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PRESENTATION EVENING 

The clubs presentation evening was held on Saturday 14th May. Congratulations to Jon Neal for winning player of the year, James Campbell for winning web site player of the year, Lee Browning for winning young player of the year and Jamie Coyle for winning Players player of the year...complete list of winners here...LINK

Photographs of the event here...LINK

PAUL SYKES

The club has received this thank you from Carly Sykes:

PAST PLAYERS

Nick Ryan has written to us from Nottingham:

"Hello to everyone in Sittingbourne for whom I played for a season in 1985/6 in the Kent League Division 1 at the old Bull Ground and had a great time finishing third behind Tunbridge Wells and Hythe and beating Chatham 4-0 in the FA Trophy. 

The hing I'll always remember most, (apart from the slope),  was the warmth and friendliness of the team, committee and supporters.  It was a pleasure and a privilege to wear the red and black."

Nick is now retired...See the ex Brickies section...LINK
 

NEWS OF KENNY PAVEY 

Marie Birgersson reports from Sweden that Kenny Pavey is still playing for Ljungskile but the team now play in the Superettan which is the second highest league in Sweden as Ljungskile got promoted last year.  The top league is called apparently Allsvenskan.

PROGRAMME AWARDS

The Wirral Programme Club have  announced the results of their 2004 - 2005 programme awards. 6 of Sittingbourne's programmes were surveyed and Sittingbourne's programme has been placed 2nd in the Southern League Division 1 East just pipped to the post by Arlesey who scored 192 points as against our 166 points. Uxbridge were 3rd with 165 points and Dartford were 4th with 164 points.   Top club in the Southern League was Bath City with 218 points.

Congratulations to programme editor John Pitts and our printers Abbey Print.

UXBRIDGE, MORE PHOTOS

More photographs here from the last game of the season against Uxbridge Saturday 30th April 2005....LINK

BARMY ARMY AT UXBRIDGE

Photographs of the Barmy army at Uxbridge are here.. ..LINK. If there is sufficient interest these photographs in slide and original high quality form can be made available on a commemorative CD with ALL proceeds going to the club, (i.e nothing taken out for disc or manpower costs!). Price is £3.50 which includes P&P. Please contact Peter Pitts via the contact button above.

WEB SITE THANKS

Now that the season has come to an end I would like to register my thanks to the following for making this the best and most informative site in the division:

Chris Regan for his excellent photographs that cannot be bettered even in the national press! and for supplying me with the weekly lottery results.

My Brother John for helping me with reports when I'm unavailable and for supplying information on the club.

My son Graham for coming up with the idea for the site way back in 1996 and all the hard work he did in setting up the original templates for the site.

Blueyonder, Plus net and freenetname for the excellent and reliable service that they give us in hosting the site.

To Tradequip for paying to advertise on the site..(All of those monies go straight to the club) and of course to all you out there who find time to view the site and to buy from the site via the shopping pages, again all monies from the commission received for the purchases go straight to the club.

Just because there are no more games this season doesn't mean that you shouldn't keep looking at the web site, (and doing your shopping on the site!!). We have plenty of things planned for the close season the most exciting being reproducing programmes of Sittingbourne, Bowater Lloyds and Gillingham games of 1948 to 1959. These will also be available to buy on DVD some time in the future. These programmes will cover most Senior Kent clubs so will be of interest to all of Kent's many non-league fans. We are also looking into supplying DVD's of Sittingbourne games from the past but this idea is at an early stage.

I also hope to revamp the look of the site..if I can find time!

MASCOT V WINGATE & FINCHLEY

The match day mascot v Wingate & Finchley was Joshua Luck, Picture here ....LINK

PAUL SYKES 

A bucket collection was held during the Fisher game and the club would like to thank both sets of supporters for raising a magnificent £337.52 which will be passed onto Paul's family.

