29-08-2010
Poor coverage from both our local papers this week, with little more than a basic match report in the Observer and a very short interview with Jamie Jarvis in the Advertiser.
Headlines
“Jarvis frustrated after two more reds” ..... Burnham Advertiser
“Nine man Blues cut down by Woodford” ..... Observer
Burnham Advertiser
With a photo of Jamie Jarvis looking pensive, the Advertiser, in an unattributed article says that the start to the season has left him wondering why he is involved in management. This is after winning their first game but losing the next two, conceding five goals and scoring nil. On top of this, the Blues have lost three players sent off in the two games, two against Woodford.
Dave Tilbury was shown red after 10 minutes against Woodford for a tackle which Jarvis thought did not merit even a yellow, with Ryan O’Toole being sent off for reacting to being hit by a Woodford player, who was also sent off for the blow, in the last minute.
Jarvis told the paper that he was tearing his hair out in frustration, wondering why he was still doing it, but trying not to let himself get too down and to keep “pottering away”. He added that in the three games the Blues had played they had not had a good official, and that going to Woodford in the Midlands had had a Brummy ref, who sent Tilbury off for a challenge not worth even of a booking s two players slid in. The Woodford bench, he alleged, had made the most of the incident.
In O’Tooles case Jarvis said that he was hit by the Woodford player and reacted, and that he had to learn from that. Jarvis added “He is a young lad and he has apologised for doing it already.”.
In the game, Jarvis had called for a reaction from the team to their defeat against AFC Hayes, but the dismissal of Tilbury put the team “on the back foot immediately”, which the two goals from Liburd in the first half and a third from Ruddick on 59 minutes sealed the defeat for the Blues, the only incident after being the dismissal of O’Toole and Fitton in the 89th minute.
Observer
The Observer has a minimalist match report with a photo of Dave Tilbury who was sent off after ten minutes and another of Jamie Jarvis, looking enigmatic!
Non-League Paper
“Three off as Liburd is a class apart”
The NLP report is by Ronnie Johnson, who praises Nathan Liburd of Woodford, his Star Man, as the hero as Woodford “eased to victory over nine man Burnham”. He scored the game four stars for entertainment.
Dave Tilbury was sent off after only seven minutes, giving Liburd a chance on 20 minutes to get behind the back line to shoot home, getting his second just before half time. Johnson says that Woodford threatened to run away with the game in the second half, and got a third goal, before Blues were reduced to nine men in the last minute, when Woodford’s Terry Fitton and Ryan O’Toole were both sent off.
Southern League Website
Arlesey Town, a goal behind after just seven minutes, won 2-1 at Leighton Town to maintain their hundred percent start and top the table and newly promoted Aylesbury moved into second place with a comfortable 3-1 win at Uxbridge and are level on points with Woodford United, 3-0 winners at home against Burnham, and last season's runners-up, Hitchin Town, who ended Slough Town's perfect start with a 3-2 home win.
22-08-2010
Decent coverage in the Burnham Advertiser, but just a minimalist report in the Observer.
Headlines
“Blues set for Learning Curve” ..... Burnham Advertiser back page lead
“Blues boss “livid” after midweek Hayes defeat” ..... Burnham Advertiser inside page
“Mixed opening for the Blues” ..... Observer inside page
Burnham Advertiser
Charles Watts has the lead article on the back page, alongside a photograph of Ryan Bird in action against Bedworth.
Watts opens by saying that Jamie Jarvis will “learn a lot about his side from the way they recover from their poor showing” after losing 2 – 0 to AFC Hayes. After letting in two second half goals Jarvis told Watts he was livid after the Blue’s “limp” display.
He said he would be having a long talk to the squad to remind them of the standards to be met, and that he expected this to be a learning curve from which they would bounce back, adding that “in football you don’t learn anything from winning, you learn from losing.”
Jarvis continued that he had a “decent bunch of lads but they just didn’t perform. It wasn’t good enough and they know that.”
Jarvis hoped to have midfielder Kevin Cotton back for the trip to Woodford on Saturday, after missing Hayes for a hamstring injury. Jarvis also expects Ryan O’Toole from Uxbridge to start “finding the net on a regular basis” after his move from Uxbridge, after he set up Ryan Bird’s equaliser against Bedworth. Jarvis said that O’Toole had been committed with work over the summer, so had not had a pre-season, but will get “better and better and will get us a lot of goals”.
