Category: First Team

An in-form Roman Glass St. George team will arrive at Glevum Park tomorrow, looking to continue a run of victories, whilst their hosts, Tuffley Rovers will be looking to get back to winning ways.

The Hellenic League Premier Division fixtures continue to come thick and fast for Neil Mustoe’s side and they face the Bristolians who will make the relatively short trip to Gloucester sitting ninth in the table, with games in-hand on all the teams around them, eight points ahead of Rovers, who sit eighteenth just outside the relegation places.

The game will KO at 3pm and the usual admission rates will apply. Printed copies of the match-day programme will be available at the turnstile, whilst it will also be available online.

Tuffley Rovers’ manager, Neil Mustoe, will welcome some old friends to Glevum Park tomorrow, with former Gloucester City men Jamie Reid and Lee Randall in the opposition dugout and another former City team-mate, Jody Bevan, in the stand as Fairford Town arrive for a 7:45pm Hellenic League, Premier Division fixture on Tuesday evening.

The playing squad the visitors will bring is also likely to be full of familiar faces – with up to nine former Rovers players potentially in the squad – whilst former Rovers’ manager Rich Cox is part of the Fairford coaching team.

It promises to be an intriguing tie, as Rovers look for a return to form and the visitors look for to string together consecutive wins for just the second time this season.

The Rovers official match-day programme will be on sale at the turnstiles but the online version is available here:

Online programme v Fairford Town, 25 October 2022

Tuffley Rovers will play a home league fixture at Glevum Park this afternoon, with Shrivenham the visitors for a 3pm Hellenic League fixture.

After a comprehensive victory over Lydney Town in the Wiseman Lighting Floodlit Cup tie in midweek, Rovers will be looking to add a return to winning ways in the Premier Division after two successive defeats, away at Hereford Lads Club, then at home to Cribbs last weekend.

The club’s official match-day programme will be available on the turnstiles but is also available online: v Shrivenham, 15 October – official match-day programme.

 

Tuffley Rovers will play at their Glevum Park home for the first time since 13 August, following recent pitch renovation work, as they host Fleet Spurs in the Isuzu FA Vase Second Qualifying Round this Saturday; 364 days after they played host to the same opposition, at the same stage of the same competition, which, at that time, was the first home fixture of the 2021/22 season.

Saturday’s tie is a first home fixture after five competitive fixtures on the road and they will be hoping for success against a side from the Wessex Football League, Division One – a step lower than Rovers’ Hellenic League Premier Division status – and to continue a decent run of form that has taken Neil Mustoe’s side to 12th place in the league table.

A Floodlit Cup win 10 days ago, away at Newent Town, was followed by a solid performance away at Thornbury Town last Saturday, as a 2-0 win secured three valuable league points and a fourth clean sheet of the season. Mustoe will be hoping that form carries through to Saturday’s FA Vase tie and his side can match, or improve upon, the 3-2 victory recorded against Fleet Spurs last season.

The Rovers boss is not expecting an easy afternoon, however.

“We know this will be a difficult game this afternoon as league form goes out of the window and anything can happen”, he confirmed. “However, a good cup run is always something we should be targeting, and it builds confidence generally knowing you are competing on various fronts and hopefully we can start and continue our FA Vase journey today.”

The Isuzu FA Vase game will kick-off at 3pm at Glevum Park. Admission will be £6 (Standard), £4 (Concessions) and £2 for U15s. The club’s official match-day programme is already available online but printed copies will also be available at the turnstiles.

 

Tuffley Rovers will head out on the road for the second time in their Uhlsport Hellenic League, Premier Division season, as they make the trip to face another Gloucestershire side, Fairford Town on Wednesday evening.

After collecting a valuable point from their last away game, a 0-0 draw at Brimscombe & Thrupp on the opening day of the season, Rovers played twice at home in the league, succumbing to a 3-1 defeat last week against Malvern Town, before beating Lydney Town by a convincing 4-0 margin on Saturday.

