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The Down on The Up?
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Thanks Jack
Will be starting a new alternative format for next season.
Story so far...
Story so far......
First Season :
English Western League First Division : 1st
FA Vase : 1st Round Replay
Les Phillips Cup : First Round (Penalties)
Somerset Premier Cup : Second Round (Extra-Time)
Season Review :
We were predicted to finish bottom of the league and get nowhere in any of the cups at the start of the season and as I struggled to bring the club up to our current leagues standard it seemed that we weren't going to prove anybody wrong. The season started decently with a 2-1 away win, a 1-1 home draw and a 4-1 home win against one of the supposedly 'big boys' in the league, Roman Glass St. George. A 2-0 home win against Gillingham Town. a 1-0 away win against Berks County Sports in the FA Vase and a 1-1 away draw with the biggest side in the league, Chard Town. Seems great doesn't it? But it couldn't even keep going to the end of September. On the 23/09/09 we lost 2-0 at home to a not very good Almondsbury UWE side. Maybe we could pick it up on the 26th at home to one of the bottom sides in the league? Cadbury Heath got off their crappy coach and whooped us 5-1 in front of our own (very few) fans. Worcester Park put us out of the FA Vase after a replay, we drew 0-0 at home against 20th placed Keynsham, lost 2-1 away to Devizes Town and 1-0 away to Shepton Mallet. Things couldn't of been going much worse. Our local squad were *****, my signings were *****, my staff were ***** and I was beginning to think I was ***** to.
We scraped a win against Westbury in the Les Phillips Cup Qual. Round with an extra time goal, 0-0 draw with Oldland Abottanians, 3-2 away loss to Portishead T, a 2-1 away extra-time loss to Bristol Manor Farm in the Somerset Premier Cup and 1-0 away loss to Bradford T. Everything was failing, I was failing and coming only just above our media expectation in mid November. What was I going to do? Some serious changes had to made at Odd Down so..I put every player on the current squad onto the reserves and signed in a whole new team. But could it work? Would it work? Did it work? Answer those questions for yourself. My newly built team hammered Hengrove 6-0, a 2-0 win over Westbury. We got knocked out of the Les Phillips Cup in the first round on penalties but I didn't care. We were on fire. We won 7 league games in a row before being held to a 0-0 draw at home to Shrewton Utd. Could it be the start of a fall? Nope. We won our next 3 matches, lost 2 in a row and won 4 in a row. We had a few horrific results including a 5-0 loss to Bridport but we struggled on and won the league by 8 points. I was ecstatic, to win the league when we were predicted to come bottom of the leage. Yeah it was a **** season with a lot of pain involved in it and playing horrible football on horrible pitches in a worthless pub league. But we made it, we made it to level 9. To the Western Premier. Michael Coady really deserves praise for his role, getting
Second Season :
English Western League Premier Division : 1st
FA Cup : Second Qualifying Round
FA Vase : First Round
Les Phillips Cup : Semi-Final
Somerset County Premier Cup : Quarter Final
Season Review :
What can I say? I was simply blown away by how well we did compared to last season. We couldn't have done any better in the league :
View attachment 47670
As you can see from the table, we went unbeaten in the league and only drew six games winning the rest. We got 102 points while 2nd place managed to get 67 points.
Main First Team squad players :
David Grof
This guy is going to go far, very far. He joined a fair bit into the season to replace outgoing Welsh keeper Andy Marriott. Grof immediately beat Ashley Bayes in a battle to be first choice keeper. The amazing young Hungarian got 22 appearances, conceding 6 goals and getting 16 clean sheets. After playing for Hibernian and Headington A's before joining us, the 22 year old keeper already has 8 youth caps and could be a future star at a much higher level.
Ashley Bayes
Bayes started the season as our first choice keeper after being brought in to replace Richardson. Bayes who has years of lower league experience in the English leagues. He played for Brentford, Torquay, Exeter, Leyton Orient and one of my favourite clubs, Bohemians (top team in Ireland), Woking, Hornchurch, Grays, Crawley and Stevenage before joining us. The 39 year old, experienced keeper got 18 appearances for us, conceding 8 goals and getting 11 clean sheets. The keeper was definately well above average for us but was moved to the subs bench when the talented, young Hungarian David Grof arrived. Now that Bayes is not starting he has decided to call it a day and has announced his retirement date.
Rob Gier
The talented,3 times capped Fillipino right full back joined the club half way through the 2009/2010 season and was in top class form in the 19 appearances he got. Being 29 everyone expected his form to drop slightly next season with the rise of competition but the determined Fillipino did the exact opposite. He got 29 appearances and brought his form up to the best of his career. Gier was at Wimbledon for years at the start of his career before moving on to Rushden, Cambridge, Woking, Aldershot,Grays, Ascot and Odd Down.
William Quevedo
William Quevedo started his career at Rodez Aveyron Football before moving on to ASOA Valence, Moreinse, Boavista, FC Sochaux-Montbe, FC Sete 34, back to Rodez Aveyron Football, Onet-Le-Chateau and Odd Down. On arriving at Odd Down, Quevedo was predicted to walk onto the first team but due to his age and lack of fitness he only got 23 appearances for the club. In those 23 appearances however his performances were quality and his experience really showed. Quevedo stated that he believes it is time for him to step aside and let younger players take the reigns so he has announced his retirement date.
