Rye targeting decent Vase run

In-form Rye will travel to Cobham in first round qualifying in the prestigious national knockout competition on Saturday.

Rye manager Price said: "This is the players' chance to pay back Pat and Clive (vice-chairman and chairman respectively) for what they do for the club. They do so much for the players. Anything they want, they get."

On paper at least, the Quarterboys look strong favourites to progress. Rye are second in Division One of the Sussex County League having won their last four games and kept five consecutive clean sheets.

Cobham are ninth in Division One of the Combined Counties League - the equivalent of Sussex Division Two - with three wins and two defeats, one of which was a 6-0 drubbing away to Bedfont Sports.

But they have come through two rounds in the FA Cup, winning 2-0 at home to Sussex Division One stugglers Wick in the first of them and then triumphing in an away replay against Alresford Town in midweek.

"I think they'll be a physical side," continued Price, "but I think if we turn up and play well, they're a side I think we should turn over. But it all depends on the day."

The full article will appear in tomorrow's Rye Observer.