Wymondham Town United Youth Football Club

OK, just a quick-ish (for me, anyway) update this week.

“5-1 Loss last Sunday”. Sounds bad, but those of us who were there on Sunday know the score didn’t reflect the play: a 1-1 draw or at worst a 2-1 loss would have been a fairer result.

A worrying start to the game with Asher being injured or at least worsening a training injury whilst having a kickabout beforehand. Thankfully, Oliver “Never Say Never” Charlish was on hand to be volunteered by me to play in goal and Asher had a great game on the park (better still in the second half after Alex had suggested we change the positions around and move Asher to midfield).

No two ways about it, Rocklands were lucky with the quick first goal whilst we were still nervous, but boy, did we come back with Matthew’s goal in the second half!

Now all we need to do is repeat that sort of performance on Sunday at home to Poringland and we’ll chalk up another victory, of that I have no doubt.

Thanks also to Michael Elvin for doing the duty as linesman releasing Alex and I to coach and/or referee the game.

Let’s hope Asher’s wrist gets better sooner rather than later; although after that performance from Olly and Ash in their switched positions, I’m not as concerned for our results as I was before kick-off, it must be said - it’s good to see that both players stepped up to their challenges.

Talking of injuries, I’m sure we all wish Joseph a speedy recovery after his surgery this Tuesday to reset his broken nose. Joseph will be out of action for at least another two weeks - I’d have thought it’s more likely to be more than that, although I’m always amazed at how quickly people heal - but in the meantime it’s great to see him turning out to support his team whilst he’s under orders not to play. It’s also good to see Matthew Elvin filling in for Joseph whilst he’s out: let’s hope Matty decides to stay on afterwards, eh?

So, onto administrative matters:

1. Training - this is on Wednesday evening at Ketts Park from 6.00pm to 7.30pm as last week.

2. Poringland Match, Sunday 22nd October - this is a home fixture again and we’re up first this week, so that means a kick-off at 10.00am. Please make sure the boys arrive for warm-up and briefing between 9.30am and 9.45am at the latest. Poringland are only ahead of us in the league table on goal difference and a victory against them would move us ahead.

3. We still need to have a parent or other family member to act as linesman for our games, both home and away. You will need to be in line with the last defender for one half of the pitch and know the offside rule (Law 11).

4. Match Reporter - we still need someone to volunteer to do this.

And finally…

I have completely overhauled our team web site which can be found at http://www.wtufc.org.uk and http://www.silfield-united.org.uk. If you have a smaller monitor size, you’re better off, because at larger screen sizes Alex and I emerge into the picture at the top of the page!

You’ll find all sorts of information there in the main sections including our regularly-amended fixture list and our league table. The categories section covers fixtures, newsletters and results: this update can be found here, for instance. The archives section is a month-by-month archive of what we’re doing. There’s a links section with links to the main club web site as well as the old message board where the previous years’ results are kept. And finally there’s a sponsors section with links to our sponsors’ web sites.

Clicking through to some of the Google Ads. will help pay for the site’s hosting costs {hint, hint} and might get you football-related bargains. Or not.

See you all on Wednesday evening.