Hythe Town secured their third successive 2-1 win, as their pre-season continued with victory over Hollands & Blair. Kieran Byrne's headed finish gave Hythe the lead going into half-time, before changes to the Hythe line-up gave the home side the encouragement to fight back to 1-1. The visitors were lucky not to fall behind during an inspired period of play from forward Sean Hetterley, before Craig Thompson headed home a good cross from the returning Greg Smith. Hythe were without Pat Kingwell, John Walker, and Gavin Ransley due to injury, but Greg Smith and Ollie Finch made their first starts of the season, as well as Craig Thompson coming in for the unavailable Brendon Cass. Thompson had already flashed in one dangerous cross when he miscued a clear chance on goal after a nice one-two with Gary Mickelborough. Hythe's first dangerously positioned free-kick was saved well after Cook's shot almost deflected into the net. A lovely cross from Byrne followed by two successive corners all resulted in last ditch defending from the home side, who Hythe appeared to have the beating of in the aerial department.

Inevitably, the first goal was a headed finish from Byrne who calmly timed his finish after the home defence failed to deal with Mark Bond's long throw. Mann made arguably his best save of the game to keep Hythe in the lead, whilst a counter-attack led by Byrne took the winger from box to box, his final shot whistling just over the crossbar. Five minutes after the interval the hosts were back level as the pacey Sean Hetterley broke away down the right before crossing to Cliff Eldridge who couldn't miss from six yards out. Hythe fought back as Mike Yianni combined with Thompson to release substitute Billy Somervile, Thompson flicking the eventual cross just wide. However, at the other end Hetterley was in the mood for more goals with some lovely examples of direct running, the striker guilty of not converting at least one of two clear chances on the Hythe goal. In the end, Hythe's experience paid off, and although they probably knew they should have been behind they focused on scoring a winner of their own, with Greg Smith's excellent cross met by Craig Thompson's stooping header into the bottom right-hand corner.