Inside the paper, Watts reports on the AFC Hayes game, with three photos of action in the game, with two of Ryan O’Toole against Bedworth ad one of Dan Willment on his return to the Blues first team after his injury ridden season last year.
Jarvis told Watts he was not happy describing the display as absolute rubbish and every single player as awful, which apparently left him speechless and not knowing what to say! He added that he thought the team were confident before the game, but “you can’t just turn up and expect to win any game in this league – you have to fight and work hard for everything.”
The piece then goes on to talk about the defeat of Bedworth at the weekend, where Jarvis told Watts he was not happy with the first half display, where Bedworth took the lead, despite the Blues having most of the possession, but the Blues gave a fine display in the second half scoring two goals, one from Ryan Bird and the other from Charlie Hill.
Jarvis added that after four years as a manager, this was the first time his team had won the opening game.
Observer
Just a short piece as usual in the Observer, where an un-accredited article has two photographs of Ryan O’Toole in action against Bedworth and Dave Tilbury, backed up by Paul Brett winning a header.
The article opens by saying that the game against Bedworth was the Blues first opening game win since 1999, after coming from behind to beat them. This report and the short summary of the AFC Hayes game are both match reports and seem to be taken from the Blues reports sent to the papers.
Non-League Paper
The report is by Cliff Sparkes, which scores the game 4 stars for entertainment and made Will Dunlop Star Man. He says that Charlie Hill’s free kick completed the comeback as “Burnham finally broke down stubborn ten-man Bedworth”.
He said that Bedworth dominated the first half when a defensive slip let Withers score for Bedworth. After the break, he said that Burnham “grew in stature” with Ryan Bird getting the equaliser after some sustained pressure.
The Bedworth keeper was sent off after bringing Ryan Bird down out of his area and Hill put away the free kick round the wall.
Southern League Website
Burnham come from behind to send Greenbacks home empty handed
There were 2-1 home wins for Atherstone Town against AFC Hayes, Burnham, who had to come from behind against Bedworth United, and Slough Town against Barton Rovers while Arlesey Town scored on the stroke of half time to record a 1-0 home win over Beaconsfield SYCOB.
15-08-2010
Some real “goolies” by the Advertiser this week, when they say our first home game against Bedworth is away and our second game against AFC Hayes is at home, when in both cases the reverse is true. How many has that knocked off our already small gate, who will not now trust the fixtures in the paper?
Generally the coverage is plentiful on Ian Gould stepping down as chairman in view of his overseas cricket umpiring commitments and Bob Breen taking over and this news led the back page of both papers.
“Gould walks” ..... Burnham Advertiser
“Jarvis: Our real test starts now” ..... Burnham Advertiser
“Breen takes the reins at Burnham” ..... Observer
“Tough time ahead” ...... Observer
“Gould is stumped at Blues” ..... Non League Paper
Burnham Advertiser
On the back page, Graeme Copas, with the cricketing headline “Gould walks”, reports Bob Breen has taken over “at the helm of Burnham FC after chairman Ian Gould resigned on Monday ahead of the club’s annual general meeting.” There is a photo of Bob with Ian Gould.
He says Gould, “who is on the ICC elite panel of test umpires, has been forced to quit because of his increasingly hectic umpiring commitments around the world.”
Bob Breen, 63, who took over at the AGM as chief executive, has worked alongside Gould for the past 12 months and is looking to build on their achievements to date.
Breen told Copas: “I’m obviously disappointed that Ian won’t be here to finish what he started. “But it’s understandable that he has stepped down. I think he has umpired on every continent this season since going on to the elite panel. He’s been flat out. I hope to pick up where he left off.”
The key to the success of the club said Breen which would be his main focus was making the club’s conference centre into “a major revenue earner which will then enable the club to progress on and off the pitch”. He went on to say that the objective of stability on the pitch had been achieved but off the pitch was “only just” done which in the current climate was not too bad, but the conference centre was the key to future success.
He continued “We have a number of initiatives coming up; especially one with Burnham Juniors FC which will be announced soon, but it is the success of the conference centre which will determine how well we do as a club”. He emphasised that the club could only spend what it earned and no more and that Jarvis knew and understood that, despite the frustration of not having more resources.
