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Revision as of 08:37, 10 June 2009

Weymouth
File:Weymouth FC logo.png
Full nameWeymouth Football Club
Nickname(s)The Terras
Founded1890
GroundThe Wessex Stadium
Capacity6,500
ChairmanEngland Ian Ridley
ManagerMatty Hale
LeagueConference National
2008–09Conference National, 23rd
(relegated)

Weymouth F.C., also known as "The Terras", are a English football club based in the town of Weymouth, who played in the Conference National for the previous three seasons but were relegated in April 2009. The Terras spent many years in the top level of non-League football (initially the Southern League, then later in the Football Conference) before a period of decline. In recent years they were widely regarded as among the biggest underachievers in non-League football, but defied this reputation in the 2005-06 season by winning the Conference South. The club is currently in financial difficulty, and were relegated to the Blue Square South on 21st April 2009. The three man board had previously rejected take over offers from two credible consortia with former links to the club.

Club background

The team is currently managed by Matty Hale, after Bobby Gould left in April 2009.

In the 2005-6 season, the club briefly reached national attention after holding former European Cup winners Nottingham Forest to a 1-1 draw in the FA Cup. Forest won the replay 2-0, in front of 6,500 fans at the Wessex Stadium and a live Sky TV audience.

The location of the club's Wessex Stadium on the south coast of England is such that they rarely have home matches frozen off even when other non-league grounds in south-west England are unplayable, though their home fixture against York City was frozen/snowed off twice in the unusually cold weather of early 2009. The club has a great rivalry with its more famous neighbours Yeovil Town, although it has been many years since the two clubs last met competitively, with the sides moving in different directions.

History

Weymouth Football Club were founded in 1890 and played their first game on 24 September of that year. Nicknamed 'The Terras' almost immediately, due to their terracotta strip, the team won the Dorset Junior Cup for the first three seasons, becoming a senior club as the team rose in stature. Founder members of the Dorset League, Weymouth joined the Western League in 1907-1908. The club embraced full-time professionalism in 1923 after winning the Western League, joining the Southern League in the process. By 1928-9, with debts mounting, the club withdrew from the Southern League to become amateur once again. They climbed back up the table and then folded for 5 years and reformed.

The Second World War saw an end to football in Weymouth as the Recreation Ground was requisitioned for the War effort in 1939. The club reformed in 1947 on a semi-professional basis, and soon achieved promotion back into the Southern League. In successive seasons 1964-65 and 1965-66, The Terras were Southern League champions, and they share with Telford United and Yeovil the distinction of playing all twenty seasons in the Premier Division prior to the re-organisation of the league structure at that time.

Weymouth have enjoyed considerable FA Cup success since first entering in 1893-1894. They first reached the national stages in 1905-1906 when they were thrashed 1-12 by Gainsborough Trinity. In 1949 they lost 0-4 at Old Trafford to Manchester United in the Third Round, then in 1962 they reached the Fourth Round where they lost 0-2 at Deepdale to Preston North End. 2005 saw the team hold former European Champions Nottingham Forest to a 1-1 draw at the City Ground, before losing 2-0 in the replay. In the 2006-2007 FA Cup Weymouth held Bury to a 2-2 draw at home, in front of BBC cameras in what would be the first ever match to be broadcast live on free to air television at Weymouth.

A move from the club's town centre ground to the new Wessex Stadium in 1987 brought initial success, but the club entered somewhat of a slump after relegation from the Conference, see-sawing between the Premier and Southern Divisions of the Southern League [1].

Journalist and author Ian Ridley took control of the club in 2003-2004 and his appointment of former Millwall, Leicester and Birmingham striker Steve Claridge as manager brought a new optimism. Within a season they had turned the club around from relegation fodder to just missing out on promotion to the Conference. Gates also increased from around 500 to 1200. The arrival on the board of Martyn Harrison and his decision to put the club in the hands of his company Hollybush Hotels as well as interference in playing matters prompted Ridley to leave in September 2004. Harrison sacked Claridge within a month.

Harrison was to appoint Steve Johnson - the brother of Gary Johnson - as manager in November 2004 prompting a huge-turnover in playing staff including the departure of star striker Lee Phillips on a free transfer to Exeter. When the team dropped down the league Johnson was sacked by Harrison in March 2005 with Garry Hill taking over. The club won automatic promotion to the Conference in May 2006 but at a heavy price with large loans from Harrison to meet soaring wage bills of around £20,000 a week and a full-time regime.

At the club's 2005 AGM, Harrison confirmed plans, pending local authority approval, to re-develop the Wessex Stadium, a scheme funded by selling the current ground to the Asda supermarket chain. This now looks very unlikely with local planners opposed to such a deal. Harrison is now looking at moving to another site and developing leisure facilities on the current land. Coincidentally, Asda's current base in Weymouth is on the site of the old Recreation Ground which Weymouth left to move to the Wessex Stadium in 1987, at a time when 32 years had gone by since a Football League club had built a new stadium.

