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NEWS >>>>>> 10th January 2006 By Roger Bennett Chilham 2 - Faversham Town Reserves 4 Honest players at this point of the season own up to pre-match nerves. The Christmas and New Year break is over, and doubts start to set in. Are the skills still there? What about my match fitness? Have I eaten too much recently and lost a yard? Town were still thinking about it at kick off, and in the first minute Bennett shot from close range. Fortunately, Boyce in goal for Town was alert, managed to parry the shot, and the danger was scrambled away. Having survived that scare, Town quickly settled and went into express train mode, with Holbrook bravely heading home just in front of the advancing keeper on 5 minutes. Holbrook then proceeded to really get stuck in with some tigerish defending, linking up with the attack and perhaps unwisely, wanting to pick an argument with referee Mr Conlan. Town by now seemed unstoppable, and in a crazy 3 minutes scored 3 goals. Maguire on 19 minutes, Scott on 20, and Maguire again on 21. How Brett Harrison must wish his team could play like this more often. Chilham, however were in no mood to raise the white flag, and at last started to gain some possession in mid-field. Their persistence paid off when a close range header from James Wake beat Boyce, and with the last kick of the match, Bennett added the second when Town failed to clear. It was all too late of course, with the Town defence playing well to limit the Chilham attack to a few half chances, and when they were on target, Boyce was there. Chilham manager Roger Hopkins put the defeat down to his team's inexcusable "10 minute lapse". For Brett Harrison however, it was a good day at the office with another 3 points in the bag, which takes them to the top of the table. The other notable feature of the game was Mr Conlan's pre match instructions to players, substitutes, linesmen and club officials, conducted in the centre circle. His announcement of not tolerating any bad language was met with some bemusement, but to his credit, it seemed to work and the match was played in a fine spirit. No bookings, no sending off, hardly any swearing and another win. Not bad! Match stats: Chilham 2 (James Wake 27th, Bennett 90th) Heap, Howard, Howell, Walker, Hopkins, Chantler (capt.), James Wake, Mills, Dixon, Rolfe, Bennett. Subs:Noble (for Walker), Rook (for Rolfe), Jonathon Wake (for James Wake) Faversham Town Reserves 4 (Holbrook 5th, Maguire 21st and 23rd, Scott 22nd) Matt Boyce (8), Andy Langridge(7), Darren Mills(7), Darren Brett(7), Glen Shepherd (7), Lee Pankhurst (7),Ray Turner (9), Bradley Maguire, captain (9), Nicky Scott (9), Adam Whitehead (7), Ben Holbrook(8). Subs: Darren Webb (8) (for Pankhurst), Steve Wolf (7) (for Shepherd). Nick Hughes (not used). Town man of the match: Bradley Maguire, linked up well with Turner and Scott, some great distribution and scored two.
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