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FELIXSTOWE & WALTON UTD F.C RESERVES vs GT YARMOUTH TOWN F.C

SATURDAY 11th JANUARY 2020 - 3pm THURLOW NUNN LEAGUE DIVISION ONE NORTH

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Stuart’s notes

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to the Goldstar Ground for todays Thurlow Nunn League Division One North match versus the visitors from Great Yarmouth Town. We hope the Officials, Players, Management and Supporters enjoy their day out at the seaside. We offer thanks to GMA Warehousing & Transport for sponsoring todays match. Happy New Year to you all, today sees the first game of the year for the Reserve side and they will be keen to get back to action after suffering a heavy defeat in their last outing, at Framlingham. It should be a much changed side today due to the first team being without a game so it will be interesting to see the starting Eleven. The team are at home again next Saturday, Downham Town the visitors for a 3pm KO. Anyone not travelling with the first team (Bury Town) are more than welcome. Just time to mention the newly revamped Red & White Club, (Former 200 club) £300 of cash prizes monthly and new special monthly prizes on offer, this month you can win a home Replica Shirt. Contact me to sign up! Stuart Daynes - Ed

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View from the dugout

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Good afternoon and welcome to our first home game of 2020.

We cannot change what has gone, but we can certainly learn from it and we certainly gave ourselves a lot to think about during our last outing away against Framlingham Town in a Friday night game back in 2019. With too many call offs and a depleted side, we were still looking for three points to move us away from those below and around us. We started lively enough and took the lead early on. “ This is just the start we needed ” I thought to myself. I can't repeat my thoughts, at the end of the game. During the first half Framlingham came more into the game and two preventable goals saw us at half time 2 – 1 down. Like most weeks, the rally cry was to keep the ball down, shorten the game up and the next goal will be the important one, on 48 minutes it was 3 – 1, we never got going and the goals rained in, losing 8 – 2. I was embarrassed for the players and inwardly very angry. I can take losing but it's how you lose that counts. Today we bounce back, it's 2020 and we start with Great Yarmouth visiting Dellwood. Great Yarmouth sit in mid table having won as many games as they have lost, with goals coming from all over the pitch and therefore will provide a tough test for us today. We need to make amends for our performance against Framlingham, so I'll be looking for that improvement in attitude and play so we bring home three points for the Club and supporters. Kevin Baker

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Meet the Visitors – Part 1

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Great Yarmouth Town Football Club was formed in 1897 with most of the players being drawn from two very successful local clubs, Yarmouth Fearnoughts and Yarmouth Royal Artillery, who between them had won the Norfolk Senior Cup for the previous four years. The players' experience obviously told as the new Town club won this trophy in its very first year, defeating Lynn Town 4-3 in a replay after a 0-0 draw. Then, between 1902 and 1906, Yarmouth were to prove invincible in the same competition, again beating Lynn on each occasion! In total, Yarmouth have won the Senior Cup thirteen times and have been runners-up a further fifteen times. Founder-members of the Norfolk & Suffolk League, Yarmouth won this championship in 1914, 1927 and 1928 before joining the newly formed Eastern Counties League in 1935; they have been ever-present members since, and are now the only club to hold this distinction following Lowestoft Town's elevation to the Ryman League. During this period Gordon South was smashing in the goals accumulating 298 in a 28 year spell. He is still the all-time highest scorer today. After the Second World War, the Bloaters - now with semi-professional status - gained national recognition for their FA Cup exploits, reaching the second-round proper twice! The first-round proper was reached for the first time in 1947 when they lost at home to Shrewsbury Town in front of 4160 spectators. Then in 1952 a Wellesley crowd of 3889 witnessed a first-round proper 1-0 win over Guildford City, but a 1-4 home defeat to Wrexham in the second round (crowd 6963, a new record) dealt that season's exit; in 1953 the Bloaters' finest hour saw them defeat League side Crystal Palace 1-0 in the first-round proper in front of a still-record crowd of 8944! Second-round exit came at then-League club Barrow, 2-4. Other cup exploits over the years include eight appearances in the first round proper of the old Amateur Cup, and one in the second round. In 1952 the East Anglian Cup was won for the only time, and - on what we night term the "domestic front' - the Eastern Counties League Cup has been won three times to date, in 1938, 1975 and 1981. The late fifties saw a return to strictly amateur status but it was not long before a revival of fortunes saw paid players return and with them, finally, the ECL title in season 1968-69; however, this remains the sole occasion so far. Ex-Norwich, Newcastle and Sheffield United winger Bill Punton then took the reigns for what proved to be a 21-year spell, making him the longest-serving manager of the club. This was also one of the club's most successful periods: although the league title proved elusive Punton led the Bloaters to two runners-up spots, four Senior Cup triumphs, the two League Cup wins of '75 and '81, and to within one goal of Wembley in the FA Vase in 1983. Then, as the first ECL club to get that far, Yarmouth lost on aggregate to eventual winners VS Rugby in the semi-final, despite a phenomenal goal by prolific striker Neil Hart - a Yarmouth legend - to set up a tense extra-time period in the second leg at the Wellesley in front of another, but now rare, 4000plus gate, the first since those heady days of the fifties. It was in the It was in the last season of Punton's tenure that he introduced a young Paul Tong to his managerial team but 1990 was a year of change with both Punton and Tong moving on to Diss Town and long-serving club official Jack Pegg retiring.

