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Maybe next year..

September 2023 We've never reached this stage before so welcome to the unknown. Franco Marcellino (1C) has been our best graduate and he stood up and delivered against Unmasked FC Ayr United showed us what you need to succed in the play-offs by snuffing out anything we could deliver, which meant we had to beat both Peterborough City and Richmond Hills And we've never beaten either. We are fading fast. Absolutely no idea where this came from One game left. Against the Champions. Unmasked play Richmond. We need Unmasked to win on penalties, and hope we can avoid a 3 or more goal defeat. Franco Marcellino (1C) is a hero. That is all that needs saying. We've got Very Defensive for the last two matches and it's worked. 8 more games, we have to finish in the top 6 to get promoted

August 2023 The wrong time to lose. Our poor record against Richmond Hill continues. We must beat Bradford Wolves. The top two will play each other, and Etobicoke are away to Oshawa Kicks - if they lose then we can get away with a draw. Amazingly Etobicoke lost. And we won. So Hello Play-Offs. This is our September. I fully expect us to finish near last.

July 2023 It's Canadian Open time - a competition that makes sense now! A chance for us to get some cash into the books. Full rotation against a lower graded side. We lost but got 6k into the coffers. What could be a big win in the only league game of the month. They missed a penalty and within 5 minutes Kris Hughes scored the only goal of the game. It's 3 from 4 and there are two games left. First choice RB has decided to move to a higher level

June 2023 This month is like an Elephant. HUGE Turned down my first job offer from elsewhere - tier 7 side. Etobicoke Soccer Club have only lost once all season.. to us 7-0. They are top. Or at least they were. Stars Kris Hughes and Claudio Aguilera with the goals and they couldn't fully get back into the game. We still can't get any change out of Peterborough City mind. 2 or 3 key players missed the Downsivew Rams match - more than happy with a point. 3 games left. 7th, 1st and 6th. It's in our hands. Only a GOOD intake planned. 3 right wingers seems a little bit overloaded.

Roar Husby has a volatile personality... love it when a personality matches a name..

May 2023 Bradford Wolves sat in 5th prior to kick off and hadn't won in 5 - the perfect chance to poor a little bit of misery dust over their cornflakes.. Kris Hughes made it 8 in 8 Hughes bought up the double figures in our first double of the season against Oshawa Kicks. A perfect month. Just when we needed it.

April 2023 Peterborough City did the double over us last season and their final day victory meant that we missed out on the play-offs, so this game means something. We may rue the 2 dropped points. Missed chances cost victory... grrrr... There is definately a ceiling at this low level - we cannot beat Richmond Hill either. 3 losses in 3. Inside the play-off picture and there is a buffer but we could do with a few more points and quick. This is a move 3 tiers higher.. our captain departs.

March 2023 2 leagues matches in the first month, both away from home, one against a side relegated and the other against a side that reached the play-offs. Not an easy start. Not that we seemed to care much, smashing 4 past the relegated side - Franco Marcellino (1C) getting the first goal from a graduate on debut. He goes one better in the next one and adds an assists. He also gets into the Ontario6 and Tenth Tier teams of the week. 100% league record from the first month. Lovely. We should have beaten Storm - only ourselves to blame for crashing out at the first hurdle.

Really cooking on gas now. Great work Love it when the money comes rolling in

Pre Season 2023 Massive News... The reality is that we cannot actually give anyone anything better than Non Contract yet, and we would have to give them appearance bonuses, so we are actually worse off... To add to that as well... all the youth contracts are set to £25 per week.. We are massively over our wage budget. 21 players were released at the end of the season to give as much chance to the graduates as possible. The only one to find a club was Cornell O'Connor who has stepped up a tier to join HNNK Zagreb Toronto The U20s and U23s carried on playing until the end of November. The U23's reached the semi's but... Both sides got promoted to the Ninth Division. The actual pre-season fixtures were just testing the kids against as higher graded sides as I could - play against better players improves you the most, possibly. Bookies know a thing or two.

Think of that % profit...

