Buckland Vs Melksham

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BUCKLAND ATHLETIC v MELKSHAM TOWN Saturday 2nd September 2017 3.00pm - Homers Heath

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Buckland Athletic Football Club Buckland Athletic Football Club Founded 1977 Homers Heath, Kingskerswell Road, Newton Abbot, Devon.

TQ12 5JU Members of The Western League, The South Devon League and The Torbay Pioneer League Ground Homers Heath 01626 361020 Chairman - Roy Holmes 01626 369345 Secretary - Christine Holmes 01626.369345 Vice-Chairman - Nigel Holmes 01626 361441 Treasurer - Leona Glanfield Joint Groundsman - Simon Glanfield & Simon Dungey Commercial Manager - John Piller 07836 774048 jpbafc@hotmail.com SDL Fixture Secretary - Bob Hext 07515 468107 Programme Editor - Paul Hardingham 01626 335503 phardingham@virginmedia.com Honorary Life Members - Gerald Heath, Clive Holmes & Andy Hill Senior Team Managers 1st Team - Ellis Laight 2nd Team 3rd Team - Nigel Holmes Ladies 1st Team - Grant Fisher Ladies Development Team - Rob Hill Junior’s Secretary & Pioneer Youth Officer - Victoria Montandon Web-Sites Seniors www.clubwebsite.co.uk/bucklandathleticfc01 Western League website www.toolstationleague.com South Devon League Web-site www.sdfl.org.uk

IN THIS PROGRAMME HOMERS LINES JP’S COMMERCIAL COLUMN MANAGER’S SAY BUCK’S 1ST TEAM ALL TIME HISTORY SPONSOR A 1ST TEAM PLAYER VISITORS TODAY BUCK’S ED’S LOOK AT OUR VISITORS PREVIOUS MEETINGS 1ST TEAM FIXTURES, RESULTS & SCORERS BUCK’S ED’S SAY WESTERN LEAGUE TABLES, FIXTURES DOWN MEMORY LANE 2ND, 3RDS, LADIES FIXTURES WL PREMIER DIVISION CLUB DIRECTORY BUCKLAND ATHLETIC HISTORY & HONOURS

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UPCOMING FIXTURES SATURDAY 9th SEPTEMBER 2017 WESTERN LEAGUE PREMIER DIVISION LONGWELL GREEN SPORTS vs BUCKLAND ATHLETIC KICK OFF 3pm TUESDAY 12th SEPTEMBER 2017 WESTERN LEAGUE PREMIER DIVISION BUCKLAND ATHLETIC vs BRIDPORT KICK OFF 7.30pm SATURDAY 16th SEPTEMBER 2017 WESTERN LEAGUE PREMIER DIVISION BUCKLAND ATHLETIC vs CLEVEDON TOWN KICK OFF 3pm We would like to extend a warm Buckland welcome to the manager, officials & supporters of Melksham Town to Homers Heath for this game, and may your journey home be a safe one!

Buckland Athletic would like to take this opportunity to thank all the companies who have adverts in this programme. Your support is very much appreciated Buckland Athletic Football Club would like to point out that some of the contents and views contained in this programme are not necessarily the views of the club.

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Former Player Mike Booth Playing against Melksham Town on the 29th March, 2014

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Homers Lines Hello everybody and welcome along again to Homers Heath where we play our fifth home league game of this new season, which gives us a slightly imbalanced look at games played so far, as of the seven Toolstation Western League Premier Division fixtures played so far only two have seen us on our travels, the first one away at Chipping Sodbury FC and during this week away at Street. I suppose this glut of home fixtures helps us in one way, that we had built up fifteen points from five games so far this term, and of course it's nice to see everybody here on a regular basis, especially when the weather is good, and eventually it all evens itself out and we will catch up with away fixtures no doubt as the season ticks on.

At this point I would like to give a big warm Buckland style welcome to the players, management team, club officials and spectators from Melksham that have made the journey down to Devon this afternoon to cheer their team on. We all hope you enjoy yourselves during your short stay with us today and will join us in the clubhouse after the final whistle to have a bite to eat and a pint before making a safe journey home.

For those who haven't made the visit to Melksham's wonderful new ground I suggest it's worth a journey the next time we play there, so come along and cheer us on and see what a truly wonderful stadium and surrounding area Melksham have inherited. It took a little time getting it all sorted out, and the move was delayed a couple of times but it was really worth the wait, it's not often I get green eyed over other club setups but this one is certainly the exception. Also, since the move to their Eastern Way ground the attendances have also improved remarkably with the best gate so far this season, being 392 and the lowest 354.

Of course Melksham will be rivals with us for

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promotion into the Southern League South and West Division as both clubs have ambitions to play at a higher level, and to be honest probably have the two best grounds in the Western League and will have no trouble being accepted into the step above in the pyramid system if we can both finish in a place that would allow us both to do so. As this season we are led to believe it may be as many as three teams promoted up into the league above, because the FA want to rejig some of the leagues and need teams to move not only upwards but also sideways to complete their plan of introducing extra divisions at certain levels in some areas of the country. Of course the signed on to there are also a few other teams in this Toolstation Western League Premier Division that will qualify with the right things in place to give them a ground grading that would also allow them to move forward, and those are Street, Bridgwater, Clevedon and Brislington for those clubs have as far as I know the same ground grading that we have and would qualify for promotion if finishing in one of the positions they would accept teams from.

Last Saturday here we had a very good win over one of the aforementioned teams who can take promotion beating Brislington 4-1 on a very warm bank holiday Saturday afternoon. With several players missing from various reasons one of them being that our ex-goalkeeper Tom Buckler was getting married that day and I believe three players were at that function and with holidaying Lloyd Gardner and Chris Wright (which somewhat gets up my nose when they have holidays in the season or what has happened before, go away for a stag weekend during the season, but they are not contracted to us so they can do what they like. I just wonder sometimes, if we get everything ready each home game they all went on holiday together for a fortnight and some injuries meant we were digging deep into resources to field a squad).

You will have noticed no doubt a new tall ginger headed centre back playing on Saturday, well, that was Scott Beattie, who has signed for us from Bideford so Ellis rang the changes and once again at the end of the ninety minutes it

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Homers Lines was another three points and our biggest win of the season, so well done to all the players in the permanent basis or not I am not sure. Despite some players not playing in their regular positions against Brislington we put in a good ninety minute performance. The opening exchanges were even but I always felt we were going to get the upper hand sooner or later and so it proved when striker Jared Lewington found the net with a good finish, not long after this good start we managed to spurn a golden opportunity to double the advantage and put the first nail in the visitors coffin when Nick Rudge somehow missed the target when it looked easier to score. Brislington fashioned a good chance for themselves not long after this but a fingertip save by Bucks keeper Kenny Griffiths pushed the ball over the bar. Just as I had gone into the clubhouse for half time beverages the visitors pulled level when a good effort from Niekeil Plummer found the target, and amazingly two minutes later we were in front again when Charlie Johansen was bundled over in the box and the ball was placed on the spot by Richard Groves, who smashed it home to give us the advantage just before the half-time whistle blew.

The second half started evenly enough again, but saw us gradually get more on top and move into a 3-1 lead when Lewington grabbed his second of the game when a superb four-man passing move and great final ball from Charlie Johansen left him with a simple tap in from six yards out, to leave the visitors looking rather deflated.

Not long after they were even more down in the mouth when Brislington's captain and centre back Jason Hughes was given a straight red card for hauling Lewington to the floor after he had skipped past his initial tackle, and being the last man had to pay the price. The icing was put on the cake when the fourth goal was slotted home by probably my man of the match Richard Groves to make all three points safe and give us our first win of the season by more than the solitary goal.

The night before our Reserves and won the South Devon League Charity Shield played at

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Devon HQ, Coach Road when both Simon Revell and Karl Green who were attending Tom Buckler's wedding on the Saturday made an appearance for the Second Team, and it was Revell with a double and Sam Dicken that saw us through 3-1 against a useful East Allington team. The only downside to this was the sending -off of Green for giving his opinions to the man in black.

On Tuesday evening the First Team travelled to one of our more easier places to get to Street and it was nice to see at least fifteen Buckland supporters at the game. I must admit this is not one of my favourite places to go for one or two reasons which I will keep to myself. The game started off at a frantic pace and with the absentees from Saturday available for this fixture a couple of changes were made with Lloyd Gardner coming straight back in, and Nick Barker coming in at left full-back. Although Street made some good chances, it was us scored first in the eighth minute when good play out wide on the left by Richard Groves saw his cross into the six yard box neatly put away by the ever alert Charlie Johansen to give us the lead probably if I am honest against the run of play but who cares. In the 22nd minute, we doubled our advantage when the skilful Gardner spotted home keeper Tom Punchcard out on the edge of the penalty area and sent in the perfect lob from probably thirty yards out to leave the keeper stranded much to the delight the travelling faithful. But this joy was short lived as Street pulled a goal back within ninety seconds when David O'Hare slotted home from eight yards out. Then Street equalised in the 31st minute when one of the best strikers in the league Steve Murray thrashed the ball home from five yards out, seven minutes later he grabbed his brace when he equalled the quality of our goal by Gardner, when he took the ball up twenty-five yards out, and in one movement turned and rifled the ball past a static Kenny Griffiths, who had no chance. It stayed this way until the half-time whistle blew. It was always going to be difficult for the second half to live up to the pulsating first forty-five minutes that we had just seen, and so it proved. The

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Homers Lines second half was littered with fouls and bookings but it was the home side who were looking more likely to score and put us under a lot of pressure, and indeed missed two or three golden opportunities to put the match beyond doubt, but failed to do so and paid the price when with six minutes to go Jared Lewington thrashed the ball home after a through ball down the middle and set him free, much to the wild delight of the travelling fifteen or so visiting spectators.

Last night the Second Team travelled to an away fixture, their first of the current season when they played at Longcross against Dartmouth AFC, this game being moved forward to release our influential midfielder Dan Griffiths, who has been serving a one match ban after being sent off playing for Dartmouth at the end of last season, unfortunately for us and Dan he has missed seven fixtures for the First Team waiting for

Dartmouth to play their first league fixture and be free to play for us again.

Also today our Third Team start their new term with a home fixture against Babbacombe Corinthians up at Forches Cross.

Just a quick note here to anyone who would like to come along tomorrow our Ladies First Team start their season here in the women's FA Cup when they entertain Exeter City Ladies with a 2pm kick-off here at Homers Heath, I believe admission price will be £2. Not to be outdone the Ladies Second Team also start their fixtures tomorrow when they will be at Forches Cross when they entertain local side Shaldon Ladies in a league cup fixture also with a 2pm kick-off but I do believe that this one is free entry.

Roy Homer Holmes – Club Chairman

JP’s Commercial Columns Good afternoon everyone and welcome to this afternoons Toolstation Western Premier league fixture against Melksham Town who have made the long journey down to Homers Heath today. I hope that the holiday traffic was kind to you because we have experienced a summer of delays on the M5 this year that has quite honestly been very bad at times.

I would like to give a massive thanks and thumbs up to Jamie Sinclair and his team from 'Whats on' magazine. Jamie has been doing a tremendous job with our new Facebook page these past few days and we have been getting some amazing responses from our supporters. He is just starting work on our new Website so as soon as that is up and running I will let you know. Please all keep an eye on the clubs social media outlets

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for news. Well done Jamie, you are doing a fantastic job, thank you.

One form of cost effective advertising for local business's is pitch side advertising. With the club playing at a high level and increased attendances, plus the increased Social Media interest any business who would like to advertise with us would be getting great exposure. Our standard size pitch side board (2.4 metres x 600 mm) our £250 for the first year. This cost includes the design and manufacture of your new sign. The cost thereafter would be £150 per year to keep the sign in situ. If you would like one of our super size double advertising signs (4.8 metres x 600 mm) the cost is £500 in the first year and then £250 per each year thereafter.

We have signed up two new advertisers in the past week, Nick Parker from Parkers family funeral directors who kindly sponsors our third team has agreed to a new standard size board, whilst Vanessa Casey from One Insurance

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Uhlsport are the official teamwear supplier to Buckland Athletic FC For further information regarding Uhlsport teamwear please contact:

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JP’s Commercial Columns Solution who kindly sponsor our senior ladies team are also having a standard size pitch side board. Thank you guys, your support is much appreciated.

the grandstand, half time refreshments in the Andy Hill Suite and also selection and presentation of the Man of the Match award.

If you would like to combine visual advertising with some match day experience and entertain your customers at the same time then why not go for one of our '500 Club' packages.

All of the above features for the really good value cost of £500. There are massive financial savings to be made by taking out this package, so many benefits for so little cost, a fantastic deal...!!

A '500 Club' package will give you two season tickets for all of Bucklands league, league cup and St Lukes Bowl games (not FA Cup or Vase) during the 2017/18 season, a standard size (2.4 m x 600 mm) pitch side advertising sign, an advert in every weeks award winning match day programme and a match day experience for up to 8 persons.

The match day experience gives your company advertising at the main gate to Homers Heath, also over the public address system and in the clubhouse. Whilst you and your guests get free entrance and match day programmes, seats in

If you would like pitch side advertising or a 500 club package then please contact me. I am at all home games, or you can contact me by email at or telephone 07836 jpbafc@hotmail.com 774048.

Well that's about it for this week folks, I hope that you all enjoy your afternoon here with us this afternoon and will join us in the clubhouse after the game for a drink. Up the BUCKS..!!

