Pre Season Friendly, Tuesday July 5th
My latest pre season outing saw me over at The Len Salmon Stadium and saw a Harry Harding brace help Isthmian One South East Sittingbourne thump Isthmian Premier Bowers & Pitsea on a warm sunny evening in Essex.
The hosts were trying out plenty of players and had a squad of 22 for this friendly, and the first half squad did compete well with the Sittingbourne side although it was the visitors who probably edged it in terms of chances created, and five minutes before the break they managed to find the net when a lovely interchange down the right saw a ball fired across the box for Harding to sweep home across the keeper.
Bowers changed their entire XI for the second period and truth be told the youthful XI that played the second half were outplayed for the majority of the half by a much more experienced Bricks line up, five minutes into it came a cracking strike from Jason Banton, who cut onto his right foot before unleashing an unstoppable effort from just outside the box into the top corner, and then with just under twenty minutes remaining centre half Puemo bundled home a corner after the keeper had failed to claim it, although he was adamant he was fouled, but this fell on deaf ears.
And with five minutes left lovely work down the right saw a ball crossed into the six yard box where the dangerous Harding was lurking to beat everyone to the ball and nod superbly past thre keeper and complete a satisfactory evening's work for the Kent side, I spoke to a couple of their fans after the game and they said the club are putting quite a bit of money into it this term, so watch out for The Bricks!!!
It was a difficult night for the hosts but this is pre season and early pre season, so no point panicking just yet, plenty of time for new boss James Collins and co to shape a decent squad for the new season ahead in what is a new era for the club.
Full time Bowers & Pitsea 0 Sittingbourne 4
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