ALL THE NEWS THAT’S FIT TO PRINT
(The official Newsletter of the Old Wilsonians’ Football Club)
No 1,609 Season 2016/2017
Contact Info: / Editor:Old Wilsonians / Mike Pike
Hayes Hill / 68a Knighton Park Rd
Hayes / Sydenham
Kent, BR2 7HT / SE26 5RL
Tel: 020 8462 2600 / Tel: 020 8659-6443 (H)
Website: / Email:
Roll of Honour
Life President Mike Harris Treasurer Alex Forbes
President: / Richard Smart / Chairman: / Jamie ParkinsonHon. Secretary: / Jamie Parkinson / Club Captain: / Neil Kendrick
Team Captains
Team / Name / Mobile / Home1st XI / James Paton / / 07572758418
2nd XI / Stuart Dunk / / 07743135493
3rd XI / Matt Williams / / 07969030962
4th XI / Jon Knight / / 07515948378
5th XI / Ceejay Watson / / 07735967390
6th XI / Chris Chamen / / 07956724701
7th XI / Nick Mole / / 07722559193 / 0208 669 0603
8th Xl / Kek Amankwah / / 07793814537
9 Xl / Roddy Trompiz / / 07811217188
10th XI
Vets / Lee Reid / / 07961371514
Super Vets / Al Forbes / / 07855 273218
Selection Secretary / Yuved Bheenick / / 07736272270
This week’s games, February 4th
Team / Opponents / Ground / Contest / K.O.1st Xl / Old Carthusians / Hayes / AFA Cup / 2-00
2nd Xl / NUFC Oilers / Away / League / 2-30
3rd Xl / Alexandra Park / Away / League / 2-30
4th Xl / Old Bealonains / Hayes / Old Boys Cup / 2-00
5th Xl / Merton 4th Xl / Hawes Down / League / 2-30
6th Xl / Polytechnic 7th Xl / Hawes Down / League / 2-30
7th Xl / Merton 5th Xl / Away / League / 2-30
8th Xl / Merton 7th Xl / Away / League / 2-30
9th Xl / No game
10th Xl
Vets
Super Vets
ALWAYS PACK A WHITE SHIRT WITH YOUR KIT
Classified Results, January 28th
Home / Score / Away / ScorersPolytechnic Reserves / 3 / V / 1 / 2nd Xl (League) / Howe
3rd Xl / 0 / V / 2 / Merton 3rd Xl (League)
4th Xl / 0 / V / 1 / Shene Old Gramarians (London Old Boys Cup)
Civil Service 6th Xl / 1 / V / 1 / 5th Xl (League) / Scorer not reported
6th Xl / 2 / V / 4 / Polytechnic 6th Xl (AFA Cup) / Scott 2
7th Xl / 3 / V / 4 / Polytechnic 9th Xl (League) / Gunnell. W , Gowtham, ‘Leighton’
8th Xl / 3 / V / 3 / Civil Service 8th Xl (League) / Stride 2, Rivens
Old Salesians 3rd Xl / 8 / V / 1 / 9th Xl (League) / Mace
Palace / 0 / V / 3 / Manchester City (FA Cup)
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Newsletter Contributions
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Fixtures: Fixtures are correct at time of publication but are subject to change and alteration
Football training takes place EVERY WEDNESDAY night at Wallington Powerleague, 7-00
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This week’s men of the match
2nd Xl: Ben Middleton 3rd Xl: Not reported 4th Xl: Not reported 5th Xl: Not reported
6th Xl: Not reported 7th Xl: Not reported 8th Xl:Page 9th Xl: Craig Threadgold
Leading goal-scorers
16– James 13 – Williams.M 10 - Howe, Sellman (Benteke) 9 - Martin, Falconer- Roberts
7 Adams.W, Gravensande 6- Bonsels, Bratterman, Fox, Kennedy, Watson
ALL OUR YESTERDAYS
Classified Results, January 25th 1992Corinthian Casuals / 3 / 3rd Xl / 1 / Elliott
Old Adeyans / 0 / 4th Xl / 3 / Mace, Stone, Barry
5th Xl / 0 / Stationers / 1
Shene Old Gramarrians / 4 / 6th Xl / 3 / Burton 2, Murray,B
7th Xl / 2 / Glynn Old Boys / 5 / Mir, Rice
8th Xl / 0 / B.B.C / 5
EQUAL TO THE UPHILL TASK Old Adeyans 0 4th Xl 3
I suppose that, if you judged a game simply on the result, then you would expect to read about an easy victory for a team going for the Championship against one near the foot of the table but, unfortunately, as you can probably guess, this is not necessarily so.
