wythenshawe town v irlam reserves e-programme
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E-Programme from the Wythenshawe Town v Irlam Reserves match in the Cheshire League 2.TRANSCRIPT
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Irlam Football Club was formed as Mitchell Shackleton Football Club in October 1969 and they the entered the Eccles & District Ama-teur Football League in 1970. The club’s repu-tation began to grow in the 70’s after they won the Manchester Amater League, Third and Second Division and in 1975 a reserve team was formed. Irlam joined the Manchester League in 1989, gaining promotion to the premier division at the second attempt, finishing First Division runners-up in 1991. In 1993 Irlam reached the Gilgryst Cup Final, only to lose out to Woodley Sports in the final. In 2001-02 season saw the club change its name to Irlam Mitchell Shack-leton in anticipation of their move to Irlam and it changed to Irlam FC in 2006. After a sustained period in the Manchester league, the club decided to make the step up to the NWCFL in 2008-09 and finished with an 8th place finish with notable wins away at AFC Liverpool and Winsford United. The club cur-rently sit in 16th place with 31 points and with a the play-offs looking unlikely, the club will be working towards next season.
Ericstan Park, Timpson Road
Baguley, M23 9NT
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.wythenshawetownfc.co.uk
Twitter: @WTFCOpenage
Chairman: Kenny Hope
Vice Chairman: Peter Birch
Treasurer: Grace Nuttall
Director of Football: Aidy Burns
Media Officer: James Lobley
Stadium Manager: Billy Moore
Programme: James Lobley
1st Team Manager: Lee McGregor
Assistants: Gary Brown & Paul Williams
Club Captain: Jonathan Rand
Welcome to all the fans, new and old for
coming down to Ericstan Park for this
important game against Irlam Reserves.
Another crucial 3 points are up for grabs
so get behind the team today.
Enjoy The Game!
WYTHENSHAWE TOWN FOOTBALL CLUB
Pride of Wythenshawe
Wythenshawe Town History….
Manager’s Notes
2014/15 Fixtures
Player Profiles
Global League Table
1st Team
Latest News
WTFC Kitchen
Player Feature
MFA Cup Final
Match Report
Chairman’s Chat
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Formed in 1946, and playing at Hough End Fields on
Princess Road, Withington, Wythenshawe Town were
originally known as North Withington FC, but were
eventually re-named in 1987; after a few seasons at
their new ground in Wythenshawe. The ground was
named Ericstan Park as a tribute to Eric Reynard and
Stan Orme who were prime movers in the club's early
days.
After a long period in the Lancashire and Cheshire
League the club joined the Manchester League in
1974. In 2014, Wythenshawe moved from the
Manchester League to the Cheshire League 2, a league
with representatives from Altrincham, Witton Albion and
many more.
Wythenshawe Town Football Club senior section now has
two teams in the Cheshire League, one in the Cheshire
U21 League and one in the Manchester Sunday League.
Lee McGregor took charge of the squad in the pre-
season preceding the 2014/15 season.
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The club’s momentum is gaining
pace and we need your support,
so get your season tickets for the
2015/16 for just £12 and you’ll
be supporting the Wythylution.
Along with that, if you can spon-
sor the club from just £5 then we
need your support. Sponsors and
supporters drive the club forward
to the next level. With your sup-
port our task of getting to the
NWCFL is made easier.
If you want to volunteer any of
your spare time to the club email
Last time out against Gorse Hill
in the cup we had to show bat-
tling qualities to get a result on a
poor pitch but the performance
is reflected by the result we man-
aged to get there.
After this weekend we face possi-
bly our toughest test of the sea-
son to date, the Manchester FA
Amateur Cup final against Fails-
worth Dynamos, at the Regional
Athletics Stadium. Please get
behind the team in a huge game,
admission there is £2, let’s try to
get 100 down to the game.
So stay for a drink in the
clubhouse after the game with
the players. The supporters are
one of the driving forces of this
club and every single player
appreciates the support the fans
bring each and every game.
ENJOY THE GAME
Welcome to Ericstan Park today,
hope our visitors have had a
safe trip to Wythenshawe. I look
forward to seeing some return-
ing faces from the Kartel Sports
game where we achieved a
great attendance of 117 and it
epitomises the work the club are
putting in behind the scenes in
order to get the club’s profile
raised.
