GoodafternoonEveryoneand welcometotoday’sgame.

Its been a busy 6 weeks from becoming chairman, and an awful lot has happened.

Its never easy to relieve a manager of his duties and that was one of my less enjoyable tasks, removing Nick from his job. As a complete polar opposite it gave me enormous pleasure to welcome Martin Ball and Darryl Thomas as new joint managers. They know it’s a difficult job they’ve undertaken and the experience they will gain in their first appointment will stand them in good stead for the future.

Today we welcome an ex Red Badger’s manager Paul Rockley. A young manager who’s career I’ve followed with great interest. Welcome back to the Halbrooke Paul.

We’ve made great progress with the academy and scholarship program. This is a project I am passionate about, it will enable junior teams to have a pathway from entry through to the senior teams.

On the social side we had a great evening with the ABBA party last Friday. Thanks to everyone involved in organising a great evening, particularly Karen and Steve. More evenings like this to follow please. We have Mark Crossley coming to us on the 16th of April for a Sunday afternoon speakers’ dinner. Please look out for how you can buy tickets/tables for this event, which I’m sure will be a great success.

Don’t forget this is your club, and if you have any ideas for us please don’t hesitate to come and see me. Thank you for your continued support.

Uptheredbadgers!

Darryl Claypole 1stTeamChairman

Goodafternooneveryoneandwelcome toallthemanagement,playersand supportersmakingtheshortjourney acrossfromAFCMansfieldfortoday’s game.

It has been a whirlwind couple of weeks for DT and myself, and it was nice to get some time at training with the lads this week after 3 games back to back since we were appointed.

We have introduced some new faces this week and we are looking forward to putting our stamp and ideas on the squad moving forward.

In all honesty, we have been disappointed with the results and performances following on from such a positive display in the Loughborough game, but we remain positive that we can turn a corner starting with today’s game.

Thank you again to everyone involved in the club for the warm welcome…let’s get behind the lads today