Inside the paper, again Graeme Copas reports on an interview with Jamie Jarvis with the tag line “Blues boss eager after disjointed pre-season”, alongside a photo of Jamie with former chairman, Ian Gould, commenting that he will have a new chairman to deal with.
Copas opens by commenting that Burnham’s campaign last season was “memorable”, seeing Burnham finish third in the Midlands Division, and just missing out on promotion in the play-offs. He says that the Blues should be one of the favourites, although Jarvis is “refusing to make predictions after a poor pre-season which he called ‘my worst in four years as a manager’”.
He continue, pointing out that the team had not won a match, and “seen a number of players came and go, while other key individuals like Adrian Sears, Dan Willment and Will Dunlop are injured or not yet at their best”.
Copas points out that Burnham has probably the smallest budget in the and Jarvis is expecting the season to be very tough. Jarvis told him he would like to have brought in more players but budget restrictions prevent this, saying “We’re not in great shape, but it all starts in earnest on Saturday and that’s when I’ll know how good we are. Pre-season is always difficult with players coming and going, trialists and guys out injured. I can’t wait for Saturday to get started so I know where we really are.”
Jarvis would not make any public predictions, taking one game at a time, and starting by trying to keep clean sheets, try to win every match and review the situation at Christmas, adding “come back to me then and I’ll tell you what our aims are.”
He went on to say that he would be disappointed with mid-table, but would also be disappointed with third – only top would make him happy. Despite the challenges he remained confident of his players abilities, saying he had signed some good players and had some on contract and they would work hard to achieve success.
Observer
Patrick Corlett leads the back page with the story of Bob Breen becoming chairman, saying he is “eager to continue the work that Ian Gould did at Burnham Football Club before stepping down as chairman this week”.
Continuing that the demands of Gould’s membership of the Elite Panel of ICC Test Cricket Umpires has made too many demands for him to have the time to continue as Chairman of the Club, led to Bob Breen taking over at the AGM.
Bob Breen told Corlett that it was a loss to lose Gould adding “He came in a year ago and helped build the profile of the club during his time. I’d like to think that between the two of us we achieved stability off the field and exceeded expectations on the field. Jamie reaching the play-offs on a modest budget was highly commendable.”
Paying tribute to Ian Gould, Breen said that he had umpired on four continents in the last year and his schedule was going to get even heavier, which had caused the problem.
Breen said that whilst he was delighted with what the football management team achieved last year in finishing third in Jamie Jarvis’ first season in charge, there needed to be continued improvement off the field “in order to boost the playing budget.”
He emphasised that Jarvis was doing a ”fantastic job” but the success of the conference centre was fundamental and whilst it was self supporting more was needed if it was to drive the football club forward and push on. : “It’s a fantastic building and a tribute to the likes of Malcolm Higton that it’s there.”
He continued that all the facilities were there but they needed to be maximised to create the resources for Jamie, whom he described as a talented Manager, to mount a title challenge, but he did not have the budget to bring in the quality of players needed, although he and Peter Scott get the best out of the squad.
He finished by telling Corlett “We’ve got to get stronger in the community, support the needs of the local businesses and local community. All small businesses are struggling but we need to be determined and focused on moving it forward, that’s what I will be doing together with the committee. I am excited about the prospect of moving the club forward.”
Inside the paper, Corlett covers the local clubs in a review of the local Southern league members. Of Burnham FC he says that Jamie Jarvis is expecting “the toughest test of his managerial career to date, this season”, having suffered a semi-final play-off defeat to Chesham United who went on to gain promotion.
Jarvis told him “Over the last three years I won promotion and got to the play-offs twice but with what’s ahead it will be tough.”
However, he was confident that his side can mount a challenge again this year despite their small squad, adding “We are not going to be easy to beat, when we’ve got the full XI out we will be very tough to beat and good enough for anyone in the division but you get injuries.
“We will be prepared for the fight but Dan Willmet has been out for two years, Adrian Sear and Will Dunlop who are on contract are injured. The way things are at the moment, I could be playing on Saturday and I haven’t played for three and a half years. But as long as I’m manager, my coach is around and leaders like Paul Brett, Adrian Sear and Dave Tilbury are about we will be pushing for more than mid-table.”
