Buckingham Athletic

[Rhodes]

On 30/09/2020 at 13:17, Rhodes said:

This Saturday (3 October) Scott Reynolds men entertain Enfield Borough at Stratford Fields followed by a visit to McMullen Park to take on current SSML Division One surprise leaders Bedford a week later on 10 October

It has been non stop for Buckingham Athletic this month thanks to Scott Reynolds men being handed seven demanding League fixtures during October including the likes of Bedford, St Panteleimon and Rayners Lane away and Stotfold and Milton Keynes Irish at Stratford Fields. Instead of complaining, as some Managers would do, Scott has professionally rolled up his sleeves and got on with things and it says it all about him that his team lifted the Team Of The Week award on Ollie Bayliss's Non League Show recently with the great man giving a totally riveting and articulate interview on the show. The month began with an impressive 5-1 win over a young Enfield Borough side (see match report) followed by a hard fought 0-0 draw at Bedford's McMullen Park who, at that time, were in top spot having won their first four League outings. There then followed an amazing midweek 9-1 victory over a beleaguered Hillingdon Borough outfit with Owen James netting a hat trick followed by a quick return to Stratford Fields to beat an in form Stotfold 3-2 (see report) which, in times gone by under previous Management, would have been a banana skin for the side. Unfortunately the last two fixtures given to the Club, somewhat unfairly, have proved a bridge too far, with a 5-2 defeat at 'big boys' St Panteleimon last Saturday and a narrow 1-0 home defeat to a very good Milton Keynes Irish team on Tuesday evening (see report) who netted just after the interval and somehow managed to hang on like grim death in the end especially when Jeremiah Adams struck the inside of a post in the 74th minute and Owen James shot wide in the final seconds with the net gaping wide. On Saturday Scott Reynolds takes his leg weary troops to Rayners Lane in a hope of getting back to winning ways before another road trip to Langford the following Wednesday (4 November):

https://www.pitchero.com/clubs/enfieldboroughfc/teams/154408/match-centre/1-6378943/report

https://www.stotfoldfc.co.uk/Matchreport.aspx?id=476784

https://www.botp.co.uk/blog/what-no-red

Edited October 29, 2020 by Rhodes

[Rhodes]

1 hour ago, Rhodes said:

There then followed an amazing midweek 9-1 victory over a beleaguered Hillingdon Borough outfit with Owen James netting a hat trick

A low key interview with Scott Reynolds following the 9-1 demolition of Hillingdon Borough on Tuesday 13 October, instead of jumping for joy as most Managers would have done and saying he was 'over the moon' Scott's immediate thoughts turn to the following Saturday and the game with Stotfold, that simply says it all:

 

Edited October 29, 2020 by Rhodes

[Rhodes]

14 hours ago, Rhodes said:

a narrow 1-0 home defeat to a very good Milton Keynes Irish team on Tuesday evening (see report) who netted just after the interval and somehow managed to hang on like grim death in the end especially when Jeremiah Adams struck the inside of a post in the 74th minute and Owen James shot wide in the final seconds with the net gaping wide

https://www.botp.co.uk/blog/what-no-red

Sports Shots photographer Dale James was in attendance at Stratford Field on Tuesday for the Buckingham Athletic v Milton Keynes Irish fixture and here are 150 photographs from the night:

https://www.sportsshots.org.uk/2020/10/29/ssmfl-div-1-buckingham-athletic-0-1-mk-irish/

Edited October 29, 2020 by Rhodes

[Rhodes]

I know this album is on the Buckingham United thread but not this one, photographs and a match report from the pre-season friendly fixture on Saturday 20 July 2019 between Buckingham Athletic and Buckingham United at Stratford Fields, there is some dispute as to whether the result was 13-2 or 13-3 to Buckingham Athletic:

https://buckingham.news/a-match-to-remember/

 

[Rhodes]

Photographs from the pre-season friendly on Saturday 12 September (2020) between Halse United and Buckingham Athletic Development, also see a video clip of Halse United's winning goal, they won 1-0 at their Grange Farm home near Brackley in Northamptonshire:

https://www.halseunitedfc.com/teams/152198/match-centre/0-4893203/photos

https://www.halseunitedfc.com/teams/152198/match-centre/0-4893203/events

[Winslow Boy]

Cannot for the life of me figure out why Ath had their goal disallowed against Langford, watching Cold Ends (brilliant) highlights all I saw was someone win a perfectly good aerial challenge. 

[Rhodes]

Winslow Boy - I think Buckingham Athletic unfortunately got the rough end of the stick in their last few games prior to lockdown and since beating Stotfold 3-2 on 17 October when they briefly topped Division One. Firstly Karen handed them St Panteleimon away and Milton Keynes Irish at home back to back on a Saturday and Tuesday and then a difficult trip to Rayners Lane (photographs below) where I gather they were robbed blind, then, as you say, they should have won comfortably at Langford who had already lost four League matches at Forde Park. Hopefully Scott Reynolds can get back to winning ways on 5 December, coincidentally against Langford at Stratford Fields:

[Winslow Boy]

Yes certainly unfair, Karen shouldn’t have scheduled them to play any difficult sides, who does she think she is?!

