“THE GROVE” Official matchday programme of Hengrove Athletic FC
Toolstation Western League Division 1
Welton Rovers F.C. Tuesday 3rd November 2020
7.30pm ko
Hengrove Athletic Football Club Founded 1948
The AVB Stadium, Norton Lane, Whitchurch, Bristol BS14 0BT *Main Club Sponsor for season 2020/21 - AVB Commercials* Club Officials Chairman Treasurer Secretary Groundsmen Ref. Liaison Off. Manager Assistant Man. Coach Kit Manager Committee
Club Honours Mike Greatbanks Jemma Greatbanks Martin McConachie Nigel Gray Dave Fear Graham Close Jamie Hillman Jon Berry Ian Jones Pete Stenner Jon Berry Alan Burton Dave Fear Mike Greatbanks Jamie Hillman Paul Hynam Ian Jones Giorgio Mancini Martin McConachie Pete Stenner
web: www.hengroveathletic.com email: secretary@hengroveathletic.com
Alf Bosley Cup winners 1958/59 and 1963/64 Somerset Junior Cup winners 1964/65 Somerset League Cup winners 1979/80 Somerset Senior Cup winners 1979/80 Promoted to Somerset County Prem
1995/96 Somerset Senior Cup runners-up 2003/04 and 2004/05 Somerset County Prem winners 2005/06 Western League Div 1 runners-up 2012/13 and 2016/17 Les Phillips Cup winners 2015/16 FA Vase 3rd Round 2015/16 Phone: Phone:
07884 492217 (chair) 07432 614494 (sec)
A warm welcome to our visitors… Welton Rovers F.C. Tonight, we offer a warm welcome to the players, officials & supporters of Welton Rovers Football Club as well as the match officials too. We hope they enjoy their brief stay in the village and have a safe journey home. Rovers are enjoying a great start to the season and visit here tonight sitting on top of the Division One table. They have won seven and drawn two of their nine matches but last Saturday, they were unceremoniously dumped out of the FA Cup 5-0 by Bridgwater Town. They will be keen to get back into winning ways tonight so will offer a very tough test. Of course, how long this season goes on for now is anyone’s guess. The national lockdown comes in on Thursday with non-elite football set to halt for four weeks. We all hope that this will be the full extent of it as many teams will miss five or six more matches during this period. Given that the season is already truncated, and with the weather turning bad as well, the annual fixture pile up could happen sooner rather than later. Everyone in football, be they players or supporters or officials want the best for family and friends and for them to be safe but clubs at our level have done an astonishing amount of work to make their grounds COVID-safe, yet we will not be playing for a month while other social activities, many indoors, will continue. It’s puzzling but one thing we can all agree on, the sooner this virus is brought under control, the better. I’d imagine there are a few new people visiting the AVB Stadium tonight as football closes down for a month; thank you for coming and I hope you find your welcome warm and your beer cold, and not the other way around!
Finally, we would ask you to consider using the services of our kind sponsors featured in this programme and also the advertising boards around the ground. If you do so, please could you kindly mention that you saw their advert on your visit to the AVB Stadium? Many thanks and enjoy the match!
Martin McConachie Club Secretary
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Hengrove Athletic will be 75 years old at the start of season 2022/23. Our club history is elsewhere In this programme but we were formed just after the war and play in green & white because green dye was all that was available to colour our white shirts with. To celebrate our 75th anniversary, we have put together a project compiled of four mini projects that will see us substantially refresh and improve in the areas of
Pitch
Ground
Clubhouse
Structure
Soon, we will have a summary on the club noticeboard of the four projects but for now, please visit the link below on our club website. https://tinyurl.com/y6f9hyox
HENGROVE ATHLETIC PLAYER STATS 2020/2021 (max 10 games) Player
Starts
Sub On
Goals
Yel/Red
MOM
Jackson Brown
8
0
0
0/0
1
Regan Burton
7
3
0
0/0
1
Carl Bush
1
0
0
0/0
0
Kye Callaghan
3
1
0
2/0
0
Danny Constable
4
4
0
0/0
0
Minas Constantinou
6
0
0
1/0
0
Luke Crewe
5
1
0
1/0
0
Jack Godfrey
3
7
0
1/0
0
Will Harvey
6
1
0
2/0
0
Sam Jackson
0
2
0
0/0
0
Jack Jones
7
2
7
2/0
1
Giorgio Mancini
7
0
1
1/1
0
Mickey Parsons
6
1
1
1/1
0
Sam Payne
9
0
0
0/0
1
Pete Sheppard
8
0
0
0/0
0
Gary Shorney
9
0
0
0/0
0
Louis Snailham
1
2
0
0/0
0
Harry Thomas-Barker
7
0
0
2/0
0
Adrian Thompson
8
1
1
2/0
0
Billy Vaughan
0
1
0
0/0
0
Craig White
5
2
0
2/0
0
Statistics include only yellow & red cards from abandoned Bishop Sutton game.
