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WORKSOP VAN HIRE | PAGE 3 21/04/2022 19:45 2-1 P W D L F A PTS Dronfield Town U21 3-2 Club Thorne U21 Dronfield Town U21 4 3 1 0 13 10 10 07/04/2022 19:45 2-5 Dronfield Town U21 0-1 Wombwell Town U21 Club Thorne U21 4 2 1 1 15 12 7 MINI - SHIELD STATS 04/04/2022 19:45 2-1 Wombwell Town U21 7-7 Club Thorne U21 Wombwell Town U21 4 0 0 4 5 11 0 31/03/2022 19:45 Wombwell Town U21 Dronfield Town U21 P W D L F A PTS 15/03/2022 19:45 Club Thorne U21 Wombwell Town U21 Chesterfield F.C. U21 4 3 1 0 15 6 10 01/03/2022 19:45 Club Thorne U21 Dronfield Town U21 Gainsborough Trinity U21 4 2 0 2 15 16 6 Handsworth FC U21 4 0 1 3 5 13 0 01/04/2022 19:45 Gainsborough Trinity U21 7-2 Handsworth FC U21 P W D L F A PTS 25/03/2022 19:45 Handsworth FC U21 2-2 Chesterfield F.C. U21 Harworth Colliery U21 4 3 1 0 8 5 10 18/03/2022 19:45 Gainsborough Trinity U21 Worsbrough Bridge U21 4 1 1 2 65 6 AFC Mansfield U21 4 0 2 2 26 0 Handsworth FC U21 1-4 Gainsborough Trinity U21 11/03/2022 19:45 Chesterfield F.C. U21 7-3 03/03/2022 19:45 Chesterfield F.C. U21 H-W Handsworth FC U21 P W D L F A PTS Chesterfield F.C. U21 Worksop Town U21 4 3 1 0 13 8 10 25/02/2022 19:45 AFC Mansfield U21 Thorncliffe U21 4 2 1 1 11 10 7 Gainsborough Trinity U21 1-6 AFC Mansfield U21 Eastwood C.F.C. U21 4 0 0 4 9 15 0 Harworth Colliery U21 14/04/2022 19:45 2-2 Worsbrough Bridge U21 SEMI-FINALS Harworth Colliery U21 0-0 Worsbrough Bridge U21 28/04/2022 19:45 31/03/2022 19:45 1-2 Dronfield Town U21 v Worksop Town U21 Worsbrough Bridge U21 3-2 03/05/2022 19:45 24/03/2022 19:45 0-3 Chestefield FC U21 v Harworth Colliery U21 Worsbrough Bridge U21 0-1 17/03/2022 19:45 Harworth Colliery U21 Harworth Colliery U21 10/03/2022 19:45 AFC Mansfield U21 24/02/2022 19:45 AFC Mansfield U21 08/04/2022 19:45 2-1 Thorncliffe U21 Worksop Town U21 3-6 Worksop Town U21 01/04/2022 19:45 2-3 Eastwood C.F.C. U21 2-1 Thorncliffe U21 24/03/2022 19:45 4-3 Eastwood C.F.C. U21 Eastwood C.F.C. U21 3-3 Eastwood C.F.C. U21 11/03/2022 19:45 Worksop Town U21 Worksop Town U21 04/03/2022 19:45 Thorncliffe U21 10/02/2022 19:45 Thorncliffe U21

