EYNESBURY
SATURDAY 12TH August 2023 United Counties League Racing Club Warwick FC KO 3:00pm MATCHDAY PROGRAMME
ROVERS FC SEASON 2023 / 2024
WELCOME TO EYNESBURY ROVERS FC
Saturday 12th August 2023
TEAM SQUAD
EYNESBURY ROVERS V RACING CLUB WARWICK FC (Blue & White) (Yellow & Black) Iron (F) 1 Catlow Olive 2 DLionga Hickling 3 Hancocks Sonuga 4 Carsley Roberts (T) 5 Barnett Roberts (B) 6 Templeton Mason 7 Quinn McGrath 8 Jones Thorpe 9 Shearer Cole 10 Parsons Davis 11 Ebbutt Iron (J) 12 Scott Gaffney 14 Mort Andre 15 Mulders Cowie 16 Reed Buckle 17 Mark Garwood Manager Scott Easterlow Craig Smith Manager Kevin McGarvey Darren Fairbrass Coach Simon Rea Callum Douglas Coach Physio Kiran Bahra
Assistants – Dom MacLarty / Neil Arthur -
Referee – Simon Dutton
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League Table as at 11th August 2023
FIRSTTEAMMATCHREPORT
Tuesday8thAugust2023
FACupExtraPreliminaryRoundReplay
EYNESBURYROVERS2ELYCITY3(afterextratime)
Afterdrawing0-0atElyonSaturdaytheclubsmetagainatHall RoadforaTuesdayeveningreplay.Roversmadethebestpossiblestart takingasixthminutelead.Alowcrossfromtheleftflankwasvolleyed homebyKianCole.Thevisitorsequalisedinthe28thminutewhenJack FriendwhippedinalowcrossforJoshHalestoside-foothome.
RhysThorpeturnedinthepenaltyareabutshotwideandalong rangeeffortbythestrikerwentstraighttothegoalkeeper.Attheother endFinleyIrontippedaLouisJenkins30yardfreekickoverthebar.
FiveminutesintothesecondhalfElyCitybrokerapidlyfroman EynesburyRoverscornerkickandJackFriendfiredtheRobinsahead. TherewerefewchancesinthesecondhalfwithIrontwicesavingfrom AaronHamershotsandThorpeagainshootingstraightatKeys. However,thestrikerclaimedhisfirstgoaloftheseasonwhenhe pouncedonadefensiveerrortoslothomeanequalisertomakeit2-2in the85thminute.
WiththegameintostoppagetimeFriendmissedagloriouschance towinthematchforElybuthedrilledhisshotwideofgoalwithjustIron tobeat.However,hedidnetthewinnerfortheRobinsinthe107th minute.EynesburyendedthegamewithtenmenthoughwhenBilly Robertspickedupasecondyellowcardfourminutesbeforetheendof extratime.TherewasafinalchanceforEynesburytotakethegameto penaltiesbutinthefinalactionofthegameJohnSonugashotover.
EynesburyRoversreturntoleagueactiononSaturday12thAugust whentheyhostRacingClubWarwick,kickoff3.00pm.
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They were formed in 1919 under the name of Saltisford Rovers and played in various local leagues including the Warwick League, Leamington & District League and the Warwickshire Combination until 1967. During this period the club won a number of honours, including the Birmingham Alliance Senior Cup when they defeated Birmingham City in the final at St. Andrews. In 1967 the club joined the West Midlands (Regional) League Three years later they changed to their current name (which came from the fact that their ground is by Warwick Racecourse) and soon afterwards switched to the Midland Football Combination, where they were champions in 1988 and runners-up in 1989. After the latter honour they gained promotion to the Southern League where they remained until 2003 when they finished bottom of the Western Division and dropped into the Midland Football Alliance. They remained in the Midland Football Alliance until the end of the 2008–09 season, when they were relegated to the Midland Football Combination Premier Division, now the Midland Football League Division One. At the start of the 2016–17 season the club began huge infrastructure renovations following the arrival of local businessman Chairman Gary Vella and the new committee members the previous year, including new changing rooms, floodlighting, stands and artificial training area. The club's record win is 15–0 recorded on 26 December 2016.[1] They gained their first promotion for 30 years in 2018-19 as runners-up in the Midland Football League Division One. The club installed a 3g pitch in the winter of 2020 in order to expand their community activity and provide a broad spectrum of football to include women's and disability amongst other community groups. A Soccersix league plays on Monday evenings and the West Midlands Ambulance Service will play their home fixtures at the ground.