The 4th Xl kicked off with the substantial slope of the pitch in their favour and, early in the game, created several good openings but failed to capitalise. Adeyans appeared to lack a certain amount of confidence in themselves but the longer the score stayed at 0-0 the more they believed in themselves and the more they worked for each other and, after their reasonably bright start, the 4ths lost their way a bit but still remained on top, mainly due to the slope.
Half-time came with no score and Adeyans obviously thinking they had completed the hard part of the game. The good thing about the 4th Xl is that they do play football and this ability serves them well when playing into a wind or, as with today’s game, playing uphill.
In the second half in particular Adeyans’ basic tactic was a long punt and the flick on from a header, but they never really created a clear-cut opening, but this does not mean that we could ever relax as they kept chasing and put us under a certain amount of pressure.
Just as it seemed that neither side would score, the breakthrough came with about 15 minutes to go when a break down the left saw Richard Egan cross the ball for MARK MACE to head home. Although Adeyans gave a good impression of trying to see their task through to the finish, you sensed that their heads dropped just a little, and five minutes later, the 4ths made it 2-0 following a goal-mouth scramble with MATT STONE shooting home from about ten yards, and our third came five minutes from time in similar circumstances in which some good team play and effort eventually saw LOU BARRY finding the net from a fairly acute angle.
Summing up this was a good win for the 4ths without dominating the game as we have in most of our previous league matches. Defensively the team, as a whole, performed as well as the clean sheet suggests, with Andy Kirchin earning his keep, dealing with the expected crosses and long range shots and the unexpected back passes!
Going forward we did not function as well as we have in the past and, at times, had to scrap when things did not go our way but, in the end, the speed and skill of our forwards, which had always caused the Adeyans’ defence problems, finally created the openings for our victory. Geoff Robinson
Team: Kirchin Letts Beckley Robinson Adams Treacher Barry Stone Mace Egan Stringer
3rd Xl: Wing.K (Ali)Simpson Davis Prince Forbes.A Elliott Pullen Valder (Ashley)Simpson Chapman Tarn
7th Xl: Peckover Brindle Nelson Rayworth Spencer Mir Ayling Udale Gilbertson Rice Harper
League Tables - Correct to January 28th
Senior Division One - Top 5 of 11PWDLGFGAPts
Polytechnic11920331029
Alleyn Old Boys14842241428
Old Owens11614201619
Nottsborough11614151419
OLD WISLONIANS 12615202019
Intermediate Division One - bottom 4 of 11
OLD WILSONIANS RESERVES 10316202710
Nottsborough Reserves10316122710
Old Parkonians Reserves 822414198
Alleyn Old Boys Reserves 912610185
Junior Division Two - bottom 3 of 10
OLD WILSONIANS 3rd Xl 13427343914
Old Owens 3rd Xl11506202912*
Merton 3rd Xl 13201122366
*Points deducted
Minor Division One South – Bottom 3 of 9
OLD WILSONIANS 4th Xl 8404191612
HSBC 4th Xl 1222822478
HSBC 5th Xl 1111916374
Minor Division Two South - bottom 5 of 10
OLD WILSONIANS 5th Xl 11416213313
Bank of England 4th Xl 12408163412
Civil Service 6th Xl 12327194611
Merton 4th Xl 13201128386
Lloyds Warren 3rd Xl 11101010643
Minor Division Three South – bottom 3 of 9
West Wickham 6th Xl 10316343010
OLD WILSONIANS 6th Xl 9315193010
HSBC 6th Xl 1120915596
Minor Division Four South - Top 6 of 10
Polytechnic 9th Xl 10910421328
Merton 5th Xl 11812261925
Kew Association 3rd Xl 12714453622
Civil Service 7th Xl 13526283017
Actonians Association 8th Xl 10514262416
OLD WILSONIANS 7th Xl 12516222316
Minor Division Five South - Bottom 3 of 11
OLD WILSONIANS 8th Xl 922519368
South Bank Cuaco 6th Xl 921615317
OLD WILSONIANS 9th Xl 1000105510
Old Wilsonians’ Association Sports Club
Terms & Conditions for hire of facilities
To all Sports Club Hirers:
The cost to hire the club facilities £200.00
We require a breakages/cleaning deposit £50.00
We require a kitchen use deposit£50.00
If an extension after midnight is requested£100.00 per extra hour
Corkage will be charged per bottle @ £8.00
All moneys to be received by the OWA at least 1 month before event
We politely request there be no decorations on the honours boards
No use of party poppers, spray string, table confetti or similar
If the club-house-bar and/or kitchen are left in need of cleaning, the appropriate deposit will be forfeited.