Bradley Middleton
Bradley Middleton is a 22 year old defender left/centre who started his career with Cardiff. Middleton was decent on the youth team but never got a first team appearance so he moved on to Weston-super-Mare. He was dissapointed when he wasn't given any first team oppurtunities at Weston either so he moved on to Bridgewater in the Southern League where he got 21 appearances. He then moved to Odd Down on a free where for parts of the season was a key centre back getting 23 appearances for the club.
Joel Adegoroye
Joel Adegoroye is a 20 year old centre back who played for two season on the Stade Rennais academy and has 10 youth caps for Nigeria. The centre back went a season unemployed after he wasn't offered a new deal by Stade and was then snapped up on a free by young Irish manager Finn O'Leary at Odd Down. Adegoroye arrived late in the season so only got 21 appearances for the club but is now rated as the clubs key defender. He is rated by O'Leary as one of the top wonderkids at Odd Down.
Aaron Robinson
Aaron Robinson is a 22 year old Northern Irish defender who started his career at Larne before moving on to Shankill and his current club Odd Down. He played the last 4 games of the 09/10 season as he only signed right at the end and was just above average in his performances. In 2010/2011 season he was one of the central figures on the Odd Down team, getting 35 appearances. He is now going to be competing with Bradley Middleton to join Joel Adegoroye in centre back.
Patrick Dillon
Patrick Dillon is a 20 year old right full back who started his career with Cliftonville before moving to Linfield on a free. The young Northern Irish full back then moved to Odd Down on a free to become a back up to Rob Gier and was quality in the 25 appearances he got even though he was often played out of position on the right wing.
Chris Powell
Chris Powell is an extremely experienced, 41 year old left full back who represented England 5 occasions. Powell started his career at Crystal Palace where he got 3 appearances in the 88/89 season. He wasn't given any oppurtunities the next season when they went up to the Prem so he accepted a loan deal at Aldershot where he got 11 appearances in League 2. In the 90/91 season he moved to Southend on a free and stayed there for five and a half seasons. He got over 40 appearances every season and 27 in his last season there and is remembered as an icon in the clubs history. Powell moved to Derby County half way through the 95/96 season for 750k. He got 19 appearances in the Championship and then 35 and 37 appearances in the Prem for the next two seasons. He moved to Charlton in 98/99 for 825k where he stayed for six and a half seasons. He was a key player for most of his time there. He moved to West Ham for a season before moving back to Charlton. He then moved to Watford and then back to Charlton again. In 08/09 he moved to Leicester where he stayed for 2 seasons before moving to his current club Odd Down. The left back has 693 league appearances and is now a key player and captain at Odd Down.
Carlton ***
Carlton *** is an 18 year old centre midfielder currently playing for Odd Down. The young midfielder started his career on the Aldershot youth team in 08/09 and then moved to Odd Down on 09/10. The youngster was named 'Fans Player of the Season' after 28 appearances of quality. Carlton *** is now in Odd Down's hall of fame as a favoured personell.
Ian Finlay
Ian Finlay is a 21 year old Irish centre midfielder who started his career with three season onthe St. Pat's Athletic youth academy. In 2009 he moved to Athlone Town where he got two first team appearances. In 2010 he moved to Odd Down and played in the last game of the 09/10 campaign. He was expected to break into the first team in a few years time but instead he got 7 goals and 8 assists in his 37 classy appearances. Finlay has found himself a place at the centre point of O'Leary's plans.
Scott McCullough
Scott McCullough is a 21 year old Northern Irish centre midfielder who started his playing career at Loughall. He moved to Dungannon in 07/08 but in the few years he was there only made two appearances for the club. He was snapped up by Odd Down manager Finn O'Leary in 09/10 and was considered to be a decent reserve signing. He proved everyone wrong with 5 goals and 4 assists in 21 appearances. He now is one of four players competing for the centre midfield spots.
Chris Curran
Chris Curran is 20 year old Irish winger/striker who currently plays for Odd Down. Curran was on the Manchester United youth academy for two years before moving to Forest Green Rovers in 2009/2010 season. He got 16 appearances for Forest Green before being snapped up by O'Leary where he played the last 22 games of the season. He was played as a striker in his first season at Odd Down and scored 5 goals but in the second season he was moved out to the right wing where he got 7 goals and 4 assists along with 3 MOM awards. He is rated as one of the Down's key players.
