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Club Information

Jersey Bulls Football Club is a Company limited by guarantee, registered in Jersey number 127306 and with its registered office at Charnwood, La Grande Route Du Faldouet, St Martin, Jersey, JE36UF

  • Patron: TBA
  • Director & Chairman: Russell Le Feuvre
  • Director and Commercial Manager: Ian Horswell
  • Director: Peter Hall
  • Director: Laura Dauny
  • Assistant Club Secretary: John Treleven
  • Assistant Commercial Manager: Alex Jeffries
  • Head of Fundraising: Alan Gunton
  • Community Relations: Daniel Craven
  • Legal Advisor: Andrew Pinel
  • Head of Media: Daniel Andrade
  • Head Accountant: Alan Jeffries
  • Marketing Manager: Georgina Shelton
  • UK Club Delegate: Murray Dron
  • Merchandise Manager: Sam Dustow
  • Website Manager: Colm Farrington
  • School Liaison Officer: Alan Williams
  • Event & Hospitality Partner: The Event Shop
  • Referee Liaison Officers: Nigel Hammond and Ray Sutcliffe

Club Colours

Home kit: Red and White Shirts, Red Shorts, Red Socks
Away kit: Red Shirts, White Shorts, White Socks

Home Ground

Springfield Stadium, Janvrin Road, St Helier, Jersey, JE24LF

Team Management:

  • Manager: Gary Freeman
  • Assistant Manager: Kevan Nelson
  • Goalkeeper Coach: Jason Carpenter
  • Strength and Conditioning Coach: Joe Parkinson
  • Head of Nutrition: Kit Chamier
  • Head Physiotherapist: Jim Robertson
  • First Team Captain: TBA
  • Head of Sports Psychology: Debbie Thompson

Background

The club’s vision is to create a sustainable, successful, financially viable, democratic football club that creates and maintains real and lasting benefits to its members and the local Jersey community.

Our mission is to improve playing standards and offer our elite players the opportunity to play at higher levels on a regular basis, cultivate standards of behaviour that are based on fair play and respect to all, and provide an entertaining and rewarding experience for the club’s supporters.

Executive Summary

  • The purpose of Jersey Bulls FC is to establish an independent Jersey based football club, locally owned with a focus on the Jersey football and wider Island community.
  • Strong community links will be developed with accessibility to all and discrimination against no-one; admission prices will be affordable and offered to as wide a constituency as possible; and participation, both playing and supporting, to local youngsters will be encouraged. Any financial surpluses will be re-invested for the future viability of the club and for the benefit of the local community.
  • The club will offer players, officials and volunteers the opportunity to be involved in an exciting football project that will put Jersey football on the UK map. We are supported and guided by the English Football Association.
  • The club is entering a Senior team into the English Football League System for the 2019/2020 season. With the fantastic success the Jersey Island men’s team has achieved in recent history – such as winning the Gold Medal in the Aland Island Games, winning numerous Muratti fixtures against Guernsey who compete in the Isthmian League, winning the FA National League System Cup in 2012 thus representing England in the UEFA Regions Cup in San Marino in March 2013 – we believe that the time is now right to offer our senior Island players the opportunity to progress further by playing week in / week out in an English league of an appropriate standard.
  • The structure of the club and our long-term plans of working alongside those involved in youth football in the Island, will also, in time, provide a strong player development pathway from Junior to Senior football in the competitive leagues against English opposition. It will also improve the level of coaching in the Island and offer more opportunities for local coaches to learn and develop their skills. It should be noted that there is absolutely no intention for this to be achieved to the detriment of the local football leagues, but instead we hope to work in conjunction with all of the local clubs to enhance all levels of football in the Island.
  • For local football supporters, these proposals provide a new and exciting prospect to support the Island’s best players as they seek to compete on a greater stage and will provide a genuine and enhanced interest in the local game.
  • Our business plan advocates a fantastic product which will raise the profile of Jersey as both an Island and a serious football community. However, the plan clearly cannot be implemented without significant financial commitment, particularly given that we will need to cover the costs of visiting teams and officials to Jersey as well as the club’s costs in travelling to away fixtures.
  • Our financial plan indicates a total required expenditure in years 1-3 of approx. £250,000 per annum, which we will meet by way of a combination of sponsorships, income from gate receipts, merchandise and fundraising activities.

