Godalming Town 3- 0 Chatham Town

Oh dear, oh dear... The new season appears to have got off to a bad start yesterday. I wasn't able to attend (in fact, I won't be going to most away games this season), and there's no match report on either the official site, the forum or the Godalming site or forum, so I can only imagine that we had our keeper sent off and put someone else in goal...

Joking aside, in fairness Godalming are a much improved side from the one which we relegated a few years ago (when Shane Ill Disciplino Suter laughed at a bloke with a broken leg and told him to get up and stop faking it!), but the very scoreline 3-0 strikes dread and anti climax into the heart. AOB is quoted with the Holloway line "bouncebackability" on http://wwwkentishfootball.co.uk// We'll need it for the visit of Burgess Hill on Tuesday night for our opening home fixture of the season, but I'm sure AOB can get it out of the team. He talks of getting into people's eyelids(!) and I think he means it.

Hopefully, yesterday was a blip - and my prediction that we had not tested our defence enough in pre-season is wrong. That said, Godalming finished ninth last year, but bagged 71 goals in the process - more than anyone else outside the play off spots. I'm also worrying that the Chats starting pre-season two weeks later than everyone else for the second season in a row isn't part of the problem. We do look more settled this year (last year Binks didn't pick the same starting eleven two games in a row for months), but maybe our fitness is an issue?

Anyway, roll on two games at the Theatre of Slapstick Comedy in a row, Burgess Hill as mentioned, and then Horsham YMCA next Saturday 22nd. For those of you with sharp memories, you'll recall that YMCA were on the receiving end of Steve Hafner's halfway line effort in our last home game in the R1S - YMCA were relegated that year, but have bounced straight back, having by the miracles of the football pyramid been promoted last year despite not coming either first or second in the Sussex County League. They finished third...