TALK OF THE TOWN LUTON TOWN v ASTON VILLA WEDNESDAY 10th AUGUST 2016 | KICK OFF 7.45pm OFFICIAL MATCHDAY PROGRAMME | ISSUE 1 | PRICE £3 [TOWN v ASTON VILLA | WEDNESDAY 10th AUGUST 2016] 1 Tivoli from Tivoli XLV from £12,950* £18,250* [WELCOME TO LUTON TOWN v ASTON VILLA] LUTON TOWN FOOTBALL CLUB 2020 LTD Kenilworth Road Stadium, 1 Maple Road, Luton, Bedfordshire LU4 8AW Switchboard: 01582 411622 Ticket office: 01582 416976 [email protected] | www.lutontown.co.uk WELCOME CLUB OFFICIALS CHAIRMAN: Nick Owen VICE CHAIRMAN: David Wilkinson TO KENILWORTH ROAD CHIEF EXECUTIVE: Gary Sweet DIRECTORS: Paul Ballantyne, Bob Curson, Turismo from Korando from Mike Herrick. ASSOCIATE DIRECTORS: Stephen Browne, £18,995* £15,995* Mick Pattinson FROM THE BOARDROOM FINANCE DIRECTOR: Simon Gibb 4 VICE PRESIDENTS: Richard Banks, Doug Knight, Cliff Bassett, Jack Sapsworth, Rob 6 Stringer, John Buttle (Honorary), Gary Chamberlain, Ian Gazeley FIRST TEAM MANAGER: Nathan Jones ASSISTANT MANAGER: Paul Hart FIRST-TEAM COACH: Joaquin Gomez GOALKEEPER COACH: Kevin Dearden HEAD OF SPORTS SCIENCE: Jared Roberts-Smith NATHAN JONES PERFORMANCE ANALYST: Peter Booker The boss welcomes Aston Villa and CHIEF RECRUITMENT OFFICER: Mick Harford PHYSIOTHERAPIST: Simon Parsell reflects on the win at Plymouth With chief executive Gary Sweet KIT MAN/MASSEUR: Darren Cook ACADEMY & DEVELOPMENT MANAGER: Rexton from Korando Sports from Andy Awford 18 30 * YOUTH TEAM MANAGER: Paul Driver £22,995 £14,495 HEAD OF YOUTH OPERATIONS: Dan Walder ex. 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I would like to welcome everybody It’s our first competitive home game from our visitors; their supporters, this season and we all know what property directors and officials, and especially a fantastic atmosphere this ground Plymouth was residential new manager Roberto Di Matteo, his can produce under the lights. It is an excellent staff and players. the start of a run of three important trust & trust & probate home games with Yeovil coming up I have a few friends in the Villa performance personal injury wills on Saturday and Newport County next commercial squad, with Tommy Elphick having Tuesday. where we property come through the ranks at Brighton estates when I was a player there, and Joe IMMENSE Bennett and Gary Gardner having thoroughly Our fans always get behind us. played for the Seagulls on loan when They make a lot of noise, which is I was assistant-manager. deserved the something our new signing Jake Gray divorce I picked both Joe and Gary during alluded to from playing against us at three points. family my time in caretaker charge at the Kenilworth Road last season. They law employment Amex in 2014-15, and they are good were absolutely immense at Plymouth players and people, so it will be good though, and they will be so important I'd like to thank every member of to catch up with them tonight. to our season. staff in our club for their contribution over the summer as the work has not injury On Saturday we travelled to Plymouth Plymouth was an excellent just been done in the team, we have for our opening game of the Sky Bet performance where we thoroughly managed to make strides in almost dispute resolution League Two season and we came deserved the three points. It was & every area. Long may that continue. away with all three points from a important to get off the mark business fantastic team performance. early. We overcame the loss of Enjoy the game. Alan Sheehan to a calf injury just After a positive start to the season before kick-off, but we were able to it will be good to test ourselves replace him with someone like Scott against one of the favourites for the Cuthbert, who was outstanding. It Championship title, and a very recent shows what quality we have in our ex-Premier League side. smaller, elite squad. 4 [TOWN v ASTON VILLA | WEDNESDAY 10th AUGUST 2016] 5 PICTONS Dec2015 LTFC A5 .indd 2 12/01/2016 13:49 FROM THE BOARDROOM WITH CHIEF EXECUTIVE GARY SWEET Work underway at our new training ground site: The Brache Good evening one and all and welcome back to Kenilworth Road for today’s home seasonal opener seeing their progress last season. grass pitches, a new FIFA 2 Star versus Aston Villa for this exciting Round 1 League Cup tie. David Wilkinson will discuss the artificial grass surface, specialist joys of our youth progress more in technical areas all supported by We warmly welcome Roberto Di It wasn’t an easy game, by any Nathan’s staff are Paul Hart, Joaquin Saturday’s programme as we look to renovations made to the existing Matteo, his players, staff and, most means, against a side who I believe Gomez and Jared Roberts-Smith. develop this area even further but, buildings to create a players’ gym, importantly, the 1,500 supporters will be challengers again at the end personally, this season comes with refurbished changing rooms, a Joining two familiar faces after who have made the 170-mile round of the season. more anticipation than any other players’ canteen and a classroom successful loan periods in Alan trip from Villa Park this evening. because of the inclusion of so many or two. With so many changes made each Sheehan and Glen Rea, we have academy players. Whilst it’s a pleasure to host a Club of summer it’s always encouraging to six new contract players in Christian By day, these new facilities will be Villa’s stature and credentials, having see such impressive displays from Walton, Jonny Mullins, Danny Hylton, enjoyed by our first team squad, won this competition five times, we our four debutants (five including Jordan Cook, Isaac Vassell and Jake A first-class, pristine development squad and our under won’t be fazed by the event. Jake Gray’s cameo), who all looked Gray. Welcome to all. I’d also like to training camp 18s squad with our lower age encouragingly like they had known proudly congratulate Frankie, Akin, groups using the same facilities in Indeed, having won this competition their team-mates much longer than James, Alex, Tyreeq and Liam on their One very exciting development that the evenings. This ultimately means ourselves, having experienced some they actually have. first pro contracts – well done! will greatly improve the potential we will soon have a single nucleus surprising cup success against for our first team, our development for the coaching of every one of our Premier League and Championship It was a real delight to see our Another performance we can be teams and our young academy age-groups from 7 to 37. Having sides relatively recently and having a 1,100 travelling supporters take the proud of at the weekend was to hear players is the investment and one environment will help us further better head-to-head record against long drive home happy despite the about our Under-18s team, which commitment we have made in develop our footballing aspirations Villa, there’s no reason why we endurance of the slow and painful contained a number of new additions securing a new training ground site through the cultural education of our shouldn’t enter tonight’s game with a 500-mile round trip.