Whitstable Town Saturday 17Th October 2020 | KO 3Pm FA Trophy 2Nd Round Qualifying @Ashfordtownmx
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C M Y CM MY CY CMY K 10% OFF* *Terms& conditionsapply 2 #ASHWHI ashfordtownmiddlesexfc.com EVERYGOAL EVERY CELEBRATION EVERYMOMENT FREE EVERYTEAM FOLLOW THE ACTION LIVE ON faplayer.thefa.com #ASHWHI 3 @ashfordtownmx CONTENTS Page 8: From The Dugout - Luke Tuffs Page 10: Recent Action - South Park Page 14: The Matchday Preview with Alan Constable Page 16: Today’s Opponents - Whitstable Town Page 18: Recent Action - Uxbridge Page 22: League Directory Page 24: Fixtures & Results Page 26: League Table Page 30: CCL Under 18’s Page 34: ATFC Women’s Page 36: The Non-League Paper Page 40: Today’s Squads Page 8 Page 14 Page 16 Page 24 Page 26 Page 30 Page36Page 40 4 #ASHWHI ashfordtownmiddlesexfc.com Ashford Town (Middlesex) Football Club Limited The Robert Parker Stadium, Short Lane, Stanwell, Middlesex TW19 7BH Telephone: 01784 245908 Email: [email protected] Website: ashfordtownmiddlesexfc.com Member of the BetVictor Isthmian League, affiliated to Middlesex and Surrey FA’s, and an FA Charter Standard Community Club Company Registration Number: 07904731 Company Limited By Guarantee Directors: Nick Bailey (Chairman) First Team Manager: Luke Tuffs Graham Felce (Vice-Chairman) Assistant Manager: Dean Greenwood Alan Constable (General Secretary) First Team Coach: Liam Balmer Paul Blair (Football Secretary) Goalkeeper Coach: Martin Cook Steve Clark (Finance Director) Chris Canderton (Membership Secretary) Physio: Lydia Matthews Russell Canderton Robert Parker Women’s Team Manager: Will Boye CCL Under 18’s Manager:Paul Gower Patrons: CCL Under 18’s Assistant:Matt Hellyer Russell Grant - The Lord of Ashford in Middlesex Ray Dorset Groundsman: Liam Balmer President: Robert Parker Programme Edited by: Paul Gully for Elevated Online Website and Social Media:Elevated Online Vice Presidents: Lynne Morgan Bob Lewis Pat Munns Follow us across social media Stewart Lloyd Life Vice-Presidents: Paul Burgess Alan Constable Gareth Coates @ashfordtownmx #ASHWHI 5 @ashfordtownmx 6 #ASHWHI ashfordtownmiddlesexfc.com CLUB PARTNERS If you would like to become a club partner please contact our commercial team: [email protected] #ASHWHI 7 @ashfordtownmx From the Dugout with Luke Tuffs Good a�ernoon and welcome to the players, supporters and officials of Whitstable Town FC. It’s been a great week for us as a club with victories over South Park and Northwood in the league leaving us 3 games unbeaten with 7 points in 9. I for one am loving the buzz about the place at the moment and the genuine excitement to see where we can go together as a collec�ve. However context is everything, and context is however great the feeling and some of the performances, our three wins have come against 3 sides that currently reside in the bo�om half of the table. A great start, but a start playing sides currently in the lower reaches none the less. Our target as a collec�ve cannot and will not change. Our challenge is to be compe��ve in every fixture we play. Every game so far, win draw or lose, could have gone either way. Whether it be a Chertsey, Bracknell or an FA Trophy match, or we are playing a side in the lower reaches, we want to be compe��ve from the 1st to the 90th or 93rd minute or whenever the ref blows his whistle. That we have certainly been this year. A somewhat off colour performance against South Park was followed by a sterling performance against Northwood. South Park, similar to Uxbridge, appeared to cheat their wide players on and almost again looked a 4-2-4 at �mes. Their number 10 kept dropping Into the hole which le� us with a conundrum. Leave him and let him face us up and slide balls through us, or go with and end up a 3 v 3 behind in a big vacuum. For this reason, a�er we gained the lead, we changed to a 4-1-4-1 and asked French to sit in the back 4. This allowed him to deal with the 10 when he came in and leave us with 1 spare man defensively again. We dropped deeper to make it easier for us to stay compact, and got Kane to run beyond Dan Brown into the space le� - which he did so, so well and to be honest you couldn’t fault any of the boys in the last 30. Against Northwood, we faced a completely different prospect. A Northwood side that loved playing football, but to the extent it seemed like they were playing futsal for many parts of the game. You could see they had been coached well, have good players and broke our press a few �mes, but their striker was isolated and the way they played meant there was rarely a threat behind, only in front so to speak. 