GLOUCESTERSHIRE COUNTY
WOMENS LEAGUE DIVISION 2
WOMENS LEAGUE DIVISION 2
2016/17 SEASON
GLOS COUNTY DIV 2 MATCH
4th September 2016 CHIPPING SODBURY TOWN LFC 4 R.Blacker x2 L.Goater S.Price MITCHELDEAN S.C. LFC 0 Team Photograph before their first game
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Tianna Bishop - League Debut
Rosanna Blacker - League Debut Laura Curnock - League Debut Emily Gibson - League Debut Liberty Goater - League Debut Sophie Kelly - League Debut Gemma Rallison - League Debut Emma Roddan - League Debut Helen Tuckwell - League Debut Riley-Ann Wren - League Debut Becky Nash - League Debut Kyra Bishop - League Debut Paige Davis - League Debut Jodie Hood - League Debut Sarah Price - League Debut Rosie Wilson - League Debut |
FRIENDLY MATCH
11th September 2016 PORT OF BRISTOL LFC CHIPPING SODBURY TOWN LFC AWAY WIN |
GORDON PERRETT CUP MATCH
25th September 2016 CHIPPING SODBURY TOWN LFC 5 R.Blacker x3 T.Bishop x2 MITCHELDEAN S.C. LFC 1 C.Ward |
Kyra Bishop - Cup Debut
Tianna Bishop - Cup Debut Rosanna Blacker - Cup Debut Paige Davis - Cup Debut Emily Gibson - Cup Debut Liberty Goater - Cup Debut Sophie Kelly - Cup Debut Emma Roddan - Cup Debut Ruby Smith - Cup Debut Helen Tuckwell - Cup Debut Becky Nash - Cup Debut Eleanor Davey - Cup Debut Jodie Hood - Cup Debut Sarah Price - Cup Debut Rosie Wilson - Cup Debut Riley-Ann Wren - Cup Debut |
GLOS COUNTY DIV 2 MATCH
2nd October 2016 BISHOPS CLEEVE LFC 0 CHIPPING SODBURY TOWN LFC 13 R.Smith x4 R.Blacker x3 S.Kelly x3 S.Price x2 B.Nash |
Kyra Bishop - League Appearances 02
Rosanna Blacker - League Appearance 02 Laura Curnock - League Appearances 02 Paige Davis - League Appearances 02 Emily Gibson - League Appearances 02 Jodie Hood - League Appearances 02 Sarah Price - League Appearances 02 Emma Roddan - League Appearances 02 Ruby Smith - League Debut Helen Tuckwell - League Appearances 02 Becky Nash - League Appearances 02 Stacey Channing - League Debut Eleanor Davey - League Debut Sophie Kelly - League Appearances 02 Gemma Rallison - League Appearance 02 Rosie Wilson - League Appearances 02 |
GORDON PERRETT CUP MATCH
9th October 2016 BRADLEY STOKE LFC 0 CHIPPING SODBURY TOWN LFC 10 S.Price x3 B.Stoker x2 R.Blacker x2 H.Tuckwell L.Curnock P.Davis |
Rosanna Blacker - Cup Appearances 02
Laura Curnock - Cup Debut Paige Davis - Cup Appearances 02 Emily Gibson - Cup Appearances 02 Jodie Hood - Cup Appearances 02 Sarah Price - Cup Appearances 02 Gemma Rallison - Cup Debut Emma Roddan - Cup Appearances 02 Ruby Smith - Cup Appearances 02 Helen Tuckwell - Cup Appearances 02 Riley-Ann Wren - Cup Appearances 02 Kyra Bishop - Cup Appearances 02 Eleanor Davey - Cup Appearances 02 Becky Stoker - Cup Debut Rosie Wilson - Cup Appearances 02 |
GFA CUP MATCH
16th October 2016 CHIPPING SODBURY TOWN LFC 1 FOREST GREEN ROVERS U18 LFC 1 FOREST GREEN THROUGH ON PENS 4 - 3 |
GLOS COUNTY DIV 2 MATCH
23rd October 2016 BRADLEY STOKE LFC 0 CHIPPING SODBURY TOWN LFC 10 R.Blacker x4 B.Stoker x3 L.Curnock L.Goater B.Nash |
Kyra Bishop - League Appearances 03
Rosanna Blacker - League Appearance 03 Laura Curnock - League Appearances 03 Emily Gibson - League Appearances 03 Liberty Goater - League Appearances 02 Jodie Hood - League Appearances 03 Emma Roddan - League Appearances 03 Ruby Smith - League Appearances 02 Becky Stoker - League Debut Helen Tuckwell - League Appearances 03 Becky Nash - League Appearances 03 Jasmine Anstey - League Debut Stacey Channing - League Appearance 02 Eleanor Davey - League Appearances 02 Sarah Price - League Appearances 03 |
