- 20 hours ago
Join Finn Macdiarmid with a roundup of Kent's sporting action.
Category
📺
TVTranscript
00:00Hello and welcome to Invicta Sport. Sorry about those technical difficulties. The only
00:21show on your TV dedicated to wrapping up all of Kent's sporting action. I'm Finn McDermott
00:26and here's what you can expect on this Monday the 3rd of November.
00:56But first, a round-up of the headlines. Several Gillingham midfielders have picked up injuries
01:02in their FA Cup defeat at Newport County. Assistant manager Richard Dobson had a difficult
01:08team sheet to write. Captain Armani Little and Robbie McKenzie were forced off during
01:12the match, with Little having only just won his place back in the starting eleven after
01:16a month injured. Nelson Kumbeni came on at the break for Little, while McKenzie was swapped
01:22out for lone man Travis Ocomia in extra time. Commenting on the substitution, assistant
01:27Bosch Richard Dobson says,
01:28It just goes to show you're always close. Never stop training properly because the team
01:33needs you and sometimes that door opens in front of you.
01:36Next, let's have a look at a local Paralympian who's looking to win big in the 2028 Paralympics
01:42after his prior success. The World No. 1 won the PTS3 category at the World Triathlon Parachampionships
01:50in Australia last month, his second after 2024 glory in Torremolinos in Spain. The World
01:56Championships are set to return to Spain in September 2026 in Pontevedra. Henry Urand is
02:02looking to win the World Championships and by the time he arrives, the next Paralympics will
02:06be less than two years away. He told Kent Online he's determined to get to the next World
02:10Champs being held in Spain in September to re-defend his title. He's looking for success
02:16in the 2028 Paralympics in LA and we can be sure everyone here in Kent will be rooting for
02:20him all the way.
02:22Next, the West Kent Catapult Club in Matfield is inviting children and teens to shoot targets
02:27instead of animals. Lee Harrison started the West Kent Catapult Club to create a legitimate
02:33space for target shooting as a sport, but he fears that youngsters misunderstanding slingshots
02:38could ruin it for him and other responsible shooters. Spikes in attacks on animals across
02:43Kent has reignited calls in Parliament to ban the public use and underage sale of catapults,
02:48but in a bid to improve the sport's reputation, Lee's created a special programme to reach
02:52out to children who have been caught misusing them.
02:56Next, for some news on Ramsgate FC, who have had a manager stand down over the weekend.
03:03Ben Smith has stood down after two years. This comes after the Rams' loss to Averley
03:08on Saturday, which extended an unfortunate losing streak, reaching seven losses in a row.
03:13In a statement today made by the Rams, they confirmed Smith will remain in the club under
03:17a new role in the committee. Lee Martin has been named caretaker boss for the search for
03:23Smith's successor begins. Smith was appointed manager in the summer of 2023, named successor
03:29to Jamie Coyle. Since then, Smith and his team saw monumental success, with Ramsgate winning
03:34the Isthmian South East Championship last season with a record 109 points.
03:39Let's take a look back at this weekend's football results.
03:41Welcome to Prince's Park, where the Darts will be hopeful they can collect three points
03:46here against a struggling Welling side that have lost nine of their last 12 games in the
03:50Isthmian Premier. Oh, and it's a nightmare start for Dartford. No more than three minutes
03:54after the opening whistle, it's launched up to Welling's front line and it's fired in
03:57by Ruben Shaq-Polk to put United forward early. And it could have stayed that way into the
04:03second half, but it was another early goal right after the whistle. Any stragglers back
04:07to their seats will have been sorely disappointed. Launched forward to Oli Box on the left wing
04:12and just passed the waiting boot of Eddie Dasane, who hits it into the keeper and it bobbles
04:17into the net. And only two minutes later, Dasane finds himself with the ball in the box and
04:22just calmly slots it past the keeper again to turn it around. It's been a game of quick
04:26goals so far. And Dasane is just everywhere, plays it into space on the left, pays back box for
04:32that assist earlier with a well-weighted ball and he fires it to cement a victory for the
04:36darts in the 79th minute. What a strike and what a scoreline for Dasane.
