Eccleshall FC vs Stockport Town

Eccleshall Football Club - Season 2022/23

Pershall Park, Chester Road, Eccleshall, Staffordshire ST21 6NE Telephone 01785 851351 (match days only)

Legal Entity: Company limited by shares - Eccleshall Football Club Limited (c/n 13365015). Subsidiary of Eccleshall FC Sports Foundation Limited (c/n 13359263) - company limited by guarantee.

Club Officials:

Chairman: Neil Washington

Vice-Chairman: Antony Johnson

Secretary: Jim Tunney

Treasurer: David Heelis

Programme Editor: Shaun Rogers

Clubhouse Management: Bill Grinham

Club Welfare Officer: Jim Tunney

Commercial Manager: Media Officer: Shaun Rogers

Directors

Neil Washington, Antony Johnson, Paul Cox, David Heelis, Bill Grinham, Richard Marsh, Jim Tunney.

Committee

Fundraising Sub-Committee

Neil Washington, Antony Johnson, John Martin, Jim Tunney, Colin Leese

First Team Management:

Liam Kelly, Nathan Wilkes, Russell Rowley, Harry Pickering, Laura Machin

Junior Section

Chairman: Andy Gough

Secretary: Gareth Davies

U10s Kieron Healey

U13s Dave Hislop, Gaz Davis

U14s John Edensor, Nick Mobley

U16s Paul Heler, Mark Croxton, Henry Taylor

Members of the North West Counties League, Midland Junior Premier League, North Staffs Junior Youth League, Mid Staffs Junior League.

Affiliated to Staffordshire FA

Eccleshall FC is an England Accredited Club

THE DUGOUT VIEW THE DUGOUT VIEW

Good afternoon and welcome to today's game against league leaders Stockport Town FC. From what I have seen of all the opposition we have faced this season, I think Stockport will take some stopping on their way to winning the league this season.

Our boys are well prepared and looked right at it in training on Thursday. A superb session from Oz and the standard was a joy to watch. If we can take that into today's game and outwork Stockport, I genuinely believe we will take something from the game. There is however no denying that we will need to be at our best today.

The last time out was perhaps the game of the season for home supporters, particularly the neutral. Our previous record against Maine Road has been truly awful so when we went 1-0 down it felt like a case of “here we go again.” Credit to the boys though who twice came from behind and a superb finish from Mitch Glover won us the game At no point did the boys down tools and roll over and I thought we were good value for the 3 points. Our work rate and desire was fantastic and I thought our fitness levels showed in the last 20 minutes.

Enjoy this afternoon’s game and thank you for your continued support.

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STOCKPORT TOWN FC

Stockport Town Football Club began life back in February 2014 and developed a first-team squad in preparation for the 2014/15 season. The club, lead by manager, Calum Sykes, proceeded through a campaign of friendly fixtures and the club's first ever non-competitive match came against Stalybridge Celtic on 12th July 2014, and despite losing 5-0 at Stockport Sports Village, the club had begun its journey

The club, nicknamed The Lions, competed throughout the 2014/15 season against first teams and reserve teams from many different clubs including; FC United of Manchester, Ramsbottom United, Fleetwood Town U21's and Norwegian outfit, Rolvsøy IF.

The Lions endured a successful first-ever campaign competing in 35 fixtures home and away ending with statistics of Won: 17, Draw: 8, Lost: 10. The club also completed a 13-match unbeaten run in the middle of the campaign between 13th July - 13th October, including 9 victories. In May 2015 the club was accepted into Step 6 of the Non-League Pyramid and joined the North West Counties Football League - Division One The club's first ever competitive fixture came on Saturday 8th August 2015 away at Hanley Town, a match in which Stockport were victorious 3-2, and in doing so recorded their first ever competitve win On 15th August 2015 the club competed in their first ever competitve match at Stockport Sports Village, with their opponents on that day, Widnes FC securing a 2-2 draw in front of a then record crowd of 78

Stockport competed three competitions in their first ever league season including the NWCFL, League Challenge Cup and Cheshire Senior Cup. The club progressed to the semi-finals of the League Challenge Cup before a 3-1 defeat to Barnton FC at SSV, meanwhile Hyde United knocked Town out of the Cheshire Senior Cup in the Preliminary Round.

As the season came to a close Stockport secured a playoff spot in the First Division with a match to spare in the NWCFL. Town came up against Bacup Borough FC in the playoff semifinal at SSV but were defeated 2-0 as Bacup progressed into the 2015 First Division Playoff Final. During the 2016/17 season, Stockport Town got off to a poor start with 6 points from 6 matches, this proved difficult to turn around up until the New Yaer, when we appointed a new manager, Dave Wild in January. Since this appointment player recruitment improved and results followed suit finishing the season well beating Sandbach 3-1 on the final game of the season

With the foundations in place, Dave Wild is optimistic that with his summer recruits, including Ash Stott, we are looking forward to a successful season

JUNIOR EAGLES

1971

Weekend Results,

Saturday, U16s won 2-1 U13s lost away 3-1 at Aylestone Park.

Sunday, U14s lost 2-1 against Nantwich. U13s won 12-0 against Brereton.

This Saturday, U13s are at home 10:30 ko. The u16s are away in Stratford “Come

Juniors Chairman, Andy Gough,

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Louis Downs

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Jack Flanaghan

Jordan Flattley

Ryan Jay Malbon

Liam Kelly

Nathan Wilkes

Harry Pickering

Harvey Colins

Management

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AARON WOOLRICH (GK)

ALEXANDER ATTON (GK)

CALLUM FEENEY

LEWIS DUNN

MAX RAINE

RYAN CAMPBELL GORDON

ETHAN STANTON

MITCHELL GLOVER

AIDEN BLAISE

LUKE LEWIS

OLI HICKMAN

DANIEL TAYLOR

JORDAN DARLINGTON

JORDAN BENTON

LUCAS GREEN-BIRCH

GEORGE WOODROFFE

LOUIS DOWNS MARK GROOM

ASHLEY COLCLOUGH

JACK FLANAGHAN

JORDAN FLATTLEY RYAN PICKUP

RYAN MALBON

ANT MALBON

CHRIS BOAST

ZAK OLIVER (GK)

JOSHUA SCHOFIELD (GK)

MILAN ALLISON

KEITH BANDA

WILLIAM CALLIGAN

JACK CLARK

BEN DARBY

COLE DEWHURST

MICHAEL ELSTONE

KYLE FOLEY

TOBIAS GREEN

SAMUEL HARE

SAMUEL HIND

MUSA JOBE

KAI JOHNSTON

SCOTT MCGOWAN

LEWIS MCKINNEY

DANIEL MCLAUGHLIN

HARLEY MONAGHAN

THOMAS MORRIS

JOSHUA OSIFO

MICHAEL RAYNES

MATTHEW RUSSELL

WILLIAM SHAWCROSS

LEANDRO TANSWELL VARGAS PAUL TURNBULL

JAMIE WALSH JAMIE WRENCH

ELLIOTT HOLMAN

ANTONIA SMITH ANTHONY HEATH

Manager : Liam Kelly