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Kayte Lane Bishops Cleeve Glos. GL52 3PD Tel; 01242 676166 Email; [email protected] Website; www.pitchero.com/clubs/bishopscleevefc Affiliated to; County F.A. Members of The Hellenic League Cheltenham Football League Midland Floodlit Youth League

Chairman David Walker Cleeve Colts Managers Vice Chairman Hanif Tai U6 – Jim Wyatt – [email protected] Secretary – Nigel Green U7 – Liam Beames – [email protected] Board Members Hilary Green U8 – Marc Blackford U9 Colts – Kevin Debonis – [email protected] Jon Symonds U9 Rovers – Ian Fletcher – [email protected] U10 Colts – Darly Field – [email protected]

U10 Rovers – Stephen Dolman – Press Officer Matt Jones [email protected] U11 Colts – Andrew Hyatt – [email protected] First Team U11 Rovers – Paul Bignell – [email protected] Manager Stephen Cleal U12Colts – Tony Debonis – [email protected] Asst. Manager Matt Jeynes U12 Rovers – Jason Burge – [email protected] Coach Alex Lumsden U12 United – Louis Averiss – [email protected] Asst Coach Nicki Dubonnis U13 Colts – Andy Moss – [email protected] Physiotherapist Pat Cleal U14 United – Rich Gill – [email protected] U15 Colts – Becky Verhoest – [email protected]

“A” Team Girls Teams Manager James Trigg U10 Colts – Anjie Winter – [email protected] Match Secretary John Hunt U12 Colts – Rob Winter – [email protected]

U12 Rovers – Toby Harris – [email protected] Development Team U14 Colts – Dipak Karadia – [email protected] Manager Chris Gough U16 Colts – Chris Gough – [email protected] Asst. Manager Dan Pulley

Under 18 Youth Manager Richard Gill Asst Manager Jon Symonds Physio

Good afternoon and welcome to all players staff officials and supporters of Tuffley Rovers and welcome back to the lane.

We had many battles with Tuffley during my playing careers and as you would expect there are a few players who have played for both including in our squad today there are 3 or 4 who have played for Tuffley and likewise in their side.

In their manager Pritch they have a natural born winner so he will no doubt be installing that into his troops today so we will have to be a lot better than we were last week if we are to get something out of the game. They have also picked up a couple of creditable results lately so this will be a difficult game.

We have a few missing today which means the squad is a little on the thin side but we have strength in depth so that is the important thing.

We set our standards high and when they drop below we suffer so we need to learn from that and we showed good character to rescue a point from the situation that saw us nearly snatch defeat from the jaws of victory!!

However we have still taken 20/27 points available so that’s not bad going at all but we must look to go on a similar run again if we are to achieve what we want to from this year.

Before I go – I just want to say congratulations to Striker Elliott Kennedy today as he is getting married! And also a welcome back to the lane to a number of former players who are today’s match day sponsors..

