“All around the performance was as well as we’ve played all season!”  Ray Turner’s view on a very impressive Faversham Town performance that saw his side crush Play Off hopefuls Corinthian Casuals in the Salters Lane early spring sunshine.

Ahead early on through Dan Carrington’s low drive, Luke Harvey’s powerful header doubled the lead in the second half before substitute Jordan Casey well and truly put the icing on a terrific Faversham display with a stunning free kick in the closing stages.

A joyful manager told us after the game, “We’re still very much in touch as we’ve got thirteen games left and traditionally we’re just coming into “our time of year”.  That’s one defeat in fifteen games for us now and I think everyone saw today that we were organised and strong with options on the bench to offer a different dimension.”

“They’re fourth for a reason – they’re a good side which makes this for me such a great result and an important one as well.”

From start to finish, the home side bossed this one and apart from a spell – ironically just before Harvey’s header – Casuals offered very little.  Faversham hit the ground running and opened the scoring inside five minutes when Carrington drove home gloriously from the edge of the box after Sam Bewick first effort had been blocked.  Bewick himself then fired narrowly over, whilst at the other end Matt Bourne and Ryan Cheek were outstanding at the heart of the home defence as Casuals really failed to threaten.  Indeed Carrington looked set to add to the lead after fine run before he was crudely stopped in mid-flight – sadly the free kick came to nothing!

The second half began as the first finished with Faversham comfortably in charge though needing a second, which nearly arrived when Bewick shot just past the post from a great lay off from Harvey.  Casuals seemed to up their game realising that they were in a fight and Okojoe was desperately unlucky with the visitors first real chance of note.  Morgan did well down the right and from his centre the big forward’s acrobatic overhead flashed beyond home keeper Will Godmon but wide of the left post.  Okojie’s strike partner Summers then missed a golden chance when Hodges’ ball into the box fell to him, but he snatched at the shot and the chance was gone.

The home side doubled their lead soon after when the hard working Harvey who already seems to have struck up a relationship with Carl Rook that could well lead Turner’s side into a run to Post Season, got on the end of a long free kick to steer a header into the bottom corner to register his first goal of the calendar year.

Summers then had a great opportunity to get the visitors back into the game but missed his kick when another good ball in from Hodges fell at his feet.  The miss really was made more poignant when substitute Casey drill home a free kick on the blind side that left keeper Bracken wrong footed and motionless.

“Some strike wasn’t it?” enthused his manager.  “We’ve been looking for someone to do that for a while – d’you think we’ve found him” Turner added with a huge grin on his face.  “I said to the boys beforehand that we needed six points from these two home games – well there’s three of them today; now onto Horsham here on Tuesday night!”

FAVERSHAM – Godmon, Cooper, Maxted, Carrington, Bourne, Cheek, Bewick, Monger, Rook (Casey), Harvey (Stanford), Tenyue

Sub – Blaikie