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Anyone in East Kent thinking of going to a non league fixture on Saturday?

chris who

chris who

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Looking for someone to watch a East Kent fixture on this coming Saturday afternoon if you are interested please personal message me.
 
Buddha said:
Watching the sun set looking out across the water towards Sheppey was often a wonderful experience; quite beautiful if you could deliberately forget it was actually Sheppey in the distance.
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Actually it’s quite nice looking back from Sheppey too, you’d probably like sheppey more in the old Whitstable sense these days. Plenty of really nice days spent there.

Although the gentrification you speak of is creeping in (it won’t touch Sheerness mind).
 
PuB said:
Actually it’s quite nice looking back from Sheppey too, you’d probably like sheppey more in the old Whitstable sense these days. Plenty of really nice days spent there.

Although the gentrification you speak of is creeping in (it won’t touch Sheerness mind).
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I expect you"re right.
 
Buddha said:
Watching the sun set looking out across the water towards Sheppey was often a wonderful experience; quite beautiful if you could deliberately forget it was actually Sheppey in the distance.
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Day and night, it's a great view. I like Whitstable, couple of good pubs on the main street, and a good used music and films shop (got all the Monty Python films for ten pounds), but I can't get over the beach huts. Never mind how much they cost, who wants to sit a tool shed with no light, electricity or toilet gazing out at rotting kayaks and cracked catamaran hulls half-buried in shingle?
 
jokerman said:
Day and night, it's a great view. I like Whitstable, couple of good pubs on the main street, and a good used music and films shop (got all the Monty Python films for ten pounds), but I can't get over the beach huts. Never mind how much they cost, who wants to sit a tool shed with no light, electricity or toilet gazing out at rotting kayaks and cracked catamaran hulls half-buried in shingle?
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The prices that many of the beach huts have met is off the scale. I had a relative, who was a carpenter and made his beach hut into a mini-palace, sold it for hundreds of £, just before the BH Boom. Within a few years the same "hut" was sold for many thousands of pounds. I`ve fond memories of sitting in his beach hut on a miserable rainy day heartily enjoying my fish and chips - proper British summer !
 
Not East Kent, but I’m going to the Chats v Folkestone, which should be good as both teams going well. Decided to pass on MK, having spent a painful afternoon there last season, so home town team v current town team it is!
 
SteveTreacle said:
Not East Kent, but I’m going to the Chats v Folkestone, which should be good as both teams going well.
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I considered that but went to Faversham v Bearsted in the Southern Counties East Premier (the Kent League by another name). The stadium, 4G pitch (sloping slightly), atmosphere and standard of football were all quite a step down from what I've seen at Chatham. Even at that level a lot of players seem to be coached to play a "safe" pass towards a team-mate, even though many of them can't execute it, rather than go forwards. The rest is percentages, leading to an untidy game.

Faversham had ex-Gills Callum Davies and Frannie Collin (remember them? Thought not) in their line-up, contributing a goal-line clearance and a shot off the crossbar respectively. It was non-league journeyman Danny Parish who made a big difference when he came on, and they eventually won 2-1 thanks in no small part to a couple of desperate blocks in goalmouth scrambles near the end.

I like non-league football. I had a very pleasant wander around Faversham beforehand, including the Christmas market, largely ignored the Gills game (particularly after seeing at half-time that we'd had 25% possession and no touches in the Dons' box - I thought I knew which way that was headed...), and was home by 6pm.
 
LancsGordoRoad said:
Great result for Sittingbourne today in the FA Trophy, beat Salisbury and now head into the fifth round. Wembley beckons .... Come on the Bourne..
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Saaarfend away as a prize, about the best draw they could have had given who was left.

Their travails as a club over the last decade or two put our recent poor spell to shame, glad they've slowly but surely built a fantastic side who sit top of league having been beaten play-off finalists last term.

As the gates at Central Park used to say, "Bourne to Win".
 
HerrLjunga said:
Saaarfend away as a prize, about the best draw they could have had given who was left.

Their travails as a club over the last decade or two put our recent poor spell to shame, glad they've slowly but surely built a fantastic side who sit top of league having been beaten play-off finalists last term.

As the gates at Central Park used to say, "Bourne to Win".
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Very tough game at Southend, shame it couldn`t have been a home draw. They`ve had a very good run in the Trophy. Glad the Bourne are doing well.
 
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