What can I say.......

Wow what a weekend we have had! It was great to see so many of the boys and their families at the award ceremony on Saturday and to celebrate the end of a great season for Central City!! 

 It gave me great pride to stand next to the boys on stage, the only central FC team to be promoted this season. 

 What an achievement and we should all be pleased and proud of the part that you have played. 

 To the award winners I say congratulations and well done, but you are all winners, all heroes and this has been such a great team effort. 

 The match on Friday seems like such a long time ago already, it was a funny old game wasn’t it and whilst we came off second best, the look on Will A’s and Oscars faces after they scored was priceless!! Well done boys and to Dan also for scoring and to Ryan for being the captain for the evening. 

 So there we go, League One beckons and another exciting year of youth football. John and I are going to meet up some time in June for a chat about the next season and what we need to do to make it a successful season. 

 We will have a break now from regular training and playing and are probably going to re group in early August. 

 We will have a lot of work to do pre season, fitness levels will need to high right from the first game in League One, the standard as I understand it, will be consistently high and so we will need to be ready. 

 Also playing offside (both attacking and defending) will need to be something that will take time. 

 I would like to offer this note of reassurance.  We will not be making wholesale changes to the squad, you are the boys that got the team promoted and you will be the boys that will be playing in League One next season if you want to.

 We know that we are loosing Julen and that will be a great loss but unless I hear otherwise I am working on the basis that everyone else will be wanting to carry on with Central City.

End of Season Social Day 

Just to remind everyone that we will be having our end of season social this year at the River dart Country Park on Saturday 21st June. More details will follow but this should be a great day out and it would be lovely to see as many there as possible. 

 Also we will be entering teams in a couple of 5 or 6-a-side tournaments in the summer months. Dates yet to be confirmed but I will phone around the squad to see who is available nearer the time.

 I hope school is going well and not too stressful leading into SATS week, well done to each and everyone of you and to all the parents and families that have helped to make this such a great experience and a wonderful season of youth football.

From John and myself we wish you a great few weeks and hope to see you at the River Dart Country Park.

Thanks 

 Mark