Tag: Calne Town FC

Calne Town 3 Warminster Town 2

The Western League resumed play on Saturday, and Warminster Town travelled to Calne for a change in the advertised fixture. The plan had initially been to travel to Oldland Abbotonians, but with the area being in Tier 3, the league made the change.

With Calne Town starting the day in third place and Warminster just 2 points behind in sixth, it was all to play for in this match. The game finished with the home side winning 3-2.

Warminster took the lead in the 13th minute when De-Silva crossed from the left-hand edge of the penalty area finding Lewis Graham inside the box. Lewis turned and fired low into the left side of the goal. Not to be outdone, it took barely 2 minutes for Calne to equalise. Jay Walters finding himself in space in front of goal tapped home the ball, following the ball being nicely worked from left to right and back to the scorer.

Calne put a lot of pressure on the visitor’s goal in the first half and was it not for the brilliant efforts of the keeper, Callum Hotine, the scoreline would have been much higher for Calne at halftime. Warminster almost regained the lead in the 44th minute, when Calne cleared the ball off the line.

The second half also proved to be a game with both teams putting in great effort to win the game, making it exciting to watch. Calne doubled their score in the 53rd minute when Walters made it a brace with a shot from the 18-yard line beating Hotine, near the post diving to his right.

Warminster were denied a goal 19 minutes into the half as deemed offside. In the 65th minute on came Francois Allen and within 4 minutes he tucked home the ball from a corner kick drawing the Red and Blacks level. Warminster were looking much stronger in the second half and placed the home team under much more pressure.

Calne’s third goal came from a mistake by the keeper Hotine, who had been excellent throughout the match. In the 77th minute, Jamie Norman shot hopefully from 25 yards out, and Hotine for some reason tried to clear it with his right foot, and the ball appeared to go underneath it.

A disappointing result from Warminster’s point of view as they had worked so hard in the game to lose that way. They remain in 6th place in the league but have shown that they are capable of moving higher.

Team: Hotine, Sisson, Jeffery, Graham, De Silva, Lisowski, Miluk, Bartley*, Johnson*, Wain, Butler*. (*Subbed)
Subs: (Used) Seviour Allen Barnes
(Unused) Churchyard, Mortimer-Taylor

Warminster Town 1 Calne Town 0

On the first dry Saturday for a while, Warminster Town welcomed the league leaders, Calne Town to Weymouth Street. The home side, up until this match, had not won a home league game all season. Today though that was about to change. A single goal in the match gave Warminster that first home league win so needed and moved them up to 14th in the table.

Warminster produced a good solid performance, earning the public praise of manager, Andy Crabtree via his Twitter account @AndytheCrab. Warminster contained the visitors very well throughout the game, limiting them to few opportunities to score. The back four, comprising, McFerran, Graham, De-Silva and Jeffery (players man of the match) did well and worked hard for 90 minutes to keep the clean sheet and make life much easier in goal for the keeper, Nathan Ball.

The only goal came when in the 39th minute, Jack Miluk was brought down after making a run into the penalty area. Ian Jeffery stepped forward to take the penalty which the keeper saved but parried back into the path of Jeffery who made no mistake with his second chance and put the ball past Thomson to take the lead. 

Five minutes after the penalty, George Butler went close, firing the ball just over the bar, not long after which the referee blew his whistle for halftime. 

Just 5 minutes into the second half, Jack MIluk should have made life more comfortable for The Red & Blacks. Allan won the ball inside the visitor’s penalty area, squared the ball to Miluk who blasted the ball onto the underside of the crossbar, the ball bouncing downwards but sadly away from the goal-line. Later in the game, Miluk had another golden opportunity in a one on one with the keeper but shot wide of the right-hand post. 

Calne Town tried hard to breakdown the Warminster defence, particularly more so in the second-half but were limited to some long-range and well off-target shots.

All in all, an excellent performance from the home side and a victory which they well deserved. This result should give them more confidence in future home matches. However, they are not at home now until Wednesday, December 4th when they play Cheddar F.C. with kickoff at 7.45 pm. The next game is on Saturday, November 23rd, with a trip to Almondsbury F.C kickoff at 3.00 pm.