PAGE 4 | NORTH MIDLANDS DEVELOPMENT LEAGUE U21 LEAGUE CUP FINAL HARWORTH Harworth Colliery FC are based just to the south of the and Ben Dixon the club gained a new a togetherness with our Nottinghamshire/Yorkshire border in the village of Bircotes reserves and U21’s not seen for a number of years, that has & Harworth. helped us build a good solid squad of players that play for the It was decided that we shorten our name from Harworth Colliery club and not who has the most money which is certainly not what Institute in 2011, but it's not uncommon for the club to still get Step 7 should be about, Ash has this season become Manager, called that given as this was the clubs original name with Brendan taking over the U21’s, even with this departure Ash still has a very strong management team with Dan Kirk stepping The football club was formed in 1931, playing initially in the local up from the reserves this season too. leagues. Another vital appointment in 2019 was Physio Dan Barber who We then joined the Yorkshire League in the 1946/47 season, re-joined the club after a brief spell elsewhere, Dan has been but stayed there for only four seasons, before moving to the able to recruit Physios and offer internships to students at Leeds Doncaster Senior League where we played for many years. Met and has been an integral part in the professional set up the We then joined the Sheffield County Senior League, and these club can boast. were the most productive years in terms of trophies won. Like every team we have seen the past two seasons come to We became the first club to win both the Wharncliffe Charity Cup an abrupt end due to the Covid 19 pandemic so its hard to say and County Senior League Championship in 1975/76, the clubs where we would have finished but we will be looking to kick on most successful side to date. and delighted that the playing squad has changed very little in In 1977, the Yorkshire League accepted the club back in to it's the past few years so will be very competitive in what is sure to membership, before in the 80’s this merged with the Midlands be a difficult and challenging League. League to become the NCEL. During the 1980's the Colliery played in the North Counties East The club has seen general improvement in all areas over League and again was a very successful period for the club the past six to seven seasons with the ground seeing lots before going into the Newly formed Central Midlands in 1986 of changes, new 50 seater memorial Stand in honour of our where the club remained until 2018 when the 1st team won the greatest Servant Robert Needham, new Toms Tea Room within Central Midlands North division and returned back to the NCEL the ground and replacing the old winding gear rope for the new after a 32 year absence only to last a single year as the club fencing so with the walls also being extended behind both goals finished bottom when only requiring a point from the last two the pitch is now fully enclosed, new Gents/Ladies/Disabled toilets games that would have seen us survive. also have been built in the ground and an old dilapidated area of The promotion season and the Counties season was a turbulent the ground has now been transformed as the old tea hut is now time for the club with three different mangers in the space of 18 the shaft side bar area where supporters can congregate over a months which is very un-colliery like to say the least, we pride our drink and enjoy the game, as well as this we have been able to self on building a solid foundation so wasn’t an easy time even renovate the old Floodlights and replace them with LED’s that though it was the most successful period for decades. will last the test of time so a huge investment from all concerned, It fell to former player and Manager Brendan Wilson to steady the we are very proud of the improvement around the ground and ship who along with Ash Barber who was appointed Assistant in the Summer of 2019 and along with Mark Latham, Mark Brogan

WORKSOP VAN HIRE | PAGE 5 COLLIERY it remains our main focus away from the teams to do so year in year out. Away from the 1st team the club has a Reserves playing in the Central Midlands Division one North, Marley Alder is the current Club Honours: Manager along with Club Stalwart Mark Brogan and player coach Brad Holmes, Marley answered the clubs SOS when Dan Sheffield & Hallamshire County FA - stepped upto the 1sts and Daz Blake left the club, the side are Senior Cup Winners 1947/48. Finalists currently in the mix for the League title which is an incredible 1948/9, 1996/97 achievement given the situation he was presented back in the Autumn Central Midlands Football League - Supreme Division Champions 1987/88. Marley also forms part of the coaching set up for our U21’s who CML North Winners 2017-2018 Runners compete in the NMDFL which continues to bring in good young Up 1986/87. players for the club, it’s a great league under the midweek lights with plenty of talent on show at every game. This has been B.E. Webbe (Removals) Challenge cup highlighted by the number of players now performing for 1sts Winners 1986/87 1987/88 and reserves and shows a clear and excellent pathway for them, Brendan Wilson took over this season after currently being the Wakefield Floodlit Cup Winners 1991/92 1st team manager and has done unbelievable along with Mark 1995/96. Runners Up 1989/90 Brogan, Steve Fletcher and physio Scarlett Ayre and in his first season has overseen a near flawless league campaign winning Sheffield County Senior League 11 of the 12 games to win the league in December and also through to the League Cup final, a season for the ages. Champions 1964/65 1976/77 We are also very proud to have a ladies side now in their Wharncliffe Charity Cup Winners 1960/61 fourth season managed by our Club Secretary’s husband Mark 1962/63 1975/76 Thompson and play in the Sheffield and Hallamshire Womens League, and have just completed their second league title win in NMDFL U21 5 seasons Central League Division Winners 2021- Away from our seniors we have a dozen junior sides both boys 2022 and girls who we hope will push on and play for both our mens and ladies sides in the future, and for this season we have added League Cup Winners 2021-22 an U18’s so will complete the pathway from Juniors to seniors. Sheffield and Hallamshire Womens League Division 3 winners 2016-2017. Division one winners 2021-2022

