[CFC91]

Thought it might be fun to set up a thread for people to keep people updated with there Sunday league sides successes and failures over coming season.

Playing for a mates team at Clay Cross this season, won 5-1 in a friendly on Saturday against Boot & Shoe. Not sure when season starts?!

[JonB]

Also be in Division 8 with AFC Grouse as and when i regain fitness after making a mess of my ankle playing cricket the other week!!

Division 8 this season according to the Sunday League website has these teams this season :-

AFC Grouse, Boot & Shoe, Brampton Brewery, Brampton Rovers Reserves, Chesterfield Town Reserves, Grassmoor Sports Reserves, Holmebrook Tavern 2nd X1, Markham Arms, Miners & Diners Clay Cross, Oxcroft DC United and VK Royal Oak 2nd.

[CFC91]

Thats okay then as Boot & Shoe didnt look up too much last Sunday, 5-1 flattered them if im honest.

[hilly81]

Ill miss Sunday League having moved away from the shire and also having completed a league and cup double last season.

[SpireiteFitzy]

Well after 5 games things are looking good, won 3 and drawn 2, coming from behind in 4 of them. Won 3-2 against Grassmoor today and playing well. Should hopefully be a good season.

[JonB]

Definitely our best start to a season in a long while....and annoyingly coincided with me not being able to play!! Hoping to get going again in a couple of weeks when i'm back from holiday.

Another good win yesterday and we've gone up a spot to 3rd in the table. Brampton Brewery looking good though and the team in 2nd place have some lad who has scored 17 in 6 games so far this season!!

[SpireiteFitzy]

 JonB, on 01 October 2012 - 11:17 AM, said:

Definitely our best start to a season in a long while....and annoyingly coincided with me not being able to play!! Hoping to get going again in a couple of weeks when i'm back from holiday.

Another good win yesterday and we've gone up a spot to 3rd in the table. Brampton Brewery looking good though and the team in 2nd place have some lad who has scored 17 in 6 games so far this season!!

Top 2 play each other next week and I believe we play bottom of the table at home, we have a game in hand on them both above us as well. Not looking forward to playing a rampant Brampton, though we have the next best defensive record in the league after them.

Hope your back and playing soon.

[JonB]

 SpireiteFitzy, on 01 October 2012 - 12:22 PM, said:

Top 2 play each other next week and I believe we play bottom of the table at home, we have a game in hand on them both above us as well. Not looking forward to playing a rampant Brampton, though we have the next best defensive record in the league after them.

Hope your back and playing soon.

Yeh, saw the top two play each other soon and i expect Brampton to win but you never know. Hopefully we can keep it together and see what happens. Going to give it a go and see what happens but being a defender and us having one of the best defensive records in the division its not going to be easy to get a game!!

[SpireiteFitzy]

P W D L F A GD Pts
VK Royal Oak 2nd 8 6 1 1 37 13 24 19
Brampton Brewery 7 6 0 1 37 11 26 18
AFC Grouse* 7 4 2 1 17 13 4 14
Holmebrook Tavern 2nd X1 6 4 0 2 17 16 1 12
Oxcroft United 7 4 0 3 22 25 -3 12
Clay Cross Miners & Diners 8 2 3 3 16 16 0 9
Chesterfield Town Reserves 6 2 2 2 10 15 -5 8
Markham Arms 7 2 1 4 20 18 2 7
Grassmoor Sports Reserves 8 2 1 5 22 30 -8 7
Britannia Tupton? 6 1 1 4 10 27 -17 4
Brampton Rovers Reserves 8 0 1 7 16 40 -24 1

*The Greatest team the world has ever seen

? Boot and Shoe renamed at a guess


Pretty solid start to the season as you can see, just the one defeat in 7 and joint best defence in the league (we havnt played the top 2 yet though), got a big game against 4th this weekend and with a game in hand on us its imperative that we put them away. The top 2 look ridiculously good though, knocking in 74 goals in a combined 15 games.

