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Dabbers'success
Updated August 20, 2010
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Jackson Avenue and the move to The Weaver Stadium (this
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FA Vase win
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Victory tour of the town |
Club's history told in new book |
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THIS picture shows part of Keepers Chase (as the
former football ground is now called) in May, in a similar view to the
picture below). Work continues on the former stand side of the ground. More pictures can be found on
this
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A panorama of Nantwich Town
F.C.'s ground at Jackson Avenue in the summer of 2007. Nantwich Town's successes here are
now just a pleasant memory as
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Now a limited company
NANTWICH TOWN FC became a limited company -
Nantwich Football Trust Ltd - in a move to secure its future for some years
to come. The change
took place in July 2010.
Read more on
http://evostikleague.pitchero.com/nantwich-change-of-status-2512/.
That's on the Evo-Stik Premier League's website - the new name for
the Unibond League. It is basically the Northern Premier League but a new
sponsor - Evo-Stik Adhesives and Sealants - means a new name. The previous sponsors,
Unibond, ended their sponsorship after 16 years.
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Sponsorship deal for first team home shirts
A MAJOR sponsorship
agreement for their first team home shirts during the 2010/11 season has
been signed by the club with Cheshire-based County Insurance. The
“Insurance4Your” logo will be emblazoned across the front of the home shirts
and displayed around the Weaver Stadium and the 3G pitch.
Tim Crighton of
County Insurance said: "Insurance4Your are delighted to be sponsoring
Nantwich Town. We wanted to support our local club whilst also promoting our
brand and service to local residents."
Nantwich Town F.C.
Commercial manager Jon Gold said “A club such as Nantwich Town is dependent
on the support and generosity of its partners and we are grateful to all of
them and hopefully we will be in a position to announce further partners in
the next few weeks."
The new look shirts were
worn for the first time in pre-season games with Stoke City and Crewe
Alexandra". Replicas will be available to purchase from the club store.
www.insurance4your.co.uk
From a press release
issued by the club.
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Acting managers get the job
PLAYERS Kevin Street and Darren Tinson have been
appointed as the club's managerial team on a permanent basis, the Crewe and
Nantwich Guardian reported on May 6, 2010.
While they were caretaker
managers, the Dabbers won five of the six matches they played and drew the
other, with a clean sheet on all the four away matches.
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Pete Hall leaves as Head Coach
"NANTWICH Town F.C. and Head Coach Pete Hall
have regrettably parted company by mutual consent." That is the start of a
statement posted on the club's official website at the end of March 2010.
It goes on: "The club wishes to
place on record its sincere thanks for all the hard work, enthusiasm and
dedication Pete has given during his time at the club in both coaching and
football development.
"He leaves with the best wishes of
everyone at the club and will always be very welcome at the Weaver Stadium".
A successor to Pete Hall is
not expected to be appointed until the summer. Meanwhile, players Kevin
Street and Darren Tinson are acting joint managers.
The Dabbers dropped to 15th place
in the Unibond Premier League table after a number of lost matches, although
they had risen to 11th place after a 3-0 away win against Whitby the
Saturday after Pete left. The team finished the season in 10th
position.
Pete
Hall was assistant to former manager Steve Davis through the club's meteoric
rise through the leagues and their two cup wins. Pete
had a brief to win two more promotions in three years - with the Blue Square
Conference in 2012 as the eventual aim.
He was helped as manager by Kevin
Street, one-time Crewe Alex mid-fielder. Kevin didn't actually apply for the
job of managing the Dabbers, but Pete Hall wanted him as his assistant.
Steve Davis, who led the team
through two promotions in two years - missing out on a third in 2009 -
had returned to Crewe Alex, for whom he was once a player, to be assistant
manager, working with the Crewe manager, Gudjon Thordarson.
Read the club's
full statement here.
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Congratulations,
Jim
CONGRATULATIONS to Jim Kettle, the
Dabbers' oldest and longest "serving"
fan. Jim joined the growing ranks of the town's 90-year-olds on February 22,
2010.
It was at the
tender age of nine that Jim stood on the sidelines at Jackson Avenue, supporting
his favourite team, who were then playing in the old Cheshire League.