JP John Piller - Commercial Director

Manager’s Say Hello all, Welcome to you all today for another home game and another tough game as we entertain Melksham here at Homers. Over the past few seasons this fixture has always been tough home or away and today will be no different.

For those who went to Street on Tuesday night will know we didn't play our football at times, but what we did, was score crucial goals to maintain our unbeaten start to the season against a team

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that will certainly be fighting at the top of the league come the end of the season. I said before the game I'd be happy to take a point but after our two goal lead I'd hoped we'd take all three but mistakes let them come back into it and as we pushed for an equaliser second half we did give chances away but finally we got our reward for our hard work and got our point.

Support for games this season has been great and is much appreciated by myself and the players, hopefully we can all enjoy the game today and with the right attitude we can get the win.

Enjoy the game, Ellis.

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Contributor’s towards the 1st Team Travelling Fund

Adam Seedhouse Harrison & -Evans Jenson Monty

Ken Griffiths

Keith Underwood

Liam Head

Chris Holmes

Cliff Walters

Karl Green

Pete Middleweek

Marc Revell

Daniel Griffiths

Barry Glanfield

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Liam Drew

Roger Madge

Jo McKenna

Cameron Kelly

Graham & Denis

Rose Glanfield

Nick Rudge

Colin Taylor

Lloyd Gardner Melvyn Treeby Richard Groves Nick Hancock

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Contributor’s towards the 1st Team Travelling Fund

Jared Lewington

Piggy’s Pantry

Adam Castle

Gavin Hammon

Dan & Francis

Kingsley Burrows

Steve Burrows

Si Laughton

Steve Feasby

Steve Giles

Charlie H - RIP

Pete Morgan

Si Revell

Bob Hext

Shane Gill

Charlie Johansen

Dave Mullins

Chris Wright

Jordan Ewing

Ellis Laight

John Piller

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Our Visitors Today - Melksham Town Ground Eastern Way Telephone 01225 702843 Founded 1876 Nickname Town Colours Yellow & Black Change All Red League Western League Premier Division 2016-17 Western League Premier Division, 3rd Postcode SN12 7GU Website pitchero.com/clubs/melkshamtownfc Directions From north continue on A350 past ASDA following signs to Bowerhill. At big roundabout ?The Spa? take the first exit signposted Calne A3102 and Town Centre. At next roundabout take second exit A3102 Calne and continue for one mile until next roundabout. Take second exit A3102 Calne and the ground is 800 yards on the right Twitter @MELKSHAMTOWNFC

league for 80 years. They only won the league once in 1903/1904 but finished runners- up in 1924/25, 29/30, 59/60, 67/68 & 71/72.

LEAGUE HONOURS Western League Premier Division Champions: 2014-15 Western League Division One Champions: 1979–80, 1996–97 Runners-up: 2011–12 The Wiltshire League Premier Division Champions: 1993–94 Wiltshire Football League Champions: 1903–04 Runners-up: 1924–25, 1929–30, 1959–60, 1967 –68, 1971–72

The Club reached the Wilts Senior Cup final three season's running, 1967/68 to 1969/70, the latter seeing a 2-0 win against Devizes with two penalties from Ron Low. In 1968/69 the club should have won the league but lost it in the last match, the season however was a notable one with Gareth Lewis scoring a club record 72 goals and the team reaching the first round proper of the FA Amateur Cup, only to lose at home in front of a 800 crowd to Harwich &Parkeston 3-2.

In 1974 the club joined the Western League and results were poor for the first two seasons and in 1976 Melksham Town were relegated to the newly formed first division. Alan Skirton took over as Manager but promotion eluded the club although we won the Wilts Senior cup again in 1978 beating Avon Bradford 3-0. Pete Carter took charge in 1979 as player manager and guided the town to the First Division title, Pete remained in charge until 1982 taking the club to fifth place in his last season and winning the wilts shield in 1980/81 and 1981/82.

CUP HONOURS Wiltshire Premier Shield Winners: 1980–81, 1981–82, 1985–86, 1997–98, 1999–2000 Runners-up: 1986–87 Wiltshire Senior Cup Winners: 1903–04, 1969–70, 1977–78, 2002–03, 2007–08 Runners-up: 1957–58, 1967–68, 1968–69, 2005 –06, 2006–07 CLUB HISTORY Melksham Town F.C was formed in October 1876, the first game being played at "Challymead". The club were founder members of the Wilts League in 1894, playing in that

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In 1903/04 the club won the Wilts Senior Cup beating Swindon Hayden Street Workmen in the final. The club did not reach the final again until 1957/58 when they lost to Devizes Town after a 2nd replay. The same season saw the Conigre's record attendance of 2,821 in an FA cup match against Western League Trowbridge Town in which Melksham lost 6-0 after losing goalkeeper Mick Beaven with a finger injury. Mick later became a football league referee before his untimely death in 1978. In the early 60's, the club did not enjoy a great deal of success on or off the field, and in 1967 the club appointed ex-Bath player Ken Owens as player manager who brought a more professional attitude to the club.

Brian Ballinger took over briefly in 1982/83 followed by Mel Gingell in November 1983 and he guided the club to the league cup in 1985 and two further wilts shield triumphs. In 1986 new toilets, dressing rooms and floodlights were erected and first division Southampton visited

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Our Visitors Today - Melksham Town the Conigre for the opening ceremony in front of a 1,500 crowd.

being founded in 1876 and finished in 10th position.

At the end of the 1987/88 season the town were relegated back to the first division ending an 8 season stay in the top flight. During the following season 1989/90 a change in management saw Alan McDougall taking over from Mel Gingell, Alan an ex - Stranraer, Mangotsfield and Trowbridge Town player was forced to resign after only a short spell owing to work commitments.

Former Larkhall manager Dave King was quickly installed in November 1990 and the season ended with Town finishing a disappointing 16th position. A change in club policy owing to financial difficulties ended with Dave King's resignation in pre -season. Local man Nigel Brimble a former assistant manager to Mel Gingell was appointed but the club finished bottom of the league in the 1992/93 season and were relegated from the Great Mills league under the pyramid system.

For the 1993/94 season Mel Gingell returned to the club as 1st team manager. If the 1992/93 was the lowest point in the clubs history, and then the 1993/94 was one of complete success as Town clinched the County Championship and the league double.

In the 2002/03 season the Town won the Wiltshire Senior Cup for the 4th time in their history by beating Trowbridge Town 2-1 at the Chippenham FC ground, the Wiltshire Senior Cup had previously been won in 1904-05, 1969-70, and in 1977-78 although they had made the final on three other occasions only to finish runners -up.

At the end of the 2002/03 season with the Town finishing in 8th place Robbie Lardner decided to stand down as Manager and move on. In the 2003/04 pre-season, Nigel Tripp was appointed the new Player/Manager for the Town but towards the end of the season decided it was time to hang up his boots and concentrate on the management side of the season with Town finishing the season in 13th place. However in February of the 2004/05 season Nigel resigned from his position as Manager following the clubs heaviest defeat at the hands of Bideford.

Winning the championship together with all the necessary work off the field completed and promotion back to the Great Mills league after one year was a magnificent achievement. In 1995/96 Town finished 9th in the league and at the end of the season Darren Perrin was appointed Manager. What a season 1996/7 was to be as Town clinched the 1st Division title and in the process becoming the first ever winners under Screwfix Direct the new sponsors. On the way they had a 24 game unbeaten run in the league and clinched the title by one point at Yeovil in the last game. 1997/98 saw Town finished in 3rd position, their highest ever Western league placing on their return to the Premier Division. Robbie Lardner was appointed as Manager following Darren's departure and he guided the team to a very respectable finishing place of 9th in the Screwfix Premier league. Season 2001/02 saw the club celebrate its 125th year in football since

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Lee Burns was immediately instated as caretaker Player /Manager until the end of the season at which time he decided to stand down and concentrate on his business in Bristol. The end of the 2004/05 season saw Town Finish 14th Place and also the end of the Screwfix Western League sponsorship. In the close season Kelvin Highmore former Manager of local rivals Calne joined the club to take over the reins as Manager and take Town into the 2005/06 Western League season under the umbrella of Toolstation the new sponsors of the Western League.

The team had a mixed season of league results and finished in 14th place but had an excellent run in the Wiltshire Senior Cup. However they ended up as runners-up by losing to Corsham Town with the final going into extra time and penalties and although losing on an aggregate of 7-5 the team put up a first class performance. The Reserve team reached the final of the Corsham Print KO Cup losing out to Corsham Town Reserves 2-0, However The icing on the cake for the clubs season was the Youth teams 3-0 win over Malmesbury Victoria Youth to take the Wiltshire County FA Youth Cup.

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Our Visitors Today - Melksham Town The 2006/07 season saw the first team start poorly but soon get back into gear and finished the season in 5th place, the highest they have been since finishing 3rd in the 1998/99 season.

They also were runners -up in the Wiltshire Senior Cup for the second season running. The Youth team finished the season as Champions of the Wiltshire Floodlight League. Season 2007/08 saw Town finishing 11th in the league and they equalled their best ever run in the FA Vase (until the 2014-2015 season) reaching the third round proper losing 3-0 at home to the Holders Truro City. They ended the season on a high winning the Wiltshire Senior Cup for the 5th time defeating Laverstock and Ford 5-2.

At the start of the new 2008/09 season Wayne Thorne took over as the new Town Manager when the club finished 10th.The 2009/10 season saw the club finish 19th and relegated to the First division. In the summer of 2010 a new committee for the club was formed to take over from |Mike Perrin and Dave Phillips who had been involved for many years in the club. The new committee of Dave Wiltshire, Ian Forester, Mark Jeffery, Andrew Butcher and Karen Forester took over the leadership of the club with a view to taking the club forward installing a strong belief in using the local young talent within the Town.

New Manager Adam Young and his assistant Gary Newman were appointed prior to the start of the 2010/11 season and guided the team to a respectable 8th position in their first season in charge. In October 2011 Adam Young decided to step down as Manager due to work commitments and ex Town players Dave Clayton took over the manager's role with Justin Messenger as his assistant and they guided the club to runners up in the Toolstation Western League Division One in the 2011-2012 season to gain promotion back to the Premier Division for 20122013. The 2012-2013 season saw the Town defeat Downton 2-0 after extra time in the Wiltshire Senior Cup to capture the trophy for the sixth time in their history and end up a creditable 13th place in the first season back in the Western League Premier. In September 2013 Manager

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Dave Clayton and assistant Justin Messenger left the club and Town appointed Darren Perrin for his second stint at the club after successful spells at Chippenham Town and Frome Town.

The season 2013-2014 saw the Town finish in 7th place in league and retain the Wiltshire Senior Cup after a thrilling win on penalties after a 33 draw AET with Bradford Town. The 20142015 season culminated in the club winning the Toolstation Western League Premier Division for the first time in their history despite being one of just a few clubs not setting aside a budget and relying upon a team based on players from within the Town, a truly special achievement.In addition, the club progressed to the fourth round of the FA Vase for the first time in their history and manager Darren Perrin won the Manager of the Year award. The club were denied promotion as the current facility at The Conigre was deemed inadequate and the proposed new ground building was delayed due in part to “great crested newts”! The 2014- 2015 season was anticipated to be the last season the club would play at the Conigre ground but after unforeseen delays the Town were forced to again play the 2015-2016 season at The Conigre. The 2015-2016 season proved to be another very successful for the club. The club again finished in the top five of the league, reached the semi-finals of the Les Philips League Cup and won the Wiltshire Senior Cup for the third time in four years by beating much fancied Salisbury City 2 v 0 in front of a large crowd at Chippenham Town FC. Due to delays in provision of the new facility at Oakfield’s the club started the 2016-2017 season with a series of away fixtures before finally being forced to return to The Conigre for one last time!!The last game played at The Conigre was on Boxing Day 2016 with a 1-0 victory over near neighbours Bradford Town. Finally the club moved to their £7m facility (with Melksham RFC) which was funded by Wiltshire Council, Football Foundation and Premier League facilities at The Oakfield’s Melksham in January 2017. Although the opening day saw an FA Vase replay defeat to Bristol Manor Farm in front of just over 1,200 people the club are delighted to at last be in their new home and look forward to a promising

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Our Visitors Today - Melksham Town future with the seniors, ladies and youth sides of the Town all sharing in the benefits the new facility brings to the Town.

The 2016/2017 season saw the club finish in 3rd position in the Western Premier League and win the Les Phillips Cup for the first time in their history after a penalty shootout win over Cribbs FC after a 0-0 draw after extra time. The summer

period saw Chairman Dave Wilshire stand down with 1st team manager Darren Perrin stepping up as Senior Chairman and Kieran Baggs moving from assistant manager to take on the 1st team manager’s role for the 2017-2018 season. Pre season saw both Bristol Rovers and Swindon Town bring their first team squads to the Oakfield’s with a record attendance for the Oakfield’s of 1,476 watching the Rovers friendly.

Who’s Who in the Melksham Town Squad Rob Brown (Goalkeeper) DOB: 23/08/94 Appearances: 136 Talented young keeper who has forced himself into the side in 2014/15 season and is now firmly established as number one keeper at the club.

Highly thought of and has had spell at Forest Green Rovers as a youngster. Debut- September 2011.

Mark Cooper (Defender) DOB: 02/01/1992 Signed on dual registration forms with Southern Conference side Chippenham Town. Signed for Chippenham town in May 2017 from Weymouth .An accomplished player comfortable in either, fullback role. His previous clubs include Frome Town and Bristol Rovers. Debut for Melksham Town 08/2017.

