Another defeat and 14th in the league.

First things first, I didn't go. I generally don't do many away games. Today we lost 2-0 at Godalming. To the unthinking eye, this seems a bad result, but Godalming are a much better side for the past two seasons than we'd previously met. But all the same its another defeat.

We're desperately short on firepower up front. Well, actually, we're not - we have plenty of forwards, but they just can't find the net. Brendon Cass is being touted in some quarters. I echo that. He's currently playing Kent League with Hythe Town. You suspect he's been brought in, and is being paid enough, to mount a serious promotion bid. On the face of it, his presence at Hythe is remarkable. He lives in Chatham, and drives there for games? Odd...

Elsewhere in the division, some sort of record probably at Horsham YMCA - beaten at home by table topping Leatherhead 11-0. Yes 11 (ELEVEN), as the old school BBC vidiprinter would say. Today Leatherhead scored more goals in one game than we've scored all season. Prior to this, they'd scored twice as many as us. That's title challenge material. We're not.

I have faith in Foley to turn this round. We have no other option! Today though he was again sent to the stands from the dugout. Now, in reality this makes little impact on a gaffer's ability to bellow instructions at this level, but its telling about the growing lack of discipline we're starting to see. I haven't seen an ill-discipline table, but I'd hazard a guess we're up there. The ifs, whys and why nots of the incident are not yet in the public domain, but if it is for some sort of dissent (which realistically is the most likely cause), PF should know that the standard of refereeing at this level is and always will be poor. The good ones quickly rise through the ranks, and there are now even more poor refs due to the lack of people willing to take control of games down to park football level. And the main reason for refs hanging up the whistle and little black book? Abuse.

We've got a tricky pointless cup tie at wounded Concord Rangers on Tuesday night (I say wounded because they were beaten by the aforemention Hythe Town in the FA Cup today), before a re-arranged league encounter against les formidables, Sittingbourne. We never beat Sittingbourne. Ever. Its time we did. And it would be timely for Paul Foley if he can pull that one off.

Away from TOSC, Hythe Town's cup victory today leaves them one game away from a possible money spinning FA Cup tie in the first round proper. I'd love to see Cassie net for them at a professional club, on ITV1, in a few weeks. And then come back to us...