Seniors 2008/09

RESERVES NAME ASSISTANT MANAGER

Bolsover Old Boys Seniors are pleased to announce that the Reserves section has appointed an assistant manager for the forthcoming season.

Manager, Russ Fox named his assistant as someone who is no stranger to the Old Boys camp, former 1st team player, Jimmy Wignall.

Jimmy will bring a wealth of experience on board and will also combine his role with a playing capacity too should his present injury problems clear up.

Jimmy left the club last year to sign for locals Angel Hotel but has soon made the return trip and is looking forward to his new roles.

AWARDS 2007/08 SUMMARY

Friday June 27th saw the sixth Bolsover Old Boys presentation night at Bolsover Town Social Club and first and foremost the club would like to thank everyone that attended.

The evening was started with thanks to Lloyd Manley Associates as our first team and reserve teams outgoing sponsors and John Bateman at the company had already been presented with a framed LMA shirt in recognition of almost five years support.

Thanks was then given to the new and retaining main sponsors, namely Abbotsbury Construction, Bolsover Engineering, The Roller Company, The Black Bull and Bolsover Cars Ltd.

The first people to be called to the stage where Nicki & Sharon from the club who gave up their valuable time to lay on a terrific buffet. This was followed as Gail from the Black Bull was called in thanks for feeding the teams on a weekly basis, whether home or away.

Next up was three ladies that had saved the club almost a thousand pounds over the previous season by doing the kit washes free of charge for all three teams, Michelle Eggleston, Becky Lee and Julie Houghton.

The club is indebted to you all and no amount verbal thank yous can summarise what the club feels towards you all.

The club presentations then kicked in and the 2007/08 clubman of the year was jointly awarded to Alan Eggleston and Damian Lee for their countless hours given to the cause, a special thank you was then conducted for Richard Hollingsworth who treats his position with such professionalism and gives untainted time to the cause.

The Secretarys players of the season where next in line and the C teams went to Darron Degruchy, the Reserves to Andrew Sigona and the 1st Team to Anto Stray, all secretaries announced how difficult the decisions had been.

In similar fashion the Managers also found the going tough to single out a player but they had finally opted for, C Team Dave Watkinson, Reserves Allan Elliott and 1st Team Daley Furness.

A break was then taken for the buffet and time to re glass before the ceremony kicked off the second half with an auction off of all first team and reserve team shirts from the last few seasons. The next thirty or forty minutes produced a staggering auction and was great for club funds as in excess of five hundred pounds was raised with Jonny Rushby bidding 60.00 for the reserves number 14 shirt and Chris Booth buying Daley Furness number 9 shirt for 50.00, it all got a bit mad but the committee thanks everyone for their undying support for the club.

After the fury of the auction came two awards that rewarded loyalty to the club, first called was former first team manager, Kev Lee who was thanked and presented for over five years service as manager during which time the team rose from the depths of division eight to a mid table berth in division four.

Daley Furness was then awarded the five year service award for his undying loyal service as a player, again, the club thanks both of the above for their efforts given over such a timescale.

The awards up next were decided by the referees on a match by match basis and their total votes ended up as follows, C Team, winner Carl Sanderson by an absolute landslide, Shaun Goodwin picked up a close run Reserves award and Daley Furness collected the 1st Team award with a reasonable margin.

The final awards were the coveted Players Player of the season and Carl Sanderson, once again by a landslide margin collected the C Teams whilst Andrew Sigona won the Reserves award by four clear votes and finally Matthew Gough, by three clear votes was the winner for the 1st Team.

All in all, a fantastic evening and final thanks go to Garry Johnson for giving up his spare time to perform the camera duty for the evening, photos will be added to the website shortly.

Roll on 2008/09 !!!

1sts To Host Abbey Inn From Leek, Staffs

The Old Boys 1st team will play hosts to The Abbey Inn from Leek, Staffordshire on Sunday August 24th at Moorfield with an 11.00 am Kick Off.

Dan Hyde from The Abbey contacted the club, via this website and both parties agreed on the said date.

Abbey are on course to participate in the Leek & District Sunday League for the first time this coming season and we look forward to hosting our first ever visitors from that part of the country.

After the match food will be provided in The Black Bull, kindly laid on by Gail & Russ in order that we can host our guests accordingly.

Further friendlies will be announced very soon on this website for all three senior sides and will include a match with reigning Sunday League Champions Doe Lea Villa.