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Wiltshire Senior League
Archive - Season 2019-20 Round-ups
Premier Division 
New League President Announced
25 July 2019
Picture courtesy of John Cuthbertson
The Corsham Print Wiltshire Senior League are very pleased to announce that Mr Ken Clarke from Chippenham has accepted our offer to become President of the League in succession to the late Bill Shail.

Ken has been Secretary of the Step 5/6 Western League for many years.  Prior to his Western League days, Ken served on the Wiltshire FA and was also a respected referee both on the Wiltshire League and higher up the league pyramid.  Ken will bring a great deal of knowledge and experience to this League and will no doubt be a useful sounding board to any of our clubs wishing to progress through the National League System and to the League Committee in our dealings with the Step 5/6 Leagues into which we ourselves feed.

In other Committee news Steve Strong has decided to stand down from the League Committee creating another vacancy should anyone be interested in joining the Committee. Meanwhile two stalwarts of the League are busy ahead of the new season. Brian Busson, Registration Secretary has now served on the League Committee for some 20 seasons and is currently busy with the registrations for the new season.  With additional U18 and Veteran’s sides to register this season alongside some new enhanced processes driven by the FA, clubs are asked to process their registrations on the Whole Game System in good order ahead of the season. Phil Cook, the Fixtures Secretary, is now preparing the fixtures for the 44th consecutive season. With the missing piece of information regarding the Step 5/6 clubs whose Development sides play in our league having been received on Tuesday, the fixtures for August are scheduled to be published shortly with Full Time to be updated for the new season in the coming days.
Premier Division
Pre-Season Results
Known pre-season results involving sides from the Corsham Print Wiltshire Senior League.

Tuesday 02 July 2019
8 TRG BN Reme FC 2 Shrewton Utd  4

Saturday 06 July 2019
Bradford Town 4 Trowbridge Town 1
Corsham Town Res 7 Staverton United 4
Cricklade Town 3 Calne Town 4
Purton 3 Shrivenham 5

Tuesday 09 July 2019
8 TRG BN Reme  3 Corsham Town Res 1
Heytesbury 1 Shrewton United  7
Kintbury Rangers 4 Lambourn Sports  0

Wednesday 10th July 2019
Highworth Town Res 2 Purton 1
Malmesbury Vics Dev 1 Gala Wilton 7
Westbury United 3 Trowbridge Town 0

Saturday 13 July 2019
Andover New Street 4 Shrewton United 0
Cirencester T Dev 1 Royal W.B. Town Dev 1
Cricklade Town 0 Royal W.Bassett Town 8
Kintbury Rangers 1 Laverstock & Ford 3
Marlborough Town 2 Shrivenham  9
Stratton Juniors 1 Highworth Town Res 1

Sunday 14 July 2019
Horspath 8 Cricklade Town 0

Tuesday 16 July 2019
Corsham Town 4 Royal WB Town Dev 1
Kintbury Rangers 2 Hungerford T Acad. 3
Melksham Town Res 0 Devizes Town 0

Wednesday 17 July 2019
Corsham Town Res 1 Chesterton AFC 2
Cricklade Town 3 Minety 0
Pewsey Vale 1 Purton 2

Thursday 18 July 2019
Gillingham Town 4 Holt FC 1
Stratton Juniors 6 Shrivenham Dev 2

Saturday 20 July 2019
Calne Town 2 Wroughton 2
Corsham Town 6 Melksham Town Res 0
Frome Collegians 0 Castle Cary AFC 2
Kintbury Rangers  4 Pewsey Vale 2
Lambourn Sports 3 Marlborough Town 3
Radstock Town 3 Trowbridge Town 1

Tuesday 23rd July 2019
8 TRG BN Reme 2 Royal WB Town Dev 0
Cricklade Town 3 Shrivenham Dev 3
Heytesbury 4 Holt 1
Malmesbury Victoria 5 Purton 1

Wednesday 24th July 2019
Glastonbury AFC 4 Frome Collegians 2
Tadley Calleva Res 2 Shrewton United 5