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First Team

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Today’s Teams

SQUADS 3PM SATURDAY

11th JANUARY 2020

THURLOW NUNN LEAGUE

DIVISION ONE NORTH

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FELIXSTOWE & WALTON UNITED RESERVES ‘The

Seasiders’

KIT: RED & WHITE

MANAGER: KEVIN BAKER

(GK) CHARLIE BECKWITH

CALE JONES MORGAN RUSHTON

EVAN BOLT DANIEL NORMAN

CHARLIE HUGHES RORY PORTER

CALEB PALMER AMIN MUHAMMAD

JOSH LEE CALLUM STEED DAN LEGGETT

LIAM CRAPNELL JOE CLIFFORD

TAOS ALLEN KYLE WIGGINS

REILEY CALTON

GT YARMOUTH TOWN ‘The Bloaters’

KIT: GOLD & BLACK

MANAGER: ROB McCOMBE

ELVIJS PUTNINS

RAY URRY

KYLE HOWELL

SEUMUS BOBBY

TOM HUNTER

JAMIE SMITH

FIONN GOODWIN WRIGHT

PAYTON SWATMAN

BILLY WENN

WILL GEORGE

AIDY AGER ©

CHARLIE BLAKE

CHARLIE MCCARA

CHRIS HOLMES

CAMERON WING

JORDAN ATTREE

BRADY PHILLPOTT

SAM WIGINGTON

RICHARD

DOORBAR GAVIN

ROBERTS

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Club Partners

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Gt Yarmouth Pen Pics – Part 1

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Aidy Ager: Age: 36 (DEF) Club Captain and all round leader on and off the pitch. Aidy is a hugely experienced player at senior level and its fantastic to have him at the club. His experience shines through and he sets a great example to the younger players in the squad. Charlie Blake: Age: 27 (MFD) Charlie is a great player with a fantastic engine, a busy midfielder who covers the whole pitch looking as fresh 90th as he does in the 1st minute. Josh Ford Age:18 (DEF) Josh has played for Yarmouth since he turned 16 and is one of the top Youth players the club has ever produced. Josh is a talented defender and confident leader on the pitch. Will George: Age:18 (DEF/MFD) Will broke into the first team last season and this season he has shown all the promise that he can become a regular within the set up. Will is a versatile player comfortable in defence or midfield. Shaun Grieveson: Age:27 (DEF/MFD) Shaun is a versatile player who can play in a range of positions and often does. Keeps the game simple and a very useful squad member. Chris Holmes: Age: 35 (ATT) Experienced senior player who adds a huge amount to the squad on and off the field. Loves a chat and is always smiling – great influence on the younger players in the squad and contributes to the team play significantly. Kyle Howell Age: 34 (DEF) Senior footballer with over 500 Step5 Appearances. Kyle is a strong defender whose experience is invaluable to the team. Nicknamed ‘Block’ for good reason! Billy Wenn Age: 19 (DEF) New signing for the 19-20 season. Billy is a real prospect of a player, previously with Wroxham FC, Billy is a committed and very able CB with a great attitude towards the game. Elvijs Putnins: Age: 28 (GOALKEEPER) Hugely experienced goalkeeper and a massive signing for the club this season. Elvijs returns to The Bloaters after a couple of successful years away at Lowestoft where last season he was the Supporters Player of the Year. Ray Urry Age: 18 (DEF/MFD) Huge talent for the Bloaters who is a solid versatile defender who loves to get forward and contribute to the teams attacking threat. Capable of scoring worldies one minute and a last ditch tackle the next. Tom Hunter: Age 19 (DEF/MFD) Tom is another new signing this summer, returning to the club where he played as an U18. Having spent a really successful year at Bungay FC. Tom is now ready to make his mark at this level. A wonderful prospect with a fantastic attitude and offers the club some great options this season. Mitch Grimmer : Age 19 (MFD/ATT) Another new player who is a bright young talent who can play wide or centrally, excellent feet and pace to match.

