Bishop Sutton v Bishop's Lydeard

Bishop Sutton Football Club

Chairman - George Williams

Jason Hunt

Secretary - Hannah Downes

Manager Jon Toy

Team Head Coach - Dean Horseman

- Dan Spill & Andy Clark

Team

Manager - Andy Billitteri Coach - Aaron Banfield

Nick Gwyther

- Nick Gwyther

- Darren Gould

Officer - Barrie Witts

- Faye Brady

- Aaron O’Connor

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- Merv

O’Connor

- Martin McConachie

Alford & Ray

Goodeveningeveryone,

Tonight, we offer a very warm welcome to players, officials & supporters of our visitors Bishop’s Lydeard Football Club as well as our match officials too. We hope they all enjoy theirbriefstayinthevillageandhaveasafejourneyhometoo!

The last two weekends, we have faced Longwell Green Sports home and away & the lads havebeenflying,winningthehomegame4 0andtheawaygame4 1.Uptoseventhinthe table now which is great work but tonight’s fixture will present a different challenge. Lydeardaren’t getting the wins rightnow butthey’ve been in almost every game up until thefinalwhistleandlosingbytheoddgoalordrawing!Thiseveningwillbetough.

ThiscomingSaturday,wepayourfirsteverWesternLeaguevisittoNailsea &Tickenham, thegamehasa3.00pmkickoff.Thanksforyoursupporttonightandenjoythegame.

Bishop Sutton Club History

The club was re-formed in 1977 with just an U15 team playing in the Weston-superMareSundayLeagueandthenprogressinginsuccessiveseasonstotheBristolandAvon LeagueU16sandthesecondandfirstdivisionsbeforebeingadmittedintotheSomerset SeniorLeagueforthe1981-82season.

The next ten years were spent climbing through the four divisions before being voted intotheWesternLeagueforseason1991 92.TheFirstDivisionwaswonin1997 98and thenfollowedseventeensuccessiveseasonsinthePremierDivision, thehighlightbeing winningthePremiertitlein2012-13.

Unfortunately our ground grading did not permit progression to the Southern League andalltheteammanagementandplayersthenlefttheclub.RelegationfromthePremier followed at the end of season 2014 15 and we have experienced mixed fortunes in the FirstDivisionsincethen.

Fortheseason2020 21JonToycameinasmanagerbutunfortunatelywewereonlyable toplay10gamesbeforetheseasonwascurtailedduetotheCOVID19pandemic.Having retained a lot of last season’s squad and added a couple of new players, we finished in midtableinseason2021/22.

A big thank you....

to all our sponsors....

Non-League Footballers Mental Health Championed by Bath Mind and the Toolstation Western League

The Toolstation Western League are working with Bath Mind to pilot a mental health partnership supporting the football family and players in particular.

The six Western League sides located in Bath and North East Somerset have been offered specially created posters, promoting mental health support services designed to help younger people, which can be located into their home and away changing rooms.

Research conducted by the Toolstation Western League earlier this season highlighted that around a quarter of players had considered seeking help with a mental health issue. The subject of mental health was first tackled by the Western League in March 2020, when they launched their Think of a Fan campaign.

Chairman of the Western League, John Pool, explained: “Think of a Fan was our way of remembering that for many fans, football is more than just a game. It’s an important release, a chance to meet friends, get out of the house and have some fun. Many people are still working through the loneliness and anxiety caused by lockdown, but we must not forget that our players are no different. They are as important to us as any members of our football family and this important partnership with Bath Mind is our way of supporting them.”

As well as changing room posters, Bath Mind have provided leaflets for fans, as well as programme adverts, highlighting the variety of support services they provide. If successful, this initial pilot will be extended by the Western League to cover all 40 Clubs across the South West of England, from Cornwall to Wiltshire.

Hannah Roper, Director of Business Development at Bath Mind, said: “We at Bath Mind are thrilled to be working in partnership with The Toolstation Western League, to support and promote positive mental health for the football community.

