Academy Newsletter No 12
Monday 14th October 2013
Dear Players and Parents,
Another great week of tests for all academy sides in games against Newtown, Llandudno Town, Llansantfraid and
Rhyl academy sides. Another academy product has signed for a professional club and under 19s have been selected
for North East Wales under 18s squad.
Subs
A reminder that a number of players parents are now four weeks late in paying subs.
This was advertised in all newsletters since June and all coaches will have text out to all to remind also.
All subs should have been paid in full for the remainder of the season. Majority have already paid in full over pre
season but for those that paid £30 for pre season must pay £120 tonight.
Subs for the season is £150 for all players.
All parents must ensure fees are paid in full. Anyone wishing to pay in cheque form must make cheque payable to
Connah’s Quay Academy.
As has been stated numerous times this is a non refundable payment and only full payment will be taken by Rosie or
Dawn this evening.
Full list of of players who owe subs include ranging from £30-£150 include:
Under 8s: Lloyd Hayes, Vimal Yoganathan,
Under 11s: Billy Nicholas, Tomos Dickenson
Under 12s: Leon Sumner
Under 19s:
Lee Jones, Bryn Jones, Lee ludgate, Sean Cookson, Sonny phelan
Another great weekends of tests for academy sides.
Good challenges again this weekend saw sides face Newtwown, Llandudno Town, Rhyl and Llansantfraid academy
sides.
Another full games programme saw the under 8s and 9s travel away to Newtown for friendly fixtures prior to the
first team Welsh Premier league game.
The under 8s played in a number of small sides five v five games and did very well winning all the games and playing
some great football with lots of the Coerver moves from their training programme coming out which was great to
see.
The under 9s faced Newtown in a 8v8 format against a strong Newtown side. A real end to end game saw the 9s
play some attractive football and played at a good tempo.
The side won the game by three goals to one thanks to strikes from Charlie Davies, Luca Hogan and Leon Bennett.
With man of the match going to stand in keeper Oliver Thomas who performed excellently in the sticks and realy
emphasized what the club wants from their keepers in a sweeper keeper role as well as a strong performance when
played out in defence.
The 8s and 9s also stayed for the first team game against Newtown. The players walked out with the first team onto
the pitch and enjoyed a real entertaining game in which the firsts won by three goals to two thanks to two goals
from Gary O’Toole and a Paul Mooney late winner to take the side to third in the Welsh Premier League table.
Our 10s and 11s travelled away to Llandudno Town in 9v9 fixtures. Our 10s returned with a three nil win thanks to
goals from Kai Evans (2) and Trialist with man of the match going to Steffan Knight.
A strong performance from the 10s, who moved the ball well and maintained good shape and movement through
out.
Our 11s who were also at Llandudno and made a great start and finding themselves two nil up before the break
with goals from Ben Thompson and Tomos Dickenson.
But following the break the Nomads had a dreadful period and conceded three goals to a strong llandudno side and
found themselves three goals to two down. Nomads returned to their good quality play in the final ten minutes but
failed to grab an equalizer.
Man of the match went to defender Jonathan Jones who continued his impressive run of performances.
Sunday saw our under 13 and 15 sides face Llansantfraid at Connah’s Quay High School in friendly fixtures. Our
under 13s had what defiantely can be called a game of two halves.
Trailing at the break by three goals to two the Nomads responded well to the coaches half time team talk from Mark
Rowlands and Danny Cunnah and put into action what was asked and won the game by eight goals to three.
Jack Swinnerton grabbed himself a hat trick as well as the man of the match award with two goals from Max Moore
as well as single strikes from Matthew Hill, Luke Jones and Aiden Fox.
The Nomads under 15s fell to a two one home defeat against a strong and physically good away side. The Nomads
had taken the lead at half time thanks to Danny Chambers. But Llansantfraid scored two goals just after half time
and sealed a win.
Man of the match went to George Coulthon who played with great maturity and organized the defence well
through out the game.
Our remaining three games were for the 12s, 14s and 16s sides who all travelled to Rhyl for academy cup games
which all took place at the Corbett Stadium pitch.
A fantastic opportunity for all sides to play at this ground and we thank Mike Jones and Niall McGuiness at Rhyl for
giving our players such a great opportunity.
First up was our under 12s who were quite simply superb in the first half. The quality of play with the passing,
movement and patterns of play was fantastic to watch and deservedly took a one nil lead thanks to a goal from Leo
Sumner.
