Fleetwood Wednesday Academy Squad Vs FC Halifax

FC Halifax Vs Fleetwood Town 

Result : 0 - 2


Football Conference Youth Alliance Cup

It was cup action for the Academy squad against a Halifax team who had earned themselves an impressive win the week previous, running out 7-1 victors over table topping FC United.  With Town coming into the game on the back of two defeats and two draws in the league it looked like a tough game was ahead of them.

Preparation for the game was disrupted through moving from grass to the 3G pitch and after eventually starting the game, Town showed again why teams have gained results against them. Trying to play the impossible ball soon placed Town under pressure and if not for some good defensive work and a fantastic close range save from keeper O'Boyle  town could have seen themselves behind. Opportunities were created and without the killer instinct these chances came to nothing. The best chance of the first half for Town came from a free kick 25 Yards out with Wynn curling round the wall only to be denied by the woodwork with the home keeper scrambling across his line. The score line remained deadlocked at half time.

The interval allowed for the coaching staff to reassess the situation and set some tactical boundaries for the players. The players had been informed to play keep ball for the first ten minutes, this paid dividends as with the players passing the ball round well and creating space for themselves and one another opportunities became more fluent and of better quality. The town players looked more comfortable on the ball and retained possession well, pressing for the football when out of possession. It wasn't till the 72 minute when some great passages of play saw the ball out wide and when fired across the box, the movement across the defender by Duffield was too much for them and he turned the ball into the net.  Town continued to defend well and held Halifax to long range efforts.  The game was finally put to bed in spectacular style when Wynn found himself space 40 yards from goal and riffled a shot which beat the keeper and went in off the crossbar. 

O'Boyle was delighted after the game as this was Towns first clean sheet of the Academy season.

Both Alan Wright and Steven Carlin were elated with the performance of the players in the second half, with the way there kept possession of the ball and created support for each other shows the level of performance the lads can create. When the players get the basics right the rest of the game comes with it and the performance and result today shows this.

Squad: O'Boyle, A Bennett, Christensen, Smith, Tanser, Vivian, Wynn, Few, King, Crolla, Duffield.

Subs: Croston, K Bennett, Mooney.

Scorers: Duffield, Wynn.

Fleetwood Sunday Academy Squad Vs Caton

Caton Vs Fleetwood Town

Result : 0 - 3


Syndicate Cup

Fleetwood Town reached the Semi Final of the Syndicate Trust Cup with an extremely hard fought victory against a valiant Caton team.  

After last weeks postponement both teams were pleased to eventually get this fixture on.

Town started the game brightly and had two excellent chances saved by the Caton keeper and one cleared off the line. However Caton then began to create some good chances themselves and Town Keeper Joe Wheeler had to be in good form to keep the score level.

Caton had a penalty claim turned down just before the interval when Fleetwood were on the back foot. A change in formation meant that new signing Sam Binks moved into the centre of midfield and this seemed to steady the ship for Town. No score at the interval it was Caton that went in the happier of the two teams.

In the second period Fleetwood seemed to be more fired up. Binks and captain Jake Salisbury started to win the battle in midfield. Mick McAlpine back after suspension was making some excellent runs behind the Caton defense and strikers Joe Higgins and Jordan Wood were creating space and chances.

Five minutes into the second half Fleetwood opened the scoring after another great timed run by McAlpine saw him beat the offside trap and although his effort was well saved by the Caton keeper Wood was there to slot the ball home.

Credit to Caton they kept going forward and creating chances but the excellent back four of Fleetwood,  particularly Fran Donaghy and Alex Bethell were in impressive form.

Sam Binks was the architect of Towns second. Collecting the ball just inside the opposition half he went n a mazy run that left four defenders in his wake and found McAlpine unmarked in the box and he fired home.

The last fifteen minutes Fleetwood dominated the play with some good football despite the deteriorating playing surface. McAlpine finally put the game out of reach with his second and Towns third. He intercepted a poor ball from a Caton defender and with a one on one with the keeper he coolly rounding him and rolled the ball into the empty net.

After the game manager Mark Bowley said “We didn’t start the game well at all today are Finishing was poor and we were sloppy with some of our passing. Caton battled hard and had us under a lot of pressure in the first half. We had a few words with the lads during the interval and credit to them all they picked the tempo up.

We are delighted to get to this stage in the competition in our first season but there are still some very good teams left in it and we will have to play better than we did if we want to reach the final. 

