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Development And Academy Teams Continue To Impress (16/12/09)

DEVELOPMENT TEAM

LAST MATCH

FT Futbol Hellenic League Reserve Division 2 West
Saturday 6th March 2010
CIRENCESTER TOWN	2 - 4	CIRENCESTER UNITED
Simpson, O.G

The match report will be available shortly

NEXT MATCH

CHELTENHAM SARACENS v CIRENCESTER TOWN

Saturday 13th March 2010

Kick Off: 3:00pm

Chairman's Reserve Challenge Cup

QLM are pleased to be a continued supporter of Cirencester Town young player development and be sponsors of the 2009-10 Development Squad.

QLM Managing Director Peter Mills has over the years been involved in junior coaching at the club and supported the team through their Midland Junior Premier League campaigns.

Established in 1990 QLM is a thriving and respected management consultancy, specialising in the principles and practices of health and safety, quality, design and operational management and business excellence particularly within the sport and leisure industry. The team provides a range of strategic and practical support services to the private, public and voluntary sectors of the sport and leisure industry.

Visit the QLM website at www.qlmconsulting.co.uk

Cirencester Town Football Club has introduced a Development Team for Season 2009/10.

The decision to create this team was taken as a result of an approach to the Chairman and First Team Manager from the management of last season’s U16’s who had to decide whether to:-

enter a team in the Youth section of the Midland Junior Premier League
enter a team into an adult league
or risk losing players they had been coaching for between 1 and 11 years to other clubs who were offering the chance to play adult football.

It was considered that this was an ideal opportunity to introduce a Development Team as it would provide a route for talented players from the Junior Section of the Club and the Academy to make the transition to adult football and hopefully, in due course, the First Team.

In addition to Junior Section and Academy players there will also be scope for First Team Squad players in need of matches to improve match sharpness, or returning from injury, to have a game.

As the emphasis of the team will primarily be young players who have been playing youth football it was decided to call the team a ‘Development Team’ rather than ‘Reserves’.

With this in mind it was thought that the Hellenic League would provide a suitable platform for developing the youngsters and an application was duly submitted to see if it would be willing to accept the team.

The Hellenic League have confirmed acceptance of the team into Reserve Division 2 West for Season 2009/10.

Background.

The U16’s team of 2008/9 had been playing football in the Midland Junior Premier League for four seasons.

This League consists of development squads representing clubs whose first team perform in the ‘Conference’ or ‘Southern League’, as one of the many strict criteria for membership of the league is that all member teams must represent clubs from ‘Level 5’ of the national league structure and above. Clubs from as far afield as Burton Albion, Histon, Grantham, Brackley, Kidderminster, Almondsbury and Newport County are represented.

The Academy was created in 1996 as a partnership between the Football Club and Cirencester College to provide an opportunity to develop the skills of young football players whilst continuing their education.

Cirencester Town established the Academy model and are one of the first club to be recognised at the FA Charter Standard. The programme at Cirencester College has been awarded National Training Award status, the highest level of recognition. Last season teams from the Academy played in the English Colleges FA League, Conference Youth League, and the SW Counties Youth League.

It is expected that playing in the Hellenic League will help our young footballers adjust to the rigours and physicality of adult football and add to their technical skills which hopefully will assist their development into First Team footballers.

The Team will be managed by Richard Pitt and Dave Pyzer, last seasons U16’s management, who will face the challenge of knitting together three elements of the Club to produce a team unit able to compete in the Hellenic League whilst at the same time getting to grips with the standard of the league. It should be an interesting season.