Against the run of play in the first half Rhyl made it level after a good penalty save from Jamie King fell to Rhyl
midfielder who finished ending it one one at the break.
The second saw Rhyl take control of the game and they really increased the pressure and pace which Nomads failed
to respond to and Rhyl took a three one lead.
Joe O Gorman pulled one back for the side and with a few minutes remaining he also saw a great free kick well
saved by the keeper which sealed the win for Rhyl.
Man of the match went to Cole Wilson at left back who was outstanding in both defence and attack on the left hand
side.
Our under 14s game followed and the side dominated possession through out and utilized the three cenral midfield
players well out but it was Rhyl who opened the scoring in the first ten minutes with a follow up from a Jay Loyden
save after a good effort from a Rhyl free kick.
Nomads leveled though soon after when a corner fell to skipper to Steffan Owen who fired in well.
Following the goal Nomads controlled the pace of the game and created chance after chance but failed the grab the
winner with some good defending from Rhyl and a number of good saves from the Rhyl keeper.
Man of the match went to central midfielder Louis Phelan.
The final game of the weekend saw the under 16s take to the field. The side dominated possession and created a
total of ten efforts on goal which were all saved by the Rhyl keeper in the first half alone.
Thomas Bibby grabbed the only goal of the first half to give the side a one nil lead but the continued pressure
showed in the second half with Nomads scoring a further five thanks to goals from Jack Chambers (2), Jamie
Roberts, Andrew Jones and a twenty five yard screamer from Rhys Cunnah.
This game was recorded and a small highlights video has been put together. A must watch is the fifth goal from
Cunnah which would be a contender for goal of the season at most levels.
Man of the match went to Thomas Bibby who pushed the side on coming off the bench with the first goal and was
fantastic in attack through out.
All full match reports from all coaches as well as player statistics have now been updated onto the academy site.
Academy Fixtures this weekend.
Another full list of fixtures for all sides against Rhyl, Bala Town and Flint Town United academy sides.
A great week of football to look forward to with all of our sides U8 to U19 in action.
Tomorrow evening our under 19s travel away to Rhyl in the Welsh Premier Under 19/development league. Kick off
for the game is 19:30 at the Corbett Stadium with all players having to arrive no later than 18:30 at the venue.
As always all players must arrive in full tracksuit and polo top and have their Nomads match day bag with both home
and away kits, black rain jacket for warm up and Nomads water bottle.
The games programme continues this Friday afternoon when our under 15s face touring Australian opposition for a
17:00 kick off at Dock Road.
We are aware of the early start but this is the only time the Australians side could do as they have other plans that
evening.
All players are asked to arrive at Dock Road at close to 16:30 as possible in full yellow away playing kit with black rain
jacket and water bottle.
Our under 8 to 11 sides face Rhyl this Saturday afternoon with all games kicking off prior to our first team game at
the Deeside Stadium live on the S4C cameras.
All kick offs for these age groups will now take place at 13:00 in the afternoon which will allow the games to be
played and players able to go straight to the stadium with u8s and u9s being mascots and well as u10s and u11s
having a penalty shoot out at half time. This will include both Nomads and Rhyl academy players.
All our older u12 to u16 sides are also in attendance for the game as well as junior league club Deeside Dragons. On
top of the big crowd Rhyl always bring and the ever growing Deeside Stadium crowd in should hopefully be a
fantastic attendance.
The under 10s and 11s games vs Rhyl will take place at Connah’s Quay High School for 13:00 kick offs in 9v9 fixtures.
The under 8s and 9s will be playing in futsal fixtures at the Deeside Leisure Centre again for 13:00 fixtures.
All players at these four age groups must arrive no later than 12:30 and must be wearing full red home kit with black
rain jacket for warm up and Nomads water bottle.
All sides are reminded even at under 8s and under 9s that under armour garments have to match the playing kit.
These are Welsh Premier League rules which as an academy we have to adhere to.
Only red garments for home kit and yellow for away are permitted. Players will be asked to remove these in future
games if not correct colour with kit and all Nomads academy coaches have been reminded of this ruling.
Sunday sees our under 13 and 15 sides travel away for the short journey to Flint Town United academy for 10:30
kick offs.
Both sides need to arrive at Flint High School for no later than 10:00 in full red home playing kit with black Nomads
rain jacket and Nomads water bottle. Address for Flint high school:
Flint high School, Maes Hyfryd, Flintshire, CH6 5LL
Our under 12, 14 and 16 sides are back in academy cup action at home to Bala Town for 11:00 kick offs.
