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The game was far from being a spectacle. In fact, most of this performance was pretty poor. It was just as well that Sittingbourne seemed to have forgotten their shooting boots as well or else this could have been a very different story. It wasn't even a game of two halves: rather it was a game of 80 minutes rubbish followed by 10 minutes of some really attractive play by Whitstable - when they could almost have picked up an unlikely three points. But a point is not to be sniffed at, so well done You Reds!

Sam Denly was back in action at the back alongside Quinn. Both had pretty solid performances - neit doing anything spectacular. What they did, they did with the minimum of fuss.

Cornhill was back at right back and although he made a couple of early errors and was arguably not marking his man closely enough, he came into the game as it progressed. GS reverted to his role at left back with Tipple on the bench. It will be interesting to see what happens at the Cup Final tomorrow with all this competition in the full back roles. That said, one thing was pretty clear, Wisker did not feel very comfortable at left midfield so it would be staggering to see him in that berth tomorrow I would have thought.

Perona operated at right midfield and although guilty of a couple of wayward passes as a result of not checking whether there was in fact a colleague to pass to in the first place, he made amends for those mistakes with some good tracking back as well as some determined attacking play in the final few minutes of the game. Gooding had a pretty solid game in the middle of the park, but Parker was poor.

Up front, Pullie worked pretty hard but for work rate was probably pipped to it by his strike partner Dave Cory who has already picked up the gong for Oysterman of the Match as well as now having socred more league goals this season than Pullie. I'm not sure whether the Golden Boot relates only to league goals or whether it also includes Cup goals.

Pullie got the first shot in some 15 minutes into the game but his effort just skimmed the top corner of the goal with the keeper well beaten.

Within a minute, however, Sittingbourne scored as their No.11 found himself completely unmarked in acres of space almost drectly infront of the goal and fired past an unprotected Fewell. 

Fifteen minutes later, Quinny and Cornhill got themselves in a mess and Fewell could only spill a ball which he eventually managed to clear. A couple of minutes Parker took the worst free kick ever as the ball barely met the wall and five minutes later he gave away a needless freekick just outside the Whitstable area which fortunately came to nothing.

Some 15 minutes into the secon half saw a good free kick from Marcos Perona, headed on by Denly to Cory who scored, but the referee chalked it off apparently due to Denly's climbing over his man. Probably about right although another ref may have let it pass.

With a minute or two to go Cornhill set Cory up for the second time in the space of a couple of minutes with a nice pass from the edge of the area.

Cory slotted it calmly into the back of the net - it has to be said against the run of play.

However, it set up a frantic last few minutes durinng which Whitstable could have taken all the points, but were happy with just the one point.