Warren Maidment (Defender) DOB: 3/04/98 Appearances: 72 Goals: 2 Another youngster who has progressed through the ranks at Melksham gaining prominence in the Town’s Under 18 side. Had a superb first full season at first team level in 2016-2017 season where he belied his tender age with a series of dominant displays against much more experienced opponents in central defence. If he continues his progress to date then has a very promising future ahead of him.

Lee Davidson (Defender) DOB: 29/07/86 Appearances: 41 Goals: 3 Signed for the club in 2015-2016 season from Shepton Mallet and made the left back position is own. Solid defender and pops up with the odd

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goal. Good delivery from set pieces and another who possesses dangerous long throw. Previous clubs include Shepton Mallet, Paulton Rovers, Frome Town and Trowbridge Town. Debut 08/2016.

Dave Thompson (Midfield/Defender) DOB: 16/10/88 Appearances: 255 Goals: 34 Returned to club in September 2013 after spells at Paulton Rovers and Frome Town. Dave has now completed over 250 games for the Town and has been a key player over the last few seasons. Strong in the tackle and good in the air is equally effective in central defence or midfield.

Debut- August 2008.

Sayeed Ibrahim (Defender) DOB: 29/04/89 Appearances: 178 Goals: 2 Been a regular squad member over the past few seasons and can be relied upon to give 100% when called upon typically at full back. Good turn of pace and possesses a dangerous long throw. Debut- April 2011 Steve Casey (Defender) DOB 02/03/82 Appearances: 74 Goals: 0 Vastly experienced quality defender who returns to the side after spells at various clubs including Yeovil Town, Chard, Calne Town, Chippenham Town and Larkhall Athletic. Comfortable anywhere across the back four and hopefully will be available for selection on a regular basis.

Alex Grimshaw (Defender) DOB 22/12/92 Appearances: Goals:

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Who’s Who in the Melksham Town Squad Signed for 2017-2018 season .Previous clubs include Bridgewater Town, Paulton Rovers and Longwell Green. Can pay at full back or in central defence.

Chris Allen (Midfielder) DOB: 03/01/1989 Talented central midfield player who has joined on dual registration forms from Southern Conference side Chippenham Town. Previous clubs include Weymouth. Swindon Supermarine, Bath City, Forest Green and Swindon Town where he made 16 appearances at first team level in 07/08 & 08/09 seasons. Debut for Melksham 08/2017.

Mike Perrott (Midfielder) DOB: 24/03/89 Appearances: 177 Goals: 40 Another who has returned to his home town club after a successful spell at Paulton Rovers in the 2013-14 season helping the club secure Southern League status with Team bath and Frome Town amongst other clubs he has featured for.

Key member of the side and has established himself in a central midfield role although ability to play out wide if required. Debut- October 2015.

Ben Thomson (Midfielder) DOB: 24/12/88 Appearances: 182 Goals: 24 Previous clubs include Frome Town, Team Bath, Corsham Town and Larkhall Athletic. Left sided midfield/winger with ability to put in early crosses from open play and provides excellent delivery from set plays.

Jake Hiscocks (Midfielder) DOB: 28/04/92 Appearances: 51 Goals: 7 Jake’s second full season at the club after previous spells at Trowbridge Town and Bradford Town. Hard working central midfielder who likes to get on the ball and will be hoping his long range shooting ability can be translated into more goals this season.

Jake Brown (Wide Midfield/Striker) DOB: 26/05/92 Appearances: Goals: First season at the club having joined in pre season from Wells City. Talented skilful wide player who can play on either flank and will look to unlock opposing defences with his trickery and pace.

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Gary Higdon (Striker) DOB: 29/07/87 Appearances: 303 Goals: 225 Consistent scorer at Western League holding clubs’ record for individual goals in a Western League season in 2012-2013 with 38 and was clubs leading scorer with 33 last season. Now made over 300 appearances for his home town club and scored over 200 goals. Tremendous goals to game record and always a handful for opposition defenders. Team Captain. Made debut January 2005.

Tyler Sibbick (Striker) DOB: 10/07/1992 Joined club from Evo Stik League South West side Larkhall Athletic making goalscoring debut against Shepton Mallet. Prolific scorer at higher level and will look to continue that at the Town.

Previous clubs include Frome Town and Yate Luke Ballinger (Defender/Midfielder/Striker) DOB: 26/02/88 Appearances: 126 Goals: 69 Another who has returned to his home town club after spells playing at higher level with Frome Town, Chippenham Town and Gloucester City.

Luke is a versatile player with plenty of experience and is the holder of a record number of England futsal caps at over 100.Has featured in a variety of positions for the club at either right back, right mid or up top. Helping out Keiran with team affairs this season too.

Joe Stradling (Midfielder/Striker) DOB: 18/10/91 Appearances: 62 Goals: 17 Signed from Frome Town for 2015/16 season after previous spell at Bradford Town. Direct and pacey wide man who can be a nightmare for defenders on his day and finds the back of the net on a regular basis. Debut- August 2015 Callum Demkiv (Striker) DOB: 17/05/98 Appearances: 19 Goals: 2 Another product of the club’s successful U18’s set up. Striker who scored bags of goals for the Towns Reserves in the Wiltshire League in 2015 -2016 season and will now be looking to establish himself in the first team, Brother of Dan.

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Who’s Who in the Melksham Town Squad Ben Pring (Striker) DOB: 16/9/1995 Signed for 2017-1018 season from Chippenham Park having scored 29 goals in 31 games in previous season in Toolstation Western League Division 1 for Park and Corsham Town.

Dan Demkiv (Midfield/Striker) DOB 26/12/96 Appearances: 10 Goals: 3 Made debut in November 2016 after signing from Nuneaton Town before seeing season out with Cirencester Town. Ex Southampton academy player and another product from his home town

of Melksham. Able to play out wide or as a central striker and another with bags of potential to progress further in the game. Older brother of Callum.

Ollie Webb (Defender) DOB 20/02/93 Appearances: 6 Goals: Signed in previous season from Calne Town, ex Trowbridge Town and made debut in March 2017 v Bridport .Featured at full back and in central defence.

Buck’s Ed’s Look At Melksham Town Today we give a very big warm Buckland welcome to Melksham Town, we welcome their management, players, club officials and of course their supporters that have travelled down to Devon this afternoon for this Toolstation Western League Premier fixture. We hope that you all enjoy your time here at Homers Heath and make use of the facilities that we have to offer before making a safe journey home later Their new league campaign for the 2017-18 season started with a game at home against Cadbury Heath, and they ran out easy winners in this encounter 4-0, D Demkiv, G Higdon, W Maidment and L Ballinger all scoring, and a second win came on the 12th August away at Hallen 3-1, Higdon netting twice and Ballinger, and they made it three league wins when they defeated Odd Down (Bath) at home 3-0, their prolific striker Higdon netting a hat-trick and his sixth league goal in three games. However, they dropped their first points this season when they were held to a 2-2 draw away at Chipping Sodbury Town, Higdon and B Thomson scoring, then last Saturday they were beaten for the first time, at home rather surprisingly 2-1 by Shepton Mallet. They were also in action on the 29th August away at the leagues bottom club Longwell Green Sports, and in twelve Premier meetings they have picked up twenty-five points, and away they have won three, drawn one, lost two, scoring fifteen , conceding eight, collecting ten points and they must

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keep this record going. This game ended in a very easy 6-0 win, L Ballinger and G Higdon with two each, D Demkiv and M Perrott scoring.

So at the time of writing this piece they are up in second place in the Premier Division table having collected thirteen points from their opening six games. Looking back to last season they had thirteen points from their opening five, which were all away from home, and after drawing their opening game they won the next four on their travels. Already in their three home games they have attracted 1029 spectators to their fabulous ground which is the Oakfield Stadium, Eastern Way, and that is a attendance average of 343 per game, the highest of those three was 354 in their first league game there against Cadbury Heath, the lowest was 323 which Shepton Mallet defeated them there on the 26th August. Last season they attracted 6100 spectators to their nineteen home games, some of which were played at their old ground The Conigre, with their highest attendance being 515 when they entertained Cadbury Heath at their new ground, the lowest crowd they had was 83 at the Conigre when they entertained Bitton on the 10th December.

They actually started their new season in the FA Cup Extra-Preliminary Round away at Horndean from the Wessex League Premier (Step Five), but went out beaten 2-1 on the day.

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Buck’s Ed’s Look At Melksham Town So next up in this league campaign will be at home against Bitton, now since the 1998-99 season they have played them twenty-two times in the Premier Division and have collected twentyseven points from those, at home they have won five, drawn two, lost four, scoring eighteen, conceding fourteen, gaining seventeen points, and in last season’s corresponding game it ended in a 2 -0 win which was played at their old ground The Conigre. They then have a very tough fixture at home against last season’s runners-up Street, and in eighteen Premier Division meetings since the 98-99 season they have picked up twentyseven points, at home they have won five, drawn one, lost three, scoring twenty-two, conceding fifteen, gaining sixteen points, in last season’s meeting there they were beaten 3-2 in front of a crowd of 495,their last win coming in the 2014-15 season, 6-4.

This is currently their third spell in the Western League Premier Division, the first started in the 1980-81 season and it lasted for eight seasons, with their highest placing being 5th in the 198182 season, in their first season they finished in 13th place. In this time they played 320 games, winning 92, drawing 99, losing 129, scoring 386, conceding 510, gaining 243 points, interestingly they drew more games than they won in this spell, in the final season, 1987-88 they finished in 21st place and were relegated back into Division One. The second stint began in the 1997-98 season and lasted for thirteen seasons, and they finished in 3rd place (their highest ever finish in this division) in that comeback season, and it was their highest placing in this spell. They played 492 games, winning 191, drawing 114, losing 187, scoring 741, conceding 736, gaining 687 points, and in their final season, 2009-10, they finished in 19th place and were once again relegated into Division One. The current spell they are on started in the 201213 season, and this will be their sixth season in the Premier, obviously the highest they have finished was first place in the 2014-15 season, and to date they have played 196 games in this

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spell, winning 109, drawing 33, losing 54, scoring 414, conceding 268, gaining 360 points. So in all three spells in this Division they have now played 1008 games, winning 391, drawing 217, losing 370, scoring 1539, conceding 1515, gaining 1288 points, which means they have won 40% of those games, drawn 23%, losing 37%, scoring 1.52 goals per game, conceding 1.5 goals per game, collecting 1.27 points per game.

But since the 1998-99 season they have played 639 games, at home they have played 325 games and have won 151, drawing 62, losing 112, scoring 585, conceding 472, gaining 515 points, so at home they have won 46% of those games, drawing 19%, losing 35%, scoring 1.8 goals per game, have conceded 1.45 goals per game, gaining 1.58 points per game. They have played 325 away games, winning 127, drawing 78, losing 120, scoring 495, conceding 495, gaining 459 points, which means they have won 39% of those games, drawn 24%, lost 37%, scoring 1.5 goals per game, conceded 1.53 goals per game, and gaining 1.40 points per game.

Premier Division 2012-13 2013-14 2014-15 2015-16 2016-17 2017-18

P 38 40 36 38 38 6 196

W 14 20 23 22 26 4 109

D L F A P GD 6 18 62 74 48 -12 5 15 74 67 65 7 7 6 89 41 76 48 7 9 65 38 73 27 7 5 105 43 85 62 1 1 19 5 13 14 33 54 414 268 360 156

Premier P W D 3rd Stint 196 109 33 2nd Stint 492 190 115 1st Stint 320 92 99 1008 391 247

L 54 187 129 370

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13th 7th 1st 5th 3rd

F A P GD 414 268 360 156 739 737 685 2 386 510 243 -124 1539 1515 1288 34 F

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Premier 1008 391 247 370 1539 1515 1288 34 Division

532 228 128 176 850 733 774 117 1540 619 375 546 2389 2248 2062 151

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Melksham Town’s League Statistics 2017-18 Home Away Total Overall

P 3 3 6 1 W 21

1 Home

W 2 2 4

D 0 1 1

L 1 0 1

2 W 22

2

F 8 11 19

3 W 23

3

A Pts GD 2 6 6 3 7 8 5 13 14

4 D 24

4

5

1

2

3

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Away

W D W

4

5

6

7

8

9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19

20

5 L 25

6 W 26

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

27

28

29

30

31

32

33

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37

38

39

40

6

7

8

19

20

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Ave

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343

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

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Melksham Town’s WL Premier Division History 1997-98 No Records P W D 1998-99 38 10 4 1999-00 36 9 5 2000-01 38 11 1 2001-02 38 10 4 2002-03 34 7 2 2003-04 34 6 3 2004-05 38 7 4 2005-06 38 6 4 2006-07 42 12 4 2007-08 40 5 6 2008-09 40 7 7 2009-10 38 7 3 P W D 2012-13 38 8 3 2013-14 40 10 3 2014-15 36 11 4 2015-16 38 10 2 2016-17 38 13 3 2017-18 6 2 0 650 151 62

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P 16 28 2 24 30 22 6 18

W 3 7 1 3 9 5 1 4

D 2 5 0 2 4 2 0 0

L F A W 5 38 23 10 4 32 25 6 7 31 25 6 5 28 19 5 8 31 31 5 8 24 28 3 8 34 31 3 9 21 36 6 5 55 25 9 9 23 31 8 6 34 36 8 9 28 35 3 L F A W 8 30 28 6 7 41 29 10 3 46 24 12 7 34 28 12 3 47 16 13 1 8 2 2 112 585 472 127

