Bishop Sutton v Ilfracombe Town LPC

Good evening everyone,

Tonight, we offer a very warm welcome to the players, officials & supporters of visitors Ilfracombe Town Football Club & our match officials too. We hope they all enjoy their brief stay in the village and have a safe journey home too!

The weather has really hit the fixture schedule hard this month with dozens of fixtures called off due to waterlogged or frozen pitches. We’ve only played once in the last month or so, a disappointing 3-0 defeat at Radstock Town so we’re hoping the lads are back on it again this afternoon. Tonight’s fixture will be a difficult one as all games are against sides from the Premier Division but it is the Cup and there bound to be a shock or two somewhere!

Tonight’s game kicks off a run of three successive home games as we also host AEK Boco on Saturday before then welcoming Bristol Telephones to Lake View a week tonight.

Can we close by wishing everyone reading a very Happy New Year & a prosperous 2023. As always, thank you for your support. Enjoy the game!

Bishop Sutton Club History

The club was re-formed in 1977 with just an U15 team playing in the Weston-superMare Sunday League and then progressing in successive seasons to the Bristol and Avon League U16s and the second and first divisions before being admitted into the Somerset Senior League for the 1981-82 season.

The next ten years were spent climbing through the four divisions before being voted into the Western League for season 1991-92. The First Division was won in 1997-98 and then followed seventeen successive seasons in the Premier Division, the highlight being winning the Premier title in 2012-13.

Unfortunately our ground grading did not permit progression to the Southern League and all the team management and players then left the club. Relegation from the Premier followed at the end of season 2014-15 and we have experienced mixed fortunes in the First Division since then.

For the season 2020-21 Jon Toy came in as manager but unfortunately we were only able to play 10 games before the season was curtailed due to the COVID 19 pandemic. Having retained a lot of last season’s squad and added a couple of new players, we finished in mid table in season 2021/22.

A big thank you....

... to all our sponsors....

Ilfracombe Town AFC

ILFRACOMBE TOWN AFC

Ilfracombe football club was formed in November 1902 and played local opposition teams until the formation of the North Devon League in 1904, in which Combe became one of the founder members. The present name of Ilfracombe Town was adopted in 1920, the club contested the East Devon League remaining there for many years.

The present ground of Marlborough Park was acquired in 1923 & laid out for competitive football in 1924/25 season. In 1949 Western League football was applied for & the club was admitted entry into division 3 for the season 1949/50, winning promotion as runner up at the end of that year. During the 1952/53 season the clubs finest FA Cup run was experienced by the only Division 2 team to reach the fourth qualifying round where Llanelli was the venue and the result was 1-0 in favour of the Welshmen in front of an 8500 gate.

Promotion to Division 1 was also achieved at the end of the 52/53 season but after two years, relegation was followed by poor results and poor support ultimately resulting in withdrawal from the league by the 1958/59 season.

During the 60s and 70s North Devon League football was again contested and during the early 80s, after some very encouraging seasons it was decided to re-apply for Western League football and re -entry was accepted from the 1984/85 season.

Since rejoining the Western League the club contested Division 1 for many seasons and promotion was eventually achieved to the Premier Division at the end of the 2006/07 season & Step 5 football was maintained with the winning of the Les Phillips Challenge Cup in 2010/11 season, after 30 years of membership the club decided to leave the Western League at the end of the 2012/13 season.

North Devon League football was once again contested with the first team in the Premier Division and the Reserves in the Senior Division and the 3rd Team in Intermediate 1, at the end of the 2016/17 season all 3 teams won promotion and with the Ladies team achieving promotion a very successful season was enjoyed.

The 2017/18 season Combe joined the South West Peninsula East Division, and after a couple of good seasons the team was going very well when the season was curtailed because of COVID-19, they were moved up into the Western League Premier Division for the 2021/22 season when the Non League system was re-organised.

Focus on....

ILFRACOMBE TOWN AFC

Ilfracombe’s ground has one of the most picturesque backdrops in the Toolstation Western League as the image below shows.

(Pic courtesy of Ilfracombe Town’s Facebook page).

Marlborough Park, Ilfracombe’s ground, is situated on top of a hill overlooking the Bristol Channel and the club will celebrate a hundred years of playing there in two seasons time.

UHLSPORT SOMERSET COUNTY LEAGUE DIVISION THREE

Date Opponents Ven. Res. Scorers

Sat 13 Aug Radstock Town Res H L 0-3 -

Sat20Aug BurnhamUnitedRes A W6-0 Rowland(3),Hynes,Tanner,Hallett

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

Sat17Sep Congresbury A L0-8 -

Sat 24 Sep Draycott H W 3-1 Derrick, Jeng, Marks

Sat1Oct RadstockTownRes(Cup) A L1-7 Rawlings

Tue4Oct FryClubRes A L0-4 -

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

Tue11Oct PortisheadTown(Cup) A L1-2 Brilliant

Sat15Oct WinscombeRes A W5-2 Rowland(3),F.Maddern,Brilliant

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

Sat12Nov WorleRangers A W1-0 Rawlings

Sat19Nov StGeorgeE-I-G A L1-6 o.g.,

Sat 3 Dec Winscombe Res H W 7-2 Rawlings (3), Rowland (2), F. Maddern (2)

