Penn Develop Coaching Staff - 2 December
Penn & Tylers Green FC are proud and delighted to announce that the four coaches who embarked on the FA Level 2 coaching course way back in the summer all successfully completed their final assessments last weekend and all passed with flying colours.
The club's congratulations go to: Darren Jones, Damien Payne, Simon Willmott and Mark Logan.
Delighted Chairman Tony Hurst commented: "Increasing our level two coaching database was one of our main AGM agenda items back in June and to put four coaches at once on the level two course is a milestone and a first for our club, as we have never done this before."
"This is a tough course, so for all four to pass is a fantastic achievement for them, and marvellous for our club's players. We will not stop in our quest to offer local youngsters the opportunity to obtain the best coaching possible and that means investing in our coaches and bringing them up to the highest level they can be."
Hurst continued."The payback for the club hopefully will be a "conveyer belt" of talented, technically gifted players who hopefully will progress through the ranks and into to the senior sides, and hopefully beyond. We are proud of the fact that we have always produced technically gifted and complete players at Penn & Tylers Green FC and many have gone on to play for higher league clubs. We currently have Ex Penn & Tylers Green FC players who have progressed through the ranks performing regularly for Wealdstone, Slough Town, Burnham, Marlow, Maidenhead, Oxford City and many others, some also in the Premier Division of the Hellenic League. This is what makes what we do at Penn & Tylers Green FC all the more worthwhile and it is testimony to the dedicated team of managers and coaches at the club, who give up their time for free."
"We run sections from U5's right through to U16's, and then we have four senior sides (which includes the Youth Team) to make sure all our players have an opportunity to progress to senior football. Some of our junior players also have links with Wycombe Wanderers Centre of Excellence, which also enhances player development, and also bears out the excellent coaching our youngsters are receiving at the club before they are 'spotted' ".
"So, we do not have an empty bike shed (sorry, Stand) or unaffordable floodlights , nor do we pay our players, but what we are able to do is produce a team quite capable of competing and sustaining ourselves at all the levels we play at throughout the club".
"As far as I am concerned that is the "bottom Line" and we will continue to invest in our coaching staff when and where appropriate." |
A Boor You Can Rely On - 23 November
 Everyone knows there are three old boor's at Penn & Tylers Green Football Club. One is the Chairman, one is the Secretary and one is the Vice Chairman. The last one mentioned is Andy Walker, our Vice Chairman, one of our unsung heroes.
He is a true clubman through and through, having managed a Penn & Tylers Green FC side from Mini Football all the way to Youth Team glory winning the Cup in his last season of Management.
During this time Andy has been involved in organising and assisting with a number of Penn & Tylers Green FC Six-Side-Festivals. Andy is a loyal committee member with his no nonsense approach to facing challenges in a simple and straight forward manner.
Andy is always there on Saturdays for the meet and great, regardless what the fixture - First Team, Reserves or A-Team, always a welcome face around the club house for the match officials, opposition, home players and of course the bar staff (Andy is known to like a bit of the old hop extract). Any Junior League meetings.......Andy is there.
Of course French School Meadows would not be the same on a Saturday morning without our chief litter picker always (rightly) complaining about players’ attitude in relation to in what state to leave the dug outs after a game. This is what Grass Roots Football is all about, without the Andy Walker's there would be no football at this level.
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