Thursday 25 July 2019
8 TRG BN Reme  3 Malmesbury Vics Dev  2

Saturday 27 July 2019
AFC Brislington 3 Frome Collegians 3
Cricklade T 1 Wokingham & Emmbrook 4
Devizes Town 3 Trowbridge Town 3
Kintbury Rangers 1 Amesbury Town 1
Letcombe 2 Wroughton 2
New College 1 Marlborough Town 2
Purton 4 Nalgo Sports 3
Royal W.Bassett T Dev 4 Holt FC 1

Monday 29 July 2019
Romsey Town 4 Shrewton United  3

Tuesday 30 July 2019
Calne Town 3 Trowbridge Town  1
Frome Collegians 2 Westfield  5
Kintbury Rangers 6 Kingsclere  3
Marlborough Town 3 Swindon AFC  0

Wednesday 31 July 2019
Laverstock & Ford 3 Cricklade Town 2 
(Aban due to injury)
Malmesbury Victoria Dev 5 Minety  3
Oldland 1 Corsham Town Res  4

Thursday 1st August 2019
Blanford Utd  2 Shrewton Utd  3
Cirencester Town Dev 1 Purton  1
Nalgo Sports  2  Marlborough Town  2

Saturday 03 August 2019
Faringdon Town 2 Wroughton 2
Holt 3 Frome Town Sports 3
Kintbury Rangers 0 Newbury Town 1
Marlborough Town 3 Priory Vale 1
Pewsey Vale Dev  2  Clanfield   2

Tuesday 06 August 2019
Corsham Town Res  4 Bemerton H H Res  0
Cricklade Town  3 Ashton Keynes  3 
(Cricklade won 7-6 on pens)
Frome Collegians  4 Staverton Utd  1
Heytesbury  3 Trowbridge Town  2
Ludgershall Sports  2  Broughton Sports  1
Pewsey Vale Dev 2 Shrivenham Dev  4

Wednesday 07 August 2019
Malmesbury Vics Dev  2 Chesterton  1

Thursday 08 August 2019
Abingdon Utd Dev 7  Wroughton  2
Corsham Town Res 5 Westhill Sports  3
Ludgershall Sports 1  Downton Dev  9

Saturday 10 August 2019
Highworth Town  0  Wroughton  2
Holt 2 Paragon United 0
Letcombe  1  Cricklade Town  0
Ludgershall Sports  2 Tisbury Utd  5
QK FC Res  2  Shrewton United  3
Stratton Juniors  5  Royal W.B. Town Dev  1

Monday 12 August 2019
Faringdon Town 2 Cricklade Town 4 
(FMT Cup)
(Cricklade into the Semi-Finals)

Tuesday 13 August 2019
Frome Collegians 1 Pilton Utd  1
Pewsey Vale Dev  5  Bassett Bulldogs  4

Wednesday 14 August 2019
Corsham Town Res  0  Cribbs Res  1
Kintbury Rangers 5  Lambourn Sports 0
Malmesbury Vics D 13  Marlborough T Res  0
Alan Eastwood
Purton FC
All at the Corsham Print Wiltshire Senior League were deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Purton FC Secretary Alan Eastwood. Throughout the county of Wiltshire, Alan was rightly known as Mr Purton having first joined the club back in 1972 and remained with them for 47 years until his sad passing on the eve of the 2019-20 Season.

Despite serious ill health Alan had continued to fulfil the Club Secretary role at the club and carried out the role with such skill and diligence that he was honoured with the Wiltshire Senior League’s Club Secretary of the Season award in Season 2017-18. As a player Alan had formed a successful goal scoring partnership with Allan Coole back in the 1970’s. Whilst Coole was invariably Purton’s top scorer Alan was himself Purton’s top goal scorer in Season 1974-75 hitting 24 goals that season. Alan went on to score 125 goals for the club before hanging up his boots and taking on the administration at Purton, holding down just about every role in the club since and becoming the recognised face of Purton Football Club to everyone in Wiltshire and beyond.

Alan was rightly proud of the season his Purton side went the whole league season unbeaten in Season 2003-4 to win the Hellenic League Division 1 West title, having previously lifted the Division 1 title back in 1995-96. Alan’s match day programme for Purton became renowned for the impressive historical information it contained, with Alan having kept a copy of each season’s final programme going back to when he first joined the club enabling him to trace past results and reports for his programmes.

