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WOOTTON SLIMBRIDGE FC UHLSPORT HELLENIC LEAGUE PREMIER DIVISION SEASON 2010-11 BASSETT TOWN FC SATURDAY 2ND APRIL 2011, KICK-OFF 3.00PM Squad Played No. Sub Squad Played No. Sub WOOTTON BASSETT TOWN V SLIMBRIDGE Stuart Thompson 1 Dave Evans Liam Edmondson 2 Leon Cornwall Mark McMeeking 3 Fred Ward Matthew Boucher 4 Rob Hine Shaun Carter 5 Tom Speers Richie Carter 6 Ben Wood Craig Bowden 7 Tom Cole Matt Bown 8 Ross Langworthy Sam Collier 9 Marvyn Roberts Ethan Delaney 10 Craig Cole Tom Dingle 11 Lewis Wilton James Turner 12 Paul Carter Sam Packer 14 Leon Sterling Alex Green 15 Mike Bryant John Beeden 16 Jamie Martin Joe Dorey 17 James Blake 18 Mitch Wyatt 19 Luke Sharps 20 21 22 Manager: Dave Turner Manager: Leon Sterling Assistants: Alan Blake & Luke Sharps Asst. Man: Freddy Ward Match Officials Referee: M. Payne Assist. Ref (Red Flag): S. Williams Assist. Ref (Yellow Flag): M. Walker Next Home Games Tuesday 05-Apr-11 v Witney United (Uhlsport Hellenic League Prem Div) k-off 7.45pm keep upto date with the town by visiting the website at wootton bassett town f.c. www.wbtfc.co.uk official matchday programme 2010-11 issue 23 £1.50 WOOTTON BASSETT TOWN FC WOOTTON BASSETT TOWNTOWN FCFC SWINDON LONDON GLASGOW (founded 1882) Gerard Buxton Sports Ground Rylands Way, Wootton Bassett, Swindon, Wiltshire Tel : (01793) 853880 www.wbtfc.co.uk President: Ron Stone Chairman: Paul Harrison Secretary: Rod Carter Treasurer (Club & Youth Section): Dave Topping Club Development Officer: Andy Walduck Head of Senior Section: Chris Jones First Team Manager: Dave Turner Cats HQ Reception First Team Assistant Manager: Alan Blake Reserve Team Manager: Simon Paish Senior Section Treasurer: Steve Martin COLOURDIGITAL COLOURDIGITAL COLOURDIG Head of Youth Section: Peter Yeardley OPYINGB&W COPYINGB&W COPYINGB&W CO Deputy Head of Youth: Nigel Deane NT24X7 PRINT24X7 PRINT24X7 PRINT24X7 PRINT24 Youth Section Secretary: Gill Gascoigne Head of Womans & Girls Section: Bryan Wood WEB ORDERINGONLINE WEB ORDERINGONLIN Under 18 Floodlit Manager: Danny Groom SOLUTIONSDIGITAL SOLUTIONSDIGITAL SOLUTIO Commercial Manager: Simon Baker VICE24X7 SERVICE24X7 SERVICE24X7 SERVICE24 Website Editor and Designer: Scott Smedley Email: [email protected] TERSWE SELL XEROX COPIERS & PRINTERSWE SEL Programme Compiler: Mark Smedley Email: [email protected] Cats Solutions Ltd Two Rushy Platt, Swindon, SN5 8WQ Head of Facilities: Steve Matthews Welfare Officers: Barbara Sealey Maggie Amos Head of Events: Terry Embling Life Members: Micky Woolford (1995) 01793 432913 Rod Carter (2008) Roger Williamson (2008) www.cats-solutions.com Printed by Cats Ltd, Swindon. Programme Printing & Sponsor Front Cover Photo: Tom Dingle Wootton Bassett Town FC EDITORIAL would like to thank our kit Good afternoon and welcome back to Rylands Way for this Uhlsport Hellenic Premier League sponsors for this season: fixture against Slimbridge. We wish a warm welcome to the players, officials and supporters from Slimbridge who have made the journey for this fixture and wish them a safe journey home Senior Section back to Gloucestershire. First Team – TBA Slimbridge, like last Tuesdays opponents Binfield, are one of the sides fighting for the league First Team Tracksuits & T-shirts – C.S. Building Services title. It will be a tough game again today and our record against Slimbridge is not good, in fact it took the game at the end of last season to avoid defeat for the first time in what was our tenth and Macmillan Cancer Support attempt. The match report from that famous victory which provided the platform for our Reserves – Ganges Indian Cuisine promotion push is featured in todays programme. The fortunes of the two sides in the Premier Under 18 Floodlit – Quickmovenow.com Division are something of a contrast. Whilst the two sides were only separated by goal difference at the end of last season this season sees Slimbridge challenging for the title whilst we are Ladies – Aftech Sheet metal & fabrications and involved in a fight to avoid relegation at the other end of the table. bristol batteries On Tuesday I understand we gave Binfield a run for their money and Dave comments on the game in his From The Dugout column. He also congratulates young Adam Topping on an YOUTH SECTION excellent full debut for the First Team. Under 18 – Aftech Limited Unfortunately todays programme has to go to the printers ahead of Thursdays fixture at Flackwell Heath in the quarter final of the Bluefin Insurance Challenge Cup. Hopefully by the time you Under 16 Girls - SciMAT Ltd read this we have a cup semi-final to look forward, although I am not sure where this would be Under 16 - K & M Developments, C.S. Building Services, scheduled in the already packed fixture