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MATCH REPORT | BRIGHOUSE TOWN WOMEN 3-0 NEWCASTLE UNITED WOMEN

By David Foy

4th April 2021: Vitality FA Cup 2nd Round

Brighouse Town 3-0 Newcastle United (AET).

Two goals from substitute Ami Woodruff either side of a Drew Greene strike saw Brighouse set up a West Yorkshire Derby with Huddersfield Town in the next round.

After an uneventful 90 minutes The Orange Army broke the deadlock early on in the first half of Extra Time. Woodruff kept herself onside, got behind the defender before firing high and left of The Magpie’s goal. Then moments later a mis-communication in the Newcastle backline allowed Drew Greene to nip in and curl into the corner.

With the final kick of the match Woodruff patiently worked her way through the centre of defence, set herself before firing into the roof of the net to send Brighouse Town Women into the third round where they face Huddersfield Town Ladies.

NEW APPOINTMENT | Danny Chadwick appointed U17 Elite Coach

We are delighted to announce the appointment of Danny Chadwick as the club’s new U17 Elite Coach.

Danny Chadwick (pictured on the left) joins the club after previously coaching in his own academy and at a number of clubs including Forza Football Academy, Barnsley Football Club and Cardiff City. Danny possesses his FA Level 2 as well as a FD in Football Coaching and Performance alongside a number of other football coaching accolades. Danny’s role will see him take the current U16’s into next season as the U17’s and develop them ready for the 2021/22 season. Mark Ellis (pictured right) will continue the amazing role he has done as U16 Elite Coach with a new U16 team being created in time for the 2021/22 season with details on trials for that team coming out soon.

Danny who attended his first training session on Thursday night had this to say “I’m very delighted to be joining Brighouse Town Football Club. It’s a great opportunity for me at a great club who have a massive influence in their community so I’m really happy to be here especially now we’re out of lockdown. I really enjoyed my first training session with the lads and can’t wait to continue aiding their development over the next 18 months. The main aim for me is to develop the players so that they are capable of being able to play in the first team, whether that’s in 6 weeks, 6 months or 18 months time. For the U17, we will be competing in the Nerf Junior Premier League and Cup so we want to achieve as much success as possible in these competitions.”

U16 Elite Coach Mark Ellis was full of praise on the appointment of Danny Chadwick to the role. He had this to say “As a young coach, Danny will be able to maintain the level of enthusiasm that is required in continuing their development into open age football. His methods & philosophy mirror currently what is being coached already so he is a perfect fit into the role. The relationship that me and Danny have will be key as what we instill from early engagement must reflect inevitably where Vill wants to be with regards to 1st team recruitment.”

Head of Youth Football Mark Booth also was full of praise for Danny on appointing him to the role. He said “It was obvious throughout the selection process that Dan had a maturity about him and a level of understanding of how the game should be played, with good presentation skills and attention to detail made him the ideal candidate for the job. Mark and Nigel’s decision to continue their good work with the U16s and developing their already excellent relationship with Calderdale school boys elite team providing Brighouse with the best of Calderdale’s footballers meant that the current U16s needed a reliable coach who can carry the Brighouse way of playing into the new season and Danny fits the bill. Mark and Nigel also help provide the 15 year olds the the structure to help their success further down the Academy path which is why it was key they chose to keep the U16 roles.

Working with Mark Ellis has been easy, we have known each other for over 25 years having both been at Brighouse Town and Brighouse Sunday league team “The Star” together for a number of years. We played for some of the same managers and have the same values “honesty and integrity” combined with hard work being the foundations for player development, whilst never losing site of the importance of playing with a “smile on their face.”

There are exciting times for the academy and junior sections for the coming season. We have already announced that the U16s will move up a year and will be supported by another U16 team which we are just about to start recruiting, we are also adding two U14s teams to the club for the coming season meaning we will have 10 teams under the junior and academy umbrella which is excellent from a club point of view to keep growing the junior section but also for the community to see that their only semi professional team in the town has junior sections that have a clear pathway towards the first team.”

Welcome Danny to Brighouse Town! #OneTownOneTeam

Brighouse Town Women

By Dave Parker

BRIGHOUSE TOWN AFC Women gear up for Sunday’s delayed behind closed doors Vitality FA Cup 2nd Round game with Newcastle Utd (1.00) off the back of a three month lay off after the recent lockdown.

Town go in to the tie with manager Rob Mitchell having a fully fit squad to choose from including last season’s top scorer Hannah Friebach who has recently returned after giving birth to her first child. It will also see the return of current top scorer Amy Woodruff who missed the previous round, a 3-0 win away at Chester-le-Street.

The tie will be broadcast live on the radio via Twitter @btafcwomen with Dave Foy and Damian Wales the commentary team.

The winners of the game will travel to Northern Premier Division leaders Huddersfield Town on the following Sunday, April 11, which is an even bigger incentive to the Brighouse Women having the opportunity of playing a local derby in the 3rd Round.