Alan will be deeply missed by all those in the Wiltshire football family but none more so than at Purton the club he served with such dignity and esteem for 47 years.
Purton Win Big On Emotional Afternoon
17 August 2019
This weekend's opening day of the 2019-20 Season was overshadowed by the sad passing of Purton Secretary Alan Eastwood this week. Purton wished for their game against Pewsey Vale Development to still go ahead, with a minute’s silence held as a mark of respect to Alan at the Red House before the game, with a similar mark of respect taking place at all the other grounds in the league hosting fixtures today. On what would have been a tough day for all involved with the club, Purton manager Liam Lewis and his side did the club proud on the opening day of the season as they ran out 9-1 winners over Pewsey Vale Development. Pewsey actually went in front through Corey Cullen but after that Purton turned on the style to run out comfortable winners in the end.  Last season’s top scorer Will Backhouse carried on from where he left off last season firing a hat-trick, there was two goals a piece for both Daren Regis and Jamie Tuck, with further goals from Steve Keir and Jack Duckers completing the scoring.

Wroughton were scheduled to open their defence of the title with a trip to new side Holt FC, promoted to the Corsham Print Wiltshire Senior League after winning the Trowbridge & District League last season. Unfortunately, heavy overnight rain meant that the Westbury United ground, where Holt will play their home games, was deemed unplayable by the home club and the teams were left frustrated on the opening day and will see action for the first time in midweek.

Last season's runners-up Kintbury Rangers had an opening day meet up with Malmesbury Victoria Dev, a side who had left the Recreation Ground last season with a point after a hard fought 2-2 draw. This time round there was to be no repeat for Troy Prentice and Dave Sheppard’s young side as they were well and truly beaten by a rampant Kintbury side. First half goals from Jamie Gannon, new signing Russell Benham, Shaun Thorp, Harry Way and two from Tom Mahoney saw Kintbury 6-0 up at the break. In the second half Kintbury did not let up and last season’s leading scorer in the Corsham Print Wiltshire Senior League Shaun Thorp fired a second half hat-trick to make it four for him on the opening day and Harry Way with his second of the game completed the scoring as Kintbury ran out 10-0 winners.

In what looked on paper to be the top match of the day in the opening round of fixtures, last season’s third place finishers Shrewton United made the trip to Cricklade in the knowledge that they had lost both games to Cricklade last season. With manager Joe Sheldrake unable to take his place in the dugout, his assistant Geoff Jenks took charge of the Shrewton side. The game lived up to expectations as two of the fancied sides delivered up a nine-goal thriller. Cricklade came flying out of the blocks in the first half and scored three times in the opening 15 minutes before Dean Smith pulled one back for Shrewton. Cricklade restored their three-goal lead to go into the half-time break 4-1 to the good courtesy of goals from Joe Broadbank, Elliott Corp, Max Scholefield and Jason Tatum. Thinking that they had the game won Cricklade took their foot off the gas and Shrewton came storming back into the match, scoring three unanswered goals from new signing Saul Johnson, Steve Holvey and Charlie Utterson to get back on level terms at 4-4. They then twice hit the post as they went close to going in front for the first time in the match only to then concede a late winner, Joe Broadbank netting the winner for Cricklade.

Two goalkeepers in action in the Cricklade v Shrewton game (pictures courtesy of Brian Busson)

Trowbridge Town had ended last season on a high with a 14-game unbeaten run that had seen them not lose in 2019 ahead of the visit of Royal Wootton Bassett Town Dev to Woodmarsh. By way of added interest to today’s encounter Royal Wootton Bassett Town were the last side to inflict a defeat on Trowbridge when they won 3-2 at the Gerard Buxton Ground back in December. No such repeat today though as Trowbridge extended the run to 15 games, racing into a 4-0 lead at the break. However, after a poor showing in the first half, Royal Wootton Bassett Town put in a much improved second half showing as Trowbridge eventually ran out 6-1 winners. On target for the home side were Jordan Gullis and Aaron Masson, who both bagged a brace, Alex Pippard and Ben Ryder. The consolation for the visitors was scored by substitute Tom Phillips.

