Its Childs Play for the Miners

Radstock Town Chairman, Simon Wilkinson (left)
 commentating with Ian Nockolds.

Radstock Town Chairman, Simon Wilkinson issues a message to the Miners.

"Well, here we are all most three months after being told to stop playing and having been focusing on the fantastic work being done by the club’s supporters, players and management to refurbish the club house and ground I thought it was time to bring you up to date with where we are from a football perspective.

As you know Nathan was keen to carry on with the work that he and Brett had been doing last season and both of us are very pleased to announce that Ryan Child will be working with him to continue that project and deliver the success that the football being played during the last campaign deserves. Ryan is a UEFA B coach but is still very keen to play and sees this role as an opportunity to compliment his time on the pitch rather than compromise it and is relishing this first move into team coaching and management.

The players themselves are ‘chomping at the bit’ to get started and there was just a little bit of envy amongst them last week when the under eighteens started their return to playing with a very well organised session completed well within the FA safe distancing guidelines.

Nathan and Ryan are working on their own return to training plan at the moment, which I am assured will be getting started in the very near future. I am also hopeful that we may get some indications as to when our 125^th anniversary season will kick off following a meeting planned for June 19^th between all of the step 5 & 6 leagues and the FA. Personally, I think that will be in September but whenever it is, be assured that we will be ready.

Back in March I can say that I was worried about what sort of future ‘the Miners’ were facing and even if there was one at all but because of the remarkable efforts of so many people to financially support and rejuvenate the club I now believe that when we get to the other side of this pandemic the club will be in a really strong position to go forward and that we are actually on the threshold of something very special.

Thank you one and all and please stay safe.