GLOS COUNTY DIV 2 MATCH
30th October 2016 CHIPPING SODBURY TOWN LFC 16 CHELTENHAM SPA CS LFC 0 |
MATCH EXPUNGED FROM RECORDS
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GLOS COUNTY DIV 2 MATCH
13th November 2016 COTSWOLD RANGERS LFC 0 CHIPPING SODBURY TOWN LFC 10 |
GLOS COUNTY DIV 2 MATCH
27th November 2016 LONGWELL GREEN LFC 1 L-M O'Hare CHIPPING SODBURY TOWN LFC 4 S.Price x2 R.Blacker B.Stoker |
Kyra Bishop - League Appearances
Tianna Bishop - League Appearances Rosanna Blacker - League Appearance Laura Curnock - League Appearances Paige Davis - League Appearances Emily Gibson - League Appearances Jodie Hood - League Appearances Sophie Sawyer - League Appearances Ruby Smith - League Appearances Helen Tuckwell - League Appearances Becky Nash - League Appearances Stacey Channing - League Appearances Liberty Goater - League Appearances Sarah Price - League Appearances Becky Stoker - League Appearances |
GLOS COUNTY DIV 2 MATCH
4th December 2016 CHIPPING SODBURY TOWN LFC 3 R.Blacer B.Stoker S.Price LONGWELL GREEN LFC 0 |
Kyra Bishop - League Appearances
Tianna Bishop - League Appearances Rosanna Blacker - League Appearance Laura Curnock - League Appearances Emily Gibson - League Appearances Liberty Goater - League Appearances Gemma Rallison - League Appearances Emma Roddan - League Appearances Becky Stoker - League Appearances Helen Tuckwell - League Appearances Becky Nash - League Appearances Stacey Channing - League Appearances Paige Davis - League Appearances Jodie Hood - League Appearances Sarah Price - League Appearances Rosie Wilson - League Appearances |
GORDON PERRETT CUP 1/4 FINAL MATCH
11th December 2016 ALMONDSBURY UWE LFC 1 Y.West CHIPPING SODBURY TOWN LFC 0 |
Tianna Bishop - Cup Appearances
Rosanna Blacker - Cup Appearances Laura Curnock - Cup Appearances Paige Davis - Cup Appearances Liberty Goater - Cup Appearances Gemma Rallison - Cup Appearances Emma Roddan - Cup Appearances Becky Stoker - Cup Appearances Helen Tuckwell - Cup Appearances Riley-Ann Wren - Cup Appearances Becky Nash - Cup Appearances Kyra Bishop - Cup Appearances Emily Gibson - Cup Appearances Jodie Hood - Cup Appearances Sarah Price - Cup Appearances Ruby Smith - Cup Appearances |
GLOS COUNTY DIV 2
18th December 2016 MITCHELDEAN SC LFC 0 CHIPPING SODBURY TOWN LFC 4 |
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GLOS COUNTY DIV 2
15th January 2017 STOKE LANE ATHLETIC LFC 1 T.Hale CHIPPING SODBURY TOWN LFC 12 T.Bishop x4 R.Blacker x2 S.Price x2 B.Stoker H.Tuckwell L.Goater L.Curnock |
Kyra Bishop
Tianna Bishop Rosanna Blacker Laura Curnock Paige Davis Liberty Goater Anisa House Gemma Rallison Emma Roddan Becky Stoker Helen Tuckwell Stacey Channing Chelsea Giles Jodie Hood Sarah Price Sophie Sawyer |
GLOS COUNTY DIV 2
22nd January 2017 CHIPPING SODBURY TOWN LFC BISHOPS CLEEVE LFC |
HOME WALKOVER
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Gloucestershire County Women’s Leaguers Chipping Sodbury Town Women. Our reporter Simon Parkinson spoke to their enthusiastic 49-year-old head manager Scott Gibson about their exhilarating emergence . . .