Marc Zanotti
Marc Zanotti is a 35 year old left winger currently playing at Odd Down. He started his career at Sporting Toulon Var where he got 26 appearances and 4 goals in the season he spent there. In the 96/97 season he was snapped up by Girondins Bordeaux and he got 2 goals in his 18 appearances but the next season he was only given 7 appearances scoring 1 goal. In 98/99 he went on loan to Ligue 2 side AS Saint-Ettiene where he scored 2 goals in 12 appearances. He got 7 appearances in 99/20 for Bordeaux and moved to Stade Malherbe Caen where he 17, 10 and 1 appearances over the next three seasons. He was unemployed for a whole season before being signed up by Nimes Olympique in 04/05 in the French National. He got 21 appearances and 1 goal before moving to Saint-Cyr-sur-Mer in 05/06. He got no appearances and was released. He was unemployed for three seasons before Saint-Cyr-sur-Mer re-signed him. He got 1 goal and 7 assists in his 33 appearances for them before moving to Odd Down. Now was an unlucky players time to shine. The left winger got 11 goals, 19 assists, 10 MOM awards in his 32 appearances for Western League Prem winners Odd Down. He was named player of the season and inducted into Odd Down's hall of fame as a favoured personnell. Zanotti has 2 youth appearances and 2 youth goals for France under his belt.
Geoff Horsefield
Geoff Horsfield is a 37 year old English journeyman striker currently playing at Odd Down. Horsfield started his football career at Scarburough in League 2 wher he got 12 appearances and 1 goal in his one and a half seasons there. In 93/94 he moved to Halifax where he got 9 appearances in the Blue Square Premier. He was released from the club and was unemployed until Witton snapped him up in 96/97 but Halifax quickly splashed out 4k to bring him back to the club. He spent around 3 seasons at Halifax getting 9 goals in 24 appearances in his first, 30 goals in 40 appearances in his second and 7 goals in 10 appearances in League 2 as they got promoted. Half way through 98/99 season Fulham spent 325k for him and he scored 15 goals in 28 appearances in League 1. In 99/20 he scored 7 in 30 appearances on their promotion to the Championship before being signed for 2 million by Birmingham City in 00/01 season. He bagged 7 goals in 34 appearances in the Championship for Birmingham and 11 goals in 40 appearances the next season. Birmingham won promotion to the Prem and he got 5 goals in 31 appearances in 02/03. In 03/04 he got 3 appearances before being signed by Wigan in the Championship for 1 million. He got 7 goals in 16 appearances for Wigan before West Brom snapped him up for another 1 million in January. He got another 7 goals in 20 appearances for West Brom that season. West Brom were promoted to the prem and he scored 3 in 29 appearances 04/05. He got another 4 prem goals in 18 appearances in 05/06 before going to Sheffield United on loan where he got 3 appearances. Sheffield United got promoted to the prem and signed him for 1.5 million in 06/07 but didn't give him one game! They sent him on loan to Leeds in the Championship where he got 2 goals in 14 appearances and as soon as he returned was sent to Leicester where he got 2 goals in 13 appearances. In 07/08 he went on loan to Scunthorpe where he got 12 appearances. He signed for Lincoln in 08/09 where he got 17 appearances and 1 goal in League 2. In 09/10 he signed for Port Vale where he got 1 goal in 4 appearances. It seemed that his major football career was over when he signed for Western Division One side Odd Down. He played the last two games of their season and joined celebrations for their success at winning their division. In 10/11 he got 11 goals and 9 assists in his 23 appearances in the Western Prem helping Odd Down to their dominant title win and back to back promotion.
Kevin Phillips
Kevin Phillips is a 37 year old English striker with a glorious history including 8 caps for his country. Phillips started his career at Baldock T. Letchworth in 94/95 but was quickly signed by Watford for 10k where he got 9 goals in 16 appearances in his first season. In 95/96 even though Watford got relegated from the Championship, Phillips banged in 11 goals in his 27 appearances. Life in League 1 didn't suit Phillips and he only managed 4 goals in 16 appearances in 96/97 season. In 97/98 he made the best move of his life by signing for Sunderland for 325k. In his first season he got 29 goals in 40 appearances in the Championship. In 98/99 he only got 26 appearances due to injury problems but managed to bang in 23 goals anyway and helped them win promotion to the prem. In 99/00 he got 30 goals in 36 appearances in the prem along with winning European Golden Boot award. He spent another 3 seasons at Sunderland getting 14, 11 and 6 prem goals before moving to Southampton 03/04 for 2 Million. He got 13 in 34 appearances in the first season and 13 in 30 appearances in his second season. In 05/06 he moved to Aston Villa for 1 million but turned out to be a flop at Villa Park, only managing to score 4 goals in his 23 appearances. He moved to West Brom in 06/07 for 700k and got 16 goals in his 36 appearances in the Championship. In 07/08 he got 22 goals in 35 appearances. He went on a free to Birmingham in 08/09 and banged in 14 goals in 36 games in the Championship. On their promotion to the prem he got 3 goals in 6 games in the prem and then moved to RC Warwick in 2010/2011 in the Midland Combination Premier where he got 8 goals in 11 games before moving to Odd Down and getting 21 goals in 22 appearances in the Western Prem. Phillips was top scorer in the competition. He is now among Odd Down's key players and has just signed a new contract with the club.
