Real Wood FC AGM

We will be holding our AGM downstairs at the Golden Guinea 19 Guinea Street, Bristol, BS1 6SX @ 7:30 on Wednesday 29th August. Please come long for a beer if you can. If you can't make it please communicate any views you hve on the running of our club.

Agenda

Roles:

Currently:

Rich T - Club captain/manager, organiser for 11-a-side matches.

Les - Team captain, organiser Goals League 5-a-side (Tuesdays)

Mark - Organiser Club 5-a-side (Thursdays)

Subs:

Last season we did not pay membership so operated pay-as-you-play.

Kit:

All black kit 1st choice, all blue for 'away' kit.

Volunteers to wash kit on match-by-match basis.

Referees:

We are required to provide refs for home fixtures. We agreed to pay £20 per match when we have an elected referee (didn't have much luck with this last season so offers & suggestions welcome.) When we have not found ref then there's an expectation that all will volunteer to take a turn.

Substitutes:

General rule is that if you show up you will get run-out so all should be willing to take their turn as sub. Substitutes should be willing to run the line/ref as required.

Home pitch:

Fry's last season so I've kept with it.

Expences:

Costs for balls, whistle, kit, fines were met by funds from the 5s sessions. Any other suggestions?

Communiction

Email is easiest and cheapest but text also being used as well as the blog http://realwoodfc.blogspot.co.uk/ so please make sure I have you email addresses and mobile phone numbers.

Any other business:

Fixtures for 2012-13

Here's our fixtures for the coming season. Please let me know if you do not intend to play this seaason.

I have booked pitches at Fry's, Keynsham for all our home league fixtures but have not had confirmation from our opponents yet.

The cup match has been agreed however so we need to provide a referee - volunteer needed please.

Sunday 09 Sep 2012

Harry Mottram Cup 2012-13

Real Wood FC - Redland Beagles

 

Sunday 16 Sep 2012

 Cotswool Leg-Ends - Real Wood FC 10:30

Sunday 30 Sep 2012

 Real Wood FC - Farmhouse Nailsea 10:30

Sunday 11 Nov 2012

Real Wood FC - Portishead Jurassic Sparks 10:30

Sunday 02 Dec 2012

Clifton Strikers - Real Wood FC 10:30

Sunday 16 Dec 2012

Real Wood FC - Arthritic Bilbao 10:30

Sunday 13 Jan 2013

Unathletico Vets - Real Wood FC 10:30

Sunday 27 Jan 2013

Real Wood FC - St Marys Old Boys 10:30

Sunday 24 Feb 2013

 Real Wood FC - Dads Army 10:30

Sunday 17 Mar 2013

Fairfield Allstars - Real Wood FC 10:30

Sunday 07 Apr 2013

 Real Wood FC - Hillcrest Doggers 10:30

Sunday 28 Apr 2013

Imperial Vets - Real Wood FC 10:30

Rich

Curry Cup 2nd leg

Real Wood 6 vs 1 Voyager

There are times to blog and ...........

 Sunshine once again greeted the Curry Cup. Both sides proved that all-weather or grass they can provide all the ingredients for a terrific evening. It's been said that Swifty and Colin were the difference between the sides, others felt that Matt Buck's calm influence, Dean's goal-keeping or Rich's availability (?) may have swung it. Whatever there were some excellent moments of football and friendship followed by a delicious curry. Some awoke on Saturday aching from the football, some aching from their 40-minute limp home others basked in the knowledge they bagged 5 goals or simply played their socks off and had a ball.

Hope everyone enjoyed the event as much as me, please add comments. Favourite moment?

Rich (1st silverware for Real Wood)

Tribute to Chris Lester

Today marks the 1st anniversary of Chris's death and I'm sure for many of us, like the deaths of JFK and Princess Di depending on your age, you'll recall where you were when you were learned the incomprehensible news. Just as then what better way to mark the event than with a win. In fact the last 7 days has provided 3 consecutive victories for Real Wood and Real Madras and I for one have loved every minute of them. Real Wood, formerly Real Madras, formerly the Bouncy Clowns has a history of more than 10 years now. We have replaced the bottle blonde with the natural grey (me) and brunette (Les) but have retained the spirit that Chris created. We've introduced a new aptitude for winning having been promoted in the Tuesday league and are currently undefeated this season but hopefully not at all costs. Yes the club has moved on and changed but we'd be fools to not to remember our roots and I hope we can all take a moment to say thanks Chris for the memories and the legacy.

Rich x

Real Madras vs Bristol FC 5-a-side, tuesday 11th October 2011

Real Madras 12 vs Bristol FC 0!!!!
Team: Ola in goal, swifty, rich abs, matt, les, jimmer and mart

A fantastic result last night against top of the table. The fact we got 12 with no reply is un-heard off but that said everyone played well and with Ola in goal we looked a lot more solid. 9pm kick off next week against the team below us so a 6 pointer! come on...

vs Cotswool Leg-Ends (Home) Sunday 9th Oct 2011

Real Wood 1 vs 3 Cotswool Leg-Ends (Home)
      10:30 kick off  Sunday 9th Oct 2011 @ Frys, Keynsham

A fine but blustery day saw us compete well but eventually lose out to a bizarre own goal. A finely taken first half goal put Cotswool ahead but an excellent through ball from Swifty was efficiently despatched by Jimmer to equal the score at half time. The wind picked up after the break and the Cotswool midfield enjoyed a lot of good possession although we put together several useful attacks down both flanks. However a bizarre ricochet off Young Mark's shoulder from a goaline clearance by Tim put Cotswool ahead. The score stayed at 1-2 until the last attack when Cotswool put the result beyond doubt with a breakaway goal.
There were many positives in defeat however; some excellent debuts as Paul Mac, Matt A, Raja and Kyle had their first outings in the sexy black kit that makes it all worthwhile. Our back four looked accomplished and another fine performance by Tim earned him the man of the match award almost unanymously dropping only a couple of votes to Swifty and Matt A. Paul Mac showed us what a fine footballer he is and Tony demonstrated that, when he hasn't just played 120 minutes for Retreads, he's very swift up front. Definitely a good performance and a good turnout to boot - onwards and upwards.

Forthcoming fixtures

vs Cotswool Leg-Ends (Home)
      10:30 kick off  Sunday 9th Oct 2011 @ Frys, Keynsham
vs Longwell Green Sports Vets (Home)
     10:30 kick off  Sunday 30th Oct 2011 @ Frys, Keynsham
vs Weston Pirates (Home)
     10:30 kick off  Sunday 20th Nov 2011 @ Frys, Keynsham

Please let me know your availabilty: real.wood.fc.2011@gmail.com or 07749786098
Thanks
Rich