04:42Well that does chalk up three more points for the darts, but it wasn't so lucky for some
04:46of the other Isthmian Premier teams. Ramsgate were hit badly. The announcement of their manager's
04:50resignation, combined with a scoreline of 5-0 against them, is certainly a concern with
04:55one of those being an own goal. Focusing the victor on the other hand did manage to clutch a
05:00win at home against Billericaytown. Well done to the Seasiders, what a season they're having.
05:06Coming up, Dartford will face Wingate and Finchley, Folkestone will head to Welling in the midweek
05:10and the Rams have Chess Hunt at home. For any Chatham fans wondering where they are, let's
05:15have a look at the FA Cup results. And it is bad news across the board for the
05:20Garden of England's teams, with Gillingham failing to defeat Newport County away, eventually
05:24losing on penalties. Ebbsfleet fell victim to Grimsby's strong cup form that felled Man United in the
05:29Carabao. They scored the first but ended up losing three goals to one, and picking up
05:34a red card in the process with a late challenge from Ben Chapman. Questions will be raised about
05:38what they might have been able to do with Eleven Ben.
05:42And Chatham travelled to the Silverland Stadium in Wales to face off with the lower league
05:46opposition of Buxton, but suffered a heartbreaking defeat, two goals to one, after a 114th minute
05:52winner. A ridiculous strike from distance to seal their fate. You hate to see it happen.
05:58Well, with all three teams out of the cup, let's see where they'll be heading next.
06:02Gillingham will go down to Bristol to face off with the Rovers. Ebbsfleet will have a
06:06Kent derby in the midweek with Maidstone at home. And Chatham will have their own midweek
06:10fixture against Billericay Town. Hopefully all three can bring things back with points across
06:15the leagues. Then for your teams in the National League
06:17South, Maidstone lost out to East Kent rivals Tunbridge with only the one lone goal to their
06:22two. Dover did not have a fixture this weekend, but they will be heading up to Horsham in the
06:27midweek, while the Stones travel to North Kent to face off against the Fleet. And the Angels have
06:32a midweek match against Chelmsford. Well, not only is that everything for Kent's teams in the cup,
06:37but that's also it for this week's Football Roundup.
06:41We caught up with our resident Gilles fan and student journalist Tom Fuligar to hear more
06:45about the Gilles FA Cup match.
06:46Well, thank you so much for joining us, Tom. And first of all, I mean, it looked good quite
06:52early there with Nevitz scoring that first goal. Talk us through that. What was that like?
06:56Well, it was a it was a scrappy one, I think. Yeah, a cross in and, you know, he got lucky. But I think
07:04with a deflection, but it was still a good finish. I'm pleased for him. Since we conceded so early on to
07:10Newport last time, it was nice to see us go up. I thought it was a sign of things to come. But
07:15unfortunately, it didn't go our way. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, sort of starting on the front
07:19foot there. And I'm aware, yeah, there's sort of a poor record there against Newport. So and then
07:26obviously we had the equaliser ball comes in. It was a corner. Did you think that is something that
07:31the defence should have dealt with? What talk us through that? Definitely. I think it was a case of
07:35ball watching. I think about six of them were just it was it was a scrappy one. I think the
07:40ball was sort of in amongst the new players and we were all sitting behind and we couldn't
07:46get without, I guess, maybe conceding a penalty. But God, it was such a such a bad, such a bad
07:52goal to concede. And I mean, we can't not talk about that Gale header. That was a quite
07:57a strong one. I was surprised to see that not hit the back of the net. But I mean, were there
08:02good chances throughout the game? Was it kind of like we were reaching for it?
08:05Yeah, there was a it was a couple of good chances for both sides. I think Seb was creating a lot
08:10of trouble. He whipped a good ball in for the Gale header and also one for Kuba Menni. Just
08:16unlucky not to get anything out of that. Yes, Seb was really good. I think the pace and the
08:21power, you know, up front, it's something that we've missed, I think, at the moment. So
08:27it's really nice to see him come back from injury and do really well. And I'm just hoping
08:30that, you know, this could be the start of a really great striker.
08:34Absolutely. I mean, it's against his former club. We've got to talk about that next goal.
08:39Tell us what was the feeling there? Do you think it was a well worked goal?
08:43The Seb, the Seb goal. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, he took it really well. A really great finish.
