AVERY WARM WELCOME TO MARPLE
This weekend, the committee, parents and players of
Marple Athletic Junior Football Club will welcome 40 different teams into our
community for a fantastic weekend festival of football.
Basically, it’s seven-a-side, the games will be a
minimum of six minutes long, as much as eight minutes in some age categories,
but we’ll clarify on the day.
Registration is from 9am on the mornings, 1pm on the afternoons
Saturday 12 July 2008 Morning U7s/U11s
Saturday 12 July 2008 Afternoon U8s/U12s
Sunday 13 July 2008 Morning U9s/U13s
Sunday 13 July 2008 Afternoon U10s/U6s
Please note that the qualification criteria for all age groups will be as for the 2007/2008 season.
We’re a Charter Standard Club, we like to think we’re
a friendly club and we want this to be a friendly and fun tournament. Obviously
it’s a competition, but please remember to be respectful and sporting towards
each other during the tournament.
St John Ambulance will be on hand to administer First
Aid if necessary.
Becky Want from BBC Manchester and Channel M will be
presenting the trophies on Saturday, while Channel M television will be at the
tournament on Sunday.
We have five pitches where games will take place.
These will be named:
OLD TRAFFORD (large, but quiet),
EASTLANDS (sorted by the council),
EDGELEY (earthy and local),
WEMBLEY (corporate fans don’t watch the full game)
and EWOOD (half empty).
Snacks will be served at the clubhouse. All our
burgers are locally sourced quality beef. We can’t vouch for the sausages.
Tuck shop (thanks to Swizzells Matlow)
There’s and ice cream van too
We’ve also Bouncy castle
Souvenir photographs provided by DE Photo (www.dephoto.co.uk)
Cake stall
Tombola
Have a great day.
Jason Isaacs, chairman
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As an FA Charter Standard Club we recognise that good behaviour from PAGs (Parents and Grandparents) is essential at all times. We encourage our own kids, but applaud every member of the team, and the opposition. We're there to help the kids enjoy their football and have a bit of a laugh with each other too. It also helps when each touchline has its own wealthy and generous benefactor who supplies enough toast, bacon rolls and a large flask of coffee for everyone. In the case of the Under 9s, this is Dave Riley (centre). We also encourage parents to take the FA Soccer Parent course, which you can read about on our parents page, here.
We held a golf day on the 25th of April to raise funds for the club. A great time was had by all. Thanks to Mel Hamilton for working so hard to organise it.
At the Vulcans tournament on the 6th of July the Marple Athletic
Under 10s won their second tournament of the year, adding to their victory at the Fleetwood Cup in May. Well done lads.
The Under 8s got to the final of the Signol Tournament, depsite playing with one player short. Superb.
The Under 9s did very well at the Stockport Metro League short sided 6-a-side tournament on Saturday the 5th of January. The A team got to the final, only to be beaten by Stockport Junior Blues. The B-team narrowly missed qualifying through the group stages, where they finished 3rd in their group of 8.