Thanks for your support

Enjoy the game

Soots

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BISHOPS CLEEVE FOOTBALL CLUB BRIEF HISTORY

Founded 1905 County Members Gloucestershire Football Association Southern League History 2006 – present day Hellenic League History 1983 – 2006 Principal honours 2011/12 & 2015/16 Glos. Senior Challenge Trophy Runners-Up ===== In their long history Bishops Cleeve have led a much more nomadic existence than many clubs, but have now been settled in the impressive Kayte Lane ground since 1997. For many years the club played on a ground in Stoke Road – with facilities rebuilt and reopened in 1971 by the then secretary of , Ted Croker. The enforced move to Kayte Lane came about due to the old ground being sold by the landlord. The club enjoyed a brief period of success in the late 60s – gaining promotion from the Cheltenham League and winning four Championships in their six seasons in the Glos. Northern Senior League. After dropping back to the Cheltenham League, Cleeve gained promotion into the Hellenic League in 1983, quickly becoming a force in that division, finishing fourth in their first two seasons in Div. One. This great start was followed up with a third place finish, then winning the Championship and gaining promotion to the Premier Division at the fourth attempt, and winning the ‘double’ by adding the Glos. Amateur Cup. A fantastic achievement. The five seasons in the Premier Division proved to be a struggle for the Club, although the team followed up their Cup success by adding another trophy to their collection, winning the Premier Cup at the first attempt. The return to Division One proved the catalyst for a period of rebuilding, on and off the pitch. The Club needed to enter into a number of ground share agreements to preserve their League status – Forest Green Rovers, Moreton Town, Wollen Sports and Highworth all allowed us to use their grounds. This difficult period galvanised our club members, and the club was kept running by the dedicated efforts of a few stalwarts – notably Cheltenham Town legend, Dave Lewis, whose efforts were recognised by Carling Brewery, awarding him their ‘Clubman of the Year’ accolade (and a year’s supply of beer!) After approval for the Kayte Lane site was given in 1997, club members started the building of the clubhouse and changing rooms – using materials kindly donated by Smiths Aerospace (now GE Aviation) There followed a great transformation in the team’s fortunes, and they duly secured another promotion in 2001 back to the Hellenic Premier Division. In order to take this opportunity the club entered into another ground share at Evesham United! 2003 & 2004 proved to be a landmark period for the club – returning to ‘The Lane’ after the new Stand and floodlights were approved, achieving FA Charter Standard for Football in the Community, and the completion of the building and facilities. In 2006 the team gained promotion to the Sothern League, joining the Midland Division before being moved to the South & West Division a few seasons later, where the club currently reside. The club has enjoyed mixed fortunes in their Southern League time, generally enjoying mid-table security, with the highlight being season 2011/12 when the club finished with their best ever points haul (in a creditable 11th) and reached the Gloucestershire Senior Cup final, played at Bristol City’s Ashton Gate ground, where we unfortunately succumbed to a Bristol City side featuring two Full Welsh Internationals! With the departure of to County rivals Shortwood United, the ex-Cheltenham Town professional John Brough took the helm but left towards the end of the season to join Cinderford Town.

2013/14 saw local lad Stephen Cleal take charge with Derek Lightstone, as his assistant, both had a long history with the club and they forged a close link with our Second and Third teams – as well a community tie to Bishops Cleeve Colts Youth section – the future of the club seemed much more secure on and off the field of play. After surviving relegation in their first season they put together a competitive team finishing 12th in the league and losing 1-0 to Forest Green Rovers in the County FA Senior Cup. 2016/17 saw another first for Steve winning the club’s first FA Trophy game. 2017/18 saw the arrival of Matt Jeynes to the management team another who had played for the club in recent years and they later joined by Alex Lumsden Unfortunately a number of players left the club and the season didn’t get off to a good start. The team did rally towards the latter part of the Season but were relegated after losing the last game. So after 12 years we now look for a speedy return to Step 4 of the NLS.

BBiisshhooppss CClleeeevvee FF..CC.. 22001188--1199 Lewis Clayton – Goalkeeper Former Cheltenham Town Scholar and local lad, signed for the Mitres this season having appeared last season on loan.

Ryan New – Defender Former Cheltenham Town scholar who appeared for North Leigh on loan last season. A local lad and a solid defender who can play in midfield.

Adam Mace – Defender “Macey” returns to the Club after a number of years away where he played a big part at Slimbridge AFC. Excellent set piece quality and an eye for goal. Aaron Drake – Defender Missed all of last season due to injury. Drakey brings a wealth of experience to the club; former clubs include Stourbridge and Evesham United. He can operate in a number positions but at his best in defence. Liam Wright – Defender Signed this season from Tuffley Rovers, the former Forest Green Rovers Academy player is a strong attacking full back with a few tricks to boot.

Ben Tunnicliff – Defender “Tunni” signed midway through last season from Tuffley and proved a valuable asset in the Centre-back area. A tough tackling no nonsense defender

Jordan Staten – Defender “Stats” is a former England Schoolboys International who remains with the Mitres despite relegation – an old head on young shoulder with the grit to match.

Harrison Iddles – Midfield “H” is now in his second season with the Mitres. Works like no other and has the ability to get around the park and dictate play.

Ashley Davies – Midfield “Ash” signed this season following spells at Shortwood United, Cinderford Town and Tuffley Rovers, an experienced hardworking midfielder who is good on the ball.

Lee Llewellyn – Midfield A neat and tidy footballer who was captain of Cheltenham Town’s Under 18’s , he spent a short time on loan down the Lane last season.