Today presents another tough
test with Irlam Reserves per-
forming reasonably well in the
league this season and still re-
main in the promotion hunt.
We faced our visitors just a few
weeks back in the Manchester
FA Amateur Cup Quarter-Final
and won 3-0 but I certainly be-
live that counts for nothing. Cup
games are completely and the
mentality changes for any play-
er.
The players know what is
expected of them in what is
another crucial 3 points towards
the title chase, and we have
prepared well in training like
every game and this game will
be tough, the players know that
but we have strengths in the
squad to count on and we must
play to the high stands myself,
Gary Brown and Paul Williams
set for the team. As important as
cup competitions are, the league
will always take precedent so all
focus is on today’s game.
Date Match Competition
9/08/14 WTFC 6-0 Ashton Town Reserves* Cheshire League 2
16/08/14 FC Woodford 0-2 WTFC Cheshire League 2
20/08/14 WTFC 4-2 Cheadle Town Reserves Cheshire League 2
23/08/14 WTFC 5-1 Warrington Town Reserves J A Walton Challenge Cup
26/08/14 Altrincham Reserves 1-3 WTFC Cheshire League 2
30/08/14 Golborne Sports 0-4 WTFC J A Walton Challenge Cup
06/09/14 WTFC 4-1 Cuddington Cheshire League 2
13/09/14 West Didsbury & Chorlton Reserves 1-4 WTFC Cheshire League 2
20/09/14 WTFC 2-1 West Didsbury & Chorlton Reserves J A Walton Challenge Cup
27/09/14 WTFC 5-1 AFC Monton Reserves Manchester FA Amateur
Cup
4/10/14 WTFC 7-0 Moore United Cheshire League 2
11/10/14 WTFC 5-0 Altrincham Reserves Cheshire League 2
18/10/14 Chorltonians 1-5 WTFC Manchester FA Amateur
Cup
25/10/14 West Didsbury & Chorlton Reserves 0-7 WTFC J A Walton Challenge Cup
1/11/14 Knutsford ‘A’ 2-6 WTFC Altrincham FA Senior Cup
8/11/14 WTFC 4-1 Salford Victoria Manchester FA Amateur
Cup
22/11/14 WTFC 4-0 Witton Albion Reserves Cheshire League 2
29/11/14 Warrington Town Reserves 0-2 WTFC J A Walton Challenge Cup
6/12/14 Club AZ 2-3 WTFC Altrincham FA Senior Cup
13/12/14 WTFC 5-2 Golborne Sports J A Walton Challenge Cup
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*Ashton Town Reserves have pulled out of the league so the result is now void.
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20/12/14 WTFC 8-0 West Didsbury & Chorlton Reserves Cheshire League 2
10/01/14 WTFC 1-0 Grappenhall Sports J A Walton Challenge Cup
7/02/15 Cheadle Town Reserves 2-8 WTFC Cheshire League 2
14/02/15 WTFC 3-0 Irlam Reserves Manchester FA Amateur
Cup
28/02/15 Cuddington 0-1 WTFC Cheshire League 2
7/03/15 WTFC 5-0 Kartel Sports Altrincham FA Senior Cup
14/03/15 Gorse Hill 0-2 WTFC Manchester FA Amateur
Cup Semi-Final
21/03/15 WTFC v Irlam Reserves (15:00) Cheshire League 2
28/03/15 Failsworth Dynamos v WTFC (13:00) Manchester FA Amateur
Cup Final
4/03/15 Grappenhall Sports v WTFC (15:00) J A Walton Challenge Cup
6/03/15 Mersey Valley v WTFC (15:00) Cheshire League 2
14/04/15 Irlam Reserves v WTFC (19:45) Cheshire League 2
18/04/15 WTFC v FC Woodford (15:00) Cheshire League 2
22/04/15 WTFC v Mersey Valley (18:30) Cheshire League 2
28/04/15 Witton Albion Reserves v WTFC (18:30) Cheshire League 2
5/05/15 Moore United v WTFC (18:30) Cheshire League 2
TBC Altrincham FA Senior Cup Final v. Broadheath Central
TBC J A Walton Challenge Cup Quarter-Final Opponents TBC
Jacob Luty Goalkeeper
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Ben Connolly Winger
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Wythenshawe Town are top of the NonLeagueMatters Global League
Table which includes all non-league teams from the UK. It’s ordered by
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Wythenshawe Town are top of the NonLeagueMatters Global League
Table which includes all non-league teams from the UK. It’s ordered by
PPG (points per game).
