Poppies crash out of FA Cup

Boreham Wood 1 Kettering Town 0

Kettering Town were unceremoniously dumped out of the FA Cup at the 4th Qualifying Round stage at Meadow Park this afternoon after conceding an 85th minute goal to hosts Boreham Wood. The Poppies' failure to break down their Division One North counterpart's defence even once during the 90 minutes cost them dear as the score at the final whistle finished 1-0 to the Wood.

Poppies secure league win at last

Kettering Town 4 Heybridge Swifts 1

Kettering Town finally managed to secure a much-needed league victory at Rockingham Road last night after a very poor run of five league games without a win and ironically it turned out to be their biggest win of the season so far, but watched by easily their lowest home attendance by some margin.

Poppies continue to struggle in the league

Basingstoke Town 2 Kettering Town 2

Kettering Town returned to their league inconsistency with a 2-2 draw at Basingstoke Town after coming back from a 1-0 deficit to lead 2-1, but were eventually pegged back before the final whistle could prevent an equaliser from a hard-working home side.

NFA Hillier Senior Cup

An almost unrecognisable Kettering Town won 4-0 at Northampton Spencer last night in the 1st Round of the NFA Hillier Senior Cup. Chris Di Fante and Jason Turner each scored a brace, with the first of Turner's coming from the penalty spot.

Kettering from: Gourlay, Simpson, Diuk, Harris, Carson, Morley, Tolton, Boyle-Chong, Dancy, Paschalis, Turner, DiFante, Hicks, Bell, Pepper, Cossey.

Norman makes scoring return to see Poppies safely through

Kettering Town 2 St Margaretsbury 0

Craig Norman made a dramatic return from injury, giving Kettering the lead from the penalty spot just before half-time. Then in the second-half it was another Norman penalty that wrapped up the match for the home side and saw them safely through to the 4th Qualifying Round.

Kettering Town: Pettinger, Gordon, Norman, Boyle-Chong, Solkhon, Matthews, Paschalis, Butterworth, Tajer, Fewings, Lodge. Subs: Diuk, Graham, Pepper, Dancy, Goulay.

Attendance: 790

Kettering have been drawn away in the 4th Qualifying Round to the winner of the replay between Boreham Wood and Hayes.

Passionless Poppies lose at Kingstonian

Kingstonian 1 Kettering Town 0

Kettering went down 1-0 at Kingsmeadow with Kingstonian scoring the winner on 73 minutes. Kettering have now lost 3 of their last 4 league matches and slumped to 13th position in the league table.

A passionless display (as highlighted in the ET report) saw Kettering fall to their fifth defeat of the season never looking likely to earn better than a 0-0 draw and drop into the lower half of the league, barely in the frame for a Conference Division 2 berth at the end of the season.