Edward Ward – Midfeild “Freddie” returns to the club from Fairford Town. Vastly experienced midfielder who has played and managed at Southern League level for many seasons

Mike Ford – Midfield “Fordy” is now in his second season with the Mitres. A hard working midfielder who can read the game well. He can also play at full-back.

Brad Martin – Attacker Proven goal scorer at this level and good all-round centre forward. Signed from Longlevens and has also appeared in the Southern League for Slimbridge

Ieuan Crowe – Attacker A strong, quick and powerful forward who joined the Mitres i 2016 and stayed with us despite interest from Southern League clubs.

Elliot Kennedy – Attacker A product of the Youth team Elliot is an energetic pacey winger who has quick feet and knows where the goal is.

Jack Watts – Attacker “Wattsy” is now in his 4th season the club, the quick winger will be looking to recapture his goal scoring form and fire the club to success this season.

Ben Hailwood – Attacker A local lad who has pace to burn – former Cheltenham Town Scholar who is trying to kick start his career.

Joe Bates – Attacker “Batesy” returns to the club after a short time at Worcester City. Last season’s leading scorer and is a man who has a brilliant technique. Tom Hall – Attacker Another Bishops Cleeve local lad who was released by Cheltenham Town, he has good feet and vision

Tuffley Rovers • Club History

Founded by the late Donald E Hall 1929, the club’s Headquarters were in a former railway carriage, which served as Mr Hall’s Boot and Shoe repair shop on the Stroud Road at Tuffley in the City of Gloucester. The Club started its playing life in the North Gloucestershire League, before a move across to the Stroud & District League, which eventually led to promotion to the Gloucestershire Northern Senior League. Securing the Champions title in 1987/88 meant Rovers gained promotion to the Gloucestershire County League for the first time. After two seasons of consolidation the Club won the County League Title in 1990/1991, their application to join the Hellenic League was successful and they were accepted into Hellenic Division One. Progress continued, as in 1992/1993 Rovers completed a League/Cup Double. After that promotion the club regularly finished in the top half of the Premier Division of the Hellenic League, and in 1998/1999 Rovers won the Norman Matthew's Floodlit Cup, defeating Carterton Town in the final.

The Club continued to thrive in the Hellenic League and managed to win the Floodlit Cup again in the 2002/2003 season, defeating Brackley Town over two legs in the final. However, the ever changing ground grading requirements, if the club was to remain in the Hellenic League, and the financial strain these improvements imposed on the club, forced Tuffley Rovers to make the decision to withdraw from the Hellenic League in 2005 and settle for local football in Gloucestershire, returning to the Gloucestershire Northern Senior League.

After a difficult start Rovers were crowned champions of Division Two of the Northern Senior League in the 2005/2006 season and were promoted to Division One. After a slow start the team put together a consistent run and managed to claim the league title, as well as win the GFA Senior Amateur Cup and reach the final of the Reg Davis Memorial League Cup. A return to the Gloucestershire County League followed and the club finished a very creditable 4th place (2007/8) but the summer of 2008 saw a number of senior players retire. Over the next few years, the side secured several top six finishes, before the 2012/13 season marked a significant improvement for the club. After challenging for league championship honours all season, the club couldn't quite maintain the form to secure the title, ultimately finishing second. However, this was enough to gain promotion to the Hellenic League Division One (West) for the 2013/14 season.

On their return to the Hellenic League, The Rovers saw a season that witnessed some turmoil – including the departure of manager, Doug Foxwell – to record a decent sixth place finish and some good cup results. Warren Evans came in as manager in 2014 securing a Runners-up spot which was enough to see the club promoted back into the Hellenic League Premier Division, ten years after withdrawing from the division. Evans departed after a difficult first season in the Premier Division and the club only avoided relegation on administrative grounds. Current Manager, Mark Pritchett, was appointed in June 2016, he took the club to a secure 10th place finish and an appearance in the Supplementary Cup Final. A second successive 10th place finished followed in 2017/18.

