Bridges Bore Draw

Decidedly not a game for the purists as two teams cancelled each other out with few players shining on a cold evening. Bridges, with Joe Tennant serving a one match suspension and Joe Stone unavailable, changed their formation with skipper Brannon O’Neill acting as an effective sweeper.

Kieron Pamment worked his socks off by harassing the VCD defenders into mistakes,  while Mitch Bromage looked comfortable in a second rare outing in the Bridges goal. But no one else really got going on a regular basis, although much the same could be said about the home side.

Pamment had an effort blocked following intelligent play by Noel Leighton, but the only other note worthy of mention came just before half time when a strangely unpunished challenge on Kevin Rivera led to him being helped to the dressing room by Bridges Secretary Richard Munn!

The sparse crowd of just 60 paying customers had little to enthrall them after the break either, although VCD looked the more likely to break the deadlock but could not get past a stubborn visiting defence.

Karl Dent came closest for the homesters to produce a fine save by Mitch Bromage, but it was Bridges who almost snatched an unlikely winner after 81 minutes when substitute Conner Collcutt threaded a good ball into the path of Noel Leighton, whose fierce shot was blocked by keeper Jordan Gilmore.

A number of free kicks were conceded by Bridges, and Gilmore delivered a few tempting ones into the danger area from the half way line, but the game petered out into a terribly disappointing affair.

Bridges Man of the Match – Brannon O’Neill.

			Home				Away				Total
			P	W	D	L	P	W	D	L	P	W	D	L	F	A	+/-	Pts
	1	Ramsgate	13	9	2	2	12	6	3	3	25	15	5	5	44	26	+18	50
	2	Chatham Town	13	12	1	0	11	3	3	5	24	15	4	5	44	26	+18	49
	3	Beckenham Town	12	9	2	1	13	6	1	6	25	15	3	7	42	31	+11	48
	4	Cray Valley PM	13	7	3	3	10	4	3	3	23	11	6	6	39	21	+18	39
	5	Whitehawk	12	8	2	2	11	3	4	4	23	11	6	6	38	23	+15	39
	6	Ashford United	12	6	4	2	13	5	2	6	25	11	6	8	43	31	+12	39
	7	Sheppey United	13	4	4	5	11	7	1	3	24	11	5	8	42	36	+6	38
	8	Sevenoaks Town	11	7	2	2	12	4	2	6	23	11	4	8	33	25	+8	37
	9	Littlehampton Town	11	5	2	4	13	5	3	5	24	10	5	9	33	31	+2	35
	10	Chichester City	11	6	3	2	12	2	6	4	23	8	9	6	30	28	+2	33
	11	Hythe Town	11	5	5	1	12	4	0	8	23	9	5	9	24	26	-2	32
	12	VCD Athletic	14	4	4	6	11	4	2	5	25	8	6	11	32	44	-12	30
	13	East Grinstead Town	11	7	0	4	11	2	2	7	22	9	2	11	26	31	-5	29
	14	Lancing	13	7	2	4	12	1	3	8	25	8	5	12	34	44	-10	29
	15	Three Bridges	11	8	1	2	10	0	2	8	21	8	3	10	32	34	-2	27
	16	Haywards Heath Town	12	4	5	3	12	3	1	8	24	7	6	11	34	48	-14	27
	17	Burgess Hill Town	10	3	3	4	13	3	5	5	23	6	8	9	32	35	-3	26
	18	Sittingbourne	11	1	4	6	12	4	3	5	23	5	7	11	23	32	-9	22
	19	Corinthian	11	2	2	7	13	2	3	8	24	4	5	15	20	38	-18	17
	20	Faversham Town	12	2	1	9	13	1	3	9	25	3	4	18	24	59	-35	13