Dorset Premier League (Sat 18-10-08)
The Reserves won their first Premier League match of the season, and lifted themselves two places away from the bottom spot, and up the table. It once again proved that progress is being made, and the team has now gone three games on the trot without a defeat.
The first half turned out to be fairly even, but as the first period was drawing to a close the Hammers scored. A ball from the right found Lee Thomas who was making his return up front for the team following an injury when playing for the first team. He took the ball on the half volley to score and send his side in happy at the break.
United had much the better of things in the second half with Brett Williams and Sean Griffiths controlling the defence, ably abetted by keeper Wayne Robbins at the back. The game was put beyond doubt four minutes from the end when substitute Adam Tilsed was on hand to volley in a corner at the far post, and make it 2-0 at the close of play.
Team: W. Robbins, M Seal( A. Tilsed), S. Coakes, B. Williams, S. Griffiths, M. Glavin, D. Orchard, M. Wynne, G. Williams, L. Thomas, C. Miles.               Unused Subs: R. Flower, A. Powell

South West Counties Youth League (Saturday 18-10-08)
 
The Hammers were playing an inform Team Bath and got off to a great start when a poor keeper’s clearance fell to Rich Norris, who from 35 yards returned the ball into an empty net to make it 1-0. Fifteen minutes later Team Bath applied some pressure down the left side, and delivered a dangerous cross. Sam Phillips was first to it, but was poorly adjudged to have handled the ball in the area, so giving Team Bath a penalty. The taker stepped up, but found himself against an in-form Tom Brown, who stood his ground and made a great save. The ball rebounded back to the taker, who then saw his second attempt hit the post. This time it fell to their left midfielder who drilled the ball against the bar. It finally fell to Jack Smith who made no mistake with a great clearance. In the following twenty minutes the Hammers took control of the game with some great passing and movement in midfield, to which Team Bath had no answer. The ball was played to Ross Hampton-Brown, and his quick feet touched the ball past the defender who could only bring him down in the area to give us a penalty. Rich Norris wasted no time in putting the ball down on the spot before sending the keeper the wrong way to give us a 2 - 0 lead. Minutes later a quick ball played by Rich Norris found Lewis Williams in space. His run took him past his marker before he neatly slid the ball under the oncoming keeper to make it 3 – 0 for United going into the break.
The second half was pretty much the same as the first with the Hammers having the better of things. Team Bath had a hand full of chances, but they could not find a way past Tom Brown and his solid defence. Hamworthy took control, and got their fourth goal when a Team Bath defender handled the ball to give us our second penalty of the game. Rich Norris again coolly slotted the ball home to give him his hat-trick and the Hammer’s fourth goal.
A great display by the lads who all gave 110%!
Team: T. Brown, D. O’Reilly, S. Phillips, M. Jamison. J. Smith(T. Smith), R. Hampton-Brown(C.Budden), R. Norris, T. Holden, L. Pidgley, D.Macklin (D. Gale), L.Williams.

F.A. Youth Cup 2nd Qualifying Round (Monday 06-10-08)

The young Hammers did the Club proud losing to a side that have yet to be beaten this season, and play their league matches in the Conference Academy League. The score line flattered Havant who probably just edged the game over the ninety minutes, but were never two goals better than United. Their three goals all came in the first twenty minutes from quick breakaways all started in their own half.
United were caught in the sixth minute by a fast break down the right. Tom Rees did well to dive and save the shot from the resulting cross into the box. He could do nothing about the second which was scored from close range by a forward latching on to the loose ball from the save. Hamworthy should have had a penalty as the Havant Keeper bundled over Lewis Williams as he attacked the ball well inside the area. The Referee however allowed play to continue, and from the clearance the Academy Team broke quickly to score their second goal. They added a third identical goal soon after as the Hammers struggled to contain their very quick and strong front runners. To their credit United continued to play their passing football, and did well to prevent conceding any more goals before the break.
Hamworthy were the better side in the second half creating more chances of their own. They closed Havant down a lot quicker than they did in the first half, and prevented them from getting many goal scoring opportunities. The Hammers got more on top as the half went on, keeping Havant at full stretch to contain them. Unfortunately for the Hammers it was not until seven minutes from the end that they got a goal back with a good sweeping move up field of their own. Dean Macklin was on hand with a superb finish at the end of the move that gave the Keeper no chance, and gave United a much deserved consolation goal.
This was a good all round display which bodes well for the future, and all the boys can take great pride in their performance. After going three goals down so early in the game many teams would have folded, but to their credit they battled until the end.