This post has been edited by SpireiteFitzy: 19 October 2012 - 12:11 PM

[hilly81]

 SpireiteFitzy, on 19 October 2012 - 12:10 PM, said:

P W D L F A GD Pts
VK Royal Oak 2nd 8 6 1 1 37 13 24 19
Brampton Brewery 7 6 0 1 37 11 26 18
AFC Grouse* 7 4 2 1 17 13 4 14
Holmebrook Tavern 2nd X1 6 4 0 2 17 16 1 12
Oxcroft United 7 4 0 3 22 25 -3 12
Clay Cross Miners & Diners 8 2 3 3 16 16 0 9
Chesterfield Town Reserves 6 2 2 2 10 15 -5 8
Markham Arms 7 2 1 4 20 18 2 7
Grassmoor Sports Reserves 8 2 1 5 22 30 -8 7
Britannia Tupton? 6 1 1 4 10 27 -17 4
Brampton Rovers Reserves 8 0 1 7 16 40 -24 1

*The Greatest team the world has ever seen

? Boot and Shoe renamed at a guess


Pretty solid start to the season as you can see, just the one defeat in 7 and joint best defence in the league (we havnt played the top 2 yet though), got a big game against 4th this weekend and with a game in hand on us its imperative that we put them away. The top 2 look ridiculously good though, knocking in 74 goals in a combined 15 games.

Adults / NAPIT Division 8
P W D L F A GD Pts
AFC Moonrakers 20 19 0 1 114 23 91 57
North Wingfield Miners Welfare 20 15 0 5 64 34 30 45
Chesterfield Phoenix 20 13 1 6 45 30 15 40
Brampton Brewery 20 11 3 6 63 45 18 36
Holmebrook Tavern 2nd X1 20 10 3 7 63 46 17 33
Chesterfield Town Reserves 20 9 3 8 37 46 -9 30
Grassmoor Sports Reserves 20 8 4 8 49 60 -11 28
Boot & Shoe 20 6 1 13 50 76 -26 19
AFC Grouse 20 3 6 11 36 65 -29 15
Miners & Diners Clay Cross 20 3 2 15 30 84 -54 11
Oxcroft DC United 20 0 3 17 30 72 -42 2

They wont even get close to this!

[JonB]

 SpireiteFitzy, on 19 October 2012 - 12:10 PM, said:

P W D L F A GD Pts
VK Royal Oak 2nd 8 6 1 1 37 13 24 19
Brampton Brewery 7 6 0 1 37 11 26 18
AFC Grouse* 7 4 2 1 17 13 4 14
Holmebrook Tavern 2nd X1 6 4 0 2 17 16 1 12
Oxcroft United 7 4 0 3 22 25 -3 12
Clay Cross Miners & Diners 8 2 3 3 16 16 0 9
Chesterfield Town Reserves 6 2 2 2 10 15 -5 8
Markham Arms 7 2 1 4 20 18 2 7
Grassmoor Sports Reserves 8 2 1 5 22 30 -8 7
Britannia Tupton? 6 1 1 4 10 27 -17 4
Brampton Rovers Reserves 8 0 1 7 16 40 -24 1

*The Greatest team the world has ever seen

? Boot and Shoe renamed at a guess


Pretty solid start to the season as you can see, just the one defeat in 7 and joint best defence in the league (we havnt played the top 2 yet though), got a big game against 4th this weekend and with a game in hand on us its imperative that we put them away. The top 2 look ridiculously good though, knocking in 74 goals in a combined 15 games.

We play Brampton Brewery next weekend it turns out which has dropped a bit annoyingly as one of our better players wont be there. For what its worth our, AFC Grouse, improvement can be measured by the fact we need one more point to match our total from all of last season!!

 hilly81, on 19 October 2012 - 01:11 PM, said:

Adults / NAPIT Division 8
P W D L F A GD Pts
AFC Moonrakers 20 19 0 1 114 23 91 57
North Wingfield Miners Welfare 20 15 0 5 64 34 30 45
Chesterfield Phoenix 20 13 1 6 45 30 15 40
Brampton Brewery 20 11 3 6 63 45 18 36
Holmebrook Tavern 2nd X1 20 10 3 7 63 46 17 33
Chesterfield Town Reserves 20 9 3 8 37 46 -9 30
Grassmoor Sports Reserves 20 8 4 8 49 60 -11 28
Boot & Shoe 20 6 1 13 50 76 -26 19
AFC Grouse 20 3 6 11 36 65 -29 15
Miners & Diners Clay Cross 20 3 2 15 30 84 -54 11
Oxcroft DC United 20 0 3 17 30 72 -42 2

They wont even get close to this!