In January 2007, Harrison announced that in order to guarantee the long-term financial future of the club, the entire first team had been transfer listed, and the management team of Hill and Kevin Hales had left the club by mutual consent. Days later, it was announced that Tindall had been appointed player-manager, with Roy O'Brien appointed player-coach, and the squad had been taken off the transfer list.

They finished 11th in the Conference National in 2006-07. On 20 June 2007, Mel Bush, Tindall's father-in-law, was confirmed as the club's new owner, although Harrison had personally cleared all of the club's debts. Tindall was sacked in January 2008 after 12 months in charge, in light of a 2007-08 season record of only three wins, leaving the club in 19th, 5 points off of the relegation zone.[1] John Hollins was officially confirmed as the club's new manager a day later. He guided the club to an 18th place finish in the 2007-08 season.

In close season 2008 the club started a rebranding programme, with the club badge changing, and a club motto being introduced, "Forward Together". Then the announcement of local children's hospice Julia's House as the shirt sponsor for the year, following on from successful schemes such as Aston Villa and Barcelona with Acorns and Unicef respectively. The club also announced plans for a new stadium situated in the town which would not just be used for the club, but community purposes too. At the end of October the club were 13th with 16 points.

On the 21st October 2008, club owner Malcolm Curtis announced he was set to step down and look to sell the club. The following month Hollins was suspended and ultimately sacked for what the club described as an "unprofessional attitude" on his part, with assistant Alan Lewer stepping up to the manager's role.

At the start of 2009, it was announced that Weymouth were in financial difficulties. It is expected that Weymouth were £300,000 in debt and on the 19th January 2009, Weymouth FC Chief Executive Gary Calder announced that Malcolm Curtis had resigned as a Director and as Chairman of Weymouth Football Club Ltd. Weymouth then soon set up a scheme with 1 million shares each costing 50p each.

On the 21st February 2009, following irregularities with first-team medical insurance, Weymouth were forced to field their Under-18 team against Rushden & Diamonds. The subsequent 0-9 scoreline is the heaviest league defeat in Weymouth's history. [2]

The ousted former chairman, Ian Ridley, made a surprise return to the chair on 18th March 2009 following discord between past and present members of the board which was fuelled by more than ten successive defeats in the league. This was followed days later by the sacking of Alan Lewer. He was replaced by Bobby Gould, the former manager of Wales. [3] Despite his experience, Gould was unable to turn the situation around and the club were relegated, having gained only a single point since the first team walk-out in February.

On the 20th May 2009 the club hired former Terras legend Matty Hale as their new manager, with ex Team Bath FC Manager Andy Tillson as his assistant.

In early June 2009, Matty Hale was sacked by the club and replaced by experienced managaer and long term Weymouth fan, Sam Doughty. Doughty stated early on that his aim was to take the club to European heights and that he would cut off his own arm if the team hadn't succeeded within four years.

Many have speculated as to the gender and sexuality of Sam Doughty, and it is generally accepted that he's not sure.

Players

As of 3 June 2009.

Current squad

First Team

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
— GK England ENG Sam Doughty
— DF England ENG Sam Doughty
— DF England ENG Sam Doughty
— MF Wales WAL Sam Doughty
— MF England ENG Sam Doughty
— MF England ENG Barrie Andrews
— MF England ENG Sam Doughty
— MF England ENG Sam Doughty
No. Pos. Nation Player
— MF England ENG Martin Chipperfield (captain)
— MF Wales WAL Sam Doughty
— MF South Africa RSA Sam Doughty
— MF England ENG Sam Doughty
— MF England ENG Sam Doughty
— FW England ENG Sam Doughty
— FW England ENG Sam Doughty
— FW England ENG Sam Doughty

Reserve Team

Youth Team

Technical staff

  • Manager: Matty Hale
  • Assistant Manager: Andy Tillson
  • Player/Coach: Marcus Browning
  • Company Secretary: Ian Winsor
  • Financial Manager: Jackie Hurford
  • Youth Development Officer: Tim Davis
  • Club Doctor: Mr Gankande F.R.C.S
  • Therapist/Kit Manager: Carol Nicholas
  • Groundsmen: William Ronald Grounds Maintenance
  • Programme Editors: Ian White,Liz Bell
  • Website Editor: Mark Probin

Club officials

  • Chairman: Ian Ridley
  • Vice-Chairman: Dave Higson
  • President: Bob Lucas
  • Directors:
    • Ian Ridley
    • Dave Higson
    • Ian Winsor
    • Paul Cocks
    • Shaun Hennessey
  • Chief Executive:
  • Commercial Team:

Managers

Honours

References

  1. ^ "Weymouth dismiss manager Tindall". BBC Sport. January 28, 2008. Retrieved 2008-01-28.
  2. ^ "Weymouth 0-9 Rushden & D". BBC Sport. February 20, 2009. Retrieved 2009-02-22.
  3. ^ Report in Dorset Echo by Ky Capel, 19 March 2009. http://www.dorsetecho.co.uk

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