U 13 Team Manager – John Huggins
Assistant Manager – Shane Lovatt
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John Huggins had moved up a level to join Shane in taking charge of this team which, although being a smaller squad and needing to include U11’s players from time to time, it was hoped would consolidate and improve on their previous seasons experience in this age group.

Apart from a victory in the first round of the cup against Barrow Gurney we had to wait until the 10 June for our first League win, then promptly lost 3 more games (one by default) before recording 4 consecutive victories from the 22 July onwards. Several of these games were lost/won in very close single figure margins, which could have gone either way. We again we had a strong run in the second half of the season beating all the clubs below us. Our heaviest losses were to the top three teams so we still have plenty of ground to make up if we are to challenge these clubs for honours.

We have played all our games, bar 2 affected by availability issues, and which it has not been possible to re-arrange, so by default we lose one and win one. As the table below shows we have again finish in (joint) 6th position. Match summaries are at the end of this report.

Although we, therefore, fared as well as in 2003 in terms of league position we actually won fewer games but this was nevertheless a good achievement given the standard of opposition we were up against. My thanks to John Huggins and Shane Lovatt, assisted from time to time by Ian Yard , not only for all the effort and hard work they has put into organising this team but also for coping with the additional burden of having to try and provide their coaching too due to being let down by our coach.

Behind the scenes Anne Williams did another great job in handling the time consuming job of providing Matt with all the scorebook information for posting on the website. Thanks too to all the parents who helped with the refreshment duties, transportation etc, without whose support we would find it hard to cope. Finally we must mention our Youth Sponsors recorded above whose contributions are a big help in funding all our teams activities and last but not least thanks to our groundsman Fid without whom we could not play the games!


U13’s Awards
Player of the Year - Angus Yard
Clubman of the Year - Anton Lovatt


U13 Squad (21 players) Name - Games played
James Binding – 12; Tom Blanchard – 2; George Bond – 8; William Brenor – 1; Tom Coles – 10; Lloyd Davies – 12; James Day – 4; Stuart Fennell – 5; Douglas Gray – 6; Cameron Hastie – 8; Tom Hendzel – 6; Steve Huggins – 12; Anton Lovatt – 9; Jack Lyons – 11; Ross McAuliffe – 6; Jack Tickoo – 3; Archie Wall – 1; Ed Williams – 3; Harry Williams – 4; Angus Yard – 11; William Yard – 6