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Chairman: Gerard
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above, plus: Howard Larcombe, Heather Larcombe, Martin Rowe, Alex Rowe, Rob Fellingham, Tim Edwards, Rob Larcombe, Dave Reed, Joe Bond, Paul Barlow, Julien Simier, Matt Preece The Davey Fort, Lyme Regis, Dorset, DT7 3DR Life Members: Mrs Kath Wellman David Cozens MBE Philip Evans MBE Les Loveridge Ellis MichelHowardMartinHooleRoweLarcombeLonguet(US Creully) Programme: Editor: Philip Evans MBE Design: Rob Larcombe Printed by: Advantage Digital Print 2 – Established 1885 –WELCOME TO THE DAVEY FORT Home of the Seasiders COMING UP AT THE FORT Saturday, August 27th (and last Saturday of every month): Live Music and bbq at the Clubhouse, 7-11pm. Band - The Pickwicks. Philip Evans MBE Programme Editor LRFC_Programme_270822.indd 2 24/08/2022 11:20
Groundsman: Mark
A WARM seaside welcome to the players and supporters of Clyst Val ley who visit the Davey Fort today top of the Stitch2Print Devon and Exeter League Premier Division following their 5-1 opening home victory over Dawlish United.
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Following the difculty experienced during the Covid-19, we were forced to withdraw our third eleven, Lyme Rovers, from the Perry Street League. We hope we will be in a position to revive the Rovers next year. I am pleased to report, however, that our youth section is thriving again with three age groups competing in the East Devon League and an Under 8s side. See our report on page 10. And fnally, those of you who like to look at teams from the past take a peek on page 9 to see if you can name all the players. Te frst one to bring the correct answers to me during today’s match will win a £20 bar voucher.
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Having dropped down from the Devon League, Clyst are among the favourites to win the Premier title this year. Tey will provide stif opposition for our frst team who opened their account on Monday with a disappointing 3-0 defeat against neighbours Colyton. Although we hit the woodwork four times and missed a couple of golden chances, we were well beaten by the Tan ners who looked by far the fter team and are also likely to be among the front-runners this season on this display, Te Ressies also made an inauspicious start on Saturday when they were thrashed 8-0 by Broadclyst 1sts who sit on top the Division Tree table. Today, the Reserves are away to Seaton Town, always a game to savour afer some massive tussles in years past. Before the game on Saturday the club marked the frst day of the new season by ofcially opening their new 63-seater grandstand by naming it afer Kenneth “Cooey” Hitchcock , a club stalwart for more than 60 years whose untimely death earlier this year has brought great sadness to the Davey Fort. (See pages 6/7).
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3 LRFC 1st Team Devon & Exeter Premier Division P W D L GD PTS Clyst Valley 1st 1 1 0 0 4 3 Crediton Utd 2nd 1 1 0 0 4 3 Colyton 1st 1 1 0 0 3 3 Elmore 2nd 1 1 0 0 1 3 Alphington 1 1 0 0 1 3 Okehampton Argyle 2nd 0 0 0 0 0 0 Sandford 1st 0 0 0 0 0 0 University of Exeter 2nd 0 0 0 0 0 0 Sidmouth Town 2nd 1 0 0 1 -1 0 Kentisbeare 1st 1 0 0 1 -1 0 LYME REGIS 1ST 1 0 0 1 -3 0 Dawlish United 1st 1 0 0 1 -4 0 Ottery St Mary Res 1 0 0 1 -4 0 03/09. Home v Kentisbeare 1st (EDSC) 2.15pm ko 17/09. Away v Kentisbeare 1st (League) 3pm ko 22/08. 3-0 loss v Colyton Upcoming Fixtures: Mark Bailey Dan BenBradAlexDanJoshFredHaydnGaryChrisCamRobJoshBeerDainesFellinghamFowlerHiggsKnightLewisParsonsRawlinsRendallRoweRoweTurner Matchday Squad Recent Results Kevin Turner Asistant Julien Simier Today’sManagerOpponents Clyst Valley 1st Venue: Home - Davey Fort, Charmouth Road Competition: Devon & Exeter Premier Division Kick of: 3.00pm LRFC_Programme_270822.indd 3 24/08/2022 11:20