Aaron Burns
Aaron Burns is a 23 year old English striker who started his career on the Man Utd academy in 04/05. He remained there for 3 seasons before signing for FC United of Manchester. Half way through the season he hadn't got any first team appearances so he accepted a move to Northwich Victoria on a free. He got 3 goals in 19 appearances 07/08 but didn't get any appearances for the next two seasons so he went on loan to Altrincham where he got no appearances so he signed for AFC Liverpool where he got one appearance before moving to Odd Down. He got 25 appearances, 3 goals and 5 assists during Odd Down's Western League Premier campaign. He is currently with the Odd Down squad doing pre-season training ahead of their Southern League South/West Division campaign.
Mohammed Dikuiza
Mohammed Dikuiza is a 21 year old English striker who started his career on the Brentford youth academy. He spent two seasons on the academy before joining Hayes & Yeading on a free. He got 4 appearances at the club before moving to Odd Down where he got 4 goals in his 11 appearances 10/11 season. He is currently a back up striker on the Odd Down first team squad.
Michael Coady deserves praise for helping to turn around Odd Down's fortunes in the English Western League Division One in 09/10. The young Irish striker scored 19 goals in 21 appearances getting the top scorer award. In 2010/2011 however Coady only got 1 goal in 10 league appearances.
Pre Season 2011/2010 :
Budget :
Transfer Budget : 100k
Wage Budget : 3.18k p/w
Expectations :
Media : 5th
Board :
English Southern League First Division South/West : Reach Promotion Playoff
FA Cup : Reach 4th Qualifying Round
Southern League Cup : Reach Third Round
Somerset Premier Cup : Reach Semi Final
Story so far......
First Season :
English Western League First Division : 1st
FA Vase : 1st Round Replay
Les Phillips Cup : First Round (Penalties)
Somerset Premier Cup : Second Round (Extra-Time)
Season Review :
We were predicted to finish bottom of the league and get nowhere in any of the cups at the start of the season and as I struggled to bring the club up to our current leagues standard it seemed that we weren't going to prove anybody wrong. The season started decently with a 2-1 away win, a 1-1 home draw and a 4-1 home win against one of the supposedly 'big boys' in the league, Roman Glass St. George. A 2-0 home win against Gillingham Town. a 1-0 away win against Berks County Sports in the FA Vase and a 1-1 away draw with the biggest side in the league, Chard Town. Seems great doesn't it? But it couldn't even keep going to the end of September. On the 23/09/09 we lost 2-0 at home to a not very good Almondsbury UWE side. Maybe we could pick it up on the 26th at home to one of the bottom sides in the league? Cadbury Heath got off their crappy coach and whooped us 5-1 in front of our own (very few) fans. Worcester Park put us out of the FA Vase after a replay, we drew 0-0 at home against 20th placed Keynsham, lost 2-1 away to Devizes Town and 1-0 away to Shepton Mallet. Things couldn't of been going much worse. Our local squad were *****, my signings were *****, my staff were ***** and I was beginning to think I was ***** to.
We scraped a win against Westbury in the Les Phillips Cup Qual. Round with an extra time goal, 0-0 draw with Oldland Abottanians, 3-2 away loss to Portishead T, a 2-1 away extra-time loss to Bristol Manor Farm in the Somerset Premier Cup and 1-0 away loss to Bradford T. Everything was failing, I was failing and coming only just above our media expectation in mid November. What was I going to do? Some serious changes had to made at Odd Down so..I put every player on the current squad onto the reserves and signed in a whole new team. But could it work? Would it work? Did it work? Answer those questions for yourself. My newly built team hammered Hengrove 6-0, a 2-0 win over Westbury. We got knocked out of the Les Phillips Cup in the first round on penalties but I didn't care. We were on fire. We won 7 league games in a row before being held to a 0-0 draw at home to Shrewton Utd. Could it be the start of a fall? Nope. We won our next 3 matches, lost 2 in a row and won 4 in a row. We had a few horrific results including a 5-0 loss to Bridport but we struggled on and won the league by 8 points. I was ecstatic, to win the league when we were predicted to come bottom of the leage. Yeah it was a **** season with a lot of pain involved in it and playing horrible football on horrible pitches in a worthless pub league. But we made it, we made it to level 9. To the Western Premier. Michael Coady really deserves praise for his role, getting
Second Season :
English Western League Premier Division : 1st
FA Cup : Second Qualifying Round
FA Vase : First Round
Les Phillips Cup : Semi-Final
Somerset County Premier Cup : Quarter Final
Season Review :
What can I say? I was simply blown away by how well we did compared to last season. We couldn't have done any better in the league :
View attachment 47670
As you can see from the table, we went unbeaten in the league and only drew six games winning the rest. We got 102 points while 2nd place managed to get 67 points.
Main First Team squad players :
David Grof
This guy is going to go far, very far. He joined a fair bit into the season to replace outgoing Welsh keeper Andy Marriott. Grof immediately beat Ashley Bayes in a battle to be first choice keeper. The amazing young Hungarian got 22 appearances, conceding 6 goals and getting 16 clean sheets. After playing for Hibernian and Headington A's before joining us, the 22 year old keeper already has 8 youth caps and could be a future star at a much higher level.
