Rams and Greens warm up their home faithful

It seems that if we’re not disappearing under a deluge we’re frozen solid, but our latest battle with the elements left us with matches in Pitching In Isthmian South East and North- and delivered two home wins.

Ramsgate, following Saturday’s defeat at Lancing, had seen their lead at the top of Pitching In Isthmian South East cut to (and the word ‘just’ is doing a lot of heavy lifting here) just eight points. They welcomed East Grinstead Town to the Kent seaside, and the Wasps had a long trip home after a rather heavy defeat.

The Rams went ahead on twelve minutes, Craig Stone up from the back to score his second of the season. Less than ten minutes later one of the three Paxman’s on the field, Alfie, wins the ball outside the box and within a moment it’s in the back of the visitors net- his eighth of the campaign- and that’s how it remained at the break. It took until twenty minutes from time for the third goal to arrive, and again it went to the Rams, TJ Jadama set up by Lee Martin to make it three-nil. Three minutes from time Joe Taylor got his customary goal- he had also had one disallowed for offside earlier in the game- the Rams number nine scoring goal number thirty three of his season- and right at the end substitute Medy Elito added a fifth. That, finally was that, as the Rams maintained a one hundred percent home record with a tenth win out of ten, and overtook Three Bridges at the top of the South East scoring table- fifty seven goals in nineteen matches, an average of three per game.

At another seaside many miles away, Gorleston were looking to extend their unbeaten run to five matches as they welcomed Redbridge to Great Yarmouth (pictured, Stuart Fuller) in Pitching In Isthmian North. This was the visitors first match since December 16th, so hard have they been hit by postponements, and only their fourteenth of the season, so the second half of the campaign will be doing some rather heavy lifting.

The match had only one goal, and it went to the Greens. Lewis Johnson, up from the back, scored his first goal of the season- and it was enough to see his side climb to eleventh.

Redbridge have now lost five of their last six.

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