184 Wells Road, Knowle, Bristol, BS4 2DL
Tonight - Premier Division Brislington v Tavistock Chipping Sodbury Town v Westbury United Cribbs v Odd Down (Bath)
Tonight - FA Vase Bishop’s Cleeve v Shepton Mallet
Wednesday 4th November - Premier Division Exmouth Town v Keynsham Town Plymouth Parkway v Street
Tonight - Division One Bristol Telephones v Calne Town Hengrove Athletic v Welton Rovers
Tonight - FA Vase Brimscombe & Thrupp v Longwell Green Sports
Wednesday 4th November - Division One Sherborne Town v Bishop Sutton
Friday 6th November - FA Vase Cheddar v Ashton & Backwell
CLUB SHOP (situated in the clubhouse & online at www.hengroveathletic.com)
Mugs - £4.50
Mousemats - £4.00 Pens - £1.00 Keyrings - £2.50
Coasters - £1.25
Car stickers £1.00
Fridge magnets £2.00
Replica shirts & polo shirts to order
Larger club shop planned in 2021
Suggestions for products welcome!
& EVENTS What’s going on at the AVB Stadium (www.hengroveathletic.com) CLUB COMMITTEE MEETINGS 2020/2021 October TBA Monday 9th November Monday 14th December Monday 11th January Monday 8th February Monday 8th March Monday 12th April
Monday 10th May
NEXT FIXTURE AT THE AVB STADIUM
OLDLAND ABBOTONIANS Saturday 5th December 2020 3.00pm
TONIGHT’S Hengrove Athletic Green & White Shirts Green Shorts Green Socks
Carl BUSH Harry THOMAS-BARKER Luke CREWE Gary SHORNEY Minas CONSTANTINOU Kye CALLAGHAN Aidan JONES Jackson BROWN Sam PAYNE Adrian THOMPSON Will HARVEY Regan BURTON Jack GODFREY Billy VAUGHAN Jamie GODFREY Giorgio MANCINI Craig WHITE Sam JACKSON Mickey PARSONS Danny CONSTABLE Jack JONES Pete SHEPPARD Manager
Jamie HILLMAN
Assistant
Jon BERRY
Coach
Ian JONES
Referee Daniel BUGG
LINE-UPS Welton Rovers FC Yellow & Blue Shirts Blue Shorts Blue Socks
Matt DUNK Robson COLE Alex WYCH Sam STOPPARD Keelan MASTOURAS Dan VEAL Jacob WATSON Sam ROBERTS Joe ELLIS Scott HATCHER Matt CURNOCK Lewis COLEMAN Leon CLAYTON-CLARKE Chris PILE Lewis RUSSELL Kyle BOX Dawid REGULA Courtney CHARLES
Manager
Tom SMITH
Assistant
Will JUSTIN
Physio
Ash BIRD
Assistants Junal BARBOZA Colin SKYRME
Focus on… Welton Rovers F.C. Founded as Welton Red Star, in the coal mining town of Midsomer Norton, in 1887, Welton Rovers are five time winners of the Western League and its longest serving members. Rovers’ relationship with the Western League began in the 1903/04 season. The club’s first few decades saw them triumph in multiple Somerset Senior Cups, and win their first Western League title in 1912, but a failed attempt at professionalism would see the club go bankrupt and unable to compete in the 1923/24 season. This blip is the only break in Welton’s membership of the Western League from 1903 to the modern-day, the club holding the dubious honour of having never been relegated — or promoted — outside of the two division set -up. In the years following World War 2, Welton built the most successful Amateur side in the area with four consecutive Amateur Cup victories, and in Brian Barker, Keith Simmons and Eddie Attwood, the best forward line for miles around. Rovers’ golden period came in the mid-1960s following the appointment, in 1963, of the club’s first official manager, former Huddersfield Town and Bristol City striker Arnold Rodgers, and the return to professionalism. Welton became only the second club to win the Western League three times in a row — after Portsmouth FC— at the turn of the century, with wins in ’65, ’66 (undefeated!) and ’67. Potent throughout the time was the club’s record goalscorer, Ian Henderson, who scored 321 goals in his spells with Welton. Rovers’ triumphs brought with them an inflated reputation and showpiece matches, with the club’s best ever FA Cup performance seeing them face AFC Bournemouth (then known as Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic) in 1966 as well as exotic away days for end of season matches against a Guernsey XI in 1965 and to the Costa Brava the following year.
