OFFICIAL HARTLEY WINTNEY FC MATCHDAY PROGRAMME: £2 the rowhartleyfc.com v HARROW BOROUGH | PITCHING IN SOUTHERN PREMIER SOUTH TUESDAY 17th AUGUST 2021 | KICK OFF 7:30PM HARTLEY WINTNEY FC CLUB HISTORY 2 Hartley Wintney v Harrow Borough PROUD HAMPSHIRE CLUB SINCE 1897 Hartley Wintney v Harrow Borough 3 HARTLEY WINTNEY FC CLUB HISTORY AFFILIATED TO THE HAMPSHIRE FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION. 4 Hartley Wintney v Harrow Borough CLUB OFFICIALS 2021 -2022 PRESIDENT TREASURER Vacant Colin Charlton VICE PRESIDENT SECRETARY Nick Vint Phil Blakey, Elayne Duddridge CHAIRMAN MATCH SECRETARY Luke Mullen Gerry Wykes VICE CHAIRMAN SUBURBAN LEAGUE SECRETARY Steve Noakes David Ray HON. LIFE VICE PRESIDENTS UNDER 18s SECRETARY Dennis Burgess, David Willoughby, Phil Blakey Paddy White, Luke Mullen, Brian BAR CHAIRMAN Barnard, Gerry Wykes Paddy White VICE PRESIDENTS MEMBERSHIP SECRETARY Derek Ames, Len Ashby, Ian Bedford, Peter Auchterlonie Ann Bradley, Mick Bradley, Mick Clarke, COMMITTEE Lisa Collins, James Cooke, Neil Doody, Peter Auchterlonie Elayne Duddridge, Paula Flanders, Ray Boorman Andrew Harris, Frank Kenton, David Ann Bradley Lenthal, Margaret Lewington, Bob Brendan Devlin Major, Mark Porter, Mike Roberts, Janet Nick Elkington Richardson, Niall Scott, Linda Scott, Josie Jeremy Fox Shipman, Ray Shipman, Andy Spiers, Malcolm White Chris Stanley, Roy Stimpson, Trudy SOCIAL COMMITTEE Stimpson, Roger Taplin, Nick Vint Tracy Collier, Samantha Vallance FIRST TEAM MANAGER SPORTS THERAPIST Anthony Millerick Yasser Adnan FIRST TEAM ASSISTANT MANAGER U23 DEVELOPMENT TEAM MANAGERS Steve Noakes Andy Hunt FIRST TEAM COACHES Ross Weatherstone Neil Woodyer U18 YOUTH TEAM MANAGERS Mark Hurst Dan Ryan Keith Benjamin Steve Bates Ty Newton U18 YOUTH TEAM COACH FIRST TEAM ANALYST Nick Meads Nick Meads MATCH DAY OFFICERS CLUB PHOTOGRAPHER Ray Boorman Josie Shipman Phil Blakey SOCIAL MEDIA PRESS OFFICER & WEB ADMIN Luke Mullen Kevin O ’Byrne Tyler House MATCH DAY PROGRAMME GROUNDSMAN Hartley WintneyTyler F.C. House Tony King Hartley Wintney v Harrow Borough 5 WELCOME TO HARTLEY WINTNEY FC ood evening Ladies and Jacques. We had the chances to have Gentlemen and welcome to the won the game, but I suppose using the GMemorial Ground. It is good to old football parlance that you ’d have have competitive football back and to settled for a point before the game had have spectators in the ground again. you been offered it, then a point on the We hope you all enjoy your visit here road is not a bad return. this evening and enjoy the game in the spirit of camaraderie that non -league The Under 23 Development side kicked football engenders. off their season on Saturday when they suffered a 3 -nil reversal at home to Tonight ’s Pitching In Southern League Maidstone United Development. This Premier South Division fixture pits us Saturday, they make the trip to against Harrow Borough. To their Eastbourne Borough. players, officials, and supporters we extend a warm welcome and hope you Now that our squad is coming together, enjoy your short stay with us this we will be asking for any kind souls who evening. are so inclined to sponsor a player or a member of the management team. We also extend a warm welcome to tonight ’s match officials, Messrs Adult player sponsorships are just £70 Ellsmore, Ovens and Peter. for the season and they are first come, first served. Our new junior/youth A bit about our opponents sponsorships allow anyone 16 years old or younger to sponsor any player in the Full Name: Harrow Borough senior Hartley Wintney squad (First Football Club Team or U23 Development side) for just £15 for the season. A player can have Nickname(s): Boro ’, The Reds more than one junior/youth sponsor, but each sponsor will get an individual Founded: 1933 photo taken of them with their chosen player. Ground: Earlsmead Stadium, South Harrow I hope you all enjoy the game this evening. Please get behind the team Chairman: Peter Rogers and as usual, thank you for your support. Manager: Steve Baker L-@[ The Boro ’ started the season with a home defeat, losing 2 -1 to Yate Town. Doubtless they will be looking to turn #UTR things around this evening. P.S. if you enjoy your day with us, why Our season began with the long trip to not boost the gate and bring a mate to Merthyr Town where we secured a point the next home fixture? Our future thanks to goals from Kings and depends on your support. 