Author: Martyn Tweddle

Shildon AFC Supporters Club Spruce Up Weekend @ShildonFans @Shildon_AFC

Shildon AFC Supporters Club is calling for volunteers who can spare any amount of time to help with the club’s annual spruce up in preparation for the coming season.

The weekend spruce up will take place on Saturday 16th and Sunday 17th  June, from 9am onwards each day.

The weekend will involve a general clean up around the ground as well as painting of the perimeter boards.

Volunteers are asked, wherever possible to bring along any spare tins of white paint they may have, paintbrushes and rollers.

Equipment will also be provided for those who cannot bring any along.

NEW SIGNING | Danny Earl

Shildon are delighted to announce that Danny Earl has signed for the club.

Shildon Player/Manager Daniel Moore said “Delighted to sign Danny, he is a proven goalscorer and most of all he is a winner. His will to win is very infectious and he will add another dimension for us going forward as well as being a great role model for the young lads we have at the club”.

Welcome to the club Danny.

Shildon AFC Season Ticket Prices for the 2018/19 Season

Season tickets will cost just £85 for adults and £50 for concessions and juniors.

Full admission prices for league matches will be £6 and £4 with under 12s gaining free entry when accompanied by a paying adult.

Cup matches are not included in the season ticket and full admission prices for FA Cup and FA Vase games will be £7 adults and £5 concessions. Domestic cup matches will be priced at the same as league matches. The same offer also applies to under 12s.

To order your season ticket please email programme@shildonafc.com or contact Norman behind the bar at the Social Club.

Blue Diamond Machine Tools, away team sponsor for 2018/19 Season

Many Thanks to Brian Burn & Blue Diamond Machine Tools for the continued support with the sponsorship of the Away Strip for the 2018/19 Season.

Blue Diamond Machine Tools Ltd is a company that has been in business for 40 years and is based in the North East of England.

We specialise in the sale of quality machine tools, both manual and C.N.C. offering new and used machinery or alternatively, refurbished or retro-fitted machinery. We also offer a rebuilding and refurbishment service to any make or type of machine tool, including special purpose machines. These can be manual or CNCmachines.

At Blue Diamond Machine Tools we can offer our customers the following range of services:

  • Suppliers of New and Used Machine Tools
  • Rebuilding and Repairs
  • Suppliers of New and Used Tooling
  • Sub-Contract Slideway Grinding
  • CNC retrofitters
  • We purchase surplus plant & equipment
  • Quotations are tailored to your own requirements
  • Suppliers of D.R.O Systems
  • Special purpose machines & fixtures designed and built
  • Machines which we refurbish carry a 6 or 12 month warrant
We have a wide range of machinery from used lathes, used milling machines, through to used CNC lathes and VMC
and probably hold one if the largest stock of used machinery in the North East
 
The website can be found here http://bluediamondmachinetools.co.uk/

Shildon AFC & Local Community to benefit from Club Sponsorship

Shildon Association Football Club (AFC) has joined forces with Livin to secure a three year sponsorship partnership set to benefit the community by encouraging more local young people to get involved in sport.

As part of the sponsorship new kits will be purchased and funding will be provided to the club’s development team to enable more budding sports stars to take up football.

With long-standing roots in the community, Shildon AFC was established in 1890 and today competes in the Ebac Northern League first division after a number of successful years. The club has nine youth teams within its development centre, in addition to the first team.

David Dent, chairman of Shildon AFC said: “We are delighted to secure the sponsorship with Livin. The money will go a long way to help the club be the best it can be on and off the pitch. It will ensure that we can compete at the very top of the Northern League and support our growing development centre, attracting new players and supporters to Dean Street.”

Alan Boddy, director of operations, for Livin, said: “We have strong connections with the community in Shildon and we have worked closely with Sunderland AFC charity the Foundation of Light to establish the Foundations Community Hub in the town centre. Through this we work with local schools and community groups to help more people get into sport, education, training and employment. This partnership continues this work by helping Shildon AFC to grow its reputation as a community club by enhancing its offer to young people and the local community.”

Pictured (from left to right): David Dent (Shildon AFC Chairman), Brad Hird (Livin Digital Marketing Apprentice and Shildon AFC forward), Alan Boddy (Livin executive director of operations)

NEW SIGNING | Shaun Newbrook

Welcome to the club, Shaun Newbrook.

We are delighted that the former Jarrow Roofing goalkeeper has signed a contract for the coming season.

Shaun signed for Jarrow Roofing at the start of the 2017/18 season after a long spell at Seaham Red Star.

On signing Ben & Shaun, Shildon Manager Daniel Moore said ” We did a lot of our business bringing people in during the season from Christmas onwards with a plan to compete but also have a good base for the 18/19 season. We have added Adam Gell, Matty Waters, Kyle Patton, Brad Hird, Carl Jones and Aaron Duell. They have all bedded in well. Now with Shaun and Ben we have an energetic looking side which is full of youth, which is in the long term goals of the football club”

 

Promotion and relegation rules affecting Ebac Northern League over next two seasons

Step 4 and Step 5

The Clubs in the bottom two places in each of the seven divisions at Step 4 at the end of the
Regular Season will be relegated and placed in the most geographically appropriate division at
Step 5. These Clubs will be replaced by the fourteen Clubs finishing in first position in each of the
fourteen divisions at Step 5 at the end of the Regular Season.

With effect from the commencement of the 2019/2020 season the following with apply:

In addition, a series of Play Off Matches shall be played between the Clubs finishing in second
position in each of the Leagues at Step 5 at the end of the Regular Season. The ties shall be
decided by the Association pairing Clubs on the most suitable geographical basis. These
matches shall be played on a single match basis on the ground of the Club with the best points
per match ratio in the Regular Season. The winners of each of these seven matches shall play a
final Play Off Match against one of the Clubs finishing third from bottom of each Step 4 division at
the end of the Regular Season, such matches to be decided by the Association so that each Step
4 Club plays a Step 5 club, such matches to be on a single match basis on the home ground of
the Step 4 Club on cup tie terms with no percentage being paid to any Competition. The seven
winners shall play at Step 4 in the following season.

The Clubs promoted from Step 5 will be allocated to the most geographically appropriate division
at Step 4.

A Club promoted to Step 4 shall comply with the Licensing System provision as set out in
Appendix 1 to the Standardised Rules.

Step 5 and Step 6

The Clubs in the bottom two places in each of the fourteen divisions at Step 5 at the end of the
Regular Season will be relegated and placed in the most geographically appropriate division at
Step 6. These Clubs will be replaced by the nineteen Clubs finishing in first position in each of the
Leagues at Step 6 at the end of the Regular Season together with the required number of Clubs
finishing in second position at the end of the Regular Season on a points per match ratio. If there
are insufficient Clubs to fill vacancies Clubs finishing second to bottom of the Step 5 divisions will
be reprieved so that the best such Club shall be reprieved first.