As is often the case, Welton’s successes brought excesses and financial problems, and following the departure of Rodgers and 10 of his first-team squad, to Bath City, a period of uncertainty and mediocrity followed. That was until Dave Stone took the managerial reigns in 1971 and led Welton to their fourth, and most recent, league title in the 73/74 season. Other showcases of the early ‘70s would see Juventus and Leeds United legend John Charles play and score at West Clewes for Merthyr Tydfil in the FA Trophy, and then a Rothmans Cup final against now League One side Wycombe Wanderers. The 1990s started with possibly the club’s most ridiculous season, finishing rock bottom of the Premier Division and getting through three managers. The third of which, Peter De Sisto, brought former Football League players Alan Biley and Gary Stanley to the club, but could only win three games all season. As bad as the decade began, it ended on a high with Welton Rovers’ locally assembled side winning promotion back to the Premier Division, and under the tutelage of Adie Britton.
Focus on‌ Welton Rovers F.C. The past two decades have brought plenty of good times for Rovers’ large and vociferous support, known as the Green Army. In 2006, Chris Mountford led Welton to their most successful season since the 1970s, with a 4th place Premier Division finish and Les Phillips Cup Semi-Final. Then, under Mark Harrington in 2010, Rovers won the Somerset Premier Cup for the first time, at Huish Park. A semi-final victory against Yeovil Town landed Rovers a final with Bridgwater Town, who they defeated on penalties to claim the silverware. That side contained Nick Beaverstock, the man who would lead the Greens to their next taste of glory as manager when they won promotion to the Western League Premier Division in 2015. Beaverstock would go on to become the Rovers manager to take charge of the second highest number of matches, totalling 223 after a caretaker spell last season. The club began the 2019/20 season with Jared Greenhalgh at the helm, but this did not bring the anticipated results, and shortly after Christmas the manager and club parted ways by mutual agreement. After a rigorous application process, Tom Smith and his assistant Will Justin took the helm, but before they could make their mark, coronavirus caused the curtailment of the season. The summer of 2020 has seen huge efforts to bring together a strong and exciting squad to push Rovers forward into the 2020s. CLUB HONOURS Western League Champions:
1911-12,1964-65,1965-66 1966-67,1973-74
Western League Division 1 Champions:
1959-60, 1987-88
Western League Amateur Trophy Winners:1956-57, 1957-58, 1958-59, 1959-60 Somerset Premier Cup Winners:
2009-2010
Allan Young Winners:
1965-66, 1966-67, 1967-68
Somerset Senior Cup Winners:
1906-07,1911-12,1912-13,1913-14, 1919-20,1924-25,1925-26,1960-61 1961-62,1962-63
WCB Clares City of Wells Cup Winners:
1978-79
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Hengrove Athletic would like to thank all its supporters & sponsors for their help over the past few months. In what has been a trying time for everyone in life, not just football, your generosity, loyalty and commitment does not go unnoticed. We are a small club trying to do things the right way which is not always easy but with you behind us, we can achieve it. So from all of us at the Grove, a huge THANK YOU!
Hengrove Athletic Football Club is renowned within the local leagues and amongst match officials for offering a warm, friendly welcome and top notch hospitality. The ground itself, the AVB Stadium in Norton Lane, is pleasant and offers superb views of the city of Bristol as well as the peace and quiet of the country. It's a lovely place to watch a great game of football!
Here at the club, the last few seasons have been very successful and as a result, we are looking for people to join the team. Not the one ON the pitch that have won two promotions and a Les Phillips Cup in the last eight years, but the one OFF it; the team behind the team if you like. We are looking for anyone that feels they could make a contribution to the club. On matchdays, it could be serving refreshments and food, selling raffle tickets, working on the front gate or helping to tidy up after the game. You'll get to watch the football free of charge of course but better still, you'll be joining a small team of dedicated hard working volunteers that make this club very special. On non-matchdays, there are other jobs that need doing such as strimming, painting, cleaning, weeding, brushing.. You name it, we need to do it! However with only a small band of willing helpers, we can always do with a little more help, no matter how many hours you can give up. If you feel this could be you, please email chairman Mike Greatbanks on mike.greatbanks@btconnect.com or call him on 07884 492217. And thank you!
