It was a poor day for the Club yesterday with both teams losing.

Following two consecutive defeats, Manager Jamie Lawrence rang a few changes for yesterday’s trip to Aveley, starting with Jones Awuah and Scott Harris up front, and introducing Jo McNerney on loan from Woking at centre-half.  Jamie England and Brian Haule dropped to the bench, whilst Russell Canderton was ill.

The match started brightly for the visitors but with the swirling wind making things difficult, it was Aveley who took the lead.  Ashford were then incensed when what appeared to be a clear foul on Jermain McGlashan in the area was not punished with a penalty kick, followed immediately by the disallowing of a goal for offside, when some reckoned that the ball was actually played by a home defender, Scott Harris being the man to suffer.

Ashford did  equalise though early in the second half when a Paul Johnson corner eluded everyone and Jones Awuah was the quickest to re-act stabbing the ball home on his full debut.

One hoped that from that point, Ashford might go on to take all three points but the reverse happened as Aveley scored what  turned out to be the winner, with some fifteen minutes left.  A long ball caught the visitor’s defence out and as keeper Paul Burgess came racing out of his goal it was fairly clear that he would not make it and he found himself stranded as the ball was lobbed into the empty net from some distance.

Full report to come from Terry Ryan.

The Suburban  team  battled  hard  against an efficient Sutton United  side back at Short Lane but the visitors scored three times without reply for a deserved victory.