D 6 6 5 5 5 3 5 4 6 6 7 2 D 3 2 3 5 4 1 78

L F A P GD 3 35 21 70 29 6 18 21 56 4 8 27 29 57 4 9 19 27 54 1 7 34 37 43 -3 11 14 33 33 -23 11 23 39 39 -13 9 22 32 44 -25 6 29 23 73 36 6 28 26 51 -6 5 25 17 59 6 14 13 49 35 -43 L F A P GD 10 32 46 48 -12 8 33 38 65 7 3 43 17 76 48 2 31 10 73 27 2 58 27 85 62 0 11 2 13 14 120 495 494 974 113

L 3 2 0 7 2 4 2 5

D 3 4 1 3 3 4 0 0

L 2 6 0 8 6 5 0 5

F 11 26 3 9 30 18 2 12

A 13 12 1 26 20 14 6 19

W 3 4 0 1 6 2 3 4

F 11 17 2 12 25 18 6 13

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A 12 23 2 29 23 20 3 13

P 23 42 4 17 52 27 12 24

GD -3 8 2 -34 12 2 -1 -7

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Melksham Town’s WL Premier Division History Bridport Brislington Bristol Manor Farm Buckland Athletic Cadbury Heath Calne Town Chard Town Chippenham Town Chipping Sodbury Town Clevedon Town Clyst Rovers Corsham Town Cribbs Dawlish Town Devizes Town Elmore Exmouth Town Frome Town Gillingham Town Hallen Hengrove Athletic Ilfracombe Town Keynsham Town Larkhall Athletic Longwell Green Sports Mangotsfield United Minehead Odd Down (Bath) Paulton Rovers Radstock Town Shepton Mallet Sherborne Town Slimbridge Street Taunton Town Team Bath Tiverton Town Torrington Truro City Well City Wellington Welton Rovers Westbury United Willand Rovers Winterborne United Yeovil Town 2nds

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P W D L F A W D L F A P GD 24 5 2 5 16 14 7 1 4 23 16 39 9 34 7 8 2 28 17 7 4 6 25 31 54 5 30 9 0 6 27 23 7 3 5 21 25 51 0 10 1 1 3 6 10 4 1 0 9 3 17 2 11 3 1 2 16 11 2 2 1 11 14 18 2 12 2 2 2 11 12 2 2 2 11 7 16 3 6 1 1 1 1 2 1 2 0 6 3 9 2 6 1 1 1 4 6 0 1 2 1 4 5 -5 3 0 1 0 2 2 1 1 0 5 2 5 3 4 2 0 0 8 0 2 0 0 9 3 12 14 2 1 0 0 6 1 0 1 0 1 1 4 5 12 2 1 3 7 8 1 2 3 3 6 12 -4 4 2 0 0 3 0 2 0 0 4 0 12 7 18 4 1 4 18 19 4 3 2 9 10 28 -2 18 7 2 0 25 8 3 0 6 10 13 32 14 12 5 0 1 15 5 2 2 2 10 10 23 10 4 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 7 2 -5 14 1 1 5 7 14 1 3 3 7 11 10 -11 10 2 1 2 6 6 3 1 1 9 5 17 4 23 5 2 4 18 16 7 0 5 19 25 38 -4 2 1 0 0 6 0 0 1 0 2 2 4 6 10 2 1 2 6 8 3 1 1 11 6 17 3 14 3 1 3 16 10 5 1 1 15 4 26 17 6 1 0 2 5 7 0 0 3 4 10 3 -8 13 5 0 1 19 6 4 1 2 21 8 28 26 4 0 1 1 0 2 0 1 1 3 5 2 -4 4 1 1 0 5 2 1 1 0 4 1 8 6 31 11 1 4 39 20 5 6 4 17 12 55 24 12 0 3 3 5 10 1 2 3 7 10 8 -8 14 4 1 2 11 11 4 0 3 15 15 25 0 7 1 0 3 6 6 1 0 2 2 5 6 -3 12 5 1 0 16 5 3 1 2 9 8 26 12 4 1 0 1 3 4 1 1 0 3 2 7 0 18 5 1 3 22 15 3 2 4 10 15 27 2 8 0 0 4 4 16 0 0 4 2 13 0 -23 4 0 0 2 1 3 0 0 2 2 5 0 -5 2 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 2 1 -2 8 1 1 2 13 11 2 1 1 8 3 11 7 2 0 0 1 1 3 0 0 1 1 3 0 -4 4 2 0 0 9 2 1 1 0 6 3 10 10 4 1 0 1 4 2 0 1 1 1 4 4 -1 22 3 2 6 12 18 3 6 2 10 10 26 -6 8 4 0 0 11 0 2 1 1 6 6 19 11 10 2 5 3 10 15 5 3 2 19 11 29 3 6 3 0 0 16 2 2 0 1 9 3 15 20 8 2 0 2 9 8 2 0 2 9 8 12 2 640 151 62 112 585 472 127 78 120 495 495 974 113

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Buckland Athletic’s Record Versus Melksham Town In our first season in the Western League Premier Division we first met them in the 2012-13 season, and the first meeting was on the 26th January away and it ended all square 0-0, in front of 109 spectators. The team that played were: K Griffiths, B Head, D Gaze, K Green, L Horrocks, D Lewis, S Revell, M Booth, Gavin Hammon, J Mudge, B Carter, with the substitutes being D Stevens who replaced S Revell, C Wright replaced J Mudge and E Phillip who replaced B Carter, with Head, Booth and Mudge all getting yellow cards. In the return game here at Homers Heath played on the 1st May we were beaten 21, our scorer was S Revell, in front of just 69 spectators. The team that played was, C Lanyon, L Drew, D Gaze, B Head, Mills, L Burgess, B Carter, M Booth, G Hammon, C Wright, S Revell, with the substitutes, K Green replaced B Carter, and D Lewis replaced L Burgess.

In the 2013-14 season we first played here at Homers Heath on the 29th March and again it ended in a 2-1 defeat, C Roles scoring our goal, in front of 106 spectators. The team that played was, T Buckler, L Drew, G Fisher, M Booth, C Roles, C Kelly, J Havlin, M Revell, G Hammon, L Head, S Revell, with our substitute being E Laight who replaced C Kelly, both G Fisher and M Revell were booked in this encounter. We played them away on the 3rd May and we won this game 3-2, M Booth netting a hat-trick, in front of a crowd of 87. The team that played that day was, T Buckler, L Drew, L Chapman, M Booth, C Roles, A Jeannin, E Laight, M Revell, G Hammon, S Revell, L Head, with the substitute being R Harrison-White who replaced M Revell.

In the 2014-15, Melksham’s title winning season, we first met away on the 14th February and we won this game 3-1, with G Hammon, J Lewington and S Gill scoring our goals in front of 117 spectators. The team that played was, G Fisher, S Gill, S Laughton, S Revell, J Lewington, L Head, D Griffiths, N Rudge, G Hammon, J Havlin, M Booth, with substitutes being M Revell who replaced G Hammon, L Gardner who came on for D Griffiths and L Drew replaced J Havlin. The game here at Homers Heath was played on the 25th April in front of a crowd of 235, and it

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ended in a 0-0 daw. The team that played was, G Fisher, L Drew, D Gaze, S Gill, S Laughton, L Head, J Lewington, M Revell, G Hammon, S Revell, M Booth, with the only substitute being L Gardner who replaced M Revell, with D Gaze and M Booth picking up cautions.

The 2015-16, and we played them away game on the 28th November and it ended in a very good 4-0 win, with the goals coming from L Head, G Hammon, J Lewington and L Gardner, with the attendance being 94. The team that played was, G Fisher, L Drew, L Perring, A Robertson, S Laughton, L Head, S Gill, D Griffiths, G Hammon, J Lewington, L Gardner, with substitutes, S Revell replacing L Gardner, L Moseley replacing J Lewington and E Laight coming on for G Hammon. We met at the Heath on the 16th April, and we again beaten by Melksham at home 2-0 with the attendance being 141. The team that played was: T Buckler, L Drew, L Perring, A Robertson, S Laughton, L Head, S Gill, D Griffiths, G Hammon, J Lewington, L Gardner, the substitutes being L Moseley who replaced Gardner, N Milton who replaced Head and S Revell who came on for Perring.

Onto the 2016-17 season, and we first played them at home on the 20TH August and we were beaten in this encounter 3-1, R Groves scoring our goal with the attendance this day being 93.

The team that played that day was: G Fisher, L Drew, L Perring, D Griffiths, K Green, L Head, C Walters, R Groves, G Hammon, J Lewington, L Gardner, substitutes were C Johansen who replaced Perring and S Revell replaced Walters, with L Drew being cautioned in the game. We played them away on the 15th October, this game took place at their old ground The Conigre and we were beaten again this time 3-0 and they had a crowd of 155 spectators.

Team that played was: G Fisher, R Dabbs, L Perring, C Walters, K Green, L Head, D Griffiths, G Hammon, J Lewington, C Johansen, with substitutes L Drew replacing Green and S Gill replacing Groves, with Perring being cautioned.

We also played them a third time this season, on the 1st April in the Les Phillips Cup Quarter-Final

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Buckland Athletic’s Record Versus Melksham Town tie and they completed the treble over this season when they won a tight game 1-0, played in front of 304 spectators at their splendid new ground.

The team that played was: G Fisher, R Dabbs, C Clifford, N Rudge, S Laughton, L Head, S Revell, R Groves, C Johansen, RJ Lewington, L Gardner, substitutes were J Ewing who replaced Gardner and S Gill replaced Johansen.

So we have met on ten occasions in the Western League Premier Division and we have collected eleven points, at home we have played five games, drawing one and losing four, scoring three, conceding nine, gaining one point, whilst away we have played five games, winning three, drawing one, losing one, scoring ten, conceding six, gaining ten points. So in total we have played ten games, winning three, drawing two, losing five, scoring thirteen, conceding fifteen, gaining eleven points. We have yet to win a league encounter against them at Homers.

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D

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F

A

GD

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0

1

4

3

9

-6

1

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5

3

1

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54 13 15 -2 11 5 TOTAL AVE HOME 69 106 235 141 93 644 128.8 AWAY 109 87 117 94 155 562 112.4

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ATTENDANCE 1

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Team That Played 2017-18 1 1 DATE

5-Aug 8-Aug 12-Aug 15-Aug 22-Aug 26-Aug 29-Aug 2-Sep 9-Sep

Away LEAGUE/CUP OPPONENTS

Home FA Cup E-P Home League Away League Home League Home League Home League Away League Home League Away League

Bodmin Town Wellington Chipping Sodbury Town Shepton Mallet Wells City Brislington Street Melksham Town Longwell Green Sports

169 122 97 116 145 117 136 3pm 3pm

12-Sep 16-Sep 19-Sep 23-Sep 30-Sep 7-Oct 21-Oct 28-Oct 4-Nov 11-Nov 25-Nov 9-Dec 16-Dec 23-Dec 26-Dec 30-Dec 6-Jan 13-Jan 27-Jan 3-Feb 10-Feb 17-Feb 24-Feb 3-Mar 10-Mar 17-Mar

Home League Home League Away St Lukes Home League Away League Away League Home League Away League Home League Away League Away League Away League Home League Away League Home League Away League Home League Away League Away League Away League Home League Away League Away League Home League Home League Away League

Bridport Clevedon Town Tiverton Town Bradford Town Cribbs Bridgwater Town Hallen Bitton Cadbury Heath Bradford Town Hengrove Athletic Wellington Chipping Sodbury Town Shepton Mallet Willand Rovers Wells City Street Melksham Town Bridport Clevedon Town Odd Down (Bath) Brislington Hallen Bitton Bridgwater Town Cadbury Heath

7.30pm 3pm 7.30pm 3pm 3pm 3pm 3pm 3pm 3pm 3pm 3pm 3pm 3pm 3pm 3pm 3pm 3pm 3pm 3pm 3pm 3pm 3pm 3pm 3pm 3pm 3pm

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Drew Barker Perring Drew Barker Drew Barker

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S-Evans S-Evans Griffiths Griffiths Griffiths Griffiths Griffiths

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44 Rudge Rudge Rudge Rudge Rudge 1 Rudge Rudge

55 Kelly

Kelly 1 Laight Kelly Kelly Beattie Beattie

66 Head Head Head Head Head Head Head

77 S Revell Green Wright 1 Green Green Kelly Kelly

88 Groves Groves 2 Groves 1 Groves Groves Groves 2 Groves

99

10 10

11 11

12 12

14 14

Wright Lewington Gardner 1 Johansen (9) 1 Clenanan (2) Johansen Lewington Gardner Wright (9) S Revell (11)

Gardner Gardner Wright (9) S Revell (8) Wright Lewington 1 Gardner Johansen (9) Johansen Lewington 2 Down Ewing (9) Johansen 1 Lewington 1 Gardner 1 Down (9) Johansen 1 Lewington 1

