Team Photos

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End of Season Tournament

Well played all the children who joined in the End of Season Tournament on Saturday.

The matches were highly competitive, with great skills, teamwork and determination on show in each year group.

Winners of the Y1/Y2 tournament were managed by Sean Devane and Tommy McCormick.

Alfie, Joseph, TomC, Sam, Stanley, Rohan, Isaac and TomP.

Winners of the Y3 Tournament were were managed by Ian Davies. Molly, Ella, Anna, Danny, Omar and Harri.

Winners of the Y4/Y5 Tournament were managed by Alison Dron. Hamish, Andrew, Eddie, Martha, OliverD and Gabe.

Well done everyone.

Y5 Girls At the Frampton Tournament

The match-starved Foxes arrived at Frampton to see the boys lift the trophy, and this seemed to fire them up for the tournament. At nearly full strength, we were hopeful of a better time than at The BLUs last month when an under strength team lost 2 and drew 1.

The group format led us to play 6 group matches, including Frampton B, Boco B and the stronger BLUs teams. A fine opening match saw us fail to convert numerous chances, but eventually pressure told and the Foxes had 3 points in the bag.

The next 5 games saw us revert to our typical brand of Azzuri style football, soaking up pressure comfortably and attempting to hit on the break, the result 5 nil-nils, admittedly against some strong opposition.

The end of the groups saw the Foxes qualify from the group, (something that BOCO and BLUs Lions failed to do), and head to a quarter final against Portishead. This was the team that had won the other qualifying group by winning every game and not conceding goal.

With 'The Brick Wall' having to go to a drama rehersal, we had to go into the match with a makeshift defence, and a goalie error and a sloppy defensive pass saw us 2-0 down in 4 minutes. Only heroic 'keeping' from Conkers kept the score in single figures as the Foxes were put to the sword. Changes were made and the second half produced some of the best football we have ever seen from the girls. Imi 'The Scythe' moved to a single defensive position, and Jodie, Martha, Marta and Olivia Furey formed an attacking midfield quartet. For 5 minutes the Foxes poured forward and Portishead rarely left their half. Eventually pressure told and Jodie struck from the edge of the box.

The Foxes desperately searched for an equalizer, but to no avail, and we went out to the eventual finalists who were only beaten on penalties, by a strong Frampton A side.

Credit to all the players, but especially to Olivia, playing a year above her age, who gave a (wo)man of the tournament performance.

Year 5 Foxes triumph at Frampton

The year 5 boys returned triumphant from the Frampton Cotterell tournament as they saw off some tough opposition to win the cup.

The B squad, ably led by Eddie, despite five great performances were just unable to progress to the semi-finals. But there was some excellent play from Jack and Lukha up front, Eddie and James H in midfield, Sam and Adam in defence and some outstanding play from Oliver D in goal.

The A squad were unlucky in their first match against Bitton going down 1-0 despite creating lots of chances. But the team remained confident despite that and were unbeaten in the remainder of their group matches to qualify for another semi-final. Their opponents were Warmley who had held the team to a 2-2 draw earlier in the day. But this time the Foxes stepped up a gear and raced into a 3-1 half-time lead with brilliant goals from Ben (2) and Gabe. As Sally arrived to see how the team was getting on, Ben coolly converted a one-on-one to claim a hat-trick and in the final moments Gabe volleyed home a brilliant move into the top corner. An emphatic 5-1 victory meant the Foxes were confident of winning the final against none other than Bitton, the team which had beaten us in our first match.

The whole squad was determined to save their best performance for this final and win the Foxes' first trophy. With great support from the touchline, Ben was able to capitalise on some loose defending swooping in to race past the goalie and finish into an empty net. And just before half-time the Foxes cleared their lines fast with a fantastic throughball by Jamie to find Ben in space. Ben was so fast he found little support but undeterred he coolly raced past the final defender and chipped the goalie to make it 2-0 to the Foxes at half-time.