[Karen Browne]

When the fixtures were released at the start of the season no club was top or bottom, the way the games came out were random

[Winslow Boy]

4 minutes ago, Karen Browne said:

When the fixtures were released at the start of the season no club was top or bottom, the way the games came out were random

Yeah yeah, don’t make excuses, you could have just given Buckingham Ath games they could win all season. Totally corrupt. 

[Rhodes]

Stratford Fields today following some serious flooding in Buckingham:

[Rhodes]

On 20/05/2020 at 09:36, Winslow Boy said:

Ben Aqcuaye went on to set the league alight with rushden and diamonds and potentially could go even higher. The season that they had this Fa cup run I think he was up and around the top scorer list for division one. 

Winslow Boy - That's right, here is some interesting Q&A with Ben at Rushden & Diamonds, do you know if he is still there. Can you spot him in these photographs from Wingate & Finchley v Buckingham Athletic in a 2016/17 FA Youth Cup First Qualifying Round tie, at Summers Lane on Thursday 22 September 2016, the season before their run to the First Round proper of the competition, Wingate & Finchley won 5-3 after extra time with the score 3-3 at ninety minutes:

Ask The Player – Ben Acquaye – AFC Rushden and Diamonds (afcdiamonds.com)

Edited December 27, 2020 by Rhodes

[Rhodes]

The Hellenic League have paused all League fixtures until Friday 15 January 2021, this is how the Division Two North table currently stands with Buckingham Athletic Development in fourth place having last played on Saturday 12 December, beating Old Bradwell United Development 4-2 at Stratford Fields thanks to a Jordan Tavener hat trick. Let us hope the campaign can resume on Saturday 16 January with a trip to high flying Thame United Reserves, kick off 2.15pm:

Hellenic League Division Two North Table

POS		P	W	D	L	GD	PTS
1	Heyford Athletic	4	4	0	0	13	12
2	Thame United Res'	6	3	2	1	4	11
3	Aston Clinton	6	3	1	2	1	10
4	Buckingham Athletic Dev'	4	3	0	1	3	9
5	Headington Amateurs	5	2	2	1	3	8
6	Southam United	3	2	1	0	2	7
7	Ardley United Dev'	4	2	0	2	1	6
8	Easington Sports Development	4	1	2	1	5	5
9	Adderbury Park	3	1	1	1	0	4
10	Long Crendon Reserves	5	1	1	3	-8	4
11	Risborough Rangers Reserves	3	0	2	1	-1	2
12	Banbury United Dev'	2	0	1	1	-2	1
13	Old Bradwell United Development	3	0	1	2	-3	1
14	Kidlington Dev'	6	0	0	6	-18	0

Edited December 28, 2020 by Rhodes

[Winslow Boy]

23 hours ago, Rhodes said:

Winslow Boy - That's right, here is some interesting Q&A with Ben at Rushden & Diamonds, do you know if he is still there. Can you spot him in these photographs from Wingate & Finchley v Buckingham Athletic in a 2016/17 FA Youth Cup First Qualifying Round tie, at Summers Lane on Thursday 22 September 2016, the season before their run to the First Round proper of the competition, Wingate & Finchley won 5-3 after extra time with the score 3-3 at ninety minutes:

Ask The Player – Ben Acquaye – AFC Rushden and Diamonds (afcdiamonds.com)

Not sure, he hasn’t featured for them in recent games v Daventry and Peterborough sports 

[Winslow Boy]

On 24/12/2020 at 22:04, Rhodes said:

Stratford Fields today following some serious flooding in Buckingham:

Never seen it this bad. 
 

FYI Ben Acquaye

 

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/sport/football/diamonds-confirm-their-retained-list-2894589%3famp

[Rhodes]

Just adding some additional photograph albums (highlighted) to the list posted earlier of Buckingham Athletic matches contained within this Sports Shots link:

 

Dale James’s albums | Flickr

 

Buckingham Athletic 0 Milton Keynes Irish 1, SSML Division One, 27 October 2020 (page 1)

Buckingham Athletic 0 Holmer Green 2, FA Vase First Qualifying Round, 19 September 2020 (page 1)

Buckingham Ath Dev' 4 Milton Keynes Irish Athletic 4, Pre Season Friendly, 8 September 2020 (page 1)

Buckingham Athletic 0  Bovingdon 2, Pre Season Friendly, 11 August 2020 (page 1)

Buckingham Athletic  0 Aylesbury United 0, Pre Season Friendly, 8 August 2020 (page 1)