Corlett says that Jarvis has managed to “add some firepower to the squad that has struggled for a cutting edge in pre-season in which they failed to register a single victory.” He went on to say that he had signed Ryan O’Toole from Uxbridge who had scored goals and would be a good addition, whilst Chay Morris has come back to the club after dallying with Hemel Hempstead and will be pushing Paul McCarthy,
He finished by saying “We haven’t won a game all pre-season but it’s distorted because we haven’t had a full side out, we will work hard this week and take more out of it with more people back.”
Non-League Paper
The Non-League paper reports Ian Gould’s departure saying “Ian Gould had an unusual reason for resigning as Burnham Chairman – increased work commitments as a Test Match cricket umpire. Gould gave himself out due to extra work abroad which would stop him giving...... the attention needed”
The paper then reports Bob Breen has taken over, using the words of the Zamaretto website news.
Zamaretto Website Club News
Burnham - Ian Gould has stepped down as Chairman of club and has been replaced by Bob Breen. Gould told the club's AGM on Monday he could no longer commit to the role as his commitments abroad while working on the Elite ICC Panel of Test Cricket Umpires had become too great. His successor Breen, who is the already the club's CEO and company director, paid tribute to his predecessor: "I would personally like to thank Ian for what he has done to help profile the club.
"When he joined the board last August, the club was under-achieving. Twelve months on, and with the continued support of Malcolm Higton, Burnham Football Club has become a viable proposition for business and one that serves to provide a number of opportunities for local people. For me personally, I am pleased that Ian still wishes to remain part of our vision in whatever way he can."
Burnham in the Press 08 08 10
Coverage inside and outside the Burnham Advertiser this week and a story about a new signing for the Blues.
Headlines
“Injuries worry Jarvo” ..... Back page, Burnham Advertiser
“Football club in plea for support” News page, Burnham Advertiser
“Chandiram relishing Blues switch” ..... Observer
Burnham Advertiser
Beside a photo of Adrian Sear, Charles Watts reports on an interview with Jamie Jarvis saying he “ is keeping his fingers crossed that key duo Will Dunlop and Adrian Sear are fit and ready for the start of the league season next Saturday.”
The article reports that the players, who last week agreed new deals with the club, have been struggling with knocks and have been absent during the last few friendlies.
Jarvis told Watts he was concerned as they are vital players and he is desperate to get them “firing on all cylinders as soon as possible.”
Jarvis added “Will and Searsy are very important; I’m hoping they will be back in time. We’re having to fill gaps at the moment, move players around and that’s not ideal. They are key players, they play right down the middle so we miss them when they are not there.”
He said he was delighted to have secured their commitment to the Blues, after seeing Paul Coyne and Stuart Swift leave for Slough Town during the summer and that he always had faith that I would keep them, since they were the ones he wanted to keep most as the spine of the team.”
Jarvis told Watts he was pleased to have secured the capture of midfield duo Kevin Cotton from Chesham United and Joe Chandiram, who had played a lot of games for Windsor and Eton.
Jarvis said they were both very good players, describing Cotton as a “box to box midfielder” and saying that Chandiram was a player he had wanted for a long time, and expected him to do a good job for Burnham.
Inside the paper, in the Burnham news section is a photograph of the club, with a report based on the Neighbourhood Watch Community news bulletin, which was included as local news to encourage more people in the village to support the club. The piece describes the club and its league, and reports last seasons’ success, training the matches coming up in August.
It also details the charges and the £1 charge for youngsters and free entry for Burnham Junior FC players.
Observer
An unattributed piece in the Observer, alongside a photo of the man himself says that Joe Chandiram “has switched from Windsor & Eton to local rivals Burnham because he wasn’t ‘enjoying the football being played’.”
The article comments that Joe, who played a pivotal part in the Royalists success of the past two season, culminating in Windsor and Eton’s promotion to the Premier Division of the Southern League, has decided to move to join Burnham.
Chandiram told the Observer that he had enjoyed the two and a half seasons he had spent at Windsor, but with all the changes of management and players over the summer, he felt it was time for a change as he wasn’t enjoying the football being played during pre-season.”
Manager Dave Mudge commented: “Joe missed the first couple of weeks of pre-season because of holidays. Maybe he does need a new challenge but to be honest the form Dave Pearce was in I was going to start the season with him”. He went on to say that Windsor “would have loved to keep Joe Chandiram here so he could challenge himself at the level above but wish him all the best.”
