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Duddon Sports U16's
Last Updated: 29/07/10 @ 07:42 (Team News)
 
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TEAM HISTORY
Players & coaches, Past and Present (04/01/10)

Each person to give up their time to coach the team and each and every player who has ever pulled on the black and white shirt for our squad is listed below. We are certain that we have named all players, past and present, but if we've missed anyone, please let us know in the forum.

Aspinall, Neil 2009-
Casson, Adam 2007-2010
Everett, Jordan 2008-
Green, Andrew 2003-
Houghton, Christopher 2006-
Knowles, Jack 2006-
Pether, Calum 2005-
Priestley, Matthew 2003-
Rose, Daniel 2007-
Rowlings, Connor 2008-
Sloan, Christian 2009-
Speirs, Ben 2009-
Thompson, Jordan 2008-
Thorpe, Declan 2003-
Watters, Nathan 2009-
Woodend, Jordan 2005-
Baker, Bradley 2005-2006
Hanson, James 2003-2007
Lamb, Jason 2003-2007
Maguire, Oliver 2005-2008
Neillands, Stuart 2003-2009
Sales, Alexander 2005-2007
Ottley, Kieran 2005-2006
Sharp, Thomas 2007-2009
Douglas, Henry 2007-2009
Burnside, Laurence 2004-2008
Davies, George 2005-2009

Coaches/Management:

Ben Shirley (Manager): 2003 -
Mark Casson (Assistant Manager): 2007 -
Mark Thompson (Coach): 2008 -
Phil Hanson (Assistant Manager): 2004 - 2006
Frankie Maguire (Assistant Manager): 2006 - 2008

Achievements (11/05/10)

Barrow & District JF League U14 Winners : 2009/10

Barrow and District JF League: Runners Up: 2006/07, 2007/08.

Furness U14 FA Cup Winner : 2009/10

Barrow & District JFL U14 KO Cup Winners : 2009/10

Lancashire FA U14 Youth Cup 2009/10 : Semi Finals

Radcliffe Borough Tournament : 2010 Runners-up

Walney FC Tournament: 2010 Runners- up

Pendle Youth Cup: Winners 2009

Fleetwood Gym Championship: Winners 2009

Ulverston Hospital Cup U14s Winners 2009/10

Ulverston Hospital Cup: Runners Up 2007/08

Duddon Gala: Winners - 2006/07, 2007/08
Plate Winners: 2005/06

H.O.B. Gala: Winners 2006/07

Furness Rovers Gala: Winners 2006/07

GSK Gala: Runners Up 2005/06

Barrow Borough Sports Council: Team of the Month July 2009, Team of the Year Runner up 2009.

Inter League Players:

2007/08: Matthew Priestley, Andrew Green, Oliver Maguire (now of Furness Rovers), Calum Pether.

2009/10: Andrew Green, Calum Pether, Declan Thorpe, Nathan Watters, Connor Rowlings, Jordan Thompson, Neil Aspinall.


Team History (09/06/09)

Formed in September 2003 as the youngest side in the club’s history with the youngest manager in the league and the club’s history.
A still wet behind the ears Ben Shirley took over the reins of the under 8’s boys team, as they were then, as a newly qualified level one coach, after giving up playing due to several serious injuries.
With an amalgamation of five, six and seven year olds ‘Sports side looked like your average village team cobbled together with whoever they could find willing to play.
After a few months of friendly’s prior to September 2003, this young Duddon side were suffering heavy double figure defeats before a complete overhaul and new management team were brought in to build the side and take them, and the club, forward.
With players like Andrew Green, Stuart Neillands, Matthew Priestley and Calum Pether introduced to the squad, things were starting to take shape. After a rigorous pre-season programme the side were ready to start their first ever season, away to Furness Rovers at Youth Fields.
A cagey affair with lots of miss–kicks, hand balls, foul throws and other comedy events saw the eventual score line finish 0-0 (yes, a result . . . AWAY to FURNESS ROVERS! – who’d have thought that?!)
From that wet and windy day in September 2003 when Ben Shirley’s barmy army got their first ever result, the squad has gone from strength to strength. One of the biggest highlights of the early seasons was during the under ten’s campaign when a spirited Duddon side went to Furness Rovers again and won a magnificent spectacle by two goals to one, fitting that it was Pether and Neillands who scored the Duddon goals.
The managers philosophy has always been to attract good players and make them into excellent team players. Over the years players have come and gone, like James Hanson, Oliver Maguire, Laurence Burnside and others but only once has a player ever left the side to play for another club.
Loyalty is a key part of this squad and a strong sense of team spirit. The manager is loyal to the players and the players are loyal to the manager and each other. No one is bigger than the club or team.
As the years went by the squad began to grow and players, supporters and management alike scoured the village for new recruits to see us into the dizzy heights of eleven a side youth football.
It was clear that Duddon were building something special and certainly sustainable and recruiting players proved to be relatively easy in the end.
After two runners up medals in the league (a first for the club), a runners up medal in the club’s first ever appearance in a cup final and four gala successes, this squad of players is the most successful team Duddon Sports JFC has ever produced.

   
 
 
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