And look where it got them!

As it happens we are away against one of the teams that benefited from us getting kicked off Highfield Park this weekend. Apparently with Holmebrook Valley being shut the teams from there apparently got first pick of where to go instead. Holmebrook Tavern picked Highfield Park so as soon as we were late with our application that was curtains for us!!

This post has been edited by JonB: 19 October 2012 - 01:15 PM

[SpireiteFitzy]

 hilly81, on 19 October 2012 - 01:11 PM, said:

Adults / NAPIT Division 8
P W D L F A GD Pts
AFC Moonrakers 20 19 0 1 114 23 91 57
North Wingfield Miners Welfare 20 15 0 5 64 34 30 45
Chesterfield Phoenix 20 13 1 6 45 30 15 40
Brampton Brewery 20 11 3 6 63 45 18 36
Holmebrook Tavern 2nd X1 20 10 3 7 63 46 17 33
Chesterfield Town Reserves 20 9 3 8 37 46 -9 30
Grassmoor Sports Reserves 20 8 4 8 49 60 -11 28
Boot & Shoe 20 6 1 13 50 76 -26 19
AFC Grouse 20 3 6 11 36 65 -29 15
Miners & Diners Clay Cross 20 3 2 15 30 84 -54 11
Oxcroft DC United 20 0 3 17 30 72 -42 2

They wont even get close to this!

Cheers for putting that up, it's always heartening as a new player to see that your helping the team out, even though I havnt really been playing that well it's nice to know that at least the team will do better than last season, barring a major major loss of form haha.

[SpireiteFitzy]

 JonB, on 19 October 2012 - 01:14 PM, said:

We play Brampton Brewery next weekend it turns out which has dropped a bit annoyingly as one of our better players wont be there. For what its worth our, AFC Grouse, improvement can be measured by the fact we need one more point to match our total from all of last season!!



And look where it got them!

As it happens we are away against one of the teams that benefited from us getting kicked off Highfield Park this weekend. Apparently with Holmebrook Valley being shut the teams from there apparently got first pick of where to go instead. Holmebrook Tavern picked Highfield Park so as soon as we were late with our application that was curtains for us!!

Why who isnt there for when we play Brampton Brewery? It is a tough pair of fixtures but I'm not in the mood to relinquish third place now that we've played so well to get it. This team is capable of good things this year.

Quick question Jon is Highfield park that set of football pitches just down the hill from Highfield hall?

[JonB]

 SpireiteFitzy, on 19 October 2012 - 02:42 PM, said:

Why who isnt there for when we play Brampton Brewery? It is a tough pair of fixtures but I'm not in the mood to relinquish third place now that we've played so well to get it. This team is capable of good things this year.

My brother Iain who normally plays up front or just behind the striker. He's one of those in Poland this weekend and then away at the NFL at Wembley, i think with Sulli as well, next weekend.

Its been a massive improvement on previous years not least down to the influx of players. Along with yourself the likes of Wes, Monksy, Jake, Jase, Ant, Matt and others i probably cant remember have all joined plus Martin in net and Rhys up top are playing on a regular basis rather than here and there. Times last season we barely had 11...this season even this weekend with a few away it looks like if there are no last minute drop outs we will still have 3 subs...if you count me!!

 SpireiteFitzy, on 19 October 2012 - 02:42 PM, said:

Quick question Jon is Highfield park that set of football pitches just down the hill from Highfield hall?

Highfield Park is just across the road from Newbold School just up from the Proact on Highfield Lane. There are three or four pitches on there. If you head up the hill from the Donkey Derby pub up the side of the petrol station then go left at the roundabout they are on that road. There are two ways onto it but i think we are on our old pitch which has its own changing rooms so its easier and not as far to park in Newbold School or on Highfield Lane and go in from that side.