08:48You know, no luck about it. You know, it come out of, you know, quite far out and obviously
08:52so late on as well. But yeah, you know, I was screaming when that went in.
08:57Brilliant. And talk us through, I suppose, we have to inevitably talk about the ending
09:02of the game, the penalties. I was talking to you earlier and you mentioned, you know,
09:05once you got to penalties, you thought it got a bit shaky by that point. So obviously
09:10we had the miss from Hutton and we had Vokes hitting the crossbar. First of all, let's talk
09:16about that. What makes you say that getting to penalties and it just the kind of from there,
09:20it just kind of tanks. Yeah. You know, Dax penalty against Salford last week. I just knew
09:26again, that was never, that was not, we were not going to score that. I don't know.
09:29This is just a feeling. I don't know if it's just a bit of keep changing who the taker is.
09:33I think, you know, Max Clark seems to be the established taker and then, you know, Dax was on it.
09:38But yeah, as soon as we got to penalties, I thought, you know, it's, it's a lot of pressure on Turner's shoulders.
09:43I really feel for him. You know, that's his first start coming back. And yeah, I thought he struggled
09:51against Wimbledon when we had him in the Carabao Cup in the penalties. Yeah, it's just would Morris
09:58have done better? Again, this is the question I asked last week. We just don't know. We really don't know.
10:03Yeah. I mean, that's the question probably on lots of people's minds. Obviously Turner's had to pick up
10:06the slack because of that Glenn Morris injury. So yeah, and I'm aware that Jill's historically
10:14haven't had the best record about them when it comes to Newport. Can you talk to us a bit about that?
10:18Well, yeah, I'm not really sure why we've struggled against them so much because they're, they're bottom,
10:26you know, pretty much bottom of the league and we're, we're still up there. So I'm just not really sure
10:32why we struggle so much. I don't know if it's the journey to, to Wales, playing in Wales, maybe.
10:37Yeah. Can't find any reason for it. No, fair enough. And you mentioned as well earlier,
10:42I was talking to you about the kind of reaction that we've been getting online. Tell me, you've,
10:49you've been seeing a bit of sort of Dobson out, which I find crazy for an assistant manager.
10:53Yeah. Tell us about that. I get why people are annoyed. He's no Ainsworth and yeah, it's very hard to be like
11:01things like that because he's such a character, you know, he's on the line shouting his head off.
11:05Dobson's very reserved. I think, you know, he's very much about the tactical side of the game.
11:10And, you know, Ainsworth is very much about aggression, you know, getting into them.
11:14I really think it's a hard task. I think these are some games that we should have, we should have won.
11:21You know, Ainsworth in, we could have, we could have got past, you know, Newport, you know,
11:26we didn't get a cut run last year. So it would have been really nice to have that.
11:29And I think that was playing on people's minds when they're saying, you know, Dobson out.
11:33But of course, it's not going to happen because Ainsworth's not too far from getting back.
11:37So just hold on and we'll be back.
11:42Absolutely. And yeah, thank you so much for bringing us all this message of hope to Jills fans out there.
11:47We've reached half time, so we'll have a break, but we'll be back in just a few minutes. See you soon.
11:54Bye.
12:24Bye.
12:54Bye.
13:24Bye.
13:54Bye.
14:24Bye.
14:54Hello and welcome back to Invicta Sport live here on KMTV.
15:01Now, Tonbridge Juddian, Stuart Thomas walked from Maidstone to the rugby club's home ground earlier this month,
15:07all to raise money and support for the My Names Doddy Foundation after seeing former Leicester Tigers player Lewis Moody talk about his motor neurone disease on the news.
15:16He's done this in previous years, walking from the River Medway to the club to raise money for the Brain Tumor Charity.
15:22I spoke to him earlier. Well, thank you for joining us, Stuart. And I suppose my first question is, where did this all start?
15:29I know you've done a similar walk in previous years. Tell us about that and where we are now and why this year is different.
15:35OK, so last year, we've been working for the My Names Doddy Foundation after seeing former Leicester Tigers player Lewis Moody talk about his motor neurone disease on the news.
15:41He's done this in previous years, walking from the River Medway to the club to raise money for the Brain Tumor Charity.
15:45Tell us about that and where we are now and why this year is different.
