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BUCKLAND ATHLETIC v WELLS CITY Tuesday 22nd August 2017 7.30pm - 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 Hill Senior Team Team Managers Managers Senior 1st Team Team -- Ellis Ellis Laight Laight 1st 2nd Team Team -2nd 3rd Team Team -- Nigel Nigel Holmes Holmes 3rd Ladies 1st 1st Team Team -- Grant Grant Fisher Fisher Ladies Ladies Development Team -- Rob Rob Hill Hill Ladies Development Team Junior’s Secretary Secretary & & Pioneer Pioneer Youth Youth Officer Officer -- Victoria Victoria MonMonJunior’s tandon tandon Web-Sites Web-Sites Seniors www.clubwebsite.co.uk/bucklandathleticfc01 www.clubwebsite.co.uk/bucklandathleticfc01 Seniors Western League League website website Western www.toolstationleague.com www.toolstationleague.com South Devon Devon League League Web-site Web-site South www.sdfl.org.uk www.sdfl.org.uk
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UPCOMING FIXTURES SATURDAY 26th 12th AUGUST 2017 WESTERN LEAGUE PREMIER DIVISION BUCKLAND ATHLETIC vs BRISLINGTON CHIPPING SODBURY TOWN vs BUCKLAND KICK OFF 3pm ATHLETIC KICK OFF 3pm TUESDAY 29th AUGUST 2017 WESTERN LEAGUE PREMIER DIVISION TUESDAY 15th AUGUST 2017 STREET LEAGUE vs BUCKLAND ATHLETIC WESTERN PREMIER DIVISION OFF 7.30pm BUCKLAND KICK ATHLETIC vs SHEPTON MALLET SATURDAY 2nd SEPTEMBER 2017 KICK OFF 7.30pm WESTERN LEAGUE PREMIER DIVISION BUCKLAND ATHLETIC vs MELKSHAM TUESDAY 22nd AUGUST 2017 TOWN WESTERN LEAGUE PREMIER DIVISION OFF 3pm BUCKLAND KICK ATHLETIC vs WELLS CITY KICK OFF 7.30pm We would like to extend a warm Buckland welcome to the manager, officials & supporters of of Wellington Wells City to porters to Homers Homers Heath Heath for 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 necessarily the the views views of of the the club. club. Today’s Front Cover Photo….. RICHARD GROVES Photo from our FA Vase tie in the 2014
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I make no apologies for inserting this piece about Charlie Hardingham into this programme here again as there must be some people who didn’t get the previous edition against Shepton Mallet and maybe some of you are still unaware of the club’s sad loss. It is with a deep sadness that I open this Homers Lines with the very sad news of the death of long serving club stalwart Charlie Hardingham who sadly passed away on Saturday morning, the 12th of August just after 9:30am, after an illness that had laid him low over the last few weeks. Many of you here will have known Charlie as he was often at the ground doing various bits and pieces i.e. washing kits/frying chips/painting and many other things that he turned his hand to, that enabled us to run the club the way we do Charlie was at this club long before myself, and in fact was the man who asked me to join and become a linesman for the team he was running at the time, which was the under 14’s in which both his son Paul and my son Billy played, that all seems such a long time ago now. I will do a better piece on Charlie in a later programme as he deserves it. Before the Shepton Mallet game we held minutes silence which gave us all a little time to think of and remember Charlie. Charlie’s funeral will take place at the Torbay crematorium at 3:30pm this coming Thursday the 24th of August, and after the ceremony back here at the clubhouse. Thank you
Hello everyone and welcome along to Homers Heath for tonight’s Toolstation Western League Premier Division fixture between ourselves and Wells City. At this point I would like to offer a big warm Buckland style welcome to the players/ management team/club officials and any travelling spectators that have made the journey down to Devon this evening to watch the game. We do hope you all enjoy your short stay with us and will join us in the clubhouse after the final whistle to enjoy a a bite to eat and a pint of before making a safe journey homewards. Tonight sees the first team playing their fourth league fixture of the season of which three have taken place here at Homers Heath, with the first league game seeing us edgeing out newly promoted Wellington by the odd goal in five, with our goals that evening coming from a brace from Richard Groves and Charlie Johansen that was followed the following Saturday when we travel to Chipping Sodbury, a journey that usually takes just under the two hours but lasted almost three as we were held up in some terrible motorway traffic congestion, as must have been the team, who left one hour before ourselves and luckily, they did. The game at Chipping Sodbury was a very entertaining end to end affair with us looking the better of the two teams and playing some really attractive football without really stamping our authority on it. But considering we were down to the bare bones it was a very good result. This game saw the gaffer Ellis having to play all the whole 90 minutes at centre back as unavailability’s left us rather stretched with just three teenagers sitting on the bench, but once again we ran out winners this time by the odd goal in seven which suggests if you want
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to watch plenty of goals we are the team to follow. But credit to the lads who did make the game and all of them played very, very well. In the Chipping Sodbury game it was rather strange that all four goals were scored by different people. Charlie Johansen/Richard Groves/Chris Wright and Jared Lewington. Today’s visitors enjoyed a £1500 bonus on the first game of the season when they won their extra preliminary round FA Cup encounter against fellow Western league club Cribbs 2/1 at home, and traveled away to Bideford last Saturday for the first preliminary round. They have also played three league games before tonight’s encounter losing away at Odd Down 3/0 on Tuesday the 8th of August, and drawing 2/2 at home to newly promoted Hengrove on Saturday August the 12th, and their first league win was a 21 victory over newly promoted Wellington. So a bit of a mixed bag so far for Wells city. Our last game here at Homers Heath saw us entertain Shepton Mallett, which turned out to be a very tough encounter which saw us eventually run out the winners by the only goal of the game. The game started at a frantic pace with both sides looking to get an early advantage and the play ebbed and flowed from end to end but the first and best chances fell to the visitors when our keeper Kenny Griffiths pulled off an absolutely brilliant save to deny the visitors noseing in front when he somehow managed to tip a rocket of a shot from close range from Tom Hill over the bar, much to the relief of the home faithful This great save was equalled a few minutes later when once again Griffiths pulled off another remarkable stop to thwart this time