PAGE 6 | NORTH MIDLANDS DEVELOPMENT LEAGUE U21 LEAGUE CUP FINAL A FIRST YEAR FULL OF SUCCESS FA CUP GLORY & FURTHER PROMOTIONS AFC Mansfield formed in 2012 and joined the Central Midlands Football League, signing a The next three seasons would be full of further 10-year deal to play at the Forest Town Arena. success. In 2015/16, AFC earned promotion ​The newly formed club - nicknamed ‘the Bulls’ to the NCEL Premier Division with a second - began their journey in the 2012/13 season, place finish, and a year later made club history when they fought on four fronts and nearly won with an FA Cup run lasting all the way to the the lot. Third Qualifying Round, where they would be ​Despite mustering 176 goals and losing just knocked out by Stamford in a close 2-1 defeat. twice, the Bulls had to settle for a runners- ​The 2017/18 season was perhaps the best in up place to Dronfield, who dropped just five AFC’s bountiful but brief history to date, with points all season to clinch the league title. But the Bulls matching their FA Cup run from the success would come in the Notts Intermediate previous campaign and clinching promotion to Cup final where they defeated Beeston AFC, the Northern Premier League East Division - and a Floodlit Cup final victory over Newark step eight in the football pyramid. Town would earn a cup double for the Bulls in The Bulls got past Hall Road Rangers, Quorn, their first ever season as a club. Dunkirk and Rushall Olympic before being ​It could have been a hat-trick of cup titles, but beaten by National League North side Boston a tiresome nine-man AFC would be beaten in United in front of over 600 spectators in the FA injury time by Clifton All Whites in the League Cup Third Qualifying Round. Cup final at Alfreton Town. M​ ustering 96 points and scoring 110 league goals, at first glance it would be expected MORE SILVERWARE & A RISE UP THE that AFC won the NCEL Premier Division LEAGUES that season, but they finished in third behind The club entered the FA Vase for the first time Pickering Town on goal difference and league in the 2013/14 season and were eventually winners Pontefract who recorded a ridiculous knocked out in a replay by step five side 102 points. Huntingdon Town. T​ hanks to a reshuffle in the step above in B​ ut much more success was to come later the football pyramid, however, the Bulls were that season, as the Bulls clinched the Central promoted alongside Pontefract and Pickering Midlands Football League North Division title to the NPL East Division. before beating Thorne Colliery in the League A FIRST EXPERIENCE OF NPL FOOTBALL Cup final to earn their fourth piece of silverware For the first time in the Bulls’ history, they found in two seasons... Although a treble eluded them difficulty in adapting to their new league despite once again with defeat in the Floodlit Cup final a promising start to the 2018/19 campaign. to Bulwell FC. T​ he ray of sunshine in the first half of their I​n their first season in the Northern Counties season was another impressive FA Cup run East Football League Division One, the Bulls which ended at a much higher side in Kettering came one game away from an FA Vase Town, who could only just edge past the Bulls quarter-final by reaching the fifth round - a with a 2-1 win despite a very nervy ending. record run - but were knocked out 3-0 by Tadcaster Albion.

WORKSOP VAN HIRE | PAGE 7 AFC MANSFIELD M​ anager Rudy Funk was sacked in February the 1st team took on the role. 2019 with AFC bottom of the pile, and new boss Mark Ward steered his side to safety by 15 With a much younger squad, points, but ground grading issues meant that recruited from the excellent the club would be playing Step 5 football once U21 and U18 sides all at the club are looking forward to a full season with all its ups and downs. more. BACK TO THE NCEL Ward stepped down at the end of the season and Matt Chatfield was appointed after a lot of interest in the job. Matt brought John Stancliffe in as his assistant and Chesterfield legend Andy Morris in as coach. The season was curtailed due to Covid 19 in March 2020. The management team recruited well for the 2020-21 season and the club was looking forward to playing in the Toolstation NCEL Premier Division. Our first competitive game saw a 2-1 home win against local rivals Sherwood Colliery in The Extra Preliminary round of The FA Cup. The FA Cup run saw us eventually knocked out in the 2nd Qualifying round by step 2 side Boston United 4-2 at their temporary home at Gainsborough Trinity. Once again, the season finished prematurely and during the summer Manager Matt Chatfield departed for Grantham Town. The club had a lot of interest in the vacant managers job but decided to promote from within and U21 Manager Phil Buxton who was also Captain of

TONIGHTS TEAMS AFC MANSFIELD HARWORTH COLLIERY BRENDAN WILSON (MANAGER) (MANAGER) WAYNE CLARKE MARLEY ALDER & MARK BROGAN (ASST.) (ASST.) SCOTT PICKWORTH STEPHEN FLETCHER (COACH) (COACH) JON D'LARYEA SCARLETT AYRE (PHYSIO) (PHYSIO) JASON TRUSCOTT YELLOW & BLUE ALL RED JACK CRATCHLEY DYLAN HOUGH JORDAN TIMMONS EWAN MCKENNA JACK GIBB SAM FLOWERS KACPER RAJTER CALLUM FLETCHER KIAN SKETCHLEY (C) HARVEY THOMAS (C) SAM PIPES WILL HEATHER ELLIOTT ALLSOP TOM WHITE CALLUM BROOKS COREY CLARKE HARVEY WALKER BEN CLIFFORD RYAN DICKINSON KOFI APPIAH ADAM MORRISON ENZO DE NASCIEMENTO JOSH MILLARD RIO ALLAN LIAM MAYS BAYLEY LOWE TYLER SYLVESTER HARRY DUNBAR JACK LOWE HENRY ALTON CHARLIE SMITH MORGAN MELLORS JACK EVANS TAYLOR JAINE JAMIE BELL TOBY FRANCIS JOE GREEN TYLER WAPLINGTON MITCHELL BAILEY WILL TAYLOR OFFICIALS REFEREE: SAM CLAYTON ASSISTANT: TYLER MACHIN | ASSISTANT: CHARLIE MULHALL 4TH OFFICIAL: GUY OWEN