Alveston v Coventry Jaguar Sunday 19 December 20100

Here are are the directions to Coventry Jaguar's Pitch at Joseph Cash School, Owenford Road, Coventry CV6 3FS. It will be the first time Alveston see the inner Coventry Ring Road travelling anticlockwise and exiting at J9.

As we know, if the snow and ice clears, it will be a 12.00 kick off, so meeting at 10.45 at the HGC, 11.15 at Coventry Jaguar. Pitch inspection will be Saturday evening. It could be the ideal time to try out the new twitter @alveston2000 The league will release the Coventry Council Pitch updates  at @JBCMFL 

STOP PRESS it seems as I write this twitter has released news saying All matches on council parks and school pitches in Coventry, Bedworth & Nuneaton are called off this Sunday 19th December

Alveston2000 now on Twitter

From today we can all enjoy the alveston2000 experinence on Twitter see @alveston2000 or see the follow button and widget on the right.

Alveston in the Stratford Herald 25 Nov 2010

Humphriss hat-trick batters Brinklow

It's good to see that Alveston are back in the Herald this week dominating the football page with a large four column photo and an emphatic headline

As we know upcoming fixtures are:

Sun 28 Nov - away at Chapelfields Colts

Sun 5 Dec - No Game

Sun 12 Dec - away at Coventry Copsewood

Sun 19 Dec - away at Coventry Jaguar

Alveston v Chapelfields Colts Sunday 28 November 2010

Here are the DIRECTIONS for the next match against Chapelfields Colts (played 9, wins 4, losses 5). It's up the A46 again, off at University of Warwick, through the campus, turn left at The New Varsity Pub and ground is on the right.

Alveston 8v0 Brinklow 21 November 2010

Alveston produced another win away from home sending them to the top of the table. Next week it's Chapelfields Colts, also away from home.

Alveston Juniors under 11s continued their impressive run with an 8-0 hammering of Brinklow. Alveston's greatest scare of the day came when Alan Mackinnon collided with one of the goal posts in the warm up, which left him with concussion. He was going to deputise in goal for the injured Isaac Downes, but after another re-shuffle Matty Rickett took over in goal.

 

It was a testament to the teams spirit and resolve that they came out all guns blazing, and were soon ahead when Josh Humphriss collected the ball just outside the area, left two defenders for dead before hammering the ball into the roof of the net. Billy Dingley, Roshen Foley and Joey Barnish were controlling the midfield playing some delightful football, as Alveston continued to press. Alex Connor's fine run down the left resulted in a corner, from which Jamie Stephens was first to react to steer the ball home.

 

The score could have been in double figures by half time but from some desperate defending from the home side. Joe Vose and Dan Malone linked up well down the right, with the former sending in some terrific crosses. After more fine work down the right, Joe Vose sent in another cross for Josh Humphriss to slot past the keeper. A Jake Greaves diving header went just wide and Roshen Foley went close with a volley as Alveston continued to dominate.

 

Jamie Stephens got his second, and the team's fourth, when from a cross from Alex Connor found him at the far post, from where he made no mistake. Alveston got their fifth just before half time from another corner, when the ball was half cleared it fell to Joey Barnish, who capped a tremendous debut by lobbing the keeper from the edge of the area.

 

Alveston changed their keeper at half time, with Jake Greaves taking over in goal, and the second half continued as the first. Josh Humphriss claimed his hat trick when he rounded off a fine move, involving Roshen Foley, Matty Rickett & Billy Dingley which tore the home defence apart, leaving Josh to coolly slot the ball past the advancing keeper.

 

The tireless Joe Vose was tormenting the home defence with his mazy runs, and it was from his run and cross that Harry Coleman, who timed his run to perfection, got ahead of the defence to calmly slot the ball into the corner of the net for their seventh. Jordon Pace linked up well with Harry Spencer down the left, and from the result of some good work between the pair, Harry Spencer delivered a sublime cross to set up Matty Rickett to fire home for the eighth.    

Alveston v Brinklow Sunday 21 November 2010

Here are the directions to Wolston Leisure Centre for Brinklow v Alveston 11.00 kick off this Sunday. It's a 22 mille drive (32 mins) from the HGC. A46 again, A45 at the Coventry Airport roundabout. As you may remember, Brinklow came to the HGC on the 17 Oct where Alveston won 4-0. Brinklow have played seven league games with two wins (Coventry Copsewood and Whitley) and five losses.

Wolston's a small village, but it does have a Coop should you need any supplies. For those who are interested, there is a new PCWorld Mega Store at the airport reail park which has a working demo of the the new Xbox Kinect (the new game where it scans you and there's no need for any controllers (there are also a few 3D TVs to see as well as ipads etc).

Alveston 3v1 Coventry Sphinx U11s Sunday 14 November 10

Alveston returned to Coventry Sphinx and avenged last month’s league defeat with a well deserved 3-1 victory in the 2nd round of the Knock-out League Cup. A determined gritty attitude was evident right from the very beginning as Alveston grabbed an early initiative when Josh Humphries was able to send a fiery cross into the Sphinx box that was turned onto the post by the keeper and then poked over the line by an alert Jamie Stephens. 

Whilst every Alveston player displayed a desire to chase and close down their opponents, the key accolades would surely go to the back line of Dan Malone Jake Greaves and Jordan Pace who worked tirelessly to protect GK Isaac Downes from being tested. With the score at 1-0 Greaves and Pace could both lay claim to some important covering and interceptions and with the bold unflinching tackling of Malone the script was set for Alveston to push forward and look for a 2nd.

This duly came when Humphries again found room on the right flank and fired a screaming shot high and across the keeper into the far corner and at this point Sphinx looked beaten and disconsolate. Alex Connor began to find room on the left wing was able to stretch the defence with a some penetrating weaving runs but this endeavour went un rewarded first when Humphries screwed the pull back just wide and when Connor himself just failed to connect after some neat interplay in the penalty area.

As expected Sphinx brought more determination to the 2nd half and the game sunk into a muddy competitive mire in the middle of the park. This meant the midfield trio of Mattie Rickett, Roshen Foley and Billy Dingley had to labour hard but to their credit they sustained themselves against some crunching tackles and held the resurgent Sphinx to a stalemate. Up front Harry Spencer and Alan Mackinnon chased down every ball over the top and Sphinx found they could not settle. 

It came as somewhat surprising that with the last quarter of the game to go Sphinx were able to capitalise on a speculative ball over the defence and make the score 2-1. However Alveston’s heads never dropped. Joe Vose pushed further up the right flank to assist Humphries and Mackinnon pushed on higher up the left and it looked like Spencer would surely profit from one of these sources but the ball just never broke kindly. 

However, as the tension began to grow Mattie Rickett was to secure the game when he seized upon a poor clearance to send his hot souring over the keeper and into the net. Sphinx then came again but Alveston's tenacious defending  was underlined when Pace headed off the line. Alveston then pushed forward for a 4th goal and this looked likely when first Spencer went close after Vose drove hard into the penalty area and again when Mackinnon just failed to get his cross through to an unmarked Harry Coleman . For all this though Alveston’s tenacity and concentration was summed up when the mainly untested GK Isaac Downes was able to crown a thoroughly satisfying team performance to produce a fabulous diving save in the dying minutes to thwart the Sphinx centre forward.