Halstead Town FC round-up
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Another season has come to a close, while although no silverware will sit on the top table at the annual dinner, all in all, the season had been one of considerable advancement.
One victory more would have meant promotion to Ridgeons premier division, ironically as wins were gained over all the top three who have stepped up. Then came the heartsearching penalty shootout loss against Ely in the divisional KO Cup at Mildenhall, while cup exits came in two semi finals with a penalty shoot-out against Bishops Stortford early in the season in the Uttlesford Charity Cup then the odd goal defeat recently at Leiston in the East Anglian Cup.
On the playing side Halstead played 52 W26 D11 L15 F100 A66, thus another half a dozen goals would have meant a comfortable promotion. Some 31 players turned out but none was ever present: Luke Passfield missed only three, keeper Paul Rutherford and Lou Harper both appeared 46 times, but manager Jody Brown and OZ, the local scribe, were ever present.
Leading the scorers was Chris Bryan with 30, followed by Steve Daly 20 and third was Paul Abrahams on 14, despite two long injury spells.
Full list(goals/appearances): Paul Abrahams 14/32, Tom Austin 2/32, Ross Barton 4/18, Phil Battell 2/23, Adam Bethell 0/9, Darren Bethell 7/18, Chris Bryan 30/42, Dan Cooper 2/25, Steve Daly 20/38, Gino Defeo 0/6, Mark Emerson 0/41, Steff Falla 1/15, Reis Farley-Hearn 1/3, Stuart Fergus 2/19, Scott Harber 0/4, Lou Harper 2/46, Asa Hayden 0/1, Andy Joslin 0/34, Marcin Krupa 0/2, Carl Metson 3/17, Seb Murfet 1/12, Passfield 0/49, Tom Pell 0/2, John Pollard 6/31, Chris Rayner 0/25, Danny Rochester 4/21, Danny Rowell 5/45, Rutherford 0/46, Perry Sandsford 1/2, Wayne Saunders 0/43, Dave Streetley 0/3, Kurt Waterfield 0/12, Ian Webber 0/1, Paul Wood 0/10, Mark Wright 0/1.