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Meet the Visitors – Part 2

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The club experienced a dip in fortunes in the early nineties until Paul Chick and Donny Pye were appointed, but after two moderately successful seasons this pair also moved to Diss when Punton retired from management. Ironically, Tong then returned to the Wellesley as first team boss and stayed seven years, making him the second-longest serving manager after Punton. In this period the club revived its Youth U18 side and this has been, and continues to be, a successful breeding ground for new talent. During this first managerial spell at Yarmouth for Tong, the club won the ECL Millennium Trophy, one year after being runner-up, and reached three consecutive Senior Cup finals though disappointingly losing all three. After Tong left for a second time, the club suffered relegation to the First Division in 2005 and a period of short-lived appointments concluded with appearance record-breaking goalkeeper Nick Banham who formed a unique partnership at the club with his wife Julia as Chairperson. With the club then heading for financial meltdown in late 2008, an appeal for help in the local media resulted in local businessman Stephen Brierley assisting in the resurrection. When Banham resigned as first team manager, Yarmouth stalwart Kevin Cruickshank stepped up to the plate and was then joined by the returning Paul Tong, and the pair set about rebuilding the team side of affairs at the Wellesley. After a difference of opinion, the pairing broke up and Tong remained as sole manager, taking the club back to the Premier Division as Ridgeon's Division One 2009-2010 champions and achieve a first-ever promotion for the Bloaters. And happily, with relations now restored, Cruickshank returned to the Wellesley as Reserve team manager. However the fortunes were short lived with the side relegated in 2010-11 which is where they stayed for 5 years. The brighter side of 2010 also saw the club awarded Charter Club status by the FA, and expansion of the youth programme saw the club running a number of youth sides. This has grown in statue and the club now boast at least 10 youth sides of both boys and girls. In 2011-12 due to poor committee management the club again hit severe financial problems, which almost ruined the club to extinction but recent times have seen a dramatic change in fortunes. In 2014-15 Yarmouth almost gained promotion back to the Premier league but just fell short in 4th and in the same season where runners up in the ECL 1st Division cup, beaten by Sudbury and Woodbridge. 2015-16 with the outgoing manager leaving for fierce rivals and neighbours Gorleston and taking half of his successful squad with him Great Yarmouth Town appointed 2 young managers in Adam Mason & Martyn Sinclair on the back of their local football success. The pair gained promotion in that season at the first time of asking to return the club to the Eastern Counties Premier League (step 5). In a very positive new era for the club there have also been off the field improvements. Chairman Kevin Cruickshank who has had over 25 years association with the club in various roles along with Ben Stone as new vice chairman were appointed in February 2017 in a restructure of the management committee. In 2019 It was all change with Jack Jay Coming into a new look committee as Chairman, following Adam Mason and Martyn Sinclair stepping down as Managers, replaced by Rob McCombe. ‘Mase’ and ‘Sinny’ subsequently taking important positions on the Committee with Adam Mason taking on an ‘Operations Director’ Role, and Martyn Sinclair coming in as the clubs Vice Chairman. The new committee fully committed to securing the long term sustainable future of the club, aligned to its core values and philosophy.

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Brodie Adams: (DEF) Brodie is a local lad who plays on the left – a very capable footballer looking to make his mark in Thurlow Nunn football for the first time this season. Seumus Bobby Age:19 (MFD) A talented ball playing midfielder who was Wroxham U18s Players player of the year last year. Fits the football the club want to play and a welcome addition to the squad for 2019-20 Tom Blake Age:28 (ATT) An exciting ball player who can play across the front line. Excellent close control and an eye for goal males ‘Blakey’ a great addition to the Bloaters for this season. Jamie Smith Age: (ATT) An mid season signing for the Bloaters—Jamie joined us from Acle making the step back up to TN football (previous spell at Mulbarton). Jamie is a powerful striker with an eye for goal and provides a great threat for the side. Payton Swatman : We welcome back Payton Swatman to the club after a short spell away with Fakenham. Payton is a fantastic player who adds quality and experience to the line up, and can cover a variety of positions to support the team. A player of real quality and a match winner on his day. Brady Philpott: Age 17 (DEF/MFD) Following a handful of appearances ‘across the river’ in the Thurlow Nunn Premier league, Brady has moved to GYTFC to make his mark. A young wide player who can play anywhere on the Left side, Brady has a great attitude to the game and has plenty to prove. Chalrlie McCara: Age 28 (ATT) Resigned in Nov 2019 for his third spell at the club following some time at local rivals Caister. Charlie has over 160 appearances for Great Yarmouth and he is returning ’home’ looking to get among the goals for the 19-20 season. Cameron Wing Age: 18 (ATT) A summer signing for Great Yarmouth who was previously at Gorleston. Never really got his shot there but ready to make his mark this season for The Bloaters. A really able young man with a great attitude – and a real threat going forward. Loves a free kick and was the TN Youth League (EAST) top goal scorer last season. Fionn Goodwin-Wright: Age: 33 (STR) Another new signing for Yarmouth for 19-20, Fionn is an experienced striker stepping up to this level for the first time. A great love of the game and a will to learn, develop and improve proving you can teach an old dog new tricks! Jordan Attree: Age 24 (ATT) Signed In January 2020 following a good spell at Norwich CBS—Jordan is a player with an eye for goal and a great attitude to match.

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