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FA VASE: Admission prices set for Saturday's clash with Sherwood Colliery

FA VASE: Admission prices set for Saturday's clash with Sherwood Colliery

Andrew Poole17 Oct 2017 - 10:13
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Getting to know our opponents...

City return to the Buildbase FA Vase trail on Saturday as we take on Sherwood Colliery in the first round proper (kick-off 3.00pm). Extra time will be played is score is level at 90 minutes

Admission prices have been set, as follows: Adults: £6.00, Concessions & Students: £4.00 and Under 16s: £2.00.

Our visitors sit in second place in the Black Dragon Badges Central Midlands Football League South Division. They are undefeated in their opening eight League games, although they were held to a 1-1 home draw with Blidworth Welfare at the weekend.
Here is a little bit of history on the men from Nottinghamshire...

Sherwood Colliery FC was reformed in 2008 with a view to giving Mansfield Woodhouse a Saturday adult team which the town had lacked for many years. With predominantly young players, the club entered the MAA in 2008-09. The following season saw the introduction of a reserve team, both teams playing in the MAA.

In 2010-11 success was achieved with the first-team winning the MAA First Division Championship while the reserves gained promotion from Division Two.
In 2012-13 an application to join the CML was successful. Ground improvements were undertaken including a covered standing area which was completed by Christmas 2012.
The club entered a first-team in the North Division and a Reserve team in the Reserve Premier League and with a very young squad of players managed the adjustment to the higher level of football reasonably well with hopes higher for better things as the players gained more experience.

A third (A) team was added in 2013-14 with an even younger squad of players who played in the Midland Amateur Alliance to gain experience of adult football.
2013-14 saw the first-team achieve a creditable tenth place in the North division while the Reserves completed a Reserve Premier and Reserve League Cup double. The ‘A’ team finished in fourth place in the MAA Division 2.

Despite this success the club suffered a hammer blow in the close season prior to the 2014-15 campaign. Internal differences saw Reserve team manager Ian Cotton leave for Blidworth and take with him all but a few of the entire playing squad. The first-team manager, Craig Wathall, was a casualty of the fall-out leaving the club manager less and virtually player less.

The club managed to somehow put managers and players in place and fulfil the fixtures throughout the season. Both teams finished their season’s second-bottom of the CML North and Reserve Premier respectively but in the circumstances this was considered a success!

The club were determined that the 2015-16 season would be very different and with an influx of new committee members new First and Reserve team managers were quickly appointed in early June. Wayne Savage joined from Bilsthorpe FC and Adi Smith joined from Thoresby.

The first-team were in and around the top three for most of the season but an end of season slump saw a fifth place finish, still the best finish Sherwood Colliery had achieved up to that point. An Area Final of the Floodlit Cup was reached and a Quarter-Final of the Notts Senior Cup with local rivals AFC Mansfield being one of the sides beaten in that run.
The 2016-17 season saw a third place finish in the CML South Division, which while being the best finish the club have achieved still felt like a chance missed to have gained promotion. The cups gave us high excitement with The Floodlit Cup giving us a trophy in April 2017 after beating Retford 5-2 in the Final. We fell at the semi-final stage of the League Cup and at the Quarter-Final of the Notts FA Senior Cup, both times falling to the eventual winners.

The FA Vase saw us reach the second round after an exciting run in the competition.
The management team remains in place, supplemented by Lee Tryner coming on board as assistant manager to Wayne Savage, while the squad has been supplemented by the arrival of Dale Sheppard and Danny Naylor and some promising youngsters.
The reserve team will be managed by Danny Barke who assisted Scott Rogers in last season’s Reserve Division Championship campaign. Danny has been busy re-building the squad and has some exciting talent at his disposal.

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