Tyson Pollard, who thought he had scored but Kenny and other ideas. We ourselves also made some good chances the best falling to Charlie Johansen, who headed over from close range with the goal at his mercy. But just before the half-time break Charlie redeemed himself when he tapped in from close range after good approach work by Lloyd Gardner and Jared Lewington had given him the opportunity. The second half saw us beginning to get on top and make a lot of very good chances, but our finishing was very poor, when we did everything but score on at least six occasions three of them being one-on-one with the keeper but somehow Shepton Mallet and their goalkeeper Tom Easterbrook kept the score down to the single goal, and they always looked dangerous when they ventured on several occasions into our penalty area, but resolute defending and with Kenny looking well in control in his 6 yard area we denied the visitors a goal and a share of the points. I was talking to one or two of their spectators in the bar after the game and they felt they had done enough to earn a draw, but I think although we looked a bit dodgy at times we deserved the three points for the number of good opportunities we created especially in the second period. It’s always a nail-biter when you only have the single goal lead, especially for us older spectators with various heart problems, but when the final whistle sounded the relief amongst us all was clear to see, and after the first three games we have secured all nine points which is the start we were really looking for when this term started. The second team have played a couple of pre-season friendlies since there are two games in the Throgmorton Champions Cup which we made history in becoming the first
South area side the lift the trophy since its conception about three or four years ago The game against a lively Bishopsteignton side ended with a 3/1 victory to our lads which was a credit to them, seeing as the second team have been hit hard this season with good players leaving to play elsewhere, whether this is to do with the long Jam situation that stops them being promoted into the Peninsula league I don’t know. But noticeable players who have moved on are last season’s captain Sam Peardon: Ryan Harrison/White: Gordon Fice: Shane Gill: Lewis Perring with rumours that Matt Beer and Nick Hayman will also be on the move soon. This is half of last term’s league winning team. But on the other hand we have not been idle and several new players have been signed on to replace them. So we wait and see what will happen in the second team this season. The third team likewise have also lost three or four players who have all moved on block to Liverton in the south-west peninsular league division one East where Chris Newnham’s father Leon is now the first team manager, once again we have an influx of new players. Many of which are youngsters from our youth team last season. They also have played a couple of friendlies winning their first won comfortably eight Neil here against Newton Rovers, but going down 2/1 in their second friendly when they travelled to Dawlish to face a very useful black Swan team and were just edged out by the odd goal in three with one of our youth team players scoring the goal. The ladies first team also played one friendly here against a very strong Bristol city academy side who played some great football and beat
us 5/1, although that was no disgrace they really were a good useful outfit, including a couple of Welsh under 19 internationals so a good learning curve for our ladies. The next fixture here for the first team will be yet another home fixture this time when we entertain Brislington this game with a 3 PM kick off this game on Saturday the 26th of August. As you can see we had a free Saturday last weekend which I suppose wasn’t a bad thing in view of the fact that we are still missing influential midfielder Danny Griffiths, who has to serve a one match ban which is going to take a long time and he will miss all the games we play in August, waiting for Dartmouth to play their first league fixture and that will bring him again for us, I do believe Dartmouth have offered to play our second team on Friday night the 1st of September down at Longcross will allow him to take part in the Melksham home fixture here on the 2nd of September, with many people thinking even at this early stage in the season it could well be a six pointer. But as I have pointed out before, this season three teams will be promoted into the Southern league South and West division, so a good season would be very useful in our quest to take another step up the pyramid system and moved into that Southern league. Well that’s it for this time. See you all the next game. Cheers for now Roy Roy Homer Holmes
Western League Les Phillips Cup Draws Preliminary: Cadbury Heath v Bishop Sutton, Hengrove Athletic v Almondsbury, Roman Glass St George v Chard Town, Bridport v Keynsham Town, Hallen v Radstock Town, Calne Town v Bradford Town, Chippenham Park v Longwell Green Sports, Malmesbury Victoria v Bishops Lydeard, Bitton v Welton Rovers, Clevedon Town v Wincanton Town. First Round: Oldland Abbotonians v Chippenham Park or Longwell Green Sports, Malmesbury Victoria or Bishops Lydeard v Portishead Town, Ashton & Backwell Utd v Shepton Mallet, Warminster Town v Cheddar, Brislington v Sherborne Town, Hengrove Athletic or Almondsbury v Bitton or Welton Rovers, Odd Down (Bath) v Melksham Town, Bristol Telephones v Devizes Town, Bridport or Keynsham Town v Willand Rovers, Wellington v Westbury United, Buckland Athletic v Corsham Town, Street v Calne Town or Bradford Town, Cadbury Heath or Bishop Sutton v Roman Glass St George or Chard Town, Bridgwater Town v Chipping Sodbury Town, Hallen or Radstock Town v Wells City, Cribbs v Clevedon Town or Wincanton Town.
