#COYD - Come on You Dockers

Horsham YMCA 0 Newhaven 3, SCFL Premier Division match #28 Newhaven travelled to Horsham YMCA on Saturday, to face a team who, much like us, have struggled to string a consistent run of results together this season. While we went into the match on the back of three straight defeats, following three consecutive victories, YM had lost their last two games, having won the two preceding that. This was the fourth time we’d faced YM this season – our third visit to Gorings Mead - and with one win apiece from these three matches, the other was a 3-3 draw, it was nigh-on impossible to predict which way this game would be likely to go. Well, right up until the match kicked off, that is. While to say the Dockers absolutely dominated proceedings from the outset may be slightly overstating things, it’s more than fair to say that it was a game that they never looked likely to lose. In what has been a season of ups and downs, this was as comfortable a 90-minutes as Newhaven supporters have...

Newhaven 2 Haywards Heath 4, SCFL Premier Division match #26 Newhaven finished their run of three consecutive matches against play-off hopefuls with a home match against Haywards Heath on Saturday. Having been somewhat unlucky in their loss to Crawley Down two weeks ago, before being comprehensively defeated against Crowborough last time out, the visit of many people’s pre-season title tips (by which of course I mean my own pre-season title tips) probably wasn’t high on our fledgling management duo’s agenda. However, after a barnstorming start to 2024/25, a mid-season management change did spark a collapse in form for Heath which has led them trailing leaders Hassocks significantly as we reach the business end of the season. Typical of the luck Newhaven have endured this campaign, though, Heath have been showing signs of slowly regaining their form in recent weeks, picking up a morale-boosting first win under their new manager just seven days earlier. Indeed, there was no sign ...

Crowborough Athletic 3 Newhaven 0, SCFL Premier Division match #26 Newhaven travelled to play-off chasing Crowborough Athletic on Saturday to take on one of the division’s form teams. Although the Crows had been defeated last time out at Eastbourne United, prior to that they hadn’t tasted defeat in any competition since the 12 th October. The Dockers, meanwhile, have been unable to find any real consistency this season; winning a few games here and there, before losing a few. And being consistently inconsistent doesn’t count. Looking to build on the previous week’s improved attacking display, Newhaven started this match on the front-foot. Inside the opening minute the visitors twice looked to have great opportunities to perhaps go ahead, only for players to choose to pass rather than shoot, allowing the Crows to eventually clear their lines. That was to be as good as got for the Dockers for quite while as Crowborough soon assumed superiority of the game. The Crows thought ...