15:50OK, so last year's walk was on the 19th of October, which was about four months after I was diagnosed with a brain tumour,
16:05a terminal brain tumour called a glioblastoma. So I started being treated for that.
16:13And being in remarkable health and having had lots of help from the Brain Tumor Charity, I thought in between treatments,
16:26I would organise a walk to raise money for the Brain Tumor Charity.
16:32So we did that on the in November, October, sorry, and 50 of us walked along the Medway from Maidstone to Tunbridge Juddians Rugby Club to deliver the match ball.
16:47And we raised 18,000 pounds during that walk.
16:53So fast forward a year and I'm still still in remarkable health, although the diagnosis was 12 to 18 months.
17:05I'm still kicking on. So I opened my phone one morning to see the reports of Lewis Moody and his diagnosis with MND.
17:20And I watched his recording on the BBC and it reduced me to tears.
17:27It just took me straight back to where I was just over a year ago.
17:32You know, perplexed and not really understanding what was happening to me.
17:41And I saw, you know, I saw me in him.
17:45I saw the human being struggling to come to terms with what he's been told.
17:51And I just just was moved to recreate the walk.
17:57It was almost to the day a year since the last one.
18:01So it seemed appropriate.
18:03I know Lewis Moody is a as a supporter of the Brain Tumor Charity as well.
18:08So kind of a quid pro quo.
18:11I'll raise money for research into the cures for MND.
18:18And I chose my name's Doddy Foundation.
18:21And we set off on a walk, same walk.
18:25Fewer people because it short notice, but 35 to 40 of us did the walk and ended up at the same place, the rubber glove.
18:37To do a speech to them, you know, regarding MND and my condition.
18:43I see.
18:45And tell us a bit about what was said in that speech and how was the walk in general?
18:49I mean, quite a distance. Tell us about that.
18:52Yeah, the distance is about 16 and a half, 17 miles.
18:57The walk was fine.
18:59I mean, when you when you get a group of like minded people with you, walks very easy.
19:05It sounds daunting.
19:07But you just blot on and in no time at all, the time flies and you're there.
19:13The speech, the speech to the rubber glove this time was a little bit about me and my attitude to surviving the brain tumor.
19:25But also about the the effect that seeing Lewis Moody's diagnosis had on me.
19:37And the effect, the effect that the rugby community can have positive effect on, you know, helping people get over very serious and shocking events.
19:55I mean, it's a great community.
19:57I always go back there if I need a bit of, you know, support from old friends and old teammates.
20:03It is always there.
20:05And I know Lewis Moody obviously a higher scale than I used to play.
20:12But you get the same thing.
20:14You get the same camaraderie and support.
20:17And it was basically along those lines.
20:22Absolutely.
20:23I've got friends that play rugby and they tell me that it's it's not so much a team as it is a sort of a family, a sort of a band of comrades in a way.
20:32So tell us a bit more about that atmosphere when you had your initial diagnosis.
20:37Tell me, what was it like?
20:39How did that change the way you worked with rugby in your life in general?
20:44Yes.
20:45Well, when I was first diagnosed, you know, it's very difficult to think very far ahead.
20:55The medics and the surgeons, doctors give you the averages.
21:02So the averages are pretty poor.
21:05And you start evaluating everything in the short term.
21:11You that the average is out on the outside 18 months.
21:18So you look at life on a very short scale.
21:22But I very quickly realized that I felt healthy and felt fit and was able to do pretty much everything that I did before.
21:36And I kind of chose to ignore it in a way.
21:41I was very not very pessimistic.
21:46I was always positive.
21:47And the small group of people I gathered around me, mostly school friends, rugby friends, a small group that knew exactly what was going on.
21:59And then I widened it to the larger groups.
22:03But they helped enormously in giving me a platform where I could thrive.
22:12To remind you, you can keep up to date with all the latest sports news, interviews and features from here on Invicta Sport by heading to our website, clicking KMTV and going on the sports tab.
22:23There you'll see videos like this about the Sabuto Champions and Europa League in Favisham.
22:30Two favourite teams fighting it out.
22:33They play whenever you arrange a cup tie in your own home every day.
22:40And who's the winner?
22:42Sabutio was invented in Tunbridge Wells in the late 1940s, but don't let that fool you.
22:47Since then, it's gone on to become a renowned modern sport with leagues across Europe.