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
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 3 995
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 2 305
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 4 1319
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 2 630
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 0 79
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
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 4 1161
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 3 758
P 67 54 32 45 48 39 53 75 47 60 64 62 73 77 66 75 69 69 48 44 31 72 87 96 89 55 58 71 78 83 9 1896
GD 56 25 -4 24 20 5 26 60 36 43 54 65 92 53 32 41 23 26 -19 -14 -13 40 75 82 67 18 21 49 57 49 3 1092
Manager’s Say Good evening all and welcome to tonight’s league fixture vs Wells City. Last week’s win against Chipping Sodbury was certainly hard fought as we struggled to find rhythm and pace to our game and really causing our own problems with sloppy play going forward, but we did defend well at times and I was pleased with our clean sheet with goalkeeper Kenny Griffiths making some great saves. With no game at the weekend we had a rest from training as we now go into a run of games against some well prepared Western League sides starting with tonight visitors. We will need to be at our best at both ends of the pitch to get the three points and keep our unbeaten start to the season going. Enjoy the game Ellis
Liam Head - Captain After a good start to our league campaign t was a shame not to have a game on Saturday to keep it ticking over. But the players will have no excuse on Tuesday after having Saturday off, so we should all be full of energy and hopefully put another 3 points on the board. We have had three different kind of wins so far, the latest being a game we should of made easier for ourselves but showed we can see a 1-0 out as a team and keep our defence solid. All eleven players on the pitch worked hard and the subs when coming on. Tuesday will be a tough game as is any game in this league but we will go out there to win. Liam
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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Roger Madge
Jo McKenna
Cameron Kelly
D Davies & G Mogford
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
Si Revell
Bob Hext
Shane Gill
Charlie Johansen
Dave Mullins
Chris Wright
John Piller
Steve Giles
Jared Lewington
Piggy’s Pantry
Adam Castle
Gavin Hammon
Dan & Francis
Charlie H - RIP
Pete Morgan
Jordan Ewing
Ellis Laight
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Our Visitors Today - Wells City Ground Athletic Ground Telephone 01749 679971 Founded 1890 League Western League Premier Division 2015-16 Western League Premier Division, 15th Colours All Blue Change All Yellow Postcode BA5 1TU Website pitchero.com/clubs/wellscityfootballclub Directions From North & Southwest - Follow A39 to Strawberry Way to roundabout, follow A371 East Somerset Way and take right turn into Rowdens Road. Ground is on left. From East Follow A371 from Shepton Mallet. After approximately 5 miles on East Somerset Way take left turn into Rowdens Road. Ground is on left. Twitter @CityWellsfc HONOURS Western League Division One: Winners: 1949–50, 2009–10 Runners-up: 1950–51, 2015-16 Somerset County League Premier Division: Runners-up: 2007–08 Somerset Premier Cup: Winners: 2015-16 Somerset Senior Cup: Winners: 1896–97, 1930–31, 1931–32 (Joint), 1937–38, 2006–07 Runners-up: 1895–96, 1927–28, 1929–30, 1938 –39, 1947–48, 2001–02 Records FA Cup: 4th Qualifying Round in 1954–55 season FA Vase: 2nd Round in 2009–10 season HISTORY Wells City Football Club was founded on May 27th 1890 when a meeting was held in the Star Hotel in Wells. Success was immediate winning the first ever Somerset league title a feat repeated again the following year. In 1892/93 Wells entered the Bristol & District league, the forbearer of today’s Toolstation Western League of which Wells is a founder member. It was
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recorded that it was a Wells player who scored the first ever goal on the opening day of the season in a 2-0 victory Vs Mangotsfield. In 1893/4 Wells re-joined the Somerset Senior league as well as moving to their present location at Rowdens Road. Wells were invited back into the Western League in1928/29 and competed in both the Somerset and Western leagues eventually leaving the county league in 1931. After the war years Wells competed in Div. 1of the Western league eventually winning being crowned champions in 1949/50 pipping Poole Town on goal difference. Success became more difficult in the following years and Wells City re-joined the Somerset Senior League in 1960-61 with the Reserves competing in the Mid-Somerset Football League. The club finished very much mid – table until 1965-66 when they were third behind Street and Welton Rovers Reserves. They were Runners-Up behind Paulton Rovers in 1971-82. Between 1977 and 1998 Wells suffered from the yo-yo effect, promotion to the Premier division one year, relegation the next. It wasn’t until the 1999/2000 season that Wells once again cemented themselves in the County’s premier division. Wells City became Somerset Senior Cup champions in 2006-07 season defeating Burnham on Sea at Weston super Mare’s Woodspring Stadium 2-1. After an absence of almost 50 years, Wells City returned to the Western League Division 1 in 2008-09 with a mid-table finish. Wells City was crowned Toolstation Western League Division One Champions at the end of 2009-10 season. In 2011 Wells reached the 2nd qualifying round of the FA Cup with a home tie to Woking Fc with the visitors coming away comfortable winners. That was to be the highlight for Wells as after only a brief spell of 3 seasons in the Premier division found them relegated back into Division 1 in 2012-13. A period of rebuilding was needed and a few
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Our Visitors Today - Wells City seasons in the lower mid table positions followed. A change in direction late 2014 which has seen a gradual change in fortunes resulting in Wells having their most successful season to date; gaining promotion back to the Toolstation Western League Premier Division and becoming
Champions of Somerset beating Taunton Town, Frome Town, Weston S Mare and a thrilling 2 – 1 victory over Larkhall Athletic in the final to lift the Somerset Premier Cup for the first time in the clubs history.
