What a tremendous way to end the season! Overcoming a strong Wye team, who we had never a taken a point from since we moved up to 11-a-side; indeed a Wye team who have won the league and cup on numerous occasions over the years and were the one team who outplayed us in the first half of the season.

Wye started strongly and dominated the first 15 minutes, with neat passing and interplay keeping us in our our own third. The boys though started to defend more aggressively, getting tighter to their opposite men and not showing them so much respect, and we gradually built our way back into the game. Our wingbacks helped us progress up the pitch and Jamie was a danger up top. We took the lead when Ted's freekick found a way under the keeper (you've got to get them on target!). Then we scored a great second with some good interplay down the left causing problems in Wye's box and Ben's cutback from the right finding its way to Jack to finish with an excellent half volley (reminiscent of his finish a Rising Stars back in January).

Two nil at half time, we knew Wye would push more men forwards and look to regain control. However our Charing team never gave them a sniff in the second half, with our back three and Alex keeping their wall intact, again with good communication and aggressive defending. We have come on a lot over the season - whereas last autumn we would have sat back and invited the pressure onto us, we now know to keep taking the game to the opposition even when leading. We know we can trust the back line, which allows our wingbacks and box to box midfielders to push on and keep looking for more goals.

These arrived through another great move with Sam H timing his run to get in front of his man and score from another right sided cross. And then Ted to score his second free kick in the dying embers of the game. This time it was a challenger for goal of the season - seeing the keeper off his line and looping a perfectly placed kick over him from 35 yards. A great way to end the season!

The performance and result was a fitting end to what has been an excellent and rewarding season. Congratulations to the whole squad and a special mention for Matt and Raph, who played their last games for us. Matt could easily have followed his mates to Headcorn at the start of the season, but stuck with us and has added grit and game nous to our midfield, while Raph has played a core role in our journey to becoming a very competitive team over the last two seasons - in my view one of the very best defensive left backs in the league over that time.

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