Ashley Bayes
Bayes started the season as our first choice keeper after being brought in to replace Richardson. Bayes who has years of lower league experience in the English leagues. He played for Brentford, Torquay, Exeter, Leyton Orient and one of my favourite clubs, Bohemians (top team in Ireland), Woking, Hornchurch, Grays, Crawley and Stevenage before joining us. The 39 year old, experienced keeper got 18 appearances for us, conceding 8 goals and getting 11 clean sheets. The keeper was definately well above average for us but was moved to the subs bench when the talented, young Hungarian David Grof arrived. Now that Bayes is not starting he has decided to call it a day and has announced his retirement date.
Rob Gier
The talented,3 times capped Fillipino right full back joined the club half way through the 2009/2010 season and was in top class form in the 19 appearances he got. Being 29 everyone expected his form to drop slightly next season with the rise of competition but the determined Fillipino did the exact opposite. He got 29 appearances and brought his form up to the best of his career. Gier was at Wimbledon for years at the start of his career before moving on to Rushden, Cambridge, Woking, Aldershot,Grays, Ascot and Odd Down.
William Quevedo
William Quevedo started his career at Rodez Aveyron Football before moving on to ASOA Valence, Moreinse, Boavista, FC Sochaux-Montbe, FC Sete 34, back to Rodez Aveyron Football, Onet-Le-Chateau and Odd Down. On arriving at Odd Down, Quevedo was predicted to walk onto the first team but due to his age and lack of fitness he only got 23 appearances for the club. In those 23 appearances however his performances were quality and his experience really showed. Quevedo stated that he believes it is time for him to step aside and let younger players take the reigns so he has announced his retirement date.
Bradley Middleton
Bradley Middleton is a 22 year old defender left/centre who started his career with Cardiff. Middleton was decent on the youth team but never got a first team appearance so he moved on to Weston-super-Mare. He was dissapointed when he wasn't given any first team oppurtunities at Weston either so he moved on to Bridgewater in the Southern League where he got 21 appearances. He then moved to Odd Down on a free where for parts of the season was a key centre back getting 23 appearances for the club.
Joel Adegoroye
Joel Adegoroye is a 20 year old centre back who played for two season on the Stade Rennais academy and has 10 youth caps for Nigeria. The centre back went a season unemployed after he wasn't offered a new deal by Stade and was then snapped up on a free by young Irish manager Finn O'Leary at Odd Down. Adegoroye arrived late in the season so only got 21 appearances for the club but is now rated as the clubs key defender. He is rated by O'Leary as one of the top wonderkids at Odd Down.
Aaron Robinson
Aaron Robinson is a 22 year old Northern Irish defender who started his career at Larne before moving on to Shankill and his current club Odd Down. He played the last 4 games of the 09/10 season as he only signed right at the end and was just above average in his performances. In 2010/2011 season he was one of the central figures on the Odd Down team, getting 35 appearances. He is now going to be competing with Bradley Middleton to join Joel Adegoroye in centre back.
Patrick Dillon
Patrick Dillon is a 20 year old right full back who started his career with Cliftonville before moving to Linfield on a free. The young Northern Irish full back then moved to Odd Down on a free to become a back up to Rob Gier and was quality in the 25 appearances he got even though he was often played out of position on the right wing.
Chris Powell
Chris Powell is an extremely experienced, 41 year old left full back who represented England 5 occasions. Powell started his career at Crystal Palace where he got 3 appearances in the 88/89 season. He wasn't given any oppurtunities the next season when they went up to the Prem so he accepted a loan deal at Aldershot where he got 11 appearances in League 2. In the 90/91 season he moved to Southend on a free and stayed there for five and a half seasons. He got over 40 appearances every season and 27 in his last season there and is remembered as an icon in the clubs history. Powell moved to Derby County half way through the 95/96 season for 750k. He got 19 appearances in the Championship and then 35 and 37 appearances in the Prem for the next two seasons. He moved to Charlton in 98/99 for 825k where he stayed for six and a half seasons. He was a key player for most of his time there. He moved to West Ham for a season before moving back to Charlton. He then moved to Watford and then back to Charlton again. In 08/09 he moved to Leicester where he stayed for 2 seasons before moving to his current club Odd Down. The left back has 693 league appearances and is now a key player and captain at Odd Down.
Carlton ***
Carlton *** is an 18 year old centre midfielder currently playing for Odd Down. The young midfielder started his career on the Aldershot youth team in 08/09 and then moved to Odd Down on 09/10. The youngster was named 'Fans Player of the Season' after 28 appearances of quality. Carlton *** is now in Odd Down's hall of fame as a favoured personell.
Ian Finlay
Ian Finlay is a 21 year old Irish centre midfielder who started his career with three season onthe St. Pat's Athletic youth academy. In 2009 he moved to Athlone Town where he got two first team appearances. In 2010 he moved to Odd Down and played in the last game of the 09/10 campaign. He was expected to break into the first team in a few years time but instead he got 7 goals and 8 assists in his 37 classy appearances. Finlay has found himself a place at the centre point of O'Leary's plans.
Scott McCullough
Scott McCullough is a 21 year old Northern Irish centre midfielder who started his playing career at Loughall. He moved to Dungannon in 07/08 but in the few years he was there only made two appearances for the club. He was snapped up by Odd Down manager Finn O'Leary in 09/10 and was considered to be a decent reserve signing. He proved everyone wrong with 5 goals and 4 assists in 21 appearances. He now is one of four players competing for the centre midfield spots.