By Hugo Varley

Are Hashtag United leading a new era in football? The arrival of Hashtag United in Step Six this season has potentially heralded the start of a footballing revolution. The North London club, who are in their inaugural season in Non-League, were founded by Youtube blogger Spencer Owen and boast a social media following which rivals many of the top teams around the globe. With over 400,000 subscribers on Youtube, more than European giants Tottenham Hotspur, Atletico Madrid and Inter Milan, Hashtag are promoting a unique way of following a football team. The club post regular behind the scenes clips onto social media throughout the week, while each match is documented through a stylish video, featuring highlights, footage from inside the changing rooms and interviews with players and coaches. When it comes to the footballing side of things, the team have also shown that they are anything but a group of fame hungry prima donnas. Managed by former East Thurrock boss Jay Devereux, Hashtag have spent much of the season near the top of the Thurlow Nunn Division One South table and are targeting an instant promotion this summer. There is no doubt that the club divides opinion within the footballing community and in many respects they represent a far cry from the humble traditions of Non-League. However, ultimately if Hashtag are inspiring people on the other side of the world to wake up in the middle of the night and follow the Thurlow Nunn league, then we believe their presence in the pyramid provides a brilliant exposure for British Non-League football! Silly season is fast approaching…. As the nights begin to rapidly draw in and the thermostat readings start to plummet, we are quickly entering a period of the campaign that is often loathed by supporters and groundsmen alike. Waterlogged and frozen pitches will likely become an ever increasing phenomenon over the next few weeks as fixtures begin to fall foul of the weather, leaving players and fans kicking their heels on Saturday afternoons. These postponements are certainly a nuisance, especially for sides who are beginning to string together a few good results and will lead to the typical fixture backlog in the spring, where players often bust a gut to play several times each week. However, it is at this time of year that we should think about the volunteers who put in countless hours of work at clubs across the entire Non-League pyramid. It is these volunteers who often help out with the thankless task of battling against the miserable weather conditions as well as the odds to try and ensure that fixtures are fulfilled as the winter months begin to bite. As always, all Non-League fans owe a huge amount of gratitude to these spirited individuals! ENDS

Friday night lights: why non-League crowds rise when they kick off weekend

Non-League clubs are increasingly reaping the benefits of switching fixtures to Friday evenings, with bumper crowds and big match atmospheres

The much-heralded launch of Friday Night Football in Sky Sports’ schedule two years ago appears to have been for the most part quietly cast aside. Of the ten slots available each season, just five were taken up in 2016- 17 and six in 2017-18, amid suggestions of poor ratings and the difficulty of fitting such games in around other competitions. This season, only two Friday games will have been played by the end of November. In non-League, however, Friday night matches are increasingly becoming an attractive choice. In 2015-16 the Eastern Counties League (ECL), home to clubs from Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex and eastern areas of Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire and London, commenced what they called an “experiment”, with 42 matches that season played on Fridays across the league’s step five and six divisions. Attendances increased by an average of more than 40 per cent against the rest of the programme that season, and continued success in subsequent years indicates the novelty is yet to wear off. Felixstowe & Walton United set a new attendance record of 623 on a Friday night in 2017-18, a campaign in which their home average for league games on a Saturday at 3pm was 360, while some ECL clubs have extended the league’s experiment to cup games; another club record gate was set when 654 watched near neighbours Haverhill Borough and Haverhill Rovers meet in the second qualifying round of the 2016-17 FA Vase. Across the country, the North West Counties Football League (NWCFL) has also embraced the idea. The league has simplified the process through which the date of a game can be changed, giving clubs the freedom to negotiate what have often become reciprocal Friday night arrangements with the opposition and putting an end to what was, according to NWCFL development officer Gary Langley, “a misconception that Saturday 3pm kick-offs are sacred and have to be stuck to”. Acknowledging the challenges of a large catchment area that encompasses Lancashire, Greater Manchester and Merseyside, their hope is that such schedule variations might encourage fans of the region’s professional teams to couple their regular attendance with a trip to their more “local” side in the same weekend, and to subsequently consider them as a destination for future free Saturdays, or even as a volunteering opportunity. With the ability to position themselves as a more “authentic” alternative, some NWCFL clubs have extended their range of concessionary discounts to include Premier League and Football League season ticket holders. As in East Anglia, the average attendance increase for Friday night matches in the NWCFL has been in the region of 40 per cent. Local circumstances and canny marketing, turning a game into an event, can see the advantages of Friday football amplified beyond the turnstiles. While step five Squires Gate’s effort saw a comparatively modest attendance increase of around a quarter, their takings over the bar doubled. “People were starting their Blackpool Friday night out at the football, taking advantage of non-inflated drinks prices and going off from there,” notes Langley. Often it is the more local fixtures that are switched, reducing the demands of travel for players and fans on a working day but also encouraging strong away support and a big match atmosphere. Both NWCFL fixtures between West Didsbury & Chorlton and Irlam, seven miles apart, took place on Friday evenings last season, as did the derbies between Witham Town and Heybridge Swifts, which drew crowds of 407 and 239 respectively and have already been similarly scheduled for this season. The idea appears to be gaining traction higher up the pyramid, with York City manager Martin Gray recently quoted in the York Press regarding his hopes for Friday fixtures at the club’s new stadium, set to open in 2019-20. “It’s just a different atmosphere and seems better… you’d have everybody coming in looking forward to the weekend and I think it would be brilliant. We’d probably also get a lot of floating fans, maybe 200 or 300, who might watch their football somewhere else on a Saturday.” Of course “floating fans” should not be any club’s priority, and evening games can be prohibitive to the attendance of many, not least children. Saturday at 3pm unequivocally remains the optimal slot for football. But the turnstile clicks suggest that the occasional schedule shake-up could be an advantageous tactic in that complex art of encouraging people over the non-League threshold. Ffion Thomas

