OFFICIAL MATCHDAY PROGRAMME OF KENDAL UNITED FOOTBALL CLUB SEASON 2017/18 KENDAL UNITED FANZINE v KENDAL UNITED WALNEY ISLAND WEST LANCASHIRE LEAGUE DIVISION TWO SATURDAY 16 SEPTEMBER 2017 3PM KICK OFF TODAYS MATCH SPONSOR
CLUB INFORMATION COACHING STAFF: FIRST TEAM: Simon Hansen (Manager) Brian Fleming (Assistant Manager) David Pearce RESERVES: (Coach & Linesman) James Pattison (Player/Manager) Kevin Walker (Assistant Coach) KENDAL UNITED CLUB SPONSORS Kendal United Football Club would like to thank the following Sponsors: CMR PROPERTY MAINTENANCE BARRY JOHNSON ANDY LUISI *If you would like to sponsor a Kendal United First Team or Reserve Team game, please contact Simon or Brian for further details
WELCOME Good afternoon and welcome to Castle Drive for todays West Lancashire League Division Two game against Walney Island. The Club would like to welcome Walney Islands players,officials and supporters to Castle Drive, while a welcome also goes out to todays referee. Kendal United go into this afternoons game on a good run of form which has seen them win the last four games (league and cup. Life in West Lancashire League Division Two is certainly going well at the moment. In the last game against Padiham Reserves Sam Hunter scored a hat trick, while the players had to dig deep before running out 3-2 winners. Every game presents a different challenge and Padiham certainly gave Kendal United a tough test. However the squad overcame the challenge and will certainly take a lot of encouragement as the season continues. Todays game will be an interesting test against a Walney Island side that are three points below Kendal in the table. Hopefully it should be a good game, watched by we hope a decent sized crowd. The Club would like to thank Steve Selby for being todays match sponsor, we hope you enjoy this afternoons game. In todays match programme look out for news on the reserves,junior teams while their will also be a preview on Kendal United Girls Teams that kick off their season tomorrow. Thanks and we hope you all have a good afternoon with us
KENDAL UNITED FIXTURES/RESULTS AUGUST: Saturday 5 August: Euxton Villa Res (A), 0-1 W Monday 7 August: Dalton United, (H) 1-3 L Saturday 12 August: Thornton Cleveley Res (H) 2-0 W Monday 14 August: Furness Cavaliers: (A) 4-1 L Saturday 19 August: Ladybridge (H) 3-6 L Monday 21 August: Furness Rovers (A) 0-6 W Saturday 26 August: Euxton Villa Res (H), 6-2 W SEPTEMBER: Saturday 2 September : Furness Cavaliers (H), 3-3 (won 4-2 on pens) W Saturday 9 September: Padiham Reserves (H), 3-2 W Saturday 16 September: Walney Island (H), 3pm kick off Saturday 23 September: Millom (A), 3pm kick off Saturday 30 September: Charnock Richard Reserves (H), 3pm kick off
CLUB NEWS: FUTSAL: After the quick uptake in places in The U11/U12 Futsal League starting 6th October,. The Westmorland FA are running an U14/U15 Winter Futsal league starting on November 17th for 5 weeks. The WFA once again expect places to fill up quickly with places limited to 6 team entries. If anyone from the U14's/U15's at Kendal United are interested please get in touch with James Pattison as soon as possible to secure a place. Team registration is FREE this season!
