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19th June 2008
At the Annual General Meeting
of the Spartan South Midlands League held on Saturday 14th June, Hoddesdon
Town picked up an unprecedented four awards for on and off-the-field
achievements. The SSMFL Committee voted the Club's Programme Best in
Division One, the pitch at Lowfield was adjudged Best Playing Surface in
Division One, the Reserves won the Sportsmanship Award for Reserve
Division One and the Association of SSMFL Referees gave Hoddesdon Town
their Reserves Sportsmanship Award. This is a stunning achievement for the
Club and not only reflects the hard work put in off the pitch, but is also
a terrific indictment of the effort made by the Management to improve
discipline on the field. Herman Dyer and his Reserves squad are
justifiably proud of their two awards, as are Groundsman Phil Maybury who
works tirelessly on the pitch, and Jane Sinden who edits the Club's
multi-award winning Programme. The rest of the Club Officers, Committee,
Management and players have all had a part to play in these achievements,
and Chairman Roger Merton is rightly proud of his team of workers.
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19th June 2008
The Club's Programme picked up
it's third award of the 2007/08 season when it was recently adjudged by
the Soccer Club Swap Shop to be the best in the SSMFL Division One. Also
of note was the fact that in the national standings, the Hoddesdon Town
Programme was adjudged to be sixth best behind Gateshead (Unibond League
Premier), Chelmsford City (Ryman League Premier), Marske Utd (Arngrove
Northern League, Div 2), Horsham (Ryman League Premier) and Poole Town
(Wessex Premier League). With the top six clubs all having fought off
competition from the highest echelon of Non-League football, the
Conference, no doubt the reviewers felt that the best value for money came
from lower down the ladder - and quite right too!!
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26th May 2008
Hoddesdon Town will be running
two Under-18 squads next season and will be looking for talented local
players to bolster them. Trials for potential new players will be
held at the end of June so, anyone interested in being part of next
season's exciting set-up please get in touch with SIMON RIDDLE on
01920 466097 or 07903 706277 for further details.
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2nd December 2007
In the past few days we have
learned of honours about to be bestowed upon two stalwarts of Hoddesdon
Town FC.
SIMON RIDDLE Despite
the fact his Hoddesdon Town Under-16 side is spending its first ever
season in the Eastern Junior Alliance, Simon Riddle has been invited to
also manage the League's Under-16 representative side this season.
Hoddesdon Town's former Reserves Manager jumped at the chance to enhance
his experience at Youth Team level, and has accepted the invitation. We
wish him the very best of luck in his additional role.
ELMER ELLIOTT At the
age of 88, former Hoddesdon Town Chairman Elmer Elliott will next Thursday
receive an award for being adjudged one of the top cricket Umpires in the
South of England. Elmer took up umpiring relatively late in life, but
still officiates in over 100 games a season, and even at this time has an
almost full diary of fixtures for next season. Just as he did in business
and with his beloved Hoddesdon Town FC, Elmer has put his heart and soul
into his umpiring activities, and his award is recognition of his
dedication to being one of the 'men in the middle'.
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15th November 2007
Hoddesdon Town have learned
this week they were awarded the Team of the Month for October
accolade by the SSMFL Committee. Six wins out of six in October is what
clinched it for the Lilywhites, who were closely challenged we are told by
Biggleswade Town and Ampthill Town. The award will be made before the home
game against Harpenden Town on Saturday 16th November, and coming down to
present it will be President of the SSMFL, Brian Smith, and Andy Passman,
representing the League's main sponsors and match ball providers, Molten
Sports.
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4th June 2007
Pre-season training for
Hoddesdon Town is due to start on Tuesday 3rd July and will take place at
the Cheshunt Country Club starting at 7 30. Further details will be posted
on this web site before the middle of June, but anyone wishing to get hold
of Manager Geoff O'Vell before then can e-mail the club on
htcf_1879@fsmail.net or contact
him on
07967 694257. All players of SSMFL
standard or better will be welcome, and details of the pre-season friendly
programme will be posted on here soon.
Thanks to a ground-breaking deal negotiated with the Cricket Club,
Hoddesdon Town F.C. will have at least two home dates available in mid to
late August, and it is hoped the League will arrange a couple the fixtures
to enable us to play at Lowfield before the scheduled handover date in
early September.
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4th June 2007
A big shake up in the SSMFL
means a much changed season for a lot of clubs in 2007/08. With the
promotion of Brimsdown Rovers and Cockfosters likely to be ratified,
Division One's strength has been maintained with the relegation of Royston
Town and Haringey Borough, and the inclusion of Middlesex County League
champions Sport London E Benfica. SLEB play at Hanwell Town's ground so it
will be a welcome addition to the fixtures. Under the new Non-League
Pyramid directives, Step 3 clubs are allowed to play their Reserves at
Step 6 so, both Bedford Town and Cheshunt have applied to have their
Reserves take part in Division One next season. Kentish Town have applied
to remain in the Division by playing their home games at the Copthall
Athletics Stadium in Barnet, but that will be subject to a ground
inspection. The net result is that Division One clubs next season will
have an additional 6 games (total 36) which hopefully will mean some
midweek games at Lowfield.
The demise of the Bedford
County Reserves League has meant several clubs applying to come back to
the SSMFL. This has resulted in a reorganisation of the Reserves section,
and there will be two regionally organised Second Divisions. Welwyn Garden
City have dropped out, Cheshunt have gone up to Division One, New Bradwell
St. Peter and Sun Postal Sports have been relegated and both Holmer Green
and Stony Stratford Town have opted to be dropped into Reserve Division
Two West. The only new inclusions are London Colney and Cockfosters who
were promoted. This means that very disappointingly, Reserve Division One
will only have 14 member clubs next season. That is 4 less that last
season and reduces the total number of games by 8 down to a meagre 26.
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