This morning, hundreds of people lined Park Road (at a safe distance) to say their farewells to Paul ‘PK’ Kelly. A stunning turnout, showing how loved he was by so many.
Rest in peace PK, you’ll be sorely missed.
FULL TIME: Town 1 - 0
@SSDEVFC
Town put in a spirited display to shut out the league leaders.
@RaymondLovell
scoring the only goal of the game following up on a set piece.
A brilliant effort from the lads 🔴
#UTFR
We’re very sad to report that
@sludgiesly
suffered broken leg in the reserves fixture with
@CholseyU
. We don’t know the full extent of the injury, but everyone at the club wishes Sly a speedy recovery.
Centre midfielder
@LBsmiler
was next to sign. Browner has experience playing at a higher level so is a big signing for us. We’re delighted to have added him to the squad.
✍️
@jack_gibson48
The cat is back 🐱
Gibbo joined the club towards the end of the 2021/22 season, and has been an ever present in the sticks since (bar one incident 🔴)
Our Number 1 🧤
3 POINTS IN THE BAG!!
Town come away from their opening
@WiltsLeague
fixture with a 2-0 victory over
@DevReservesFC
.
Goals from Liam Hares and
@Kyle_Bowyer_9
the scorers…
Played in a great spirit and well officiated 👏🏼
@harryplatt4is
the best lad around. Loves slide tackling his radio. Smokes 50 a day, drinks like a fish, one of the fittest lads at the club. Medical marvel.
We started working on our pitches this morning, 40 tonnes of sand/soil/seed being spread over the next 48 hours, courtesy of the Pitch Improvement Grant from the
@FootballFoundtn
!
#NonLeagueWembley
Huge congratulations to former 1st Team Manager, Darryl and Kayley on the safe arrival of Lily-bet Emma Curtis!!
We hear mum and baby are doing well and a future England ladies captain is born!
Last up for today is last seasons top scorer and ‘fans favourite’,
@sludgiesly
. His hair is always immaculate and he’s always happy to play wherever he is selected....
Loves a
@Staropramen
Town won their season's opening game, beating Devizes Town Res 2-0. Liam Hares and Kyle Bowyer scored the goals, but keeper Jack Gibson got The Advertiser Magazine Man of the Match award for his clean sheet.
First up,
@RaymondLovell
. Ray is a great option for us at LB. very comfortable on the ball and adds great balance to the side. Comes as a bit of a double act with
@JamieTuck8
Full Time:
@HRessies
0 - 2 Town
@WillBazen
and Matty Lawrence with the goals as Town secure an important 3 points on the road.
Well played lads. Enjoy your Saturday!
#UTR
There’s the final whistle!!!
Three points and promotion know guaranteed!!!
Well done boys, hard work paid off in the end….
The Don 1-0
@Kingsdownlions
Dev
@WiltsLeague
Massive congratulations to 1st team captain and inventor of the ‘Forth Turn’,
@JForth12
and Penny on the safe arrival of their second son, Tommy.
Mum and baby both home and doing well and a future Town player enters the world!!
A first point of the season for the 1st team at home v
@htfcswifts
. In difficult circumstances, the lads left it all out there and fully deserved the point against a very good side. Was it
@davo3191
goal? Was it
@morganwatts98
? Who cares? How good is the new DOTD shirt!
The big news from last night is that the Vets team completed their league campaign with a 3-0 win over Benson Lions.
The result means that they cannot be caught at the top of the table. Well done lads! 🏆🔴
#Champions
We’re delighted to announce ‘A’ team manager
@LFarmer93
and his wife Helle added a future Faringdon Town player to their ranks this morning! Baby Blake and Helle are both doing well!!
Congratulations from all at FTFC!!
The final whistle has blown and it’s another convincing win for Town and a fourth clean sheet on the bounce with eighteen scored.
Town 5-0
@LambournFC
Goalscorers:
@Kyle_Bowyer_9
x2,
@JamieTuck8
x2, Liam Hares
Town come from a goal down to win 6-1 in the opening game of the season. Goals from
@Courts_03
(2), Sean Creeley,
@Goody225
(pen) and
@bradbury_7
(2) saw the first team take all 3 points. Thanks for all the travelling support for making the long journey.