Club: Chipping Sodbury Town Women FC Ground: The Ridings, Wickwar Road, Chipping Sodbury, South Glos BS37 6BQ Managers: Scott Gibson (head manager); Justin Bishop (team manager) Coaches: Martin Harris, Neil Harris, Jake Scanlon League status: Gloucestershire County Women’s League Division 2 Chairman: Mike Fox Secretary: Les Theobald Treasurer: Luke Durham Scott, where does the team play and train, and what are the facilities like? We play our home games on what we believe to be one of the best grass surfaces around at the Ridings on the edge of Chipping Sodbury. The pitch is certainly well looked after and we’re fortunate to have good social club and bar facilities, seated stands and floodlights, which are all part of the whole club operation, of course. Our girls train twice a week, which says much about their determination and ambition, on a 4G pitch at Yate International Academy – the old King Edmund School – on Thursday nights, as well as at Chipping Sodbury School’s artificial surface on a Tuesday. We utilise a minibus for our away games, which yours truly and his managerial cohort Justin Bishop usually have the pleasure of taking turns at driving in quite lively circumstances as I’m sure you can imagine! This is Sodbury’s first season running a female adult wing. How did that arise? It’s not common knowledge but we actually had a ladies’ team here in the early 1940s and there’s a wonderful old picture of them up in our clubhouse! Quite why they folded is anyone’s guess but we’re thrilled to be back, not that I remember too much about those particular days. It all began last year when my good buddy Justin Bishop and I, who had run Yate United Girls together where our daughters played for many years, were sadly forced to call it a day when we reached under-16s level due to a shortage of players. We all teamed up briefly with Mangotsfield in the Wiltshire League but that didn’t go too well either, not least because of all the travelling, so I thought about starting up a team at our local club, where I was already club manager to our thriving men’s section. Justin came aboard too although I didn’t give him an option; there was no vote on it! The rest is history; we joined the Gloucestershire County Women’s League Division Two at the start of this season thanks much to the support given us by Sue Henson-Green there, and we haven’t looked back. We now have a squad of around 30 players which is phenomenal for female football. Sodbury’s a good catchment area, for the men as well, and I do feel that the facilities we have and the friendly approach we adopt are key reasons why we’ve enjoyed the early success we have. Early days, then, but how is that exciting first season shaping up for you all? Not too badly at all! We’ve won all ten of our games as we speak and are second behind Frampton Rangers Ladies only on goal difference. The standard of football is fantastic and it’s very enjoyable to watch. Some of our players have come from higher standards and it’s made for a good mix of youth and experience. Two of our girls came from Bristol Academy’s under-17s team. Tianna Bishop – Justin’s daughter – also played at Forest Green Ladies and Libby Goater, who is also a winger, joined us at the start of the season too and both are blessed with speed and ability. Then there’s our hot-shot striker Rosanna Blacker, who is well known in female football circles and plays for the county. She still only 19 and scores about 68 goals a season. If you’re a defender and you don’t have the pace of a whippet, she’ll be gone and out of sight. |
Our central midfielder Emily Gibson is a real playmaker-type and I don’t say this just because she’s my daughter but she’s a pleasure to watch, at 19 too.