Pos Team PLD PTS GS GC GD
1st Wythenshawe Town 11 33 50 7 +43
2nd Altrincham Reserves 13 28 31 17 +13
3rd FC Woodford 15 23 32 22 +11
4th Mersey Valley 11 18 24 18 +6
5th Mersey Valley 12 18 27 25 +2
6th West Didsbury & Chorlton Reserves 11 15 29 30 -1
7th Cuddington 12 15 25 30 -5
8th Moore United 14 11 19 52 -34
9th Witton Albion Reserves 7 6 11 18 -7
10th Cheadle Town Reserves 16 6 23 52 -27
Fixtures Involving Cheshire League 2 Sides:
Match Programme 2014/15
Cheshire League 2: Cuddington v Altrincham Reserves Mersey Valley v Witton Albion Reserves Wythenshawe Town v Irlam Reserves
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(Back Row): Paul Walley, Jamie Dickinson, Jacob Luty, Jonathan Rand, Matty Gillings
(Front Row): Craig Coates, Lee McGregor, Ben Brooks, Ben Connolly, Jason Walley, Ashley Woodhead
Match Programme 2014/15
The 1st cup final of the season at the
Regional Athletics Stadium, when we face
Failsworth Dynamos in the MFA Cup Final
(13:00)
Fixtures Involving Cheshire League 2 Sides:
Match Programme 2014/15
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2015/16 season tickets have
gone on sale. It’s £12/£6/
Free for Adults/Concessions/
Children. Season ticket hold-
ers will get a complimentary
programme at each 1st XI pre-
season game, and get a dis-
count on any club travel and
merchandise.
We’re looking for sponsors to
join our club from just £5. You
will get excellent coverage
and will be advertised at an
ambitious club with an ever
growing support. Email
a link to the new 2015/16
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Our next game is the MFA
Cup final. The club for the
game are putting a coach
on for supporters, the
price of that is just £6 for
transport from Ericstan
Park to the Manchester
Regional Athletics
stadium. More details
about the game late on in
the programme.
The fundraiser for the
fence on Altrincham Road
was a huge success. The
progress on the fence has
been huge and should be
completed very soon.
We’re looking for volunteers
to help out at WTFC
Videographers
Programme Sellers
Gate Staff
Graphic Designers
We also want to set up WTFC
TV, a YouTube channel. If
you wish this join this project
or want to be a volunteer at
the club email James Lobley
We’ll soon be selling
Wythenshawe Town
merchandise so put some
money aside for your WTFC
purchases
Hot Drinks: Tea - 50p Coffee - 60p Hot Chocolate - 60p Oxo - 50p Cup of Soup - 70p Hot Barms: Bacon - £1.50 Bacon & Egg - £1.80 Sausage - £1.50 Sausage & Egg - £1.80 Sausage & Bacon - £1.80 Chip Barm - £1.40 Hot Dog - £1.10 Beefburger - £1.80 Beefburger & Chips - £2.80 Chips - £1.20 Chips & Gravy - £1.40 Meat Pie - £1.20 Meat Pie & Gravy - £1.40 Meat Pie, Chips & Gravy - £2.50
Feeling peckish?
Then head into the bar and pick
up your food, fancy some chips
or a pie, we have it in our bar
Winger Ben Connolly talks to ‘The
Town Review’ about the season so
far and the his aims within the club
in the coming seasons.
This season has seen the squad
come up against many new
challenges, whether that be in the
form of facing a new team or the
hindrance of pitches, it’s thrown up
many obstacles but the squad has
pulled through every single one of
them.
The current squad has evolved and
risen to the occasions and we have
performed when it really counts and
grinded out results like away at
Cuddington which was a display of
pure determination. We are strong
all over the pitch and teams have a
tough ask when they face us but we
don’t take any lightly but we all
know the strengths in the squad.
But that has changed, we want the
cup, we’re all hungry for the cups.
Against Kartel Sports it was a un-
known quantity but we played well
and took the game comfortably 5-0
in front of a great crowd of 117.
Then against Gorse Hill we battled
very well for the 2-0 win.
