Leigh Ramblers v Kelvedon Hatch - 5/11/2022 - Matchday eProgramme

Season 2022/23

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MATCHDAY PROGRAMME LEIGH RAMBLERS v KELVEDON HATCH K.O. 14:00 SATURDAY 5 NOVEMBER 2022 PROKIT UK ESSEX OLYMPIAN FOOTBALL LEAGUE PREMIER DIVISION

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Contents

4 - Welcome to Belfairs

11 - Last time out...

Match Report from our Senior League Cup Victory over ACD United

5 - Today's Opposition

12 - Last week's other results

Learn about Kelvedon Hatch

How did all the teams fare last week

6 - Form Guide

13 - Race for the Golden Boot

Latest results for each side

Who is currently topping the list?

8 - League Tables

15 - Team Sheet

The current standings for all our adult men's teams

Squad lists for each team

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Welcome

Good afternoon and welcome back to Belfairs Park, where our 1st Team returns to League action after their 1-0 victory over ACD United in the Senior League Cup last week. There were lots of positives from last week's game that can be carried forward into this week.

We welcome our visitors from Kelvedon Hatch and we will, as always, be expecting a very tough encounter.

Fresh from a 3-1 victory over Rayleigh Town, and combined with their good recent record against the Rams, they will be full of confidence today.

After a week off, our Reserves are back in action against Galleywood Reserves today. Having seen their 100% record fall against Shenfield Reserves last time out, they will be looking to get back on track with a result today and taking full advantage of their games in hand. They will also be looking to make amends for last season's loss against Galleywood in the Reserve League Cup - a loss on penalties that the Rams really felt they could have avoided were it not for some wasteful finishing in normal time.

The A Team welcome the Mid-Essex League's Rayleigh Town B to Belfairs Park in Round 2 of the Essex Junior Trophy. They'll be looking to get back on track following their loss to Catholic United A in the league last week.

With the opposition having been double-booked, it's a week off for the Veterans, whilst the Sunday team finally have a home game, taking on Corinthians Reserves tomorrow.

As always, we wish the best of luck to all our many youth and ladies teams playing tomorrow as well.

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UPCOMING FIXTURES @ BELFAIRS PARK Saturday 12 November 2022 Leigh Ramblers v Dedham Old Boys @ 13:30 (Essex Premier Cup) Leigh Ramblers Vets v Stoke by Nayland @ 14:00 Saturday 19 November 2022 Leigh Ramblers v Galleywood @ 14:00 Leigh Ramblers A v Santos @ 14:00 Saturday 26 November 2022 Leigh Ramblers Veterans v Valley Green @ 14:00

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Today's Opposition

KELVEDON HATCH In 1920 Kelvedon Hatch Football Club was formed to enable the local boys, of what was then a very small Essex village, to play organised football. The Club continued up to the war years when, like so many other clubs it was temporarily disbanded until it was re-formed in 1946.

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Chairman: David Hughes Secretary: Jason Lee Manager: Darren Hunt Home Ground: New Hall, School Road, Kelvedon Hatch. CM15 0DL

Kelvedon Hatch FC played, for many years, in local football leagues until the mid 1970s when, in an endeavour to improve the standard it applied to join the Greene King South Essex League. The Club was admitted to the League where it continued to play for many years.

In order to progress, the Club applied for membership to the Essex Olympian League which, at that time, required any club participating in the league to also have a reserve team. A reserve team was formed and the Club was admitted into the Essex Olympian League as a member in 1985.

The first few years in the league were spent adjusting to the higher grade of football with the Club setting about the task of recruiting better players to assist with the progression of the Club.

This proved a successful strategy in that in the late 1980s and the 1990s the Club achieved outstanding success on the field of play, winning on more than a number of occasions, the Essex County Cup, the Essex Olympian League, the Essex Olympian League Cup and the Ongar Charity Cup, During this time, some of the management and many players achieved honours of being selected for the Essex County Representative Team and the Essex Olympian League Representative Team.

The Club ceased to run a reserve team in 2017.

