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- TAUNTON TOWN FOOTBALL CLUB - The 2020/21 MATCHDAY PROGRAMME vs TRURO CITY I Buildbase FA Trophy, 3rd Qualifying Round Cygnet Healthcare StadiumI Saturday 31st October, 3.00pm Cygnet Health Care was established in 1988. Since then we have developed a wide range of hospital and residential services for young people and adults with mental health needs and learning disabilities within the UK. We are now the market leader of mental health services within the UK. Our expert and highly dedicated care of 8800 employees empower 3000 individuals across 140 services and 11 service lines to consistently make a positive difference to their lives, through service user focused care and rehabilitation. For more information or for job opportunities please visit www.cygnethealth.co.uk @cygnethealth /cygnethealthcare /company/cygnet-health-care STAFF DIRECTORY President:TomHarris LifeVicePresident:HaroldNeeds Chairman: Kevin Sturmey Chief Executive: Kevin Sturmey HONOURS ViceChairman:BrianPollard LEAGUE HONOURS ViceChairman:AlanSlade Director: Dominic Stead SOUTHERN LEAGUE DIVISION ONE ClubSecretary:AlanSlade Champions 2017-18 Fixture Secretary: Martin Dongworth WESTERN PREMIER DIVISION LIFE MEMBERS Champions 1968-69, 1989-90, 1995-96, Mr D Budge, Mr M Dongworth, Mrs J Ellis, Mr T Gibbs, 1998-99, 1999-2000, 2000-01 Mrs E Harris, Mr J Mayled, Mr P,Mayled, Mr R Musker, SOUTHERN LEAGUE PREMIER SOUTH Mr H Needs, Mrs M Needs, Mr A Payne, Runners-Up 2018-19 FOOTBALL OPERATIONS CUP HONOURS Head of Football: Rob Dray Assistant Manager: Matt Villis FA VASE First Team Coach: Michael Meaker Winners 2000-01 Goalkeeping Coach: Len Bond Sports Therapists: Dave Lukins, Antony Cornish SOMERSET PREMIER CUP Sports Masseur: Paul Edwards Winners 2002-03, 2005–06, 2013-14, Kit Manager: Kevin Sturmey 2014-15, 2016-17 Club Doctor: Dr Tim Norbury Head Groundsman: Kevin Sturmey Groundsman: Simon Best CONTACT DETAILS Safety Officer: Roger Conway Head Steward: Dave Ryan Taunton Town Football Club Cygnet Healthcare Stadium Match-Day Co-Ordinator: Rob Wenham Wordsworth Drive Welfare Officer: Neil White Taunton Turnstile Manager: Jason Mayled Somerset Stadium Announcer: Nick Rickards TA1 2HG Bar Manager: Dan Franklin Website: www.tauntontown.com Club Shop Manager: Lee Derrick Phone: (01823) 254909 E-mail: [email protected] Away Travel Manager: Rob Wenham Twitter: @TauntonTownFC Club Photographers: Colin Andrews, Ashley Harris Facebook: Taunton Town FC Instagram: Taunton Town FC Media Team: Daniel Howell, Andy Power, Josh Perkins, You Tube: Peacocks TV Darren Harris Company Registration No: 1582031 Limited By Guarantee COVID/19 Lead: Rob Wenham Taunton Town Football Club does not tolerate discrimination of any sort at the club, on the pitch or in the stands. COVID/19 Support Team: Catherine Herbert, If you experience any form of discrimination, help us to eliminate it from football by reporting it. Adam Kent, Rachael Coles THE AWAY END TRURO CITY Truro City Football Club was established in District League in 1934 and won the title in 1889, becoming a funder member of the 1937. CCFA, which came into being at a meeting at the Royal Hotel in Truro on 18th September of Departure from the Cornwall Senior League that year. led to the club being barred from entering the Cornwall Senior Cup. The CCFA refused a Other Clubs present at that meeting were proposal for the club’s reserve team to enter Porthcurno, Penzance, Probus School, the competition and City were only re- Liskeard, Dunheved School, Torpoint and admitted 1938 (they won the Senior Cup in Millbrook. Truro City’s first recorded match their first season back). was played at Truro College against Penzance on 4th October 1889, which they The club has also won the Durning Lawrence won 7 -1. Further games were played at Charity Cup, which Truro City gave to the Tolgarrick, adjacent to the existing Treyew county, 11 times, the first in 1912 and the last Road ground and the club has also played at in 1981. Kenwyn and Chapel Hill. A 5-0 victory over Launceston in 1895 brought the club’s first Truro City was one of the founder members trophy, the Cornwall Senior Cup, which Truro of the South Western League, which was City has now won 15 times. formed in 1951. However, the club did not meet with immediate success, having to seek The club initially participated in the Plymouth re-election for the first two seasons. They & District League. In 1931 they achieved one have had to seek re-election twice more, in of the finest run of results in club history, 1982 and 1983. Their first championship playing nine games in 15 days, winning eight came in 1960/61 and they have been