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Tyres and full steering alignment MOT Testing Station Class 4 & 7 and Light 5 Car Sales Air Conditioning Centre Competitive Prices Free Collection and Delivery Service within the local area With all the latest testing and computer equipment, you can be sure your vehicle is in good hands Opening Times - Monday to Friday 8.00am to 6.00pm Proprietors: T. A. E. Groves & C. J. Groves Watermans A5.indd 1 01/08/2017 16:02:04 Chairman’s Welcome On behalf of myself and the club, let me the trip down. We were very good that extend a warm Good Friday welcome day and deserved at least the point to our visitors today, Wellington FC, for we came away with; proving we can our earlier than normal 1pm kick off. compete with all the top teams in the We hope their supporters, players and division. Hopefully that will continue officials enjoyed a short and stress- today. We have witnessed some free journey getting here today and very decent football this season and enjoy a safe journey home. Today is of although we are looking increasingly course our last home league fixture of likely to finish no higher than 4th, I am the 2018-2019 season. Where has the sure we will apply ourselves properly in time gone?! our remaining few fixtures and continue Of course, we are still hurting as a the good progress we have made into club following events at Willand Rovers next season. last Tuesday in the semi-final of the Les Finally, on a personal note, I would Phillips Toolstation League Cup. Thank like to thank all our fans, players, you to all of you who made the journey management, sponsors, match to support the team– we can’t help but day helpers, volunteers and fellow have been left wondering what might committee members for all the help and have been. Willand were good but we support you have given me this season. matched them and could have beaten It remains a huge privilege to be them in 90 minutes, so to go out on chairman of Bridgwater Town FC and penalties at the semi-final stage again, I want to take this opportunity to wish twice in two years running, is tough to you all a very Happy Easter. Enjoy the take. All we can do is dust ourselves game this afternoon and thank you for down and go again today against a the fantastic support, home and away, good Wellington side. I am sure the of the team this season. boys will show their character and See you all back at Fairfax in August bounce back. hopefully! Our last league game, at time of writing, was away to league leaders Come on Bridgy ! Plymouth Parkway. Thank you to all Adrian Byrne those who joined the coach and made Club Chairman BTFC Life Members Pete Besley | Peter Criddle | Eddie Pike | Keith Setter | Alan Hurford WE’VE MET BEFORE! Wellington FC 02 Sep 1981 A 0 0 GML 19 Sep 1981 H 2 0 Davis Sutton (N) FAC 168 28 Nov 1981 H 3 0 Bell Butt Sutton (N) GML 17 Dec 1994 A 1 3 Lazenby SDL 22 Apr 1995 H 3 0 Aherne Howe Nicholls SDL 13 Sep 1996 A 2 0 Hawkins 2 SDL 16 Dec 1996 H 3 0 Tucker 3 SDL 26 Dec 2017 H 1 2 Llewellyn (J) TWL 233 17 Feb 2018 H 5 3 Camper, Jenkins, Llewellyn (J), Pearse, Taylor LPC 143 30 Mar 2018 A 1 3 Llewellyn (T) TWL 109 26 Dec 2018 A 1 1 Llewellyn (J) pen TWL 135 With Wellington being situated approximately 10 kilometres closer to Bridgwater than either Clevedon or Shepton Mallet this fixture constitutes our local derby. A quick glance at the results table above will show that our visitors have had slightly the better of recent match-ups. Last season Wellington beat us home and away in league fixtures. This season it was a late Jake Llewellyn penalty, that managed to secure a last gasp point for us at North Street on Boxing Day. It may be the large number of ex Wellington players in our ranks that fire our opponents on but they certainly do seem to be ‘up for it’ every time we meet them. George Painter made 14 appearances for our visitors early this season before his switch to Fairfax Park. He joins a Bridgy contingent that amassed close on 400 appearances and 100 or so goals for Wellington over the past four seasons. Namely, Tom Ellis 129 games and 10 goals, Ian Bellinger 107 (48), Sam Towler 67 (19), George Painter 54 (1) and Jack Taylor 44 (20). I think that Carl Jones may have made some appearances for them too! Both Sam and Ian alongside Glen Wright scored against us in Wellington’s 3- 1 home win last season. Sam scored another in their 5-3 LPC defeat. In the reciprocal 2017-18 fixture Jake Llewellyn grabbed a late consolation goal after Tim Legg and Paulo Borges had put our visitors in front. Last season Wellington finished up in 15th place, taking 42 points from 38 games. The season before that they were promoted to the Premier Division as Champions of Division One. At the moment, they are in 16th spot and comfortably safe from the threat of relegation. Joe Chamberlain is their main source of goals and he is ably backed by Josh Wadham , Glen Wright and Conor Bryant. The nucleus of the Wellington side has stayed largely the same in recent seasons despite defections here. Conor and Jack Bryant, Scott Drayton, Glen Wright, Jack Bown-Porter and Tim Legg have all made more than 100 appearances each for our visitors. ParadeDental Practice We Care Proud Sponsor of Bridgwater Town FC & Club Sports Therapist. Taylor Cornish Wishing the team every success this year Mr. Adrian Byrne BDS 48a North Street, Bridgwater, Somerset, TA6 3PN (01278) 425796 Quality Dentistry for the People of Bridgwater A Brief Club History their first two seasons. This was followed up by claiming runners-up position in season 1951/52, thus gaining promotion The first football club to bear the town’s to Division One. The Club were to remain name was formed on 28th January 1898 in the top division of the Western League at a meeting held at the Cross Rifles public for the next 30 years, winning the Western house on Bath Road. Bridgwater AFC League title twice, in seasons 1967/68 and entered the Somerset Senior League, 1980/81. playing at Sydenham House on Bath Season 1982-83 saw the club make the bold Road, and lifted the Somerset Senior Cup move up to the Southern League Midland in their first full season, beating Yeovil Division, but after only two seasons at the Casuals 1-0 in the Final played at Wells. higher level, and with mounting debts, the Unfortunately, the Club was forced to club went into voluntary liquidation….the disband in 1901 due to lack of support and end of an era! financial difficulties. But like a phoenix from the ashes, Two years later, another Bridgwater AFC Bridgwater Town (1984) FC was formed was formed and played for ten years by a loyal band of club stalwarts and in local leagues from their base in the started life at a new home, Fairfax Park, Westonzoyland Road area of the town. in Division Two of the Somerset County 1914 saw this club fold due to the outbreak League. Unfortunately, with a young and of World War One. inexperienced side relegation followed 1919 saw the birth of local works side Wills at the end of their first season, but Athletic who played in local leagues from steady progression including a hat-trick their Victoria Park home. In 1921 they of Somerset County League titles, the changed their name to Bridgwater Town Western League Division One title and FC and moved to Chilton Park from where runners-up spot in the Western League they played for ten further years, winning a Premier Division in season 2006/07, few minor honors, until football came to an earned the club a place back in the end in the town until after World War Two. Southern Football League, 23 years after Crown Dynamos, based at the Crown the heartbreak caused by the demise of Inn, St John Street, were formed in 1946 the old club. playing at Eastover Park. They played The first three seasons back at the higher in the Bridgwater & District League for a level were fairly successful for ‘The year before progressing into the Somerset Robins’ with the team just missing out on Senior League - finishing a creditable 3rd the end of season play-offs in 2007/08 in 1948. That year also saw the Club move (6th) and 2008/09 (7th) and missing out to a new venue, Castlefields and change on promotion after being beaten at home its name to Bridgwater Town AFC.