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Under-15s AWAY on Sunday (March 15)
Simon Fry (Happy birthday on Friday, March 13th – Friday 13th birthday for the ‘Friar’ – and his team of Rovers Under-15s are away to WESSEX at Glastonbury (the same team they will meet next month in the Under-15 County Sport Cup). Squad as usual and players to meet PLEASE at the club at 12.50pm for a 1pm convoy departure.
Rovers Under-16s book another final berth
The terrific season that the Rovers Under-16s have continued this afternoon with a 6-1 win at STAPLEGROVE with Levi Edwardson scoring four times and there were single goals from Connor Pengelly and Mitchell Dart. As for a Man of the Match – that was the splendid Dan Foweraker – full report to follow, but for now enjoy some terrific pictures from the game taken by Rob Mitchell – as ever, thanks Rob!
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Blake (2) Stamp (2) Willand 4-1 Bishop Sutton
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Willand Rovers 4 – 1 Bishop Sutton
Willand Rovers player-manager Scott Rogers admitted it was good to get back to winning ways after his side’s 4-1 victory over basement boys Bishop Sutton on Saturday.
Going into the game, Willand had not won in two matches, meaning victory was vital if they wanted to keep their title hopes alive.
Yet they got the win they needed thanks to braces from both James Blake and Dean Stamp, leaving Rogers delighted.
He said: “Our pitch isn’t in the greatest condition at the moment, so it was hard to play much free-flowing football.
“We went 2-0 up and were cruising quite comfortably but then our goalkeeper lost the ball in the sun and the ball went straight over his head and into the goal.
“That gave them a bit of a lifeline and it made it a little more difficult than it really should have been but in the end we managed to get a couple of goals at the right times so that killed the game off.
“It was massive, we had to win. If we didn’t win, we could have kissed goodbye to any chances we had of having a good finish to the season.”
Rogers’ side now host Wincanton Town in a Les Philips Cup quarter-final on Wednesday but, with his side fighting on so many fronts, the Silver Street boss is not getting too ahead of himself.
He said: “We’re just going to take it one game at a time, really.
“Wednesday night is now the biggest game of the season for us.
“We’ve got 13 league games to go and it’s coming up to the middle of March.
“If we can keep winning, the boys will enjoy the run-in a lot more than if we tail off.”
Under 18s revised fixtures
In order to get our fixtures played before the end of the month (so that the League can start a round-robin cup competition), we have announced two midweek games.
So our fixtures are now as follows:
Sunday, March 15th versus Clyst Valley @ home KO 2pm
Thursday, March 19th versus Alphington @ home KO 7:30pm
Sunday, March 22nd versus Apollo away KO 2pm (Banterwagon Express…)
Tuesday, March 24th versus Crediton United @ home KO 7:30pm
The cup should start on March 29th. Our County FA Cup Final is Tuesday, 28th April versus SB Frankfort 7:30pm (Banterwagon Express….)
There will be friendly fixtures found so we’re ready for the final.
Any problems, let Darren or Nick know!
Really!
Under-16 CUP SEMI FINAL is 2pm kick-off
The Rovers Under-16 CUP SEMI FINAL at STAPLEGROVE is a 2pm kick-off and so we need to CHANGE the meeting time to 1pm so that we can get there in good time. Would all players please note that the meet time has been brought forward by 30 minutes and we’ll meet – to depart Silver Street at 1pm.
We are without Ollie Elsworthy. Harrison Burton will hopefully be back after missing the Holway win and so the 13-player squad for the bigb game is:
Harrison Burton, Tom Badcott (Capt), Dan Foweraker, Ryan Harder, Josh Mclean, Phil Andrew, Connor Pengelly, Owen Buxton, Sam Jones, Jason Bailey-Ryan, Levi Edwardson, Mitchell Dart and Ryan Shrewsberry.
Reserves: Jordan Biss, Ollie Searle and Will Birley
SCOTT ROGERS, player of the month December/January
Scott Rogers, player of the month for December & January (only 8 games due to postponements ) being presented with his bottle of bubbly by Tina, of Welden Property Management
Brislington 4 – 0 Willand Rovers
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