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A new club, Rye Town FC, has been formed and will play its home matches at The Salts, which hasn't been used for adult football since the demise of Rye United FC in 2014.
We just want to get football back on the map for Rye.
Shane Ridgers
Rye Town will line up in Division One of the Macron East Sussex Football League and will be one of 12 new teams in the league next season.
Shane Ridgers and wife Charmaine have been very much the driving force behind the birth of Rye Town. Shane is manager and treasurer, and Charmaine is secretary, while Ged Say is chairman.
Martin Blincow, Darren Paine, Francis Walker and Kevin Highams are on the committee, and Kelvin Wall is going to be assistant manager.
"We've had a massively positive response from the people locally and players locally: all wishing it well and wanting it to work," said Shane Ridgers.
"Beryl Pope, a...