Advantages of Jersey Bulls

  • Juniors - To allow young talented players to put themselves in the ‘Shop Window’ by representing Jersey Bulls. Natural pathway for Centre Of Excellence players. Motivate young people to take up and remain in football with the aspiration of playing for Jersey Bulls or in a competitive combination.
  • Elite Players - To remove the ceiling which currently prevents all local players from playing at a higher level and give all local players a focal point to aspire to. This will in turn increase interest in football at youth level.
  • Community - To foster strong morals throughout Jersey Bulls. Ensuring players commit to community work in schools, the hospital, local football clubs and only selecting those players who exhibit fair play, honesty and integrity to represent Jersey Bulls.
  • Raising the profile of the Island - Jersey Bulls will help raise the profile of the Island by climbing the leagues and being involved in successful cup runs (FA Trophy/FA Cup/FA Vase)
  • Increase of local participation in football - Increased number of players in local leagues (see Guernsey FC example), plus pathway for COE players.

Jersey Bulls FC is delighted to announce the signing of a three-year sponsorship deal with renowned sports clothing company Kappa ahead of its debut season in the English national league.

In August 2019 Jersey Bulls FC will make history by becoming the first team from Jersey to play in a competitive league outside of the island. In August they will take to the pitch for their first game in the Combines Counties Football League One wearing a kit from Kappa, which has agreed to create two strips (home and away) as well as two exciting goalkeeper kits.

The home strip has been designed by local design company and will be white and red, the colours of the Jersey flag. The away kit will be designed by Kappa.

Jersey Bulls head of merchandise Sam Dustow said that everyone at Jersey Bulls FC was excited about the new kits and that they were delighted to be working with Kappa. ‘One of the main reasons we wanted to work with Kappa was that they were keen to create bespoke kits for us and we are really excited to see it. They are known for creating some very stylish, iconic strips over the years and the whole club is looking forward to wearing both strips.

‘The deal came about thanks to an introduction from our friends over at Guernsey FC. Their general manager Mark Le Tissier, who has been very helpful to us, put us in touch with Kappa.’

As part of the deal, Kappa will sponsor the Bulls £5,000 each season for the next three years, money which Mr Dustow says is vital to the success of the team: ‘No one is under any illusions that running a team in the English Football League while based in Jersey will be easy, but the support of companies such as Kappa, combined with the passion and enthusiasm from our players and supporters, will be of great help on this exciting adventure.’

Kappa’s Team Sport Manager Dave Bandell said that the company was pleased to be involved in the Jersey Bulls FC project.

‘Kappa are delighted to be technical kit partners for the launch of Jersey Bulls FC and look forward to a successful partnership. We now have representation in the biggest of the Channel Islands, as well as our on-going relationship with Guernsey. We wish the Bulls much success for the future.’

The idea for Jersey Bulls FC was first floated in 2017 by Russell Le Feuvre, who was one of several Islanders frustrated that footballers in Jersey were being denied the chance to play regularly at a higher level.

He felt that Jersey had shown an ability to succeed on a national level in other sports, such as rugby and netball (where Jersey competes in the RFU Championship and the English Netball Premier League) and was keen to create a similar opportunity for the island’s talented footballers.

With the backing of local clubs, players, the States of Jersey and the English FA, Russell and a team of volunteers embarked on a challenging journey that ultimately saw them earn entry to the English National League for the 2019/20 season. Managed by former Jersey player Gary Freeman, Jersey Bulls FC will will be playing home games at Springfield Stadium.

Mr Dustow said that he hoped the creation of Jersey Bulls FC would give the island’s sport a much-needed boost: ‘Jersey football has been in limbo for a few years. In the last few seasons five local clubs have folded and Jersey’s last two captains have considered playing for Guernsey FC in an effort to secure more competitive football.

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Jersey Bulls Football Club are a family orientated and community based club. We value and thank our sponsors and partners for supporting the Bulls.

The club have a wide variety of sponsorship and advertising packages that can be tailored to suit your budget. With sponsorships available from just £250 a year there is something for businesses whatever your needs.

Please contact the club’s Commercial Director, Ian Horswell for further information.

info@bulls.je

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10 - 1

FA Cup

Horsham YMCA

Saturday August 7, 2021

Springfield Stadium

FA Cup

Match Report

The Bulls’ line up showed just one change following the defeat at Beckenham with Kieran Lester replacing Fraser Barlow. Barlow dropped to the bench alongside three others who started there last week. Daryl Wilson, replacing the isolating Jake Prince, was also amongst the substitutes, as were James Carr and Jonny Willows. The F.A. Cup allows seven nominated substitutes instead of the five permissible in league games. However, whilst all five can be used in the league, only three of the seven can be brought on in the F.A. Cup as Horsham Y.M.C.A. found to their cost.