Buck’s Ed’s Look At Wells City Tonight we give a very big warm Buckland welcome to Wells City for this Toolstation Western League Premier Division game. We welcome their management team, players, club officials and of course their supporters that have made the journey here to Homers Heath this evening. We hope that you all enjoy your time here and make use of the facilities we have to offer and later on all have a safe journey home. Their new league campaign started away at Odd Down (Bath), and that ended in a first defeat 3-0, they then entertained new boys Hengrove Athletic at home, and they picked up a first point for the season with a 2-2 draw, L Hadergjonaj and D Maynard scoring, and that was followed by their first league win of the 2017-18 season 2-1 at home against the other side promoted from Division One, Wellington 2-1, B Harris and R Padfield scoring. So at the time of writing that points haul means they were in tenth place in the Premier Division table. Their season actually started with an FA Cup Extra-Preliminary Round game at home against fellow Western League Premier side Cribbs, and they won this tie 2-1, and picked up a cheque of £1500 in the process. On Saturday they were back playing in the FA Cup in the Preliminary Round when they will be away at Southern League South & West (Step Four) side Bideford, but they went out of the competition when they were well beaten in North Devon 6-0. They have played them once before in this competition way, way back in the 1949-50 season when they were in Western League One, in the 2nd Qualifying Round and away they drew 2-2, but were
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beaten in the replay at home 3-2 in that run which started in the Preliminary Round against Glastonbury away winning 4-1, then in the 1st Qualifying Round they won at home 1-0, Bideford were in Western League Three at the time of this run. The furthest they have been in the competition was the 4th Qualifying Round again this was way back in the 1954-55 season, the run started in the 1st Qualifying Round at home against Bridgwater Town (who were in Western League One), which they won 2-1 at home. In the 2nd Qualifying Round they were away at Clandown (Western League Two), winning this tie 2-0, in the 3rd Qualifying Round they were at home against Radstock Town (Western League Two), they won that game 4-0, then in the 4th Qualifying Round they were at home against Newport IOW (not known which league they were playing in at this time), and they were beaten 4-1. After tonight’s game they are at home against the third new team this season relegated Bridgwater Town, and that is followed by another home game against Willand Rovers, and in eight Premier Division meetings they have collected ten points, at home they have played four games, winning one, losing three, scoring eight, conceding seven, gaining three points. In last season’s Premier Division game they were beaten by the East Devon side 1-0. They are then away at Cribbs, and in last season’s corresponding game they drew 2-2. They are now into their second spell in the Western League Premier Division, the first one starting after they were promoted from Division One
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Buck’s Ed’s Look At Wells City for the start of the 2010-11 season, in which they finished in ninth place, the following season, 2011-12 they dropped down to finish in 12th place and finally in the 2012-13 season they finished down in 19th place, and were relegated back to Division One, in those three seasons they had played 108 games, winning 36, drawing 18, losing 53, scoring 178, conceding 211, gaining 126 points. The 2016-17 season was the start of their second spell and to date they have played 41 games, winning 11, drawing 11, losing 19, scoring 71, conceding 96, and gaining 44 points. Premier
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41 11 11 19 71 96 44 -25 149 47 29 72 249 307 170 -55
In total in these spells they have played 149 games, winning 47, drawing 29, losing 72, scoring 249, conceding 307, and gaining 170 points, that wins they have won 32% of those games, drawn 19%, lost 49%, scoring 1.7 goals per games, conceding 2.06 goals per game, collecting 1.14 points per game. At home they have played 75 games, winning 21, drawing 15, losing 39, scoring 113, conceding 150, gaining 78 points, they have won 28% of those games, drawn 20%, losing 52%, scoring 1.50 goals per game, conceding 2 goals per game, collecting
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1.04 points per game. Whilst away they have played 74 games, winning 26, drawing 14, conceding 34, scoring 136, conceding 157, gaining 92 points, they have won 35% of those games, drawing 19%, losing 46%, scoring 1.83 goals per game, conceding 2.12 goals per game, gaining 1.24 points per game. They first joined the Western League in Division Two in the 1929-30 season, and that spell lasted for eleven seasons, with their highest finish in that time being 3rd place in their first season, the lowest they finished was 15th place in the 193435 season. In that time they played 342 games, winning 133, drawing 60, losing 149, scoring 785, conceding 821, and gaining 329 points. They then had a second spell in this division which started in the 1957-58 season, and lasted three seasons, with the highest finish being 7th in that first season, whilst the lowest was 17th in the 1958-59 season. In that time they played 92 games, winning 29, drawing 13, losing 50, scoring 172, conceding 253, gaining 71 points, so in total in both spells they played a combined total of 434 games, winning 162, drawing 73, losing 199, scoring 957, conceding 1074, and they won themselves 400 points. They have enjoyed three spells in the Western League Division One, with the first spell starting in the 1946-47 season, and that run in this division lasted for eleven seasons, with their highest finish being 1st and champions in the 1949-50 season, and the lowest was 19th in the 1956-57 season when they were relegated. In this time they played 369 games, winning 31, drawing 81, losing 159, scoring 659, conceding 812, and gaining 346 points. Their second spell last for just two season, starting in the 2008-09 season, when they finished in 10th place, and then in the 2009-10 season, they were crowned champions, which clinched them promotion to the Premier Division. In this time they played 76 games, winning 43, drawing 14, losing 19, scoring 130, conceding 103, and gaining 143 points. The third spell in this division lasted for three seasons, coming to end at the end of last season, 2015-16 with promotion back to the Premier,
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Buck’s Ed’s Look At Wells City their highest finish being the 2nd place in that last season, in the two other seasons it was a 16th and 19th place finish. In this spell they played 124 games, winning 46, drawing 25, losing 53, scoring 216, conceding 220, and gaining
163 points. So in sixteen seasons in this Division they played a total of 570 games, winning 219, drawing 119, losing 231, scoring 1005, conceding 1135, and gaining 646 points from those games.