Johansen 1 Lewington

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Buckland Athletic 1st Team League History D & E Senior 3 87-88 D & E Senior 2 88-89 D & E Senior 1 89-90 D & E Senior 1 90-91 D & E Senior 1 91-92 D & E Premier 92-93 D & E Premier 93-94 D & E Premier 94-95 D & E Premier 95-96 D & E Premier 96-97 D & E Premier 97-98 D & E Premier 98-99 D & E Premier 99-00 Devon League 00-01 Devon League 01-02 Devon League 02-03 Devon League 03-04 Devon League 04-05 Devon League 05-06 Devon League 06-07 SWPL Premier 07-08 SWPL Premier 08-09 SWPL Premier 09-10 SWPL Premier 10-11 SWPL Premier 11-12 WL Premier 12-13 WL Premier 13-14 WL Premier 14-15 WL Premier 15-16 WL Premier 16-17 WL Premier 17-18

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P 28 26 24 24 28 26 28 30 26 28 28 26 28 38 38 38 40 40 38 38 34 36 36 38 38 38 40 36 38 38 6 998

W 10 10 3 9 7 6 7 13 9 8 12 10 13 11 10 13 10 10 8 6 5 10 16 17 15 8 7 12 14 14 4 307

D 3 0 4 1 3 1 4 1 1 3 0 3 0 5 4 3 5 6 5 3 4 5 2 1 3 6 7 1 1 2 0 87

L 1 3 5 2 4 6 3 1 3 3 2 0 1 3 5 3 5 4 6 10 8 3 0 1 1 5 6 5 4 3 0 106

F 44 37 17 34 30 32 32 42 43 44 51 49 64 61 50 49 39 39 32 27 29 38 67 74 61 49 33 45 48 55 10 1325

A 16 20 23 16 16 34 22 10 15 21 18 5 5 29 29 22 28 22 30 35 27 17 18 23 22 28 23 16 17 21 4 632

W 11 7 5 5 7 5 9 11 5 11 8 9 11 13 9 10 11 9 6 7 3 11 11 14 13 7 9 11 10 12 1 271

D 1 3 4 2 3 5 1 2 4 0 2 2 1 0 5 3 1 6 1 2 3 4 4 2 2 4 3 1 5 3 1 80

L 2 3 3 5 4 3 4 2 4 3 4 2 2 6 5 6 8 5 12 10 11 3 3 3 4 8 8 6 4 4 0 147

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F 49 30 19 23 29 31 42 44 34 35 38 30 44 46 41 39 47 39 31 30 24 41 54 57 62 28 39 45 43 43 7 1164

A 21 22 17 17 23 24 26 16 26 15 17 9 11 25 30 25 35 30 52 36 39 22 28 26 34 31 28 25 17 28 6 761

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LEAGUE Full Sub Goals A Seedhouse-Evans 1 C Walters L Drew 6 N Rudge 6 1 C Kelly 5 1 L Head 6 S Revell 2 R Groves 6 5 C Wright 2 2 1 J Lewington 6 5 L Gardner 5 1 C Johansen 5 1 3 M Clenahan N Barker 3 K Green 3 K Griffiths 5 S Laughton 2 L Perring 1 E Laight 1 S Beattie 2 J Down 1 1 J Ewing 1

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Buckland Athletics' Western League Premier History Barnstaple Town Bishop Sutton Bitton Bradford Town Bridport Brislington Bristol Manor Farm Cadbury Heath Chipping Sodbury Town Clevedon Town Cribbs Gillingham Town Hallen Hengrove Athletic Ilfracombe Town Larkhall Athletic Longwell Green Sports Melksham Town Odd Down (Bath) Radstock Town Slimbridge Shepton Mallet Sherborne Town Street Wellington Wells City Welton Rovers Willand Rovers Winterborne United

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P 4 6 10 6 10 11 10 10 3 4 4 10 10 2 4 4 10 10 10 4 4 7 8 11 1 5 2 10 6 196 P 38 40 36 38 38 6 196

W 2 1 3 2 4 3 2 4 1 1 1 3 4 1 0 0 3 0 3 2 1 4 2 3 1 3 1 2 2 59 W 8 7 12 14 14 4 59

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GD 13 11 8 14 7 2 -1 10 2 8 9 6 22 2 2 -8 10 -2 10 15 7 13 9 3 1 11 3 4 7 201 GD 18 21 49 57 49 7 201

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Western League, Tables & Fixtures 2017-18 PREMIEIR DIVISION Buckland Athletic Melksham Town Bradford Town Willand Rovers Odd Down (Bath) Cribbs Shepton Mallet Clevedon Town Street Chipping Sodbury Town Bridgwater Town Brislington Bitton Hengrove Athletic Bridport Wells City Wellington Cadbury Heath Hallen Longwell Green Sports

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Saturday 26th August Les Phillips Cup P Bitton 4-0 Bridport 5-2 Cadbury Heath 5-0 Calne Town 2-4 Chippenham Park 2-1 Clevedon Town 2-1 Hallen 3-2 Hengrove Athletic 2-3 Malmesbury Victoria 2-4 Roman Glass St George 0-2 Premier Division Buckland Athletic 4-1 Chipping Sodbury Town 0-3 Cribbs 1-0 Melksham Town 1-2 Street 1-2 Wells City 0-3 First Division Ashton & Backwell Utd 1-0 Bristol Telephones 4-2 Corsham Town 0-1 Oldland Abbotonians 2-1 Portishead Town 0-6 Tuesday 29th August Premier Division Bitton 3-1 Bridgwater Town 1-1 Longwell Green Sports 0-6 Odd Down (Bath) 1-0 Street 3-3 Wells City 1-2 First Division Bishop Sutton 3-3 Cheddar 0-3

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A 10 5 1 6 6 4 5 2 7 12 9 8 5 4 10 13 13 16 12 23

GD 7 14 10 9 3 3 1 7 4 0 -2 -2 0 0 -2 -7 -6 -8 -7 -23

Welton Rovers Keynsham Town Bishop Sutton Bradford Town Longwell Green Sports Wincanton Town Radstock Town Almondsbury Bishops Lydeard Chard Town Brislington Willand Rovers Wellington Shepton Mallet Odd Down (Bath) Bridgwater Town Warminster Town Cheddar Sherborne Town Devizes Town Westbury United

Cadbury Heath Bridport Melksham Town Brislington Buckland Athletic Willand Rovers Bishops Lydeard Keynsham Town

P 16 13 13 13 13 9 9 8 7 7 7 7 5 5 4 4 3 3 1 0

First Division Westbury United Bristol Telephones Oldland Abbotonians Keynsham Town Chippenham Park Radstock Town Warminster Town Devizes Town Wincanton Town Malmesbury Victoria Bishop Sutton Roman Glass St George Bishops Lydeard Welton Rovers Chard Town Ashton & Backwell Utd Calne Town Portishead Town Sherborne Town Cheddar Almondsbury Corsham Town

P W D 7 4 3 5 5 0 8 4 2 5 4 0 7 3 3 6 3 2 7 3 2 7 3 2 7 3 2 6 3 1 6 2 2 5 2 1 6 2 1 5 1 3 6 1 2 6 1 2 6 1 2 6 1 2 6 1 1 6 1 1 7 1 1 6 1 1

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GD 11 10 7 10 0 6 5 1 0 1 -2 4 -5 2 -2 -3 -6 -9 -6 -6 -8 -10

First Division Chippenham Park 0-0 Warminster Town Devizes Town 2-1 Calne Town Wincanton Town 3-3 Portishead Town Wednesday 30th August Premier Division Bradford Town Clevedon Town Hengrove Athletic First Division Oldland Abbotonians Sherborne Town Westbury United Saturday 2nd September FA Cup 1st Q R Bridport Gosport Borough Merthyr Town Odd Down (Bath) Premier Division Buckland Athletic Chipping Sodbury Town Cribbs Hallen Shepton Mallet First Division Ashton & Backwell Utd Bishops Lydeard Chippenham Park Corsham Town Oldland Abbotonians Radstock Town Roman Glass St George Sherborne Town Warminster Town

2-1 Chipping Sodbury Town 3-1 Hallen 2-1 Cribbs 1-1 Ashton & Backwell Utd 2-5 Chard Town 1-1 Almondsbury

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Toolstation Western League Premier Round-Up BITTON….last Saturday were in Les Phillips Cup action at home against Division One side Welton Rovers and they won this tie 4-0, which means that they will now be away at another Division One side Almondsbury in the 1st Round in November. At this time after three league games, they have yet to register a win, they drew 1-1 away at Clevedon, lost 3-1 at home against Chipping Sodbury Town, and drew 0-0 away at Bradford Town, they were in action on Tuesday evening looking for that win, at home against Cadbury Heath, and it came when they won 3-1.

Their next league game is on Monday 4th September when they will be away at Melksham Town, and in twenty-two Premier games they have collected thirty-three points, and away against them they have won four, drawn two, lost five, scoring fourteen, conceding eighteen, gaining fourteen points, and in last seasons corresponding game it ended all square at 2-2. Then on the following Saturday they are at home in the FA Vase against Brislington, and last season they went out at the Preliminary Round stage beaten away at Salisbury from the Southern League South & West Division 5-0, they had beaten Welton Rovers in that run away 2-0.

BRADFORD TOWN….at the time of writing this piece they are up in third place in the league table, but last Saturday they were in Les Phillips Cup Preliminary Round action and they defeated the Division One side Calne away 4-2, they now face a tough tie away at Street in the 1 st Round. In their league campaign they were unbeaten in their opening four games, winning 1-0 at Brislington, winning 3-0 at home against Wellington, won 5-0 away at Longwell Green Sports, and then drew 0-0 at home against winless Bitton. They were in action on Wednesday evening at home against Chipping Sodbury Town and this game ended in a 2-1 win. Today they are in league action and are away at Shepton Mallet, and in six Premier Division meetings they have collected seven points, away they have won two, lost one, scoring four, conceding two, gaining six points, in last season’s meeting there it was a 2-0

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win, in the 2015-16 season it was 1-0 loss, and in the 2014-15 season it was a 2-1 win.

BRIDGWATER TOWN…at the time of writing are in eleventh place in the Premier table in their first season back in this division since the 2006-07 season. Last Saturday they were in league action away at Wells City and they won that game 3-0, but they were beaten at home by Shepton Mallet 2-1, lost 3-0 away at Street, lost 2-0 at home against Brislington and won 2-1 away at Willand Rovers. They were also in action on Tuesday evening at home against Bridport and drew 1-1.

They are also still involved in the FA Cup and today they are in 1st Qualifying Round action and are away at Gosport Borough from the Southern League Premier (Step Three), after they were relegated last season from the National League South. In last season’s competition they were knocked out in the Preliminary Round at home

by South West Peninsula League Premier side Plymouth Parkway 6-0. Then their next league game is a home one against Hallen.

BRIDPORT….were in Les Phillips Cup Preliminary Round action on Saturday at home against Division One side Keynsham Town and they ran out easy winners 5-2 on the day, they will now face Willand Rovers at home in the 1st Round of this cup competition. At the time of writing they have played just three league games, starting the season with a 4-1 away win at Cadbury Heath, then a 5-1 home loss against Willand Rovers and then a 3-2 defeat at home against new boys Wellington, which means they are in fifteenth place. They were in league action again on Tuesday evening away at another of the new boys Bridgwater Town and drew 1-1. Today they are FA Cup 1st Qualifying Round action at home against Southern League South & West side Barnstaple Town, and they have played them once before in this competition in the 200809 season in the Extra-Preliminary Round at home winning 2-1 that day. Already in this competition they have beaten AFC St Austell in the Extra-Preliminary Round after drawing 1-1 away

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Toolstation Western League Premier Round-Up they won the replay at home 1-0 and then in the Preliminary Round they defeated Street at home 3-1. Their next league game then is away at Wells City.

BRISLINGTON….were in league action last Saturday away here against ourselves, Buckland and they lost that encounter 4-1, and having a man sent off in the second half. At the time of writing they were in twelfth place in the Premier Division table, they defeated Cribbs at home 2-1, drew 1-1 away at Hallen, won 2-0 away at new boys Bridgwater Town and in the opening game of this campaign they lost 1-0 at home against Bradford Town. They were back in action on Tuesday evening away at Odd Down (Bath) with this game ending in a 1-0 defeat. Today they are in league action away at Chipping Sodbury Town, and in last seasons corresponding game they were beaten by the then new boys 1-0. They are then in FA Vase action away at Bitton, and in last season’s competition they joined at the 2nd Qualifying Round and were beaten at home by SWPL Premier side Plymouth Parkway 1-0. Then back in league action they are at home against Melksham Town and in last season’s meeting there it ended in a heavy 5-2 defeat.

CADBURY HEATH….were in Les Phillips Cup Preliminary Round action last Saturday at home against Division One side Bishop Sutton and it was an easy win for the Premier side with a 5-0 win, they will now will be at home against another side from Division One Chard Town in the 1 st Round. At the time of writing they are in seventeenth place in the Premier Division table, and in their last game they defeated Hallen at home 52, they were beaten 3-0 away at Cribbs, lost 4-1 at home against Bridport and in their first league game they were well beaten away at Melksham Town 4-0. They did make it through their FA Cup tie at home against Yate Town from the Southern League South & West Division, winning a tight game against the opposition who are league higher 1-0. They were in league action on Tuesday evening away at Bitton and lost 3-1,

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and then comes an away game at Clevedon Town and in last seasons meeting there it ended in a 4-2 win for them back in August.