The ground was
just round the corner from his home. But his parents wouldn't let him travel
to away games, he told Michael Chatwin for the book "Proud to be the Dabbers''.
Jim's Dad wasn't
interested in football, but his son, Graham, grandson, Peter, and great
grandsons Sam and Josh are all keen fans.
''Proud
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Marketing Executive
THE club has appointed Helen Alton as Marketing
Executive for its events suite. Read about her
here.
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Weaver Stadium could be World Cup team training base
NANTWICH Town F.C.'s ground could be used
as a training base for one of the teams in the 2018 World Cup, if the event
comes to this country. For more details see this
page.
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Get the right site
THE official club website is
www.nantwichtownfc.com. There is a similar website domain name which, of
course, takes you to a
different website.
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Stadium address
NANTWICH Town FC's stadium address is Nantwich Town F.C., The Weaver Stadium,
Waterlode, Nantwich, Cheshire, CW5 5BS. The phone number is
01270 621771.
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Last game
NANTWICH Town FC played their
last game at the Jackson Avenue ground on April 21, 2007, when a
0-0 draw put them into the then Unibond League. For photographs from the last match, see
this page on this website.
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The Weaver Stadium story
WORK on Nantwich
Town F.C.'s long-awaited £3.75 million new ground started on August 21, 2006.
It was two years since the plans
for the new ground in Kingsley Fields were first announced, but it was not until
July 11 that Crewe and Nantwich Borough Council planners gave the go-ahead for
the project.
The announcement on the website (www.nantwichtownfc.com)
said:
"Nantwich Town FC have announced
that they have completed the purchase of the site for their new ground at
Kingsley Fields and the sale of their Jackson Avenue ground to Barratt Homes.
After lengthy legal delays, a start is now expected on site on 21st August,
2006.
"Main contractor Bossons will start work on the £3.75million
project which is expected to take 40 weeks to complete. It means that the
scheduled match against Squires Gate on 14th April, 2007, will be the club's
last at Jackson Avenue. Further updates will appear on the website as work
progresses."
Previously the website had said the club
had received almost £1 million from the
Football Foundation -
"the U.K.'s largest sporting charity" - which announced it had awarded the
club "one of their largest ever grants." The actual sum was £959,995 which
also included £100,000 for a football development officer "to create more
opportunities for players of all ages and abilities to play the national
game." The Football Stadium Improvement Fund was also behind the grant.
Forty weeks after the starting date, the club can expect to have "a superb
new stadium . . . a community sports facility . . . a full-size floodlit 3rd
Generation pitch and a modern, two-storey changing pavilion, housing male
and female changing rooms for players and match officials,
medical rooms and a huge social and
function suite."
I won't quote the website at length. Read it
for yourself by following the link above. But here is just one more quote from
the site. "Nantwich Town Chairman, Clive Jackson said
'We
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the
infrastructure to support our football development plan. The final stage
of this was to provide facilities for the use of our own sides and the community
in general. This would never have been possible without support and funding from
The Football Foundation. . . and the other contributors to the project -
Nantwich Town Council (£100,000) and Crewe and Nantwich Borough Council
(£60,000).
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'We would further wish to thank the organisations and individuals who have
worked along side us to make this project possible, namely the local Football
Development Forum, Cheshire County F.A., Clare Wilson (Crewe and Nantwich
Borough
Council), and South Cheshire Youth league.
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The stand at Jackson Avenue |
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" 'On
a personal note, I would like thank all of our supporters for
their patience - Jon Brydon (Vice-Chairman) and Michael Chatwin
(President), Bob Melling and the Youth Committee who
have made my visions and dreams for this project turn into reality.' "
The Nantwich Chronicle of July
11 quoted Mr Jackson as saying: "It has taken a long time but good things come
to those who wait. It is a great foundation to build on and the ground will
finally give our 28 teams a place to call home.
"We are aiming to get
promotion this season and then consolidate what we have got and push forward
with the aim of achieving Conference
football in the next few years."
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Another view of the London Road
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The newspaper said the ground "will
have a capacity of 3,500, a 350-seat grandstand and covered standing
accommodation for a further 700 spectators, making it amongst the best
non-league grounds in the country". |