Whitstable Town FC

Town win stuns Beckenham: WTFC 2 Beckenham 0

 AUDIO: Beckenham, the team who gave Whitstable a football lesson on the opening day of the season came to the Belmont with their confidence sky high were brought down to earth with a bump. Marc Seager?s side coming out the winners in a match that proved to be a great advert for Kent Football, with both teams playing their part in what was a entertaining game. Goals from Alex Hossick and Marcos Perona settled the match, Seager saying: ?I am thrilled with the way the lads played.? Marc AUDIO:

AUDIO: Captain Andy Keir speaking about the game to come against Beckenham and the game last week against Erith, the injury to Ryan Davis who is out for the rest of the season with a groin injury. Keir saying: ?It?s a great shame because Ryan started the season really well but he only managed a couple of games, he will be missed. He is such a versatile player to have in your sides as he adapts so well to playing in different positions.?
AUDIO from Marc Seager TOMORROW, look out tomorrow for Marc speaking about the Beckenham game on Saturday:

The Grass is not always greener?
The following report was posted on Beckenham?s website last week after reports that their newly laid pitch was dying?It was headlined:   D?ja Vu .... 'Saturday?s game against Slade Green should go ahead providing we do not have any more rain. Once again Beckenham are facing headaches regarding the pitch at EPA. The contractor who laid the pitch nearly two years ago has been called back to inspect the playing surface following recent water logging. Early reports indicate that the pitch is not draining; this has been caused by compaction and the knock on effect is a disease that has formed below the grass itself. A full report from the Contractors will be released soon' (C) Beckenham FC

WHEN THE GOING GETS TOUGH
?the tough have to get going. In the top Kent League fixture this weekend Whitstable Town play champion wannabes Beckenham Town at the Belmont Road Ground. Beckenham have only lost to Herne Bay and Maidstone so far this season, both times at Eden Park Avenue and so now it's down to the Reds to spoil their away record. As the only home fixture of the four 'six pointers' still left to play in the league, any points dropped might prove fatal to Whitstable's aspirations at season's end. Mind you Whitstable are unbeaten in the last nine league games and three more points would place the Oystermen only seven behind league leaders Maidstone. It's a game almost guaranteed to be a spectacle, with Steve Marshall and Paul Vines on the same pitch any mistakes are sure to be punished, a truly mouthwatering prospect.

Erith Town 2 v Whitstable Town 0: KOL Group Cup  Town loose out on top spot?

Manager Marc Seager was upset at this side?s inability to secure top spot in the group, thereby guaranteeing a home draw against one of the other group winners either Herne Bay or Hythe away in the quarter finals.
?We should have done a lot better today but when you consider what a great run we have been on since October, we were due one poor game and if this is I out of the way with the Beckenham match at home next week, then so be it. I am not happy to loose, in fact never happy when Whitstable drop below the standards I have set, but I admit we did today. I am still a young manager and will make mistakes but I will learn from them. It would be easy to say what a poor ref we had today, and despite creating at least double the scoring chances Erith had, they scored two, I think had three chances, we just could not put the ball into the net. We hit the post, their keeper made some great saves and for me was man of the match and they kept nine men behind the ball and made it hard for us on a difficult pitch. The lads are not down, they know that as a team we all undreperformed, we will not let this blip detract us from improving the side and always trying to play good football."

Fancy a flutter..    Bookies are notorious at laying the odds, just look at some of these prices, On Saturday we play Erith Town away, if we beat them 3-0 the odds laid are 16/1 but for the Beckenham game the week after for the same scoreline at home it?s 40/1, now I know that we are plying a side one week whose goal difference is more than the other have scored and conceded all season. But value for money what bet would you go for? I for one like the fact that our local bookie supports the Town, brings his children to the Belmont whenever he can and is often accompanied other friends and family. As one of the Oyster Boy?s (or was it Girl?s) said one week, ?if we all bring a friend, even if its only now and again, the difference it makes to the atmosphere at the ground is worth a goal to Marc and the lads.? PS: check out the betting link?