Chris Curran
Chris Curran is 20 year old Irish winger/striker who currently plays for Odd Down. Curran was on the Manchester United youth academy for two years before moving to Forest Green Rovers in 2009/2010 season. He got 16 appearances for Forest Green before being snapped up by O'Leary where he played the last 22 games of the season. He was played as a striker in his first season at Odd Down and scored 5 goals but in the second season he was moved out to the right wing where he got 7 goals and 4 assists along with 3 MOM awards. He is rated as one of the Down's key players.
Marc Zanotti
Marc Zanotti is a 35 year old left winger currently playing at Odd Down. He started his career at Sporting Toulon Var where he got 26 appearances and 4 goals in the season he spent there. In the 96/97 season he was snapped up by Girondins Bordeaux and he got 2 goals in his 18 appearances but the next season he was only given 7 appearances scoring 1 goal. In 98/99 he went on loan to Ligue 2 side AS Saint-Ettiene where he scored 2 goals in 12 appearances. He got 7 appearances in 99/20 for Bordeaux and moved to Stade Malherbe Caen where he 17, 10 and 1 appearances over the next three seasons. He was unemployed for a whole season before being signed up by Nimes Olympique in 04/05 in the French National. He got 21 appearances and 1 goal before moving to Saint-Cyr-sur-Mer in 05/06. He got no appearances and was released. He was unemployed for three seasons before Saint-Cyr-sur-Mer re-signed him. He got 1 goal and 7 assists in his 33 appearances for them before moving to Odd Down. Now was an unlucky players time to shine. The left winger got 11 goals, 19 assists, 10 MOM awards in his 32 appearances for Western League Prem winners Odd Down. He was named player of the season and inducted into Odd Down's hall of fame as a favoured personnell. Zanotti has 2 youth appearances and 2 youth goals for France under his belt.
Geoff Horsefield
Geoff Horsfield is a 37 year old English journeyman striker currently playing at Odd Down. Horsfield started his football career at Scarburough in League 2 wher he got 12 appearances and 1 goal in his one and a half seasons there. In 93/94 he moved to Halifax where he got 9 appearances in the Blue Square Premier. He was released from the club and was unemployed until Witton snapped him up in 96/97 but Halifax quickly splashed out 4k to bring him back to the club. He spent around 3 seasons at Halifax getting 9 goals in 24 appearances in his first, 30 goals in 40 appearances in his second and 7 goals in 10 appearances in League 2 as they got promoted. Half way through 98/99 season Fulham spent 325k for him and he scored 15 goals in 28 appearances in League 1. In 99/20 he scored 7 in 30 appearances on their promotion to the Championship before being signed for 2 million by Birmingham City in 00/01 season. He bagged 7 goals in 34 appearances in the Championship for Birmingham and 11 goals in 40 appearances the next season. Birmingham won promotion to the Prem and he got 5 goals in 31 appearances in 02/03. In 03/04 he got 3 appearances before being signed by Wigan in the Championship for 1 million. He got 7 goals in 16 appearances for Wigan before West Brom snapped him up for another 1 million in January. He got another 7 goals in 20 appearances for West Brom that season. West Brom were promoted to the prem and he scored 3 in 29 appearances 04/05. He got another 4 prem goals in 18 appearances in 05/06 before going to Sheffield United on loan where he got 3 appearances. Sheffield United got promoted to the prem and signed him for 1.5 million in 06/07 but didn't give him one game! They sent him on loan to Leeds in the Championship where he got 2 goals in 14 appearances and as soon as he returned was sent to Leicester where he got 2 goals in 13 appearances. In 07/08 he went on loan to Scunthorpe where he got 12 appearances. He signed for Lincoln in 08/09 where he got 17 appearances and 1 goal in League 2. In 09/10 he signed for Port Vale where he got 1 goal in 4 appearances. It seemed that his major football career was over when he signed for Western Division One side Odd Down. He played the last two games of their season and joined celebrations for their success at winning their division. In 10/11 he got 11 goals and 9 assists in his 23 appearances in the Western Prem helping Odd Down to their dominant title win and back to back promotion.
