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Bouncebackability on full display

Crawley Down Gatwick 1 Newhaven 2, Peter Bentley Cup Round Three, Tuesday 30 th September 2025 It’s probably fair to say that Saturday’s trip to Guernsey didn’t go quite as well as hoped. Either on pitch or off. However, as I wasn’t there to witness proceedings, to my mind it never happened so we’ll just conveniently gloss over those events and move on. As mentioned in a report a couple of week’s ago, the true test for this young Dockers team is how quickly they can recover from setbacks. To coin a phrase first used by the Northern Irish Adonis Iain Dowie some years ago, ‘bouncebackability’ is the key. Last night’s trip to Crawley Down Gatwick in the Peter Bentley Cup gave the boys a chance to wipe what happened in the Channel Islands from their collective memories and move on with their season. Having already been to The Haven once this season, playing out a 2-2 draw in a proverbial game of two halves back in mid-August, hopes were high that we could get back to winning ways ...