Supporting the club….
Perimeter Advertising Perimeter advertising boards are a great way to advertise your business at our home ground in Norton Lane, Whitchurch. Match action pictures often appear in the local newspapers, on club websites, in matchday programmes & on social media too so your company boards will be seen regularly. Perimeter boards cost £200 for the first year (including their manufacture) and then just £100 a year for renewal. We have a very special package for companies that choose this option… You will receive free entry for two people to a first team home match including a free match programme; free drinks before, during & after the match and your name in the matchday programme and on the website for the whole season.
Programme Advertising The Hengrove Athletic matchday programme is packed with lots of information about all the teams at the club, forthcoming fixtures, tables, results and much more. Advertising costs £50 for a full page and £25 for a half page. Prices are for a full season of programmes so a guarantee of 19 games plus a few in cup competitions hopefully. As a thank you, we’ll also put the name of your company & a link to its website on www.hengroveathletic.com , the club’s official website.
Website Advertising The official club website - www.hengroveathletic.com - is one of the best of its type at this level. It’s jam packed with information, news, results, many statistics and photos from the teams that play under the Hengrove banner. For just £25, you could have a presence on our home page which people could see every time they visit the club website. The website is updated every day of the week so it never gets stale and in the season, numbers of visits and views rise even higher as people log in to find out the latest from the Lane!
Hengrove Athletic Club History
Hengrove Athletic F.C was formed in 1948 from players who were demobbed from National Service.
As a footnote, there is also wartime history to the club colours of green and white. With the rationing and many shortages, football shirts were virtually unobtainable so all of the members of Hengrove Athletic F.C donated an ordinary white shirt and a mother of one of the players kindly dyed them green in the bath at her Knowle home. The colour green had no symbolic meaning. It was the only colour available at the time! The founding fathers of the club then agreed to retain these colours. A successful application was made to join the Bristol and Suburban League and they were placed in Division 3 for the start of 1948-49 season. A Reserve XI was then established in 1950 and in the same year Hengrove Hall was rented to hold club meetings and the social gatherings. The club continued to expand and the ‘A’ XI started in 1953, followed by the 30plus XI in 1959. These four football teams made the club the largest in the Bristol and Suburban League at the time – after just eleven years. A ‘B’ XI replaced the 30 plus in 1962. The long search for a ground came to fruition on Sunday 7 June 1964 when Norton Lane was officially opened and Hengrove Athletic F.C took up residence. The first XI was accepted by the Somerset Senior League for the 1974-75 season, where they remained until 2005-2006 when they were runaway, unbeaten, Premier Division Champions and joined the Western League for the start of the 2006-07 season. Our floodlights and stand were installed at the ground in 2007-2008 to achieve the necessary ground grading of the Western League. The EWW Stand was installed at the ground in 20122013 to enter the FA Cup and future possible promotions. The first XI finished runners-up in Western League Division One in 2012-2013, achieving promotion to the Premier Division for the first time. They then lifted the Les Phillips League Cup (Western League) in 2015-2016 before winning promotion to the Premier Division again in 2016/17. In 2017/18, the club finished ninth in the table, their highest position ever, and also the highest placed Bristol team at this level! The club have also hosted other teams including Bristol Premier Combination side De Veys and in recent seasons, have also agreed deals to become the new base for the Three Lions FC, Bristol Spartak and the junior teams of St Aldhelm’s. In the summer of 2020, the ground at Norton Lane was renamed the AVB Stadium. The club will celebrate their 75th anniversary in three years time, in 2023.