Team: T. Rees, S, Phillips, S. Fox, J. Smith, J. Cole, M. Seal, T. Holden( J. Beale)
R. Norris, W. Lewis( L. Pidgley), B. Conner( S. Lanahan) D. Macklin          Unused Subs: T. Smith, R. Hampton-Brown

Dorset Premier League (Saturday 04-10-08) ( Some Extracts Taken from the Dorset Premier Website) Fourth placed side Poole Borough shared two goals and the points on their short trip to the County Ground to play Hamworthy United. The Hammers welcomed back their long serving player Bret Williams into the team to play his first game following a long layoff due to injury. His experience at the back proved to be a big plus in the Reserve’s much improved display. Following a fairly even first half Gary Williams playing his first game back with United, gave the Hammers the lead just before the break. The Borough got on top in the second half, and on the hour the Hornets drew level. A well taken goal by Ross Edwards gave Luke Wines the Hammers Keeper no chance to save. The Hammers held on to take a well earned point This was the Hammers second point of the season, but not enough to take them off the bottom. They will however look to brighter things to come as more players become available to them in the near future.

Team: L.Wines, M. Seal, S. Coakes, B. Williams, S. Griffiths, C. Miles, D. Orchard, M. Wynne, G. Williams, U. Msadu (D. Spires), A. Tilsed, Unused Sub R. Flower.

F.A.Vase (First Round Proper) Saturday 04-10-08

Once again Phil Simkin, and his men were able to make the long journey back from the West Country with another Cup win under their belts. The team were made to battle the full ninety minutes by a Barnstaple Team that proved to be much stronger opposition than their League position suggests. The Hammers squad was down to its bare bones with seven players unavailable for one reason or another including keeper Martin Peters who was on holiday. Wayne Robbins played his first game in goal for the senior team this season, and joint reserve team manager Gary Clark was on the bench. They both went on to give a good account of themselves in the game.
With a strong wind in their faces Hamworthy started the brighter of the two teams, and went ahead after only six minutes. Following a good move down the left, Tim Constable got round the back of the Barnstaple defence, and chipped the ball back from the by-line. The ball was then nodded on to the far post where Warren Byerley was on hand. He headed powerfully past the keeper to add yet another goal to his impressive tally this season. Barnstaple almost equalised straight away when a Town striker headed the ball onto the crossbar before it went over for a goal kick. Wayne Robbins did well to punch away another dangerous cross. The Home side played mainly route one football lofting the ball forward at every opportunity for their tall Captain, and top goal scorer Kevin Squire to get on to. Last season he scored thirty five goals in thirty five games for Barnstaple, and he was once again proving to be their main danger. United when they got the ball down played the better football, but the midfield was often being missed out by the ball being lofted in the air. The score remained 1-0 at the break.
As you would expect the Hammers were forced on the defensive for long periods of the second half as Barnstaple chased the game. They never really got a clear shot on target however, and were forced to shoot harmlessly from long range for most of the time. As the game drew to an end Barnstaple threw more men forward in search of an equaliser, and this left them open to being caught on the break. With two minutes of normal time remaining a good ball out of defence found the experienced substitute Gary Clark through one on one with the keeper. He kept his cool, and drew out the Town keeper before slipping the ball past him, and into the empty net. Barnstaple pulled a goal back with time running out .Their top striker Kevin Squire took full advantage of the ball only being cleared to the edge of the box and lashed it past the helpless Wayne Robbins giving him no chance. This was to be their last chance as the Hammers saw out the remaining time.

Team: W. Robbins, S. Gilbert, R. Jackson, O Cherrett, N. Walker (Cpt), M. Crow, T. Constable, M. Dancer, M. Claremont (G. Clark) W. Byerley, S. Cannie. Unused Subs : G. Horlock, M. Glavin.