Our whole season has been fantas-
tic and we want to maintain the
high standards we set ourselves
within the squad. We have a great
management set up, Lee, Gary
Brown and Paul Williams are all do-
ing a fantastic job without them we
wouldn’t be where we are now.
The next seasons present promising
times within the club as we’re striv-
ing to join the NWCFL where many
of the players have played at. Lots
of work is going on behind the
scenes and all the players are excit-
ed for the years ahead.
This is the poster for our next
game which is the MFA Cup
final. If you can put it up in a
shop or workplace then email
to get the poster. If you take a
picture and send it to us you
can get your name or
business on the website and
in the next programme
Match Programme 2014/15
After the 2-0 semi-final win over Gorse Hill, we’ll face Failsworth Dynamos in the final of the Manchester FA Amateur Cup The game will be played at the Manchester Regional Athletics Stadium. Admission for the game is £2 for Adults and free for Children under the age of 16. Kick-off is 1:00pm and will be part of a weekend of football with 6 Manchester FA cup finals being held across the 3 days.
Wythenshawe have beaten a whole host of teams to reach this stage. The cup run be-gan back in September when AFC Monton Reserves were the visitors. Wythenshawe ran out 5-1. Chorltonians Town suffered the same 5-1 fate at their place whilst Salford Victoria Reserves visited Ericstan Park but again Wy-thenshawe knocked them out with a 4-1 win. In the Quarter-final, Chesh-ire League 2 rivals Irlam Reserves came to Wy-thenshawe but lost 3-0.
The game that saw us here was away at Gorse Hill in the semi-final, and Wy-thenshawe progressed with a comfortable 2-0 win. Our opponents beat Farn-worth Town 8-1 in the semi-final to get into the finals. Support the team, and follow all of the build up on our website, www.wythenshawetownfc.co.uk If you can’t make the game we’ll have updates on our twitter account: @WTFCOpenage
Credit: www.architen.com
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Brooks (2)
Wythenshawe Town travelled to Gorse
Hill for the Manchester FA Amateur Cup
Semi-Final.
Wythenshawe started quickly and got a
penalty inside two minutes but Ben
Brooks saw his penalty saved by the
Gorse Hill keeper. A dominant Wy-
thenshawe maintained their high pres-
sure throughout the first half and it paid
off when Ben Brooks fired home after
header from Jonathan Rand. Then just
two minutes later, Brooks doubled the
lead to put the visitors in control.
The game was never really in any doubt
and should have been, Ash Woodhead
had a goal disallowed but Town will now
compete the final against Failsworth Dy-
namos on March 28th.
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Match Programme 2014/15
Today brings the biggest game of the season so far, it will be a great achievement to reach the final of the Altrincham cup in our first year, good luck to all involved. The one thing you can be assured of with this team is they will give 110% commitment, as they do in every single game they play. Congratulations to our U21 on their semi-final win on Sunday coming out winners of a hard thought game 4-3 after extra time. Well done to each and every one of the team great achievement in their first year of being formed as a team well done. I am delighted with the progress of our 2nd team Gary King, who is doing a fantastic job and put them in contention for the title and in a fantastic position to qualify through their group in the challenge cup taking them into the 1/4 final still a long way to go in the season but the progress is fantastic. The turnaround in our senior teams after the disaster of last season has been fantastic, the first team remain in all 4 competitions. The 2nd team in contention for the title and challenge cup, U21s in their first year are in top half of the table and in the final of the Cheshire League Cup at Altrincham FC date to be announced. Well done to each and every one of the players, management and everyone involved with the club. Your Proud Chairman, Kenny Hope
WTFC Ben Brooks
Craig Coates Ben Connolly Steven Crane
Jamie Dickinson Alex Elliott Martin Fray Aaron Gibbs Matt Gillings Jacob Luty
Dean McGregor Lee McGregor Jonathan Rand Jason Walley Paul Walley
Ashley Woodhead Jake Williams
Remmi Williams
Irlam Reserves Conor Braithwaite
Dean Burgess Conor Byrne Kyle Davies
Darren Green Zar Jordan Lee Lambert
Connor Martin Gareth Meredith
Scott Mills Steven Mills
Christopher Wade Daniel Warburton Simon Whitehead
Next 1st XI Game at Ericstan Park: WTFC v FC Woodford (18.04) - 15:00
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