#COYD - Come on You Dockers

Newhaven 1 Seaford 3, SCFL Premier Division match #17, Saturday 22 nd November 2025 In a week that had seen two very different, but equally impressive Dockers performances, it was hoped that a home derby against Seaford Town would enable us to finish the week in style. The signs going into the game were positive. Newhaven had already hosted Seaford twice this season in cup competitions, winning both with a minimum of fuss. In fairness, since the second of these two victories, Seaford have had an upturn in results, and went into this match with three wins from their last four games to currently sit firmly in midtable. Yet Newhaven will have been fully confident of making it three wins from three yesterday afternoon. And after 15 minutes, it would have taken a brave person to bet against them doing so. The Dockers were already a goal to the good by this point and looking supremely comfortable, dominating possession and staving off Seaford’s counter attacks without too much of ...

Newhaven 5 Seaford Town 1, Sussex Senior Challenge Cup Round Two, Tuesday 7 th October 2025 Local derbies are hard enough. Local derbies when you’re coming off the back of a heavy defeat, while your opponents have plundered 10 goals in their last two games are harder still. Yet that was the challenge facing Newhaven last night as neighbours Seaford visited Fort Road in a cup competition for the second time this season. In the last meeting between the two sides back in early September, Newhaven breezed past ‘The Harriers’ 2-0 in the Peter Bentley Cup. Since that meeting, though, Seaford’s form has improved and they came into the game with four wins from seven games in all competitions. Indeed, this confidence was on show in the early stages last night as Seaford showed their willingness to go toe-to-toe with the Dockers. While Newhaven were certainly producing the tidier, more eye-catching football, it was the visitors who created the better chances; the best of the early one...