Hengrove Athletic v Cribbs Reserves

Hengrove Athletic Football Club

Founded 1948 - celebrating our 75th anniversary this season

Main club sponsor for season 2023-24 - AVB Commercial Vehicle Repairs

Club Officials Club Honours

Chairman Mike Greatbanks Alf Bosley Cup winners

Treasurer Mike Greatbanks 1958/59, 1963/64

Secretary/Media Martin McConachie Somerset Junior Cup winners

Groundsman Jamie Hirons 1964/65

First Team Manager Jamie Hillman

Somerset League Cup winners

Coach Jack Richardson 1979/80

Coach Ian Jones

Somerset Senior Cup winners

Coach Mike Stone 1979/80

Physiotherapist Matt Taylor Promoted to Som. County Prem.

Kit Manager Pete Stenner 1995/96

Somerset Senior Cup runners-up

Reserve Manager Sean Day 2003/04, 2004/05

Asst. Manager Nilton Crane Som. County Premier winners

U18’s Managers

Marcus Farrow 2005/06

Rich Griffiths Damian Chilcott Western League Div 1 runners-up

Club Committee Jon Berry 2012/13, 2016/17

Alan Burton

Nilton Crane Les Phillips Cup winners

Sean Day Mike Greatbanks 2015/16

Jamie Hillman

Giorgio Mancini

Pete Stenner

Ian Jones

Bristol u18 Comb Div 1 winners

Martin McConachie 2021/22

Mike Stone Bristol u18 Comb. Plate winners

Alex Sully 2021/22

Good evening everyone,

Tonight, we offer a warm welcome to the players, officials & supporters of our opposition Cribbs Reserves as well as our match officials too. We hope that they all enjoy their brief stay in the village and have a safe journey home too.

The last four games have shown a glimmer of light in what has been quite a dark season on the pitch. Two wins plus narrow defeats to Radstock (now top) and Wells City (now 7th) have shown improvement although the two victories were against bottom four sides. Our next four fixtures look tough with 2nd, 3rd and 4th included but on the plus side, after that, we don’t play anyone in the top eight! Here’s hoping the improvement continues.

All three teams at the club continue to have fixtures postponed due to this storm or that storm and the season will struggle now to catch up without spilling over the deadline. The under-18’s season is already going to be a month longer than originally planned so there will inevitably be some congestion towards the end of March / beginning of April. Please keep an eye on the club’s website at www.hengroveathletic.com where the very latest updates to the fixtures list are.

Best wishes and enjoy the game.

Martin McConachie (Secretary)

Today’s Fixtures

Toolstation Western League Premier Division

Falmouth Town v Buckland Athletic

Saltash United v Millbrook

Devon Bowl

Newton Abbot Spurs v Ilfracombe Town

GFA Challenge Trophy

Bristol Telephones v Cheltenham Saracens

Toolstation Western League Division One

AEK Boco v Bradford Town

Cadbury Heath v Hallen

Cheddar v Bitton

Gillingham Town v Wincanton Town

Hengrove Athletic v Cribbs Reserves

Radstock Town v Brislington

Top Scorers Season 2023/24

Toolstation Western League Premier Division

Jared Lewington (Buckland Athletic) - 32

Jack Thorne (Bridgwater United) - 26

Phil Ormrod (Street) - 20

Rikki Shepherd (Helston Athletic) - 19

Ryan Richards (Torpoint Athletic) - 18

Sam Beresford (Clevedon Town) - 18

Rubin Wilson (Falmouth Town) - 17

Oscar Massey (Falmouth Town) - 17

Jack Taylor (Bridgwater United) - 16

Curtis Damerell (Helston Athletic) - 15

Toolstation Western League Division One

Ethan Feltham (Portishead Town) - 42

Matt Garner (Wincanton Town) - 27

Liam Clayton (Cribbs Reserves) - 21

Louis Snailham (Shirehampton) - 21

Liam Winter (Middlezoy Rovers) - 21

Harry Warwick (Wells City) - 21

Milo Murgatroyd (Odd Down) - 18

Scott Bamford (Shirehampton) - 18

Jack Witcombe (Bradford Town) - 17

Joe Beardwell (Bitton) - 17

PLAYER SPONSORS 2023/24 SEASON

Jack Cousins

Lewis Bond-Kendall

Regan Sollars

Rohan Hartrey

Dylan Powell

Louie Davies

PLAYER SPONSORS 2023/24 SEASON

Aidan Jones

Ben Britton

Jacob Wylde

Jacob Grinnell

Oscar Sullivan

If you would like to sponsor a first team player, please email secretary@hengroveathletic.com with your logo and which player you’d like to sponsor.

