St Albans City Youth Community Football Club - Registered Charity Number: 1089343
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ST ALBANS CITY YOUTH COMMUNITY www.cityyouthfc.com [email protected] Registered Charity No: 1089343 FOOTBALL CLUB Presentation eason 2015 - 16 S Day THE ALBAN ARENA ST ALBANS Sunday 19th June 2016 Sponsors Adverts 1 2 ST ALBANS CITY YOUTH COMMUNITY F.C. Patron: Annie Brewster President: Malcolm MacMillan Life Vice President: Robert Murphy Vice Presidents: Jim McGregor, John Veasey, Mike Day, Carol Day, Ray Anderson, Pete Harvey, Malcolm Elliott, Brian Gibson, John Warriner, Jeff Lawrence, David Atkinson, Ray Parker, Phil Smyth, Wilfried Veldhuigzen, David Wray, Richard Gaskin, Geoff Watts, William McAulay, Ged Deacon, Mervyn Morgan, Kerry Pollard, Mark Clark, Alan Heaffey, Chris Mawhood, Chris Pearce, Duncan Lowthian, Peter Towndrow Board of Trustees: Mervyn Morgan, Geoff Watts, Robert Murphy, David Wray, Neil Deacon, Ian Woods, Jeff Lawrence, Gill Savory, Brian Pyke, Lesley Wray, Kelly Hancock, Alan Moorhouse, Lawrence Levy, Sam Mardle Management Committee Chairman: Geoff Watts Vice Chairman: Neil Deacon, Mervyn Morgan Hon Secretary: Ian Woods Hon Treasurer: Lesley Wray Commercial Manager: Neil Deacon Community and Apprentice Management: David Wray Press Officer: Terry Edwards 6 A Side Co-ordinator: Boys - Mervyn Morgan / Dave Wray Girls - Kelly Hancock, Sam Mardle, Bradley Bennett Minutes Secretary: Lesley Wray Schools Liaison Officer: Ian Woods Senior Club Liaison: David Wray Hon Auditor: Mr. Kropman Welfare Officers (Child protection): Ian Woods, Mervyn Morgan Apprentice Community Coaches: Tom Davison Club Community Coaches: Sam Mardle, Charlie Boswell, Sam Russell, Ben Kelly, Emma Tammaro, Jabbil Chibwana, Lawrence Wilson, Anthony Gosling, Bradley Bennett, Tom Ward, Paul Spink, Tom Johnson St Albans City Youth F.C. wishes to thank all of its sponsors. We are also grateful to those who have supported us by advertising in today’s programme or other activities during the season. We must also thank: Terry Edwards for his excellent reports, The Review and the Herts Advertiser for press coverage. The Lion press for the printing. Highfield Park Trust. St Stephens Parish Council and John O’Connor for pitch provision and maintenance. St Albans City F.C. for the use of Clarence Park and its facilities. All local Schools for the use of pitches and training facilities. Nicholas Breakspear School for the 3G Astro Training Pitch. And finally as always the Wives of Managers and Club Officials for their eternal patience. 3 From the Chairman Welcome to our Presentation Day for 2015-16, especially to our Honoured Guests, representatives of our affiliated leagues, our sponsors, Trustees and Vice Presidents. I commented last year on the fact that the number of teams in the club was approaching 70. It now exceeds that number as we fulfil our remit of ‘football for all’. This is a source of pride but the pressure placed on facilities and organisational roles is huge. These issues have been at the heart of a review undertaken by the Trustees and we are actively considering ways of sharing the burden and ensuring clear lines of succession. As always I am proud to oversee all that happens but must emphasise that the real work of running the Club is done by the committee, the trustees, the team managers, their assistants and coaches. Without their efforts none of what happens each week would be possible and they deserve our continuing thanks and support. Please enjoy the day and show your support for each team as they come onto the stage. Geoff Watts SUMMER HOLIDAY FUN FOOTBALL COACHING AIMED AT 5 TO 13 YEAR OLD BOYS AND GIRLS Once again we are offering top football coaching using the best club coaches trained by the David Beckham Academy leading trainers. th w/c 25 July @ Margaret Wix School w/c 1st August, w/c 8th August, w/c 22nd August @ Highfield Park BOOK NOW Full details on www.cityyouthfc.com 4 FROM THE SECRETARY FROM THE SECRETARY Another season of growth has seen more young people than ever representing St Albans City Youth FC on the field. This growth however brings its own problems with facilities being ever stretched to cope with demand. When you add in the community work which is a cornerstone of our success the calls upon the Club officers have become more and more demanding. With all this in mind (and no sign of any reduction in demand) the club Trustees have instigated a study of the future of the club and how we can continue to provide the service we do now. What is quite clear is that there is a need for more support for existing officers in order to make their load more manageable. If anyone feels they would like to become involved with this, please do not