Can the Rams retain their one hundred percent record?

Ramsgate have played seven league matches this season, won them all, and averaged three goals a game- so they will be confident as they travel to take on bottom side Phoenix Sports this evening. Sports are yet to win a match, and indeed have lost nine of their ten, but have a much changed squad over the last week or so and will be determined to resemble a banana skin for their highly-fancied visitors. A win for the Rams will take them second- and although they start eight points behind leaders Beckenham Town they have six games in hand!

Fourth place Sittingbourne will be buoyant after their six goal thrashing of Hythe at the weekend, and, of course, with one defeat all season and looking to make it seven unbeaten in all competitions, the Brickies faithful will be positive as Herne Bay come to call. Bay, who have won three of their last four, will hope that their hosts are distracted by their FA Trophy tie with Dover Athletic at the weekend. Sittingbourne took six points from the encounters between the sides last season, and three more could take them as high as second if other results go their way. The visitors start the evening six points away from the top five- albeit with two games in hand. 

Fifth place Sheppey United have seen their one hundred percent start to the season come to a shuddering end, having taken only one point from their last three matches, but the Ites will hope to kickstart another winning run as Littlehampton Town come to call. The Golds are three unbeaten in League and County Cup, and conceded six points- and eight goals- to the Ites last season, and indeed have lost all four encounters against United since first reaching our level. 

It’s seventh v sixth as Erith Town welcome Margate. The Dockers, a point behind their visitors at kick off, have slipped a little with only one win from five, or five points from fifteen; whilst Gate have taken ten points from the same period and got back to winning ways at Sheppey on Saturday, a match which followed their first defeat of the season against Burgess Hill Town. A win for either side could see them in the top five if other results go their way. 

Ashford United seem to have finally found some form, winning their last two matches- both against Sussex sides, which they will hope is a good omen as a third Sussex side head their way tonight, Lancing the visitors to Homelands. The Nuts and Bolts have won six home matches so far this season, but all of those victories came in Cup competitions so they’ll be rather desperate for some home league points- although this is only their third home league match of the season! The Lancers have had a dreadful start to the campaign, with only one win so far, and their last five league matches have brought them only one point. They’ve played only three times away from Culver Road this season, a draw at Littlehampton at the start of the month bringing their only fairly positive result. Their last visit to Homelands, in December last year, brought a thrilling comeback, from three-one down at the break to a four-three win- they’d be delighted with a similar outcome tonight. 

AFC Croydon Athletic have put together a six match unbeaten run in League and Cup, although seem to have become something of draw specialists of late. The Rams, who start the evening in fourteenth place, are five points clear of their visitors this evening, Steyning Town down in nineteenth after losing their last four. 

In the Velocity Cup Second Round, Burgess Hill Town welcome Broadbridge Heath for a Sussex derby- 7.30 PM kick off. Hill are looking to extend their unbeaten run to six matches.