Squad: Wheeler. Amos. Bethel. Donaghy. Rankin. Binks. Salisbury. Crolla. McAlpine. Wood. Higgins

Subs; McGough. Ogden. Clarke


Man of the Match: Sam Binks


Scorers : McAlpine 2, Wood

Fleetwood Wednesday Academy Squad Vs Chase Town

Fleetwood Town Vs Chase Town 

Result : 1 - 3


Football Conference Youth Alliance

Squad: O'Boyle, Wynn, Moulding, Roskell, Duggan, Few, Smith, Dell, King, K Bennett, Christensen.

Subs: Thompson, Tanser, Croston.

Unused Subs: Crolla, Duffield, Mooney.

Scorer: Dell

Man of the Match: J Smith

Fleetwood Wednesday Academy Squad Vs Tamworth

Tamworth Vs Fleetwood Town 

Result : 3 - 1


Football Conference Youth Alliance

Squad: Mainwaring, A Bennett, Thewlis, Christensen, Smith, Crolla, Vivian, Dell, Tanser, Thompson, Duffield.

Subs: King, Few, Mooney.

Scorer: King

2010-2011 Season
Football Conference Youth Alliance
North Division
		P	W	D	L	F	A	Pts
1	FC United of Manchester	6	4	1	1	17	6	13
2	Fleetwood Town	6	3	2	1	15	11	11
3	Stalybridge Celtic	5	3	1	1	14	8	10
4	FC Halifax Town	6	2	3	1	17	6	9
5	Tamworth	5	2	2	1	11	8	8
6	Birmingham City Blues	5	2	2	1	6	6	8
7	MMU/Newcastle	5	2	1	2	8	9	7
8	Boston United	3	1	2	0	5	2	5
9	Southport	4	1	0	3	6	15	3
10	Chasetown	5	0	2	3	6	11	2
11	Spalding United	6	0	0	6	4	27	0

Sunday Academy Fixtures for November

Sunday Academy

Date	Opponents	H/A	Comp	Result	Venue
07/11/2010	Morecombe Hawks	H	League	P-P	Fleetwood High School FY7 8HE
21/11/2010	Caton	A	Syndicate Cup Quarters	W3-0 McAlpine 2, Wood	Station Hotel Sports Feld, LA2 9QS
28/11/2010	Warton	H	League	P-P	Fleetwood High School FY7 8HE

Home Games – Fleetwood High School – 11:00am kick off.

Wednesday Academy Fixtures for November

Conference Academy

Date	Opponents	H/A	Comp	Result	Venue
03/11/2010	AFC Halifax	A	FCYA Cup	P - P	Marley Sports Stadium BD21 4DB
10/10/2010	Tamworth	A	FCYA	L 3-1 King	The Lamb Ground Kettlebrook Tamworth B77 1AA
17/11/2010	Chase Town	H	FCYA	L3-1 Dell	AFC Blackpool FY4 5DY
24/11/2010	AFC Halifax	A	FCYA Cup	W2-0 Duffield, Wynn	Marley Sports Stadium BD21 4DB

Home Games - AFC Blackpool, Jepson Way, Blackpool – 2:00pm kick off.

Reserve Fixtures for November

Reserves

Date	Opponents	H/A	Comp	Result	Venue
01/11/2010	Workington	H	Res	P - P	AFC Blackpool FY4 5DY
11/11/2010	Formby Town	A	Res	P-P	Altcar Road Formby, Merseyside,  L37 8DL
20/11/2010	Woodley Sports	A	Res	P-P	Neil Rourke Stadium, Lambeth Grove, SK6 1QX
25/11/2010	Colne	A	Res	P-P	XLCR Stadium, Harrison Drive, BB8 9SL
29/11/2010	Bamber Bridge	H	Res	P-P	AFC Blackpool FY4 5DY

Reserves Home Games - AFC Blackpool, Jepson Way, Blackpool - 7.45pm. Reserve games £2 entry (season ticket holders free on production of ticket)

Fleetwood Town Youth Vs Macclesfield Town Youth

Macclesfield Town Vs Fleetwood Town 

Result : 4 - 1


FA Youth Cup 1st Round

Fleetwood Town bow out of the FA Youth Cup in the first round at the hands of Macclesfield Town at Moss Rose Stadium.

The hosts showed their intensions from the kick off by moving the ball forward quickly and this was the style of play throughout the game. With both Towns centre half dealing with the initial pressure. Town found it difficult to get a hold of the ball and show the style of play that has seen them through to this round.  Macclesfield looked dangerous on the counter attack and it was from a miss placed pass that saw them break with runners from midfield, with a calm finish Town found themselves one down.  Five minutes later and with the same movement Macclesfield made it two. Town looked shaken as both goals could of been prevented. 

The scoreline remained the same till half time.

