The Lancers travel to Deal Town on Saturday in our first competitive game of the season against last season’s Southern Counties East Champions. Newly promoted Deal Town won the league with 93 points last season, 9 points clear of second place Faversham, scoring 96 goals in the process in front of an average crowd of 623 and play at Step 4 for the first time in 61 years. With crowds in excess of 1000 on 3 separate occasions last season ‘The Hoops’ will be hoping to hit the magic 1000+ figure again on Saturday. Deal made a winning start to the season in the FA Cup last week by beating Roffey 4-0 in front of 567 people and face Haywards Heath in the next round.
If you are travelling to South East Kent then the important details are
Address: The Charles Ground, St Leonard’s Road, Deal, Kent, CT14 9AU.
Admission: Adults £10, Concessions £6, Under 18s-U15s £4 & U14s Free
Parking: Limited parking is available at the ground however please be mindful if not able to park within the ground be considerate around the surrounding roads being respectful to our neighbours
Train Station: The nearest train station is Deal which is approximately a 20 minute walk to the ground.
Ground entrance: Entrance to the group is on St Leonard’s Road.
Food and drink: There are two bars at the ground and food and drink is available
The Lancers will have new signing Lewis Lembikisa available, an agile attacker who has signed after joining up with the club in pre-season, making an immediate impression.
Lancing’s final couple of pre-season results have not been so good but boss Jamie Hollis said: “It’s an old cliche but pre-season is never about results, we’ve been very unfortunate with timings and haven’t fielded a full squad yet.
“Our performance v Hastings was promising, bar silly mistakes and the first 45 minutes at Dover was the same. Unfortunately the quality and depth of both opponents were better over the 90 and they picked up the wins – no complaints at all.”
“We’re excited for Deal away, we know it won’t be an easy place to go,” he said of the league opener. “They have good crowds that make a noise, they play a type of football that will cause teams problems this year and they’ve just been promoted so they’ll be up for it – but we’ll be looking to be us and showing what Lancing FC is about.”
There will be Twitter updates throughout the game.
A reminder that player and match sponsorship is available. Email Barrystgermain1@gmail.com for details