F.A.Vase (First Round Proper) Saturday 04-10-08

Once again Phil Simkin, and his men were able to make the long journey back from the West Country with another Cup win under their belts. The team were made to battle the full ninety minutes by a Barnstaple Team that proved to be much stronger opposition than their League position suggests. The Hammers squad was down to its bare bones with seven players unavailable for one reason or another including keeper Martin Peters who was on holiday. Wayne Robbins played his first game in goal for the senior team this season, and joint reserve team manager Gary Clark was on the bench. They both went on to give a good account of themselves in the game.
With a strong wind in their faces Hamworthy started the brighter of the two teams, and went ahead after only six minutes. Following a good move down the left, Tim Constable got round the back of the Barnstaple defence, and chipped the ball back from the by-line. The ball was then nodded on to the far post where Warren Byerley was on hand. He headed powerfully past the keeper to add yet another goal to his impressive tally this season. Barnstaple almost equalised straight away when a Town striker headed the ball onto the crossbar before it went over for a goal kick. Wayne Robbins did well to punch away another dangerous cross. The Home side played mainly route one football lofting the ball forward at every opportunity for their tall Captain, and top goal scorer Kevin Squire to get on to. Last season he scored thirty five goals in thirty five games for Barnstaple, and he was once again proving to be their main danger. United when they got the ball down played the better football, but the midfield was often being missed out by the ball being lofted in the air. The score remained 1-0 at the break.
As you would expect the Hammers were forced on the defensive for long periods of the second half as Barnstaple chased the game. They never really got a clear shot on target however, and were forced to shoot harmlessly from long range for most of the time. As the game drew to an end Barnstaple threw more men forward in search of an equaliser, and this left them open to being caught on the break. With two minutes of normal time remaining a good ball out of defence found the experienced substitute Gary Clark through one on one with the keeper. He kept his cool, and drew out the Town keeper before slipping the ball past him, and into the empty net. Barnstaple pulled a goal back with time running out .Their top striker Kevin Squire took full advantage of the ball only being cleared to the edge of the box and lashed it past the helpless Wayne Robbins giving him no chance. This was to be their last chance as the Hammers saw out the remaining time.

Team: W. Robbins, S. Gilbert, R. Jackson, O Cherrett, N. Walker (Cpt), M. Crow, T. Constable, M. Dancer, M. Claremont (G. Clark) W. Byerley, S. Cannie. Unused Subs : G. Horlock, M. Glavin.

F.A. Cup 2nd Qualifying Round (Saturday 27-09-08)

The first 20 minutes Hamworthy looked more comfortable on the ball than the hosts, the Hammers had a couple of 30 yard efforts that went just wide of the posts, In the 20th minute Basingsoke should have done better when a good cross from the left was softly headed into the hands of Martin Peters.In the 31st minute some slick passing put Basingstokes Mitchell Bryant through who cleverly slotted it home to put the hosts 1 - 0 up. The first half was then played out by both sides playing the ball too much in the air.

The second half began with a challenge that brought down a Basingstoke forward in the box in the 46th minute, the penalty was confidently put away to give the hosts a 2 - 0 lead. Hammers could have made more from a good cross in the 49th minute but two Hammers players jumping for the ball collided with each other and the ball went safely away for a goal kick. Max Crow went on a good run with the ball starting in our half of the pitch cleverly taking the ball aound three of the Basingstoke challenges, unfortunately his cross out the right was intercepted and the ball was booted forward which caught our defence a bit flat footed and Bryant with time and space neatly put the ball in the net to give the hosts a flattering 3 - 0 lead. Stuart Cannie was pulled down in the box in the 83rd minute and Warren Byerley put the penalty away to make it 3 - 1.

It shows how far the Hammers have moved on when all at the club were disappointed at losing to a Blue Square South team !

Peters, Yelland,Cherrett, Walker, Gilbert, Crow, Dovell ( Glavin 70 mins ).Dancer ( Norris 87 mins ) Jackson ( Claremont 65 mins , Cannie, Byerley.
Attendance 329

Dorset Premier League (Friday19-09-08)

This was a much better display by a strengthened Reserve Team that included some first team squad players. The first half was fairly even with some entertaining end to end play. Hamworthy had Wayne Robbins playing his first game in goal since his transfer from Swanage. This together with the experienced Steve Gilbert gave them a bit more stability in defence than of late. A clash of heads early in the game saw Crispin Riggler and Mark Seal both having to leave the field, with the former having to go to hospital with a suspected broken nose. Both team were unable to take their chances before the break and a 0-0 scoreline was a fair reflection of the game up to that point.
It was Hamworthy who finally opened the scoring when new signing Martin Warren hooked in a cross from the right to score a well taken goal. The Hammers were then guilty of sitting back on their lead, and were made to pay for it when the Rec took full advantage to level the scores. United fielding several youngsters who had played the previous night began to tire as the second half went on. This allowed the visitors to score two more late goals including an own goal to give them in the end a deserved win.