Kevin Phillips
Kevin Phillips is a 37 year old English striker with a glorious history including 8 caps for his country. Phillips started his career at Baldock T. Letchworth in 94/95 but was quickly signed by Watford for 10k where he got 9 goals in 16 appearances in his first season. In 95/96 even though Watford got relegated from the Championship, Phillips banged in 11 goals in his 27 appearances. Life in League 1 didn't suit Phillips and he only managed 4 goals in 16 appearances in 96/97 season. In 97/98 he made the best move of his life by signing for Sunderland for 325k. In his first season he got 29 goals in 40 appearances in the Championship. In 98/99 he only got 26 appearances due to injury problems but managed to bang in 23 goals anyway and helped them win promotion to the prem. In 99/00 he got 30 goals in 36 appearances in the prem along with winning European Golden Boot award. He spent another 3 seasons at Sunderland getting 14, 11 and 6 prem goals before moving to Southampton 03/04 for 2 Million. He got 13 in 34 appearances in the first season and 13 in 30 appearances in his second season. In 05/06 he moved to Aston Villa for 1 million but turned out to be a flop at Villa Park, only managing to score 4 goals in his 23 appearances. He moved to West Brom in 06/07 for 700k and got 16 goals in his 36 appearances in the Championship. In 07/08 he got 22 goals in 35 appearances. He went on a free to Birmingham in 08/09 and banged in 14 goals in 36 games in the Championship. On their promotion to the prem he got 3 goals in 6 games in the prem and then moved to RC Warwick in 2010/2011 in the Midland Combination Premier where he got 8 goals in 11 games before moving to Odd Down and getting 21 goals in 22 appearances in the Western Prem. Phillips was top scorer in the competition. He is now among Odd Down's key players and has just signed a new contract with the club.
Aaron Burns
Aaron Burns is a 23 year old English striker who started his career on the Man Utd academy in 04/05. He remained there for 3 seasons before signing for FC United of Manchester. Half way through the season he hadn't got any first team appearances so he accepted a move to Northwich Victoria on a free. He got 3 goals in 19 appearances 07/08 but didn't get any appearances for the next two seasons so he went on loan to Altrincham where he got no appearances so he signed for AFC Liverpool where he got one appearance before moving to Odd Down. He got 25 appearances, 3 goals and 5 assists during Odd Down's Western League Premier campaign. He is currently with the Odd Down squad doing pre-season training ahead of their Southern League South/West Division campaign.
Mohammed Dikuiza
Mohammed Dikuiza is a 21 year old English striker who started his career on the Brentford youth academy. He spent two seasons on the academy before joining Hayes & Yeading on a free. He got 4 appearances at the club before moving to Odd Down where he got 4 goals in his 11 appearances 10/11 season. He is currently a back up striker on the Odd Down first team squad.
Michael Coady deserves praise for helping to turn around Odd Down's fortunes in the English Western League Division One in 09/10. The young Irish striker scored 19 goals in 21 appearances getting the top scorer award. In 2010/2011 however Coady only got 1 goal in 10 league appearances.
Pre Season 2011/2010 :
Budget :
Transfer Budget : 100k
Wage Budget : 3.18k p/w
Expectations :
Media : 5th
Board :
English Southern League First Division South/West : Reach Promotion Playoff
FA Cup : Reach 4th Qualifying Round
Southern League Cup : Reach Third Round
Somerset Premier Cup : Reach Semi Final
Start of Season Update
Pre-Season : 2011/2012
Friendly Campaign
The friendly campaign was resumed once again for the 2011/2012 season and although not quite as successful as the last two seasons it made quite a lot of money for the club. We have the highest bank balance for leagues above now with over 970k.
Finances
Well we are the richest club below the football leagues in England as far as I know with an incredible bank balance of 970k. The board payed me back for my financial management skills by giving me a 100k transfer budget and a 3.2k p/w wage budget. We have sold 60 season tickets this year too which has jumped up a massive 6 sales from last year when we sold 54 season tickets.
Transfers
In :
Black = Regen
Red = Real
Ben Warner (16 yrs old dm/cm regen who is already in first team plans)
Chris Bishop (16 year old goal machine regen who plays as a striker)
Gerard Griffin (5k from Liffeys) (23 y/o Irish left back competing for first team)
Colin O'Brien (22 year old Irish midfielder previously at Shelbourne)
Ray Simpson (Classy 18 year old regen winger/striker on loan from Bournemouth A.F.C our parent club)
Adriano Moke (21 year old English midfielder previously at Leeds, Nottm Forest and GH Academy)
Jim McMenamin (9k from Mangotsfield) (28 year old N. Irish centre back previously at Carrick, Crusaders, Rosario, Brantwood, Distillery, Bangor and Mangotsfield, brought in for some strength and experience in centre back)
Gary Brown (4.5k from Banbridge) (25 year old English right-back previously at Rochdale and Banbridge)
Out :
Martin Cooper (Was released at the end of his contract but since has been signed by Hyde in the BSS)
Marvin Johnson (21 year old English left back who I allowed go to Paulton on a free)
Loans Out :
Patrick Dillon (Westbury)
All Following are on loan at Bitton :
Nick Robinson
Michael Coady
Josh Hartrick
Cameron Grieve
Scott McCullough
Craig Butler
Club Development Plans :
The board have again invested money in the improvement of training and youth facilities. The training facilities are currently basic and the youth facilities are minimal.
An extra 10 seats have been added to the stand at Coombe Hay Lane so the official capacity of the ground is now at 1,000 (160 seated).
Ticket prices have raised to 5.10 and season tickets have raised to 81.00 due to the raise in the standard of football.
The clubs market value has been re-evaluated and is worth an estimated 725k.
Best X1 :
View attachment 48072
Friendly Campaign
The friendly campaign was resumed once again for the 2011/2012 season and although not quite as successful as the last two seasons it made quite a lot of money for the club. We have the highest bank balance for leagues above now with over 970k.