LRFC Reserves Devon & Exeter Division 3 P W D L GD PTS Broadclyst 1st 1 1 0 0 8 3 South Zeal United 1st 1 1 0 0 3 3 Witheridge 1st 1 1 0 0 2 3 Heavitree United 1st 1 1 0 0 1 3 Bravehearts 1st 1 0 1 0 0 1 Hemyock 1st 1 0 1 0 0 1 AFC Exe 1st 0 0 0 0 0 0 Bampton 1st 0 0 0 0 0 0 University of Exeter 5th 0 0 0 1 0 0 Seaton Town 1st 1 0 0 1 1 0 Chagford 1st 1 0 0 1 2 0 Halwill 1st 1 0 0 1 3 0 LYME REGIS RESERVES 1 0 0 1 8 0 03/09. Away v Witheridge 1st (Slee Cup) 2.15pm ko 10/09. Home v Bampton 1st (League) 3pm ko 20/08. 0-8 loss v Broadclyst Upcoming Fixtures: Wallace Blackmore Stuart Broom Tom ShaunFredLouisMatthewWillTobyRobbieDariusJonLukeChappleCliftonDaviesPickeringFowlerFowlerMeechPreeceRinaldiThomsonVallely Matchday Squad Recent Results Dec Ellis Asistant Matthew Preece Today’sManagerOpponents Seaton Town 1st Venue: Away - Colyford Road, EX12 2DF Competition: Devon & Exeter Division 3 Kick of: 3.00pm 4 LRFC_Programme_270822.indd 4 24/08/2022 11:20
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In recent months the club has experi enced and increasing amount of anti-so cial behavior and criminal damage at the Davey Fort. Incidents have included drug taking, skateboarding on the club house roof and defecating in the bank between the club and the Charmouth Road car park. We also sufered a minor break-in where a sum of money was sto len and three charity boxes emptied. The matter was reported to the police who are keeping a regular eye on our premises as part of their regular patrols. The club has also been forced to install a sophisticated CCTV system with eight cameras covering the whole site.
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The kitchen extension has proved to be a real boom for the club as we are now able to cater for functions as well as our own needs. It’s a far cry from the old tea hut!
The project to improve social and play ing facilities at the Davey Fort took four years and concluded with the resurfac ing of the car park. Other improvements included: A new kitchen extension A 63-seater grandstand Widening of the pitch area by 2 metres Improved drainage Renovation of the changing facilities
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The club now has some of the best facili ties in the area at our level in the football pyramid and further improvements to the playing surface is planned for the near future.
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Davey Fort Development Project Fortify – the club’s £140,000 development programme – is all but complete
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The grandstand means our supporters no longer don’t have brace the inclem ent weather that blows in from the sea. Built into a side of a clif, the Davey Fort has been subjected to serious drainage issues over the years but these have been reduced, leading to less games being postponed due to the pitch being waterlogged. Further improvements to the drainage system are planned the future. These improvements were made possi ble by a generous £100,000 grant from Lyme Regis Town Council for which we are extremely grateful. We are especially grateful for the help and co-operation of town clerk John Wright and Cllr Richard Doney, the council’s liaison member, who has now become a keen supporter of the Seasiders, attending most first team home games. The club had to raise £36,000 as our contribution to the joint funding which we managed to achieve despite our finances being severely afected by Covid. It costs £30,000 a year to run LRFC and adding £12,000 to this every year put a strain on our finances but increased fundraising and opening up the club for car parking in the summer enabled us to meet our target.
