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U21'S FACE THE DOCKERS AS WELL THIS SATURDAY.
Malcolm Boyes23 Oct 2014 - 07:54
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With the first team travelling to play the Dockers first team and their reserves visiting our U21's, we'll be able to wave to each other on route.
Home and away, never better than on a Saturday.
As Crowborough Athletic and Erith Town do battle on two fronts this Saturday, which club will go under and will get to have soap in the showers afterwards?
It doesn't often happen these days with the current structure of football and the introduction of academies and the like, but this Saturday will be like travelling back in time for those of us old enough to remember it was the 'norm' for two clubs to play each other on the same day.
The first team of one club would be at home, whilst the second string, in our case the U21's, would have the opposite fixture. To me this always made sense and could give you some comfort if one team lost and the other won.
However, if both of your teams lost then it was better if you kept quiet and talked about something other than football in the pub on a Saturday night.
The U21's are not doing badly when you consider they are mainly 18 and 19 year olds and are coming up against teams who have far more older and more experienced players within their ranks.
They have one, two or even three games on all the teams above them, except run-away leaders, East Grinstead Town, and it will give them the opportunity to gain some ground on a team above them if they can beat Erith Town Reserves on Saturday.
If you're not going to watch the first team then why not pop along to the Community Stadium and see the future of the club play. The kick off is at 3:00pm.
As Crowborough Athletic and Erith Town do battle on two fronts this Saturday, which club will go under and will get to have soap in the showers afterwards?
It doesn't often happen these days with the current structure of football and the introduction of academies and the like, but this Saturday will be like travelling back in time for those of us old enough to remember it was the 'norm' for two clubs to play each other on the same day.
The first team of one club would be at home, whilst the second string, in our case the U21's, would have the opposite fixture. To me this always made sense and could give you some comfort if one team lost and the other won.
However, if both of your teams lost then it was better if you kept quiet and talked about something other than football in the pub on a Saturday night.
The U21's are not doing badly when you consider they are mainly 18 and 19 year olds and are coming up against teams who have far more older and more experienced players within their ranks.
They have one, two or even three games on all the teams above them, except run-away leaders, East Grinstead Town, and it will give them the opportunity to gain some ground on a team above them if they can beat Erith Town Reserves on Saturday.
If you're not going to watch the first team then why not pop along to the Community Stadium and see the future of the club play. The kick off is at 3:00pm.
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