IT STARTS HERE SEASON OPENER AT CLARENCE PARK SET TO SHINE SATURDAY 3RD AUGUST 2019 I 3.00PM KICK OFF I V CHIPPENHAM TOWN I NATIONAL LEAGUE SOUTH OFFICIAL MATCHDAY PROGRAMME OF ST ALBANS CITY FOOTBALL CLUB £2.50 DIRECTORS Lawrence Levy, John McGowan, ASSOCIATE DIRECTORS WELCOME Rex Winn & GeoV Brown CLUB SECRETARY Leigh Page PRESIDENT Malcolm Macmillan AMBASSADOR Clive Walters MATCH SECRETARY Nick Crowther COMMERCIAL DIRECTOR Felix Treanor STADIUM MANAGER Leigh Page MANAGER Ian Allinson GOOD AFTERNOON AND WELCOME TO CLARENCE PARK FOR THE KIT MANAGERS: FIRST GAME OF THE NATIONAL LEAGUE SOUTH AGAINST John Feneley & Graham Allinson CHIPPENHAM TOWN FOR WHAT IS THE 40TH SEASON OF THE MEDIA TEAM NATIONAL LEAGUE. Lee Wood, Jake Ellacott, Ian Hall & Michael Hill STADIUM ANNOUNCERS: A warm welcome to the Directors and officials of Chippenham, and Jonny Seabrook & Danny Smith wish Mark Collier his staff and the players all the best for next season in the National, and hope that you have a safe journey home back to SUPPORTERS TRUST REPRESENTATIVE Wiltshire. This is the first time we have played Chippenham since Zane Ian Rogers Banton suffered a broken leg, it is good to see Zane on the road to COMMUNITY MANAGER recovery as should be available for selection in the next 4 to 6 weeks if all Phill Coates goes well. I would like to thank the medical team and Chippenham for CLUB HISTORIANS all the support they gave Zane on the day. You can read more about David Tavener & Peter Taylor Zane’s story in an exclusive interview in today’s programme. OWNERSHIP The legal name of St Albans City Football Club For those of you that are member we will soon be running our first draw is St Albans City Football & Athletic Club Ltd, for pairs of EFL tickets in September curtiousy of Mitre, it is not to late to Company No 01922742. join the membership scheme just visit our website and click on the The ultimate owners are Lawrence Levy tickets tab and go to membership. The benefits include, Promotional and John McGowan. offers in the club shop and bar, 10% discounts in the club shop, 50% discount on Football Manager 19 [upon release,\ Priority orders and 10% PROGRAMME DESIGNED BY Ember Designs discount for the new away kit and invite to a launch event, free entry to [email protected] a brand new Saints’ fantasy football league [with prizes\, match day 07879 496 220 admission discounts, access to exclusive interviews with the manager and players throughout the season, 30% discount on our ‘Player Sponsorship’ packages along with a 20% discount on Mascot packages, Quarterly draws for an evening with the manager, Exclusive draws throughout the season to win tickets to EFL games courtesy of Mitre, Free admission to all St Albans City academy and Watford U23’s games at Clarence Park along with a Personalised Membership card. Our player sponsorship packages are know available, if you would like to sponsor your favourite player pop into the shop today for details. Enjoy todays game Leigh Page St Albans City Football Club Page Three PROUD TO BE SUPPORTING THE SAINTS FOR THE 2018/19 SEASON OFFICE 01923 853855 MOBILE 07801 265321 EMAIL [email protected] WWW.CONKERNATION.CO.UK LAWRENCE LEVY BOARDROOM GOOD AFTERNOON AND WELCOME TO CLARENCE PARK FOR THE START OF THE 2019/20 SEASON. Today’s opponents are We recently announced the new tickets for EFL fixtures, courtesy of Chippenham Town FC and we relationship with Watford FC our partnership with Mitre. extend a warm welcome to the where we’ll host a number of U23 players, officials and supporters for fixtures at Clarence Park On the pitch, we have added a this National League South fixture. throughout the season. number of players to our squad and I, for one, look forward to The closed season has been busy It’ll be great to see a number of seeing the team in a competitive at the club. I am pleased to tomorrow's premiership stars environment after having a solid formally welcome Ian to his fullZ playing in St Albans and I’m preZseason. time role at the club. particularly excited about the emerging relationship between Enjoy the game today and I wish We had a number of discussions the two clubs. Ian and the lads a successful over many months concerning season. the club's vision for the short and We have also announced our new medium terms, both on and off membership scheme. The benefits COYS! the field, and I feel that this vision include free entrance to the and our way of working matched