2nd January 2009

Gulval 2

Redruth Utd 4

Redruth record their first win in the league since September, capped by a man of the match performance from substitute Moha Imchichi.

Goonhavern 0 Redruth Utd Res 3

It is hard to live up to Beamer’s last epic match report, so I won’t even try:

Our first match of the New Year was an icy cold trip to Goonhavern.  The cold weather even had ‘The Northerners’ contemplating wearing gloves for the game, but as Matt Leach pointed out, “only girls gloves to play in”.  Sorry Jake.

Anyway, football!  The game started at a fast tempo and both teams had chances to go ahead.  Goonhavern’s opportunities came largely from mistakes within an unfamiliar Reds defence, with Steve Chapman filling in for DT and Phil (Plug) Mitchell in goal for the absent Brian Keitch

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However, the visitors managed to get organised and by half time were level at 0-0.

The second half saw a spirited performance across all positions.  Redruth were eventually rewarded with 20 minutes to go, by a James Chilman goal.  He quickly followed up with a second.  Goonhavern had plenty of chances to get back into the game, but their finishing was weak and deputising Redruth keeper Phil, put in an heroic man of the match performance to keep a clean sheet.  The game was eventually sealed when substitute Ryan (girlie bracelet) Ault scored a far post tap-in.

Shame you missed this one DT, but we hope Dani’s salon opening was a success.  Get Jake and Beamer to go over their pre-match team talk with you sometime.  Inspirational.

REDRUTH UTD 2

SENNEN 2

Redruth started off the first 25 minutes very well with some slick passing throughout, leading to a Richie Ward goal.  A lapse of concentration at the back gifted Senned their equaliser before the break.

From a great James Petty cross, midfield midget with the large mouth Barry McCabe rose like Billy the Fish at the far post to head Redruth back into the lead midway through the second half.  

However, Sennen equalised  with 10 minutes remaining.

Man of the match was Mark Eccles.  A very controlled, confident display and full of courage.  Well done big man!

OK...here is Beamer's report:

REDRUTH UNITED FC RESERVES 5 

PERRANPORTH 3RDS 3 

We were short of players and DT wasn’t keen to play but fair play to the team we got stuck in and pulled off a great result!!!! With Twin Tower Chills back to his best and Jake skinning their defence we had a great 1st half going in at the break  3-1 up . 

Second half as usual we go to sleep and let them back in the game ( we need to learn to not panic and hold the ball more and kick the opposition more !!!! ). When it went 3-2 with Brians biggest mistake that I’ve seen, I was thinking we have blown it !!!  And then Nigel dives with his arms out and another pen!!! . What a save big Brian and Chills breaks away and its 4-2 ,then Brian makes another clanger in between a couple of fantastic saves 4-3 .

At this stage with 5mins left I was thinking we can’t draw with them.  Then Twin Tower Chills scores 5-3 all over, we have won !!!!  Still time one of their players to say how great they are passing the ball and all we do is long balls !!! We dont care, we won, bring on Praze in the cup. 

Thanks to Roger and Steve for stepping in and both playing great for us. 

Team marks

1 BRI        6  ( great saves but 2 huge clangers )

2 ROGER    8

3 ME (BEAMER) 8

4 DT            8

5 STEVE    8

6 JAKE       8

7 NIGEL     7

8 JOSER    7   ( need to man up more! )

9 ROB        7

10 CHILLS  9 MOM

11 GARETH 7

I am very very pleased and proud to be able to announce that my wife Jody gave birth to our first child - Ruby -  on Thursday 10th December. 

Well done Mrs Lewarne.............can I go back to play football now please????

12^th December 2009

Marazion Blues 3

Redruth Reserves 3

Redruth went looking for all three points, but were disappointed to come home with only one.

A spell of early pressure from the Reserves was rewarded by a DT headed goal, half  way through the first half.  Rob Bevington scored the second and The Reds had plenty of chances to increase their lead.  However, the half finished 1-2, as the home side managed to fumble the ball over the line in a goal mouth scramble.

The second half saw a series of squandered chances up front, as Redruth players started to get frustrated at not having ‘killed the game off’.  Marazion managed to draw level, but it was Jake Williams who put The Reds back in the lead with a ‘mazey’ run and superb finish.

In the last three minutes of the game, last weeks MOTM Rob went from hero to zero.     His call from within the 18 yard box of “my ball”, lead to an indirect free kick, which saw Marazion finish the game with a superb top corner goal and a much needed point to help them climb from bottom of the table.  I personally think the ref was being harsh and Rob had played very well in the centre for the whole game.