CHIPPING SODBURY TOWN…are now into their second season at this level of football they are up in tenth place but last Saturday they were in league action at home against a rejuvenated Willand Rovers and Chipping lost this game 3-0, before that they had a very creditable draw at home against Melksham Town 2-2, they had beaten Bitton away 3-1, lost 4-3 at home against ourselves, Buckland and in their first league game of this campaign they won 3-0 away at Longwell Green Sports. They were back in league action on Wednesday evening away at high flyers Bradford Town with this game ending in a 2-1 defeat. Today they are again in league action this time they are at home against Brislington, and in last seasons first ever league meeting between the two sides it was the league new boys, Chipping who won that encounter 1-0. They are then in FA Vase action the following Saturday and are away at Division One side Malmesbury Victoria.

CLEVEDON TOWN….so at the time of writing this piece they are in eighth place in the Premier Division table, but last Saturday they were in Les Phillips Cup Preliminary Round action at home against Division One side Wincanton Town, and they won this cup tie 2-1, and that means they will be away at Cribbs in the 1 st Round. In their last league game they went goal crazy when they defeated the divisions bottom side Longwell Green Sports away 5-0, before that they drew 0-0 away at Hengrove Athletic, drew 1-1 at home against Bitton, so that means they have played three league games so far.

Although they were in league action on Wednesday evening at home against Hallen, with this game ending in a 3-1 win. They are again in league action on the 6th September at home against Cadbury Heath. They are then in FA Vase action away at Division One side Almondsbury on the 9th September.

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Toolstation Western League Premier Round-Up CRIBBS….are at the time of writing are sixth place in the Premier Division table, and have started this season very well indeed, and it was league action they were involved with last Saturday at home against Wellington and they won this game 1-0. Before this they lost 2-1 away at Brislington, won 3-0 at home against Cadbury Heath and in their first league game they won 1-0 away at Shepton Mallet. They were also in league action on Wednesday evening away at Hengrove Athletic, with this game ending in a 2-1 defeat. Today and again it is league action, this time at home against Wells City and last season’s corresponding game ended in a 2-2 draw.

Then comes a league encounter away at the leagues bottom side Longwell Green Sports, and in four Premier meetings they have collected nine points, and away they won two, scoring four, conceding two, gaining six points, and in last season’s meeting the won 2-1 and their first meeting in the 2015-16 season, it ended in another 2-1 win.

HALLEN….have only played three league games at the time of writing this piece but they are already down in nineteenth place in the league table. But last Saturday they were involved in a Les Phillips Cup Preliminary Round tie at home against Division One side Radstock which they won 3-2, and they now will be at home against Wells City in the 1st Round. In their last league game they were beaten away at Cadbury Heath 5-2, before that they drew 1-1 at home against Brislington and suffered a first game defeat at home against Melksham Town 3-1. They were also in action in a league game on Wednesday evening away at Clevedon Town with this game ending in a 3-1 defeat. Today they are also in league action and are at home against Street, and in twenty-two Premier Division encounters they have collected twenty points, at home they won three, drawn two, lost six, scoring sixteen, conceding twentyseven, gaining eleven points, and in last season’s corresponding game it ended in a very big defeat 6-1.

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HENGROVE ATHLETIC….one of the new boys to the Premier this season they are now in fourteenth place in the Premier Division table, but last Saturday they were playing in the Les Phillips Cup Preliminary Round at home against Division One side Almondsbury and lost 3-2. In their last league game they were beaten away at Odd Down (Bath) 1-0, before that they drew 0-0 at home against Clevedon Town and in their first league game of the season they drew 2-2 away at Wells City. They were in league action again on Wednesday evening at home against Cribbs with that game ending in a 2-1 win. Today they are again in league action and are at home against the side that pipped them to the Division One title last season Wellington, in their two league meetings last season, they lost at home 3-2, and away they drew 1-1 with them. Then comes an away game at Shepton Mallet.

LONGWELL GREEN SPORTS….have made a terrible start to this new league campaign, and at this time they are bottom of the Premier Division table. Last Saturday though they were involved in a Les Phillips Cup Preliminary Round tie away at Division One side Chippenham Park and they exited the competition and were beaten 2-1. In their last league game they were well beaten at home by Clevedon Town 5-0, and before that it was exactly the same scoreline when beaten at home again 5-0 by Bradford Town. They suffered a 4-0 loss away at Street and their league campaign started with a 3-0 defeat at home against Chipping Sodbury Town, it really does look like that it will be another season of struggle for them. They were in league action on Tuesday evening at home against second placed Melksham Town, with this game ending in a 6-0 thrashing. Today they are at home again, this time against Cribbs, and in four Premier meetings they have collected three points, at home they lost two, scoring two, conceding seven, gaining no points, and in last season corresponding game it ended in a 2-1 defeat.

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Toolstation Western League Premier Round-Up ODD DOWN (BATH)….have made a good start to this new league campaign and at this time are up in fifth place in the Premier Division table, and last Saturday they were in League action way at Street and they won a tight game 2-1, before that they won 1-0 at home against Hengrove Athletic, lost 3-0 away at Melksham Town, drew 2-2 away at Willand Rovers and they started this campaign with a 3-0 win at home against Wells City. They were also in league action on Tuesday evening at home against Brislington, with this game ending in a 1-0 win. Today they are involved in an FA Cup 1st Qualifying Round action and are at home against Weymouth which is surely going to be very hard game against the team from the Southern League Premier Division, In the Preliminary Round they defeated Southern League South & West side Mangotsfield United at home 1-0. Next up in this league campaign is an away game at high flyers Bradford Town, and in six Premier meetings they have collected four points, away they drawn one, lost two, scoring five, conceding ten, gaining just a single point, and in last seasons corresponding game it ended in a heavy 6-2 defeat.

SHEPTON MALLET….are up in seventh place in the Premier table and last Saturday they were in league action away at Melksham Town and they had a great win 2-1, before that they won 2-1 away at Bridgwater Town, 2-1 win at home against Wellington, they suffered a 1-0 defeat away at ourselves, Buckland and they started their season with a 0-1 home defeat against Cribbs. Today they are in league action and are at home against Bradford Town, and in six Premier Division encounters they have collected ten points from those games, at home they have won one, lost two, scoring two, conceding four, gaining three points, and in last season corresponding game it ended in a 20 defeat, that win came in the 2015-16 season, 1 -0. They are then away at Willand Rovers, and in six Premier meetings they have collected six points, away they have won one, lost two, scoring three, conceding three, gaining three points, and in last season’s meeting there between the

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two, ended in a 1-0 defeat for Mallet, that win came in the 2015-16 season, 2-0.

STREET…started off their league campaign very well, but have since suffered a slight hiccup, that sees them in ninth place in the Premier Division table. Last Saturday they were in league action at home against Odd Down (Bath), and they lost this game 2-1, before that they were also beaten away at Willand Rovers 2-0, but they did start the season with two wins, their first win of the campaign came at home against Longwell Green Sports 4-0, and then 3-0 at home against new boys Bridgwater Town. They were also beaten in the FA Cup Preliminary Round away at Bridport 3-1. They were in action again on Tuesday evening at home against ourselves, Buckland and this game ended in a entertaining 3-3 draw. Today they are league action again, and are away at Hallen, and in twenty-two Premier Division encounters they have collected forty-one points, away they have won six, drawn two, lost three, scoring twenty-seven, conceding sixteen, gaining twenty points, and last season’s corresponding game ended in a very easy 6-1 win for Street.

WELLINGTON….at the time of writing this piece are in seventeenth place in the Premier table, and last Saturday they were beaten in a league fixture 10 away at Cribbs, and before that game they won away at Bridport 3-2 (this was their first win and only win at this time). They were beaten away at Shepton Mallet 2-1, away at Wells City they lost 2-1, were beaten 3-0 away at Bradford Town and in their first league game of this campaign they were beaten here at Homers Heath by ourselves Buckland 3-2. Their next game is a league fixture away at Street, and this game is then followed by an FA Vase 1st Qualifying Round game at home against Wells City and in last seasons competition they went out in the 1st Qualifying Round at home against Bishop Sutton 1-0, and then it is back to league action away at Willand Rovers.

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Toolstation Western League Premier Round-Up WELLS CITY….at this time are in sixteenth place in the Premier Division table, and they were in league action last Saturday and were beaten at home by new boys Bridgwater Town 3-0, before that it was a 2-1 loss here at the Heath against ourselves, Buckland, they did win 2-1 at home against Wellington, they drew 2-2 at home against Hengrove Athletic and lost in their opening league game away at Odd Down (Bath), 3-0.

They were again in league action on Tuesday evening and they were at home against a side in great form at present, Willand Rovers, and this game ended in a 2-1 defeat. So today they are away at Cribbs, and in last season’s corresponding game ended in a 2-2 draw, and they are then at home against Bridport, and in six Premier meetings they have collected nine points, at home they have won one, drawn two, scoring nine, conceding five, gaining five points, and in last season’s meeting ended all square at 2-2.

WILLAND ROVERS….have made a very good start to this new league campaign, and at the

Les Phillips Cup: Chard Town put their current league frustrations behind them by reaching the next round of the Les Phillips Cup following a 2-0 win away at Roman Glass St George. Town left it very late before grabbing the win, with Andy Holmes and Taoufik Ben Salem each scoring in the final 15 minutes at Oaklands Park. Bishops Lydeard are also through to the first round, after a Charlie Wilson hat-trick helped them beat Malmesbury Victoria 4-2, with Sam Jordan also plundering a treble in Bradford Town’s 4-2 triumph away at Calne Town. Bridport were another to enjoy a fruitful day in front of goal, coming from two goals down to beat Keynsham Town 5-2. The opening passages of play belonged entirely to the K’s who found themselves two-nil up after just eight minutes with Stefan Lee and Tauren Williams each bagging goals. Those early goals kicked Bridport into gear and they got back into the game almost instantly through Leighton

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time of writing they are up in fourth place in the Premier Division table, and last Saturday they won away at Chipping Sodbury Town 3-0, before that they had another great win this time at home against last season’s runners-up Street 2-0. They defeated Bridport away 5-1, drew 2-2 at home with Odd Down (Bath) and in their first league game they were beaten at home by new boys Bridgwater Town 2-1. They were in league action on Tuesday evening away at Wells City with this game ending in a 2-1 win.

Today they are in FA Cup 1st Qualifying Round action away at Merthyr Town from the Southern League Premier and last season they finished in third place. They have played them before in this competition in the 2010-11 season in the Extra-Preliminary Round at home which they won 2-0. In this seasons run they have defeated Cheddar away 2-0, and then defeated last season’s Western League Premier champions and now Southern League South & West side Bristol Manor Farm at home 2-1.

Thomas, before Cameron Vere slammed home from a corner to make it two-all after just 12 minutes. That was how it stayed until the opening moments of the second-half, when Leigh Bailey scored a 16 minute hat -trick to put Bridport out of sight and into the next round. Cadbury Heath flexed their goalscoring muscle, with Sam Bailey, Ali Bamford, Matt Huxley, Christian Lee and Andy Campbell each finding the back of the net in their 5-0 canter over Bishop Sutton. First Division strugglers Almondsbury stunned Hengrove Athletic, with goals from Alex Bisp, Jack Dempsey and Greg Parr helping them to a 3-2 win, while goals from Lewis McCarron and Paul Gittins helped Chippenham Park defeat higher-ranked opposition, in the form of a 2-1 win at home to Longwell Green Sports.

Bitton enjoyed a comfortable afternoon at the Rapid Solicitors Ground, with Dean Griffiths, Adam Mahdi, Tom Knighton and Callum Baker all grabbing goals in

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their 4-0 win over Welton Rovers. Isaac Reid and Glen Hayer scored in the space of nine second half minutes to help Clevedon Town to a 2-1 victory against Wincanton Town, while Aaron Anglin, Jack Mills and Tom Collett were the difference between the sides as Hallen saw off Radstock Town with an entertaining 3-2 win.

Premier Division: At Homers Heath, Buckland Athletic maintained their winning start to the league season following a 4-1 victory over Brislington. After falling behind in the sixth minute lead following a Jared Lewington header, Brislington got back on level terms in the moments leading up to half-time. However they were soon behind, with Richard Groves firing home a penalty less than two minutes later. The second half belonged to Buckland, with Groves and Lewington both adding to their tallies either side of a red card to Brislington’s Jason Hughes. Shepton Mallet produced an excellent late comeback to defeat Melksham Town 21. New signing Tyler Sibbick put Melksham ahead ten minutes from time on his debut, before the visitors turned the game on its head. The equaliser came five minutes from through Craig Loxton, and then just two minutes later they stole all three points with Cameron Sanford firing an effort through a crowd of players. Odd Down were another side to claim an away victory, with Asa White scoring either side of the break in their 2-1 triumph over Street, while Cribbs defeated Wellington 1-0 thanks to a strike from Charlie Aldom despite playing with ten men for an hour. Bridgwater Town claimed their second win of the season after beating Wells City 3-0 at the Athletic Ground. An early owngoal set Town on their way, with Syd Camper making it 2-0 in the 20th minute, before the same man completed the scoring midway through the second half. Another side to win 3-0 away from home were Willand Rovers, after James Blake scored a pair of headers in their victory over Chipping Sodbury Town.

First Division: Bristol Telephones’ perfect start to life in the Western League continued after they beat Cheddar 4-2 at Stockwood Lane. Leon Britton kept up his strong start to the campaign with another goal, but the day belonged to Dhani Golding who bagged a hat-trick for the Phones. Oldland Abbotonians’ promising start to the campaign also continued, with Danny Carter’s double helping them come from a goal down to defeat Devizes Town 2-1. At the opposite end of the table, Ashton & Backwell United grabbed their first three points of the season with Ryan Crouch’s goal helping them to a 1-0 win at home to Warminster Town.