All players must arrive in full nomads tracksuit and polo top and have with them their Nomads match day bag, full
home red kit, black rain jacket for warm up and Nomads water bottle for no later than 10:00.
Our under 12 and 14 sides will play at Connah’s Quay High School with the under 16s game taking place at Dock
Road.
As always good luck to all of our sides in what should be another great weekend of games.
Black rain jackets
A reminder that black rain jackets must be worn for all warm ups and games.
The rain jackets were selected as black to not clash with playing kit for subs when watching games as well as for
those harsh Winter months.
The red jumpers can be worn as well as the jacket but black jacket must be worn at all games.
Red Tracksuit jackets
A reminder to all that red tracksuit tops are only to be worn for older sides when travelling to games and getting
changed at venues only.
No sides are to wear these at training any times. Only the red jumper and/or black rain jacket can be worn.
Younger sides will only be wearing tracksuit tops for parents evening and on academy tours unless specified by
coaches like older sides that they will be changing at venue.
Tri Cast rolls over to £350 jackpot.
Another big week of sales and one three players just one result away from winning the £300 jackpot.
Big sales this week came from the under 9s with Dylan Williams making 14 sales and Leon Bennet 16 as well as Liam
Bruford from the under 14s also making 16 sales for the academy.
Three players this week came close to winning the jackpot with Chris Dobson (Matthew Davies 9s), Tina Oliver
(Charlie Davies 9s), and Mark Jones (Andy Jones 16s) all guessing correctly the three nil victory for Germany and one
nil win for Wales.
Unfortunately they all predicted wrong for the 4-1 win to England over Monetenegro with the three players going
for a 3-0, 2-0 and 3-0 wins.
This means we now have a roll over and a jackpot now stands at £350.
The full list and sales charts to date can be seen below:
Under 8s:
Finley Lambert – 35 sales, Djimitri Carter – 10 sales, Evan With – 2 sales
Total – 47 sales
Under 9s:
Matthew Davies – 28 sales, Charlie Davies – 17 sales, Leon Bennett – 16 sales, Dylan Williams – 14 sales
Total – 75 sales
Under 10s:
William Ebbrell - 10 sales
Total - 10 sales
Under 11s:
Finley Probert – 31 sales, Luke Fenney-Williams – 19 sales, Ben Thompson – 9 sales, Luke Stanley – 7 sales, Harrison
Robson – 3 sales, Jonathan Simpson – 4 sales
Total – 73 sales
Under 12s:
James Worthington – 10 sales, Joshua Edwrads – 5 sales
Total – 15 sales
Under 13s:
Luke Jones – 24 sales, Lewis Davey - 18 sales, Charlie Roberts – 1 sale
Total – 43 sales
Under 14s:
Liam Bruford – 71 sales, Thomas Hyndman – 14 sales, Jack Wynne – 4 sales, Owen Hibbert - 3 sales, Luke Wooley –
2 sales
Total 94 sales
Under 15s:
Joel Griffiths – 14 sales
Total – 14 sales
Under 16s:
Andrew Jones – 95 sales, Ryan Bailey – 11 sales, Thomas Bibby – 2 sales
Total – 108 sales
Under 19s
No sales to date
TRI CAST LEADERS BOARD
Under 16s – 108 sales
Under 14s – 94 sales
Under 9s – 75 sales
Under 11s – 73 sales
Under 8s – 47 sales
Under 13s – 43 sales
Under 12s – 15 sales
Under 15s – 14 sales
Under 10s – 10 sales
Under 19s – 0 sales
Under 9s move two places up to third this week with fantastic sale by the side. The under 12s also over took the
under 15s and the under 19s are still the only side to make a single sale.
The games this weekend include:
Newcastle United vs Liverpool – 12:45 Saturday
Everton vs Hull City – 15:00 Saturday
Aston Villa vs Tottenham – 16:00 Sunday
Academy Physio booking details.
The new club and academy physio Gemma Bamford began at the club last week.
A massive positive from our academy programme, being able to offer free physio treatment from Gemma at all
Monday evening sessions for all players.
Gemma has represented Wales in netball and holds a degree in Sports Therapy from the University of Central
Lancashire. As well as overseeing the academy she also looks after the first team and worked with a number of
Team GB athletes at London 2012.
In order to book in with Gemma you must contact her direct through e mail on the following e mail address:
[email protected]
Parents must contact her no later than 18:00 on a Sunday evening.
Once you have sent her an e mail Gemma will confirm a specific time for the player by 20:00 Sunday evening.