That’s not to mention one Sarah Price either, who can play in central midfield or up top. She’s formerly of our neighbours St Nicholas and she scores most of her goals with bullet headers off set-pieces or 35-yard belters. She really does hit a ball harder than a bloke. Once me, our ressies manager Les Theobald and A-team boss Richard Bisp were watching her thump one into the top corner from around 38 yards out and we just looked at each other in disbelief. But that’s what she does. There’s a little tale behind Pricey’s emergence as she was once told by a coach that she was too big to play football, despite playing for the county at one point before going off the radar. Feeling down in the dumps, she saw our floodlights were on one night and came in off the cuff to introduce herself, and she hasn’t looked back since. Sarah has obvious talents and while she did lose a bit of weight, the main thing is she’s enjoying her football again and been an absolute revelation. Sounds like you have some proper characters in the ranks too! Any names to shame? Well, the aforementioned Pricey is one of them, just bubbly in her mid-20s and great on the social scene, as is Kyra Bishop, Justin’s other offspring, who really has the club at heart and arranges club get-togethers, including one coming up in Edinburgh. Our captain is Helen Lewis, who won’t mind me saying (hopefully!) she’s in her forties now and is like a mum to them all. She’s as fit as a fiddle bossing central midfield and her team-mates and she enthusiastically sorted out party games at our Xmas get together. I should know better than to go out drinking with them on a festive night out. They organised a pub-golf weekend at Christmas teeing off at The Horsehose and our girls turned out as you’d expect, suitably clad in golfing attire. By the time we got to The George just four pubs later I fell over a step, smashed my nose and looked like a giant panda for a month, no thanks to them and their bright ideas of a good laugh. What are your hopes for Chipping Sodbury Women, this season and in the future? For starters our aim is simply to get out of the division we’re in and up to the Division One of the County Women’s League. The bigger picture is to fly the flag for women’s football far and wide, starting with progression to the South West Women’s League and, you never know, all the way into the FA Women’s Super League. That is certainly a big dream of mine and I’m sure one all of the club aspires to. I know our ground would be fully up to staging top-flight female football and it’s exciting just thinking about the possibilities there. Women’s football is fantastic and a lot of people don’t realise just how long it has been going for. Okay, the pace is a little slower than the men’s game but the quality of football can be superb, which is why we have 60 to 80 regular people watching our home games. Everyone works tirelessly to try and make it happen, people like our Level 2 head coach Martin Harris and his son Neil, who assists him with the ladies section but is also our men’s District League thirds coach going for his UEFA B certificate. Jake Scanlon is our keeper coach and all three work really well together and take the whole thing very seriously. What we’ve done is make the women’s section a full-on part of the whole club and it’s a massive plus, one of the best things we’ve done. Interview 26.01.2017 from http://www.gloucestershirefa.com |
GLOS COUNTY DIV 2 MATCH
29th January 2017 BOURTON ROVERS LFC CHIPPING SODBURY TOWN LFC AWAY WALKOVER |
MATCH EXPUNGED FROM RECORDS
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GLOS COUNTY DIV 2 MATCH
5th February 2017 CHIPPING SODBURY TOWN LFC 5 S.Price x2 R.Blacker B.Stoker L.Goater BRADLEY STOKE LFC 0 |
Tianna Bishop
Rosanna Blacker Laura Curnock Paige Davis Liberty Goater Anisa House Gemma Rallison Emma Roddan Becky Stoker Helen Tuckwell Becky Nash Kyra Bishop Emily Gibson Jodie Hood Sarah Price |
GLOS COUNTY DIV 2
12th February 2017 CHELTENHAM SPA CS LFC 0 CHIPPING SODBURY TOWN LFC 14 |
MATCH EXPUNGED FROM RECORDS
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GLOS COUNTY DIV 2
26th February 2017 CHIPPING SODBURY TOWN LFC COTSWOLD RANGERS LFC HOME WALKOVER |
GLOS COUNTY DIV 2
5th March 2017 FRAMPTON RANGERS LFC 0 CHIPPING SODBURY TOWN LFC 2 R.Blacker x2 |
Tianna Bishop
Rosanna Blacker Laura Curnock Emily Gibson Siobhan Haynes Anisa House Gemma Rallison Emma Roddan Becky Stoker Helen Tuckwell Becky Nash Kyra Bishop Zoe Foster Chelsea Giles Jodie Hood Sarah Price |
GLOS COUNTY DIV 2
12th MARCH 2017 CHIPPING SODBURY TOWN LFC 0 FRAMPTON RANGERS LFC 5 M.Brown x3 S.Degg A.Todd |
GLOS COUNTY DIV 2
26th MARCH 2017 CHIPPING SODBURY TOWN LFC 4 L.Goater x2 T.Bishop B.Nash STOKE LANE ATHLETIC LFC 0 |
Kyra Bishop
Tianna Bishop Laura Curnock Emily Gibson Chelsea Giles Liberty Goater Jodie Hood Emma Roddan Becky Stoker Helen Tuckwell Becky Nash Stacey Channing Sarah Price Sophie Sawyer |