Programmes have become bloated and outdated – it's time to change or go When the Football League suggested scraping the rules that make programmes mandatory to produce they proved uproar, but the modern "matchday magazine" is an unrecognisable beast

30 July ~ There was a frisson of horror among traditionalists last month when the media speculated on the forthcoming demise of the matchday programme. In fact, all that happened was a suggestion by the Football League that they amend their rules to allow a club not to produce a programme. The obligation exists to provide a vehicle to carry centralised advertising content. If the change happens the official programme thus becomes optional, which may suit a few clubs where it has become seriously uneconomic.

It’s a far cry from 50 years ago when the League trumpeted the record sales of programmes in its weekly Football League Review, itself a factor in the growth. In 1968 it was reckoned half a million programmes were sold every Saturday and at best (at QPR) 90 per cent of spectators bought a copy. Now many clubs would love to reach a quarter of that figure. The 1960s saw clubs at last make an effort to engage with supporters through better photography and design, more personal player features, greater use of stats and a more informal tone. In 1968 80 of the 92 League clubs (plus a few in Scotland) carried the Football League Review as an insert in their programmes. The Review was an effectively free 20-page full-colour magazine packed with facts, opinion, reader contributions and photos of teams and players great and small; York City were treated with as much reverence as Manchester United.

A substantial mail order industry grew up to recycle bulk programmes while supporters’ club shops and the League itself got in on the act. The Programme Exchange Centre was set up by the League to circulate programmes at face value but some fans could do even better simply by writing to clubs themselves and asking for free stuff, enclosing the necessary stamped-addressed envelope. The quality, or quantity, of clubs’ responses sometimes determined lifelong affections that persist today. For young fans other clubs’ programmes were curiously fascinating and often belied the status of the club: top of the tree Leeds United’s was terrible, Second Division Hull City’s was great. They offered insight into how progressive or positive or simply different life was elsewhere. It was ground-hopping without leaving your hallway for thousands of young British teenagers. It was cheap too, with pre-decimal cover prices in 1968 at the equivalent of 4p or 5p – roughly 50-60p today. Programmes now cost five times as much in real terms. Collecting all those programmes made me the kind of football fan I am today and, to my family’s regret, I’ve still got most of them and still add, almost involuntarily, to my collection of “homes” on a match-by- match basis. But a few years ago I stopped buying “aways” at matches I attended and therein lies a clue to the demise of the whole shebang.