Manager Rob Mitchell is however focused on the game in front of his side and is keen to stress that his side won’t be taking anything for granted and will have to be at their best to get a result.

“As always, we will take it one game at a time, it won’t be an easy game and we will have to be at our best which will be difficult after such a lengthy lay off. I believe in the players and I feel they will use the fact that it’s win only or that’s the end of competitive football for the season.”

Town’s league campaign has been declared `null and void’ once again with Town top of the PPG table and the announcement of upward moment from the FA leaves Mitchell hopeful they may still be able to celebrate come the end of the season.

Brighouse Town season ticket holder Dave Towler is sponsoring the man of the match and providing the players with pre-match energy supplements.

Brighouse Echo Sport – Town News

THE NORTHERN Premier League chairman Mark Harris has sent a March report to all member clubs and in that he gave them a start date for the 2021-22 season of Saturday, August 14. The season will end at the end of April with the play-offs although there will be leeway to the end of May should there be any closures during the campaign.

All the League’s partners have remained in place for the new season and the chairman hopes member clubs can offer them some support in the months ahead. Match ball suppliers Chryso are donating 20 balls to each club.

Town’s manager Vill Powell has arranged his first pre-season friendly for Saturday, July 17 with League Division 2 club Harrogate Town. Talks are already ongoing with the club’s major sponsor Quickslide to sponsor the game and have a family day out for company employees and their families on the spacious Yorkshire Payments Stadium acres.

Three people shared the £1,000 first prize in the club’s annual Football Bingo competition that was carried over into the curtailed season from the 2019-20 season. They were: 19: Karen Stewart (sold by Andy Stewart), 35: Judith Dyson (sold by Maurice Dyson), 156 Dave Kerry (sold by Mick Dunk) who had four times from the five the outright winner would have had.

People with 3/5 where: Ken Kirby, Karen Stewart (2nd entry), Jason Rawson (Chesterfield player who had been on loan),

Darren Whiteley, Ellis Aked, Janet Almond, Graeme Dixon, Hugh Dean, Mark Osborne, player Harrison Beeden x2),

Matthew Booth, C. Lawrence, Dawn Armitage, Daniel Inniss, D. Pearson, Emily Anderson, Dave Wormald, Darren Briggs, C. Wood.

This now gives the club a clean edge to commence the Football Bingo for the season ahead at a date yet to be announced.

Brighouse Echo Sport – town News

BRIGHOUSE TOWN’S ground grading by the Northern Premier League last Friday passed with flying colours.

In fact the League’s chief of staff on the ground grading, Keith Brown, said it a most neat and tidy ground well worthy of being in membership of the League.

The only thing he requested was the adding of more exit signs for when crowds are allowed back. The grading takes place every three years and the last time the club’s £23,000 extended and refurbished dressing rooms came in for praise.

In the meantime, Town have had to make a quick U-turn on the naming of their end-of-season competition due to start on April 13.

After naming it the Covid Cup following an on-line poll, they have after receiving complaints, opted to name it The Yorkshire Trophy.

They are now hoping that the Government’s two on-coming road maps, March 29 and April 12 will allow for team sports at Town’s level to be allowed to play with a limited amount of spectators from the April 13 date.

One of the competing clubs, Liversedge have made an approach for Town’s left fullback or midfielder Josh Grant.

Brighouse Echo Sport – Town News

BRIGHOUSE TOWN have this week announced the name for the twelve club cup competition they are hopefully running to give West and South Yorkshire clubs some meaningful action from Tuesday, April 13, writes Dave Parker.

After asking their supporters and others on line over the past 10 days, they are to call it the Yorkshire Trophy 2021.

Manager Vill Powell has put a tremendous amount of work into the organisation of the competition which will now have its final at The Yorkshire Payments Stadium after Bradford City had to reluctantly turn down the request for it to be played there on Saturday, May 29.

In the meantime Town are also looking to employ an U-17s elite coach and applicants with a minimum Level 2 to their name can ring Youth manager Mark Booth on 0788 4387289.

The Northern Premier League Ground Grading committee will visit the club’s stadium this Friday morning and be met by former chairman and manager Ray McLaughlin and the club’s general manager Darren Laycock.

“A lot of work by our team of volunteers has been put in over the past month and I am pretty confident we should be alright on the day,” said McLaughlin.

The club has terminated the £1,000 Football Bingo that has run in the 2019-20 season to March 23 last year and carried on in to this season until it was “curtailed” at the start of the month, so they can have a clean edge to next season’s competition.

The joint three winners with FOUR of the goal times from the five boxes are Karen Stewart, Judith Dyson and Dave Kerry.

Club Statement: COVID Cup

Due to the ongoing pandemic, we at Brighouse Town feel that the recent online poll to determine the tournament name was not thought through properly and the implications of the suggested names were ill-considered and insensitive to the ongoing situation.

Therefore, the new name of the Tournament will be now known as The Yorkshire Trophy and all branding will be updated and redeveloped.

We apologise for any offence this may have caused, it was not our intentions as a community football club.

Updates to follow soon. #OneTownOneTeam