EOFL Winners

EOFL League Cup Winners

Essex County Premier Cup Winners

1989/90, 1993,94, 1995/96, 1996/97, 2010/11, 2015/16

1992/93, 2006/07, 2007/08, 2014/15, 2015/16

1993/94, 1997/98, 1998/99, 2014/15

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D2

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Hatch have the better record between the sides, since Rams joined them in the Premier Division in 2016/17

Essex County Junior Cup Winners 2010/11

LEADING GOALSCORER 2022/23

LAST MEETING

Drew Klessa-Smith Goals: 3

Leigh Ramblers 1 - 2 Kelvedon Hatch 19/02/2022

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Form Guide

RAMS Form (Last 5) - WLWWD

KELVEDON HATCH Form (Last 5) - WLLWW

29/10/2022 - SLC Round 2 1-0 ACD United (H)

29/10/2022 - EOFL Prem 3-1 Rayleigh Town (H)

22/10/2022 - EOFL Prem 6-1 Hutton (A)

22/10/2022 - EOFL Prem 5-0 Canning Town (A)

08/10/2022 - EPC 1-3 Wakering Sports (A)

15/10/2022 - EOFL Prem 2-1 Sungate (A)

01/10/2022 - EOFL Prem 1-0 Bishop's Stortford Swifts (H)

08/10/2022 - EPC H-W Redbridge Reserves (H)

24/09/2022 - EOFL Prem 1-1 Toby (H)

01/10/2022 - EOFL Prem 2-0 Old Southendian (H)

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Last time out...

LEIGH RAMBLERS 1 - 0 ACD UNITED Saturday 29 October 2022 EOFL Premier Division Report by Paul Cannon

Ramblers went into this cup tie keen to eradicate the memory of last weeks visit to Premier League pacesetters Hutton. They went into this game able to welcome back a few faces that had been missing from the previous week as well as having home advantage. They knew however that this would be a difficult fixture as the visitors ACD United have enjoyed an extremely good run up the leagues as well as having had good cup runs in the past that saw them despatch Rayleigh Town as well as only going out to Hutton on penalties last year.

The rams lined up as follows: D. Skinner, P. Cannon, B. Waiwaiku, R. Lowe (Capt), J. Skinner, S. Keys, J. Gardner, O. Hunter, G. Moxon, A. Webster, J. Hazell Subs: J. Lang, C. Batchelor, C. Jarvis Rams kicked off in bright sunshine in what was a lovely day for football, both playing and watching and from the start the home side looked comfortable in possession, forcing a throw down by the visitors penalty area where Hunter was able to launch a good throw into the box which the visitors cleared to safety. The visitors however possessed a long throw specialist themselves in the shape of Jamie Rivers, known to the Rams as he was a former player and he was the focus of the visitors first foray towards the Rams goal, similarly though the Rams dealt comfortably with the threat.

On 8 mins the Rams launched their first real attack on the visitors, playing out from the back. Lowe found Skinner who in turn hit a good diagonal ball forward to Webster who then played the ball wide to Cannon, he made ground before playing the ball into the area behind the defence where Hunter had started a run, however he thought the ball was going into Webster and therefore checked his run a little and the ball was able to be cleared by a defender.

On fifteen minutes the Rams came close to breaking the deadlock, Barv Waiwaiku found Webster with a good pass and he controlled the ball before slightly dragging his shot which enabled the keeper to turn the ball around the post for a corner.

Rams dominated possession against a hard-working ACD side but all too often it was in the final third that it broke down for the Rams. The visitors were then extremely lucky not to find themselves behind, when one of their defenders under pressure tried to play the ball back to his goalkeeper but he hadn’t looked up to see the goalkeeper rushing out from his line so his lobbed pass suddenly went over the keeper took a firm bounce and then incredibly came back off the crossbar. It was the Rams' Jack Gardner that was first to react and although he was well shepherded by a defender he still manager to play the ball into the path of Scott Keys, however his effort although on target, was comfortably saved by the keeper.

ACD then on a rare attack won themselves a corner but as Rams cleared easily they quickly turned defence into attack and Webster won a header before playing a great ball down the line for Hazell, he cut inside and then picked out George Moxon who had made good ground and found himself in acres of space, with the goal at his mercy he unfortunately lost his footing just as he received the ball and although he managed to regain possession it gave the covering defender time to recover and suddenly the chance was gone.

Moxon though came close again just moments later after the Rams had won a corner down the left hand side, the ball was delivered deep and found its way to Moxon at the far side of the six yard box, he controlled the ball on his chest before hitting a well struck volley that was blocked on the line before being cleared.

The Rams back line was very good and when ACD did attack, they invariably found themselves offside.

With the deadlock still not broken both teams went into the break level although it was the Rams that would have been the happier of the two sides.

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The second half began largely as the first half had ended, Rams having by the far the greater amount of possession but similarly struggling to find that cutting edge when getting to the final third. The first real chance of the half came 14 minutes after the break and it actually came from the visitors, for the first and only time the ACD striker beat the offside trap and he raced clear onto a ball over the top, but as the Rams keeper came out his presence was enough for the striker to drag his shot wide of goal. This foray forward gave the visitors a boost and two minutes later their winger managed to get the better of Waiwaiku in the Rams penalty area, he raced along the baseline before pulling the ball back across the six yard box, however it eluded everybody and the Rams were able to clear the danger. This was probably the wake-up call that the home side needed as they both upped the tempo as well as took a greater care over the ball. The additional pressure then forced a sloppy back pass from the visitors and in a flash Rams striker Justin Hazell was onto the opportunity as he raced clear with just the keeper to beat. As the keeper came out Hazell slipped the ball past him but agonisingly it also went wide of the upright to the visitors delight.