#FTFC
⚽️⚽️
✍️
@JamieTuck8
Tucky returns to the club having missed last season.
He likes to get on the ball and play, and will bolster our midfield.
Loves a beer, and we are delighted to have him with us
#TuckBack
BREAKING: Faringdon Town have rejected the Super League.
"We are refusing to take part in this elite project. We are happy to play in the
@WiltsLeague
, have yet to receive an invitation but will refuse to take part regardless"
Finally, and arguably our favourite signing of the day, is
@jamie_sn6
. This guy is the best babysitter at the club, bar none. A former Clubman of the year winner, J-Zilla will often be found suppin a Staro. Banter for days
The groundsmen have been doing a class job on the ‘main’ pitch over the last few weeks. Always going to have the wave, but not sure it’s looked this good for some years.
✍️
@RaymondLovell
The left sided defender joined the club in 2020.
Sets high standards of himself and the squad. A great bloke to have around the club.
Popped up with a few goals last season too!
Congratulations to
@FaringdonVets
manager, Mike VDM, who secured his first 3 points as a manager, and also scored 4 goals in the process!
FTFC Vets won 6-0 with
@pilly_11
scoring the other 2 goals.
FULL TIME | Town pick up a good win at home against
@ClannyDev
@pilly_11
and Liam Hares the scorers in a 2-1 win. A good battling performance from the lads
#UTFR
🔴
Town picked up a great win at home to Carterton yesterday.
@olie_baker_
and
@JustJimmy_7
the scorers.
The A team confirmed the
@wdfafootball
Division 3 title. Great work lads 🏆
@JamieTuck8
is a no nonsense centre half/centre mid who is again very comfortable on the ball. Delighted to announce that we’ve also offered Tucks the role of vice captain.
The club can confirm that Chris Benson has stepped down as first team manager.
We would like to thank ‘Wes’ for his commitment to the role during his spell as manager. He will continue as Secretary and player for
@FaringdonVets
After Tuesday nights first pre season game winning 3.1 against a strong and experienced
@cricklade_fc
side, we now host
@faringdontownfc
tomorrow 3pm KO - behind closed doors ⛔️
#preseason
⚽️🔴⚫️🔴⚫️⚽️
We’re delighted to announce that
@harryhammerSN7
has agreed to go from 1st team assistant to Reserve team Manager with immediate effect, improving the link between the 2 sides enormously.
We are looking for a new management team for our 1st team who play in Hellenic League Division Two South
If you are interested please contact Chairman Simon Harrington on 07789437227 or simon160659
@gmail
.com
⚽️⚽️UP NEXT⚽️⚽️
Tomorrow we host
@LambournFC
for a double header. The visitors had a tough campaign last season but with a new management team and a host of new players, this will be 2 tough fixtures for Town.
Once again, if spectating please observe social distancing.
⚽️⚽️
✍️
@JForth12
Faringdon through and through, came through the youth section of the club. Now his 20th season with the Don.
The combative midfielder is looking for a big season having put the work in during the last few weeks
🚨🚨TRANSFER NEWS🚨🚨
@Adamprudman1
aka ‘Titch’ has decided to leave the club and head back to
@ShrivenhamFC
, in search of
@HellenicLeague
football.
Titch enjoyed a great spell with Town, and scored one of the greatest goals the home faithful have witnessed.
Good luck Titch!
Town put in a spirited effort to beat Wantage Devs 1-0 tonight.
Jay Warren-Grace scored a brilliant volley. Town defended well and were helped by a superb goalkeeping display by
@jack_gibson48
🧤
Good luck to
@Jdotw1
and his A team tonight.
They travel to
@clannyfc
to take on Sherborne Harriers in the
@wdfafootball
Hughes Supplementary Cup semi-final.
Kick off is 19:30 at Radcot Road
Get out and support the lads if you can
#UTFR
🔴
FULL TIME: Town bounced back to winning ways with a determined performance against Highworth Devs.