The cost is £50 for the season and your name will appear alongside the player’s name in the online matchday programme.

With the under-18’s ...

NORTH DIVISION

With the under-18’s ...

WESTERN COUNTIES

FLOODLIGHT YOUTH LEAGUE

With the Reserves ...

BRISTOL & SUBURBAN LEAGUE

SENIOR DIVISION

Sat

With the Reserves ...

BRISTOL & SUBURBAN LEAGUE

* - AFC Mangotsfield withdrew November 2023.

Hengrove Athletic FC

Green shirts, Green shorts & White socks

Jordan ANSTEY

Ben BRITTON

Ashton BURTON

Regan BURTON

Louie FARROW

Ethan HARDY

Rohan HARTREY

James HORROCKS

Harvey IMPEY

Sam JACKSON

Aidan JONES

Jack JONES

Connor KINGDON

Giorgio MANCINI

Pervez NEDAIE

Sonny PARKER

Dylan POWELL

Pete SHEPPARD

Bradley SKIDMORE

Drew THOMAS

Manager - Jamie HILLMAN

Coach - Jack RICHARDSON

Coach - Ian JONES

Coach - Mike STONE

Physio - Matt TAYLOR

SQUADS

Cribbs Reserves

Blue shirts, Blue shorts & Blue socks

Kyreese JOHNSON (GK)

Harry BRIDGEMAN

Nathan GOODWIN-WORRELL

James PELLOWE

Lynford BHEBHE

Tom BURNS

Josh PENROSE

Harry HAMBLY

Archie LOCK

Dan MONK

Ollie DUNLEAVY

Aaron COLEMAN

Andy FORWARD

Tom HEADFORD

Tatenda MATEKE

Liam CLAYTON

Jack GUTHRIE

Cole JONES

Manager - Alec MILLS

Manager - Rob HETHERINGTON

Physio - Alec MILLS

Physio - Rob HETHERINGTON

Assistants

Joszef MADARAS

Philip TROTHAM

Cribbs Football Club was founded in London in 1958 as Sun Life Assurance. The Bristol team was established in 1976 when Sun Life first relocated to Bristol. Initially, two teams were run, participating in the Bristol and Avon League, playing at Dundridge Farm.

However, when the Cribbs Causeway ground was opened in 1978, the first team were promoted straight to the Avon Premier Combination League (later renamed Bristol Premier Combination) where they stayed for 20 years until they eventually won promotion to the County League in 1999 –2000.

In the summer of 2011, the club changed its name from AXA to Cribbs Friends Life FC ready for the 2011–12 season. The season was Cribbs' most successful season to date as the club claimed its first Gloucestershire County League title on the way to an unprecedented League and Cup double. The team later adding the Les James League Cup to the League Championship and in the process becoming the first and only side to achieve this feat.

As a result of winning the league, the club earned promotion to the Western League Division One for the 2012–2013 subsequently changing their name to simply, Cribbs FC.

Cribbs were promoted into the Western League Premier Division for the commencement of the 2015-2016 season and obtained numerous top half finishes until at the end of the 2020–21 season the club were transferred to the Premier Division of the Hellenic League.

Under the stewardship of Richard Luffman, Cribbs in his first full season in charge, recorded a best ever Step Five position of Fourth in the Hellenic League. They also were winners of the League Cup defeating Hereford Pegasus 1-0 through a George Kellow goal.

Cribbs gained Southern League status in 2023 after clinching promotion becoming champions of the Hellenic League after a 1-0 win over Wantage Town.

Since its inception the club has run multiple sides across the Bristol Premier Combination and Bristol & District League. The Reserve Team won the Premier Combination in 2021/2022 season and did so in numerous seasons prior. After last season’s title win, they were finally granted entry to the Gloucestershire County League for 2022/2023.

In their first season in the GCL they finished six points in front of Bromley Heath United to clinch the title and earn promotion to the Toolstation Western League Division One.

