Welcome to the Deeping Rangers Under 15s Website. Check these pages throughout the season for all the latest stats, fixture details, news and match reports.
Updated
25th April 2009
The 2008/09
season has just finished and what a great season it has been….in the
end!
As has been
the case for the last couple of years, pre-season was a difficult period
culminating in a few players deciding to leave as we were about to commence our
maiden Youth League campaign. Another season of rebuilding looked on the cards
and when we lost our first two league games and were struggling to get 11
players on the pitch things looked decidedly shaky!
However,
slowly but surely we recovered thanks to the commitment of the lads and the
boost of some quality new signings. From the 3rd game we went on an
11 match winning streak beating most of the top teams in division 1 along the
way. This proved to the boys that they could compete with the best and whereas
we would have previously been edged out in tight games we were now the ones
digging in and producing the results. The team’s achievements were rewarded in
November when the Youth League named us their Team of the
Month.
This
excellent run included an amazing league cup campaign which saw us lift the
trophy at the end of March. Nobody could say we didn’t deserve it, we were drawn
against 1st division sides in every round and as in the league we had
to beat the cream of the 1st division, cup holders and newly crowned
league champions ICA, last seasons league champions Bourne and in the final,
league runners up Eye.
With the cup
win under our belts it was a case of seeing how high we could finish in the
league but maybe predictably it was a case of after the Lord Mayor’s Show!
Fixture backlog dealt us a heavy hand at the end of the season, our last 4 games
had to be played in the space of 7 days. A tall order given that 3 of those
games saw us playing ICA, Eye and Bourne. Having beaten each of them twice maybe
a 3rd time would be pushing it a bit. So it proved, despite battling
hard the previous narrow victories were now turning into narrow defeats as we
lost the final 4 games 2-1.
At one point
it looked like a top 3 position might be possible but in the end we finished
5th. At the start of the season maybe we’d have took that but the
lads will be frustrated after all the hard work they put in but that in itself
tells us how far we have progressed. But it has been a season of positives and
we now look forward to the Under 16 season.
Training
will continue at Outgang Road, Thursdays 7pm, until Mid May. Anyone interested
in joining the team is welcome to attend these sessions for a trial, please give
me a ring for more information.
Chris
Lovesey
Deeping
Rangers U15 Manager
Email: loveseys@tiscali.co.uk
Tel: 07595
598892