8 #ASHWHI ashfordtownmiddlesexfc.com Duffys screamer (Albeit deflected) free kick was deserved in my opinion, and we went in good value for a 1-0 lead. The second half Northwood became abit more direct, whilst we sank in and let them have the ball up to a certain engagement line. Even then, they kept playing inside so we encouraged the boys to over exaggerate the line which they did. Northwood kept trying to play inside s�ll and with that, we would nick it, counter, and then watch with disbelief at some of the incredible football the boys displayed for us. I don’t think anybody could have argued if we got 3, but it shows the fine margins in football, as in the 83rd minute a fantas�c Macca penalty save spared us a last 10 minutes of going grey. Eventually the final whistle went, and brought down the curtains on another excellent 3 points. Today will be a very different proposi�on. Whitstable have started well and they too find themselves in the top 6 of their respec�ve league early doors. They will pose us different problems to we have faced over the last few weeks, so we will have to be at our best. Get behind the team as I know you will and let’s see where it takes us! A couple more things from me - can everyone please please ‘like’ the Ashford Town Middlesex FC page. It takes 10 seconds but would be a huge help. We are trying to court new sponsors and have an online drive for new supporters so the more that follow the be�er the appeal. If any of you own a business or work for a local company that would be interested in buying a board at the club, please shout me or Paul Gully. We are on abit of a binge at the moment and all the money goes to improving the club for everyone, Mens, Youth, Womens & juniors alike. Lastly from me, thank you so much to everyone for your amazing support. Going round the M25 to Wa�ord on a Tuesday night and seeing we have packed out the width of a pitch with support is an incredible effort - so thank you so much from me, the staff and the boys. Enjoy the game, and I’ll see you in the bar a�er for a beer or two. Tuffs X #ASHWHI 9 @ashfordtownmx Recent Action Ashford 3 - 1 South Park 10 #ASHWHI ashfordtownmiddlesexfc.com vs South Park #ASHWHI 11 @ashfordtownmx Changethe conversation on mental health #headsup thefa.com/headsup 12 #ASHWHI ashfordtownmiddlesexfc.com #ASHWHI 13 @ashfordtownmx The Matchday Preview with Alan Constable A�er playing some highly familiar opponents recently, Ashford find themselves playing a new club today, in the shape of Whitstable Town, from Kent, in this the 2nd Qualifying Round of the FA Trophy, a compe��on that has given us a number of memorable matches over the years. We very much welcome our visitors to the Robert Parker Stadium. Both of us are members of the Isthmian League, albeit in different divisions, our opponents being in the South Eastern sec�on. At this moment they are in 5th place having won three and lost three of their opening league matches. A number of other clubs have matches in hand on them and league posi�ons make li�le difference at this early stage but their results have been a li�le up and down by the look of it, the latest result being a 0-6 home defeat against Hythe Town on Tuesday evening, a result that has dented their goal difference considerably with nine goals scored and fi�een conceded in the six league games played to date. Maybe that was something of a freak result on the night as before that, they won three league matches in a row, all against Sussex clubs, although they did also suffer a fairly heavy defeat, 1-5, to Premier Division Carshalton in the FA Cup. This is their first match in this season’s FA Trophy, having received a bye in the opening round when we were playing Hullbridge. Their best season in the compe��on was in 2013-2014 when they ba�led through five rounds before going out narrowly in the 2nd Round Proper at home to Ebbsfleet United. I’m sure everyone’s sick of hearing it now but please remember that it’s table service only at the bar and we must have everyone si�ng down please and properly spaced out around the pitch.