THANK YOU TO OUR BOARD SPONSORS

If you would like to join our board sponsors, please call Martin McConachie on 07432 614494 or email secretary@hengroveathletic.com for further details.

The cost is £250 for the first year (including a one-off manufacture cost of £100) then £100 per year thereafter. This includes adverts on our website and in the programme.

Top To Toe Physiotherapy

Abacus Waste Management

D C Windows

Covertek

Ben’s Reclamation & Demolition E R & B Print

Belvedere Building & Plumbing AVB Commercial Vehicle Repairs

Avon Hydraulics (UK) Ltd

AVPI

Apollo Cleaning Solutions

Supporting the club...

There are several more ways of getting your company name out there that we can help you with. Perimeter banners, perimeter boards, programme advertising, website advertising.. they are all available within the club.

Perimeter Boards are one option that many companies have chosen recently. Match action pictures often appear online either on websites or social media so your company board could be seen regularly as well as those who attend the match.

Perimeter boards cost £250 for the first year (including a one-off manufacturing charge of £100) then cost £100 a year thereafter.

Perimeter Banners are a similar option but made from a hard wearing fabric. The same size as a board (2.4m x 915mm or 8’ x 3’), they cost £200 (including a one off manufacturing charge of £75) then cost £100 a year thereafter.

Programme Advertising has also proven popular in recent seasons. After having “gone online” in recent seasons, the club have decided to go back to printing a copy for its supporters, a popular move with many non-league fans too.

Advertising costs just £100 for a full page (A5) or £50 for a half page; this is for a full season of matchday programmes so this season, at least 21 programmes. You can change the actual composition of the programme each week to keep it topical and/or time sensitive!

Website Advertising is the cheapest form of advertising and is just £25. For this, your link/logo will sit on a carousel on the front page and when visitors click the link, it will take them to your website. Our club website is one of the most popular ones in the league with more than 2,000 unique visits each week during the season.

If you are interested in any of these deals, please email the club secretary, Martin McConachie, on secretary@hengroveathletic.com or ring 07432 614494.

Hengrove Athletic Club History

Hengrove Athletic F.C was formed in 1948 from players demobbed from National Service. As a footnote, there is also wartime history to the club colours of green and white. With rationing and many shortages, football shirts were virtually unobtainable, so all of the members of Hengrove Athletic F.C donated an ordinary white shirt and a mother of one of the players kindly dyed them green in the bath at her Knowle home. The colour green had no symbolic meaning. It was the only colour available at the time! The founding fathers of Hengrove Athletic F.C then agreed to retain these colours for the new club.

A successful application was made to join the Bristol and Suburban League and they were placed in Division 3 for the start of 1948/49 season. A Reserve XI was established in 1950 and in the same year Hengrove Hall was rented for club meetings and social gatherings. The club continued to expand and the ‘A’ XI started in 1953, followed by the 30-plus XI in 1959. These four football teams made Hengrove Athletic F.C the largest club in the Bristol and Suburban League at the time – after just eleven years. A ‘B’ XI replaced the 30 plus in 1962. The long search for a ground came to fruition on Sunday 7 June 1964 when Norton Lane was officially opened and Hengrove Athletic F.C took up residence.

The first XI was accepted by the Somerset Senior League for the 1974/75 season, where they remained until 2005/06 when they were runaway, unbeaten, Premier Division Champions and joined the Western League for the start of the 2006/07 season. Our Floodlights and Stand were installed at the ground in 2007/08 to achieve the necessary ground grading of the Western League. The EWW Stand was installed at the ground in 2012/13 to achieve the necessary ground grading of entry into the FA Cup and future possible promotions.

The first XI finished runners-up in Western League Division One in 2012/13, achieving a promotion to the Premier Division. They also lifted the Les Phillips League Cup (Western League) in 2015/16 before winning promotion to the Premier Division again the following season. In 2017/18 under new manager John Durbin, the club finished ninth in the Premier Division, their highest ever position and were also the highest placed Bristol side in the division. However, this was followed by relegation back to Division One in 2018/19.

Jamie Hillman returned for a third spell as manager in the summer of 2019 but the next two seasons failed to play to a finish due to the COVID pandemic. Last season, 2021/22, did get completed and for the fourth year running, the Grove ended in mid table. This year sees the club celebrate its 75th anniversary.

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