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Afer retiring from his job as part of the works team at Lyme Regis Town Council, Ken visited the club virtually every day of his life. Ken, a life-member, also played a crucial role in Lyme’s twinning arrangement with the Normandy Club, US Creully, with reciprocal visits having been going on for 40 years, and was much respected by our French counterparts. Before unveiling ceremony, club president Philip Evans MBE paid tribute to Ken’s con tribution over such a long time, saying that no one embodied the club’s moto – “Once A Seasider …Always a Seasider” – more than Cooey. Pip also spoke about the fnancial difculties caused by the loss of revenue due to the COVID-19 epidemic. Ken’s eforts in manning car parking at the Davey Fort during the
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PLAYERS past and present gathered at the Davey Fort on the morning of Saturday, August 20 to honour one of our greatest servants, Kenneth “Cooey” Hitchcock, by naming our new grandstand afer him. Ken started playing for the Seasiders as a teenager and over the years became one of the biggest characters in local football. Some of his antics - on and of the pitch - have gone down in the folklore of Lyme Regis Football Club. Te father of three foot ball-mad boys - Andrew, Gerard and Mathew – who all played for the Seasiders at one point, Ken served on the commitee and then took over as unofcial caretaker, a role he fulflled for decades, helping behind the bar when needed and keeping the Davey Fort clubhouse shipshape. He was also an avid supporter and at tended most of Lyme’s match es, home and away, never shy of ofering advice to referees!
Special guests at the unveiling ceremony were the Mayor of Lyme Regis, Cllr Michaela Ellis, accompanied by her consort, husband Alan, and Neil Anthony, secretary of the Devon and Exeter League. Life members David Cozens MBE and Les Loveridge were also present as well as a number of former players. A portrait of Ken has also been erected in the clubhouse at “Cooey’s Corner”, his regular place at the bar where many tales of past matches were deliberated over. Te players have also paid for a seat outside the clubhouse in Ken’s memory, an indication of how much he was respect by all who knew him.
summer, virtually single-hand ed, kept the club solvent. Last summer he raised £17,000. He said the Hitchcock family was synonymous with the Lyme Regis Football Club and he paid tribute to the years of service given to the club by Ken’s wife Bety As well as a nameplate on the grandstand, Ken’s family unveiled a plaque on the rear of the stand acknowledging his 60 years of service to the club. Bety helped to run the kitchen at the Davey Fort for many years and now organises monthly bingo sessions as well as matchday rafes. She has also taken on the role of organising volunteers to man the car park this summer.
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Son Gerard played for Lyme for many years before taking over as manager of the Reserves and then the frst team. Gerard also served as club vice-chairman for several years and has now succeeded Howard Larcombe, who held the post for a record 14 years.
LYME REGIS AFC 1885 PERRY STREET & DISTRICT LEAGUE Premier Division: 6 (1957 58, 59 60, 88 89, 2004 05, 09 10, 11 12) Division One: 2 (1998 99, 99 00) Division Two: 2 (1961 62, 94 95, 20 21 on PPG basis) Division Three: 3 (1998 99, 2013 14, 18 19) Division Four: 2 (1998 99, 2007 08) Challenge Cup: 6 (1983 84, 86 87, 2005 06, 09 10, 11 12) Coronation Cup: 9 (1959 60, 79 80, 87 88, 94 95, 97 98, 2004 05, 09 10, 10 11, 11 12) Daisy Hutchings Cup: 1 (1998 99) Arthur Gage Cup: 3 (2003 04, 05 06, 09 10) Tommy Tabberer Cup: 1 (1994 95) John Fowler Cup: 2 (1986 87, 1988 89, 2018 19) Bill Bailey Cup: 3 (1988 89, 2000 01, 2016 17) Jack Venn Cup: 1 (1989 90) Kenny Hodges Cup: 1 (2011 12) 8 Honours Board DORSET AFFILIATED Dorset Intermediate Cup: 9 (1994 95, 96 97, 99 00, 2003 04, 04 05, 10 11, 12 13, 13 14) Dorset Junior Cup winners: 6 (1982 83, 85 86, 86 87, 87 88, 99 00, 2011 12) DEVON & EXETER AFFILIATED Premier Division Covid Mini League Champions: 2020/21 Division One promoted: 2017 18 Division Two promoted: 2015 16 Division Three runners-up: 2014 15 Division Four promoted: 2018 19 Division Five promoted: 2017 18 Division Six promoted: 2016 17 Division Seven promoted: 2015 16 Football Express Cup: 1 (2016 17) LYME REGIS Association Football Club LRFC_Programme_270822.indd 8 24/08/2022 11:20
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Tis is a photograph of Lyme Regis First team circa 1963, taken at Ilminster. Can you name all the players. Te frst person to provide Pip Evans with all the correct names at the Davey Fort before 5pm this afernoon (Saturday, August 27) will win a £20 voucher to spend at the bar. If you have an old team pic you would like to see in our matchday pro gramme, please let us know. by Howard Larcombe TEAM’S
RECORD IN THE DEVON & EXETER LEAGUE 2014/15 Runners up Division 3 2015/16 Runners up Division 2 2016/17 6th Division 1 2017/18 3rd Division 1 2018/19 5th Premier 2019/20 Covid 2020/21 Mini League champions 2021/22 5th Premier LRFC_Programme_270822.indd 9 24/08/2022 11:20
Te Clyst Valley Reserve team did face our 1st team back in the D & E Divison Tree back in November 2014 when the Seasiders stormed to an 8-0 win at the Fort with Joe Bond neting fve times and current man ager Julien Simier, Ben Whitington and Alfe Bellwor thy also on target. Lyme’s recent home form is good with just one defeat in six at the tail end of last season.
