Castleford Town JFC - Pumas

Happy birthday to Josh, have a brilliant day 🎂 🥳 🎉 🎈 🎁

🟠 Match Result ⚫️

A few weeks back we managed a pre season friendly against Ponty Colls Yellows. Last season we faced our opponents in our division and while we beat them in the league they have began to recruit well in preparation for next season.

Despite us struggling for recent game time and only managing Gala football we were raring to go and extremely hungry for the win.

We decided to try some players in new positions as we were a little light on numbers and this gave us a bit of a headache as those trying new positions played exceptional.

Riley who had really found his stride towards the end of last season was on fire scoring a hat-trick and also getting two assists.

Last seasons top scorer Oliver P scored yet again after a phenomenal zig zag run and also bagged an assist.

The stand out performance came from Charlie. Charlie started out life with us as a keeper and after one season moved outfield into defence. At around 6ft tall you can imagine he is an intimidating presence so you can imagine how terrifying it was for our opposition when we played him as striker, and boy did he do well bagging a thirteen minute hat-trick. Absolutely legendary performance.

Players of the match were

James B for superb strength and positional play
Riley for a all round star performance
Charlie for his grit and determination

Well done everyone 👏

🟠 New Signing ⚫️

We would like to announce our second acquisition of the summer, Josh Dixon.
Josh joins us after leaving his previous team after they unfortunately folded. After playing last season in division 2 its clear to see the quality that Josh will bring to our team. After playing and training over the last few weeks he has really began to fit in well.
Welcome to Castleford Town Josh 🙌

⚫️ New Signing 🟠

We would like to announce one of our new summer acquisitions. Josh joins us after being unattached to a team for quite some time, his last team being of some exceptional quality. Despite Josh being out of football for quite a while he's always had the desire to return, and while he has been a little rusty his quality is starting to show and his confidence is growing. We're sure Josh will be a important player for us.

Welcome to Castleford Town Josh 🙌

Happy Birthday to Alice, hope you've had a fantastic day 🎂 🥳 🎉

Belated happy birthday to Lennon, we hope he had a fantastic day 🎂 🥳 🎉

(Facebook decided to lock us out 😐)

Happy birthday to Oliver P, hope you have a fantastic day 🎉🥳🎂

Congratulations on the birthday goal too.

⚫️ Match Report 🟠

Over the last few weeks we have had a few friendlies against opposition from the division above as we look to prepare for next season.

1st match vs Wheldrake

This was a tough experience for us and while we struggled at times the score didn't reflect the match. At times it was clear to see why Wheldrake had earned 2nd place in their division but we really held our own creating some fantastic chances and playing lovely football.

2nd match vs Garforth Villa

This match didn't start well for us after we conceded in 18 seconds. It took a while to find our feet while also trialing a couple of new players. Although we went behind early we soon found our rhythm and went into the break 3-1 up. And while Garforth played some good attacking football we were too strong at the back and fast with our counter attack for them to cope. A good day at the office for us.

POTM were-

Ben, Charlie, Clayton and Jackson

3rd match vs Altofts

This one was always going to be a good match as most of the players know each other and bragging rights were on the line.
This time we were trialing 3 new players and once again we started slow with Altofts taking a early lead before doubling their lead on the 29th minute. We managed to pull one back after superb play from Riley and Brandon firing home. After the break we hit them quickly after a shot was rebounded off the post for Jackson to slot home. Altofts scored almost immediately to retake the lead but then something really clicked for us and we played beautifully fluid football. Adrin scored a fantastic lobbed goal to equalise which really rallied the team and one minute later we had taken the lead through Jackson after a lovely assist from Oliver P.
A few minutes passed before Riley turned provider again for Jackson to complete his hat-trick. Four minutes later Clayton made a superb run to then assist Riley to score a great goal and put the game to bed.

POTM were-

Adrin, Jackson and Thomas

Not bad results and great games for our trialing players. Three Gala's incoming now and a few more friendlies before a well earned break and some much needed R&R before we begin our new season (hopefully) in the new Saturday Garforth League.

Huge thank you to our sponsors
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⚫️Match Result🟠

A slight delay to posting this.

We ended our season with a win back in April and although we had played our opponents the week before they put up a valiant effort but in the end we were too strong and deserved to finish our season with another win.

On the day there were some superb goals scored and some beautiful football played by both teams.

Players of the match were:

Harrison, James B, James C and Coby

This concludes our best ever season as a team as we finished runners up in our division, earning promotion to division 3 😁.

But despite this there was also some sadness as we said goodbye to two fantastic players.

Connor- who despite only playing for us for one season became a very important player for us especially with his strength and wonderful long passing abilities.

Coby- where to begin... Coby joined us a couple of weeks after we formed and over the last 3 years we have watched him grow into a fantastic footballer and wonderful young man. Like Connor, Coby was a year younger than the rest of the team but this didn't stop either of them from excelling. They will be sorely missed.

Happy birthday to our keeper Brody. Have a fantastic day 🎂🥳🎉