Sat31Dec Draycott A D3-3 Hall-Cousins,Head,Rowland

Sat7Jan TunleyAthletic A W5-3 F.Maddern(2),A.Maddern,Rawlings,og

Sat21Jan SomertonTownRes A

Sat 28 Jan St George E-I-G H

Sat4Feb RadstockTownRes A

Sat 11 Feb Worle Rangers H

Sat 18 Feb Burnham United Res H

Sat25Feb NailseaUnitedRes A

Sat 11 Mar Tunley Athletic H

Sat18Mar Yatton&CleeveUtdRes A

Sat 25 Mar Congresbury H

Sat1Apr ClevedonUtdRes A

Sat 8 Apr Yatton & Cleeve Utd Res H

Sat 22 Apr Fry Club Res H

Pos. Team

UHLSPORT SOMERSET COUNTY LEAGUE DIVISION THREE TABLE

P W D L F A GD Pts

1st Congresbury 13 11 2 0 65 5 60 35

2nd RadstockTownRes 9 8 0 1 30 12 18 24

3rd Bishop Sutton Res 14 7 2 5 39 35 4 23

4th ClevedonUnitedRes 11 5 5 1 25 13 12 20

5th StGeorgeE-I-G 11 5 1 5 27 27 0 16

6th FryClubRes 12 4 3 5 28 20 8 15

7th SomertonTownRes 10 4 2 4 20 23 -3 14

8th Yatton&CleeveUnited 11 4 2 5 23 42 -19 14

9th Draycott 10 4 1 5 25 24 1 13

10th Worle Res 9 4 1 4 16 17 -1 13

11th NailseaUnitedRes 10 3 2 5 11 18 -7 11

12th WinscombeRes 11 2 1 8 16 44 -30 7

13th BurnhamUnited 10 1 2 7 17 37 -20 5

14th TunleyAthletic 9 0 2 7 11 36 -25 -1* *-adjustmentmade

Date

Wed

Thu

Thu 27 Oct AEK Boco H L 1-4 Vickers

Mon31Oct LongwellGreenSports A D3-3 Simmons(2),Maddern

Thu8Dec Bishop’sLydeard(Cup) A L0-1 -

Thu 19 Jan Chipping Sodbury Town H

Tue24Jan AEKBoco A

Thu 9 Feb Portishead Town H

Wed15Feb ChippingSodburyTown A

Thu23Feb PortisheadTown A

Thu

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

Away game guide for the Toolstation Western League Division One

AEK Boco GreenbankRoad,Hanham,BristolBS153RZ 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

Player Appearances & Goals Season 2022/23 (max 24 games)

Player Games Goals

Ethan BALLANTINE 10 3

Reeko BEST 5 0

Harry BILLITERRI 4 0

Jacob BIRD 7 2

Jack BURGESS 1 0

Chris BLAMMON 3 0

Oaklan BUCK 7 4

Jordan CHANDLER 6 1

Josh CLARK 6 2

Josh COMERFORD 15 0

Aysa CORRICK 4 1

Mason DAGGAR 20 1

Billy DOWNES 5 0

Sam DOWNES 1 0

Tom FRANCIS 10 0

Jacob GARDNER 16 0

Mike GRIST 12 2

Luke HALL-COUSINS 23 0

Bradley HARDIDGE 8 0

Josh HARDING 2 0

Sam HAYES 1 0

Joe HEAD 2 0

Player Games Goals

Alex HILL 1 0

Sam HILL 14 0

Keith KEARNEY 5 0

Alfie MADDERN 1 0

Harry NEIL 8 0

Dominic OAKES 20 0

Luke PALMER 12 1

Alessandro PELLICCIA 2 0

Chris PILE 2 0

Lee PITMAN 1 0 Jacob READER 5 0

Aron ROBBINS 2 2 George ROOKE 3 0

Jack ROWLAND 1 0

Paddy ROYAL 18 1 Scott SAUNDERS 11 1

Dan SPILL 4 0

Billy VAUGHAN 6 0

Cody VILE 19 1

Raphael WAUGH 8 0

Jordan WHITTAKER 9 1 Craig WILSON 21 18

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 - (Won 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 W4-1104 Wilson(2),Ballantine,Clark

Tue 1 Nov Bishop’s Lydeard H W 2-025 Wilson, Robbins

Sat5Nov Nailsea&Tick’nam A L1-7 53 Robbins

Sat 12 Nov Gillingham Town H D 0-0 48 -

Sat 19 Nov Brislington H L 0-3 86 -

Wed 30 Nov Wincanton (SPC) H D 2-2 - Wilson, Corrick (W 4-2 pens)

Sat 3 Dec Portishead Town A W 2-1- Wilson (2)

Date Opponents Ven. Res. Att. Scorers

2023

Mon2Jan RadstockTown A L0-3 121 -

Tue 17 Jan Ilfracombe (LPC) H

Sat 21 Jan AEK Boco H

Tue 24 Jan Bristol Tel. H

Sat28Jan WincantonTown A

Tue 31 Jan Frome T. (SPC) H

Sat4Feb Bishop’sLydeard A

Tue 7 Feb Wells City H

Sat11Feb Hallen A

Wed15Feb WarminsterT A

Sat 18 Feb Odd Down (Bath) H

Wed22Feb Shirehampton A

Sat25Feb HengroveAthletic A

Tue28Feb OddDown 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

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