Horsham Y.M.C.A. play in the Premier Division of the Southern Combination, a notch above Billingshurst whom the Bulls met in the F.A. Vase last season. However, they were lying 22nd of 23 teams with just one win to their name, when last season was curtailed. They had also started their league programme last Saturday, losing at home to Eastbourne Town 0-2 in front 90 spectators at their Gorings Mead home. Now they were performing in front of at least ten times that number.

This was the Bulls’ debut in the competition and the sell-out crowd only wanted to see one winner. The afternoon began with a minute’s applause in remembrance of James Keating, a popular local ‘keeper who had played for Jersey Scottish, Rozel Rovers and Trinity. Only 47, he had succumbed recently as the third wave of the pandemic hit locally. The applause over, the heavens opened as Y.M.C.A. kicked off attacking the Robin Hood end.

With the drenching barely over Horsham had to make an early change when Charlie Maguire injured an ankle. It was down the right, where Maguire had been defending, that James Queree then threaded a pass through to Sol Solomon. His low cross was slightly behind Lorne Bickley but the striker still managed to sweep it in to the net from ten yards to open the Bulls’ account on the day, with his first goal for the club.

Solomon’s shot on the turn from 20 yards whistled just over the bar before a fine diagonal cross-field ball was lobbed back first time across the goalkeeper and in to the left corner by Jonny Le Quesne. However, assistant Imran Khan correctly ruled him offside, although the yard or two he had gained made no difference to the end product.

If that was unfortunate, the reverse was true two minutes later when Horsham skipper, Charlie Cooke, went to clear from just outside his box. Bickley stuck out a blocking leg and the ball cannoned back over Cooke, his ‘keeper George Hyde, and in off the underside of the bar.

Another break down the left by Solomon set up Jay Giles for a low cross. Bickley stepped over it leaving Kieran Lester to apply the coup de grace from close in to make it 3-0.

In an attempt to halt the regular incursions down both flanks Horsham then used both their other two permitted substitutes. However, within two minutes a corner from the left was allowed to go unchallenged across the face of the Horsham goal. Bickley just beat Luke Campbell to the touch needed to finish it off and in so doing became only the second Bull, behind Solomon, to score a hat trick from open play.

The first half action was still far from over as a Euan Van der Vliet clearance became more of an up and under. One of the recent substitutes, Jack Ryder, nodded it back towards goal and Luke Donaldson set himself well to score arguably the goal of the day with a powerful volley in to the top left corner. Ironically after two matches Van der Vliet has yet to make a meaningful save as he has had little chance with either of those he has conceded.

In added time Ruben Mendes-Pestana was put clear down the left channel. Perhaps he had too long to think about it as he blasted it over when still 20 yards out. The interval arrived after 48 minutes 45 seconds with the score a “healthy” 4-1.

The Bulls remained comfortable if not so dangerous after the interval. A quickly taken free kick by Mendes-Pestana went only just over before Lester spurned two good chances. Set up by the recently introduced substitute, Luca Margaroli, he headed wide before rattling the bar after Solomon put him in.

The afternoon worsened for Horsham two minutes later when Hyde handled a loose ball just outside his box. Although no Bull was close to the ball the near side assistant, Khan, came on, presumably to advise the referee that he considered it a “denial of an obvious goal scoring opportunity”. Therefore Hyde had to take the “long walk” and Lewis Reeves took over in goal.

The Bulls lined three up to take the resultant free kick 18 yards out and it was a Giles left footed curler in to the bottom left corner that gave Reeves no chance and increased the lead to 5-1. James Carr was then brought on for Lester and almost immediately Reeves scuffed a clearance to Solomon eight yards out which was returned first time with just enough on it to beat the covering defender.

Adam Trotter then turned and beat a tackle on the left side of centre before making it 7-1 with a crisp cross shot after which Solomon nearly scored his second when he rattled the cross bar from a free kick on the left sideline 30 yards out. At this juncture with, 7 minutes remaining, Jack Reeves limped off and with no replacement possible Horsham were down to 9 fit men.

Bulls showed no mercy and Solomon jinked down to the right byline before setting up Margaroli ten yards out to make it 8-1. Lewis Reeves, having conceded four goals in the dozen minutes he had been between “the sticks”, decided he had had enough of picking the ball out of the back of the net and so Ryder took over and became Horsham’s third custodian of the day.

 

Ryder fared no better. Close inter play between Bickley and Solomon set up the latter for the ninth. Carr put in Bickley for what looked like his fourth before Khan chalked it off for a marginal offside. Solomon made it double figures with Bickley jumping over his shot and with no flag raised this time Solomon had his second Bulls’ hat trick.

The referee was more merciful with Bulls now scoring a goal every third minute. He only added 45 seconds to end the misery of the gallant Y.M.C.A. who took the “slings and arrows of outrageous fortune” with good grace and made no complaints of how matters had gone the Bulls’ way.