Wells City’s Western League Premier History Barnstaple Town Bishop Sutton Bitton Bradford Town Bridport Brislington Bristol Manor Farm Buckland Athletic Cadbury Heath Chipping Sodbury Town Clevedon Town Corsham Town Cribbs Dawlish Town Gillingham Town Hallen Hengrove Athletic Ilfracombe Town LarkhallAthletic Longwell Green Sports Melksham Town Merthyr Town Odd Down (Bath) Radstock Town Shepton Mallet Sherborne Town Street Wellington Welton Rovers Willand Rovers Winterborne United
2012-13 2011-12 2010-11 2016-17 2017-18
P 6 6 8 2 6 8 8 4 4 2 2 4 2 2 4 8 1 6 6 8 4 2 9 6 2 6 8 3 2 8 2 149 P 38 34 36 P 38 3 P 149
W 2 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 0 0 0 2 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 2 1 1 0 21 W 2 6 8 W 4 1 W 21
D 0 0 1 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 2 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 15 D 4 3 2 D 5 1 D 15
L 1 2 3 0 0 3 4 2 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 2 0 2 2 0 1 0 3 1 1 1 3 0 0 3 1 39 L 13 8 8 L 10 0 L 39
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Buckland Athletic’s Record Versus Wells City We have only met Wells City four times in the Premier Division, and the first season was 201213, as at the end of that season Wells City were relegated into Division One, and it has now taken them three seasons to get back into the Premier. The next time was in the 2016-17 season, when they again won promotion from Division One again to the Premier. We first met them at home on Wednesday 6 th March and we won this game 4-2, in front of a crowd of 73. The team that played: K Griffiths, B Head, D Gaze, L Burgess, C Kelly, D Lewis, J Mudge, M Booth, G Hammon, C Wright, D Stevens, with substitutes L Drew who replaced Lewis, E Phillips replaced Booth, S Revell replaced Wright, the scorers on the day were C Wright with two, M Booth, and E Phillips. Both J Mudge and L Head received yellow cards in this encounter. We played away on the Monday 1st April and won this encounter 4-1 with the crowd being 56 on this day. The team that played: T Buckler, L Drew, D Gaze, B Head, C Kelly, L Burgess, B Carter, M Booth, J Mudge, C Wright, D Stevens, substitutes were Hammon on for Mudge, E Phillips replaced Booth. We have also met them once in the FA Cup in the 2013-14 season, when Wells City were in Division One, it was in the Extra-Preliminary Round here at Homers Heath on Saturday 17th August, and we were well beaten by them on the day 3-0, played in front of a crowd of 79. The team that played: K Griffiths, K Green, D Gaze, L Burgess, B Head, A Jeannin, B Carter, M Booth, E Laight, J Micklewright, S Revell, with substitutes J Havlin and L McAuley, and Burgess was booked.
Fisher, M Booth, C Roles, A Jeannin, J Havlin, B Carter, G Hammon, L Head, J Micklewright, with substitutes K Green replaced Roles, M Beer replaced Hammon, J Webber replaced Jeannin, with the goals coming from J Havlin with two, G Hammon and C Roles, and B Carter received a yellow card. So now onto the last season 2016-17, we first played at home on the 6th September and we ran out 5-2 winners, with Jared Lewington scoring a hat-trick, and Gavin Hammon and Charlie Johansen also on target, the game played in front of a crowd of 115. The team that played was: G Fisher, L Drew, L Perring, D Griffiths, S Laughton, L Head, S Revell, R Groves, G Hammon, J Lewington, L Gardner, with substitutes C Johansen replacing Gardner, N Rudge replaced S Revell, with Laughton and S Revell receiving yellow cards. The return game away was on the 4th February and we completed the double over them winning 2-0 away, with G Hammon, and C Johansen scoring our goals, with the crowd being 54. The team that played: G Fisher, C Wlaters, L Drew, N Rudge, K Green, L Head, D Griffiths, R Groves, G Hammon, J Lewington, L Gardner, substitutes C Johansen replaced Hammon, S Laughton replaced Green, with both Green and Groves were booked in this game. So in four Western League Premier Division meetings we have managed to get the twelve points from those meetings, at home we have won both games, scoring nine, conceding four, gaining six points, whilst away we have won two, scoring six, conceding one, gaining six points.
