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Brantham Athletic Football Club

SCFA Senior Reserves Cup Final - Friday May 11th at Leiston Town
The Brantham Reserves team made the journey to Leiston Town's ground to take on Kirkley and Pakefield Reserves in the Suffolk County FA Senior Reserves Cup final. Brantham started the quicker side but it was Kirkley & Pakefield who broke the deadlock  when a mistake by us gave their player the chance to hit home and he did just that. We drew level towards the end of the first half when Adam Thompson was going through and into the area when he was brought down from behind. Despite the appeals the referee  pointed to the spot and it was put home in style by Kev Morsley.1-1. The second half started with the rain pelting down for the first 15  minutes.Kirkley and Pakefield pushed men forward and grabbed the vital next goal and went onto win 2-1. A full match report will be on the website soon. Our thanks to all of the people who made the journey to watch the game and I know that the team are sorry that they could not make the trip back to Brantham with the cup. Good to see so many supporters from Brantham at the game, including the chairman Peter Crowhurst, first team manager Tony Hall, first team coach Colin Grogan and a whole raft of supporters who follow the reserve team each week. I can assure you that your support is and was very much appreciated. Special thanks to two good friends of the club, Ray and Esme Wright, who made the journey from Felixstowe/Ipswich to Leiston by taxi  to support to the team and again that was much appreciated by all in the club. On the return journey Ray Wright also made a special "Man of the match" presentation to Kevin Morsley. Many thanks for the very kind gesture from Ray and Esme Wright. Thanks also to Alison K for her great help with collecting all the monies on the coach and looking after everything on the return journey to Brantham.

End of Season Presentation  evening
Photos of all of the various award winners from then Presentation evening last Friday (4th May) ARE NOW ON THIS WEBSITE. 
Full details of all the people who were presented with awards plus photos of them receiving their awards are on the  FORUM.  To look at the photos and the list of the award winners click onto FORUM and then  onto the first section down, Brantham Athletic FC team news ,chat and gossip.
Photos of a special award being presented to Tony Hall by ex-SIL Chairman and SCA official  Peter Cocker and the first team award winners,the reserve team award winners ,the "A" team award winners, the Under 18's award winners and last but by no means least, the Brantham Sunday Badgers people who picked up trophies. All these photos taken on the night are on the FORUM  NOW  under the "Brantham Athletic team news and chat" section.
Apologies that one or two of the photos are not as sharp as they should be--sorry about that!!

Leading Goalscorers - 2011-2012
Ridgeons Premier Division:
1. A.Wood (Mildenhall)  Played 39 Goals 33
2.Ollie Mann (Brantham) Played 33  Goals26
10th.Josh Mayhew (Brantham) Played 33 Goals 17
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Ridgeons Reserves South
1.Josh Mann (Brantham Reserves). Played 24 Goals 22
2.L.Bentley (Braintree Reserves ) Played 22 Goals 18
3.A.Daniels (FC Clacton Reserves) Played 16 Goals 16
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Ridgeons Under 18s-South
3rd. George Clarke - Played 18  Goals 15
6th. Danny Garrad -Played 18 Goals 10
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League name change
From the start of the 2012-2013 season we will be playing in the Thurlow Nunn League. Thurlow Nunn have agreed a 3 year sponsorship of the league starting for season 2012-2013. Thurlow Nunn are one of east Anglia's largest and oldest family owned businesses and have 10 Vauxhall sites across the region.

Len Tate
One of our keenest season  tickets holders, Len Tate, has been and is as far as I know is still  in Papworth Hospital. Despite being in hospital Len rings through for matches to wish the team all the best. On behalf of us all here at Brantham  I can assure you Len that is not the same without you and we all wish you a safe and speedy recovery.

Brantham Athletic Club items
There is a small range of items of Brantham Athletic Football Club merchandise available. For full details and to view the items please click onto " CLUB SHOP" on this website. Why not treat one of your friends or yourself to one of our Brantham scarves, hats or badges. It is hoped that we will include some more items for sale during the season. Items can be ordered through Andy Powell, Barry Felgate or Alan Clarke.

Photographs on this website
All photos on the Brantham Athletic Football Club website are - Copyright - Andrew Powell/Brantham Athletic Football Club



Brantham Football Security personnel
Brantham Athletic Football Club's two security personnel taking time out from their rounds for a photo-call. Freddie is on the left and the new addition to the team is Gem on the right. They patrol the grounds every day under the supervision of Alan Clarke. Thanks to Alan and Lynne for the photo.

Latest Results

 Saturday April 28th
Ridgeons Premier Division
Brantham Athletic 2 Wisbech Town 2
(Kieran Lawler 2)
(Last league game of the season for the first team who finished in 3rd spot in the league, not a bad  achievement at all and one that I am sure manager Tony Hall will be looking to build on for the coming 2012-2013 season)

Ridgeons Reserves South
Long Melford Reserves 2 Brantham Athletic  Reserves 2
(Josh Mann 2)
(Last league game of the season and the reserves finished in a mid-table slot)

Monday May 7th
Colchester & East Essex League -Premier Division
Brantham "A" 2  Stoke by Nayland 3
(Ross Cooper 1, Ed Nobbs 1)

Friday May 11th
Suffolk County F Senior Reserves Cup final ( at Leiston's ground)
Kirkley and Pakefield Reserves 2   Brantham Athletic Reserves 1
(Kevin Morsley -pen)

Saturday May 12th
Colchester & East Essex League -Premier Division
Brantham "A" 1 Boxford Rovers 3
(Josh Mann 1)

 

Upcoming Fixtures

With the Suffolk County FA  Senior Reserves Cup Final at Leiston FC's ground on Friday May 11th  now done and dusted that just abouts wraps the season,football wise, for all of our teams. There are still a couple of Youth team finals to be resolved and after that the season, which seems to get longer and longer now, will be out to bed and THEN we will have to start to get ready for the 2012-2013 season!!!

Looking ahead to the pre-season friendly matches ( yes we are already thinking about them)
Despite the fact that we have only just finished the current season when the first team finished a very creditable third spot in the Ridgeons Premier Division we are already starting to work on some pre-season friendly matches.  The various FA competitons, the Vase and FA Cup, etc will kick off with Extra Prelim rounds on August 11th so as can you see our first team manager Tony Hall will have work to do to get his team ready just in case we are drawn in one of the very early rounds.
One game that manager Tony Hall is already looking at is a match at Brantham towards the latter part of July against Leiston Town. Once details have been finalised all details be in this website first.
I appreciate that people will say that we have just finished the 2011-12 season, but we as a club have other teams as well as the first team to try and arrange pre-season matches for and I can assure you that is not an easy task. No doubt that a lot of other teams at the same level as we play at will also be looking to arrange pre-season friendly matches prior to the FA competitions and League fixtures get well under way, so we will not be alone in that situiation.