Westbury United scored the biggest league win of the day, recording a 6-0 victory over Portishead Town.

Mark Robinson got on the scoresheet twice, adding to

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goals from Jamie Jordan, Martin Johnson, Josh Ferguson and an own goal. Sherborne Town captured their first win of the season, with substitute Dave Smith scoring a late winner in their 1-0 victory over Corsham Town.

Sin-Bin trial In various parts of the footballing world the ten minute sin-bin is being trialled by the authorities in a latest attempt to curb arguably the biggest cancer of all, namely dissent and foul language which is blighting the sport at all levels causing a significant drop out of officials and driving away many supporters.

One of the Western League’s neighbours, the Devon and Exeter League are one who have embraced it and Press Officer Kerry Miller took the opportunity of taking in one of their games on Friday night to check out how it might work and the reaction of some of the spectators.

The Premier Division clash had Western League connections as the visitors were Heavitree United who travelled to Feniton for a 6.30pm kick-off. The Heavies left the league 18 years ago and have reformed a couple of times since then, while wearing the Feniton number five shirt was none other than Phil Everett, who scored the last of his 378 goals for ex-Western League Tiverton Town around 15 years ago. Now playing at full back, Phil is careering at pace towards his 50th year but is more or less unchanged from Tivvy’s glory days of championships and FA Vase wins.

Ironically, although the language coming from the Heavitree dug out was frankly obscene, the full on 2-2 draw was played out without the man in the middle having to speak to a single player, as the on field behaviour and respect for the opposition was impressive.

Several times the away captain shouted the words ‘quiet’ or ‘behave’ as if to remind his teammates that they could not afford to have them on the touchline for ten minutes.

A home official said after the game: “So far so good as there was very little moaning going on and the referee spelled it out to us before the game that he now has that option.”

There will be other opportunities to watch football in that league but for now the jury is out on the law change and all will hope that it is a success and the powers that be have the strength to see it through.

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PIGGY’S BANQUETS Why not take a look at what our function team can create for weddings, parties and indeed corporate days for companies. Our Team have great flare with both buffets and decoration of the clubhouse, to make any function held here very special for the people involved.

You can contact Christine Holmes on 01626 369345 (Home) or 01626 361020 (Club) as she deals with all the bookings and indeed all the functions needs. She does have a brochure which includes a DVD available showing some of the clubhouse decorations that they have done over a number of years, so why not ring and have a chat to Chris about this fabulous location.

Down Memory Lane Hello to you all and welcome to another journey back in time into the distant past with me when I look at an old programme from years gone by.

Today sees me looking at a programme I recently bought in a job lot on e-bay to add to my own collection and give me a more varied selection to choose from although, I started this column using only programmes from matches I had seen myself but have now changed the format.

Today sees me looking at a very strange little programme from Swindon Town played on Tuesday December the 28th 1965 against Grimsby Town. This programme is one of the smallest I have ever seen in area size as it is only 6" x 4" and contains 36 pages including both front and back covers. The front cover is a bit of a disappointment as it only carries the Swindon club crest and tells us Swindon Town Football Club and that the cost of this mini edition is sixpence (6d) no other information on the front cover not even who today's visitors are. Page 2 is a full page advert for Mills and Merrick Ltd who are House Furnishers from Bridge Street Swindon.

Page 3 contains the match details and tells us

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the kick-off for this fixture is 7.30pm, it also tells us the names of the three officials. Page 4 has six adverts on it with the two largest being for W Collins Swindon Ltd-turf accountants and Notton's CafĂŠ-which is just 200 yards from the ground. Page 5 lists the club officials in the top third for example president, chairman, secretary directors and others, with the bottom two thirds called ‘Club Notes’ written by the current manager Danny Williams these club notes carry on for the next two pages where he talks about various things including the last game played and tells us that this is the only home fixture over the Christmas period. Page 8 has another six adverts on it with the two biggest being for Wilsons Swindon Ltd-builders and the second for Marshgate Garage Ltd. Page 9 is also devoted to just adverts with this time just three on the page, the biggest being for the Bristol Omnibus Company Ltd with Swindon Sports Centre and Dobell and Sherman-office equipment sales.

Pages 10 and 11 are devoted to pen pictures of our visitors today Grimsby Town where it lists fourteen of their players. Page 12 again is adverts GH Flower and Son-scrap metal merchants, the Kingsdown Arms pub and the Swindon Bacon Company. Page 13 has a full page advert for HR Spackman-who deal in garden sheds. Page 14 is once again I am afraid is more adverts, just to two this time the top half taken up by WJ Castle Bakers-who specialise in wedding cakes and the bottom half for Ballard and Co-chemists. Page 15 has a warning about running onto the field of play at any time during the game or after the final whistle whether you are sad, mad or glad, it says. Page 16 lists the fixtures for the Reserve Team who play in the Football Combination and has the results of the games played so far entered. Page 17 is a full page advert for plant hire and earthmoving contractors-H Hibhard Limited of Swindon. Pages 18 and 19 are taken up with the two teams written in the old-fashioned way of goalkeeper, fullbacks/, half backs, forwards with eight small adverts all around the outside. Pages 20 and 21 are supporters club notes and lists up-andcoming events in the supporters club and the

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Down Memory Lane cost of being a member and also the advantages of being a member in getting cheap coach travel to away games. Page 22 is a full page advert for British Rail Western Region and sings its own praises and gives prices of various away day tickets that can be purchased.

Page 23 is once again a full page advert for this time Swindon's finest fish and chip shops-FJ Roper and lists all four of his chip shops in around the Swindon area. Page 24 is a Swindon Town Football Club record request form which you must fill out if you would like a record played at the next home game. Page 25 is divided into two, the top half for Clark Bros Swindon Ltdbuilders and the bottom half for Premix Concrete.

Page 26 lists all the Division Three fixtures for this current 1965-66 season with the games played so far having their scores entered. Page 27 has another six adverts on it the two biggest being for Bretts-pet and garden centre and the other for Holmes and Lucas-who sell all domestic appliances for the home. Page 28 has a blackand-white photograph of Swindon player Keith East. Page 29 is another full page advert this time for Bradley Estate Agents. Page 30 lists the up-and-coming fixtures here at Swindon with Tuesday 4th January Coventry City pay a visit in the Football Combination and January 8th we will see Hull City playing here in a Third Division fixture. Page 31 has another four adverts, J Wilmer-Coal merchants, G A Streetly-newsagents and tobacconist, Cecil Green-decorators and finally Lansdowne and Co-mineral water and squash manufacturers. Page 32 lists each of the Swindon players from both teams and how many games they have played and how many goals they have scored. Page 31 is another full page advert for Earl of Chippenham Limited-who are a car sales company who specialise in Ford. Page 34 has the current up-to-date Third Division

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table with Swindon sitting in seventh place and today's visitors Grimsby in third, in this league table for us older people there is a blast from the past with Workington Town sitting one place above Swindon. Page 35 is an advert for Asseta trade union. Page 36 the outside back cover is once again a full page advert this time for ornamental ironwork company Gatemaster-who obviously specialise in making gates.

The two teams that played today were: Swindon Town: Goalkeeper-Peter Downesborough, 2 - Owen Dawson, 3 - John Trollope, 4 - Keith Morgan, 5 Mel Nurse, 6 - Wilf Shergold, 7 - Don Rogers, 8 Dennis Brown, 9 - Keith East, 10 - Roger Smart, 11 - Bruce Walker, 12 - Rod Thomas.

QPR: Goalkeeper - Charlie Wright, 2 - Jimmy Thompson, 3 - Graham Taylor, 4 - Keith Jopling, 5 Brian Clifton, 6 - Ron Cockrell, 7 - Brian Hill, 8 Matt Tees, 9 -Harry Green, 10 - Ronnie Foster, 11 - Brian Hill, 12 - Bobby Ross.

The game ended in 2-1 win for Swindon Town in front of 13,802 people, but it didn't get played until 23rd April because of the weather conditions when the first game was due to take place. At the end of this current season Swindon finished in seventh position with 51 points and Grimsby in 11th with 47 points, the League Division Three champions this season were Hull City with 69 points from 46 starts, runner-up Millwall with 65 points, relegated this season were York City rock bottom with 27 points, Brentford 32 Exeter City 35 and Southend 36 points Well that's it for this trip will do it again soon, cheers Roy Homer Holmes.

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Buckland Athletic - A Club History The club was formed in 1977 purely as a junior club. We started life in the Torbay Pioneer League and Sandringham Park was our home pitch. As a junior club it was the biggest in the area, running a total of six sides in six different age groups for several seasons. We won many titles over the years including the Devon Youth Cup. In the season of 1987-88 we were accepted into the Devon and Exeter League and started our senior football life in Senior Division Three playing home games at Coach Road with Roy Holmes still in charge. In our first season we won the Championship and were promoted into Senior Two in 1988-89. Well in the 1989-90 season we gained promotion once more into Senior One these two promotions were gained with a very youthful side. In 1990-91 we were on the move again this time to Decoy and this season saw us win the Wheaton Trophy. We finally achieved our dream of being promoted to the Premier Division in 1992-93, having now moved to our old ground at Homers Lane and the club hasn't looked back since that move took place. In 1994-95 season saw Roy Holmes step down as first team manager and Nigel Holmes and Roger Madge took the job on. This was the season we won our first Premier Division Championship, a crowning glory to our The club was formed in 1977 purely as a junior club. We started life in the Torbay Pioneer League and Sandringham Park was our home pitch. As a junior club it was the biggest in the area, running a total of six sides in six different age groups for several seasons. We won many titles over the years including the Devon Youth Cup. In the season of 1987-88 we were accepted into the Devon and Exeter League and started our senior football life in Senior Division Three playing home games at Coach Road with Roy Holmes still in charge. In our first season we won the Championship and were promoted into Senior Two in 1988-89. Well in the 1989-90 season we gained promotion once more into Senior One these two promotions were gained with a very youthful side. In 1990-91 we were on the move again this time to Decoy and this season saw us win the Wheaton Trophy. We finally achieved our dream of being promoted to the Premier Division in 1992-93, having now moved to our old ground at Homers Lane and the club hasn't looked back since that move took place. In 1994-95 season saw Roy Holmes step down as first team manager and Nigel Holmes and Roger Madge took the job on. This was the season we won our first Premier Division Championship, a crowning glory to our runners-up in the league, we also picked up the Sportsmanship Cup and Programme Award.

2001-2002 was great season for the club as the

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Reserves went through the season undefeated in the Devon and Exeter Senior Division Two and were promoted to Senior One. The first team ended the season in sixth place in the league table and were beaten finalists in the Throgmorton Cup. 2002-2003 was another successful season in the life of Buckland, the Reserves won the Devon FA Senior Cup at Coach Road, beating Princess Yachts International 3-0. They were also promoted to the Premier Division of the Devon and Exeter League after finishing in third place, that was only decided on their last game of the season when the top three sides were all in with a chance of securing the title. The First team finished up third in the table which at the start of the season was, as many supporters said beyond them but the managers got good players in at the right times through the season. We also won the Devon League programme award and finished 29th out of a total of 1100 non league programme in the renowned Wirral awards.

2003-2004 was a new era in the club’s history, a third senior side was established and went on to win The South Devon League Division Seven Championship with ease. The First team finished in eighth place, with Gary Taylor stepping down from his assistant manager position, their lowest position since joining the Devon League. The Reserves finished in fourth spot in The Devon and Exeter Premier Division, Manager Simon Glanfield stood down as manager. The programme finished first in the Devon League section of the Wirral programme awards and 11th out of 1100 non-league programmes. 2004-05 we did better than the previous season by finishing in 7 th place. Throughout this season the new ground was being worked on by a loyal band of club people. In the final year of the Wirral programme awards we finished in our highest position of sixth out of 1100, winners were Exeter City. For the 2005-06 season we started life playing our games at our new permanent home, Homers Heath on the Kingskerswell Road. The move went very well, and the ground was opened on Saturday 13th July when an estimated 300 + people turned out to see Steve Perryman cut the ribbon to open the pitch. Plymouth Argyle bringing a team up on Wednesday 13th July followed this up. And Argyle Chairman Mr Stapleton officially opened the clubhouse. Paul Feasby and Andy Paddon were in charge of the First team and we finished in our lowest league position of 13th.

In the 2006-07 season all the talk was about the re-structuring of the Devon League and South Western League. One League with three Divisions was being formed called the South West Peninsula League. We managed to finish the season in 12th place under the leadership of Phil Bayliss and Gary Taylor and we had done just enough to meet our goal of qualifying for the SWPL

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Buckland Athletic - A Club History Premier Division along side the topsides in both the South Western and Devon Leagues.

The 2007-08 season was an extremely successful one for the club, the first team finished in 14th place in the new South West Peninsula League Premier Division.

We won the SWPL Premier Division best ground award, which is voted by the other clubs visits to Homers Heath we also won the SWPL Programme award.