I'm sorry to report that Rachel passed away earlier this morning.  Whilst Rachel and Mark have only been part of the club for 2 years, they have made good friends in the club and become an important part of it so quickly.

We will mourn her passing.  We will, however, celebrate her life in the way she would have wanted.

All our love and thoughts are with Mark, Emily & Amy at this sad time.

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Well, here it is again.  Thanks to Si for his latest player valuations, although surely I deserve a greater value than £1.4.  I demand a stewards inquiry on this.  You can't tell me that Fraggle is worth four times me!!  (ouch, my knees are hurting...).

Come on, Matt Leech where are the Reserve valuations???

Name	Position	Comment	Value
Mark Eccles	GK	Its ok Mark you will catch the next one!! (we hope)	£4.9m
Simon Barrand	LB	I'm only staying til I get my testimonial........then Titans here I come!	£7.4m
Dom Nichols	CB	I am sure we've seen this guy before.	£6.5m
Adam "Smokes" Williams	GK/RB/CB	Don't look directly into to his eyes or he will kill you, burn down your house and abuse your cat.	£5.6m
Mark Twitty	CB	Byker, Byker, Byker Grove!!!!!	£7.2m
Daniel "Fraggle" Thurgood	CB	When you look at him, does anyone else think - Its Perks?	£5.7m
Simon Philp	CB	Apparently the "Skinny Si" of the club	£6.9m
Darren Lewarne	CB/Linesman	Is definitely now offically D.T's ***!!!	£1.4m
Adam Townsend	RB/CM	Still the only gay in the Club. We all know Sammy is a cover!	£7.2m
James Petty	LW/RW	I saw him get angry once, he said "oh blast"	£8m
Tom Byrne	CM	If I ever get close enough at training I will kick him.	£6.2m
Ryan Baber	CM	Go on Ryan, I know you can go the remainder of the season without going sent off.	£12m
Tony Barber	CM/FW	I have got a poorly tummy!! Mummy!!	£7.4m
Barry McCabe	CB/LW/RW/LB/RB	Still not the most valuable player in the team, despite what the moany little twat thinks!	£9.9m
Phil Nicholls	CM ©	Phil and Barry up a tree K.I.S.S.I.N.G	£6.7m
Richie Ward	FW	Back again, is it cause you love us all Rich?	£6.0m
John Salmon	FW	Darren did your valution, hit him not me.	£5m
Aaron Brokenshire	FW	Are you still with that hot piece of ass from the legion, not Justin, the other one?	£4.8m

28^th November 2009

Redruth Reserves 2 Praze 5

When every other referee had sensibly decided to call off their games, on this monsoon Saturday afternoon, ours decided it would be nice to have a kick about.  Adam and Mark from the first team pointed out that, “Christmas is coming and the ref probably needs the extra dosh.”

Praze arrived with a similar side to the one that narrowly beat us 2-1 three weeks ago.  It might have come as a bit of a shock to them to be 2-0 down in the first twenty minutes.  Jake Williams scored the first with a trademark free kick and provided a perfectly weighted through-ball for Kevin Endean to slot home the second.  The visitors stuck to their game plan and started to pile the pressure on towards the end of the fist half.  Their reward was a goal from a long range effort, taking a deflection and looping over the back of outstretched keeper Brian.

As weather conditions deteriorated in the second half, Praze attacked the Reserves goal from all angles. Beamer in particular was ‘run ragged’ down the left flank by a winger at least half his age (and then some).  However, on a day that saw the pint sized, jolly left back play his hundredth game for the club; Beamer was well up for the challenge of dealing with the young menacing whippersnapper down his channel.  To put it into perspective, it’s like Beamer playing against an 80 year old.  Do your own maths.

Anyway, back to the footy.  They had a great second half and scored four goals, but we’ll have ‘em in the cup. 

Man Of the Match was really hard to decide this week.  Largely due to the fact all players were disguised from head to toe in mud.  However, it fittingly went to the number two veteran Beamer.

All stats have been updated as at 14th November. 

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Redruth Utd 0

Illogan 12

Will keep this brief.  Illogan - class.  Probably the best I've ever seen them against us.  Redruth - poor.  I'll hold my hands up as manager, but I'd expect the majority of the squad to do exactly the same.  An embarrassment .  Enough said.  Over and out........

 Reserves report courtesy of Glen Graham (sniff, sniff, lemsip....)

7^th November 2009

Praze 2

Redruth Utd Res 1

Apart from the fact that we lost this game, I have a stinking cold, so I will keep this one brief.