Frome Collegians, promoted from the Mid Somerset League at the end of last season, where they had achieved a remarkable treble for the second consecutive season, winning the Premier Division of that league and also winning the league’s knock-out cup and county cup competitions, opened life in the Corsham Print Wiltshire Senior League with a visit from Corsham Town Res. Last season Corsham had remained unbeaten at home but their away day blues had meant they had been unable to finish in the top five. If the opening day is anything to go by, Jamie Moss’s Corsham side look to be a much more robust proposition on their travels this season. Daniel King had a majestic first half for the visitors, putting them 1-0 with a free kick from distance. Frome Collegians got back on level terms only for King to restore Corsham’s advantage when he got on the end of a Matt Ralph free kick. Frome Collegians once again got back on level terms, the two Frome goals coming through Lewis Perrett and Matt Parsons. In an entertaining first half Corsham then went back in front through an Ed McCormack goal before King completed his hat-trick with a powerful header to give his side a two goal advantage for the first time in the match and the two sides went into the half time break with Corsham 4-2 to the good. It was a tight affair in the second half but a first league goal for his new club from Ryan Withers completed a 5-2 away win for Corsham.

Another side who last season had been almost invincible at home, winning 11 of their 14 home league games and losing just once, but were not so good on their travels were Melksham Town Res who made the journey to Ludgershall Sports in the knowledge that Ludgershall was one of a number of grounds where they had come unstuck last season when they had lost to a solitary David Cotter strike. Like Corsham, Melksham will be happy with their opening afternoon’s work on their travels as three first half goals secured all three points in an opening day 3-0 win. On target for Melksham were  Jake Hutchings, Conner McKay and Dan Sibley. New signing from Pewsey Vale Harvey Flippance was man of the match on his league debut for Melksham, despite missing a penalty for the visitors.

Another new side making their debut in the league were Swindon based Stratton Juniors who played host to Marlborough Town at their Meadowcroft Ground. In difficult conditions a solitary first half strike from Marlborough’s Christopher Deane was all that separated the two sides as Marlborough left with all three points, getting their season off to a winning start for the first time since Season 2016-17, following a disciplined display. Stratton, like the other new side Frome Collegians, will look to get their first points on the board in midweek when they make the short trip to Purton.
Premier Division League Results
Saturday 17th August 2019
Cricklade Town  5  Shrewton United  4
Frome Collegians 2  Corsham Town Res  5
Holt  v  Wroughton - postponed
Kintbury Rangers  10  Malmesbury Vics D 0
Ludgershall Sports  0  Melksham T Res.  3
Purton  9   Pewsey Vale Dev.  1
Stratton Juniors  0  Marlborough Town  1
Trowbridge Town  6   Royal W. Bassett D 1
Leading Strikers Amongst the Goals in Midweek
20 August 2019
Shaun Thorp (Kintbury) and Shane Hibbert (Wroughton) who were once again amongst the goals for their respective sides
After Saturday’s frustrating postponement, Wroughton finally got their title defence under way on Tuesday night when they made the short journey down the A419 to take on a Cricklade side who had opened their season with a 5-4 win over Shrewton. It was another tight affair at the Cricklade Leisure Centre for the first hour of the match but Wroughton stepped up a gear in the second half and eventually ran out 6-1 winners with a flurry of goals in the final  half hour to send out a strong message to the rest of the league that they mean to hang on to their crown. Star of the night for Wroughton was the player who has plundered 62 goals in the past two seasons, Shane Hibbert getting his season off to a flying start with 4 goals. The other two goals for Wroughton came from Aaron Maximen and Riegan Cook, Jonathan Peachey-Score with the Cricklade goal.

Kintbury Rangers are another side who already look like they mean business again this season, after hitting double figures on Saturday, they had another big win against Ludgershall Sports to head the initial league table. Another of the league’s top strikers Shaun Thorp smashed four first half goals to give Kintbury a comfortable lead at half time. After the break Thorp scored his fifth of the game, and his ninth of the season in just two games, whilst new signing Russell Benham completed the scoring with a sublime finish to notch his second of the season as Kintbury ran out comfortable 6-0 winners.

The big match of the night saw two sides who won on Saturday meet up at the InfiLED Stadium, where Trowbridge Town were Melksham Town Res’ visitors. Trowbridge went into the game on the back of a 15-game unbeaten run which had seen them undefeated in the 2019 calendar year. However, Trowbridge had lost heavily on their last two visits to the InfiLED and knew they were in for a difficult night but there was to be no such repeat this season as they became the third side to make it two wins from two games as they edged it by two goals to one and extended that unbeaten run to 16 games. An own goal plus one for Aaron Masson securing the points for Trowbridge, Conner McKay replying for Melksham Town Res.

