2015/16 Unicorn Athletic Football Club Match E-Programme
Saturday 27th February 2016 2:00pm 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 Warrington Town Reserves, we’re finally back in action following weeks of postponements. Tricky customers are in town today as Warrington Town in previous encounters have proved their worth massively. 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 Building The Support 08 I League Table 09 I Unicorn Online 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 today’s game, hope you have had a safe journey to Valley Road today. After a long time without constant matches hopefully we turn a corner and have solid set of fixtures over the coming weeks. League takes centre stage and we want to captilise in order to finish as high as possible and prove the qualities and capabilities in this team. Last time out we came away with a 5-5 draw away at Moore United and the players fought well in order to get the point and now we need to take that into today’s game Today’s game will be tough and the squad know that but I thoroughly believe in my squad and I think they will give anyone a game in this league. Warrington have proven their class throughout the season and hopefully we put together the performance to get a positive result. I’m confident that we can improve our fortunes further and that today is the day the results go our way. I hope that all of those who attend today’s game enjoy what they see.
Matchday Programme 2015/16
Warrington Town make the trip to Valley Road for today’s league encounter. HOME GROUND: Cantilever Park FORMED: 1949 FORM: LWLWLW
2014/15 LEAGUE FINISH: 11th (CL1 RELEGATED) Manager: Steve Hayes
Formed in 1949, Warrington Town’s first team currently play in the Northern Premier 1st Division North. Famous particularly for their FA Cup last season but it’s the Reserves side who make the trip to Valley Road today. Warrington Reserves have been a part of the Cheshire League a long time and last season were in Cheshire League 1 but unfortunately got relegated with Lostock Gralam.
Last season they failed to qualify from their JA Walton Challenge Group, a group won by the team with the 100% record Wythenshawe Town. They managed to reach the President’s cup Semi-Final before losing out to Malpas 5-1 Warrington have fared well in Cheshire League 2, currently sitting in 3rd and have promotion firmly in their eyes.
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 v Warrington Town Reserves
Cheshire League 2
05/03/16
Wythenshawe Town v Unicorn
J A Walton Challenge Cup
12/03/16
Unicorn v Moore United
Cheshire League 2
19/03/16
FC St Helens v Unicorn
Cheshire League 2
26/03/16
Unicorn Athletic v Lostock Gralam
Cheshire League 2
Cheshire League 2
Cheshire League 2
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 Broadheath Central Res
12
20
+14
6th UNICORN ATHLETIC RES
10
13
-1
7th
9
12
+2
Wythenshawe Ams
Matchday Programme 2015/16
PLD PTS
GS GC
GD
1st
AFC Macclesfield
15
40
61 17 +44
2nd
Lostock Gralam
16
33
41 30 +11
3rd
Warrington Town Reserves
15
31
58 29 +29
4th
Mersey Valley
16
31
60 34 +26
5th
Halebank
9
22
37 23 +14
6th
FC St Helens
11
19
28 29
-1
7th
West Didsbury & Chorlton Reserves
14
13
26 34
-8
8th
Cheadle Town Reserves
11
13
20 34 -14
9th
Unicorn Athletic
13
8
27 49 -22
10th
Cuddington
14
6
25 56 -31
11th
Moore United
8
5
14 32 -18
12th
Litherland REMYCA
12
3
18 48 -30
Today’s Fixtures Cheshire League 2: Cuddington v Litherland REMYCA FC St Helens Unicorn Athletic v Warrington Town Reserves West Didsbury & Chorlton Reserves v Moore United J A Walton Challenge Cup: Cheadle Town Reserves v Halebank Egerton v AFC Macclesfield
Matchday Programme 2015/16
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Next Up Unicorn Ath v Wythenshawe Town March 5th Admission: £2/£1/Free Ericstan Park, Wythenshawe
Next up for Unicorn Athletic is a trip to local side Wythenshawe Town in Baguley where we face off for the second time this season, this time in the J A Walton Challenge Cup Wythenshawe Town ply their trade in the Cheshire League 1 after winning Unicorn’s current league last season, winning every game. Manager Dave Potter had his say on the game, “An extremely tough game this will be for us.
Wythenshawe won every game last season and the whole club is on the up so momentum is with them. Despite a change of management and players, they are still a superb outfit. They outplayed us in the previous encounter but this time we want a better, more competitive performance”. Another big game and we need your support away from home. It’s another local game with big importance so make sure you don’t miss this one. 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 - George Eaton
Chris Bandell Chris Bibby Rhys Bowers Nathan Butler Ben Collins John Edge Niall Ford Dylan Glass John Hayes Danny Hughes Brad Parker Adam Reynolds Jack Richards Lewis Rowe Sam Turnbull
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Next Match v Wythenshawe Town / Away Saturday 5th March 2016 / 14:00