We also met them in the Les Phillips Cup 2nd Round this season on the 19th February and it was here again at Homers Heath, and we ran out 4-0 winners in this cup tie, the attendance was 43 that day. The team that played: T Buckler, L Drew, G
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Midweek Action: Melksham Town tasted victory for the second Monday on the bounce, defeating Odd Down 3-0. A tight Premier Division affair turned dramatically midway through the secondhalf when Kane Simpson was given his marching orders and Melksham took advantage of the extra man instantly thanks to the prolific Gary Higdon. After plundering 28 league goals last season, Higdon has already taken his season tally to six in three games this time around with a nine-minute hat-trick to single-handedly end Odd Down’s unbeaten start. The following evening, Bradford Town claimed their third straight win too, thanks to a 5-0 thrashing of Longwell Green Sports. Dan Cottle got the scoring underway in the 19th minute, before Martin Lenihan doubled the advantage ten minutes later. Nathan Loader and Anthony Conradi both scored either side of the hour mark to put the result beyond doubt, before Karim Rendall added a fifth in injury time. Charlie Johansen maintained his strong start to the season, scoring the only goal in Buckland Athletic’s 1-0 win over Shepton Mallet, while Craig Herrod scored twice and Steve Murray once in Street’s 3-0 derby victory against Bridgwater Town. Wells City claimed their first three points of the season, with goals from Ben Harris and Ross Padfield helping them defeat Wellington 2-1, and at The Lawns, Ben Dowdell notched a brace in Cribbs’ 3-0 win over Cadbury Heath. Goals from Daniel Clement, Steven Fitzpatrick and Jake Thomas fired Chipping Sodbury Town to a 3-1 away win over Bitton, while Tyler Davis scored just after the hour mark to salvage a 1-1 draw for Hallen against Brislington who had taken the lead through Aaron Cornwall. On Wednesday, Luke Alden scored either side of the break in Willand Rovers 5-1 win away at Bridport, while Hengrove Athletic and Clevedon Town drew 0-0. In the First Division, Bristol Telephones kept up their perfect record with a 4-1 win away at Almondsbury. Lee Pitman and James Batch each scored doubles for the victors, with Almondsbury still searching for their first point of the season. Devizes Town remain unbeaten after goals from
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Rob Mitchell and Tom Slater helped them see off Warminster Town in a 2-0 win, while a solitary strike from James Rustell saw Radstock Town edge to a 1-0 win over Sherborne Town. Kieran Jones scored in either half as Malmesbury Victoria defeated Chippenham Park 30, handing the away side their first defeat of the campaign in the process. Matthew Brown also scored twice, adding to goals from Kyle Box and Craig Wilson in Keynsham Town’s 4-2 win over Portishead Town, with Corsham Town claiming their first point following a 0-0 draw against Westbury United. Goals from Josh Dakwa and Sam Downes helped Bishop Sutton come from behind to win 2-1 away at Wincanton Town, while Calne Town recovered from a two-goal deficit to draw 2-2 with Oldland Abbotonians thanks to strikes from Billy Gleed and Mark Dolman. There was also a 2-2 draw at Bowdens Park, where Tom Smith scored deep into stoppage as Welton Rovers denied Cheddar their first league win of the season. In Wednesday night’s fixture, all the major action took place after the break in Chard Town’s 2-2 draw with Roman Glass St George. Sam Wentland put the Saints ahead soon after half-time, but before long they were behind with Max Westlake and Steve Friend scoring a quick-fire double for the hosts. Those goals looked to have wrapped up the win, but Roman Glass had other ideas, and in the second minute of stoppage time they secured a point with Joe Swift converting from the penalty spot. FA Cup: Willand Rovers are through to the next round of England’s biggest cup competition thanks to a 2-1 win over last year’s Western League champions, Bristol Manor Farm. Willand were ahead after just three minutes thanks to Brad Ausden’s second goal in as many matches, but saw their late disappear in the opening minutes of the second half when Troy Simpson equalised for the visitors. Just as it looked as though a replay would be needed, a calamitous mistake in the Manor Farm defence allowed Willand to snatch victory with Luke Mortimore rolling the ball into the empty net. Odd
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Down were another to beat higher ranked opposition, with Asa White scoring the only goal of the game in their 1-0 win over Mangotsfield United. Steve Holland’s ninth minute strike helped Bridgwater Town see off Brislington in a 1-0 victory, while a brace from Mark Salter plus an injurytime strike from Declan Cornish saw Bridport defeat Street 3-1. On a disappointing afternoon for Wells City, doubles from Craig Duff, Ryan Turner and Billy Tucker saw them unceremoniously dumped out of the competition following a 6-0 defeat away at Bideford. Clevedon Town were also knocked out following a 1-0 loss at Barnstaple Town, with Hengrove Athletic’s run also over thanks to a 4-1 home defeat Buckland’s conquerors, Bodmin Town. Justin Bishop’s second half goal wasn’t enough for Chipping Sodbury Town who fell to a 3-1 defeat against Bishops Cleeve, but there was joy for Cadbury Heath who saw off the challenge of Yate Town thanks to Sacha Tong’s 51st minute header. Premier Division: In a reduced league program, two goals from Joe Morgan led Shepton Mallet to 2-1 win at home to Wellington, while at Trowbridge Road, there was a goalless draw between Bradford Town and Bitton. First Division: Bristol Telephones remain the only side with a 100% record, after defeating Welton Rovers 2-1 at West Clewes. It was the home side who went ahead just before the break, with Alex Chapman converting a penalty after Joe Battrick had been felled in the area. No sooner had the game kicked off, and the league leaders were back on level terms with Michael Grist converting a penalty of their own ending a frantic few moments at the end of the first half. There was just one goal after the break, and it belonged to Leon Britton who headed home to make it four from four for the Phones this season. Jack Miluk’s fourth goal of the campaign was followed soon after by George Butler’s first as Warminster Town got back to winning ways thanks to a 2-0 triumph at home to Portishead Town. At the other end of the table, Almondsbury picked up their first points of the season
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Memory Lane Aston Villa v Liverpool 15 December 1984 Hello everybody and welcome to the journey back in time together when we will look at a programme from the distant past. Today’s trek back in time takes us to 1984 when I will look at a programme I bought on eBay to add to my own stock of programmes that I had collected from games that I had actually been myself to see. Today’s programme sees me looking at an Aston Villa edition when the visitors to Villa Park were Liverpool. The front cover gives us all the information we need about kick-off time etc and mentions that the league sponsors at this time were Canon, it also tells us the price which is 50p. The front cover contains a photograph of several Villa players at the local airport and mentions today’s match sponsor is Mid Wales Development. Page 2 is called kick off and looks at what has happened in the division since the start of the season in August, also on this page is a list of all the Villa dignitaries i.e., president/ chairman/directors etc. Page 3 is called Team Talk and is written by current manager Graham Turner, where he looks back at the last couple of matches and forward to today’s encounter. Page 4 is a full-page advert for Mita coppiers who are the main shirt sponsors of Aston Villa. Page 5 is called Where Are They Now and looks back at three former Aston Villa players, namely Ian Ross Ray Gradon and George Pritty and gives a quick run-down on what those people on being these days. Page 6 contains two black-and-white action photographs from the recent 1/0 win here against Sunderland with the goal collected all
three points being scored by Paul Rideout. Page 7 is called Sidelines and gives several bits and pieces of news and gossip throughout the club, including listing what is on sale at the club shop and would make a good Christmas present. Page 8 has two adverts the top one being for the Aston Villa programme fair and the bottom one being for Mark Walters Motors who specialise in Austin Rovers. Page 9 is another one called Sidelines and carries on in the same vein as the previous Sidelines page news, gossip and bits and pieces. Pages 10/11 are devoted to today’s visitors Liverpool with the usual pen pictures of the squad and a couple of small photographs. Page 12 is a full-page devoted to an in-depth interview by Villa player Peter Withe with team mate Mike Beddow. Page 13 is a full-page advert for the Mid Wales Festival. Page 14 is another full-page advert for Welsh Country Holidays. Page 15 contains two adverts the top one being for National Express coaches and the bottom for Super Ted holidays aimed at the younger generation. Page 16 is another concerning the Mid Wales Festival 1985 listing how the events are planned and where they take place throughout the summer months. Page 17 is full page coloured action photograph of Peter Withe sporting a bushy full beard. Pages 18/19 contain several black-and-white photographs of various people, including club owner and chairman Doug Ellis supporting what is called the Ethiopian airlift which is sending food and supplies and to Ethiopian which makes now more sense of the front cover and the players sitting on some of the supplies due to be sent. There is a couple of photographs of the aeroplanes being loaded with various goods.
