Draw Round Up

Rod has summed up our luck for this years cup competitions. Look on the bright side, get past the opening rounds we can go all the way!

Surrey Senior - Away to Cobham. Winners Away to Croydon or Woking. Winners of that one Away to AFC Wimbledon / Tooting & Mitcham / Dulwich Hamlet / Camberley

FA Cup - Away to Ashford. Winners Away to Hassocks / Shoreham / Kingstonian

FA Trophy - Home to Sittingbourne. Winners Away to Horsham.

Millwall Are Coming

A Millwall XI are coming to the Grove on Friday 08 August. This is a hastily arranged friendly after they were let down but will be a repeat of a fixture we have held many times in the past.

This could be a chance for Wardy, an keen Arsenal fan, to come to the ground and punch me on the nose. I just hope the visiting fans don't get in the way when they hear how he likes wearing West Ham shirts...

FA CUP DRAW

Ahhh crappers!

114 30 Aug 2008 Ashford Town v Leatherhead

We are away to old league foes Ashford Town. Coach trip anyone?

All At Sea

I have come in to work and found that my version of explorer is not viewing the site correctly. Therefore if you are experiencing the same problem and would like to navigate to the messageboard the links have now drifted to the bottom of the page.

I have my suspicions on what caused this. I will sort it out tonight.

Ex-Tanner Watch
From the Surrey Herald

STAINES TOWN manager Steve Cordery is challenging Marc Charles-Smith to step out of the shadows of his former strike partner Mark Nwokeji.

Cordery believes Charles-Smith, who became Swans' most expensive signing last September when he was signed from Leatherhead, can follow in Nwokeji's golden bootsteps next season.
The boss's challenge comes after Nwokeji and Adrian Toppin, two of the major stars in Swans history-making season, were lured away from Wheatsheaf Park last week.

Goal-ace Nwokeji has jumped two flights to join League Two Dagenham & Redbridge, while outstanding midfield enforcer Toppin has moved to Conference South side Bromley.

He said: "Marc is a very talented forward but with Nokkers in such hot scoring form he had to play second fiddle for much of the campaign and even appeared in midfield."

"Now is his chance to step up to the plate and see if he can become number one. We have all of the pre-season to work with him and with Richard Butler alongside him I believe we can have a potent strike force. "At the same time I will be making a new striker a top priority signing."

Although Nwokeji was out of contract, Dagenham will still make a small donation for the pacy striker and have agreed to play a friendly at Wheatsheaf Park next summer. Cordery added: "It was clear to anyone during the season that Nokkers was certain to be the target for bigger clubs.

"It's heartening to see someone we have developed breaking into the league."

Work Party... Today!

I have only just seen this on the Board but if you have woken up and need some fresh air to blast away the cobwebs then get yourself to the Grove. Now!

It is the annual soil shift and they will be there for the next couple of hours.

Sorry to Dave for posting this so late!

Spring Cleaning

The archive section has been growing over the last four years so I have decided to have a bit of a cull. Some six hundred posts are still here but I want to get that down to about half. If you want to reminisce about a simpler time then get your fix soon before it goes.

Other changes to the Lip will be happening over the next couple of months...