@pilly_11
2 and Liam Hares the scorers.
Well played lads!
#UTR
🔴
FULL TIME | A
@sludgiesly
brace was enough for the First team as they beat
@Wroughton_FC
Devs 2-0.
Credit to the visitors who made life difficult.
#UTFR
🔴
Town start life in the
@WiltsLeague
tomorrow afternoon with a tough fixture
@DevReservesFC
Good luck to the management and players for the season ahead
#UTFR
🔴
FULL TIME | Town 4 - 4
@RWBTFC
Devs
Town battled well against a very good side with some talented lads
Goalscorer’s were
@sludgiesly
x2,
@Kyle_Bowyer_9
and Liam Hares
An excellent run out for all involved. Good luck to Bassett this season
We’re absolutely delighted to announce that we have been awarded Charter Standard status again this year.
A HUGE thank you to all of our volunteers for their hard work and commitment. Without you all, there would be no Faringdon Town FC.
Reserves gaffa
@harryhammerSN7
has been busy this week securing himself an assistant!
@kelvinjackson
is a former Town player and youth coach but has most recently been coaching with
@Official_STFC
academy and scouting for the club also!
Welcome back Kelv 💪👊⚽️
Pre season got under way this evening. Very strange times, but every one of the 48 players across the 2 sessions perfectly observed the social distancing measures and worked their socks off.
Thanks to official club photographer
@Will_Oglesby
for the snaps from tonights session!
A dominant performance from the first team to finish off pre season, beating Bampton 3-1. Goals from Jay Warren Grace,
@JustJimmy_7
and
@jamie_sn6
MOTM was
@harryplatt4
for another energetic performance!
Harry is sponsored this season by Call - on Plumbing and Heating 🚰🔧🔥
The first team made hard work of it but finally came good, coming back from 3-1 and 4-2 down to win on penalties. Fabian Crane,
@gatty9
,
@LBsmiler
and
@JamieTuck8
with the goals in normal time.
DOTD for the 2nd week running is
@morganwatts98
. Awful clobber. Awful finishing. Dived to try and win a pen. Wearing glittery socks. The shirt could be a regular fixture in Morgs wardrobe the season!
💥 BOOM 💥
Town stretch their unbeaten run to 7 after overcoming the conditions and a half time deficit to beat
@FCSwindonRobins
5-2. Goals for
@sludgiesly
x 2,
@samsaunders_15
,
@pilly_11
and Dave Coleman.
Good luck Robins for the remainder of the season.
#FTFC
⚽️⚽️
✍️
@pilly_11
The veteran returns for his 21st season in adult football, the majority of which have been with The Don.
Last seasons Players Player of the Season provided 10 goals from midfield, and will look to contribute once again 👴🏻
Yesterday, the First Team faced
@BourtonRovers
in the quarter finals of the Jim Newman cup at
@clannyfc
. A well disciplined performance saw us run out 3-1 winners in a game that was played at a good tempo by 2 good sides.
@pilly_11
and
@danhosk
(2) with the goals
✍️ EL CAPITAN
Luke Davenport (
@davo3191
) returns for another season.
The solid centre half has been with the club for a few season now, we are just getting used to his accent ⚽️
Happy Birthday to our joint biggest fan (along with your twin, Johnny),
@NotTomGarbutt
.
Seriously, if you could grow facial hair, you’d be the spitting image of old iron balls.
Fantastic afternoon and evening at the club yesterday with over 50 ex-FTFC players attending the reunion.
With players going back to the 1950’s, we spanned 7 decades!!
Thank you also to Los Amigos for the spinning of the decks.
Finally, after what seems a lifetime, we have a light at the end of the tunnel!
Yesterday we had confirmation from both
@HellenicLeague
and
@NorthBerks
of a form of restart in mid April!!
Our junior teams will also restart their fixtures in the middle of April!
⚽️ ⚽️ ⚽️
@Dan_Barber14
has decided to step down from managing the reserves to concentrate on playing while his old bones will let him and whilst he seems to be injury free (queue an injury at the weekend).
Thanks Barbs for your contribution and also thanks to Trants for your support. 💪