I see from the Kentish Football site that Corinthians FC has been voted into the Kent League premier division. Will our reserves still play at Gay Dawn, or will our reserves be Corinthian? What is going to happen?
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they were quite independent of the club really we will still train at corinthian and we will still run a reserve side in the suburban league called welling
Explains why we have set up a new reserve side. I'd heard rumblings that Corinthians were going to be put into the Kent Premier as they are so short of clubs, but never put two and two together!
remember welling got ben greenhaulg via corinthians youth
corinthians youth also produced Jake Hobbs via west ham and blackpool Adam Burchell at Dartford and Tom Parkinson (one of Jack Ps many talented brothers ) now playing for maidstone
Corinthians first team was also the spring board for Andy Hessantyler ?? and Jimmy Bullard
Interesting stuff, was that through thier youth teams? Will the Corinthians team now playing in the Kent League be made up from some of their youth players or will they keep some of those who played for welling reserves last year?
i believe the Kent League requires 16 teams of senior status to retain its pyramid level 5 status - thus following VCD promotion to Ryman, Croydons move to a lower but more local league - Combined ?? and then the sad recent demise of Slade Green leaving 15 teams.
This is why the FA were / are / have dicussed the possible link with the (weaker) Essex league to Form a Thames Gateway league of 22 teams.
Also was one of reasons for the possiblity of Guernsey (island) entering the Kent league and another reason why Sporting Bengal from North of the River Thames (the only part of Kent which was north of the river - North WOOLWICH WAS REMOVED FROM THE COUNTY OF KENT IN THE 1870's)
DUE TO THE STANDARD OF FOOTBALL IN KENT - MANY TEAMS HAVE MOVED UP THE PYRAMID SUCH AS VCD / THAMESMEAD / SITTINGBOURNE / RAMSGATE / WHITSTABLE / CRAY WANDERERS/ CHATHAM - IT CAN BE ARGUED WE AS A COUNTY, ARE TOO EFFICENT
WHILST TEAMS FOLLOWING THEIR PREVIOUS DEMISE HAVE USED THE KENT LEAGUE AS A STEPPING STONE BACK UP - MAIDSTONE, DARTFORD, FOLKESTONE INVICTA
WHILST WE HAVE LOSSED, DUE TO LACK OF FLOODLIGHTS (NORMALLY DUE TO PLANNING ISSUES AND NOT IN MY BACK YARD MENTALITY) ALMA SWANLEY, DARENTH HEATHSIDE, CROCKENHILL AND THAMES POLY. ALSO THE LOSS OF KENT POLICE, MET POLICE AREA 4 AND SNOWDEN COLLIERY
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