FC Broxbourne Borough 3 Buckingham Athletic 2, SSML Division One, 8 February 2020 (page 1)

Milton Keynes Robins 2 Buckingham Athletic 3, SSML Division One, 21 January 2020 (page 1)  

Buckingham Athletic 0 St Panteleimon 1, Division One Cup Quarter Final, 7 January 2020 (page 1)

Buckingham Ath Dev' 0  Mursley United Dev' 1, Berks & Bucks FA Intermediate Cup 19 October 2019 (page 1)

White Ensign 4 Buckingham Athletic 1, FA Vase First Round proper, 13 October 2019 (page 1)

Buckingham Ath Dev' 2 Ardley United 4, Buckinghamshire Senior Charity Cup, 17 September 2019 (page 1)

Buckingham Athletic 1 Wembley 5, Pre Season Friendly, 27 July 2019 (page 2)

Buckingham Athletic Dev' v Steeple Claydon, Pre Season Friendly, 26 July 2019 (page 2)

Buckingham Athletic 1 Crawley Green 2, Pre Season Friendly, 23 July 2019 (page 2)

Buckingham Athletic 3 Ampthill Town 1, SSML Division One, 23 April 2019 (page 2)

Winslow Utd 5 Buckingham Athletic 2, Buckinghamshire Senior Charity Cup Semi Final, 16 April 2019 (page 2)

Buckingham Ath Dev' 0 Long Crendon 3, Berks & Bucks FA Intermediate Cup Final, 13 April 2019 (page 2)

Ampthill Town 2 Buckingham Athletic 0, SSML Division One, 9 February 2019 (page 2)

Buckingham Athletic 2 Buckingham Town 2, SSML Division One, 29 December 2018 (page 2)

Buckingham Athletic 2 Winslow Utd 1, Berks & Bucks FA Senior Trophy 3rd Round, 3 November 2018 (page 2)

Buckingham Athletic 3 Winslow United 2, SSML Division One, 7 August 2018 (page 3)

Buckingham Athletic 3 Pottersbury 0, Pre Season Friendly, 31 July 2018 (page 3)

Mursley United Dev' v Buckingham Athletic Dev', Pre Season Friendly, 14 July 2018 (page 3)

Buckingham Athletic 0 Daventry Town 2, Buckinghamshire Senior Charity Cup Final, 13 May 2018 (page 3)

Buckingham Ath 1 Leighton Town 0, Buckinghamshire Senior Charity Cup Semi Final, 1 May 2018 (page 3)

Buckingham Athletic 2 Rayners Lane 1, SSML Division One, 20 February 2018 (page 3)

Buckingham Athletic 1 Risborough Rangers 1, SSML Division One, 9 January 2018 (page 3)

Winslow United 1 Buckingham Athletic 3, SSML Division One, 23 December 2017 (page 3)

Buckingham Athletic U25 1 Holmer Green 2, SSML U25 Development Division, 19 December 2017 (page 3)

Buckingham Ath 2 Old Bradwell Utd 0, Buckinghamshire Senior Charity Cup, 21 November 2017 (page 3)

Buckingham Athletic 0 Baldock Town 0, SSML Division One, 7 November 2017 (page 3)

Buckingham Athletic 1 Bedford 1 (aet), FA Vase First Qualifying Round, 9 September 2017 (page 3)

Buckingham Athletic 2 Aylesbury United 2, Pre Season Friendly, 29 July 2017 (page 4)

Buckingham Athletic 0 Langford 0, SSML Division One, 25 March 2017 (page 4)

Buckingham Athletic 3 Risborough Rangers 3, SSML Division One, 2 January 2017 (page 4)

Winslow United 1 Buckingham Athletic 2, SSML Division One, 27 December 2016 (page 4)

Buckingham Athletic 0 Ardley 9, Pre Season Friendly, 19 July 2016 (page 4)

Edited January 1, 2021 by Rhodes

[Rhodes]

An additional album of photographs, and match programme, from a 2019/20 SSML Challenge Trophy First Round tie between Baldock Town and Buckingham Athletic, at Hitchin Road on Wednesday 21 August 2019, resulting in a fairly comfortable 4-1 win for Baldock Town with Jacob Williamson netting Buckingham Athletic's consolation goal. The Cold End was in attendance so there are video highlights on his Blog:

files.pitchero.com/clubs/1770/hfEX889sSgyiEljGJHqK_Programme_Vol+12_Iss2_Buckingham.pdf

The Cold End: SPARTAN SOUTH MIDLANDS LEAGUE CHALLENGE TROPHY UPDATE

Edited January 14, 2021 by Rhodes

[Rhodes]

On 28/12/2020 at 02:02, Rhodes said:

