Kennington manager Dan Scorer says new 3G pitch at Homelands is ‘absolutely brilliant’

Dan Scorer says Kennington’s season starts now after finally playing a home game.

Ton made their long-awaited return to Homelands, where they groundshare with landlords Ashford, for the opening match on the new 3G pitch.

They lost 4-2 to Whitstable on Tuesday night, to remain winless at the foot of Southern Counties East, but boss Scorer is looking at the bigger picture.

And after 14 successive away games in league and cup, it’s very much a fresh start for Ton who are looking forward to training back at Homelands having been restricted to indoor five-a-side facilities in recent months.

“The pitch is absolutely brilliant, so congratulations to Ashford and Don (Crosbie) and Derek (Pestridge) because I know it’s been very frustrating,” said Scorer.

“It was well worth the wait. It’s a beautiful surface. We couldn’t ask for much more and we’re very fortunate and grateful to be able to share the facility with them.

“I do think being back there, getting people behind us and just being able to train and work on things is going to be such a huge difference for us, and we’re looking forward to getting things under way now.

“For us, we feel like our season starts here really and if you look at the league table, it’s already split itself into two.

“So we know what our league table looks like and the teams we’re going to be competing against.

“That was our 10th game of the season, so we’re a quarter of the way through the season now, so I did say to all the boys that while, yes, we’re seeing improvements and positives each week, those improvements, those positives, have got to turn into points sooner or later otherwise we are going to find ourselves in a sticky situation, if we’re still not picking up points come Christmas.

“We’re