All parents reminded they must be in attendance to the session and players will not be treated unless a
parent/guardian is present.
Gemma will be set up in the squash court directly opposite the reception area.
If players are in need of further treatment following Mondays, Gemma is also available on Tuesdays and Thursdays if
anyone wishes more extensive treatment.
Vital that booking are all done by e mail and no later than Sunday evenings to ensure bookings can be spread across
the evening and all players can receive best treatment possible.
Academy Player signs for premier league club!
We have received fantastic news today that under 12 Harvey Tattum has signed for premier
league club Stoke City.
Under 12 Player Tattum yesterday signed a two year deal with the premier league club and
becomes the 13th academy graduate to sign for a professional club.
Harvey has been trialling for Stoke for the last six weeks and has played in a number of high
profile games for the club.
Harvey has been tremendous for Nomads since he joined 2 years ago. He is a talented left
sided player with great technical ability and left foot who is equally comfortable at both left
back and left wing.
A massive well done to Harvey and we wish him all the best during his time at Stoke City.
Since the academy began just over four years ago Harvey becomes the twelth player who
has progressed from our academy to join a professional club.
A huge credit also goes to under 12 coach Leighton Sumner who has worked with the player
for the last two seasons and is the fifth player from one of Leighton's sides which he has
moved to a professional club.
A fantastic achievement and a huge credit to the work he has done at the academy to date.
We have always made it clear that the main aim of the academy is to move players onto
professional clubs as well as aiding players into the first team to play at a Welsh Premier
level.
A real credit to the work being done by all coaches and everyone involved at the academy
for the following number of players who have progressed and developed into the
professional game.
The full list of players who have moved from the Nomads academy to sign for a professional
club include:
Alex Peters (Bury)
Luke Blizzard (Wrexham)
Thomas Bridges (Liverpool)
Jamie Nash (Wrexham)
Daniel Spaven (Wigan)
Sam Williams (Wigan)
Daniel Malone (Stoke City)
Dominic Elsey McHugh (Stoke City)
Rhys Schofield (Wigan)
Rhys Healey (Cardiff City)
Joe Brett (Tranmere Rovers)
Jay Jay Bell (Wrexham)
Harvey Tattum (Stoke City)
Academy team and player profiles updated.
All sides from U8 to U19 pages on the academy site have now been updated and all teams
photos also placed in photo albums on the site.
All photos from the photo shoot a few weeks ago at the Deeside Stadium have now been
updated onto the site.
All new team photos have been updated on each sides web page as well as all registered
players at the academies new head shots also updated.
These have also been updated in the photo album section of the website which includes
team photo as well as two static photos of all players.
Nomads announce partnership with Deeside leisure Centre and junior league club Deeside Dragons.
A great partnership between the two will see benefits for both sides and highlights the
growth of gap Connah’s Quay Nomads football club.
The Deeside Leisure Centre is arguably the largest leisure facility in the whole of North Wales
and boasts such great sporting facilities as the ice rink, 3G pitches, skate park etc. It is a
fantastic partnership for all at gap Connah’s Quay Nomads.
Gap Personnel already have established links with the leisure centre as the main sponsors
for both the gap Futsal and gap 6 a side leagues .These already take place over several
evenings at the facility. Gap Personnel are pleased to have become one of the sponsors on
the shirt of the Deeside Dragons ice hockey side also.
As a club we are in regular attendance at the facility every Thursday evening with
Coerver/futsal sessions in addition to holding our under 8/9 home games and all of our
futsal events here during the months of December and January.
The main partnership will be with the new junior league club formed from the Deeside
Leisure Centre club, Deeside Dragons . The Dragons will be our grassroots affiliated club.
Desside Dragons is a fantastic, local dveloping club, currently in their second year of
existence. All sides are ran by Deeside staff who have no affiliation to any players and are
keen coaches who are hungry to learn and are really pushing for players development.
The coaches give fantastic opportunities for all players of any ability to join and boast sides
at U7, U8, U9, U10 and U11 age groups as well as having recently started a women’s side.
Nomadshave already utilised the services of under 8 coach Chris Brooks and under 9 coach
Danny Mapp-Jones who have come from Dragons and have been fantastic additions to our
Nomads set up.
The Deeside Dragons will now be our affiliated junior league club.
The benefits for Dragons in being a partner club with Nomads will see them receive the
following benefits:
• All coaches attend for free Coerver Coaching clinics at the Deeside Stadium - already
attended event last month
• Club is now a part of our deal with Macron teamwear
• Free access to all home gap Connah’s Quay Nomads first team games for all Deeside
Dragons players
• A number of lectures and coach education evening from Nomads staff over the next two
season for Dragons parents, players and coaches.
