PLAYERS WANTED Oundle Town U15’s for the coming season (school year 9 at present) are looking to bringing in 2-3 new players to strengthen our squad.
Our club and Coaching Team are led by qualified coaches who believe in developing players, working hard and enjoying the love of the game. Our friendly squad train every Thursday 6.00-7.00 in Oundle, and we play Saturday mornings in the Hunts League.
The Team has competed well over the few seasons and finished 3rd in the League last year.
If you want to join a team that enjoys their football, please contact Paul on 07584 685269 or p_garrod@sky.com to find out more. We will be inviting players to join us for training sessions.
OTFC needs your help! We have big fundraising plans for the club this year and we need people to help organise and volunteer.
So if you are a dab hand at interior decorating, you love a good spreadsheet, you bake a mean cake or you know how to direct traffic like a cop on Times Square then please come along to our meeting on Wednesday 23rd February at 7.30pm at OTFC clubhouse.
If you can’t make that date then don’t worry just email oundletownfc@outlook.com and we will tell you how you can be part of making OTFC fundraising amazing.
We wish you a very happy and healthy New Year and also we want to thank you, for all of your incredible support, especially during such difficult times over the last year.
It is truly appreciated and OTFC wouldn’t be where it is without you.
BUT WAIT…….We still need your help for 2022 and this is where you come in…..
How can you help?
Join our Events Team – to organise social and fundraising events for OTFC.
Join our Grounds Maintenance Team – have you got any free time to help us manage the grounds / mow the grass?
Join our Clubhouse Development Team – in real need of replacement!
Join our Site Development Team – we have the vision – help us make it a reality!
Join the OTFC Committee – we need support to maintain and develop all what we do at OTFC!
What better way than for you to be involved and kick start OTFC into a fantastic new year!
We will be holding our first meeting at Oundle Town Football Club on Wednesday 12th January 2022 at 8:00pm.
When & Where:
We look forward to building our team of volunteers to help develop OTFC plans for 2022 and give our football club the best year it’s ever had!
Best wishes and we look forward to seeing you on the 12th January 2022.
We hope that this finds you and your family well in the unprecedented times we are facing. We thought the weather this season was challenging enough, but yesterday we found out that due to CV19, all Leagues have now been concluded below the National League for the 2019-20 season. Please see below excerpt regarding Grassroots Clubs from the FA announcement.
“We can now confirm that The FA has decided that all grassroots football is concluded for the 2019/20 season. This will allow the game to move forward and to commence planning for next season. Our County Football Associations [CFAs] will be supporting grassroots leagues over the coming days to determine how they should close out their current competitions. ”
OTFC have been following the Government guidance throughout this pandemic, as you will all know all of our teams stopped playing 2 weeks ago and our Clubhouse closed on Monday 23rd March until further notice. Our volunteers continue to maintain our pitches on Station Road, working in isolation from others. If anyone does have time to sit on a tractor we’d love to have your help so we can make a rota up. OTFC admin work will also continue so that we will be ready to start the new season as soon as the information from our Leagues are published.
For those of you who don’t know, OTFC is a CASC (Charity) which is run on a non-profit basis. All of the money received from football subscriptions and all income made at the Clubhouse are utilised to pay for our football activities, and the upkeep of our Club facilities, including payment of our lease, pitch maintenance & marking, pitch hire, referee fees, kit & equipment, plus investment in equipment and grounds maintenance for future seasons. As with all other businesses CV19 is having a significant financial impact on OTFC.
Our Committee, in line with social distancing have had our monthly Committee meeting as a virtual meeting to discuss the challenges ahead. We understand that there will be concerns over subscriptions and we would ask that you contact us on treasurer@oundletownfc.co.uk to request pro rata refunds of your annual subscription. For those of you who have standing orders we ask that you cancel these from 26th March. Lastly the OTFC committee want to wish that you and your family keep safe and well during this time.
Oundle Town Football Club have accepted Jan Czarnecki’s
resignation as First Team Manager position at the end of this season’s
campaign.
Oundle Town Football Club
would like to place on record their thanks to Jan. During his two and a half
year reign, the Club have maintained top half finishes in PDFL Division One, he
has built a reputation of progressing Youths into the 1st team which has
resulted in a positive knock-on effect within the Club with both the U17’s and
U18’s winning cups, he now leaves the club on a high in his pursuit for a new
challenge with the foundations set for his successor.
On behalf of the Board Members, Club Members and support staff,
we wish Jan the very best of luck going forward.
The Club are currently in the
process of appointing a new First Team Manager with an announcement expected in
due course.
Huge Congratulations to our U17s team who won the Hunts Youth Cup on Thursday at Godmanchester Town. Coming back from 2-1 down last 10 mins to win 3-2. Ryley Barfoot with a last minute 35 yard free kick to win it. 90% of the team are also playing a year up. Well done to Team manager Jamie McLaughlin and the lads.
We would like
to thank Bulley Davey for their continued support to Oundle Town Football Club.
Established
in 1935, their business today provides unparalleled service to all clients,
whatever their size or sector. With a wealth of experience, they pride themselves
on delivering a first class service as and when required.
Bulley Davey is
a successful, forward thinking provider of accounting, tax and business advice
services.
They
also have a number of dedicated specialist departments dealing with a range of
matters such as tax planning, corporate finance, wealth management, insolvency
and business recovery.
A cup quarter final with the two highest positioned teams in the leagues coming together with the eventual winner becoming slight favorite for the title, but this is cup football and as this tie showed upsets can happen.
Bourne came into the game unbeaten throughout the season, unbeaten in 8 in the league with a couple of cup wins to go with it they came into the game clear favorites against an Oundle side with huge talent but struggling for consistency.
The match began quite frantically with both sides enjoying spells of possession and the occasional half chance on goal, the evenly matched start seemed to give Oundle the confidence they needed to take the game to Bourne and put them on the back foot for the opening 25 minutes.
Then came the eventual sucker punch, after a poor corner the ball was picked up on the side of the 6 yard box before the Bourne player on the turn left footed sent a lofted cross come shot across goal.
The acute angle and surprise of the shot seemed to take Oundle players, especially the goal keeper by surprise as It dropped into the far corner.
Oundle 0 – 1 Bourne.
It wasn’t long however before the home side reacted, spurred on from the confidence they had built before hand they fashioned a chance down the right-hand side and after two attempts Sam Greenhalgh slotted past the keeper.
Oundle 1-1 Bourne.
This goal seemingly having the opposite effect on Bourne who seemed to lose focus for the next 10 minutes gave Oundle more possession of the ball in the opposition half. Some neat combination play led to a free kick just inside the Bourne half, looping up into the air held up by the days strong wind, Charley Hockey Oundle’s strong number 9 (who for some reason wears 2) rose above everyone to head into the bottom corner.
Oundle 2-1
Half time came at the right time for the away side who took the time to reorganise and refocus their efforts. Oundle potentially conscious of the fact they had something to hold on too started to play deeper and found themselves defending for the majority of the second half.
Until a fast counter attack from a Bourne attack that had committed many players forward found Hockey who released Freddie Davies into the left channel, entering the box he opened his body slotting the ball underneath the keeper.
FT Oundle 3 – 1
A great achievement by all involved and we look forward to welcoming Glinton Northborough to Station Road this Sunday 2pm kick off.
