2006-07 Veterans' Review

Thursday, 9th August 2007

We have come to the end of another season of vets football at Crawley Green, the last game being held on Sunday 5th August - very late because St Albans Vets only play in the summer. Anyway, a cracking performance and 8-0 scoreline tells everybody that the old 'uns can still play a bit, but it's a lot slower now than it once was!.
The player who has stood out this season for us is Damien Hunt (most promising old youngster/young oldster) closely followed by big brother Steve, and Youngie (Jason Young) played very well when he turned up at the right time!

Plus I have managed to encourage players from yesteryear
once again to grace the Crawley Green shirts, Wayne Leslie,
Trevor daSilva and Graham Goodge all made their debuts for the vets team and hopefully will play on next season. Also a big thank you to the lads who stepped in at the last moment like Craig Freeman.
We have tried to increase the number of teams we play against and the Watford, Barnet andSt Albans teams have all been very impressed with our club and want to come back again. They have also invited us to their home grounds so we may be travelling away in the near future . . . I did say maybe!

I would like to say another big thank you to all the members of the Club who supported us when we needed to raise money for one of our injured players (Pete Kerrigan) and fingers crossed he is nearly fully fit again (was he ever?)

This only leaves me to say a very big thank you to Maureen Bowler, Reg Freeman, Mick Murphy, Tony Talbot and the rest of the committee for all their help behind the scenes, as you know it just wouldn't happen without these guys
Thanks and cheers for now,
Danny Austin

PS: the first game of the new season is 16th September against Old Dunstablians - venue is to be decided in next few days.