list. One thing is that the lads are going to be very tired after having already played 3 games in the past week already. Dave also touches on this in his A.T. Kitchin Homes From The Dugout column. Under 15 - GSL UK Limited Looking at what else is in tonights programme, the From the Archives feature this week goes Under 14 Girls - TBA way back to 1937-38 and a poor season in the Wiltshire League. The final game of that season Under 14A – The Barber Shop, sees the heaviest known defeat in a league fixture traced to date. There is the usual updated PAS Construction, CCTV Nationwide, league table of the Clubs own Fantasy Football League which sees Bryan Wood still top but his lead has now been eroded away to just three points. The Youth Section page includes a round-up Surehome Construction, Wason & Webb from young Luke Walduck from games played on Sunday 27th March. Scoop provides a match Under 14B – TBA report from the narrow defeat at Reading Town. There is also a caption competition with a case Under 12 – C.S. Building Services of Peroni to the winner. All you need to do is come up with a witty caption to go with the photo from last Saturdays game at Reading Town and the best one as judged by myself wins the case of Under 11 – Total Value Consultancy, I.C.C. Car & beer (please note competition is only open to over 18s). Commercial Vehicle Body Repairs, Finally the First Team are home game again this coming Tuesday when Witney United are the Babcock Homesafe everyday visitors to Rylands Way in a proverbial six pointer. The lads will really appreciate your support in Under 10A - Quattro Group, High Motive a fixture that could go a long way to deciding whether we are still in the Premier League next Under 10B - WGS Power & Lighting Ltd, High Motive season. Under 9 - S.D.C. South Marston Enjoy the game and cheer the lads on to three vital points. Under 8 - TBA Best wishes Training Equipment – Don Rogers Sports First Team Training Kit Sponsor – Milfed Mark Programme Printing & Sponsor – Cats Solutions p.s. This Tuesday, Saturday repetitive run of home games is starting to really get me And all our First Team player sponors and down now. Any contributions to the programme would be greatly appreciated and give all our groundside board sponsors motivation to carry on doing this next season!! WORLD OF FOOTBALL this week, Stuart Smedley on the subject of crowds The Swindon Supermarine fans forum has made interesting reading in the past couple of weeks. After their excellent success in the FA Cup earlier this season, it would have been expected that their run to the competitions second round would have led to a surge in attendances at Hunts Copse (or Webbs Wood Stadium as it is now called) given the publicity that the club gained. Offering them hope that this would be the case was the fact their first round home tie against Eastwood Town attracted nearly 1200 fans. Meanwhile, fellow Southern League side Paulton Rovers saw their average league attendance jump to 238 following their run to the first round last season, where they were thumped at home by Norwich City; a season before their average gate was 164. (This season it has dipped, but is still so far at 200). For Supermarine though it has not happened. In fact the reverse has been the case. This year, they are averaging 154 fans a game in the league, third lowest in the Zamaretto Premier behind Evesham United and Cirencester Town. Even worse, this is down from last season when they attracted 181 fans per league match. It begs the question why? Three factors can be considered as explanations: the clubs size, their history and location. Having been a one team club for the majority of their existence (Marine have since added a successful Ladies side and a few youth teams), generating bonds with the club will undoubtedly have been difficult because few players will have grown up having played for them. Yet even clubs with numerous sides at youth level, such as Ciren, struggle to pull people through the gate for their first team matches. Despite our clubs size too it is disappointing that few youth section players or parents are seen in the stands at Rylands Way games, but compared to the Hellenic average, our crowds are reasonable. Success on the field has no doubt been helpful for Chippenham Town locally. On average, more than 400 fans attend Hardenhuish Park for the Bluebirds matches, many of whom would have been attracted to the club after their FA Vase success at the turn of the Millennium. Within the Hellenic League, Trowbridge Towns glorious past arguably helps keep them atop the Division One West attendance charts despite their current struggles on the pitch. Now though their crowd numbers are beginning to decline.

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