6 Hartley Wintney v Harrow Borough Hartley Wintney F.C. Official Home & Away Shirt Sponsor 2021/22 photo: Josie Shipman BOSS Professional Services, with offices in Kennington Park, London, are a market leading ERP consulting and recruitment business that specialise in the sourcing of high level permanent and contract resources into the SAP, Dynamics and Oracle space. 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Invitational Cup matches For us, if we mirror our last two played here, performances, adjusting and tweaking there is a no a few details, we will put ourselves in substitute for a good stead to be competitive in every competitive game. league game under the It will be a tough league this year, at lights! least until Christmas whilst everyone is throwing money at it, so it ’s important photo: Mark Sandom It ’s great to be we maximise every potential gain - back and using our home advantage in games is hopefully we can put on a performance surely one of them. worthy of the occasion. I ’m excited to be back, as are the players! Enjoy the game and see you in the bar after. All things considered, Saturday was largely positive, although there is no UTR doubt amongst the squad that we should have taken all 3 points. M A9r We posed a constant threat in both open play and set pieces all afternoon and only a combination of good goalkeeping, poor finishing and bad luck kept us at bay. I feel if we had gone two goals to the good at any time, we would have gone on to win by a number of goals. Merthyr were spirited, spurred on by a bumper crowd, so for us to be disappointed in the immediate 8 Hartley Wintney v Harrow Borough TONIGHT ’S OPPOSITION arrow Borough have played in club spent their first season in the the Pitching In Southern League Harrow & District League, playing their HPremier South since the home games at a ground on Northolt 2018/19 season, joining the division in Road. Upon finishing runners -up in the same season that Hartley did. Division 1, they were accepted into the Spartan League, which coincided with While the Row had won promotion from the move to their present ground, Step 4, Boro ’ were one of four clubs, Earlsmead. the others being Hendon, Metropolitan Police and Staines Town, that were Following World War II and having transferred from the Isthmian League been re -named Harrow Town, the club Premier ahead of that season. played in the Spartan League until 1958, when finishing as runners -up Harrow had never previously been a enabled the club to join the Delphian member of the Southern League and League. When the league was had spent the previous four decades as disbanded five years later, the club an Isthmian League club. joined Division 2 of the Athenian League. Our first meeting was played at Earlsmead in October 2018 and ended In 1967, the club changed its name to in a 2 -2 draw, while the reverse fixture Harrow Borough, and after it seemed the following March ended in a 3 -0 win that the club might withdraw from for Hartley. Both sides finished the senior football, only the efforts of a few season on 63 points, with Harrow in 7th hardy individuals kept the club alive. and Hartley in 8th. Negotiations with the local council saw the club sell its second pitch, now the The two subsequent seasons, which site of a school, and build a new were both ended prematurely as a clubhouse, floodlights and terracing. result of the coronavirus pandemic, saw the sides play each other just twice Upon completion, the club was elected more. We played out a 1 -1 draw at the into the Isthmian League in 1975, Memorial Ground exactly two years playing in Division 2, Division 1 and ago today, then Hartley ran out 4 -1 then the Premier Division from 1979 winners at Earlsmead in January 2020. onwards. Like Hartley, tonight ’s opponents have The club enjoyed much success in the had the same manager throughout the 1980’ s, winning the Isthmian League duration of their spell in the Southern Premier, finishing as semi -finalists in Premier, with current boss Steve Baker the FA Trophy and winning the taking charge in January 2015. Middlesex Senior Cup. Club History: Roxonian FC was Harrow also reached the FA Cup First founded in the summer of 1933.