Worse for the Rams was that Hazell pulled up seconds later with a hamstring injury that looks to keep him sidelined for several weeks.

ACD then went straight up the other end and keeper Skinner had to race from his goal and clear with a flying header outside the box, his header however went straight to one of the visitors and with the keeper on the ground he saw his opportunity for a first time effort towards the temporarily unguarded goal but his shot curled wide of the Rams goal.

With 15 minutes to go Rams made a series of changes, on came Batchelor, Lang and Jarvis and the fresh legs raised the tempo for the Rams once again whilst also giving them some natural width. Rams started to stretch the visitors further and again enjoyed more and more possession as they strived to breach the deadlock. After another good passage of play the ball fell to defender Pat Cannon who had found himself in a forward position and whilst his shot into a crowded box failed to trouble the keeper, it did win the Rams a corner. Jack Gardner hit a great delivery and it was Andrew Webster that rose higher than all others to score with a powerful header which flew in above the keeper and just under the bar.

Rams could have added further, Batchelor raced clear and his shot was firstly saved and then his cross just eluded the supporting Rams players.

Cameron Jarvis then did incredibly well receiving the ball in his own half before racing down the wing and delivering a great ball across the face of the goal that was met by Batchelor sliding in who saw his effort smash into the side netting.

Moments later and the referee brought an end to proceedings. Rams were worth their win today but a lot of credit must go to the visitors who worked tirelessly throughout and without doubt it will not be long before they too are in the Premier Division.

Man of the match: I am going to give this to the defence and goalkeeper as a unit award as they limited the visitors to very few chances and a clean sheet after last weeks performance showed great character.

Last week's other results Essex Veterans League Division 4 East

Reserves

Vets

No Fixture

3-2

Fobs Peverel

O.G. S. Shepherd J. Hay

Southend Borough & District Football Combination League Division 1 Catholic United

3-2

A Team

Sceptre Sunday League Division Two Hawkwell Athletic

3-1

J. O'Connor K. Baker

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Sunday J. Gosling

This weekend's other matches

RESERVES

VETS

Galleywood (A)

No Fixture

EOFL Division 4 14:00 @ Clarks Field, CM2 8RW

SUNDAY

A TEAM

Rayleigh Town B (H)

Corinthians Reserves (H)

Essex Junior Trophy - Round 2 13:30 @ Belfairs Park SS9 4LR

Sceptre - Division 2 10:30 @ Westcliff High School SS0 0BS

GOLDEN BOOT The race for the Club's Golden Boot 2022/23

NAME

TEAM

Connor Darnell Jack Gosling Jack O'Connor Owen Rickell Scott Clarke Jacob Meads Raman Negi Chris Haworth Andrew Webster

Sunday Sunday A Team A Team 1st Reserves Sunday Vets 1st

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GOALS 6 6 6 4 4 4 4 4 4

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TEAMS

LEIGH RAMBLERS

KELVEDON HATCH

SHIRTS: BLUE/BLACK, SHORTS: BLACK, SOCKS: BLACK

SHIRTS: RED, SHORTS: RED, SOCKS: RED

EXACT MATCHDAY SQUAD & SHIRT NOS. TBC

EXACT MATCHDAY SQUAD & SHIRT NOS. TBC

1. ANDREW WEBSTER 2. PATRICK CANNON 3. BARV WAIWAIKU 4. RYAN LOWE 5. SCOTT KEYS 6. OLE HUNTER 7. GEORGE MOXON 8. SCOTT CLARKE 9. BILLY FIELD 10. MATT BRINKLOW 11. CALLUM MORRIS 12. SAM NAGLE 13. HARRY DACOSTA 14. BILLY JOHNSON

Manager: Mark Hunter

1. HARRY AGOMBAR 2. JOSEPH NEWSON 3. SIDDY CLARKSON 4. JAMES ALBOROUGH 5. THOMAS MANN 6. MASON ILEY 7. WAYNE SEMANSHIA 8. CHRISTOPHER DENHAM 9. DREW KLESSA-SMITH 10. CHARLIE NICHOLS 11. LEWIS YOUNG 12. JOE CULL 13. JAMES BURT 14. JAMES NOTTAGE 15. DANIEL TAPPER 16. JAMIE PRICE 17. BILLY REED 18. JOHN WARNE

Manager: Darren Hunt

Referee: Frank Holland Assistant Referees: Billy Stevens & David Bloxham