Throughout the pandemic Bath Mind has been fighting an epidemic of mental ill-health. We have increased our services to meet the growing needs of our community, and help reduce pressure on NHS services.

Through this pilot we hope to encourage everyone to talk about their mental health, seek help at an early stage and reduce the stigma associated with mental ill-health. As a local, independent charity, Bath Mind relies heavily on local fundraising to keep our services going, therefore we are grateful to The Toolstation Western League and their fans for their fundraising efforts.”

TONIGHT’S

Lydeard

Focus on....

BISHOP’S LYDEARD

Bishops Lydeard Association Football Club is an FA Charter Standard Community Club, that has a well established youth section, senior section and girls/women’s section with over 350 participants The football club playing fields and clubhouse are located in the rural village of Bishops Lydeard, five miles north west of Taunton, Somerset.

The club is over 100 years old and has developed into one of the largest clubs in the South West. Having played at various venues in the village it is now firmly entrenched at Darby Way. Due to the growth of the club, youth, ladies, and extra men’s sides, we had to expand our facilities in 1999 and now play on Morris Meadow, kindly rented to us by Mr. Morris. This is the field beside the main pitch. We also use the adjoining field, Glanfield Meadow – named after Mr. Glanfield who kindly sold us the land when he stepped away from farming.

In 1998 the adult section and youth section joined forces to become one club. This held many advantages which you will see today when visiting the club. What was once a men’s side, and the odd youth team run by an adult for the village kids has now developed into football for the community at all ages and genders.

The senior side of the club has a very successful Ladies section which has been led by Julie Bowker since it was formed in 2001. We now have two ladies teams; the Firsts playing in the South West Women’s Football League and the Reserves in Somerset County Women’s League. The adult men’s teams are headed by the First team who gained promotion in 2016 to the Western League following a Winner takes all game against Nailsea and Tickenham to finish Champions of the Somerset Senior Premier League; there is also a Reserve Team which has just been promoted to the Somerset County League after winning the Taunton & District Saturday League First Division and a Colts team that play in Division 2 of the Taunton & District Saturday League.

In 2008 the clubs dream of developing an all purpose club house to replace its ‘Shack’ was made in to reality when Iain Hunter formally announced that he had achieved the funding required to start the build after 5 years of meetings, fund raising and form filling. In January 2009 the whole club celebrated along with Iain when the then England under 21 coach Stuart Pearce arrived at the club to formally cut the ribbon. The philosophy of the club is to provide a safe and fun environment for the youth to train, practice, express themselves and play football.

Focus on....

BISHOP’S LYDEARD

The same principle is applied to the adult section with one overriding difference push players to play at the highest level they can achieve. This undoubtedly means that BLAFC will ultimately lose players to a higher standard of football until we can match the level, something that is a constant topic of conversation on a Saturday afternoons for the faithful. In 2016 planning permission was granted for the erection of floodlights which were promptly installed to enable the First Team to step into Western League Football.

Those that visit the club frequently will notice a lot of development work has taken place to achieve the stringent ground grading. The pitch has been widened, new dug outs purchased and a path has been made around the perimeter of the pitch. The stand was erected as part of the requirement for Western League Football, which further enhances the ground and the clubs determination to progress. In its first season in Western League Division One, the team worked hard to achieve a creditable 6th place finish, in the 2017/18 season the team finished 14th.

In 2018/19 a 12th place position was secured after a down & up season. After two seasons where the Pandemic hit the World...... Once back and completing a full season, 2021/22 proved difficult for the first team who never really gained any momentum finishing the season in 20th position out of 21. We hope to progress in 2022/23.