Chandiram confirmed he had other offers at the step above but wanted to remain local and work under Jamie Jarvis. “I had a couple of approaches from other clubs at the same level as Windsor but spoke to Jamie (Jarvis),” he said. “They’ve got a great set-up, training facilities and ground at Burnham and I’ve heard very good things about the coaching. I would rather be at a club where they will play football and push to win things like Burnham. I’ve heard a lot of good things about the coaching down there.”
01-08-2010
We make the back page of the Advertiser this week with a photo of a smiling Will Dunlop with the tagline “Staying put” announcing that Will has ended weeks of speculation about his future by re-signing for Burnham along with Adrian Sear and make the back page of the Observer with the same story.
Headlines
“Burnham delight as Dunlop and Sear commit to the club” ..... Burnham Advertiser
“Jarvis confirms duo to stay with Blues” ..... Observer
Burnham Advertiser
Above an Andy Fitzsimons photo of the Blues in their away red and black strip taking on Wycombe Wanderers is the news that Burnham have received a “massive boost” with the news that Will Dunlop and Adrian Sear have signed contracts with the club.
The unattributed article reports that the players had signed their contracts on Tuesday 27th at the Gore, ending the speculation about them moving to other clubs.
Bob Breen, from the Club’s committee said he was delighted that the resolution of the the player’s immediate future, telling the paper that it was good news ending the speculation, particularly about Will Dunlop joining Windsor and Eton and another local club. He went on to say “As well as these two we alos have three other good, young players contracted in Jordan Dowdican, Ryan Bird and Dan Willment,” adding that Dan missed all of last season (through injury) but had played in the friendlies which was encouraging.
The Blues continue their pre-season with a game against Maidenhead United, after putting up a strong show against Wycombe Wanderers before falling to a 2 – 1 defeat. Burnham had included a number of trialists including the nephew of former Winbledon star, John Fashanu.
Observer
A new name on the reporters list here with Shakila Barabhulya writing the report on an interview with Jamie Jarvis.
Barabhulya reports that Jamie Jarvis had confirmed that Will Dunlop and Adrian Sear had pledged their futures to Burnham despite interest from higher division clubs in the area.
Describing Will Dunlop as a “commanding centre back” , the article reports that he had been linked to both Slough Town and Windsor and Eton and the latter club had announced that he had agreed to return to Stag Meadow.
Central midfielder Sear who joined Burnham last season had also committed himself to the club “after an impressive first campaign with the Blues”.
Jarvis commented that this was his fourth year in management and the players wasn’t to come and play for me despite Windsor announcing that they had signed Dunlop and Hemel Hempstead attempting to sign Sear. He added that he did tings the right way, coaching players and treating them correctly despite the big money on offer with other clubs.
These two would be joined by Dan Willment who spent last season on the sidelines with a long term injury. Jarvis told Barabhulya that he was very pleased with Dan, and wanted him to be fit for the season and had told him he would not be rushed and not to rush himself.
Jarvis was still keen to strengthen the squad but was “remaining tight-lipped about any potential targets, saying that he still needed a centre forward and a left sided player. He added that he was not going to spend big money or announce who the players were beforehand like Dave Mudge.
The Blues lost 2 – 1 to Wycombe Wanderers in a friendly on Tuesday, but he was pleased with the performance, saying that the team had had a decent run against Wcombe and he had played 19 or 20 players, against a side with a first team centre back and second year professionals, so did well.
25-07-2010
Headlines
“Blues ready for Chairboys” ..... Burnham Advertiser
“Jarvis won’t be rushed” ..... Observer
Burnham Advertiser
Charles Watts reporting for the Advertiser says that Jamie is set to welcome an old friend when Gary Waddock brings the “League 2 outfit Wycombe Wanderers visit the Gore on Tuesday for a pre-season friendly.”
Watts says that the two managers go back a long way and Jarvis said that Waddock had promised to send a strong team for the fixture.
Jarvis told Watts that he and Waddock are “good mates” and it would be nice to see him at the game. Waddock had told him that he would put out a strong side, so it should be a good game.
