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U18 League Entries Revealed

At the AGM of the Essex County Girls Football League on 24th June, the following clubs confirmed entries for the inaugural Under 18s League:
  • Assandun Vikings
  • Barking Ladies
  • Brentwood Town
  • Colchester Town
  • East Thurrock United Ladies
  • Ekco Whitecaps
  • Harlow Town
  • Havering Girls
  • Herongate Ladies
  • Hoddesdon Owls (Hertfordshire)
  • Leigh Rockets
  • Little Thurrock Dynamos
  • Rayne Girls
  • Stevenage Borough (Hertfordshire)
The league will be set up on a regional basis initially (two groups of seven) and the teams in each group will play each other once (six games).  Once the relative strengths of the teams has been established two divisions will be set up with teams playing each other home and away as usual (twelve games) to decide the divisional titles.  Therefore each team will play eighteen league games in total.  Points from the regional group games will not count towards the final league tables.


TPP SystmOne Continue Sponsorship

We are delighted to announce that clinical software company TPP SystmOne have agreed to continue as kit sponsor for another season.  TPP Managing Director, Satvinder Virk, said, “congratulations on a successful campaign . . . I have been very pleased with the coverage you have received . . . I would love to carry on the sponsorship for next year.”

The Management Committee would like to thank TPP for their enthusiasm and their ongoing financial commitment to the club.

Negotiations are also at an advanced stage with our perimeter board sponsors and we hope to be able to confirm their continued support very shortly.


Captain Courtney

At the Presentation Evening Head Coach Scott Farley announced the appointment of Courtney McGovern as club captain for 2008-09. She succeeds Charley Sayer-Payne who is joining Falkirk Ladies in Scottish Women’s Division One next season after six seasons with the team.


Goodbye, Thanks and Good Luck

The following players have either decided to leave the club or have been released:
  • Caroline Sheppard
  • Charley Sayer-Payne
  • Hayley Earley
  • Justine Palmer
  • Kelsey Bridges
  • Lauren Riddick
  • Leigh Wainford
  • Mae Town
Each and every one of them leaves with our grateful thanks for their past endeavours and our very best wishes for whatever they do in the future.

The identities of our new recruits from the four trial sessions held in May will be revealed once they have signed their registration forms in July!


Referee Hayley

Former midfielder Hayley Earley has decided to call time on her playing career and take up the referee's stopwatch and whistle instead.  By all accounts she has got off to a great start in her new profession.  She won't be eligible to officiate in our games for a few years yet, but she has promised to come back and run the line for us if she has a free Sunday (unlikely!).


Scott Gets Qualified

Head Coach Scott Farley will be taking his 'FA Level 2 Certificate in Coaching Football' course this summer at Writtle College.  The course gets under way in late July with an intensive six days running from 9:00am to 6:30pm.  The final assessments are in January next year.

He is also planning to take the 'First Aid in Sport (Football)' course which is eight weekly three hour sessions.


East Thurrock United to build new stadium?

Friday, 11th January 2008

Thurrock Thames Gateway Development Corporation has published 'The East Thurrock Masterplan', a consultation document presenting various options for the development of 'key opprtunity sites' in the area.  The land occupied by the current East Thurrock United stadium in Rookery Hill, Corringham has been identified as one of these sites.  The proposed options are:

A)  Improvement of the existing stadium  to provide a high quality sports and leisure hub.

B)  Residential development on the Rookery Hill site designed to respond sensitively  to the site's historic and natural context.  A new East Thurrock United stadium, linked to a sports and leisure hub, would be built on land between the A13 and the B1420 Southend Road near the Five Bells Interchange.

C)  Residential development on the Rookery Hill site designed to respond sensitively  to the site's historic and natural context.  A high quality leisure hub, including a new stadium for East Thurrock United, and playing fields would be built on land bounded by the A1014 Manorway, the C2C railway line and the small watercourse near the The Manorway Interchange at Stanford-le-Hope.

The consultation period ends on Monday, 25th February.

View consultation document here



Wickford Town withdraw from the League

Wednesday, 19th December 2007

Essex County Girls Football League has announced that Wickford Town has withdrawn their team from the Under 16 Division B and all of their results have been expunged from the records. 

We had not played Wickford Town this season - the scheduled game in October was postponed by them - but this news has had the following effect on our rivals:

Little Thurrock Dynamos – GD reduced by 13, points reduced by 6

Harlow Town – GD reduced by 21, points reduced by 3

Barking Ladies – GD reduced by 13, points reduced by 3

Leyton Orient ASS – GD reduced by 6, points reduced by 3

Assandun Vikings – GD reduced by 6, points reduced by 3

Colchester Town – GD reduced by 5, points reduced by 3


Rockettes go unbeaten for twelve months!

Sunday, 11 November 2007

Essex County Girls Football League Under 16 Division B side ‘East Thurrock United Ladies’ are celebrating a remarkable run of results that has seen them go unbeaten for 12 months.  During that time they have played 16 competitive games, winning 13 and drawing 3, and five girls - Emma Smith, Hayley Williamson, Kealy Farley, Lauren Riddick and Sophie Dowman - have played in every one of them.

The girls last lost a game on 19 November, 2006, when then went down 6-5 at Rayne Cygnets under their previous guise of Corringham Cosmos Girls U15.  With their next fixture not coming until 25 November, today’s 4-1 win at Assandun Vikings ensured the 12 month record was in the bag.  This result also put them three points clear at the top of the table.

Manager Nigel Payne said, “I never thought we would go on a run like this. That defeat at Rayne continued a dismal start to last season that had seen us lose five times and draw once.  The progress that these girls have made has been remarkable.  Head Coach Scott Farley can take much of the credit for that.  It is not so long ago that the old Corringham Cosmos side lost every game bar one in a season, many of them by massive scores.” 

Farley added. “Not many clubs can look back at their history and see a time when they went a year unbeaten.  It shows the mark of a very good team and a lot of hard work behind the scenes”.

The Management Committee of East Thurrock United Ladies FC would like to thank all the people who have helped us along the way: John Coventry, Steve Gracie and the rest of the people at East Thurrock United who have made us so welcome; our kit sponsors TPP SystmOne who ensure the girls look so professional in their coordinated tracksuits, warm-up tops and playing kit; our perimeter advertisers Bathtime, City of LondonDry Cleaning Company, Dadson Motorsport and Harry’s Transport Services; the parents for their support and, of course, the girls themselves.


The squad that beat Assandun Vikings at Ashingdon to go twelve months unbeaten.