2015/16 Unicorn Athletic Football Club Match E-Programme
Saturday 9th April 2016 3:00pm Cheshire League 2
ISSUE
ISSUE 04 Unicorn Athletic JFC Valley Road, Flixton Manchester, M41 8RQ CLUB CONTACT UnicornAthleticFC.co.uk Email: unicorn athleticfc@outlook.com CLUB STAFF Chairman: Darren Storey Vice-Chariman: Chris Leigh Secretary: Steve MacKinnon FOOTBALL STAFF 1st XI Manager: Dave Potter Assistants: Gary Brown Coach: Wayne Richardson GK Coach: Damon Carroll Physio: Lauren Quigley Captain: William Aldred Vice-Captain: Jon Kirwin 2nd XI Manager: Darren Storey PROGRAMME: Design: KickOffMedia Photography: Michael Ripley / James Lobley / Elaine Lowe ——————————————————Welcome to Valley Road for today’s fixture against AFC Macclesfield. Promotion chasers are in town today as AFC Macclesfield eye up their place in CL1 and in previous encounters have have shown their capabilities. Get behind the team, grab a drink and some food and we hope you enjoy the game. ——————————————————-
04 I Manager’s Notes 05 I Today’s Visitors 06 I 2015/16 Fixtures 07 I Remaining Fixtures 08 I League Table 09 I Reserves Round Up 10 I Sponsor Unicorn 11 I Next Match 12 I The Line-Ups
‘Pride of The Community’
Unicorn Athletic JFC History…. Unicorn Athletic were formed in 1977 and have predominately been running as a Junior football club for the past 38 years having many successes up to youth football.
In the last few seasons the club has expanded in to adult football seeing the adult’s side coming runners-up 2 years on the bounce in the Broadheath Central Cup, being beat in extra time in both finals and finishing 3rd in the Altrincham & District League before we made the step up to The Hallmark Security Cheshire League. The move to the Cheshire League saw a move in stadia for Unicorn. Smiths Field was the home for the 1st XI but now first team games are played at Valley Road stadium as we look to work ourselves up the non-league pyramid. The club has over 400 players and 40+ coaches with many teams and success in the junior and youth squads.
Cheshire League 2
‘Pride Of The Community’
Credit: Elaine Lowe
DAVE POTTER
Welcome to Valley Road for today’s home game against AFC Macclesfield. Thank you again for your continued support over this season.
A tough game in store with the league leaders making the trip over to Flixton today and we know it’ll be tough to get anything out of the game but know it’s not out of our reach. Our main problem this season, especially so in recent week is the injuries to the squad. We are carrying 14 injuries and it’s limiting the options to my team and is making it difficult to get positive results where possible. Last time out against Warrington Town Reserves they played a very strong team and we lost comfortably but that’s behind us and we want to get back on track. We have already faced AFC Macclesfield and they are a very strong outfit who have a small squad but a very settled squad and have real quality throughout the side and look to be the champions this season. But we’re no pushovers and we want to spoil a potential party. Enjoy the game, Dave
Matchday Programme 2015/16
AFC Macclesfield are the visitors to Valley Road in today’s league encounter. HOME GROUND: Stockport Sports Village FORM: WWWWWW 2014/15 LEAGUE FINISH: 5th
Manager: Ed Haslam
AFC Macclesfield’s recent history has seen them enjoy good success. They were formerly known as Poynton Kingfisher and the club was struggling in the East Cheshire League. Poynton were playing home games at Woodford Recreation Ground. Current manager Ed Haslam and secretary Bob Haslam took reigns of the team at the beginning of the 2012/13 season bringing big changes to the team. They changed their name to FC Woodford and with the name change came their first ever league title.
Success followed again next season with an unbeaten season and another league title in the Altrincham and District league. Woodford moved to the Cheshire league for the 2014/15 season and moved to the Stockport Sports Village. They finished 5th and reached the Quarter-Finals of the J A Walton Challenge Cup. Prior to the 2015/16 season FC Woodford became AFC Macclesfield and this season looks like being a title winning season yet again.
