The Final game of September saw us travel to Falmer to face Old Varndeanians where we were given a lesson in football - they ran out 5-0 victors.

In addition to still being without Ambrose and Harrison we were also missing Felstein and White (injured the previous week after suffering internal bleeding and bruised ribs), but we were able to welcome back Pedley and Bonella. Thankfully we had signed a new goalkeeper a week earlier and with White injured Matt Clift came straight in for his debut. As seems usual, so far this season, we were again slow starters in this match and we were well and truly punished. Varndeanians were two yards quicker with their passing and movement and within 10 minutes they were 2-0 in front. We then managed to stem the flow; we even created a few half chances for ourselves and reached halftime only 2-0 down. The second half saw us play a little more football as we went in search of a way back into the game. After twenty minutes we had come close to halving the deficit after creating a couple of good chances. However as we continued to push for goal we left ourselves vulnerable at the back, especially as, having used the only sub, Tim Burchett was struggling with a hamstring injury. Old Varndeanians soon took advantage of the spaces and added three more goals without reply before the final whistle.

The only positive to come from this game was the performance of debutant Clift who stopped the score line getting into double figures!

  

1	Matt Clift
2	Martin Verrall
3	James Bonella
4	Tim Burchett (C)
5	Dale Mayhew
6	Kevin McDougall
7	Brian Gow
8	Lee Stevens
9	Martin Penfold
10	Phil Pedley
11	Dale McIvor
12	Karl Harrison
14	Ricky Parrish