FIRST TEAM MATCH REPORT Kendal United 3 v Padiham Reserves 2 Sam Hunters hat trick guided Kendal United to victory after a hardfought 3-2 win against Padiham Reserves. Hunter opened the scoring after just 5 minutes before doubling Kendals lead six minutes before half time. The visitors got themselves back into the game through Bradley Ditch, before Hunter completed his hat trick as Kendal raced into a 3-1 lead/ However Padiham made it a nervy last twenty minutes for United, when Kieron Taylor scored. Kendal though held out as they climbed up to fourth in West Lancashire League Division Two: (Goal Scorers: Sam Hunter,5,39,65)
RESERVE TEAM UPDATE: (Pictures courtesy of Colin Watson) Kendal United Reserves battled out a dramatic 3-3 draw at Castletown United. Cameron Toal Lim scored a brace while Declan Wilkinson was also on target. The Reserves travel to play Eden Thistle this afternoon. DIVISION TWO LEAGUE TABLE: Next Home game: Saturday 24 September: Appleby Res,2.30pm Kick Off
OPPOSITION HISTORY WALNEY ISLAND Founded in 1970 and known as Nautical Football Club, the club started to play in the Barrow North Western League that same year and home fixtures were played on the council owned Biggar Bank pitches. Nautical continued to play in the Barrow North Western League for 13 years until 1983 when they left to join the Furness Premier League which had been formed a couple of years previous and almost capped off a memorable end with a league treble but unfortunately finished runners up after having previously won the title in 1980-81 and 1982-83. In 1983 after playing on the Biggar Bank pitches since the club was founded Nautical managed to obtain a lease from Cumbria County Council to use Tumerhill as our home ground,with the changing facilities being included in the lease the club could now apply to play in the Furness Premier league for the 1983-84 season as this was a requirement by the league that all member clubs had to have their own pitch and changing facilities, something we had never had before. Our application was approved. In 1984 the FPL introduced another division for teams in the area to play in which our reserve team joined. Success didn't take long and Nautical FC were a force to be reckoned with as the first and reserve teams both won numerous league titles and cup competitions throughout the 1980's and 1990's. It was during this successful period that in 1995 the club had the opportunity to lease the full area of Tummerhill which would allow our Junior section the ability to play their home fixtures on Walney instead of being allocated pitches to play on by the local Junior league. This was a great step forward for the club as we were all finally based at Tummerhill. It was in 2001 that the club decided it needed to move in a different direction. Therefore it was agreed that with the increasing number of junior and senior players who lived on Walney Island that the right thing to do was to change the name of the club to Walney Island F.C. Which we have been known as for the last 12 years. Since the name change Walney has gone from strength to strength and we have had some good teams throughout the years playing locally but unfortunately a lot of players left to join other local teams who played in higher standard leagues. Therefore in 2007 after almost 25 years affiliated to Furness Premier League, the first team were promoted to the West Lancashire Football League Division 2. The 'A' team was setup around 1989 this was to keep with the development and also to introduce the lads who had just finished junior football to open age football. They currently play in the FPL Division 2.
JUNIOR SECTION: The majority of Kendal Uniteds opening Junior games were rained off after persistant,heavy rain wreaked havoc across the Kent Valley Junior Football league last Sunday. However some games did survive as Kendal Uniteds Under 14s defeated Appleby 9-0. Aleks Paleczny scored a hat trick, while Jack Davies and Noah Ross both scored braces. William Felstead and Alfie Owen were also on target in a game that was played on a very wet Sunday Morning. In the other games, Kendal United Under 13 s battled back from 4-1 down to draw 4-4 at Ambleside. Sunday 17 September: Kendal Utd Colts Under 13 v Wattsfield United (Game Played at Millenium Fields). 10.30 am Kick Off Kendal United Under 13 v Grange United (Game played at Millenium Fields), 12 noon Kick Off Kendal United Under 14 v Wattsfield United (Game played at The Jubilee Playing Fields), 10.30 am Kick Off Kendal United Rockets Under 15 v Ambleside (Game played at The Jubilee Playing Fields), 2pm Kick Off. *Their were also plenty of Under 9 and under 10s games played this morning, with both unders 9s playing at Castle Drive against Wattsfield and Wattsfield United* Kendal Uniteds Under 10s played Swarthmoor and Ibis at Cartmel Priory School, while Kendal United Colts Under 11s were home to Grange on a lunch time kick off at The Millenium Playing Fields.*
KENDAL UNITED GIRLS TEAMS PREVIEW: Kendal Uniteds Girls teams begin their league campaign on Sunday (tomorrow). The Under 11 s travel to play Morecambe Girls at Lancaster and Morecambe College,while the Under 13s entertain Dalton United at The Millenium Playing Fields. Kendal United Girls Under 15 s start a week later as they play Milnthorpe!
WEST LANCASHIRE LEAGUE DIVISION TWO: TODAYS FIXTURES: 3PM KICK OFF: Croston Sports v Lostock St Gerards Res Dalton United v Tempest United Res Kendal United v Walney Island Ladybridge v Leyland United Padiham Res v Furness Rovers Thornton Cleveley Res v Euxton Villa Res
NEXT AT CASTLE DRIVE: V KENDAL UNITED RES APPLEBY RES JAMES CROPPER WESTMORLAND LEAGUE DIVISION TWO SATURDAY 23 SEPTEMBER 2.30PM KICK OFF KENDAL UNITED ONLINE All the latest news and information coming out of Kendal United Junior Football Club can be found on the following pages: TWITTER: @KUJFC FACEBOOK: KENDAL UNITED JUNIOR FOOTBALL CLUB OFFICIAL CLUB WEBSITE: http://www.pitchero.com/clubs/kendalunitedfootballclub
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