NB: The Association relies heavily on hiring out the Clubhouse to increase its revenue from which we all benefit. The above outlines our terms and conditions, so please pass on to anyone your think may be interested or, indeed, yourself – many Old Wilsonians have already held functions in our Clubhouse
For more details, please contact Anton Snowsill:
ALL OUR TODAYS
WAVE UPON WAVE OF YOUNG SALESIANS Old Salesians 3rd Xl 8 9th Xl 1
This was a game of two halves. (Most of them are - ed) In the first 45 minutes we put in a solid performance across the pitch, working hard and only conceding two goals from neat play and one
outstanding long range effort. We carried a threat going forward and MARK MACE scored his first goal of the season, finishing well from a right wing cross.
Stand in Captain Forbes gave a Churchillian half time team talk and then, for the next 45 minutes, stood watching wave upon wave off young Salesians steam pastus. (I suspect their team talk was pretty basic “we are young and quick.... they are not!”
They attacked our flanks well, stretching the pitch, cutting in and always had options to shoot or pull the ball across for their supporting players and we were lucky to onlyconcede six. Despite having 12 we played the last twenty minutes with 10 when one of the players went off due to illness and our spare player (who admittedly wasalready carrying an injury) was in that bar thinking that, if needed, “someone would come and get me orgive me a call”. Jonty (MIA), we salute you.
So another loss but once again we have shown we can compete for periods, and we just need to transfer this effort for the whole game. Thanks to Nick and Josh Mole for helping us out today.
Neville Spencer
N.Spencer, J.Mole, A.Forbes, M.Hallett, S.Chinnery, C.Threadgold, M.Mace, N.Mole, M.Dhariwal, O.Strauss, J.Craven, B.Jacob
MORE WORK TO BE DONE 2nd Xl 1 Polytcehnic 3
For the first time in the New Year we looked like we were going to have a playable pitch, and we welcomed back Jamie Parkinson to the 2nd Xl!
The Polytechnic defence looked weak but moved the ball well going forward; clearly a very hit or miss team.During the game we had plenty of possession in the final third but our ability to thread the final pass, or finish off a move, did not come off for us.They were 2 - 0 up at half time and goals came from individual errors, and it could have been more if not for some good shot stopping by ‘Eggy’
We got one back early in the second half when a shot from Demola was handled in the box and JON HOWE powered home the penalty.
The visitors got a third with 15 minutes to go from an excellent free kick. Although the Old Boys kept hunting, clean opportunities were few and far between.A tough loss means we still have work to do in the league to stay up. Jon Howe
Eglon, George, Harris, Parkinson J, Middleton, Dunk, Elliot C, Giles, Demola, Tanner, Howe, Smart D, Farmer
WE BASICALLY SCORED SIX GOALS 8th Xl 3 Civil Service 8th Xl 3
First goal for the opposition: We lost possession and then had a ball through the middle to deal with... their striker was able to lob our on-coming keeper.
First goal for us: Good play down the wing to quickly work a throw and get a ball into the box. After some scrappy play, the ball fell to STRIDE to score.
Second goals for us: : A great ball over the top of their defence that STRIDE latched onto and calmly netted off the inside of the post in a one on one situation.
Half Time.
Second goal for the opposition:Straight from kick off we passed the ball back through our team but a misplaced ball allowed the opposition in for an easy goal.
Third goal for the opposition: We lost the ball and did not stop a cross. Despite having three players marking one man, the ball was able to find its way into an empty net.
Third goals for us: A fabulous run by RIVENS down the right where he was able to dance round a number of players and finish neatly from a tight angle.
It was a physical game, where we played well at times but our lack of concentration, at times, led to our down fall. Need some wins... Himish Patel
Team:Sparrow, Crombie, Wicks, Dixon, Patel, Page, Rivens, Stride, Jones, Rose, Relf, Watson. Saunders
DoD: Sharp for not finding us despite only two games going on at Coney Hall
Reports Table
TeamPRSRSLNRNPPtsDropped% response
1st Xl252410155619100
8th Xl 1818000540100
9th Xl 1715201465100
2nd Xl 22183113442295
3rd Xl19142314302784
4th Xl17121412252676
6th Xl1650114113731
5th Xl203116375320
7th Xl 172114164517
P = Played RS = Reports submitted RSL = Reports submitted late NR = No Report NP = No phone
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