Clubhouse Hire
Hengrove Athletic also have a clubhouse available for hire. Able to accommodate up to 120 people, it can be hired by Hengrove members and non-members alike for... Birthday parties (no 18th parties)
Wedding receptions
Engagement parties & retirement parties
Christmas parties
Karaoke evenings & Discos
Race nights, Quiz nights etc
Summer fun days & Barbecues The clubhouse features a bar, large screen, sound system and dance floor & kitchen facilities are also available if required. For further information on booking, to make a booking or to arrange a time to view the room, please call the chairman Mike Greatbanks on 07884 492217 or email chairman@hengroveathletic.com
A guide to away games this season in the Toolstation Western League Division One
Almondsbury FC
The Field, Gloucester Rd, Almondsbury BS32 4AA
17.9 miles
Ashton & Backwell
Lancer Scott Stadium, West Town Rd, Backwell BS48 3HW 11.0 miles
Bishop’s Lydeard Darby Way, Bishops Lydeard, Taunton TA4 3BA
45.9 miles
Bishop Sutton
7.7 miles
Lakeview, Wick Road, Bishop Sutton BS39 5XN
Bristol Telephones BTRA Ground, Stockwood Lane, Bristol BS14 8SJ
1.2 miles
Calne Town
Bremhill View, Calne, Wiltshire SN11 9EE
30.2 miles
Cheddar
Bowdens Park, Draycott Rd, Cheddar BS27 3RL
19.4 miles
Corsham Town
Southbank Ground, Lacock Rd, Corsham, SN13 9HS
23.0 miles
Devizes Town
Nursteed Road, Devizes, Wiltshire SN10 3DX
35.5 miles
Lebeq United
Oaklands Park, Almondsbury, Bristol BS32 4AA
17.9 miles
Longwell Green
Shellards Road, Longwell Green, Bristol BS30 9AD
5.8 miles
Oldland Abbotonians Aitchison Playing Field, Castle Rd, Oldland BS30 9SZ
6.4 miles
Portishead Town
Bristol Road, Portishead, Bristol BS20 6QG
14.2 miles
Radstock Town
Southfields Rec Ground, Southfields, Radstock BA3 3NZ
12.0 miles
Sherborne Town
Raleigh Grove, The Terrace PF, Sherborne DT9 5NS
41.2 miles
Warminster Town Weymouth Street, Warminster, Wilts BA12 9NS
27.2 miles
Wells City
Rowdens Road, Wells BA5 1TU
17.6 miles
Welton Rovers
West Clewes, North Rd, Midsomer Norton, BA3 2EW 10.4 miles
Wincanton Town
Sports Ground, Moor Lane, Wincanton, BA9 9EJ
29.1 miles
All distances are correct according to the AA.com route planner. Postcodes taken from the Toolstation League handbook 2018/19.
Fixtures & Results 2020/21 Date
Opponents
Ven
Res
Att
Scorers
Wed 8 Sep
Lebeq United
A
1-1
24
Parsons
Sat 19 Sep
Wellington (FAV)
A
Sat 26 Sep
Wells City
A
2-2 68 Mancini, J Jones (5-4 on pens) 0-2 52 -
Tue 29 Sep Devizes Town
H
0-0
72
-
Sat 3 Oct
Wincanton Town
H
0-2
50
-
Sat 10 Oct
Street (FAV)
A
0-2
105
-
Tue 13 Oct Portishead Town
H
2-1
71
J. Jones, own goal
Sat 17 Oct
A
2-0
53
J. Jones (2)
Tue 20 Oct Bishop Sutton
H
3-0
92
J. Jones (2), Thompson
Sat 24 Oct
Ashton & Backwell Utd
A
1-1
165
J. Jones
Tue 3 Nov
Welton Rovers
H
Sat 7 Nov
Warminster Town
A
P-P
Sat 14 Nov
Longwell Green Sports
H
P-P
Sat 21 Nov
Almondsbury
A
P-P
Sat 28 Nov
Calne Town
H
P-P
Sat 5 Dec
Oldland Abbotonians
H
Sat 12 Dec
Radstock Town
A
Sat 19 Dec
Corsham Town
A
Sat 26 Dec
Bristol Telephones
H
Sat 2 Jan
Calne Town
A
Sat 9 Jan
Wells City
H
Sat 16 Jan
Cheddar
A
Oldland Abbotonians
Fixtures & Results 2020/21 Date
Opponents
Ven
Sat 23 Jan
Lebeq United
H
Sat 30 Jan
Longwell Green
A
Sat 6 Feb
Portishead Town
A
Sat 13 Feb
Warminster Town
H
Sat 20 Feb
Sherborne Town
A
Sat 27 Feb
Corsham Town
H
Sat 6 Mar
Cheddar
H
Sat 13 Mar
Bishop’s Lydeard
A
Sat 20 Mar
Sherborne Town
A
Sat 27 Mar Ashton & Backwell Utd
H
Fri 2 Apr
A
Bristol Telephones
Mon 5 Apr Radstock Town
H
Sat 10 Apr
Bishop’s Lydeard
H
Sat 17 Apr
Wincanton Town
A
Sat 24 Apr
Bishop Sutton
A
Sat 1 May
Sherborne Town
H
Sat 8 May
Devizes Town
A
Sat 15 May Almondsbury
H
Res
Att
Scorers
Fixtures subject to change, please visit www.hengroveathletic.com for the latest info or follow us on Twitter - @HengroveAFC P-P
Matches postponed due to COVID-19 second lockdown
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