The Hellenic League have paused all League fixtures until Friday 15 January 2021, this is how the Division Two North table currently stands with Buckingham Athletic Development in fourth place having last played on Saturday 12 December, beating Old Bradwell United Development 4-2 at Stratford Fields thanks to a Jordan Tavener hat trick. Let us hope the campaign can resume on Saturday 16 January with a trip to high flying Thame United Reserves, kick off 2.15pm

The Hellenic League have made a statement on the present situation. It must be so disappointing for everyone at Stratford Fields particularly having appointed Scott Reynolds this season and the strong feeling was that Scott was very much the man to finally take the Club to the promised land, back to the SSML Premier Division where they belong and where they left in 1998/99 when taking voluntary relegation to Division One for financial reasons which then involved minimal travelling. Division One became Division Two in 2001/02 where the Club remained until 2002/03 when winning the Championship under Management duo Steve Cole and Keith Walker and also lifted the Berks & Bucks FA Intermediate Cup which they retained the following 2003/04 season when finishing fifth in Division One under Steve Cole and Micky Lemon as Keith Walker had stepped down:

uhlsport Hellenic League | Hellenic Football League News

The main message is that there is NO CHANGE whilst we remain in lockdown. We are in the Government’s hands and no football at our level will be played until we are released.

[Rhodes]

On 22/04/2020 at 21:02, Rhodes said:

Last term and over a hundred  photos from the Buckingham Athletic v FC Clacton FA Vase First Round proper tie at Stratford Fields which resulted in a 2-2 stalemate after extra time, FC Clacton went on to win the replay 3-2  in another thriller which Buckingham Athletic led 2-1 at the interval:

A different album of photographs to that posted earlier and YouTube footage, Sports Shots had two photographers at Stratford Fields on Saturday 13 October 2018 for the 2018/19 FA Vase First Round proper tie with Eastern Counties League Premier Division FC Clacton, resulting in an exciting 2-2 draw after extra time with Jordan Appleton and Samuel Olawale netting and Joshua Mcadoo and Robert Tapp both seeing red. The Club faced a long trip to the Essex coast the following Tuesday and unfortunately lost 3-2 having led 2-0 after 24 minutes, Samuel Olawale scored both goals, also see YouTube footage:

(329) Buckingham Athletic 2-2 FC Clacton (AET). Buildbase FA Vase 1st Round Proper. Sat13Oct2018 - YouTube

(329) FC Clacton 3-2 Buckingham Athletic. Buildbase FA Vase 1st Round Proper Replay. Tue16Oct2018 - YouTube

Edited January 23, 2021 by Rhodes

[Rhodes]

Buckingham Athletic's full FA Vase record since entering the competition in 1998/99, the season after becoming founder members of the SSML, joining the Premier Division North before being placed in the Premier Division for 1998/99 which remains their one and only campaign in the top flight. The following season the Club asked to join Division One for travelling reasons as they 'bypassed' the Senior Division which also involved long trips to London. Hopefully Scott Reynolds can take Buckingham Athletic to the promised land next season as he looked like doing this season before the rug was cruelly pulled from under him and it was curtailed:

F.A. VASE

1998-99   1Q    VIKING SPORTS                       H    4-1
          2Q    WITHAM TOWN                         H    3-1
          1     ISLINGTON ST MARY'S                 H    3-2
          2     NORTHWOOD                           A    1-3
2005-06   2Q    BASILDON UNITED                     A    1-2
2006-07   2Q    CLANFIELD                           A    0-1
2007-08   2Q    MARLOW UNITED                       A    0-4
2008-09   1Q    WOOTTON BASSETT TOWN                H    3-5
2009-10   1Q    BRIMSDOWN ROVERS                    A    0-6
2010-11   1Q    BARKINGSIDE                         H    2-2
          1Qr   BARKINGSIDE                         A    0-7
2011-12   1Q    KIDLINGTON                          A    1-3
2012-13   2Q    THAME UNITED                        A    2-3
2013-14   2Q    COCKFOSTERS                         A    2-6
2014-15   1Q    BURTON PARK WANDERERS               A    2-2
          1Qr   BURTON PARK WANDERERS               H    3-3 (Burton Park 4-2 on pens) 
2015-16   2Q    BEDFONT SPORTS                      A    0-4
2016-17   1Q    BINFIELD                            H    2-3
2017-18   1Q    BEDFORD                             H    1-1
          1Qr   BEDFORD                             A    6-1
          2Q    A F C HAYES                         H    1-0
          1     BRACKNELL TOWN                      A    2-6
2018-19   2Q    CLANFIELD                           A    5-2
          1     F C CLACTON                         H    2-2
          1r    F C CLACTON                         A    2-3
2019-20   2Q    HILLINGDON                          H    6-0
          1     WHITE ENSIGN                        A    1-4
2020-21   1Q    HOLMER GREEN                        H    0-2

Edited March 4, 2021 by Rhodes