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Erith & Belvedere / Kent League Title Race
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No clashes with games at The Valley so thought I'd post this now. Anyone wanting to catch some crucial end of season non league action...
The Kent League title looks like it will go down to the wire, between Erith & Belvedere and Crayford-based VCD Athletic. VCD are the form team of the two and have the marginally easier run-in, the Deres have wobbled in recent weeks but bounced back to win their last two.
Each with 4 games left, the 'Deres' are 2 points ahead with a superior goal difference. Deres remaining games are at home to FA Vase finalists Tunbridge Wells tonight (at Park View Road, we share with Welling united), Whytleleafe away on Thursday, Lordswood away on Saturday and Greenwich Borough at home next Tuesday. On the same days VCD are away to Fisher (who share with Dulwich), away to Beckenham Town, home to Corinthian and away to Lordswood.
The winner of the Kent League secures promotion to the Ryman League. 2nd place might be good enough due to Ryman League restructuring at the end of this season, but nothing is guaranteed.
The Kent League title looks like it will go down to the wire, between Erith & Belvedere and Crayford-based VCD Athletic. VCD are the form team of the two and have the marginally easier run-in, the Deres have wobbled in recent weeks but bounced back to win their last two.
Each with 4 games left, the 'Deres' are 2 points ahead with a superior goal difference. Deres remaining games are at home to FA Vase finalists Tunbridge Wells tonight (at Park View Road, we share with Welling united), Whytleleafe away on Thursday, Lordswood away on Saturday and Greenwich Borough at home next Tuesday. On the same days VCD are away to Fisher (who share with Dulwich), away to Beckenham Town, home to Corinthian and away to Lordswood.
The winner of the Kent League secures promotion to the Ryman League. 2nd place might be good enough due to Ryman League restructuring at the end of this season, but nothing is guaranteed.
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nothing to do with the thread but I've just worked out your username...one of those random things I'd previously wondered about!0
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Come on Vickers !0
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I've also wondered about this, and still can't work it out...Elthamaddick said:nothing to do with the thread but I've just worked out your username...one of those random things I'd previously wondered about!
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i think his name got its own thread previously.0
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AidenTheAddick said:
I've also wondered about this, and still can't work it out...Elthamaddick said:nothing to do with the thread but I've just worked out your username...one of those random things I'd previously wondered about!
The train stops on the Woolwich/Greenwich line from Erith to Charlton
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What about Slade Green?0
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Doesn't that come before Erith?
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Good luck to both sides. Win win either way for North West Kent football0
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Thanks! Sorry for detracting further attention away from the original thread, it was just bugging me.shirty5 said:AidenTheAddick said:
I've also wondered about this, and still can't work it out...Elthamaddick said:nothing to do with the thread but I've just worked out your username...one of those random things I'd previously wondered about!
The train stops on the Woolwich/Greenwich line from Erith to Charlton0 -
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ffs only charlton fans could turn a thread about football into trains0
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Oi! ;-)AFKABartram said:Come on Vickers !
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Does my old club Danson Furness still exist anyone know?0
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I wondered how long it would be until someone blamed the fans.ValleyGary said:ffs only charlton fans could turn a thread about football into trains
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No they dont. They moved from behind Crook Log to Swanley under the name Swanley Furness, and now play under Oprington in the Kent Invicta League.charente addick said:Does my old club Danson Furness still exist anyone know?
Bexley Borough play behind Crook Log now.
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Cheers for that - I've lost track of them over the years - quite sad that Danson's gone by the by.0
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When you say old club Charante, did you used to play for them ? If so, what years ?0
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Yes, 78-80 in the old London Spartan League then joined Thames Poly. Did you turn out for them at some time?AFKABartram said:When you say old club Charante, did you used to play for them ? If so, what years ?
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Full time: Erith & Belvedere 2 Tunbridge Wells 0 and Fisher 0 VCD 5.
Deres still lead by 2 points with a goal difference of +57, VCD +56.
Three games each remaining.0 -
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The next round of games is tonight. A tough one for the Deres away to Whyteleafe, who are chasing 3rd place. VCD away to mid table Beckenham Town.0
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There's the real possibility of both VCD and E&B going up.0
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This is true, and without knowing it, both teams may already have done enough to be promoted! However, first place guarantees it - neither club wants to take the chance that their points per game record will secure one of the best-runners up places from the leagues that feed up to the Ryman.Spankie said:There's the real possibility of both VCD and E&B going up.
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When were you playing for Thames Poly?charente addick said:
Yes, 78-80 in the old London Spartan League then joined Thames Poly. Did you turn out for them at some time?AFKABartram said:When you say old club Charante, did you used to play for them ? If so, what years ?
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The Kent League would be even worse next year then...not sure they can afford losing two teams can they?Spankie said:There's the real possibility of both VCD and E&B going up.
Phoenix luckily got their ground done in time to be promoted into it but only Ashford have the facilities in the Invicta league to go up as well id imagine.0 -
Indeed, Phoenix have put in a lot of work on and off the pitch, I'd expect them to be up there next season.ValleyGary said:
The Kent League would be even worse next year then...not sure they can afford losing two teams can they?Spankie said:There's the real possibility of both VCD and E&B going up.
Phoenix luckily got their ground done in time to be promoted into it but only Ashford have the facilities in the Invicta league to go up as well id imagine.
+ Rochester may not get the required ground grading for next season, so could be demoted.
+ Greenwich Boro are on the move again, so they may or may not get the required ground grading for next season.
A problem the Kent League has had in recent years is that clubs who have gone up - e.g. Maidstone, Herne Bay, Whitstable, Faversham, Hythe, Thamesmead - haven't been replaced with many other Kent teams being relegated back into the Kent League. The only recent relegations into the Kent League have been the Deres (2005), VCD (demoted due to ground regs in 2011) and Whyteleaf last year.0 -
How are Whyteleafe in the Kent league?
Lots of different teams in there since I played back in the late 80's (Winstonlead I think it was called then). Big teams then were Alma Swanley all the Coastal teams, including Sheppey United and Sittingbourne. Dere's were always a Southern League side.0 -
Whytleleafe are in the Kent League mainly to make up the numbers, the Combined Counties would be the league you'd expect them in. There's also been Croydon and Sporting Bengal (play at Mile End) in there in the KL in recent years.
Sittingbourne - another team that's gone up and stayed up. Ramsgate were in there too. Slade Green also folded 4 years ago - another team gone.
The Deres dropped out the Southern League in 2005 - an ineligible player secured a points deduction and relegation.0 -
Good old Sporting Bengal, the whipping boys of the Kent League when Maidstone were there. Where are they now? Does VCD still have Ford as the manager? He was a horrid little man! Also Fisher are the dirtiest team I can recall seeing for many years. Good, I love non league football.0
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haha no Martin Ford left VCD a few years ago now.cafckev said:Good old Sporting Bengal, the whipping boys of the Kent League when Maidstone were there. Where are they now? Does VCD still have Ford as the manager? He was a horrid little man! Also Fisher are the dirtiest team I can recall seeing for many years. Good, I love non league football.
His son Joe is manager of Cray Valley. Think he's only about 23.0