hesitate to come forward. At the same time, we are also looking into how we can best develop our own players to prevent then being lured away by the utopian embellishments of the Eastern Junior Alliance. On the field Andy Lawrence’s under 14 North and Chris Tillin’s under 12 West both reached the County Cup Final only to fall at the last hurdle. Keith Glasscoe’s under 18 Warriors completed their youth football career with a cup and league double and John Moss’s under 16 North matched this achievement. Other league winners were Tony Moss’s under 13 Central and Stuart Hills under 12 East teams while James Longbottom’s under 11 East claimed their league Cup. We say farewell to youth football to Keith Glasscoe and the under 18 Warriors and John Finnegan and the under 18 West and wish them well in their future football careers. Other managers standing down are Johnny Doyle, John Moss; Jason Evans; Neil Sweeney and Tracey Lorimer. The club is grateful to them for their part on providing football to young people in St Albans. Without their input and that of on- going managers the Club would not exist. St Albans owes them all a considerable vote of thanks. Ian Woods 5 TEAM HONOURS 2015 – 2016 Hertfordshire Football Association U 14 Boys Under 14 North Runners Up U 12 Boys Under 12 West Runners up Watford Friendly League U 18 Yellow Division Under 18 Warriors Winners U 18 Spring Shield Under 18 Warriors Winners U 16 Red Division Under 16 North Winners U 16 White Division Under 16 East Runners- up U 16 Challenge Cup Under 16 North Winners U 14 Challenge Cup Under 14 North Runners-up West Herts Youth League U 15 Junior League Cup Under 15 West Runners -up U 14 Division 4 Under 14 West Runners-up U 13 Division 2 Under13 Central Winners U 12 Green Division Under 12 East Winners Mid Herts Rural Minors League U 11 Indigo Division Cup Under 11 East Winners Hertfordshire Girls Partnership League U 13 Division 1 Under 13 Girls Runners-up U 9 Fair Play U 9 Girls North Winners PLAYERS HONOURS Hertfordshire U 16 Boys Daniel Newton; William Sharp; Cian Sweeney The following players will be receiving plaques to mark their 100 appearances for St Albans City Youth F C Josh Ali; Finlay Banks; William Baynham; Hendrik Bockenhauer; Jack Carmichael; Freddie Collins; Ryan Corcoran; Harvey Connor; Sam Day; Maddy Donaldson; Josh Doyle; Danny Fowler; Joe Galliford; Tomas Geller; Sophie Hegerty; Mariona Horne-Batet; Grainne Kellett; Joe Knee; Shaun Knighton; Jessica Levy; Daniel Ludwig; Rosie McGahan; Sam McKenna; Joe Newton; Matthew Pollard; Joe Parrett; Kit Rainford; Francesca Ralfe; Adam Ransley; Ned Robinson; Chris Salmons; Jessica Simpson; Matthew Stevens; Ollie Wakeling; Max Varney; Sam Waters-Rathjen; Harry Watts; Joe Weaver; Joe Williams; Laurence Williams; Nia Williams; Kwame Youri Awards to mark 200 appearances for St Albans City Youth will be made to Ellis Allen; Sam Cornmell; Taylor Finnegan; Lewis Glasscoe; Chris Hubbard; Charlie Lunnis; Liam Murphy 6 TOP TWENTY All time appearance and goal scoring records. Appearances Goal scorers Jake Deacon 284 Allister Collins 317 Jake Attwood 279 Matthew Hanson 313 David Towndrow 277 Ricky Miller 231 Matthew Hanson 274 Adam Wallace 218 Winston Seidhu 268 Ashraf Choudhury 214 Laurence Anscombe 266 Kevin Coulson 208 Luke Campion 266 Billy Owen 205 Greg Deacon 264 Simon Dean 197 Jamie Heaffey 262 Mark Warriner 196 Nathan Maycock 259 Anthony Gosling 184 Iain Turkentine 259 Phil Turner 180 Harry Deacon 258 Noah Grisenthwaite 175 Dominic Oliver 257 Harry Smith 175 Ben Conrad 256 Yasim Boodhoo 175 Harry Hawkes 256 Andrew Guard 163 Craig McConnell 254 Emily Schofield 161 Allister Collins 253 Danny Bowman 154 Oliver Franks 253 Harvey Scott 154 Adam Luck 253 Luke Thatcher 153 James Montague 253 David Etheridge 153 Girls Top Fifteen All time appearance records. Samantha May 215 Holly Clarke 200 Shauna Smith 196 Nicola Gosling 178 Isabelle Poole 177 Grace Campion 176 Rebecca Dolphin 174 Katie Ladd 171 Mary Leach 171 Sofia Munoz 169 Abigail Kemball-Cooke 158 Romy Kelleher 156 Jessica Hoare 151 Coral C Layton 150 Claire Brown 149 7 A message to all at St Albans City Youth FC from Craig Mackail-Smith I played for both the Midweek Youth and Sunday Team for St Albans City Youth from the age of 14-18 and had a fantastic time. I first played for the St Albans City 1st Team when I was 16 and was involved in some of the matches for 4 years. It didn’t work out for me with the 1st Team so I joined Ryman Division 1 team Arlesey Town where I played a whole season of men’s football and really enjoyed it for the first time. A fond memory of that year was playing Dagenham and Redbridge in the FA Umbro Trophy drawing 3-3. I set up all 3 goals and went on to score 2 in a 4-2 victory in the replay.