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| Ellesmere Rangers FC - Season 2006/07, West Midlands Regional League - Division Premier |
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| The Rangers - 2006/07 |
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| CLUB DETAILS |
Ellesmere is a pretty market town with its Tudor, Georgian and Victorian buildings and is only yards from both the spectacular Mere with its Visitor centre and the Llangollen Canal. The town with a population in the region of 50,000, date's back to Saxon times. This must be one of the most historic and beautiful regions of England. The town is also well served with all amenities and has a wide range of shops for both the essentials and luxuries of life. Being small it has a friendly atmosphere and personal service.
Ellesmere Rangers football club were re-established as a football club in 1969. However the club’s history goes back to the 1940’s, when a group of workers at the local railway factory decided to form a football team. Since 1969 when the club re-formed a group of dedicated, local enthusiasts, have managed to maintain a football club that has developed a history of being a close nit, friendly organisation with reasonable facilities and an ambition to progress to greater heights in the football world.
The club have been fortunate to win a number of prestigious competitions in their time, the pinnacle being crowned champions of the Shropshire Junior Cup in 1981 a feat reproduced two seasons ago by the Rangers reserve team.
In November 2000 the club appointed Geoff Graham as their manager. His dream was and still is to make Ellesmere Rangers a more professional organisation on and off the field. He brings with him experience of running football teams at a much higher level (league of Wales) and in doing so he is helping to identify the various stages needed to make Ellesmere a force both on and off the field. He is a sports lecturer at a local college and through the years he has helped develop a number of youngsters who have gone on to make a name for themselves at a professional level, Boaz Myhill (Hull City) David Johnson (Ipswich Town, Nottingham Forest) Joe Hart (Manchester City) Adam Proudlock (Wolverhampton Wanderers) and John Leah (Darlington).
So far, in the five full seasons, since the manager took over the reigns, the club have enjoyed four successive promotions from the Shropshire County League First Division to the West Midland League Premier Division and have appeared in seven cup finals winning four of them.
The First Division Championship trophy made it's way to Beech Grove at the end of the 2005 / 2006 season. Rangers secured the title in their final game of the season with a 4 - 0 victory against Ludlow Town Reserves, in front of a 250+ crowd.
The club's committee have worked hard during the summer months to guarantee that the Beech Grove ground meet the grading criteria required for promotion to the League's Premier Division.
League officials gave the club the green light for promotion following a ground inspection on August 3rd.
Everybody connected with the club are looking forward to the Rangers playing in the top flight - These are exciting times indeed.
Recent Honours under manager Geoff Graham
Shropshire County League
Division One Champions 2002/03
Division One Cup Winners 2002/2003
Premier Division Champions 2003/2004
Premier Division Cup Winners 2003/2004
West Midlands (Regional) League
Division Two League Cup Winners 2004/2005
Division One League Champions 2005/2006
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| CONTACT INFO |
| President |
Mike Edwards |
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| Chairman |
David Coles |
01691 624273
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| Vice Chairman |
Neil Williams |
01691 622819
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| Club Secretary |
John Edge |
01691 623587
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| Treasurer |
Margaret Edge |
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| Matchday Secretary |
Mark McIntyre |
07905 990 202
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| Child Protection |
Sally Brayne |
07952 581 770
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| General Sec (Admin) |
Margaret Dodd |
01691 622031
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| 1st Team Manager |
Geoff Graham |
01691 828669
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| 2nd Team Manager |
Paul Huggins |
07813 877 494
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| Junior Secretary |
Roger Colemere |
01691 622000
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| U16 Team Manager |
Simon Pound |
01691 623193
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| U15 Team Manager |
Lee Colemere |
01691 624233
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| U12 Team Manager |
Jonathan Griffiths |
01691 623418
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| U9 Team Manager |
Roger Birch |
01691 622682
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| U16 Girls Manager |
Sally Wilkie |
01691 623805
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| U14 Girls Manager |
Gary Wilkie |
01691 623805
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| Programme Info |
john.edge2@homecall.co.uk |
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| WEBSITE ONLY |
Mark McIntyre |
salopian1968@aol.com
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