The visitors deserved more than just an hour and a half of exercise and felt hard done by not to take home a point from this game. Praze took the lead towards the end of the first half, but Redruth equalised in the second, only to lose out to a cross which was not dealt with early enough.

Special  thanks should go to Ben Beesley for his well taken goal, Matt Leach as MOTM and the ‘WAGS’ and Moey for turning up to watch in a monsoon.

Redruth Utd 1

Mawnan 2

Redruth bowed out of the 2nd round of the Junior Cup but will kick themselves for allowing a first half lead slip when Tom Byrne closed in on the keeper's spill from Barry McCabe's freekick. 

The Reds held the lead until the last 8 minutes only to see Mawnan score two late goals - the winner in the last minute.

John Salmon was man of the match.

Perranporth 1

Redruth Reserves 3

Both teams have been used to winning recently and have managed to work their way to the third and fourth spots in the table.  However, it was the Reserves that managed to steal all three points, in a game full of contrasts from start to finish.

Perranporth sported a neat looking tracksuit for their warm up, whilst the Reserves found themselves fighting over socks again.  The home side managed to pull off a warm up drill that the ‘Red Arrows’ would have been proud of, whilst the Reds belted long range balls at Brian in goal, before having to go and retrieve it from the hedge.  It must have been manager Darin Thomas’ pre- match speech that spurred the players on to victory, with phrases like, “the season starts here….we gotta’ fight for the right to party”.

Against the run of play, in- form striker Ben Beesley managed to score two first half goals, following a succession of route 1 balls over the top of Perranporth’s defence.  The home side managed to get a goal back before half time from a corner.

It was obvious from the beginning of the second half that Perranporth intended to get straight back into the game, but spells of persistent pressure down both wings failed to break the Reds defence.  With twenty minutes left to play, substitutions were made, if not just to bring on ‘fresh legs.’ Kevin Endean marked his return to the Reserves by spending ten minutes on the pitch and ten minutes in the dressing room, following a straight red card.  Personally I didn’t see it, but I have it on good authority that he was fighting a man twice his size. 

Jake Williams eased the pressure off the Reserves ten team, by calmly scoring the fourth goal of the game.  Credit goes to all players, who gave 100% throughout the whole game.  Beamer will be delighted not only to have received the ‘man of the match’ award, but because I finally gave him a mention.  Happy now?

Redruth won this tourno for the second successive year by defeating Falmouth Athletic 3-1 in the final with two goals from Like "Abbo" Abbott-Smith and one goal from Andrew "Mushy" Symons.

 Redruth's team comprised Abbo & Mushy, plus Adam "Smokes" Williams, Darren Lewarne and Jake Williams, with Ollie Lewarne providing cover as 6th man.

Redruth United held their end of season presentation recently at Redruth Royal British Legion.  First Team awards were handed out to Richard Ward for top goalscorer with 32 goals.  Ward also won the players’ player vote, a very popular choice by his teammates who recognised the strong contribution he played throughout the season.  To cap a hatrick of awards, he was also presented with the Captains Award by Phil Nicholls. 

James Petty, who had an outstanding season, particularly from September to January, won the Most Man of the Match Awards Trophy.  Andrew Symons was presented with the shield for Manager’s Player, with Darren Lewarne having recognised that despite his mid-season departure, and return two months later, Symons had been consistently one of the stronger players all season in the majority of his matches. 

Also acknowledged were Ryan Baber, Adam Townsend and James Petty for reaching 100+ games for Redruth, as well as Simon Barrand for having surpassed 300 games.

For the Reserves, it was the Justin Pascoe show.  Pascoe - who confessed to having won nothing before in his footballing days - was voted Manager’s Player, Players’ Player and Most Man of The Match Awards Trophy.  Jake Williams picked up the Top Goalscorer Trophy with 25 goals, having narrowly avoided a late surge by Kevin Endean who scored 24 goals in the final 13 games of the season.  Reserve Team captain Steve Hick award the Reserve’s Captain’s Award to Redruth stalwart Nigel Andrew.

Ali Walford won supporter of the year.

Darren Lewarne has jumped out of a plane...

Thank you for all my support from friends and family on a long day at Perranporth.

All sponsorship money, once collected ('cos I didn't chicken out, or die!), will be used to help to support fundraising activities for two causes: Redruth United FC, and a very important cause in “The Sunrise Appeal”.  Funds raised will be split 50/50 between the two.The Sunrise Appeal was set up to raise money for a new clinical oncology department at the Royal Cornwall Hospital in Truro to care for patients with cancer.  One of our players -  Steve Hick - was diagnosed in October last year with cancer, and has been well-supported by the good work undertaken at Treliske. 

Thank you