CHAIRMAN'S STATEMENT

Andy Spice, Chairman of Sittingbourne Football Club had this article in Saturday's programme. We feel that it is important enough to reprint here for a larger audience...LINK

JUNIOR BARMY ARMY

If you have wondered who has been making all the noise in the stand, then here is their photograph!...LINK

Have a look at their web site...LINK

1928 - 1929  SEASON

Adrian Stone from Willenhall West Midlands has written to us enclosing photographs of the 1928 / 29 Sittingbourne team that won the Kent Senior Cup and Senior Shield..Photographs and story here...LINK

MASCOT AT BOREHAM WOOD GAME 

Our mascot at the Boreham Wood game was Louis Howerd..LINK

MASCOT AT BEACONSFIELD GAME 

A happy birthday (for Monday 20th) to Lewis Hayes who was our mascot at Saturday's game..Photo here...LINK

SITTINGBOURNE DEFEATED IN MARK BEENEY'S LAST GAME 

Sittingbourne staged a heroic comeback but go down to Wivenhoe Town by 3-2 as Mark Beeney reluctantly resigns as Sittingbourne's manager,

Mark Beeney resigns, press statement...LINK

MASCOT IN THE BARTON ROVERS GAME 

Our Mascot in the match v Barton Rovers was Harrison Rook..photo here...LINK

WOODCOOMBE YOUTH FC JOIN US AGAIN 

Once again Woodcoombe Youth FC were welcome guests at Sittingbourne..LINK

SUPPORTERS CLUB PRESENTATION TO CLUB

The supporters club made a presentation to the club at the Waltham Forest game..Details here...LINK

MASCOT AT GREAT WAKERING ROVERS GAME 

The mascot for the Great Wakering Rovers match was Joshua Rook...Photo here...Link

NEW SQUAD PHOTOGRAPH NOW ON LINE

Sittingbourne's 2004 -2005 season squad here....LINK

MASCOT AT WALTHAM FOREST GAME 

The mascot for the Leighton Town Game was James Hutchings...Photo here...Link

WELCOME TO WOODCOOMBE 

Woodcoombe were our special guests at the Waltham Forest Game..Great photo here...Link

FIXTURE CHANGE

The scheduled home game against Wivenhoe Town on 2nd October has been moved to Tuesday 2nd November. KO 7.45pm.

The response to the new business sevens league was disappointing so the club are delaying its start however if you are interested in your team joining the new league then please click the red "contact us" button above and we will send you full details, or  download the information pack, (however the total download of the files is 2.5 Mb so I have split the information pack from the application form and introduction)...LINK

PLAYERS MOVING ON

Three  players have left Sittingbourne in search of regular first team football. Joe Dowley is to transfer to Maidstone United, Dean Yorath is joining Hythe Town, and Ben Laslett has gone to Ramsgate.

I know that some of you were looking for the season ticket form on the site, it is here! but I moved it to the archive page last week, however you can download a form here..LINK

The presentation to young supporter of the year 2003-4 Jamie Jennings was made prior to the Tilbury game..Picture here...LINK

Matchday mascot at the Tilbury game was Alistair Rushworth..Chris Regan's photograph here...LINK

Dave Hassett hopes to be back for the game against Dartford, however this depends on how quickly the injury heals.

The mascot in the game v Arlesey Town was six years old Harry Dighton, photo here..LINK

First half goals from Lee Cox and Adam Marshall seals win. Team: Aaron Armstrong, John Blund, Joe Dowley, Adam Marshall, Andy Lind, Dean Yorath, Lee Browning, Ben Lazlett, Les Cox, Paul Carpenter, Paul Campbell, 2nd half subs: Lee Skinner, Glen Smith, Lee Taylor, Bradley Spice, David Jeffrey

We are trying to contact two members of the our lottery, Mairead and Nicholas Ustianowski, who we believe have moved to Ireland. Can you please let us know how to contact you via the "contact us" button, thank you very much.

Dave Hassett who has made a big impact in pre-season friendlies has signed for Sittingbourne.

Sittingbourne have been drawn away to Ashford in The Kent Senior Cup, (Match to be played by 30th Nov), and the reserves are away to Erith in the Kent Intermediate Cup, match to be played by 9th October).

In order to keep within the allocated web space it has been necessary to delete a number of archive photographs. These are still held by the club and available on request (contact us button above). The club's season 03 -04 photo CD  is still available and contains a number of these deleted photographs.