[SpireiteFitzy]

 JonB, on 19 October 2012 - 02:54 PM, said:

My brother Iain who normally plays up front or just behind the striker. He's one of those in Poland this weekend and then away at the NFL at Wembley, i think with Sulli as well, next weekend.

Its been a massive improvement on previous years not least down to the influx of players. Along with yourself the likes of Wes, Monksy, Jake, Jase, Ant, Matt and others i probably cant remember have all joined plus Martin in net and Rhys up top are playing on a regular basis rather than here and there. Times last season we barely had 11...this season even this weekend with a few away it looks like if there are no last minute drop outs we will still have 3 subs...if you count me!!


Highfield Park is just across the road from Newbold School just up from the Proact on Highfield Lane. There are three or four pitches on there. If you head up the hill from the Donkey Derby pub up the side of the petrol station then go left at the roundabout they are on that road. There are two ways onto it but i think we are on our old pitch which has its own changing rooms so its easier and not as far to park in Newbold School or on Highfield Lane and go in from that side.

Yep they are the ones I was thinking of, glad thats the case its an easy 20 minute ride for me to them pitches. Get me nice and warmed up for the game.

[CFC91]

We arent doing too well, cant get a good team out at all but when we do we do alright. Lost against a couple of poor teams and done ok drawing with the leaders and beating another couple of sides above us. If we could get our decent players turning up week in week out we would be a lot higher.

[JonB]

We were unlucky yesterday losing 3-2 to Holmebrook Tavern with a makeshift side due to a few lads away in Poland and then 3 or 4 that were meant to be coming that didnt turn up as promised.

We ended up playing me and the manager up front who had a combined playing time of 0 mins so far this season, i'm a defender and he's a keeper and we've both had injuries so werent close to 100% fit in the slightest!! Like to think we'd have beaten them with a couple more of the players that didnt show.

[SpireiteFitzy]

I was disappointed that so few showed up this weekend. This team genuinely had a chance at been up the top of the table this season the way we have been playing and we'd have been solid 3rd if we'd won. Now we've blown it unless we can topple the 2 runaway league leaders in the next 2 games.

You and Sully did very well given the circumstances Jon as we were always going to be up against it. They had to rely on a freekick that should never have been to get them in the game and then we just had a 10 minute off period where fitness became an issue and they got their goals. For the other 80 minutes we were comfortable and played well given the fact we had people out of position everywhere.

[JonB]

Downside of Sunday League unfortunately...always get a few during a season that dont show. We knew about the 3 or 4 in Poland so once the other few didnt show on the morning we were up against it.

We had a few decisions go against us as the free kick on the edge of the box that we had first half was in the box and should have been a penalty plus their third goal came from a handball in the centre circle that wasnt given.

[SpireiteFitzy]

P W D L F A GD Pts
VK Royal Oak 2nd 12 10 1 1 59 18 41 31
Brampton Brewery 11 9 1 1 50 15 35 28
Holmebrook Tavern 2nd X1 11 9 0 2 38 25 13 27
AFC Grouse 12 6 2 4 29 25 4 20
Clay Cross Miners & Diners 11 4 3 4 29 26 3 15
Markham Arms 11 4 2 5 31 32 -1 14
Chesterfield Town Reserves 10 4 2 4 20 33 -13 14
Oxcroft United 12 4 0 8 30 46 -16 12
Grassmoor Sports Reserves 10 3 1 6 28 35 -7 10
Britannia Tupton 10 1 1 8 16 42 -26 4
Brampton Rovers Reserves 12 0 1 11 22 55 -33 1


This is how it stacks up at half way or just over for some. After a slight dip in form we've pulled it back with 2 wins in the last 3 and were pretty much cheated out of a point in the other by a ref giving ridiculous amounts of extra time when we only had 10 men on and them scoring in the last minute cause of this.

The top 3 have broken away by quite a sizeable gap but we've got a pretty solid 4th place at the minute providing the results of games in hand go our way. And we've got all our players back at the minute so maybe we can push higher if one of the top 3 starts to falter. A very solid season so far.