Manager Wanted Henley Town FC's Ladies 1st team - 16th July

Henley Town's Ladies football team are looking to appoint a manager as soon as possible whilst they prepare for their new season starting on Sunday August 22nd. Caretaker manager and player Wendy Waterman is keen to arrange for a permanent manager to be appointed. In the meantime, she has already procured a full squad for the 2010-2011 season and initiated a pre-season training plan. Friendly fixtures have been arranged for every Sunday to the beginning of the season, starting with an exciting and prestigious exhibition match at home to elite FA Tescos Womens Premier League Southern Division side QPR Ladies on Sunday 25th July, kick-off 2.00pm.

Anyone interested in the manager's position is asked to contact club chairman Barrie Baxter on 07979 605605 or via email at barrie.baxter@brixx.com. Applicants will ideally have FA coaching qualifications and be committed to training once a week plus Sunday matchdays throughout the season. This is an exciting opportunity to become part of the club management team at Henley Town FC headed up by first team manager, ex-Tottenham Hotspur player and Millwall manager, Dave Tuttle. The club would also welcome enquiries from prospective sponsors, particularly for the QPR exhibition game, and anyone interested should also contact Barrie Baxter (details above).

New Man in Town - 13th July

In a surprise move on Sunday morning, Barrie Baxter announced the appointment of Dave Tuttle as the new first team manager of Henley Town FC.

With the unfortunate departure of Kevin Jeffries owing to unforeseen personal circumstances, Barrie has moved quickly to secure the services of a top class professional coach and manager with an impressive pedigree.

David (right), 38, who was born in nearby Reading, had an illustrious career as a player at Tottenham Hotspur, Sheffield United, Crystal Palace and Millwall amongst others. In December 2005, he became assistant manager to Colin Lee at Millwall, later being appointed manager, before linking up with his old mate Dennis Wise at Swindon Town where he briefly held the caretaker manager's job when Wise left for Leeds United. In the summer of 2007 he became chief scout for MK Dons before taking over the management of struggling Southern League Division One South and West side Bracknell Town in August 2009.

David will be getting straight down to work trying to get the squad into shape for a season which starts in just 4 weeks time, with his first training session on Tuesday evening at 7pm.

All Hands To The Pumps - 6th July

With just five weeks to go until the opening matches of the 2010/11 season, Henley Town Football Club is currently a hive of activity as the pitch, surrounds, changing rooms and other facilities are prepared for a season that it is hoped will see the club move into a new development stage in an effort to bring it the prestige it deserves as the town's foremost football club.

Meaningful interaction with the local community is extremely important and the local fire brigade have been more than willing to help by watering the pitch (see picture) while the club’s own pump undergoes repair work. Pumping water from the nearby Thames, Henley’s fire crew spent a training evening at the Invesco Perpetual Triangle Ground bringing some life back to the parched ground.

Life is returning inside the clubhouse as well. At last week's AGM, records were broken as the number of attendees was more than double last year’s and nominations for the committee exceeded the number of places available for the first time in over fifty years.

John Bailey was once again appointed President and following the stepping down of Andy Bryan who had held the chair for fifteen years, for which, the meeting gave him a huge vote of thanks, Barrie Baxter was unanimously elected Town's new chairperson.

Tony Kingston, who later received the Eric Bailey Memorial Trophy for his not inconsiderable fund raising efforts last season was re-elected Secretary and Geoff Biggs became Welfare Officer once again. Mick Beedell was voted onto the committee for the first time as Treasurer while Andy Bryan, Kevin Hardiman, Martin King, Charlotte Maskell, Michael Trendall and Wendy Waterman were all elected to the committee. Three unsuccessful nominees, Nigel Ash, Carol Brown and Neil MacAdam were later co-opted to the new committee at its first meeting.