t work for players like him who want to play every game. I want to wish Sacha all the best for the future and I’m sure he will get on fine. I want to thank Sacha for everything he did and gave for the club and I’m sure the fans will join me in doing so. He will definitely go down in Boro history.”

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