22:51And following the success of a World Cup last year hosted in Kent, it's having its Champions and Europa Leagues held in Favisham.
22:58Now Sabutio has most of the same basic ideas as normal football, even including a version of the offside rule.
23:04But the game mostly hinges on angles and strategy rather than the power or physicality of regular football.
23:10Think more flicking, less kicking.
23:12I think a lot of people probably see it as the game that you had and played in your living room.
23:16And you might, you know, your dad might go for Christmas and that's probably how most people recognise it.
23:20Where abroad it's definitely taken more as a sport.
23:23There's a lot more technical aspects to it in terms of the chess.
23:26You're thinking like five, six steps ahead a lot of the time, if not more.
23:30And then you've got a kind of a pool aspect where you're looking at angles.
23:33The players are on flat bases now, not curved bases.
23:36So they all go in straight lines. They don't fall over anymore, really.
23:39Now it might not look like the normal Champions League you're familiar with, but I assure you it is just as intense.
23:45Italy, Austria, Malta, Spain and Portugal.
23:48They've all sent their best down here to Favisham to compete.
23:51And since England are the host nation, that means we get one more team than normal.
23:55And two of them are based right here in Kent, hoping to make it past the group stage and into the final tournament.
24:01I would say across the country, Kent and Victor is the number four team in the country.
24:06Langton Green, the other Kent team is number one because they've just got such a wide berth of good players.
24:11All of ours are very local. So, you know, we've been very proud to sort of build that up.
24:16We've got a very strong sense of community in our team.
24:18We're very welcoming to newcomers. We're very good at building up both the youth scene and the development scene for new players.
24:23That's kind of our specialty. So as a result, any new players who wish to get involved, I mean, we're the best team to go to for that.
24:29So we're very proud of that.
24:30Now what surprised me most about the game was its speed.
24:33I managed to watch a match featuring the world ranked number one player, Carlos Flores, who would run around the table at points to get a shooting angle.
24:40Some flicks were so fast, it actually almost looked like a sort of dribbling with the figures.
24:45Kent and Victor's aim for the tournament was to get past the group stage, but they ended up losing against their first few opponents, finishing 12th out of 19 teams.
24:53In the end, the frontrunners, Italian club Lazio, won the Europa League, with Spain's AFT Turia and Belgium's Racing White Walluer in second and third.
25:03This means just like football played on a pitch rather than a table, we were held back from a trophy by Italy and Spain.
25:09But at least like England's World Cup qualifiers, no matter how the Subutio teams perform, they'll always be top of the table.
25:15Finn McDermott for KMTV in Fabersham.
25:20Next, the Kent Eagles lost a battle for second place in the National Development Trophy season after falling behind against the Leicester Fox Cubs.
25:31The Eagles needed to finish within six of their hosts, but the Cubs took the league and aggregate bonus points.
25:37They ended up with a 50-34 defeat to the Cubs, adding to their 91-81 scoreline over their two meetings this year.
25:45Connor Coles, replacing the injured Nathan Ablett, proved the star of the show for the Kent side,
25:49romping to a commanding 12-point maximum.
25:52But already devoid of the talents of Luke Harris due to work commitments, the Eagles lost Jacob Clouting,
25:57who was taken ill trackside in the run-up to the contest, the visitors having a replaced rider.
26:02Now, rookie William Box displays plenty of promise in the Fiesta ST150 challenge, say that five times fast, at a chaotic day at Brands Hatch.
26:17He rounds off his first season as a race driver with a first place finish in race one, but had to settle for position two in the second race and managed to achieve fastest lap in wet conditions.
26:26Describing the second outing, he said,
26:28The race two was very chaotic, with a downpour halfway around causing multiple red flags in safety cars.
26:34An annoying race to finish in P10 when I was running P5 for the majority of the race.
26:38He added, it was a great season and he hopes to be on grid next year.
26:41And that is full time on today's episode of Invicta Sport.
26:45Thank you so much for watching and see you next time.
Recommended
27:01
27:03
27:00
27:00
27:00
27:05
27:01
57:04
24:00
27:02
27:07
57:18
27:48
27:08
27:14
57:11
27:06
57:05
27:05
27:54
27:04
57:06
27:08
27:05
Be the first to comment