Happy New Year to you all, as you know i am Ian Jenkin, current Charlestown Saints Football Club manager, and future Torquay Utd manager, aparently.
This blog, is the new and controversial online home of all things Charlestown Saints, until the new website launches at the end of the season.
Here, i will bring you an egotistical view of the club, sometimes talking in the third person, as my role as manager and luxury player, and offer my daily insight to you all, of how i run the club as i see fit. I will post the fixtures, results, my personal view of the games, and player reviews... all here at this web space.
Occassionally i will offer a "Guest Blog" role, where i ask a member of the club to write a blog which will be posted here. My next blog will be a review of the squad, so far, but for now id like to talk briefly about how i feel the season has gone so far, no individual plaudits or slating, that will be in the next blog...
Pre Season...
I was very proud at the start of July to have taken on the role of Saints founder and first ever Charlestown mens manager, so when i booked the pre-season fixtures, i wanted to book some teams with considerable "bite" around Cornwall. We opened with a superb victory over Threemilestone, which we ended up playing away. One particular highlight was the "crunching" tackles of now AWOL player, Mark Perry.
Although we lost 2 games in the pre season period (against Falmouth Ath and Trispen respectively) we sandwiched these with strong performances, by any standard, against Roche and Gary Warren's Sticker Reserves side.
"The future was bright"
The Season so far...
Before the fixtures were announced, i discreetly hoped for an early season start and against our potential rivals Tregony. I got this wish. A fantastic crowd of around 40 people saw us open our season with an unlucky 1-1 draw. Incidently, current secretary Matt Danneau opened the scoring with the first mens goal for Charlestown.
We finished August strongly, with 2 thrilling victories, putting us top of the table.
As September came, I, Ian Jenkin- Charlestown Saints manager, Dave Jago- Saints Assistant Manager, Jon Bishop- Saints Vice Captain, were away "on a jolly" for a friends stag do in Torquay, so Saints Coaches, David Haley & Nigel Tonkin took the reins for the day...and all hell broke loose. We lost 3-2 that day to Mevagissey Reserves, but luckily they fielded an illegal player... 3 points returned to Jenksy's pocket and on the Saints scoreboard.
We also got knocked out of the cup, mid September, against a decent St Dennis team.
Again, Jenkin & Jago were once again away "on a jolly" - this time a superb weekend in Butlins, which i can tell you was messy, but anyway, during this weekend, the Saints once again dropped the ball away to Lanreath in the Junior Cup, losing 4 nil... Its nice to be missed...
Since then, form has been patchy, with strong, vicious maulings of the Duke of Cornwall FC and St Mawgen Reserves, but obviously the weather has been devestating on the footballing program in Cornwall.
This weekend (my birthday weekend, i might add) see's us at home (hopefully) to avenge the loss to a dominant Bridgerule side, in what should be an enthralling encounter. Here's hoping the Saints boys can give me the best birthday present a gaffer could ask for, of 3 points.
Yeeeaaahhhhhhh...
IJ
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