UHLSPORT SOMERSET COUNTY LEAGUE DIVISION THREE FIXTURES & RESULTS

Date Opponents

Sat 13 Aug Radstock Town Res

Sat20Aug BurnhamUnitedRes

Res. Scorers

L 0 3

W6 0 Rowland(3),Hynes,Tanner,Hallett

Sat 3 Sep Somerton Town Res H W 6-0 Tanner (2), Brilliant, Hynes, Maddern, Rowland

Sat17Sep Congresbury

Sat 24 Sep Draycott

Sat1Oct RadstockTownRes(Cup)

L0 8

W 3 1 Derrick, Jeng, Marks

L1-7 Rawlings

Sat 8 Oct Nailsea United Res H L 1-2 o.g.,

Tue11Oct PortisheadTown(Cup)

Sat15Oct WinscombeRes

L1-2 Brilliant

W5 2 Rowland(3),Maddern,Brilliant

Tue 18 Oct Clevedon United Res H D 1-1 Tanner

Sat 5 Nov Yatton & Cleeve Utd Res

Sat12Nov WorleRangers

Sat19Nov StGeorgeE-I-G

Sat 26 Nov Tunley Athletic

Sat 3 Dec Winscombe Res

Sat 24 Dec Congresbury

Sat31Dec Draycott

Sat7Jan TunleyAthletic

Sat 14 Jan Fry Club

Sat21Jan SomertonTownRes

Sat 28 Jan St George E I G

Sat4Feb RadstockTownRes

Sat 11 Feb Worle Rangers

Sat 18 Feb Burnham United Res

Sat25Feb NailseaUnitedRes

Sat18Mar Yatton&CleeveUtdRes

Sat1Apr ClevedonUtdRes

Pos. Team

UHLSPORT SOMERSET COUNTY LEAGUE DIVISION THREE

TABLE

P W D L F A GD Pts

1st Congresbury 9 8 1 0 53 2 51 25

2nd RadstockTownRes 6 5 0 1 22 10 12 15

3rd WorleRangers 5 4 1 0 15 8 7 13

4th Bishop Sutton Res 9 4 1 4 22 21 1 13

5th ClevedonUnitedRes 5 3 1 1 13 5 8 10

6th NailseaUnitedRes 8 3 1 4 10 13 -3 10

7th Yatton&CleeveUtdRes 8 3 1 4 16 33 17 10

8th FryClubRes 8 2 3 3 16 16 0 9

9th Draycott 8 3 0 5 20 21 1 9

10th StGeorgeE-I-G 7 3 0 4 17 19 -2 9

11th SomertonTownRes 5 1 2 2 7 16 9 5

12th WinscombeRes 6 1 0 5 8 25 -17 3

13th BurnhamUnited 6 0 2 4 9 26 17 2

14th TunleyAthletic 4 0 1 3 5 18 -13 1

WESTERN COUNTIES FLOODLIGHT YOUTH

Date

Wed 21 Sep

Thu6Oct Hengrove

Thu20Oct PortisheadTown

Thu 27 Oct AEK Boco

Mon31Oct LongwellGreenSports

Wed16Nov Bishop’sLydeard(Cup)

Thu 24 Nov Hallen

Thu 8 Dec Chipping Sodbury Town

Thu15Dec Hallen

Thu 5 Jan Hengrove

Thu 12 Jan Portishead Town

Wed18Jan Chipping

Tue24Jan AEK

WESTERN

Town

Maddern (3), Lewis,

A big thank you to the sponsors of our reserve & under 18 teams...

One

AEK Boco GreenbankRoad,Hanham,Bristol BS153RZ 12.2 miles Almondsbury TheField,GloucesterRd,Almondsbury.BS324AA 21.3 miles

Bishop’s Lydeard DarbyWay,Bishop’sLydeard,Taunton.TA43BA 41.8 miles Brislington IronmouldLane,Brislington,BristolBS45RS 10.8 miles Bristol Tel. BTRAGround,StockwoodLane,BristolBS148SJ 7.8 miles Cheddar Bowden'sPark,DraycottRoad,CheddarBS273RL 12.2 miles

