NEWTOWN JUNIORS

Our Under-11s played a friendly last Friday evening in Ashford against the local side and we thank them and Paul Conyard for organising the game. Our 12s and 13s were due to play friendlies on Sunday morning but unfortunately a frozen pitch put paid to that.

Last week we reported about changes the WDSL were making with regards both the SSG and the 11-a-side games but after the delegates meeting last week there has been a couple of changes.

The small-sided game format will be up and running on the weekend of February 23/24 for the Under-9s and 11s with 8s and 10s starting back the following weekend of March 2/3. All these age groups will be playing every weekend.

Regards the 12s, they will start on the weekend of March 2/3 while the Under-13s will be back the previous weekend of February 23/24. For the first few weeks these teams will play on alternate weekends, but we have been assured by the