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Originally Posted By: thespursfan
ok teffs, would you have a comment on how local youth football is run in mole valley?

If there are three senior club in the area, Leatherhead Bookham and Dorking, do you think they should all have their own youth setups, work more together with the better players, or leave it all to the likes of brockham badgers, predators or dorking saints etc and hope to attract them when they are 16 or 17?

I think the three clubs have very different approaches, and Leatherhead were very succesful this season.


Leatherhead have a very good u18 youth team which came from another club 2 seasons ago, they also took 2 bookham side last season so to an extent they have cherry picked their youth set up.

Dorking are affiliated to Brokham badger and when you look at the size of them, the youth set up's need to be run seperately from the main club which is how it is run at Bookham. With the number of kids who want to play football their are not enough spaces, the players good enough will stay in football and will get picked up by decent teams whoever they play for. When the players are 16 or 17 their is so many different things that distracts them from football, work, uni, women, drink and many stop playing at around this age.

More of a concern is the 8 and 9 year olds how sign for team such as Chelski, Fulham and Charlton who then cannot play for their local teams and miss out on playing football with their mates.
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Originally Posted By: RTFC Barmy Army drummer
I am back for some fighting talk. Been busy with work experience but got Friday off so i wil be banging then. wheyyyyyyyyyy duel



What are you doing for work experience Baddy, Drum making ??wink
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leatherhead got a good set of players when the management came from afc wimbledon, and they have probably now got a set up which will attract the better players.

 

Ive never understood the "affiliation" between the Brockham Badgers and Dorking FC, the badgers need extra pitches so use Meado[****!!****] and they look like they might get a few more in betchworth. The Badgers are a totally separate club and that will be clearer when they start a "senior" no age group side, and dont need Meadowbank.

 

Does Bookham Colts form part of Bookham FC? I can understand its run by different people but would you describe it as part of the club?

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leatherhead got a good set of players when the management came from afc wimbledon, and they have probably now got a set up which will attract the better players.

Ive never understood the "affiliation" between the Brockham Badgers and Dorking FC, the badgers need extra pitches so use Meado[****!!****] and they look like they might get a few more in betchworth. The Badgers are a totally separate club and that will be clearer when they start a "senior" no age group side, and dont need Meadowbank.

Does Bookham Colts form part of Bookham FC? I can understand its run by different people but would you describe it as part of the club?


Cant comment further on the Dorking and Brockham link up a I dont know any more.

Bookham Colts is part of Bookham Football Club, their youth sides come into the "senior" side as they move in to mens football. Bookham Colts was started by Bookham FC and although run seperately (due to size ect) to Bookham FC are closely connected.

Off home now, laters
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this is all at the heart of it for me, teffs.

 

If bookham played at the rec and accepted whatever level that allowed them, the mums and dads of the youths would be there making tea, chasing balls and cooking lasagne. Do any of them come to Dorking? Is the lure of senior football and the fa cup so great Bookham have to play away from their home?

 

same at Dorking if it had proper youth setup it wouldnt be short of helpers.

 

The parents might have a pint or two in the clubhouse pay a subscription and pop down for sunday lunch, all that goes to the rugby club at the big field now.

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RE Sutton Common - how definite is this re promotion place for CCL1 - the Hellenic look as if they might be letting Chadlington come up and they only finished third in the OSL?

 

Plus the query re South Pk; they were back at their own ground last season:

 

KING GEORGE PLAYING FIELDS WHITEHALL LANE, South Park, REIGATE.

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South park went to Cranleigh while their ground was brought up to the require standard for 1 season I think.

 

Cranleigh now playing intermediate football

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Predators have the lease from the council and hire pitches to SCR, the ground is up to Div1 standard but not to Prem standard.

 

Would need a stand to be in place for Prem, but does have floodlights.

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or they could rent that thing on wheels that Chelmsford use whenever they play someone 'big' - trouble is when they push it into place no other bugger at that end of the ground can see anything!

 

... Oh and last season (07/08) Cranleigh were 4th in the SCIL(West) 1st division - they even won one game 10-0 away - bet they enjoyed that; after so many miserable years getting whupped week in week out in the CCL?

 

Last played in the CCL in 04/05 - there was a Cranleigh Utd, played for only one season, in the Surrey Hants Border league Div 3 05/06.

In 06/07 they were in the Surrey South East Combination Div Two having been relegated from Div One in 05/06 (so the one above must be a different version) after a typically woeful season with only one win and two draws from 24 games.

 

 

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or they could rent that thing on wheels that Chelmsford use whenever they play someone 'big' - trouble is when they push it into place no other bugger at that end of the ground can see anything!


Do you mean their removable terracing behind each goal? I understand they erect this for every game (to be fair they get good crowds in excess of 1000). Not my favourite ground, miles from the pitch down the side due to the athletics track and the terracing there is mostly flat. Binoculars required.

BADdy would hate it - no instruments allowed!! Also no smoking and limited music allowed on the PA!
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in truth on this fans forum there are probably not enough plain fans.

Drummer boy, me, trs and thats about it.


You forgot the Sweeney, although they're only playing at it really. Plastics wink
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