wythenshawe town v irlam reserves e-programme

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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

[email protected].

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

Match Programme 2014/15

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*Ashton Town Reserves have pulled out of the league so the result is now void.


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

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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:


Cheshire League 2: Cuddington v Altrincham Reserves Mersey Valley v Witton Albion Reserves Wythenshawe Town v Irlam Reserves

FAN ZONE

Have your say on Wythenshawe Town FC and see your thoughts

in the programme. Email [email protected] to send

it in

(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


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:


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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

[email protected] for

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

at [email protected]

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

[email protected]

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


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


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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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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