Page 20 contains two adverts the top one being for Colliers Cars who specialise in Rovers, the bottom half is an advert for the update coming FA Cup third round fixture away at Liverpool on the 5th of January, with seats available at £4.50 and £3.75 with standing at £2.50 [the good old days]. Page 21 is called looking back and looks at fixtures of the area Saturday to today 10 15 and 20 years ago with a report of those games with 10 years ago a good home win 4/1 over York city 15 years ago a 2/0 home defeat by Watford and 20 years ago a 1/0 defeat away at Leeds. Also on this page there is an announcement that Aston Villa club shop goods can now be bought via mail-order. Pages 22/23 are the stats pages with all the games for this season listed with the games played so far having all the information inserted i.e. the result, the attendance who played through cable a substitute and who scored for Villa. Also on these pages we have an up-to-date league table for the three Aston Villa sides, league division one, central league and Midlands intermediate league. There is also a list of first-team appearances and goalscorers. Page 24 is a full-page advert for a video called the race for the championship and looks back over the last season and go through how the championship was won. Although this seems very expensive at £17.50p. Page 25 contains two coloured photographs from a recent friendly match played here against the Australian National football team. Page 26 is entitled, The Coach Reports and is written by Aston Villa’s coach Bill Shorthouse, where he looks at some of the up-and-coming youngsters who were playing
in both the Central League and the Midlands Intermediate League. Page 27, is another stats page, this time mostly concerned with both the second and third teams with their results so far this season and fixtures to come inserted along with appearances and goalscorers for both those teams. Page 28, the outside back cover contains the two teams lineups the today’s fixture along with a bunch of all three officials, and today’s club mascot 12-year-old Emma Stokes and also a big thank you to match ball sponsor Mr Bill Rodgers. The two teams were Villa goalkeeper Nigel Spink: 2 Gary Williams: 3 Colin Gibson: 4 Allan Evans: 5 Brendon Ormsby: 6 Alan Curbishley: 7 Paul Birch: 8 Paul Rideout: 9 Peter with: 10 Gordon Cowens:11 Mark Walters: 12 Tony Dorigo: Liverpool goalkeeper Bruce Grobbelaar: 2 Phil Neal: 3 Alan Kennedy: 4 John Wark: 5 Steve Nichol: 6 Alan Hansen: 7 Gary Gillespie: 8 Craig Johnson: 9 Ian Rush: 10 Jan Molby: 11 Paul Walsh: 12 Ronnie Whelan. A little bit of research tells me this game finished goalless in front of 24,007 spectators. Also, the league champions this season were Everton with 90 points from 42 games, runner-up Liverpool 77 points third Tottenham also 77, relegated this season were Stoke city who had only 17 points and they were joined by Sunderland who had 40 points. That’s it for this journey together. Bye for now. Roy.
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After the disappointment of the narrow defeat to Bodmin Town here in the FA Cup Ellis and the lads have bounced back and started their league campaign with three straight wins, so lets hope they can put in another decent performance tonight and claim another three points.
Finally once again I need to thank Roger Mann and his team at Wotton Printers for helping us out with producing tonight’s match day programme.