FC Bristol OaklandsPark,Almondsbury,BristolBS324AA 21.3 miles Gillingham Town WoodwaterLane,Gillingham,DorsetSP84WL 32.5 miles Hallen MoorhouseLane,Hallen,BristolBS107RU 17.4 miles Hengrove Athletic AVBStadium,NortonLane,WhitchurchBS140BT 7.3 miles Longwell Green ShellardsRoad,LongwellGreen,BristolBS309AD 11.2 miles Nailsea & Tick. FrythWay,Nailsea,BristolBS482AS 14.3 miles Odd Down CombeHayLane,OddDown,Bath,BA28PA 11.6 miles Oldland Abbots CastleRoad,OldlandCommon,BristolBS309SZ 11.7 miles Portishead Town BristolRoad,Portishead,BristolBS206QG 15.7 miles Radstock Town SouthfieldRec.,Southfields,RadstockBA33NZ 10.3 miles Shirehampton TheCreek,ThePortway,SeaMills,BristolBS92JS 14.2 miles Tytherington R. HardwickePF,Tytherington,SouthGloucsGL128UJ 23.5 miles Warminster TownWeymouthStreet,Warminster,WiltshireBA129NS 25.6 miles Wells City RowdensRoad,Wells,SomersetBA51TU 11.4 miles Wincanton Town SportsGround,MoorLane,WincantonBA99EJ 28.6 miles

Fixtures

Results

Date Opponents Ven. Res. Att. Scorers

2022

Sat30Jul GillinghamTown A W5 0 53 Bird(2),Daggar,Vile,Wilson

Tue 2 Aug Tytherington R H W 4 2 61 Buck (2), Royal, Wilson

Sat 6 Aug Hengrove Athletic H D 1-1 81 Whittaker

Sat13Aug Brislington A L0 1 120

Tue 16 Aug Hallen H L 1-4 51 Buck

Sat 27 Aug Shirehampton H W 3 2 78 Grist (2), Buck

Mon 29 Aug Oldland Abbots H L 0-1 103 -

Sat3Sep BristolTelephones A D1-1 - Wilson

Tue 6 Sep Warminster TownH L 0-1 60 -

Sat 17 Sep Cheddar H D 0-0 52 -

Sat24Sep FCBristol A L2 4 Wilson(2)

Tue 27 Sep Wincanton Town H W 3-148 Wilson, Palmer, og

Sat1Oct AEKBoco A W3 2 Wilson(2),Saunders

Tue 4 Oct Ashton & B (SPC) H D 0-0 (4-3 on penalties)

Sat8Oct OldlandAbbots A L2 3 Wilson(2)

Fri 14 Oct Almondsbury H W 2-188 Wilson, Ballantine

Sat 22 Oct Longwell Green H W 4 042 Wilson, Ballantine, Chandler, Clark

Sat29Oct LongwellGreen A W4-1 Wilson(2),Ballantine,Clark

Tue 1 Nov Bishop’s Lydeard H

Sat5Nov Nailsea&Tick’nam A

Sat 12 Nov Gillingham Town H

Sat 19 Nov Brislington H

Tue 22 Nov Ilfracombe (LPC) H

Fixtures & Results 2021/2022

Date Opponents Ven. Res. Att. Scorers

Sat26Nov Shirehampton A

Sat3Dec PortisheadTown A

Sat 10 Dec Bristol Tel. H

Sat17Dec WarminsterTown A

Mon 26 Dec Wells City H

2023

Mon2Jan RadstockTown A

Sat 7 Jan Odd Down (Bath) H

Sat14Jan OddDown(Bath) A

Sat 21 Jan AEK Boco H

Sat28Jan WincantonTown A

Sat4Feb Bishop’sLydeard A

Sat11Feb Hallen A

Sat25Feb HengroveAthletic A

Sat 4 Mar Portishead Town H

Sat11Mar Cheddar A

Sat25Mar TytheringtonR A

Sat 1 Apr FC Bristol H

Fri7Apr WellsCity A

Mon 10 Apr Radstock Town H

Sat 15 Apr Nailsea & Tick H

Sat22Apr Almondsbury A

TBA Wincanton (SPC) H

Key LPC-LesPhillipsCup SPC-SomersetPremierCup