Purton look like they are going to be a force to reckon with this coming season. After Saturday’s 9-1 opening day win over Pewsey Vale Dev they played host to one of the new sides, Stratton Juniors. Purton continued their good start to the playing season as they made it two wins from two courtesy of goals from Jamie Tuck, Chris Avery and Tom McCulloch in a 3-0 win at the Red House. Stratton remain without a point or a goal from their opening two fixtures as they embark on their first campaign of senior football but will hope to put that right on Saturday when they entertain Shrewton United.

Two new sides to the league, Frome Collegians and Holt, met at the Old Showfield in Frome with both sides looking for their first points of the season. Frome had lost to a strong Corsham Town Res side on Saturday, whilst Holt’s game at Westbury had been postponed due to the heavy rain on Friday night. It was to be Holt’s night as two goals from Scott Baker secured a narrow 2-1 win in a good game between the two new sides. Whilst Frome had plenty of possession Holt defended very well and took their chances to edge out the home side whose goal was scored by Lewis Perrett.

Marlborough Town travelled to the Gerard Buxton Ground looking to avenge last season’s heavy 9-2 defeat at the hands of Royal Wootton Bassett Town Development having opened their season with a 1-0 away win at new side Stratton Juniors. It was much tighter this time round at the Gerard Buxton Ground, as goals from Mani Roper and Charlie McCuish gave the home side a 2-1 interval lead. Young McCuish, who was last season’s top scorer for Bassett’s U18 North Wilts League side, scored his second of the game after the break to put the home side 3-1 up and then Marlborough’s cause was not helped when they were reduced to 10 men. Despite the numerical disadvantage Marlborough got themselves back in the game with two goals of their own but it was to be the home side who took all three points when young McCuish completed his hat-trick to make the final score 4-3 to Royal Wootton Bassett Town Dev. Aaron Presley, Chris Deane and Jordan Ball with the Marlborough goals.

Action from the RWBT Dev v Marlborough game sees hat-trick hero Charlie McCuish attacking the Marlborough goal (picture courtesy of Steve Green)
Two sides who were both looking to pick themselves up after opening day defeats met at Pewsey where Shrewton United were the visitors. After a poor first half on Saturday, Shrewton had trailed 4-1 at the break but then scored three to draw level with Cricklade only to suffer the agony of conceding a late winner. In this midweek encounter at Pewsey the visitors Shrewton get off to a storming start as Charlie Utterson put them 1-0 up in the first few minutes. Conner Cutler then made it 2-0 when he scored from a free kick. Former Westbury United striker Saul Johnson made it 3-0 from the penalty spot and Dom Jackson then added a fourth before the break. Another early goal at the start of a half, this time from Tyren Harrington, extended the visitors lead straight after the restart but a better second half performance from Pewsey saw them limit the visitors to just one more goal, Harrington getting his second of the match to leave the final score 6-0 in Shrewton’s favour.

There was one game played on Wednesday night when Corsham Town Res, who had remained unbeaten at the Southbank all of last season, started their home programme with a visit from Malmesbury Victoria Dev who had suffered a heavy opening day defeat at Kintbury. Corsham carried on where they left off last season as they became the fourth side to move onto six points from their opening two fixtures. On target for Corsham in this one were Luca Consentino, Ed McCormack, Chay Forrester, Zac Hillier and last season’s top scorer Dan Lardner, Gareth Jones scoring for Malmesbury Victoria.
Action from Corsham Town Res 5-1 win over Malmesbury Victoria Dev
(picture courtesy of John Cuthbertson)
Premier Division Midweek Results
Tuesday 20th August 2019
Cricklade Town  1  Wroughton  6
Frome Collegians  1  Holt  2
Kintbury Rangers  6  Ludgershall Sports  0
Melksham T Res.  1  Trowbridge Town  2
Pewsey Vale Dev.  0  Shrewton United  6
Purton  3  Stratton Juniors  0
Royal W. Bassett Dev.  4  Marlborough T  3
Wednesday 21st August 2019
Corsham Town Res 5 Malmesbury Vics D 1
Archived July 2021
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