For those of you that go online you will notice over the next few weeks a lot of activity with the club website and Facebook page. Jamie Sinclair from the ‘What’s On’ publication is a big Bucks fan and has kindly offered his help and expertise to set up a new BAFC website which will be updated at least two or three times a week, Also he is revamping the clubs Facebook page to make it more accessible to the general public. Our aim is to bring more supporters through the gate here at Homers Heath, so we really need our social media to be ‘top notch’ to get the message across to people that there really is a great football club right on their doorsteps. A club that is friendly and welcoming whilst also being hugely ambitious and aiming to play at the highest standard it can achieve. Thank you Jamie for your involvement, this is an exciting project and as a club we are delighted to have you
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Western League, Tables & Fixtures 2017-18 Bradford Town Melksham Town Buckland Athletic Street Chipping Sodbury Town Cribbs Willand Rovers Brislington Odd Down (Bath) Wells City Bridport Shepton Mallet Bridgwater Town Hengrove Athletic Clevedon Town Bitton Hallen Wellington Cadbury Heath Longwell Green Sports
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W 3 3 3 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
D 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 2 2 2 1 0 0 0
L 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 0 0 1 1 4 3 3
F A 9 0 10 1 8 5 7 0 9 5 4 0 8 5 3 2 5 5 4 6 5 6 2 3 2 6 2 2 1 1 2 4 2 4 4 10 1 11 0 12
GD 9 9 3 7 4 4 3 1 0 -2 -1 -1 -4 0 0 -2 -2 -6 -10 -12
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Saturday 19th August FA Cup Preliminary Rd Barnstaple Town Bideford Bridgwater Town Bridport Cadbury Heath Chipping Sodbury Town Hengrove Athletic Odd Down (Bath) Willand Rovers Premier Division Bradford Town Shepton Mallet First Division Almondsbury Bishoop Sutton Bishops Lydeard Chredd Corsham Town Malmesbury Victoria Radstock Town Sherborne Town Warminster Town Welton Rovers Wincanton Town
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Devizes Town Keynsham Town Westbury United Roman Glass St George Ashton & Backwell Utd Chard Town Calne Town Oldland Abbotonians Portishead Town Bristol Telephones Chippenham Park
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CADBURY HEATH
HENGROVE ATHLETIC
Ground Rapid Solicitors Ground Telephone 01179 323222 Colours Red, White & Black Website bittonafc.co.uk Twitter @BittonAFC Postcode BS30 6HX
Ground Springfield Telephone 07971 399268 Colours Red & White Website cadburyheathfc.co.uk Twitter @CadburyHeathFC Postcode BS30 8BX
Ground Norton Lane Telephone 07884 492217 Colours Green & White Website hengroveathletic.com Twitter @HengroveAth Postcode BS14 0BT
BRADFORD TOWN
CHIPPING SODBURY TOWN
LONGWELL GREEN SPORTS
Ground Bradford Sports Club Telephone 07801 499168 Colours All Blue Website pitchero.com/clubs/ bradfordtownfc Twitter @BradfordTownFC Postcode BA15 1EE
Ground The Ridings Telephone Colours Black & White Website pitchero.com/clubs/cstfc Twitter @TSods Postcode BS37 6GA
Ground Longwell Green Community Centre Telephone 0117 9323722 Colours Blue, White & Black Website longwellgreensports.co.uk Twitter @LongwellGreenFC Postcode BS30 9AD
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CLEVEDON TOWN
MELKSHAM TOWN
Ground Fairfax Park Telephone Colours Red, White & Black Website pitcher.com/clubs/ bridgwatertwonfc Twitter @OfficialBTFC84 Postcode TA6 4TZ
Ground The Hand Stadium Telephone Colours Blue & White Website pitchero.com/clubs/ clevedontown Twitter @ClevedonTownFC Postcode BS21 6TG
Ground Eastern Way Telephone Colours Yellow & Black Website pitchero.com/clubs/ melkshamtownfc Twitter @MELKSHAMTOWNFC Postcode SN12 7GU
BRIDPORT
CRIBBS
ODD DOWN (BATH)
Ground St Mary’s Field Telephone 01308 423834 Colours Red & Black Website bridportfc.co.uk Twitter @Bridportfc Postcode DT6 5LA
Ground The Lawns Telephone 01179 502303 Colours Blue & Red Website cribbsfc.co.uk Twitter @CribbsFC Postcode BS10 7TB
Ground Lew Hill Memorial Ground Telephone 01225 832491 Colours Blue & White Website pitchero.com/clubs/ odddownafc Twitter @OddDownFC Postcode BA2 8PA
BRISLINGTON
HALLEN
SHEPTON MALLET
Ground Ironmould Lane Telephone 01179 774030 Colours Red & Black Website brislingtonfc.co.uk Twitter @BrislingtonFC Postcode BS4 5RS
Ground Hallen Centre Telephone 0117 9505559 Colours Navy/Royal Blue & Black Website hallenfootballclub.co.uk Twitter @HallenFC Postcode BS10 7RL
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Ground Tannery Ground Telephone 01458 445987 Colours Green & White Website streetfootballclub.co.uk Twitter @fcstreet Postcode BA16 0TA
Ground North Street Car Park Telephone 01823 664810 Colours Amber & Black Website wellingtonafc.co.uk Twitter @Wellington_AFC Postcode TA21 8NE
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WILLAND ROVERS Ground Silver Street Telephone 01884 33885 Colours White & Blue Website willandrovers.co.uk Twitter @WillandRovers Postcode EX15 2RG
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 1st 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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TEAM NEWS BUCKLAND ATHLETIC Kenny Griffiths Cliff Walters Liam Drew Liam Head (C) Cameron Kelly Karl Green Nick Rudge Daniel Griffiths Lloyd Gardner Richard Groves Si Revell Shane Gill Jared Llewington Charlie Johansson Chris Wright Matt Clenahan Nick Barker Jordan Ewing Mitchell McGann Jamie Down Adam Seedhouse-Evans Manager: Ellis Laight Assistant Manager: Steve Giles Physios: Pete Morgan & Paige Burrows Colours: All Yellow
WELLS CITY Ben Alexander Rashaun Keeling-Graham Sam Andrews Darren Maynard Dan Barker Liam Orchard James Bayliss Ross Padfield Jamie Commbs Ryan Pledger Charlie Crook James Russell Paul Comley Mark Randall Michael Dangerfield Steve Sokol Harry Davidson Jamal Simms Jake Hannam Jack Seymore Ben Harris Raphael Waul Ben Higgins Luis Hadergjonaj Daniel Willaims
Referee: Phillip Eddie - Plymouth Assistant Referee: Thomas Anstice-Mitchell - Plymouth Assistant Referee: Mark Carroll - Plympton
Colours: All Blue
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