OPERATIONAL REVIEW - FOOTBALL ACTIVITIES

The decision to rationalise the playing staff the previous year led to significant improvement in the stability of the squad. Given the depression in the football market place, the Board sees the cost of fielding a successful squad continuing to decline in the forthcoming years. 

Whilst the senior side reached the play-off final, it should be noted that although the reserve team had not retained the Avon Insurance Combination League, Tim Breacker and his team of coaches had successfully brought in a number of the previous year's youth.
 

Scott Donnelly
It is hoped that this work will help increase the number of home grown players that eventually make it into the first team squad.

Elsewhere the Under 19 team playing in the Football League Youth Alliance endured some poor results on paper, however it should be noted that the Under 19 team was in fact the Under 18 team and, as results showed in the succeeding season, this team is now one of the strongest in the Alliance structure.

These results add weight to the Board's hope that in the forthcoming seasons at least a third of our first team squad will be made up of home grown players.


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