Matchday Programme 2015/16
Date
Match
Competition
15/08/15
Cuddington 6-2 Unicorn
Cheshire League 2
19/08/15
Cheadle Town Reserves 0-3 Unicorn
Cheshire League 2
22/08/15
Lostock Gralam 6-4 Unicorn
Cheshire League 2
25/08/15
Mersey Valley 2-2 Unicorn
Cheshire League 2
29/08/15
Unicorn 4-3 Cheadle Town Reserves
J A Walton Challenge Cup
05/09/15
Litherland REMYCA 1-3 Unicorn
Cheshire League 2
12/09/15
Knutsford 11-1 Unicorn
Cheshire Amateur Cup
19/09/15
Cheshire League 2
26/09/15
AFC Macclesfield 6-1 Unicorn Unicorn 1-3 West Didsbury & Chorlton Reserves
10/10/15
Unicorn 0-3 FC St Helens
Cheshire League 2
17/10/15
Halebank 3-1 Unicorn
Cheshire League 2
24/10/15
Altrincham FA Senior Cup
07/11/15
Wythenshawe Town 5-1 Unicorn West Didsbury & Chorlton Reserves 5-1 Unicorn
14/11/15
Unicorn 3-7 Mersey Valley
Cheshire League 2
21/11/15
Halebank 6-2 Unicorn
J A Walton Challenge Cup
09/01/16
Unicorn v Cuddington
Cheshire League
23/01/16
Unicorn 1-2 Cheadle Town Reserves
Cheshire League 2
20/02/16
Moore United 5-5 Unicorn
Cheshire League 2
27/02/16
Unicorn 3-8 Warrington Town Reserves
Cheshire League 2
05/03/16
Wythenshawe Town 8-1 Unicorn
J A Walton Challenge Cup
12/03/16
Unicorn 4-3 Moore United
Cheshire League 2
19/03/16
FC St Helens 4-2 Unicorn
Cheshire League 2
26/03/16
Unicorn Athletic 0-4 Lostock Gralam
Cheshire League 2
05/04/16
Warrington Town Reserves 10-0 Unicorn Cheshire League 2
Cheshire League 2
Cheshire League 2
Matchday Programme 2015/16
Date
Match
Competition
09/04/16
Unicorn v AFC Macclesfield
Cheshire League 2
12/04/16
Unicorn v Litherland REMYCA
Cheshire League 2
Two more league games to be arranged. Follow Unicorn Athletic on Twitter: @UnicornAthFC to keep updates for the latest news across the club.
Matchday Programme 2015/16
PLD PTS
GS GC
GD +51
1st
AFC Macclesfield
18
49
70 19
2nd
Warrington Town Reserves
19
37
77 38 +39
3rd
Lostock Gralam
18
37
45 30 +15
4th
Mersey Valley
18
31
62 38 +24
5th
FC St Helens
14
28
36 32
6th
Halebank
11
25
41 25 +16
7th
West Didsbury & Chorlton Reserves
16
19
30 36
8th
Cheadle Town Reserves
14
19
28 40 -12
9th
Cuddington
16
12
31 59 -28
10th
Unicorn Athletic
18
11
36 78 -42
11th
Moore United
13
6
18 44 -26
12th
Litherland REMYCA
15
3
22 57 -35
Today’s Fixtures Cheshire League 2: Halebank v West Didsbury & Chorlton Reserves Moore United v Cheadle Town Reserves Unicorn Athletic v AFC Macclesfield Warrington Town Reserves v Lostock Gralam J A Walton Challenge Cup: Altrincham Reserves v Litherland REMYCA Maine Road Reserves v Cuddington
+4 -6
Matchday Programme 2015/16
Darren Storey has really got the reserves firing on all cylinders winning 4 of the last 5 games.
Beating Sale United Reserves 5-2 & 4-0 in the last 2 games and being very unlucky losing 2-3 to APFC and two 3-0 wins against Altrincham Hale Reserves and Flixton Afc respectively. Darren has said its been great seeing the team grow and fright for each other and play some great football and they look forward to continuing the climb up the table.
PLD
TEAM
PLD
PTS
GD
5th Wythenshawe Amateurs
11
15
+7
6th UNICORN ATHLETIC RES
12
10
-13
7th
11
7
-13
Flixton AFC
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Next Up Unicorn Ath v Litherland REMYCA April 12th Valley Road, Flixton Cheshire League 2
Next up for Unicorn Athletic is a home game on Tuesday night where Litherland REMYCA are the visitors to Valley Road. REMYCA are the new boys to this league, they are the development squad for the NWCFL first team side and only have one win to their name this season. Manager Dave Potter had his say on the game, “Another tough game for us despite our visitors being bottom.
We have so many injuries which are not helping us and even so our opponents are a good side who are not enjoying the luck at the moment. It’ll be a competitive game but we know we’ll have to perform to get anything positive from the game”. Another big home league game and we need your support so get down to Valley Road on Tuesday night and support the team hopefully to an important 3 points There will be some build up on the club’s Twitter and Facebook pages so make sure you’re keeping updated with the latest Unicorn news.
Jon Kirwin Ben David Toc O'Connor Aaron Gibbs Andy Massey Anthony Newby Shae Mills Oliver Tharratt Ben Boyne Will Aldred Daniel Long Tom Waring Matt Aikenhead Paul Lewis Ryan Stewart Jamie MacKenzie James Arnold Dimitri Aoembe Jimmy Pearce Obi Beevers Tom Carter Ian Lowe Joe McCann Obi Ezah Ray Warburton Jordan Powell
Match Official Referee - Nigel Lane
Chris Allen Jack Banister Elliot Bruce Mike Byrne Jonny Cavanagh Chris Coppenhall Jordan Gregory Edward Haslam Jordan Hitchen Chris Holland Matt Horton Alex Jackson Lee Malkin Greg Mathers Chris Megarrell Patrick Walker James Wheeler Harry Wheetman Sam Williamson Scott Wright
Next Match v Litherland REMYCA / Home Saturday 12th April 2016 / 18:30
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