It was also the frst time in exactly 40 matches that Lyme have failed to score - a run going back to April 2019 (0-0 at Exmouth Town Res). 9
THIS is only the second visit by Clyst Valley 1st team to the Davey Fort. Te previous encounter in February 2019 saw Lyme run out 3-1 winners in the Devon & Exeter Premier with goals from Cody Bowditch, Fred Parsons and Ben Vine (pen).
FIRST TEAM HOME V CLYST VALLEY
STILL NO JOY AT COLYTON – OUR ‘HOODOO’ TEAM LYME’S hoodoo at the Colyton’s Peace Memorial Play ing Fields continued on Monday evening as they were beaten 3-0. Te result means Te Seasiders have yet to taste victory on the Tanners’ home turf in six atempts in the Devon & Exeter Premier Division (2D 4L).
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Matches are usually held at the Anning Road playing field where there are chang ing facilities in the Candles On The Cobb pavilion.Theyouth section increased its public profile recently by winning first prize in the Lyme Regis Carnival and last Sunday there was an enjoyable Kids v Dads game.
Whilst the number of players is increasing – recently there were over 40 kids training on the Anning Road playing field – the section is always on the look-out for more, especially for the Under 15s. Girls up the age of 15 are most welcome.
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The youth section is chaired by Martyn Wright, who has been involved with youth football for many years and who also acts as welfare ofcer. Julie Durrant is another long-serving committee member who looks after the finances and Tracey West, sister of Seasiders’s legend Timmy Edwards, is liais ing with the club’s main committee.
THE club’s Youth Section, after going through a difcult period during Covid-19, is experiencing a resurgence of interest with three teams – Under 11s, Under 14s and Un der 15s – playing in the Devon and Exeter Youth League. There is also an Under 9s side which play friendlies.
The Under 9s, managed by Paul Sheppard, train on the playing field on Sundays (10 am to 11 am), the Under 11s (manager Aaron Rawlins) and Under 14s (manager Ian Shaw) train on the playing field on Mon day evenings (5.30 pm to 6.30 pm) and the Under 15s (manager Dar ren Wiscombe, a former Lyme player), train at the Davey Fort, also on Monday evenings (5.30 pm to 6.30 pm). During the winter the older groups train on the Axminster all weather pitch. Anyone wishing to join just needs to turn up at a training session.
BALL SPONSORSHIP Available for £20 to include two persons who receive a drink from the bar before and after the match and refreshments at half-time. Sponsors will get a free advertisement in the matchday programme. vx-3.com/collections/lyme-regis-f-c
Players - £30 Social - £25 Social membership enables supporters to enjoy the Davey Fort clubhouse Bar and Clubhouse facilities on match days and on other occasions where bar prices the most competitive in town. Members are also entitled to one free use of the clubhouse for family events.
For more details contact Philip Evans on 07796 951991.
MEMBERSHIP
MATCH SPONSORSHIP
Available for £40 to include four persons who receive a drink from the bar before and after the match and refreshments at half-time. Sponsors get a free advertise ment in the Matchday Programme and will present the man-of-the-match after the game with a photo appearing in the LymeOnline newspaper.
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There are a number of sponsorship opportunities at the Davey Fort. These include:
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