Hollands & Blair set to play Corinthian in Southern Counties East Premier Division after wins over VCD Athletic and Kennington

Hollands & Blair are up and running, with two wins and eight goals in a week, but there was still disappointment after their midweek victory.

Blair followed up Saturday’s 4-2 win over VCD Athletic with a 4-3 triumph over Kennington - in a game they led 3-0 after an hour.

Manager Scott Porter was angered by the way his team let their opponents back into the contest on Tuesday night after doing so many things right in the attacking third.

“I wasn’t happy afterwards at all,” said Porter. “I’ve told them exactly what I thought.

“To be 3-0 up and out of sight and then to concede the goals we conceded, yes we made a couple of substitutions, but the manner we conceded goals was not good.

“That spoilt a good evening because the four goals we scored were top drawer, great finishes, well worked, back to front, the movement of Dean Grant and of Sam Stace, Alfie Giles, Tom Walmsley it was up there.

“We’ll take the positives, definitely take the negatives out of it, and I wouldn’t want many games like that this season.”

Alfie Giles’ 25-yard strike put them ahead after just four minutes, and they bossed the first half, leading 1-0. Sam Stace started and ended another move to make it 2-0 before Giles slipped weekend hat-trick hero Dean Grant in for their third on 60 minutes.

Kennington came into it at three-down and Tom Scorer headed in from a corner with 10 minutes left. When Walmsley fired in from the edge of the box on 85 minutes that should have been it.

But Ton made it interesting for the neutral as Ryan Philpott had space to finish and was there again in the sixth-minute of stoppage-time to make Blair sweat. In the end, the hosts were grateful to hear the final whistle.

“The desire and heart to not concede wasn’t good enough,”