Team: Ball, McFerran, Jeffery, Graham, De-Silva, Lisowski, Miluk, Mortimer-Taylor, Allan, Butler, Shanley
Subs: Vincent, Johnson, Barnes, Fletcher 

Warminster Town 3 – Calne Town 1

We only need 10 men!

On one of those rare lovely warm and sunny days in February, Warminster Town welcomed Calne Town to Weymouth Street. High flying Calne lying in third place in the table and chasing promotion this game billed as a tough challenge for the ‘Red & Blacks’. The game indeed was full of twists and turns, and Warminster showed true grit to come out as the 3 – 1 winning team. Here’s how the game unfolded.

In the first half, Calne showed why they were towards the top of the table, passing the ball well and creating chances. Just inside the tenth minute, Calne struck first with a goal by Rory Worthington made easy by poor defending by the home side. Both sides threatened, and Warminster forced many corners in the first half-hour and produced some shots but were unable to capitalise on them. The game was not helped by the referee who made some strange decisions regarding what counted as a foul causing frustration amongst the players and supporters.

As both teams were battling for supremacy, Warminster scored the equaliser in the 40th minute, when Calne’s keeper Martin Mitchell’s save from Martin Johnson’s free-kick was pushed into the path of Conner McKay who headed the ball home. The second-half ended 1 -1.

More controversy came early in the second half and still inside in the first minute when Warminster’s captain Charlie Walton was accused of stamping on a Calne player while winning the ball. It was a straight red card for Walton much to the bewilderment of all onlookers. How would the ten-man home side now fare with nearly all of the half remaining? The players responded well and reorganised to keep Calne away from goal as much as possible while looking for opportunities to attack and exploit any gaps in the visitors’ defence. To help with the battle, manager Andy Crabtree substituted Martin Johnson for Eban Mortimer-Taylor 8 minutes into this half.

A few minutes after the substitution in the 56th minute, Jack Miluk made good work down the left and from the edge of the penalty area crossed with a looping ball along the edge of the 6-yard line and the ball was met by George Butler flying in at the far side leaving the keeper with no chance of getting there.

Five minutes later (61) Connor McKay worked hard on the right-hand side and almost reaching the touchline crossed into the box to find Jack Miluk waiting in the centre of goal on the edge of the 6-yard box to beat his marker and strike the ball home with his right foot. Calne Town were clearly not enjoying this experience and there was a fair amount of dissent towards the referee who clearly was not controlling the players and allowing this to happen.

Warminster went close again in the 64th minute when a superb free kick by Mortimer-Taylor floated into the box, met by Butler and cleared off the line by the keeper.

Calne did create some chances, and Nathan Ball called into action. Calne missed a great opportunity (70) after a rebound from Ball’s save at the near post was tapped straight back to him by a Calne player instead of into a fairly open goal! Warminster countered a few minutes later when Miluk made a great run from halfway, squared the ball to McKay a yard outside of the centre of the penalty area. With the keeper rushing out he shot to avoid him, and the ball went agonisingly wide of the right-hand post.

MIluk proved a threat for the rest of this half as the outlet for Warminster to find him and still look to exploit Calne as they pushed to get back in the game. Calne did go close hitting the crossbar after being tipped onto it by Ball’s save with 12 minutes left on the clock. Calne’s hearts were also in their mouths when their keeper came out of his box to close to the halfway to lob the ball to Warminster’s penalty area. The ball was cleared by Alex Churchyard, and it went all the way towards Calne’s goal and finished going past the left post by a couple of yards with the keeper having no chance of getting back.

Warminster cleverly ran the clock down in the final minutes keeping the ball and frustrating the visitors’ from any chance of getting any points from this game. It was another excellent performance from a team whose confidence is growing and now capable of beating any team on the day in this league.

The league leaders, Cheddar F.C. are next on Saturday, March 2nd at Weymouth Street. Kickoff 3.00pm.

Team: Ball, Baggs, Barnes, Graham, De-Silva, Churchyard, Miluk, Walton(c), Johnson, McKay, Butler subs: Herd, Mortimer-Taylor, McEntee