Friendlies/Training

Our first two training sessions will be held at KGV on 19th and 26th August (Tuesday's) at 6.30pm.  The following Tuesday, 2nd September, I have arranged a friendly against West Exe at Barton Fields, 6.30 KO. Can you let me know if your son is ok to play in this game please.

I'm also trying to arrange another friendly against Sidmouth and/or City shortly after I return from holiday mid August - I will keep you posted.

Germany 5 - 2 Central United (+2 Gers)

Thanks for not doing a runner on Wednesday when seeing the size of the German boys.  I was as surprised as you to be greeted by a bunch of 12 and 13 years olds, as this was not what I had arranged.  German has never my strong point!!  

I was glad to see you all still wanted to play and thought you all competed really well. Borrowing two of their players helped even things up after going a couple of goals down and it if wasn't for 'Manuel Neuer' in goal the final score would have been closer than 5-2.  Well done to Pacey and Matt for getting past him.  

I have to give Matt and Ollie a mention as they were outstanding all game.  Also, well done to our new signing, Noah, who put in an excellent debut performance.

KO change

The KO for our game on Wednesday has been changed to 7.30pm, as the pitch is not available until then - I hope this is ok with everyone.

Central United v der Germans

For those who are playing in Wednesday's game against der Germans, KO is 7pm at Warren View Sports Ground, Halsdown Avenue, Exmouth, EX8 3EG.  If you could aim to be there at least 20 minutes before that would be great.

I have no idea of the standard of this team, being German probably very well drilled I suspect, so I have spoken with their manager and agreed that if the game becomes too one sided (and we are hammering them!!!) then we will mix up the teams, as at the end of the day this is to give both sets of players an enjoyable game of football with a bit of culture thrown in.

You might be interested to look up http://www.ferienfussball.de/ .   If you are not fluent German, some browsers will automatically ask if you would like to translate, if not, you can do a Google search for ferienfussball and select 'translate this page' from the search results page.     

A few things

Hi all

Firstly, I wanted to say well done to those who played in Culm Sampford Tournament on Saturday; I hope you all enjoyed yourselves.  It was a good effort and a real shame that we didn't quite make the semi finals.  To concede in the dying seconds of extra time after such a good performance was a bit disappointing but i'm afraid that's the way it goes sometimes!  By the way, defending corners will definitely be on the agenda for pre season training!!

On the subject of training, we have been given the same slot for the coming season on Monday evenings (7pm - 8pm) at Exeter School.  I will let you know the date this starts in due course.

I know it's a bit early for a pre-season friendly but I have made provisional arrangements for us to play a match against a German boys team in Exmouth next Wednesday, 7pm KO.   They are currently staying at a European Football Camp and I didn't want to pass on the opportunity to play them as thought it would be a good experience for the boys and something they would enjoy, so long as it doesn't go to a penalty shoot out!!!  I would appreciate it if you could let me know asap, one way or the other, if your son can play so I can finalise details.

Many thanks.
Jon