October 2022 It's our first intake and it's.. lovely poor here Was hoping for a little bit better - one or two different nationalities at least. Matthew Nicholson (1A) looks like he is a decent-ish physical player. A good engine they might say. A 3rd best option at full back. Our new No.1 keeper is Greg "Wardie" Ward (1B) . He looks like he can stop a shot. Possibly at this level it will be enough. Davide Veronesi gets called out because he is San Marino dual national! He will be one of my better strikers next season. Could he be an outside bet for international caps?? He's rubbish but so is San Marino. You get what your given... Or as BNL would say - "Smile"

The title is coming your way... The Europe...

That makes a lot more sense now, thanks for explaining. I have a lot to learn when it comes to Canadian Football.

Season Review.. League6 Ontario = 4th - Strong start - at the halfway stage we were looking good for the play-offs, heck with 1 game left we only needed a win to secure a play-off spot, but we fell away in the 2nd half of the season. The play-offs would have been a step to far. Canadian Championship = 6th Qualifying Round - we knocked out a couple of sides at a higher level before an extra time defeat to higher graded Wisla United Canadian Open - Lost in the rather odd single game format. My player of the season was Claudio Aguilera - 7 goals in 16 games from Midfield, a 7.3 average rating. Important youngsters... Still waiting for the intake.. Achievements.. Still waiting for the intake.. Our new owner is glad of the extra N... although he has no plans to provide any additional cash.

Kettering is my closest National League North Club so good luck and hope you move out of Latimer Park as quickly as you can! Even though you did beat the team I support twice and helped them get relegated...

August 2022 One game. HIT or BUST. Or more accurately. Do we have more games after this to try and get into Ontario5 or do we just sit back and await intake day in the next couple of months. Defeat.. but it all depends on Peterborough City - they've broke our hearts twice this season. We need them to fail to beat the bottom side in the league... Did i say that out loud?? For about 16 minutes it all seemed possible We miss out but everyone is happy.

July 2022 Home to 1st Home to 2nd That's our games this month. About as tough as we can get. Jack Marriott and Claudio Aguilera are the heroes that got us past Scrosoppi FC - that's a double against them this season. An owl goal helped too. Not sure I quite get the headline - we beat our U23's in a friendly - not sure that's much of a shock. Both of the friendlies were fitness exercises going into the crunch match at the end of the month. Etobicoke secured their place in the play-offs with the victory. It's 2 from 3 in the final game. No Ed!!!! I know you've got a 2023 tour coming up (hopefully...) but say it ain't so..

June 2022 Peterborough City ruined a perfect month for us in March. This was the chance for revenge. It didn't happen. A point from the other league match in the month. We appear to be starting to fade a little bit. All 528 Canadian sides enter the Canadian Open, we hosted a side 3 levels higher. There also only appears to be one round. Odd.. We got £6k for losing. Never seen this in any league before. Well done Steve.. I'd be worried if the intake preview was any other picture

May 2022 Total domination with zip to show for it. Grrr Richmond Hill SC... Total domination with plenty (eventually) to show for it. Take that Bradford Wolves. 3pts in the month. Finances are terrible - we are losing about £20k per month keeping the ground up to scratch

Within seconds of the deal going through.. Hi Board, can we have a meeting.. no need to put the cheque book away..

April 2022 We learned a valuable lesson against Wisla United - take your chances. Dominated the game, couldn't find a winner and we are out! Claudio Aguilera also picked up a knock that puts him out for nearly 2 months. We've also learned that this rag tag bunch of hopeless footballers is good enough to be more than competitive at the level. The Scrosoppi FC victory was huge - away to the team in 2nd, with a near identical record. The final lesson was (hopefully) learnt away to Etobicoke - close games out... 91st minute equaliser. Our best performer so far. To be called Everton you need to develop a thick skin so Bravery of 20 doesn't surprise me. Just 7 games left in the season (it's a quick thing this low.) Looking very good for the play-offs.

Not sure on the reference - it's not my database but there are one or two strange sounding teams so it could be possible.

March 2022 The odds are that we will probably be alrightOdds are we gonna be alright, odds are we gonna be alright tonightThe odds are that we will probably be alrightOdds are we gonna be alright, odds are we gonna be alright for another night Absolutely. Christina's lad getting us off the mark in our debut game. Kris Hughes sets a club and league record for youngest player and goalscorer. 3 very solid cup victories against similiar standard teams, with the only blip being the defeat to Peterborough City.