Jarvis continued “We’ve got a few of our lads back now, Will Dunlop, Adrian Sear and Ryan Bird have all had their first training session so we’re getting a bit stronger now and things should start picking up”
The friendly against Holmer Green had been cancelled so Jarvis would run a full training session instead, having a high tempo session ahead of the Tuesday game against Wycombe.
Blues had started their pre-season with a 3 – 0 defeat by Holyport, but Jarvis dismissed the result saying that a lot of trialists and youngsters had played – the game was really about fitness.
Observer
Another unattributed piece says that Jamie Jarvis is refusing to be rushed into any signings. Having lost Coyne and Swift to Slough Town as well as other top players, “the manager is remaining cool”.
“I’m not going to be rushed into signing anyone; the money is not there to do it. We are just looking at getting the players fit at the moment, that’s all we can do. There should be some players becoming available soon and I will see f we can pick up one or two.”
Burnham put out trialists for Jarvis “to run the rule over” the paper reports, in their pre-season game when the Blues lost to Holyport.
The game against Holmer Green had been cancelled so the Blues next game was a friendly against Wycombe Wanderers at the Gore. Jarvis told the paper that he would start with a strong team, but make sure everyone got a game, adding that they were looking forward to the match.
18-07-2010
Headlines
“Jarvo upbeat despite departures” ..... Burnham Advertiser
“Southern League teams learn their fate” ..... Burnham Advertiser
“Jarvo looks to youth for the Blues” ..... Observer
Burnham Advertiser
With a photo of Dan Willment in action, tagged “Back”, this unattributed piece in the Advertiser said that Burnham begin their pre-season friendlies with a visit to Holyport, with Jamie Jarvis planning to use the game to have a look at a number of trialists as part of building his squad for the new season.
The paper says that the summer has been frustrating for him with the departures of Swift and Coyne to Slough Town and top scorer Denis Fenemore move to Hemel Hempstead, leaving him disappointed by the departures, although admitting there was not much he could have done to prevent them.
He said that money was the reason, but if they wanted to go, they could and he would work with those who stayed. He added that some of those who had gone had been “mates” of his, but he could not offer them the money that Slough and Hemel had done.
He announced that he had managed to tie up a deal to bring Kevin Cotton to the Gore from Chesham United, a midfielder who had played for Jarvis at Beaconsfield. Jarvis described him as a very hardworking player, the sort he wanted at Burnham. “He’s very energetic, can play at fight midfield or right back as well as on the left”, he said.
He finished the interview by saying that he hoped to add a couple more to the squad before the campaign commenced on August 14th, adding that he would also have Dan Willment back after the midfielder missed most of last season due to injury. “Having Dan back will be like having a new signing” he said, “He’s done all of pre-season and is looking in good shape.”
In a short separate piece, there is a quick summary of the opening fixtures of the Southern League and says that Burnham will commence their Division 1 Central campaign with a home game against Bedworth United on Saturday August 14th , travelling away to AFC Hayes on the following Tuesday and then away to Woodford United on the following Saturday.
Observer
Patrick Corlett is the reporter for the Observer and opens his piece saying that Jamie Jarvis is “looking to develop local talent at Burnham this season, despite the loss of midfielders Paul Coyne and Stuart Swift to rivals Slough Town.
He summarises the finish last season where the Blues ended up third in the division but were beaten by Chesham United in the semi-finals of the playoffs who then beat Slough Town in the final.
He said that Burnham had commenced training without a number of leavers, as well as Swift and Coyne, Goalkeeper Chay Morris had gone to Hemel Hempstead together with forwards Ross Lafayette and Denis Fenemore.
Jarvis told Corlett that training was going well as “we’ve always got fit lads here as you heard from Steve Bateman’s comments about Stuart Swift and Paul Coyne. If players like them want to go and further their career, I’ve got no problem with that. We finished third, a fair few points (10) above Slough but they are being promised certain things and good luck to them. The likes of losing Chay Morris (to Hemel) is a massive one. The two that have gone to Slough, if they think it is a better move that is up to them, we’ve just got to worry about our own situation and bringing local players through. Slough has not had any local players for years”.
Corlett continues that Jarvis “remains buoyant” about the players Blues have for pre-season, saying that they had signed another young lad and have got a couple that have signed contracts.
“We’ve got some decent young lads coming through. Peter Scott and I get a buzz from developing local youngsters”, he ended. |