I’ve lost the taste and I haven’t got the space. And I’m not alone. As the heritage officer of a supporters’ trust I can see the tidal wave of redundant programme collections coming our way. Too sentimentally precious to put in a skip and too weighty to bring back unsold from a car boot sale, where does a burdened older fan turn? This season the Trust has taken in half a dozen large collections and we’ve finally, after a decade’s delay, had to sort out our programme store. Just dragging the crates out took over half an hour. There was a rawness about the physical bulk of it all – and a futility too, about the excess of modern matchday magazines. Boxes of 50 “aways” chucked in the team kit skip, chucked out again back in Reading and hidden uselessly in a dark place for a decade. Fifty Notts County away 1999, what am I bid? Cover price for the lot £75, it’d be impossible to get 75p now. Likewise slabs of dismal third-tier “homes” all shiny, untouched, unopened – and unwanted now. Some celebration games, and you needed to know your club history to spot them, we fished out and saved in the hope that over the next 50 years there might be 50 happy buyers for them.

More interesting were the collections donated by individuals, some thrust carelessly into split plastic bags, others properly ordered and curated by season and date. Occasional rarities popped up: we haven’t played Carlisle for about 35 years but here was one. By contrast there’s a Bristol City programme that positively haunted us, appearing in every pile and in bulk too. Inevitably every so often a programme in your hand jabbed a shard of memory alive; broke down on the M40 on my way to this, that one was abandoned, played football on the beach before that. The collectors among us are stunned by the size of the cull. We must have chucked away 5,000 programmes, with tinges of regret and guilt. It’s a mass grave for all those lost afternoons. But they’d be even more lost without a programme to remind you.

For me programmes went awry sometime in the early to mid 1990s when design, production and colour printing became relatively cheap and easy. From this glut of advantages programmes soon became matchday magazines: too glossy, too bulky, too self-conscious and ultimately too expensive and too alienating for the majority. Twenty-five years on the reasons for today’s sales crisis are many and obvious. Before kick-off now fans are drinking, eating or parking rather than waiting on terraces and reading. Free digital content rather than paid-for print is the medium of choice for the younger fan. Programmes contain very little that is both exclusive and interesting.

There is a need for every programme to nod ingratiatingly to every stakeholder, of which modern football has so, so many, and offend none. The overall effect is a bloated, corporate blandness that flops in a much more competitive and independent media environment. Just as in stamp-collecting, when the producers made their purpose too commercially obvious the nerds went elsewhere. For football collectors now it’s teamsheets and ticket stubs as the important physical proof of having attended a match. Will the football programme die? In some places as a matchday magazine, yes. But, just as at the end of the 19th century, there will always be a teamsheet. Even if it’s digital.

Roger Titford

Uhlsport Premier Division

Sat 4th Aug Ascot United H 3.00 Tue 7th Aug Brimscombe & Thrupp A 7.45 Sat 11th Aug Stotfold H 3.00 FA Cup Extra Preliminary Tue 14th Aug Royal Wootton Bassett H 7.45 Sat 18th Aug Wantage Town A 3.00 Tue 21st Aug Brimscombe & Thrupp H 7.45 Sat 25th Aug North Greenford United H 3.00 FA Cup Preliminary Mon 27th Aug Longlevens AFC A 3.00 Sat 8th Sept Wantage Town H 3.00 FA Cup Sat 15th Sept Bitton A 3.00 FA Vase Sat 22nd Sept Windsor H 3.00 Sat 29th Sept Brackley Town Saints H 3.00 Bluefin Sports Challenge Cup Sat 6th Oct Binfield A 3.00 Tue 9th Oct Lydney Town A 7.45 GFA Challenge Trophy Sat 13th Oct Ardley United H 3.00 Sat 20th Oct Kidlington Development H 3.00 Bluefin Sports Challenge Cup Sat 27th Oct Holmer Green A 3.00 Tue 30th Oct Lydney Town A 7.45 Sat 3rd Nov Virginia Water H 3.00 Sat 10th Nov Shrivenham A 3.00 Sat 17th Nov Fairford Town H 3.00 Tue 20th Nov Royal Wootton Bassett Town A 7.45 Sat 24th Nov Tuffley Rovers H 3.00 Tue 27th Nov Oldland Abbottonians H 7.45 GFA Challenge Trophy 3rd Rd Sat 1st Dec Clanfield’85 H 3.00 Bluefin Sports Challenge Cup Sat 8th Dec Brackley Town Saints H 3.00 Sat 15th Dec Ascot United A 3.00 Sat 22nd Dec Wantage Town H 3.00 Wed 26th Dec Longlevens AFC H 1.00 Sat 29th Dec Reading City A 3.00 Sat 5th Jan Windsor A 3.00 Sat 12th Jan Abingdon United A 3.00 Sat 19th Jan Binfield H 3.00 Sat 26th Jan Ardley United A 3.00 Sat 2nd Feb Holmer Green H 3.00 Sat 9th Feb Virginia Water A 3.00 Sat 16th Feb Shrivenham H 3.00 Sat 23rd Feb Fairford Town A 3.00 Sat 2nd Mar Tuffley Rovers A 3.00 Sat 9th Mar Flackwell Heath H 3.00 Sat 16th Mar Brackley Town Saints A 3.00 Tue 19th Mar Lydney Town H 7.45 Sat 23rd Mar Abingdon United H 3.00 Sat 6th Apr Reading City H 3.00 Sat 13th Apr Flackwell Heath A 3.00