Watford U23 games, as well as Lawrence Levy Ian’s own ideas perfectly. members having access to free v BARNET MATCH ACTION IMAGES FROM OUR 1-0 WIN OVER BARNET HERE AT CLARENCE PARK LAST WEEKEND. Photos courtesy of Danielle Machin daniellemachinphotography.com St Albans City Football Club Page Five IAN ALLINSON MANAGER A very warm welcome back to I’m not going to stick my neck out Clarence Park for our opening and make any predictions. We’ve fixture of this new 2019/20 fallen short of the playZoffs from National League South season. challenging positions for a couple of years now, so our primary aims It’s always good to get underway at have to be to make a decent start, to home, but we’re aware that our get into ` and stay in ` the play off opponents today will be as mix, and then keep the challenge determined as we are to get off to a going when we get to the sharp end winning start, and will provide stiff of the season and the pressure is on. opposition. We’ll need to build on what I feel was a positive and Getting the likes of David Noble and constructive preZseason if we’re to Scott Shulton back into contention start with a victory here this has been like making a couple of afternoon, but confidence is high, new signings after losing them at and we feel that we are ready for the end of last year, and I think our what the division has to throw at us. style of play has already benefitted as a result of their influences. We It’s always a tough first month, with have Zane ready to get back the games coming thick and fast. involved as well, and have already We’ve taken that into consideration shown that we can be more of a in maintaining a slightly larger threat down the flanks this season, squad than we’ll perhaps be so the signs are promising. It’s now carrying through most of the up to the lads to deliver when it campaign, once we’re back to a matters. game a week or so. We all know how difficult and challenging it can Today we’re without Tom Bender, be to bounce back from a poor start, who’s out suspended, and Joe so it seemed prudent to make sure Howe, who had prior commitments we had sufficient cover across the that were made clear to us when positions to carry us through this we signed him. Scott has also picked initial twoZgamesZaZweek period, up a niggling injury and we’ll be and to keep as many options open assessing him ahead of picking the as possible as we look to get those side for today’s game. Otherwise we early points on the board. have a strong squad to select from this afternoon. I thought that we had a good mix of friendlies that have helped us to get We’ve done what we needed to, and up towards the levels of match prepared well, for today’s big kick off, fitness required while at the same with a couple of training sessions to time pushing and stretching us as follow the preZseason games. I do these games need to do. And all of believe we are in the right place which has given me a pretty good mentally for what is a very intense idea of where we need to focus our August. We have eight games this efforts, including any remaining month, including tough trips to recruitment efforts. Dartford and Dulwich directly after this one. We benefitted from We played some really attractive fantastic support last season and football at times, and were largely look forward to the same this time solid at the back when we needed around. I hope you enjoy today’s to be, and the calibre of some of the game and look forward to inviting goals we scored, against Watford you back here for the visit of and Barnet in particular, really Braintree on Tuesday 13th. impressed me. Ian LEAGUE NEWS All the latest news from around the National League South DORKING WANDERERS Dorking Wanderers Ready For Biggest Challenge Yet says White Marc White is relishing the opportunity of leading Dorking Wanderers into the Vanarama National League South for the first time this season. After securing an eleventh promotion in April, the Owner/First-Team Manager admits the test of sixth-tier football will be the toughest since forming the Club twenty years ago. The Wanderers travel to Slough Town on the opening day of the campaign this afternoon “It’s going to be a big step up “The boys that want to get compared to what we’ve ever been themselves into the first choice team Speaking to the Club’s YouTube used to. We’ll just have to take it one didn’t do themselves many favours”, channel, White said: “I’m pretty game at a time”.