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Ability Counts League |
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Following the Christmas break the West Riding
Ability County FA Ability Counts Fixture got back into full swing on
Sunday 7th February with the Goals Football Centre (Bradford)
playing host.
Having had just over a month off over the Christmas Period all both
players and managers were in high spirits and focused on getting
their teams’ campaign back on track for the penultimate fixture of
the 2009/10 programme.
Over the first two fixtures all teams had given an accomplished
account of them and entering Round 3 the Novice & Lower Novice
tables were as below.
Round 3 – 7th February 2010 – The Goals Football
Centre (Bradford) |
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Novice |
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Team |
P |
W |
D |
L |
GD |
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PTS |
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Bradford A |
9 |
9 |
0 |
0 |
21 |
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27 |
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Thorne Warriors |
8 |
6 |
1 |
1 |
8 |
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19 |
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Harrogate A |
9 |
4 |
2 |
3 |
1 |
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14 |
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Wakefield Autism A |
9 |
4 |
1 |
4 |
6 |
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13 |
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Pontefract Pirates A |
9 |
1 |
3 |
5 |
-10 |
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6 |
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Cleethorpes A |
8 |
1 |
1 |
6 |
-14 |
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4 |
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Pudsey Gateway A |
8 |
1 |
0 |
7 |
-12 |
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3 |
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Lower Novice |
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Team |
P |
W |
D |
L |
GD |
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PTS |
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Harrogate B |
8 |
6 |
0 |
2 |
17 |
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18 |
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Wakefield Autism B |
9 |
5 |
3 |
1 |
14 |
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18 |
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Pontefract Pirates B |
9 |
5 |
3 |
3 |
7 |
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18 |
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Bradford B |
9 |
3 |
3 |
3 |
3 |
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12 |
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Leeds United AC |
9 |
3 |
2 |
4 |
-2 |
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11 |
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Thorne Lions |
7 |
1 |
1 |
5 |
-10 |
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4 |
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Cleethorpes |
7 |
0 |
0 |
7 |
-29 |
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As expected the first fixtures in both the Novice and Lower Novice
Divisions were slow to warm up following the extended break and the
typical February temperatures. Once the fire had been re-kindled the
games became evermore competitive with a number of ‘tasty’
encounters firstly between Wakefield Autism A & Bradford A in which
a closely contested game finished in a 4-1 win to the Wakefield
side.
The second fixture was an end-to-end affair between Thorne Warriors
of Doncaster and eventual winners, and the Pontefract Pirates ‘A
team’, a team that included Gary Hope who recently attended the
Mencap National Trials, and who, along with 3 other players from the
West Riding Ability Counts League will be representing Mencap in
Genève at the European Football Tournament in May. |
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The other players from the West Riding are Scott Johnson of Bradford
DFC, Edward Black of Harrogate Gateway DFC & Richard Dutton or Pudsey
Gateway DFC. The guys will meet for a weekend training camp in
Yorkshire on the 30th April to 2nd May to prepare the squad for the
event, and will fly to Geneva on Thursday 20th May 2010, returning
on Monday 24th. The West Riding FA would like to wish our county
representatives and their team mates the best of luck in their
conquest to become European champions in 2010.
From a development perspective one of the most pleasing aspect of
the event was the number of U16 players that attended to take part
in some structured coaching activity led by Chris Dixon of
Killinghall Nomads JDFC. Chris and a couple of volunteer coaches led
a number of coaching activities and small sided games for around 20
players in the U16 age banding. James Doyle, the WRCFA’s Disability
Football Development Officer commented “its always encouraging to
see any new players involved in the league activity but to have so
many juniors attending means that our aim of a junior league
structure for the 2010/11 season is a real possibility” he added,
“we are hoping to increase the number of U16’s attending the final
fixture in Leeds and will be working with the existing teams to
develop regular activities for these players in the closed season”.
Unfortunately, and to the disappointment of all involved Leeds
United’s Ability Counts team were unable to attend the Bradford
fixture which resulted in a number of games being incomplete, but
rest assured United will be back to compete in the last event of the
season when the Goals Centre (Leeds) will once again be the
focus!!!! |
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