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POS P W D L F A W D L F A W D L F A GD PTS

1 Brackley Town Saints 18 6 1 1 22 9 7 1 2 21 12 13 2 3 43 21 22 41

2 Brimscombe & Thrupp 18 5 1 2 22 15 7 1 2 23 15 12 2 4 45 30 15 38

3 Ascot United 19 5 3 1 22 8 4 3 3 21 16 9 6 4 43 24 19 33

4 Royal Wootton Bassett Town 21 9 1 2 29 18 1 2 6 17 25 10 3 8 46 43 3 33

5 Wantage Town 14 5 1 1 21 9 3 2 2 12 8 8 3 3 33 17 16 27

6 Bishops Cleeve 15 3 2 2 15 12 5 1 2 21 9 8 3 4 36 21 15 27

7 Flackwell Heath 18 3 5 2 11 7 4 1 3 14 13 7 6 5 25 20 5 27

8 Lydney Town 18 5 3 4 17 20 2 1 3 14 17 7 4 7 31 37 -6 25

9 Holmer Green 20 7 0 4 21 16 1 1 7 2 24 8 1 11 23 40 -17 25

10 Windsor 15 3 1 1 13 7 4 2 4 17 14 7 3 5 30 21 9 24

11 Fairford Town 18 3 2 6 20 21 4 0 3 16 15 7 2 9 36 36 0 23

12 Ardley United 20 5 0 4 20 19 2 2 7 18 29 7 2 11 38 48 -10 23

13 Reading City 15 3 0 3 13 14 4 0 5 19 23 7 0 8 32 37 -5 21

14 Binfield 12 4 0 2 12 9 2 2 2 11 10 6 2 4 23 19 4 20

15 Virginia Water 17 2 1 3 10 11 3 4 4 14 18 5 5 7 24 29 -5 20

16 Shrivenham 18 1 3 7 15 28 3 0 4 10 17 4 3 11 25 45 -20 15

17 Tuffley Rovers 17 1 2 5 15 19 2 2 5 11 21 3 4 10 26 40 -14 13

18 Abingdon United 16 0 1 6 7 18 3 2 4 11 17 3 3 10 18 35 -17 12

19 Longlevens 15 2 1 6 9 18 1 1 4 6 11 3 2 10 15 29 -14

BBiisshhooppss CClleeeevvee TTuufffflleeyy RRoovveerrss Lewis Clayton 1 Luke Merchant Liam Wright 2 Brad Loveridge Adam Mace 3 Harry Walker Ash Davies 4 Mark Pritchett Ryan New 5 Macauley Herbert Jordan Staten © 6 Joel White © Harrison Iddles 7 Dominik Kent Michael Ford 8 Kieran Alder Kevin Slack 9 Lee Smith Brad Martin 10 Jack Phillips Jack Watts 11 Henry Birkett Aaron Drake 12 Brett James Ben Tunnicliff 14 Paul Carter Luke Tripconey 15 Ryan Dobbins Lee Llewellyn 16 Sam Hill Tom Hall 17 Liam Gale

Referee N. Templey – Witney

Assistant Referee S. Jacques – Gloucester

Assistant Referee N. Waite – Gloucester