Sam Denly had no arguments with the decision to abandon Herne Bay’s Ryman League, Division 1 South game against Cray Wanderers on Tuesday night.

South London referee Thomas Marshall halted the game after only 16 minutes due to fog, as the weather frustrated Bay again, after their trip to Sittingbourne last week was called off 75 minutes before kick-off, due to a frozen pitch.

The Bay boss said: “It was right to start the game but it was touch and go.

“I arrived at the ground at 6.15pm and it was really bad. Twenty minutes later it was all right but I was a bit cautious because the same thing happened when we played Peacehaven last season.

“Everyone was there, so we decided to start but the fog was always around.

“It is frustrating because we are behind in games already, so it is not ideal.”

The game has been re-arranged for Tuesday, February 1.

Denly admitted the 1-1 home draw in the lunchtime kick-off against Guernsey on Saturday was a missed opportunity in a game which featured two penalties.

He said: “Two points dropped in my opinion.

“We had two or three chances cleared off the line in the second half and again lacked that little bit of quality and clinical finish.”

Nineteenth-placed Bay travel to Molesey on Saturday, the team immediately below them in the table, with only eight points separating the teams 11th and 21st.

Denly said: “That shows how tight it is. We want to be top of that mini-league in the lower half and make sure we stay clear of the bottom three.”

Midfielder Joe Nelder will be out for a couple of weeks with a groin problem.

Bay host Dover Athletic in the second round of the Kent Reliance Senior Cup on Tuesday night (7.45pm), with the winners meeting VCD – who knocked Gillingham out 3-2 on Tuesday night – in the quarter-finals.

Former Bay boss Simon Halsey has been appointed first team coach at Chatham Town. He is a member of new boss Paul Piggott’s management team.