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Adam takes three
awards. Thame United’s annual awards dinner took place
at Thame Tandori on Saturday evening. Award winners were:
Youth Team
Most improved player – Zak Wiggins
Player’s player of the season – Luke Ricketts
Manager’s player of the season – Matt Gibbs
Reserves
Most improved player – Tommy Hoskins
Player’s player of the season – Adam Rowley
Manager’s player of the season – Oliver Gasgoine.
First Team
Most improved player – Sam Cowan
Player’s player of the season – Adam Rhodes
Manager’s player of the season – Adam Rhodes
Supporter’s player of the season – Adam Rhodes
Both the chairman’s
supporter of the season, and the player’s supporter of the season, award went
to 11 year old George Collingwood. Congratulations go to George and his father Tony
who, earlier in the day, had earned over £600 in sponsorship for the Bobby
Moore cancer research fund, by riding from Thame to Wallingford on their bikes
in order to watch the Thame v Henley Town game.
Thame finish the season with a win. Thame United rounded off the season with a deserved win against 6th placed Henley Town last Saturday. As a result, They finished the season, in 10th place. In many ways, this game summed up the season, as with better finishing, they could have won by a much wider margin.
The opening exchanges were fairly even but then Thame started to control the game. Matt Graves almost put Thame ahead in the 11th minute when he cheekily met a kick by the Henley goalkeeper with a superb volley, from the half way line, which just went wide. Thame piled on the pressure and forced 3 successive corners. The home side took the lead in the 34th minute when Luke Ricketts played a great ball over the defence into the path of Matt Leach. Leach collected the ball and ran at on the visitor’s goal before hitting the ball pass the oncoming Henley keeper. It was one-way traffic and Adam Rhodes, Sam Cowan, and Matt Ansell all had shots deflected or saved. Just before half time, Leach put a good chance wide. The teams went in for half time with the Thame goal largely unthreatened.
Henley came out fired up for the second half, changed their formation to play with 3 strikers, and as a result immediately put Thame under pressure. They were however vulnerable on the break and Thame almost increased the lead when Ricketts made a superb run on the left and hit a cross creating a difficult heading chance for Leach, but he failed to make contact. The unfortunate Leach missed a good chance a few minutes later when he did well to win a 50/50 ball near the half way line and ran at goal, but then seemed to trip over the ball. A visiting defender collected it, played it to striker Lorenzo Medford who made a run of the left before passing to John Donegan, who finished well from 10 yards. It was therefore 1-1 with 25 minutes to play. Thame came back and Adam Rhodes got on the end of a Ricketts cross but his goal-bound header was cleared off the line. Ben Connelly made Thame’s winner in the 77th minute. The tenacious Connelly picked the ball up at the half way line and beat 2 defenders before crossing from the right by line to Ricketts who met the ball at the far post, and headed to substitute Paul Searle, who in turn headed in from close range.
The last 10 minutes were full of incident with both goalkeepers forced to make good saves, but it was however Thame who took the points.
Thame United: Higgs, Thompson, Graves, N. Rhodes, Hocking, Cowan, Connelly, A. Rhodes, Ansell (Watkins), Leach (Searle), Ricketts.
Plans for new ground unveiled The Club have released its plans for a new football stadium complex through TFP, the amalgamation of Thame Boys, Youth & Girls FC and Thame United FC
The new proposed facility would be on the 20-acre Church Farm site on the northern edge of Thame. The main complex would comprise a clubhouse with community facilities/function rooms, changing rooms, offices, corporate board room for match day hospitality, a large function facility for up to 250 people and community changing rooms. Extra facilities could include an external marquee to create additional function room space thereby facilitating wider community use of the facilities. As well as a main floodlit football pitch the plans would also incorporate a 40m x 30m 3G floodlit artificial pitch (AGP), three additional full-size grass pitches and four small size pitches. The club have appointed Sports Solutions GB to manage the project and a planning application for the site is due to be submitted in the next few weeks. The site is planned to be completed in time for the start of the 2009/10 season
For any enquiries or information please contact Frank Thompson, TFP Communications Director on admin@thamefootball.co.uk Full details and any other information about Thame Football Partnership and the proposed scheme is available at, www.thamefootball.co.uk
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