Town came out for the second half and took the game to Mac with some good passages of play and strong defensive work. For the first 15 mins Town kept the ball well and moved it around the pitch finding opening and gaining opportunities. This hard work was repaid when from a corner Moulding found the head of Duggan to reduce the score. Town continued to produce some good football going forward. It was a lapse of concentration in defense that allowed Mac in for the third which could be said to be against the run of play.  With ten minutes remaining and an unnecessary foul committed on the edge of the area, the Mac captain made it four with a low driven strike. Town pressed further but it was all to no avail and on the final whistle and a scoreline of 4-1 the run in the cup was over for another season.

The players should be proud of themselves to of made it through to the 1st round proper of the cup and in their individual and team performance especially in the second period of the game. The coaching staff have great pride in all the players and their attitude and continuing development. This game will only make the players stronger and we will see this in forthcoming fixtures.

Scorer: Duggan

Squad: Mainwaring, A Bennett, Moulding, Christensen, Duggan, Wynn, Vivian, Few, Duffield, K Bennett, Tanser.

Subs: Thewlis, Phillips, Smith

Unused Subs: King, Crolla

Good Luck goes out to Macclesfield in their next round fixture against Hartlepool.

Fleetwood Sunday Academy Squad Vs Garstang

Garstang Vs Fleetwood Town 

Result : 1 - 4


Lancashire Evening Post Sunday League

With another win in the Syndicate cup it was back to league action for Fleetwood Town in the Lancashire Evening Post League.

Town travelled the short distance away to Garstang with a strong squad and they had to be at their best in this fixture. For team captain Jake Salisbury who lives in Garstang it was a derby day and in his own words losing was not an option.

Town starting line up included Oliver Crolla and Lewis Phillips. Both players will be hoping for a call up to the squad for Wednesday nights game. Alex Bethel returned to his normal position at centre half to partner Francis Donaghy and Ash McGough moved to right back.

It took both teams time to adapt to the conditions, although the Garstang management had obviously worked extremely hard to get the game on in the first place, the playing surface was still heavy and players were making unforced errors.

Town took the lead on 15 minutes when Lewis Phillips, who had been in excellent form delivered another great ball into the Garstang box and Leigh Clark smashed the ball home. The game then became scrappy, for ten minutes Fleetwood stopped playing their usual passing game and got involved in a battle in midfield. This was expected especially with the passion shown by Towns captain. However during this period a mistake by the usually imperturbable town defence allowed Garstang to equal the score. 

It was Lewis Phillips who got Fleetwood’s second on Thirty mins. A ball played into the Garstang penalty area was bouncing around and he reacted first. His low drive flew past the stranded keeper.

Fleetwood were good value for the lead at the interval however injuries to Crolla and Phillips necessitated changes. Dom Amos came on into midfield and Joe Higgins as striker both were to play a crucial part in the eventual outcome of the game.

Garstang started the second period on top and would have equalised had it not been for the outstanding Town keeper Joe Wheeler who made an excellent save and reacted even better to the follow up shot from the striker

Joe Higgins then turned the game for Fleetwood in a extraordinary five minutes of play that saw him show just what an exciting playing he can be. He received the ball just into the Garstang half and ran at the defence beating at least four challenges he neatly pulled the ball back for Amos to score his first of the season.

Four minutes later it was Higgins again with a carbon copy this time he found leading scorer Atack who calmly slotted the ball home.

With the pitch deteriorating and the players from both sides flagging the game was professionally played out by Fleetwood who controlled the tempo in the final ten minutes for a well earned victory.

After the game Assistant manager Steve Kershaw said “We did well in the first half and looked good going forward. Defensively as a team we were poor but seemed to put that right in the second half. The lads that came into the squad did well specifically Joe Higgins who turned the game for us.” 

Scorers: Clark, Phillips, Amos, Atack

Squad: Wheeler. McGough. Bethel. Donaghy. Rankine. Clarke. Salisbury. Crolla. Phillips. Atack. Wood

Subs; Cawley. Price. Higgins. Amos. Thewlis.

outh Division 1 (Reds)

Pos	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts	-Pt
1	Thornton Cleveleys	4	3	0	1	7	5	2	9	-
2	Lostock St Gerards	2	2	0	0	5	0	5	6	-
3	Fleetwood Town	3	2	0	1	8	5	3	6	-
4	Fylde	3	2	0	1	3	3	0	6	-
5	Caton	2	1	0	1	5	5	0	3	-
6	Morecambe Hawk	3	1	0	2	2	3	-1	3	-
7	Garstang	4	1	0	3	7	9	-2	3	-
8	Warton Typhoons	4	1	0	3	9	15	-6	3	-
9	Lostock Hall Sports Club	1	0	0	1	4	5	-1	0	-