Under 8's News

30 Oct AWAY to South Malling Wanderers

damoncrane — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 17:26:25 +0000

The game is at South Malling School – very close to Lewes Bridge View in fact.

- After coming through the Cullfall tunnel into Lewes take a right and continue along the A26 (Malling Street) as it climbs the hill. Take a left onto Church Lane and the school should be right there (for those with Sat Nav it’s BN7 2HS).

It’s a 1030 kickoff, so please get there for 10am.

Thanks,

Directions for Mile Oak game

damoncrane — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 17:09:24 +0000

It’s a NOON kickoff again this weekend I’m afraid.

The post code is BN42 4WA.

Directions are as follows:

- Follow Old Shoreham Road quite a way west, take a right onto Downsway Road, the first road on the right after Mile Oak road.

- If you see Topps Tiles you’ve come too far(!)

- Park where you can on the road

- Follow signs for the Mile Oak Wanderers pitches.

That is it.

Directions to Lewes Bridge View

damoncrane — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 20:33:22 +0000

Directions for sunday morning are as follows: Malling Recreation Fields, Spences Lane, Lewes, BN7 2HQ. – Turn off the A27 at the main lewes roundabout, go through the tunnel, bear right to follow A26, take a left onto Orchard road (before you get to the B2192) and the playing fields should eventually come up on the right-hand side. Precise directions can be found at the link below.

http://www.lewesbridgeview.co.uk/directions.html

Good luck. D

Details for the new season

damoncrane — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 07:22:39 +0000

Hello everyone, a few notes for this upcoming season.

- I have listed our initial schedule below.

- As you may have noticed our pitch has been extended a little by the council which will give the boys a bit more room on the field but parents a bit less on the sidelines(!)

- Martin and I are going to be more disciplined with the boys this year and introduce a basic code of conduct for them to follow (no arguing with each other, refs, no talking when coach is talking, etc). Failure yo follow this will result in loss of playing time.

- We are over-subscribed with numbers (16 registered players) – which means that 2 boys won’t be required each week. We will therefore introduce a rotor system – in the meantime it would help greatly if you could all look at your calendars and inform me in advance of any weekends you will not be around between now and Xmas.

- The plus side is that our league is bigger this season and we have significantly more games (24 league games scheduled plus any friendlies), so should be plenty of games to go round.

- New kit and equipment is now all paid for. Subs are now back to £2 and will be for foreseeable future. Not sure what we will spend this on yet – tracksuits for training would be good, these could be ready for deep winter…

- SUFC seniors are playing at home in a cup match this Saturday. Our boys have the opportunity to meet the players and be official mascots (ie walk out with the first team dressed in their full SUFC kit) – as well as watch the game of course. If you are interested please text me.

GAMES

11/9 – Rottingdean (H)

18/9 – Peacehaven (H)

25/9 – Lewes (A)

2/10 – Newick & Chailey (H)

9/10 – Mile Oak (A)

16/10- Coldean (H)

23/10- HALF TERM

30/10- South Malling (A)

FULL FIXTURE LIST 2011/2012

damoncrane — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 14:32:40 +0000

Please see below. Please let me know of any weekends when your boy cannot play as we have 16 registered players this season and of course only 14 required each week.

http://full-time.thefa.com/ListPublicFixture.do?divisionseason=8751906&league=1697069

NEW LEAGUE SEASON DETAILS

damoncrane — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 14:30:26 +0000

Here are the details of our upcoming league season.
- We are in a league of 13 this year, same opponents as last season plus a few new ones.

http://full-time.thefa.com/ProcessPublicSelect.do?psSelectedSeason=3921407&psSelectedDivision=3622827&psSelectedCompetition=0&psSelectedLeague=1697069

- Our fixture list is therefore much busier with 24 scheduled games, starting with back-to-back home matches against local rivals (Rottingean on 11 Sep and Peacehaven on 18 Sep).

See you all for training on 3 Sep at 930, bottom pitch.

Rgds,
D

Lewes tournament

damoncrane — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 09:51:36 +0000

Directions for sunday morning are as follows:
Malling Recreation Fields, Spences Lane, Lewes, BN7 2HQ.
- Turn off the A27 at the main lewes roundabout, go through the tunnel, bear right to follow A26, take a left onto Orchard road (before you get to the B2192) and the playing fields should eventually come up on the right-hand side.

Update

damoncrane — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 12:51:06 +0000

Firstly well done to everyone for the past few weeks. Since my return I have seen the first team win 4 consecutive games playing excellent football against some good teams. Ditto our second team, just a little unfortunate to not get the results they perhaps deserve.

It is becoming increasingly hard to single out individuals – which is precisely what a strong team is all about, so well done all!

Key diary dates for the next few weeks are:

Sun March 20th – away at Sov Saints (KO to come)
Sat March 26th – training no game on Sunday
Sun April 4 – home to Sov Saints
Sun April 11 – home friendly (oppo to come)
Sun April 18 – Longhill tournament (all day)
Weekend of 25/26 – EASTER, no footie
Sun May 1 – ROYAL WEDDING, no footie
Sunday 8 May – Eastbourne tournament
Sunday 15 May – home friendly (oppo to come)
Sunday 5 June – Lewes tournament

More details to come on all this, plus we need to schedule our end of season party and awards, possibly 22 or 23 May.

Thanks,
D

UPDATE

damoncrane — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 11:02:24 +0000

Hello everyone, it’s been a while since I’ve posted on here so good to be back.

As most of you probably know i have been incapacitated somewhat, but am pleased to say i am now on the mend, expect to make a full recovery, and will be back in the fold this weekend. Many, many thanks to Martin for holding the fort and ensuring that our kids have been able to continue enjoying football these past few weeks.

From the reports I’ve heard it sounds like the boys have enjoyed being back out there again, and have played some excellent football, most recently in two hard-fought games against Coldean. The BAD news is that our ‘official’ season is, believe it or not, almost at an end already. After our game against Patcham Amber this weekend we have no matches for two weeks, then we play Peacehaven at home on 6 March and our final game of our season is, believe it or not, on 13 March (away against Hollingbury Hawks).

Martin and I are yet to fully discuss the fine details but we are both in agreement that springtime is actually the best time to play youth football so I am going to be arranging a string of friendly games into early summer (for a start we’ll play the league games we missed against Hawks, Peacehaven and Rottingdean, plus Meridian and Sov Saints have requested friendlies and i would like to try and get a game or two against some new opponents). This will take us through to early May when the tournament season begins…this year I anticipate we’ll enter perhaps 2 or 3 and thus give all our squad the chance to enjoy the thrill of tournament football.

In fact, tournament season starts early this year. The first one we are entered for is on Sunday 17th April – conveniently enough at Longhill! Please put this in your diaries and let me know if you are unable to attend.

Thanks,
Damon

WINTER BREAK

damoncrane — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 22:58:12 +0000

Our next league game is 16 January @ home to Meridian and with the winter weather now at its bleakest, i think v unlikely we will train again until 15 Jan. See you then. D