Essex Junior Cup Success After waiting for six seasons since our last win in the competition, the high point of the season came in the final of the Essex Junior Cup when Herongate Athletic Reserves overcame Wivenhoe Town 1 - 0 in a closely contested final. After only one fairly eventful season with us, Becontree Heath departed to be replaced by Harold Wood Athletic and their near neighbours Upminster therefore increasing both divisions by one team. This was a truly wonderful season for Herongate Athletic Reserves who, not content with winning the County Cup, also won our own Reserve Division Cup by beating Runwell Hospital. They were however unable to maintain their form in the Reserve Division and finished as runners-up to Runwell Hospital, all be it by only one point. Not to be overshadowed by their Reserves, Runwell Hospital became Senior Division Champions with last seasons champions Collier Row Motor Gear finishing in second place. Collier Row Motor Gear started the season by beating Runwell Hospital and winning the Challenge Cup, and then ended it by appearing in their third Senior Division final in four years, and coming away as winners by defeating Benfleet. Old Chelmsfordians Reserves won the Sportsmanship award emulating their first team who had won it five years earlier. A word of mention also for Rayleigh who became the first team since the 1970/71 season to score 100 goals in a league season. For the second season running no representative matches were played. Tailpiece
This was the first season where goal average was not used to decide the places of clubs with the same number of points in a division. In its place goal difference was used. SENIOR DIVISION TABLE
P W D L F A PTS Runwell Hospital 32 25 6 1 91 32 56 Collier Row Motor Gear 32 23 6 3 81 31 52 Rayleigh 32 24 3 5 100 42 51 Herongate Athletic 32 17 7 8 71 62 41 Benfleet 32 17 6 9 64 46 40 Great Baddow 32 16 6 10 55 45 38 Standard (Harlow) 32 14 8 10 56 46 36 Harold Wood Athletic 32 12 7 13 57 53 31 Burnham Ramblers 32 10 8 14 56 65 28 Old Chelmsfordians 32 10 8 14 36 42 28 Essex Police 32 11 4 17 49 73 26 Writtle 32 7 9 16 31 53 23 Ongar Town 32 8 6 18 44 61 22 Coopersale 32 9 3 20 43 66 21 Upminster 32 5 11 16 35 65 21 Dunmow 32 8 4 20 49 84 20 Bishops Stortford Swifts 32 2 6 23 31 83 10 RESERVE DIVISION TABLE
P W D L F A PTS Runwell Hospital 30 20 3 7 82 37 43 Herongate Athletic 30 17 8 5 82 41 42 Collier Row Motor Gear 30 17 7 6 55 36 41 Harold Wood Athletic 30 15 10 5 64 36 40 Standard (Harlow) 30 15 9 6 68 44 39 Old Chelmsfordians 30 16 5 9 53 41 37 Rayleigh 30 14 6 10 63 39 34 Coopersale 30 14 4 12 58 65 32 Upminster 30 11 5 14 53 54 27 Dunmow 30 9 6 15 56 73 24 Writtle 30 7 9 14 48 63 23 Benfleet 30 7 9 14 48 66 23 Burnham Ramblers 30 8 7 15 36 59 23 Great Baddow 30 7 7 16 50 66 21 Bishops Stortford Swifts 30 5 8 17 27 75 18 Ongar Town 30 4 5 21 36 84 13 |