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For the upcoming 2024/25 season Hednesford Town will be entering a Development squad into the Midland Football League Development Division under the stewardship of Andy Turner.
It is an open age league but it is envisaged Hednesford will use mainly Under 21 and youth team players.
Nominated days for home matches has to be Friday Evening, Saturday Afternoon or Monday Evenings. Once the day is chosen, which I believe Hednesford haven't done yet, it will remain for the entire season.

Full list of Clubs accepted for the Division at this moment in time are as follows:

Chasetown U23 Scholars
Harborough Town Reserves
Hednesford Town Development
Market Drayton Town Development
Nuneaton Griff Reserves
Paget Rangers Development
Solihull Youth Academy
Sutton United Reserves
Tamworth Academy U23/Reserves

Hopefully the fixtures and venues when known will be well advertised on the website and/or social media as some of us may want to go along and see how the development squad is developing.

An interesting development

Official announcement that Andy Turner has been appointed Head of Yourh Development

https://www.hednesfordtownfc.com/2024/0 ... evelopment

That is some CV

It seemed the previous development set up which was disbanded wasn't as closely connected as this may hopefully be. Presumably once in house training facilities are in place then there will be scope for full connectivity with a larger scale age range when perhaps we can see a Pitmen youth team back in the F A Youth cup.

Not been officially announced anywhere yet but it was announced on the pa yesterday that the development squad play their first league game tomorrow Monday 12th August v Nuneaton Griff Reserves at Keys Park ko 19.30. Admission is free I believe.

And here it is on the MFL website

https://fulltime.thefa.com/displayFixtu ... d=26393125

And scroll down and you get a list of registered players.

PitmanKeith wrote: ↑Sun Aug 11 2024 10:49 am And here it is on the MFL website

https://fulltime.thefa.com/displayFixtu ... d=26393125

And scroll down and you get a list of registered players.

Plenty more of our fixtures on that site too and the week ahead also sees the youngsters playing away at Solihull Youth Academy on Friday 16th August at Coleshill Town FC. I have plans for tomorrow evening and Friday evening but I will go and have a watch when I’m free.

Hednesford Town 1-1 Nuneaton Griff Reserves




https://fulltime.thefa.com/displayFixtu ... d=26393125

Well done to our player of the match (can anyone afford to have his name printed on their shirt?)

Solihull Youth Academy 2-0 Hednesford Town

https://fulltime.thefa.com/displayFixtu ... d=26415920

League table:

https://fulltime.thefa.com/table.html?l ... _912678793

Next match is away to Paget Rangers Development on Bank Holiday Monday 26th August 19:45 kick off at Castle Vale Stadium.

Paget Rangers 1-4 Hednesford Town

https://fulltime.thefa.com/displayFixtu ... d=26415928

League table:

https://fulltime.thefa.com/table.html?l ... _912678793

Next game is Monday 2nd September at home to current table toppers Chasetown 19:30 kick off.

up to date league table

https://fulltime.thefa.com/table.html?s ... ctiveTab=2

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September fixtures:

https://twitter.com/Hednesford_Town/status/18 ... 3913002464

Tonight’s match v Chasetown is postponed due to a waterlogged pitch.

Next match is Saturday 7th September away at Sutton United reserves at Coleshill Road, Sutton Coldfield, B75 7BA (3pm kick off). Unfortunately this clashes with the first team’s FA Trophy match v Quorn.

The Pitbabies were beaten 4-1 at Sutton United Reserves

https://fulltime.thefa.com/displayFixtu ... d=26590020

Next game is on Monday 16th September at home to Tamworth Academy 7:30 kick off.

Date changed to Tuesday 17th..

https://www.facebook.com/share/UPQB5G2DPzJMvDsN/

(unless we have an FA Cup replay?.. though one would hope that won't be necessary..)

Glyn wrote: ↑Fri Sep 13 2024 11:39 am Date changed to Tuesday 17th..

https://www.facebook.com/share/UPQB5G2DPzJMvDsN/

(unless we have an FA Cup replay?.. though one would hope that won't be necessary..)

I spoke too soon.. FA Cup replay needed..

Now confirmed as Tuesday.

The next league game for the development team is at home to Solihull Youth Academy on Monday 30th September 7:30 kick off.

Oh no it isn’t..

https://twitter.com/Hednesford_Town/status/18 ... ey5sw&s=19

Our next game now then (unless any of the postponed fixtures are arranged to a date before it) is Friday 18th October 7:45pm kick off away at Harborough Town Juniors U23 Emerging Talent.