Download this 3D screensaver , (1.2Mb). Just save to desktop. Right click on icon and click install!  LINK  or this one!  LINK

The Sittingbourne Football Club photo gallery CD containing over 120 photographs from the latter part of the 2003-2004 season are selling fast so to be sure of you copy please send a cheque payable to Sittingbourne Football Club for £5.00 to Sittingbourne Football Club, merchandising, C/O 93 Berengrave Lane, Rainham, Gillingham, Kent, ME8 7NL.

The collection includes the supporters photographs at the last game of the season at Bashley and a squad picture from the home Salisbury game.

P&P is free. Please reference "photo CD" and don't forget to tell us your name and address! Copies will also be available behind the bar from 1st July.

ALL proceeds will go direct to the club.

The CD will work on all PC's and will perform as a slide show on the more recent DVD players (i.e those that can play JPEG's).

Sittingbourne Football Club would like to say hello to supporter Detective Constable John Lyons who is seconded to the Bosnian Police Force. Fear not John you can always follow the fortunes of your favourite football club by accessing this site!

A goal from Barry Fuller and Two goals from highly rated youngster LLoyd Sam give a Charlton XI victory over the Brickies in their first pre-season friendly, Report now on line, Chris Regan's photographs included. LINK

(Thanks to match sponsors RMD Fire Controls. photo here)

Todays mascot was six year old Jordan Beer from Maidstone...Picture here

Below is the confirmed setup of the league we will be in next season:

For the full non league line up see LINK

Links to the web sites of these clubs here LINK

Links to the message boards of these clubs here LINK

ARLESEY TOWN
AVELEY
BARKING & EAST HAM UNITED
BARTON ROVERS
BEACONSFIELD SYCOB
BERKHAMSTED TOWN
BOREHAM WOOD
CHATHAM TOWN
DARTFORD
EAST THURROCK UNITED
ERITH & BELVEDERE
FISHER ATHLETIC
GREAT WAKERING ROVERS
HARLOW TOWN
LEIGHTON TOWN
MALDON TOWN

SITTINGBOURNE
TILBURY
UXBRIDGE
WALTHAM FOREST
WINGATE & FINCHLEY
WIVENHOE TOWN

The management committee have decided that admission prices for the new season will remain at £6.00 for adults and £3.00 for concessions. There will however be a £1.00 extra charge if you wish to sit in the stand.

These prices are probably the cheapest in our division as most clubs have increased their admission to £7. (You'll therefore have more money to spend in the bar and club shop!).

Season ticket prices also remain at last years prices.

Print off the form to apply for a season ticket..LINK

Special reduced prices of £4.00 Adults and £2.00 children and concessions apply to friendlies except the Bearsted friendly where admission is free!

The Football association have announced the following cup matches involving Sittingbourne:

Preliminary Round, Saturday 4th September 2004

Lymington and New Milton V Sittingbourne

1st Qualifying Round, Saturday 18th September 2004

Molesey or Westfield V Lymington & New Milton or Sittingbourne

Preliminary Round, Saturday 9th October 2004

Sittingbourne v Leighton Town

1st Round, Saturday 6th November 2004

Burgess Hill Town or Wingate & Finchley v Sittingbourne or Leighton Town.

Preliminary Round, to be played week commencing 13th September 2004

Sittingbourne v Brockenhurst

!st Qualifying Round, to be played commencing 27th September 2004

Sittingbourne or Brockenhurst v AFC Newbury

The full cup draws can be found on the FA web site

Sittingbourne have been drawn at home to Great Wakering Rovers in the Southern League Cup. The match will (probably) take place on Tuesday 27th October.

What's the pitch like? See the latest photographs, (July 2004)...LINK

As reported by Tania on the message board the supporters club have donated £550 to the club. Thanks to Steve, Libbie, Pauline and the rest for all your hard work in providing such an amount. 

Southern League secretary Denis Strudwick has confirmed that Sittingbourne are to take the place of Southall Town who not taking up their place in the competition. This means that the Brickies will no longer line up in the Isthmian league for the new season but remain in the Southern league, Division 1 East.It is also understood that Fleet Town have now escaped relegation and will take Sittingbourne's place in the Isthmian league.

Full Story..LINK

Michael (Buster) Smissen has decided to sign for Dover Athletic.

Buster finished joint leading goal scorer with Jon Neal last season.