• Advertisement for Deeside Leisure Centre in Nomads programmes for all home games
The Dragons, for their part will be assisting us in our In The Community programme. More
information on this will be coming out in the next few days as well as more information
about the use of facilities for our academy and senior sides at the Deeside Leisure Centre.
This includes use of gym etc for our senior academy, under 19 and 1st team players.
All Dragons players and coaches will be attending the Nomads first team live Sgorio game at
the Deeside Stadium on Saturday 19th October and will be taken onto the pitch at half time
for a group photo.
This is an exciting development which we hope will grow in seasons to come and we
welcome all at Deeside Dragons to the Deeside Stadium a week on Saturday when our first
team host Rhyl live for the S4C cameras.
Under 19s selected for North East Wales under 18s representative squad
We received great news yesterday that five of our under 19s have been selected for the
representative squad who face North Wales Coast FA this week.
We have always had a good relationship with manager Gary Crewe over the last two seasons
in particular where the side has contained a high number of Nomads academy players.
The side have been successful in the last two seasons as well in winning the tri angular
competition against the North Wales Coast FA and mid Wales representative sides two years
on the bounce.
Under 19 central midfielder Abe Dobson has been named captain of the side and is joined in
the squad be fellow seventeen year old Aron Williams along with three sixteen year olds
Jack Riley, Ben Wynne and Kieran Gaul.
A massive well done to all five players on being selected in the squad and we wish them and the North East Wales
good luck in their first fixture of the event on Thursdsay evening at Colwyn Bay.
Photos
All academy players should now of received their individual photo packs from A and M Sports photogrtaphy.
All the details with regards to payments and purchases etc are inside the packs.
To confirm:
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The photos received are not for free!
They can be kept if making a purchase through the A and M Sports Photography
If people do not wish to buy them they simply return the photos to the company in the freepost envelope
provided
Purchases must be made by the end of this month or photos returned otherwise the academy has to pay for these.
Like owing subs we will publish a list at the end of the month for all photos which haven’t been bought or sent back.
First Team home game live on Sgorio!
The first team home game to Rhyl on Saturday 19th October has been confirmed as a live game on S4C channel
Sgorio.
This has now been selected as one of the two mandatory games that all academy players from under 8 to under 19
must attend which we have done for the last three seasons.
Great for all fans etc to be on tele as well as what will surely be a fantastic crowd with the Rhyl fans and a good game
between two footballing sides.
We have already arranged for our under 8, 9, 10 and 11 sides to face Rhyl academy the day of the game for 13:00
kick offs at home then all sides will go straight to the stadium for the game.
The 8s and 9s of both sides will walk out with the teams and the 10s and 11s will face off at half time in two penalty
shoot outs at either goal of the stadium.
All academy players from U12 to U19 must arrive at the restaurant opposite the Deeside Stadium for no later than
14:30 in full Nomads academy tracksuit and polo tops.
All U8 to U11 sides must also arrive at the same venue and must have their tracksuits over their playing kits.
All players will be given drinks and food at the venue and at 15:00 taken into the stadium to take there seats ready for
the game. The academy are being given a section in the stadium and all will be sat together with all players and
coaches through out the fixture.
Parents are also encouraged to come to the game but players will be remaining in their designated seating areas for
the entire match.
This is a mandatory game that all academy players must attend and with the game being streamed live on S4C
sgorio all players will more than likely be on television at some point.
Fifteen minutes prior to kick off all under 8s and 9s in the full red home kit will be walking out with the players along
with Rhyl academy players walking out with their side. Once they have taken part in a big photo players will come off
the pitch put their tracksuits on and take their seats back in the stadium.
At half time the under 10s and 11s will take the field in full red home kits along with Rhyl sides and each age groups
will take to one of the goals and enjoy a penalty shoot out competition at half time in front of the crowds.
Again like the under 8s and 9s once left the pitch the 10s and 11s will put their tracksuits back on and return to their
seats.
Another busy weekend of action for the whole club and bringing everyone together for the live S4C Sgorio game on
Saturday in what could potentially be one of biggest ever crowds at the Deeside Stadium should be superb.
Any problems or concerns please don’t hesitate to give me a call.
Yours in Sport
Jay Catton - Academy Director/Coach under 16’s/Assistant first team manager
Mobile: 07952 646463