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Guildford City 0 Whitstable Town 1

Marcos Perona (shoots just wide)

Managers top marks for Town Guildford City 0 Whitstable Town 1? Extra preliminary round F. A. CUP ?Shane Davis had a great game at left back,? said WTFC manager Marc Seager, ?As did Josh Maine, he adds that bit of bite to the side which is so important when you come up against sides that we know little about, he stops them playing and is learning with every game. Young ?Kingy? (Stuart King) worked hard and took his goal well; Jake Gess did well when he came on, as did Sam Prett until Steve Marshall replaced him.

Whitstable keeper Kevin Fewell never had an outright save to make throughout the game, which was down to his good positional play a solid defence in front of him. Rob Thomas when he came on after Josh took a bad knock was up to the pace of the game at once; he made a vital tackle towards the end as Guildford threw everyone forward. ?I asked the boys to play a different way today, football that is not for the purist, on a pitch that looked good from the stands but believe me it was awful to play on. We wanted a result today and the lads delivered, I am very pleased that we never coneeded, just look at the list of results in the papers tomorrow, you won?t see many clean sheets in the F.A. Cup you mark my words.? Said Seager

Mark Wyver looks at the past weeks results...Gravesend & Northfleet raced into a two goal lead in their opening Nationwide Conference fixture at Aldershot thanks to goals from Mark DeBolla and a Charlie MacDonald(penalty),only for the home side to hit back to win 3-2.

Welling had substitute Andrew Sam to thank for their 1-0 home win over Weston Super Mare in their Conference South fixture at Park View Road.

Whitstable scored the quickest goal of the day through Marcos Perona as the home side defeated newcomers Croydon 1-0 at Belmont Road.Erith & Belvedere had two goals from Danny Beszant to thank for their 2-1 win at Erith & Belvedere with Danny Lawson replying for the home side.Deal defeated Slade Green 2-1 at the Charles Ground with Jamie Marriott and Dan Smith on target with the losers reply coming from Adam Heaslewood.Hythe beat Erith 1-0 courtesy of a 90th minuite strike from Roy Godden.Two goals in the last six minuites from Lyndon Guscott saw Lordswood defeat Sporting Bengal 2-0 while Thamesmead defeated Tunbridge Wells by the samr scoreline with Lee Morgan and Sam Thomas netting.Sevenoaks and Greenwich Borough ended 1-1 with Matthew Jones-Butler and Dave Hassett the respective scorers.

Peter Albin looks ahead to the FA CUP

Whitstable Towns Peter Albin looks ahead to the FA CUP games involving KL Clubs..

Just fourteen questions away from a Million!

Incredible to believe but there are only 14 rounds in the FA Cup competition from the ?500 pound prize extra-preliminary to the million pound final in May. Whitstable Town face the first question away from home at the Spectrum Sports Stadium against Guildford City. City are one of four Combined Counties Premier sides playing Kent League teams on Saturday afternoon in what has turned out to be an all Step 5 affair. Marc Seager and the squad should be optimistic about moving forward into the Preliminary round, although they have home advantage Guildford only finished 17th out of 21 teams last season and lost 3-1 away at Merstham last weekend. On paper, at least, an achievable target, just ask the audience!

Also away to CoCo Premier opposition are Deal Town who have been drawn at Ash United, an altogether different prospect as they finished in third spot last year in that league. That said, home advantage didn't help United last year as they drew with and then subsequently lost the replay at Leatherhead in the Preliminary round. Deal went out two rounds later, in the 2nd Qualifying round, at home against Southern League Premier side Hitchin Town. Having a bit of a tradition of cup runs I think the seasiders may come away with a draw and then get a result at home.