Market Drayton Town v Stockport Georgians

OFFICIAL MATCHDAY PROGRAMME OF MARKET DRAYTON TOWN FC - ISSUE 13

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GREENFIELDS SPORTS GROUND MARKET DRAYTON, SATURDAY 30TH SEPTEMBER - 15:00 KICK-OFF

CLUB INFORMATION MARKET DRAYTON TOWN FC GROUND:

Greenfields Sports Ground Market Drayton, Shropshire, TF9 3SL

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Paul Jackson John Kirkham Matthew Allen Lisa Jackson Anthony Brisbourne, Ray Barrow, Cliff Taylor, Nick Allsopp, Jayne Lawton Korin Smith

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Nigel Wellings Joe Brisbourne

WELCOME STOCKPORT GEORGIANS

Stockport Georgians football club has its origins in St. George’s Church on Buxton Road in 1908, games were played at a ground on Nangreave Road in Heaviley in the Stockport Sunday League. All football was suspended during the Great War but resumed in 1919 and with the church having made some land available in trust for sporting activities.

Minutes from a general meeting from October 1923 confirm that the club is to be called St. Georges (Stockport) Athletic Club. At that time, in addition to football, there were clubs for cricket, hockey, tennis and, for the younger people, scouts and girl guides. It is interesting to note from those minutes that “qualification for membership shall be as follows: attendance at Divine Worship held in St. George’s Church or membership of the Men’s Bible Class”. If those conditions applied today, we might have trouble fielding just a first eleven!

The club played in the Stockport League in the 1920’s with success in the 1926 and 1927 seasons when they were champions, having acquired the current site in February 1925 in a conveyance “of a plot of land containing eight acres and twenty seven perches situated at Woodsmoor, Stockport”. This area originally belonged to Mirrlees Bickerton.

In 1931 the club was elected to division two of the Lancashire & Cheshire Amateur League.

Football was again suspended during the Second World war but by the early 50’s a third team was playing in the Lancashire & Cheshire third division, and in 1964 the club won division 2 of that league. Between 1970 and 1973 due to deterioration of the playing surface Georgians played at Woodbank Park and Davenport School and during this time the changing rooms at Woodsmoor were tragically burnt down. In 1973 new facilities were built alongside the prefabricated building of the Cricket Club with assistance of a Sports Council grant and the sale of some of the land.

In 1975 Georgians entered a team in the Stockport & District Sunday Football League division 4. but the side had folded by the mid 90’s. In 1987 the football club amalgamated with Adswood Amateurs which greatly increased the number of players available, raised the profile of the club and established an even stronger committee, which all amateur clubs need to stay alive. This merger was the foundation of the club as it is today.

As part of the merger Stockport Georgians took the place of Adswood Amateurs in the Manchester Football League and finished as champions in season 1987-88. We would go on to win the league in 2001-2002 and again after a 13 year wait in 2015. We had numerous other successes in cup competitions and a few near misses in the Cheshire Amateur Cup, which remained an elusive prize.

The push to become a North West counties club started after the 2015 title win when we lost several of that talented squad to clubs in the NWCFL. It was then that our ambitions grew to grow the club and start the planning and preparation to improve all areas of the organisation.

Season 2021-22 ended with a third-place finish in the Manchester League and a narrow 2-1 defeat to Mersey Royal in the Cheshire Amateur Cup, but after years of hard work and endeavours on and off the pitch, we were delighted to be promoted to the North West Counties League.

Now we are looking forward to the challenge of becoming a semi-professional club, maintaining our standards, visiting new grounds and continuing to grow the club in honour of all those individuals who helped build Stockport Georgians Football Club over the last 114 years..

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MARKET DRAYTON TOWN FC SQUAD 2023/2024

ISAAC MIDDLETOM SPONSORED BY Young Goalkeeping prospect Isaac made his Senior debut for Drayton at the backend of the 2022/23. A dual registration spell at Hodnet FC during this period helped gain valuable Senior experience as part of his development. One to watch this year.

DOMINIC SMITH SPONSORED BY Dom is a confident and experienced goalkeeper with over 10 years of experience at Steps 5 and 6. His career started at AFC Telford at 18 before moving to the NCEL playing for Garforth Town, Eccleshill United, Liversedge, and Knaresborough Town. After cup, league and promotion winning seasons he is back to Market Drayton Town FC after a short stint in 22/23 to bring success back to the club.