The half time team talk focused on doing exactly the same in the second half - always pressing in attack with an awareness of Bitton's strength on the counter. The second half was tight but with three minutes to go Oliver W delivered a perfect corner which Gabe met with an unstoppable header for 3-0. Tom W came on to replace Kris at the back and although Bitton scored a late consolation goal this was to be the Foxes day. Final score 3-1 to the Foxes and our first tournament win. The team scored 15 goals in 7 tough matches (Ben (8), Gabe (5), Hugo and Jamie getting on the scoresheet) conceding just 6. A great performance!

Well done to the team (Hugo, Ben, Gabe, Tom, Kris, Oliver W, Jamie) and to everyone in the year 5 Foxes set-up. It was the perfect end to a great season.

Team photos this weekend - June 25

Photos of each year group, as well as one of the whole Foxy tribe will be taken at training this weekend. (Saturday June 25)

We ask that all Foxes wear their full kit for the occasion - but we're willing to forgive face paints and hair dye left over from the BBQ.

AND, if you haven't bought your Foxy Party tickets yet get them on Saturday - and bag that place on the coach before you're forced to walk home...

See you then.

Y3 Girls Fly the Green Flag at BLU Fest

Y3 Girls took two teams to the BLU (formerly Rockleaze) Tournament and came away with heads held high.

One team, captained by Sophie McConnell, won 1, drew 1, lost 1 and came second on goal difference.

Ella T's team included several foxettes playing their first tournament, some of them their first real matches. With no rests, no subs and strong opposition they never conceded more than 2 goals and got a real taste for proper football.

With Sophie Mac were Emily T, Bryony, Anna D, Anna R, Sophie HR and Phoebe. Bryony "superglue" Wade totally neutralised Saffy (who is welcome back to the Foxes anytime...) in the BLUs match by some dogged 1-2-1 marking. In September, the BLUs beat us 7 or 9 or something. Today, Anna R complained that being in goal was "boring" against them. True - she barely saw the ball! Against St Nicks Sophie's team chased and tackled and shot and really could have, might have, maybe have... well, this coach had his head in his hands more than is really safe. A nailbiter we could have won, but didn't quite!

Ella's team should, on paper, have gone down in double figures. Packed with enthusiasm but only entered at the last minute cos there are JUST SO MANY Y3 FOXETTES! But they weren't going quietly. Ella was a wall. Molly H was everywhere. Sophie C and Molly R stormed up front and jolly nearly scored. Tia looked like a seasoned veteran, instead of a girl who only joined at Easter. And Isabel and Emily in goal! Well, you almost felt sorry for the opposition.

All in all, a great day's footy. This lot are so good they are starting to feel disappointed with anything less than victory....

Year 5 boys surpass all expectations at Cadbury Heath

We approached the Cadbury Heath tournament with a little trepidation because Paul and Andy knew that the boys would be tired from Lyme Regis (apologies to all the mums and dads for the early start) and we would be a player short of even getting our two teams on the pitch. In the end we had a fantastic morning and played some great great football.

First of all a massive thanks to Ethan Bowyer who stepped in on the day to complete the 7 in Andy’s squad after poor Eddie had to withdraw with a knee injury sustained at Creary Park on Friday (in the “battle of the bears” so we’re told). The group stages saw Paul’s squad narrowly lose to two excellent teams and get a bye in the third match to reach the quarter finals. Andy’s squad went one up in the first game (a cool penalty from Ben) only to lose 3-1, before beating Cheltenham 2-0 (Ethan and Jamie scoring) and drawing 0-0 against the hosts. This set up a crunch quarter final for the Foxes B team against the best team in the tournament – the Foxes A team!

Paul’s squad went through 1-0 with a fantastic strike from Jack and some superb goalkeeping from Ollie Domaille. In the semis we narrowly lost 1-0 to Bitton – a fine side who went on to win the tournament.

This was a great display from the Foxes – we played some lovely football and Paul and Andy were very proud of the performances from everybody. We have our last tournament on 11 July at Frampton and we have high hopes that we might be able to keep this momentum for that day and go even further. Thanks to everyone who came along – we know it was an early start and everyone was very tired. But it was a great morning and a lovely day.

The boys who played were: Ethan, Ben, Joe, Lukha, James, Jamie, Sam, Adam, Oliver W, Oliver D, Jack, Kris, Tom, Danny. Well played lads!