The Reserves won the South Devon League Division 3 title, were runners-up in the prestigious Herald Cup, Devon Intermediate Cup Winners and Divisional Cup winners. The 3rd Team won the SDL Division 6 title, the Fred Hewings Cup and their Divisional Cup Final. In the 2008-09 season, the club enjoyed another successful season, the 1st team finished the season in 3rd place in the SWPL Premier Division, and for the second season running we won both the ground and programme award for the Premier division. The 2nd Team had a highly successful season, winning the South Devon League Division Two title and getting promoted to Division One, they also won the Devon Senior Cup with a 1-0 win over Lifton at Coach Road, this for the second time in the club's history. However, 2nd Team manager Ian Miller decided it was time to step down and concentrate on his now role as the clubs commercial agent having enjoyed huge success with the 2nd Team. The 3rd Team finished in second placed in the SDL Division Five and gained promotion to Division Four. Our Under 14 side also were very successful, winning their league title and league cup and winning the Devon FA County Cup at Coach Road with a fine 41 win over Plymouth Kolts.

Buckland had a phenomenal season in 2009-10, the 1st team did the double, winning the SWPL Premier Division title and the Throgmorton Cup pipping Bodmin Town to both, in what was manager Phil Bayliss’ last season in charge. They lost just three times in the league and were unbeaten in all their 19 home games. We also played in the famous FA Cup competition for the first time in the club’s history. They actually won the league on goal difference from Bodmin Town and they also beat them 2-1 after extra time in the Throgmorton Cup final played at Cullompton’s Speed Meadow. This was a wonderful way for Phil to hand over control to new manager Steve Massey for the 2010-11 season. The 2nd Team had a very successful season once again, this time they won the SDL Division One league title and they retained the Devon Senior Cup Final beating Elburton Villa Reserves at Coach Road 3-1. Again the 2nd Team manager Jim Barrett also decided to resign at the end of the season and Adam Castle will now be in charge of their new quest in the SDL Premier Division. The 3rd Team won the SDL

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Division Four league title, and they will be managed again this coming season by Scott Chisholm, who has guided them to many successes over number years.

The success kept coming in the 2010-11 season, the 1st Team retained the SWPL Premier Division title, by an eight point margin, they also became the lowest ranked club to win the Devon St Lukes Bowl when they defeated Tiverton Town on penalties in that final. The 2nd Team finished in 3rd place in their first season in the SDL Premier Division, and they did win the George Belli Cup, defeating Totnes & Dartington 2nds 4-2.

The 3rd team also finished in 3rd place in SDL Division 3, are they achieved promotion. They also won the Fred Hewings Cup for the second time, when they defeated WBB 2nds 1-0. The Junior side of the club continues to grow, but we have lost both Under 16 sides, but a lot of those players ware now signing senior forms for club, so hopefully we will find a number of young stars for all three senior sides.

The 2011-12 season was another significant one in the history of Buckland Athletic. Although the 1 st team relinquished their grip on the SWPL Premier Division title, beaten into second place by a very good Bodmin Town side, we had done enough to secure promotion to the Toolstation Western League Premier Division at Step 5. We were also beaten finalists in the Throgmorton Cup, again losing out to Bodmin Town, but we did retain the prestigious Devon St Lukes Bowl, again we played Tiverton town (Step 4) in the final, this time at the Heath, but this season we ran out worthy winners in 90 minutes, 4-0. The 2nd Team finished as runners-up in the SDL Premier Division, but they did win the Herald Cup for the first time in the clubs history, beating Watcombe Wanderers in that final 3-2 after extra time. They also made it through to the semifinals of the Devon Premier Cup, beaten by eventual winners and SWPL Division One East winners Liverton United. The 3rd Team didn’t win any silverware this season, but they had a great season, finishing in fourth place in the SDL Division Two table, and were beaten finalists in the Lidstone Cup. But the most pleasing part for the 3rds were the amount of the previous seasons Under 16s side made it into the side throughout the season. Manager Scott Chisholm has now decided to stand down as 3rd Team manager, he has been in charge of them since the teams formation in 2003, and had won promotion every season, until this one.

Scott will be missed but he will remain involved with the club off the field, with former 1st team stalwarts Neil Montandon and Ben Williamson taking on the manager role with help from Nigel Holmes for the 2012-13 season. Antony Lynch will again lead the 1st Team, alongside his assistant Tom Kelly, but we have lost another stalwart for the new season, as assistant manager

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Buckland Athletic - A Club History Jaimie Carwardine has now moved away from the area and has had to stand down, and again he will be sorely missed. Adam Castle will once again be in charge of the 2nd Team assisted by Paul Tucker, Simon Dungey and Steve Giles. The 1st Team’s first season in the Toolstation Western League ended in a tenth place finish, but the club did the Hospitality award and programme award in this first campaign.

The 2nd Team won the South Devon League Premier Division title for the first time in its history, they also lost out in the finals of both the Devon Premier Cup and Herald Cup to Exmouth Town and Watcombe Wanderers respectively. The 3rd Team finished in third place in SDL Division Two, and were promoted to Division One, they also won the Fred Hewings Cup beating Totnes & Dartington 3rds.

For the 2013-14, our highly successful 2nd Team manager, Adam Castle will now be in charge of the 1 st Team for its second season in the Western League Premier Division. There is a new man in charge of the 2nd Team, Simon Dungey will be the man to lead them in this campaign, while the 3rd Team will be once again lead by Neil Montandon. In his first season in charge of the 1st Team, Adam Castle led them to an 11th place finish in the Toolstation Western League Premier Division. The club retained the Premier Division Programme award. The 2nd Team finished in 4th place in the South Devon League Premier Division, and were beaten finalists in the Herald Cup, going down 3-1 to Watcombe Wanderers. The 2rd Team finished as runners-up to Dartmouth in the South Devon League Division One, but they retained the Fred Hewings Cup by beating Watcombe Wanderers 2nds 2-1, this was their third win of this trophy in the last four seasons.

What another great season for the club was 2014-15, the 1st Team managed by Adam Castle finished as runners-up in the Western League Premier Division (Step Five), which was a great achievement, we also won the Premier Division programme award for the third consecutive season. The 2nd Team led by Neil Snell ended this season as Champions of the South Devon League Premier Division, and our 3rd Team managed by club stalwart Nigel Holmes also finished as champions, this time of the South Devon League Division One, and they also retained the Fred Hewings Cup winning it for the fifth time, they also introduced a few of our talented Under 16s players into senior football.

Now onto the 2015-16 season, firstly there was substantial drainage work done to the playing surface during the summer, and we must thank Viridor Credits

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for their help in funding these works. Onto the football, the 1st Team managed by Adam Castle finished in 4th Place in the Western League Premier Division, but not good enough to reach our goal of promotion. The 2nd Team managed again by Neil Snell retained the South Devon League Premier Division title, and were beaten finalists in the Herald Cup. Our 3rd Team finished the season in the South Devon League Division One as runners-up, in what was manager Nigel Holmes last season in charge. The club fielded it’s first Ladies team managed by Grant Fisher, in the Devon Women's League Division One, and they didn’t drop a point when winning the league title, and they then added the League Cup, in what was a fantastic season for them.

Also during the season a lot of work was carried out at Homers Heath, including a new covered standing area, which incorporates two new turnstiles. The ground was fenced in, and an impressive outside toilet block was built. This work allowed the club to achieve a ‘D’ Ground Grade which is good enough for Southern League football.

2016-17 was another very good season for the club, the 1st Team finished in 4th place in the Western League Premier, and collected their best points tally since joining the league. The team also reached in the last eight of the FA Vase, going down 2-0 away against Bromsgrove Sporting, this means that it was very good season for new manager Ellis Laight. The club also won the Western League Hospitality Award and best programme award this season. The 2nd Team won their third consecutive South Devon League Premier Division title, under the leadership of Lee Chapman and Ben Robertson. Our 3rd Team under Phil Bearne and Paul Sharples finished as runners-up in the South Devon League Division One, and won their sixth Fred Hewings Cup trophy. Now on to our all conquering Ladies 1st Team who won the South West Women's League Western Division, dropping just two points over their unbeaten season. They also added the Soccerworld League Cup and the Devon FA Senior Cup to that success which saw them end this season as treble winners. Our Ladies 2nd Team finished mid-table in a very hard Devon Women's League Premier Division, and were beaten finalists in the Devon FA Supplementary Cup. There were also varies successes for our Junior sides, bot boys and girls.

We now move onto the 2017-18 season, again the aim is for the 1st Team to gain promotion to the Southern League, which in turn would allow the 2nd Team if they finished in a promotion position to move up to the South West Peninsula League. The 1st Team will again be managed by Ellis Laight, and have kept all but one of last season squad. The 2nd Team will be

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Buckland Athletic - A Club History & Honours led by Lee Chapman with the 3rd Team having Nigel Holmes in charge. The Ladies1st and 2nd Teams keep their management structure for this coming season, with the 1st Team now in the SWWL Premier Division and the 2nd Team in Devon Women's League Premier Division. There will also be more junior sides added in both boys and girls teams,. The club continues to grow, and with everyone pulling in the right direction, which includes our fantastic loyal sponsors, and supporters he sky is the limit to what we can achieve.

The club continues to thrive both on and off the field of the play and this is due to the hard working ethics of all the volunteers within the club.

HONOURS Western League Premier Division Runners-Up 2014 -15 SWPL Premier Division Champions 2009-10, 201011 SWPL Premier Division Runners-Up 2011-12 Devon St Lukes Bowl Winners 2010-11, 2011-12 SWPL Charity Bowl Winners 2010, 2011 Devon League Runners-up 2000-01 Throgmorton Cup Winners 2009-10 Throgmorton Cup Runners-up 2001-02, 2011-12 Devon League Sportsmanship Cup 2000-01 D & E Premier Division Champions 1994-95, 199900 D & E Premier Division Runners-up 1998-99 D & E Premier Division Cup Winners 1997-98, 199899 East Devon Senior Cup Winners 1995-96 Devon FA Premier Cup Finalists 2012-13 Devon FA Senior Cup Winners 2002-03, 2008-09 Devon FA Intermediate Cup Winners 2007-08 Herald Cup Winners 2011-12

George Belli Cup Winners 2010-11 SDL Charity Shield Winners 2012 SDL Herald Cup Runners-up 2007-08, 2012-13, 2013-14, 2015-16 Fred Hewings Cup Winners 2007-08, 2010-11, 201213, 2013-14, 2014-15, 2016-17 SDL Premier Division Champions 2012-13, 2014-15, 2015-16, 2016-17 SDL Premier Division Runners-Up 2011-12 SDL Division 1 Winners 2014-15 SDL Division 1 Runners-Up 2013-14, 2015-16, 201617 SDL Division 2 Champions 2008-09 SDL Division 3 Champions 2007-08 SDL Division 4 Champions 2006-07 SDL Division 6 Champions 2007-08 SDL Division 7 Champions 2006-07 South West Women's League Western Division Champions 2016-17 SWWL Soccerworld League Cup Winners 2016-17 Devon FA Senior Ladies Cup Winners 2016-17 Devon Women's League Division One Winners 2015-16 Devon Women's League Cup Winners 2015-16 Devon FA Ladies Supplementary Cup Runners-Up 2016-17 Devon League Programme Award Winners 200001, 2002-03, 2004-05, 2005-06 SWPL Programme Premier Winners 2007-08, 200809, 2009-10, 2010-11, 2011-12 Western League Premier Programme Winners 2012 -13, 2013-14, 2014-15, 2016-17 Western League Premier Programme Runners-up 2015-16 SWPL Ground Award Winners 2007-08, 2008-09 SWPL Ground Award Runners-up 2009-10, 2010-11 Western League Hospitality Winners 2012-13, 201617

FA League Rule 2.13 Ownership: In accordance with the Football Association Rule 2.13 Publication of ownership in relation to Step 1 to Step 6 Clubs within the Football pyramid, we hereby confirm that the Legal Status of BUCKLAND ATHLETIC FOOTBALL CLUB, takes the ‘Form’ of Unincorporated Association. It has a constitution which sets out the rules that govern its relationship and membership, and elects a committee to run the organisation on behalf of its members. That committee currently consists: Roy Holmes, Christine Holmes, Nigel Holmes, John Piller, Billy Holmes, Roger Madge, Simon Glanfield, Simon Dungey, Bob Hext, Rose Glanfield, Barry Glanfield, Del Davis, Phil Pearce, Mark Feasby, Paul Hardingham, Judd Barker, Adam Castle, Steve Giles, Paul Tucker.

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MELKSHAM TOWN Rob Brown Mark Cooper Lee Davidson Chris Allen Warren Maidment Steve Casey Dan Demkiv Mike Perrott Gary Higdon (C) Luke Ballinger Ben Thomson Joe Stradling Jake Brown Sayeed Ibrahim Ben Pring Tyler Sibbick Callum Demkiv Ollie Webb Alex Grimshaw

Kenny Griffiths Cliff Walters Liam Drew Liam Head (C) Cameron Kelly Karl Green Nick Rudge Daniel Griffiths Lloyd Gardner Richard Groves Si Revell Scott Beattie Jared Llewington Charlie Johansson Chris Wright Matt Clenahan Nick Barker Jordan Ewing Mitchell McGann Jamie Down Adam Seedhouse-Evans Shane Gill Manager: Ellis Laight Assistant Manager: Steve Giles Physios: Pete Morgan & Paige Burrows Colours: All Yellow

Manager: Keiran Baggs Assistant Manager: Luke Ballinger Coach: Mickey Baggs Physio: Brian Evans Colours: All Red

Referee: Martin Underhay - Weymouth Assistant Referee: Lee Dudman - Bideford Assistant Referee: Andrew Thomson - Torquay

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