Here is my review of the season, my first in charge of Bromley Green. D Smith.
Playing record
Kent County Premier League Played 28 Won 5 Drew 4 Lost 19 Points 19
14th position 2nd to bottom and relegated.
Inter regional cup 2nd round
Intermediate shield Quarter final
Weald of Kent semi-final.
A long season of many ups and downs, which saw us relegated from the premier league, but we are still hoping as happened last year, the league changes the number of teams in the premier and we manage to keep our place. If not then we have to get on with planning an immediate return, its not about rebuilding its about improving the quality and raising performances to get us to the level this club expects. If we do this we will again be a real force to be reckoned with.
The season started back in August, we got of to a good start, drawing with Stansfield and then beating Bly Spartens, a narrow 1-0 defeat to Phoenix ,was followed by a 8-1 at Cray, we bounced back from that by beating Sheerness, a 2-1 defeat at Orpington, where we produced one of the best performances of the season, was followed by victory at Milton a narrow defeat at Rusthall and a draw against Snodland.
We had competed well in the first part of the season, but now with the pitches getting heavy the team started to struggle, more defeats followed including a 8-1 mauling at Fleet. The cups now kicked in and we again produced some good performances, albeit against sides from lower divisions. The weather now became a factor, with a very wet start to the new year with many games called off, we had a period of 9 weeks without a league game, with a couple of cup games in between. We were out of 2 cups and had a back log of league games to get through, a draw with lowly Milton was our only point gained going into March. A semi final defeat to Kennington in the Weald of Kent was a real low and with the sides around us starting to pick up the alarm bells were well and truly ringing.
Our next points came against Lewisham in April, with 4 out of 6 from 2 games in 5 days, but again the sides near to us picked up points as well. Then defeat against bottom placed Sheerness 3-0 was another huge blow. This left us 3 to play, another narrow defeat to Cray and a win against a weak Rusthall side saw us go into our last game needing a point to secure our league status, this eluded us and with Snodland winning saw us finish second from bottom.
Over the whole season i cannot question the commitment of all the players i used, it was easy to get a squad together each week and training from the first team squad was generally well attended. Our main down fall was in tight games we always seemed to able to gift the opposition a goal and then were punished when we had to chase the game.
My squad consisted of many players 19 or under, these players if they stick together will all become good county league players and bring this club the success it craves. We do need to add experience to the squad, as this will help us be more consistent and keep us organised. If we do go down our aim will be to win promotion and come back to the premier with a side that can really compete and challenge.
My thanks go to all the committee at the club for all there hard work to back the side up and a special thanks to all the people who came and supported us especially on our many long away trips,this was much appreciated by the players and myself.
My last thank you goes to my wife Max, who prepared the food for all games this season as well as being the one who takes the brunt of the crap when the dust has settled after the weekends results and without her support my role would be even harder.