Bulls therefore figure amongst the last 555 in the competition and travel to Newhaven in a fortnight when they will hope to become one of the last 400.

Contacting Phil Annets of “FACupFactfile” he confirmed that only ten debutants had made a better start in the 150 years of the competition. Most of these were in the early years of the Cup, with only two since World War I, and the last being in 1945 by Bulls’ league rivals Walton & Hersham. Five of the ten clubs listed below went on to become Football League clubs. Phil’s new book “F.A.Cup 150” is a must.

16-0 New Crusaders d. Woking (Q1) 1905-06
14-0 Exeter City d. Weymouth (Q1) 1908-09
12-0 Ardwick (now Manchester City) d. Liverpool Stanley (Q1) 1890-91
11-0 Huddersfield Town d. Heckmondwike (PR) 1909-10
11-0 Bentley Colliery d. Bridlington Albion (EP) 1912-13
11-0 Royal Arsenal (now Arsenal) d. Lyndhurst (Q1) 1889-90
11-0 Walton & Hersham d. Epsom Town (Q1) 1945-46
10-0 Portsmouth d. Ryde (Q1) 1899-00
10-0 West Hampstead d. Hampstead (Q1) 1899-00
10-0 Gilfach d Cross Keys (EP) 1921-22

So a very impressive debut watched by 975 enraptured spectators. This tally was second only to the 1,334 at the reformed former Football League club, Macclesfield.
It was also over twice the next highest of 469 for the West Cornwall derby when Mousehole entertained Helston Athletic at Trungle Parc.

Jersey Bulls (4) 10; Horsham Y.M.C.A. (1) 1
(Lorne Bickley (3) 17, 29 & 39, Kieran Lester 36, Jay Giles 74, Sol Solomon (3) 76, 87 & 90, Adam Trotter 78, Luca Margaroli 84; Luke Donaldson 42)

Attendance – 975 (all ticket, limited by pandemic restrictions) to equal the record set by the opening Bulls’ friendly v Stevenage two years ago)

Programme – 28 pages (A5, full colour) £2

Jersey Bulls – Euan Van der Vliet, Jonny Le Quesne, Jay Giles, James Queree (c), Luke Campbell, Kamen Nafkha, Kieran Lester, Adam Trotter, Lorne Bickley, Ruben Mendes-Pestana, Sol Solomon
Substitutes – Jack Griffin (not used), Daryl Wilson (not used), Luca Margaroli (for Mendes-Pestana 60), Fraser Barlow (not used), Joe Kilshaw (for Nafkha 60), James Carr (for Lester 75), Jonny Willows (GK, not used)

Gary Freeman (Manager), Kevan Nelson (Assistant), Jason Carpenter (Coach), Dan Seviour (Coach), Richard Hebert (GK Coach), Ciaran Pack (Physio.)

Red/White/White; GK All Yellow

Horsham Y.M.C.A. – George Hyde, Reece Batchelor, Charlie Maguire, Charlie Cooke (c), Oscar Cutter, Jack Reeves, Toby Funnell, Martin Begg, Luke Donaldson, Adrian Todd, Will Read
Substitutes – Jack Ryder (for Batchelor 37), Dan Lombardo (not used), Ollie Gill (not used), Olly Wilson (for Funnell 37), Lewis Reeves (for Maguire 10)

Dean Carden (Manager), Ryan King (Assistant Manager), Lee Maguire (Coach), Paul Brown (Physio.)

All Blue; GK Purple/Black/Purple

Referee – Luke Chapman (Horley) has been refereeing for 18 years, albeit with a gap of 6 years in the middle of that period.

Assistants – Imran Khan (Camberley) the namesake of the Pakistani Prime Minister is a Lance Bombardier in the Royal Artillery now based at Larkhill, Wiltshire. He qualified as a referee 7 years ago but has converted to largely being a Specialist Assistant Referee for the past two seasons. Mike Spence (Littlehampton) Born and raised in Belfast he qualified as a referee 12 years ago.

Dismissal – George Hyde (Horsham Y.M.C.A. GK) 72 – a straight red for “D.O.G.S.O.” (denial of an obvious goalscoring opportunity) Caution – Oscar Cutter (Horsham Y.M.C.A.) 80 – foul on Carr

Corners – Jersey Bulls (4) 7; Horsham Y.M.C.A. (0) 0

Player of the Match Award (sponsors) – Lorne Bickley (Jersey Bulls)

Player of the Match Award (local paper, unofficial) – Sol Solomon (Jersey Bulls)

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