Team: W, Robbins,M. Seal (S. Griffiths), S. Coakes, G. Horlock (A. Powell), S. Gilbert, M. Wynne. M. Glavin, R. McCabe, M. Warren,S. Lanahan, A. Tilsed (A. Davis)

F.A. Vase 2nd Qualifying Round (Saturday 20-09-08)
The Hammers thoroughly deserved to go through to the next round of the Vase following this convincing, but often difficult tie. The Toolstation Western Premier League side lost their composure towards the end of the game, and had their Goalkeeper sent off as they were leaving the field. Radstock were given seven yellow, and two red cards in total against Hamworthy United’s two yellow cards. This in it’s self tells a story
The surface was good, but the pitch sloped two ways both lengthways, and across. This you would think must favour the home side, who were used to playing on it. Hamworthy began the match kicking down the slope, and very quickly took the lead. Lee Thomas after harassing the tall Radstock central defender into a corner was on the receiving end of a two footed tackle, as another defender came sliding in. The tackle in the first two minutes led to a yellow card being shown, and Lee having to come off shortly afterwards. A minute later a pin point cross from Stuart Cannie found Warren Byerley poaching at the far post. The in form striker rifled the ball into the net for the first of his thee goals. United as you would expect kicking down hill continued to look the more dangerous of the two teams, and doubled their lead in the twenty fifth minute. Warren Byerley was again on hand to take full advantage of some poor defending, and slide the ball into the corner of the net. Seven minutes later Stuart Cannie took on, and beat his right back before crossing the ball hard, and low into the box. Substitute Mark Claremont beat his defender before smashing the ball into the roof of the net to make it three without reply. Radstock did pull one back however before half time. They made the most of a poor clearance that ended up at the feet of their best player James Billing who gave Martin Peters no chance to make it 3-1 at the break.
Radstock as you would expect came out hard after the break, and with the slope in their favour, forced United to defend for long periods. Some good defending and some poor finishing however meant that despite all the pressure Martin Peters never really had to make a difficult save. Hamworthy gradually weathered the storm, and began to hit the Home side on the break. One of these breaks led to the Miners six foot five central defender pulling down Mark Claremont, and perhaps being harshly sent off as he did not look to be the last defender. Warren Byerley got his hat-trick with five minutes remaining. He kept his head kept slotted the ball past the keeper after being put through one on one. The game finished with several disgruntled Radstock players surrounding the Referee.
Hamworhy now go on to meet Barnstaple away in the next round.

Team: M. Peters , K. Yelland, R. Jackson,O. Cherrett, N. Walker (Capt). M. Crow, T. Constable, M. Dancer, L. Thomas (M. Claremont), W. Byerley, S. Cannie. Unused Subs: R. Norris, W. Robbins, S. Lanahan.

Bashley 2 Hamworthy United 3 (aet)

Wednesday evening saw our South West Counties team take on a strong Bashley side in the FA Youth cup.
Both teams started very strongly and it took just 20 min for Bashley to have there first chance, Tom Rees saw a looping volley hit the bar then post and luckily bounce out before Jack Smith cleared.
11 minuets later the Hammers took the lead when Dean Macklin passed the ball through for Lewis Williams, once he’d out paced the the defence he confidently slid the ball past the oncoming keeper to make it 1-0.
The game stayed like that until the half time whistle with both teams finding their opposing keepers in fine form.
The second half again was started with a fast pace with Dean Macklin and Lewis Williams both going close but finding no way through.
Bashley equalized in the 50th minute when a shot was tipped onto the bar by keeper Tom Rees only to fall at the feet of their front man whose shot was just over the line.
As the final whistle approached two substitutes, Sam Lanahan and Luke Pidgley were brought on, and it took just 12 minuets for Luke Pidgley to make his mark as he slotted the home from 10 yards in the 92 minuet of extra time.
In the 95th minute, Lewis Williams was replaced by the up and coming Danny Gale.
And again it took just 5 minuets for Danny Gale to try and finish the game as he turned his marker to fire home from 10 yards to make it 3-1.
In the 100th minute of extra time the Hammers found themselves down to 10 men as Ritchie Norris was harshly sent off for two bookable offences.
As the game drew to a close Bashley applied the pressure and it paid off when they bundled home a free kick to make it 3-2.
Despite all the pressure and being down to 10 men, The Hammers stood firm as they defended with all they had.
There was huge relief when the referee blew for full time, and the Hammers celebrated going into the next round of the FA youth cup.