Finances
Well we are the richest club below the football leagues in England as far as I know with an incredible bank balance of 970k. The board payed me back for my financial management skills by giving me a 100k transfer budget and a 3.2k p/w wage budget. We have sold 60 season tickets this year too which has jumped up a massive 6 sales from last year when we sold 54 season tickets.
Transfers
In :
Black = Regen
Red = Real
Ben Warner (16 yrs old dm/cm regen who is already in first team plans)
Chris Bishop (16 year old goal machine regen who plays as a striker)
Gerard Griffin (5k from Liffeys) (23 y/o Irish left back competing for first team)
Colin O'Brien (22 year old Irish midfielder previously at Shelbourne)
Ray Simpson (Classy 18 year old regen winger/striker on loan from Bournemouth A.F.C our parent club)
Adriano Moke (21 year old English midfielder previously at Leeds, Nottm Forest and GH Academy)
Jim McMenamin (9k from Mangotsfield) (28 year old N. Irish centre back previously at Carrick, Crusaders, Rosario, Brantwood, Distillery, Bangor and Mangotsfield, brought in for some strength and experience in centre back)
Gary Brown (4.5k from Banbridge) (25 year old English right-back previously at Rochdale and Banbridge)
Out :
Martin Cooper (Was released at the end of his contract but since has been signed by Hyde in the BSS)
Marvin Johnson (21 year old English left back who I allowed go to Paulton on a free)
Loans Out :
Patrick Dillon (Westbury)
All Following are on loan at Bitton :
Nick Robinson
Michael Coady
Josh Hartrick
Cameron Grieve
Scott McCullough
Craig Butler
Club Development Plans :
The board have again invested money in the improvement of training and youth facilities. The training facilities are currently basic and the youth facilities are minimal.
An extra 10 seats have been added to the stand at Coombe Hay Lane so the official capacity of the ground is now at 1,000 (160 seated).
Ticket prices have raised to 5.10 and season tickets have raised to 81.00 due to the raise in the standard of football.
The clubs market value has been re-evaluated and is worth an estimated 725k.
Best X1 :
View attachment 48072
20th August - 1st October Update
Results :
Results :
Paulton 0 -- 1 Odd Down (League)
Chris Curran
Odd Down 4 -- 1 Bideford (League)
Ray Simpson
Adriano Moke
Kevin Phillips
Ray Simpson
Heybridge 0 -- 0 Odd Down (FA Cup)
FA Cup Second Qualifying Round
Odd Down 6 -- 0 Heybridge (FA Cup)
FA Cup 2nd Qualifying Round Replay
Chris Bishop
Chris Bishop
Adriano Moke
Marc Zanotti
Adriano Moke
Chris Bishop
Odd Down 3 -- 3 Yate (League)
McMenamin
Gerard Griffin
Kevin Phillips
Potters Bar 1 - 0 Odd Down (League)
Odd Down 4 -- 0 Kingsbury London Tigers
FA Cup Third Qualifying Round
Odd Down 1 -- 1 St. Neots (League)
Odd Down 0 -- 0 Waltham Abbey (League)
Wingate & Finchley 1 -- 1 Odd Down (League)
Odd Down 2 -- 1 Eastwood (FA Cup)
FA Cup 4th Qualifying Round
Chris Curran
Odd Down 4 -- 1 Bideford (League)
Ray Simpson
Adriano Moke
Kevin Phillips
Ray Simpson
Heybridge 0 -- 0 Odd Down (FA Cup)
FA Cup Second Qualifying Round
Odd Down 6 -- 0 Heybridge (FA Cup)
FA Cup 2nd Qualifying Round Replay
Chris Bishop
Chris Bishop
Adriano Moke
Marc Zanotti
Adriano Moke
Chris Bishop
Odd Down 3 -- 3 Yate (League)
McMenamin
Gerard Griffin
Kevin Phillips
Potters Bar 1 - 0 Odd Down (League)
Odd Down 4 -- 0 Kingsbury London Tigers
FA Cup Third Qualifying Round
Odd Down 1 -- 1 St. Neots (League)
Odd Down 0 -- 0 Waltham Abbey (League)
Wingate & Finchley 1 -- 1 Odd Down (League)
Odd Down 2 -- 1 Eastwood (FA Cup)
FA Cup 4th Qualifying Round
Player Scope :
'Well what can I say? I'm delighted with the way we've been playing since I arrived at the club and I'm delighted with my own form at the moment too. The gaffers been great over the last two season and his comments to the press about my form recently have really boosted my confidence. The clubs finances have greatly improved too and I'm delighted with the competition bonuses that have been offered to the squad. Hope we can keep it up.' Chris Curran
Fan Scope :
'I can't believe it, simply can't believe it! I've been a Down fan for 45 years and we've always been in that ****** little pub league of a Western League. The best we've done is get into the Western Premier a few times and now some random Irish lad comes along and gets us back to back promotions. We're now at our highest ever standing in football and looking like going higher! Can't believe it, just can't believe it! WHEN THE DOWN GO MARCHING IN, I WANNA BE IN THEIR NUMBER!' John Smith, season ticket holder.
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