After struggling to score goals last season, with just forty league goals all season, Neil Mustoe’s squad have already netted five times in three games, with Jack Beardsell and Mason Lewis both scoring twice on Saturday. There is also improvement in the defensive record, with just three goals conceded, to date (all against Malvern Town), and two clean-sheets in three league appearances for new ‘keeper Elliot Jones.

Mustoe will face some familiar faces when he heads over to Cinder Lane on Wednesday, with several former Gloucester City players in the hosts’ dug-out, including Jamie Reid and Jamie Randall. Fairford Town will also have Rich Cox, Mustoe’s predecessor at Rovers, in their coaching team, whilst their squad is likely to feature several former Rovers, including Ross Langworthy, Jamal Lawrence, Aaron Basford and Josh Swales.

Wednesday evening’s game will kick-off at 7:45pm and Fairford Town have confirmed admission rates as £6 (£4 concessions).

After the agony of a late, late defeat in the Emirates FA Cup, Extra Preliminary Round on Saturday, when Slimbridge scored twice in injury time to win 2-1, Neil Mustoe’s Tuffley Rovers will return to Hellenic League Premier Division action on Tuesday evening, in the first home league fixture of 2022/23.

The visitors will be one of the favourites for the Hellenic League title, Malvern Town, who will arrive at Glevum Park off the back of an opening day draw with Westfields last Tuesday, and then an FA Cup victory on Saturday, when they won 2-1 against Worcester City; a game played out in front of a crowd of 895!

Sammie Hicks, Dominik Kent and Yeshaya Lomotey should return to the squad, after missing Saturday’s defeat, but Liam Wright, Liam Smith and Ashley Davies are all likely to be unavailable, with only Wright having appeared this season, in the 0-0 draw at Brimscombe & Thrupp.

Following the increased admission rates applied for the FA Cup tie on Saturday, the usual fees will apply on Tuesday evening (7:45pm KO), which will be £5 Adults, £3 Concessions and U15s free. Season tickets are valid for the fixture.

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Tuffley Rovers will welcome Slimbridge AFC to Glevum Park today (3pm KO) hoping to secure a memorable victory and the opportunity to advance to the Preliminary Round of the 2022/23 Emirates FA Cup.

There will be some familiar faces in the opposition line-up, with former Rovers Joe Shutt, Jacob Geddes, Ben Prictor and Toby Lawrence all named in the provisional Slimbridge squad. Shutt and Geddes will be making their first competitive appearances for the visiting Swans, who will arrive at Glevum Park looking to improve on a record of exiting the competition at the first round (entered) in four of the past five years.

Rovers have a similarly disappointing record in recent years, having failed to make it past the Extra Preliminary Round in four of the last six seasons. Last season they did manage to make it past that stage, winning 3-2 at Windsor, before losing to Flackwell Heath after a Preliminary Round replay.

The Extra Preliminary Round tie will kick-off at 3pm at Glevum Park. Just a reminder to Rovers supporters that season tickets are not valid for the FA Cup tie and admission rates on Saturday will be £7 (Adult/Standard), £4 (Concessions) and £2 Children (Under 15).

Neil Mustoe’s Tuffley Rovers side travelled to The Meadow on Wednesday evening and returned with a valuable league point, in the opening week of the Hellenic League season, from a 0-0 draw with Brimscombe & Thrupp.

Dom Kent went closest to scoring for The Rovers, only to be denied by an excellent save from Gavin Jones in the Brimscombe goal, but clear chances were few and far between, in a game keenly contested but where the two defensive units were very much on top.

With our first league fixture of the season completed, attention now turns to our Emirates FA Cup Extra Preliminary Round tie with Slimbridge AFC this Saturday, which promises to be a big day for the club.

Admission rates have been agreed between the two clubs, as is required for FA competitions, as follows:

Standard Adult admission                                      £7

Concessionary admission (O65s or ages 15-17) £4

Children (U15s)                                                        £2

Just a reminder that season tickets are not valid for FA Cup, FA Vase or FA Youth Cup ties played at Glevum Park during 2022/23.

We are very grateful to former player Peter Thomas, who is Saturday afternoon’s match sponsor through his excellent local public house The Pike & Musket.