LEVI HUNTER - SPONSORED BY Levi started football at 6 yrs old with Market Drayton tigers up to the age of 14, he then moved to Ellesmere Rangers and played upto their U18s, when he got his dream move back to Market Drayton Town at 17 years old. He signed for Hodnet FC at 19 where he stayed for 4 successful years. He returns to Market Drayton Town this year and has set his sights on success

LEWIS BROWN - SPONSORED BY Lewis joined the club as a player in July 2023. He started his footballing career for Market Drayton Tigers, all the way up to U18s. He then joined Hodnet FC who had 3 successful seasons playing Sunday league progressing to step 7 on a Saturday where they competed in Salop leisure league.

MATTY CUTLER - SPONSORED BY Matty joined the football club at the start of the 23/24 season. He has played for AFC Telford United from u11-u18, Chasetown(U17) and Brocton FC(U18s). He plays both Centre Midfield and Right Back where he played most of last season, and is very versatile. He hopes to be an integral part of the squad, and help the team push for promotion this season

JOE DAVIES - SPONSORED BY Joe signed for Burton Albion at the age of 11 and then moved to Notts County academy at the age of 15. He was offered a post 16 scholarship at Notts County but declined this to prioritise his education. He now studies at Newcastle college and joined Market Drayton in October having been captain at the Andy Griffin Football academy at college

KIERAN BRISBOURNE - SPONSORED BY ANDY & ANGELA WATKISS A product of the Market Drayton Tigers system.

Kieran made his break through in senior football with local side Hodnet Fc in the 22/23. At still only 17 years old he is looking to impress in his debut year at his hometown club

CALLUM JACKSON SPONSORED BY One of the Jackson brothers Callum has been around the first team environment for a couple of seasons now. He too has had playing experience with the Shrewsbury Town shadow squad. He had short stint on dual registration last year at local club Prees before returning to the fold in 2023

DAN CHURM - SPONSORED BY CREATING DREAMS After a year playing for Shifnal in 2020 Dan decided to make the move to join MTDFC. After joining Haughmond midway through last season Dan has returned to the Drayton for the second time with the new manager. Market Drayton is his home, and he wants to do well for the football club.

RYAN TAYLOR - SPONSORED BY Ryan joined the football club as all round player capable of playing a variety of positions for the season ahead. His playing career started out at Shrewsbury Academy before going onto play for Haughmond, Shrewsbury juniors, Allscott Heath and Shawbury. Ryan wants to take Drayton back to where they belong and win as many trophies as he can with the club.

CONNOR DUNNE - SPONSORED BY Connors football career started out by playing at Market Drayton tigers, followed by spells at Prees, Whitchurch and Shawbury all at U18 level. His first senior experience came at Hodnet FC where he stayed for 5 seasons. Connor has now joined his hometown club Market Drayton where he hopes

DANIEL PARKER - SPONSORED BY Dan first started playing football for Whitchurch Alport U14. On leaving school he played for the Joiners arms, a local pub team for 2-3 years, once these folded, he decided to play for Hodnet FC for 5 years which made him fall in love with competitive football. He is now looking forward to the journey with MDTFC

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(GK) DOMINIC SMITH (GK) JOSH HYDE

KYLAN STEVENSON

JAMES HODGES (GK) JOEL ATKINSON PAUL BERESFORD

LEWIS BROWN

DANIEL BIRCH

HARRY TURNER

JOSEPH COLLINS

NATHAN BRAYFORD

PAUL CONNOR

FREDDIE BISHTON

ADAM DAHOU

MATTY CUTLER LEVI HUNTER CALLUM JACKSON

CONNOR DUNNE MATTHEW DOWNWARD JACOB WELCH

OLIVER TORJUSSEN

ZAK GREENWELL SAMUEL HIND HARRY LAMBERT

HARRY LYNN SAMUEL MARSHALL OWEN MASSEY EUAN MELIA

RYAN TAYLOR

LEO RAFFERTY

DANIEL CHURM

MATTHEW RUSSELL

DANIEL PARKER

THOMAS RUSSELL

CAM DOURISH

WILLIAM WAREING

OWEN JACKSON NICKY PARKER

KYLE WYCH AYOMIDE IBRAHIM