and drawing one. However, the club left the champions four times since: 1969/70, league that same year, along with several 1992/93, 1995/96 and 1997/98. other Cornish Clubs, after a dispute over payment of Devon Clubs’ travelling expenses. The South Western League Cup has come to Treyew Road on three occasions: 1959/60, City joined the newly formed Cornwall Senior 1966/67 and 1997/98. The League’s Sporting League, winning it in 1932 and 1933. Trophy was won in 1974/75 and 1988/89 and However, disappointing gates in the new the Best Ground Trophy in 1995/96. City were league saw City rejoining the Plymouth & forced to leave the South Western League at the end of the 1974/75 season as the Treyew Toolstation Western League First Division by Road ground had been part a road-widening a record margin at the first attempt, retaining scheme and it was 1978 before they were re- the Cornwall Senior Cup and winning the FA admitted. Vase at the new Wembley Stadium with a 3-1 win over AFC Totton The club won the Cornwall Combination League title in 1994/95, 1998/99, 2005/6 and The FA Vase campaign set two new 2007/8 and the Combination League Cup on benchmarks. It was the first time a club nine occasions: 1968, 1978, 1987, 1988, playing at Step 6 in the Football Pyramid had 1999, 2000, 2001, 2005/6 and 2007/8. The won the trophy and the final was watched by Evely Cup has been won seven times: 1968, a record crowd of over 37,000. 1978, 1986, 1988, 1999, 2000 and 2005/06. Success continued in 2007/08, as a 17 point In late 2004, the club was acquired by a new winning margin in the Toolstation Western owner and in 2005/06 the club ended the League Premier Division saw Truro become season as runners-up, winning promotion to the first ever Cornish Club to win promotion the Toolstation Western League. to the Southern League football. As a bonus, the reserve side went through the season The 2006/07 season was the most undefeated and were promoted to the South successful in the Club’s history: winning the West Peninsula League. And the third team, THE AWAY END consisting mainly of under 20s, won After a tentative start to the 2015-16 season, promotion to the first division of the Falmouth/ Truro gradually climbed the National League Helston League. South table, surpassing all expectations to finish fourth in a play-off place. However, City In 2008/09, Truro were promoted to the came up against a well-drilled Maidstone United Southern League Premier Division as side in the play-off semi-final, losing 3-0 on Champions, in the process equalling the aggregate over the two legs. British record with four successive promotions. In 2009/10, the Club finished a The club struggled in the lower reaches of the very creditable 11th in the first year at this new table in 2016/17 but there was an upturn in level. fortunes last season as the club reached the first-round proper of the FA Cup for the first 2010-11 was another momentous season. time, where we were rewarded with a trip to Vying with favourites Salisbury City for top Charlton Athletic. league spot for most of the season, Truro were finally crowned Champions by four points after We also found ourselves amongst the leading a fabulous 6-0 win away at Salisbury. Seven pack throughout the campaign before losing in straight victories at the end of the season the play-offs. assured Blue Square Bet Conference South football for the first time. A new British record The eve of the 2018/19 season saw us move was set in the process as no senior club had from our Treyew Road home to ground-share previously won 5 promotions in 6 seasons. with Torquay United until the Stadium For Cornwall is ready. Season 2011/12 was a year of consolidation, with a 14th place finish in the club’s first In June 2019, the Club was sold to the Cornish season of Conference football. Progress in Pirates, via a business transfer under an asset 2012/13 was very difficult thanks to a 10-point deal. This wiped the historical slate deduction and a League transfer embargo as clean, heralding the start of an exciting new era. the club encountered financial problems. The club’s very survival was in doubt until October The Cornish Pirates are a professional rugby 2012 and the last-minute intervention of two team, who have played in the English local businessmen. Truro were relegated at the Championship, the league below the end of the season, but lucky to be alive and Premiership, since 2002. kicking after recent traumas. The Pirates engaged the highly experienced The Club gained promotion to the newly re- Alex Black as their football consultant to lead named National League South in 2014/15 via the acquisition and he remains in this role.