Bridges Clinch Play Off Place

With two League games still to play, Bridges clinched their place in the Play Offs with this victory. It wasn’t the most fluent performance, but after an early header by Rob Strachan was cleared off the line, the visitors were rarely troubled by their relegation threatened hosts.

Bridges finally got into their stride after eight minutes when they won a corner, Brannon O’Neill’s delivery being brilliantly met by a powerful header from leading scorer Noel Leighton for the opener.

Nabeel Ghannam and Kevin Rivera were constant threats to Erith’s defence, but Cameron Andrews should have done better with a free kick whilst Leo Anderson blocked a rare Macey Malyon effort with his knees.

A great move involving Dan Ferreira, Leighton and Rivera ended with the latter seeing his final effort cleared off the line, whilst the ensuing batch of four successive corners ended with another Leighton header being cleared off the line too.

Ibrahim Jalloh made a surging run but shot straight at keeper Jordan Gillmore, but with ten minutes remaining O’Neill’s cross to the far post was headed down by the excellent Tresor Difika to leave Jalloh with a simple tap into the open goal and the side were guaranteed at worse fifth place in the table.

			Home				Away				Total
			P	W	D	L	P	W	D	L	P	W	D	L	F	A	+/-	Pts
	1	Ramsgate	18	14	3	1	18	13	2	3	36	27	5	4	101	37	+64	86
	2	Cray Valley PM	18	10	7	1	17	16	1	0	35	26	8	1	93	30	+63	86
	3	Sittingbourne	18	11	2	5	17	9	7	1	35	20	9	6	78	36	+42	69
	4	Chichester City	18	10	1	7	18	11	4	3	36	21	5	10	78	36	+42	68
	5	Three Bridges	18	12	3	3	18	8	4	6	36	20	7	9	94	66	+28	67
	6	Lancing	18	10	2	6	18	8	4	6	36	18	6	12	66	63	+3	60
	7	Herne Bay	18	8	4	6	18	8	6	4	36	16	10	10	69	56	+13	58
	8	Sheppey United	18	9	3	6	17	6	4	7	35	15	7	13	69	55	+14	52
	9	Broadbridge Heath	18	6	7	5	18	6	3	9	36	12	10	14	54	54	0	46
	10	Sevenoaks Town	18	7	6	5	18	6	1	11	36	13	7	16	59	61	-2	46
	11	Ashford United	18	10	0	8	17	4	3	10	35	14	3	18	52	73	-21	45
	12	Hythe Town	16	4	5	7	18	8	2	8	34	12	7	15	53	63	-10	43
	13	Burgess Hill Town	17	6	4	7	18	4	7	7	35	10	11	14	56	64	-8	41
	14	Merstham	18	7	3	8	18	4	4	10	36	11	7	18	56	68	-12	40
	15	Horndean	17	7	2	8	17	4	5	8	34	11	7	16	54	66	-12	40
	16	Phoenix Sports	18	5	5	8	18	4	3	11	36	9	8	19	49	88	-39	35
	17	Littlehampton Town	17	5	4	8	18	3	2	13	35	8	6	21	40	73	-33	30
	18	East Grinstead Town	17	3	5	9	18	5	1	12	35	8	6	21	46	83	-37	30
	19	Beckenham Town	18	4	3	11	18	2	5	11	36	6	8	22	54	91	-37	26
	20	Erith & Belvedere	18	3	3	12	17	2	4	11	35	5	7	23	23	81	-58	22