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is still relatively young in age. Everyone at the club is looking forward to this new challenge,
with Gaffer Antony Lynch once again leading the 1 Team. In our first season we finished
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in tenth place in the final table, but we did win the hospitality Award and the Programme
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Award. The 2013-14season, the 1 Team will be managed by our very successful 2 Team
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manager Adam Castle who took over from Antony Lynch towards the end of the 2012-13
season, with the team finishing the season in 11 place. It was another great season in the
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history of this great club when the 1 team finished in runners-up spot in the Western
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League Premier Division, the highest finish in the clubs history in the non-league pyramid.
We also won the Premier Division best programme award for the third consecutive season,
making it eight consecutive league wins in the last eight seasons. The 1st Team managed
by Adam Castle finished in 4th Place in the Western League Premier Division, but not good
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enough to reach our goal of promotion. The team made it through to the 6 Round of the
FA Vase, whilst finishing in 4 place in the league table, but once again just missed out on
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promotion, in the 2016-17, we also won the hospitality award and best programme awards.
It was a fifth place finish in the 2017-18, but we did win the Les Phillips Cup for the first
time, but it will be the fixture congestion at the end of the campaign which will be
remembered with the number of games our lads had to play including four games in four
days and three games in three days, and having played fifteen games in twenty-four days.
We also won the best programme award for a fifth time in six seasons.. It was a turbulent
season 2018-19, as three managers were used, starting with Craig Duff, then interim boss
Adam Castle, and finally Richard Pears (who will continue in the job for the 2019-20 season).
We finished in ninth place in the Premier table, and again won the best programme award.
Grounds…..
As said previously we have had a number of grounds over our lifetime, starting with council
owned pitches at Sandringham Park (During our time as a junior team), Coach Road and
then Decoy Park. In 1992-93 we secured the use of Homers Lane in Kingsteignton (owned
by local clay company WBB), and we built that ground up to Devon league standard, which
included a small stand, enclosed playing surface and hard standing on three sides. But our
big break came in 2003 when we were given the option by WBB to take on South Quarry,
on the Torquay side of Newton Abbot, and after a lot of hard work and sweat by a huge
number of volunteers, we started life at the newly named Homers Heath for the start of the
2005-06 season, with work on the ground and fabulous clubhouse on-going every season
since then. On to the 2015-16 season, firstly there was substantial drainage work done to
the playing surface during the summer, and we must thank Viridor Credits for their help in
funding these works. Also during the season a lot of work was carried out at Homers Heath,
including a new covered standing area, which incorporates two new turn-stiles. The ground
was fenced in, and an impressive outside toilet block was built. This work al-lowed the club
to achieve a ‘D’ Ground Grade which is good enough for Southern League football.
The 2nds and 3rds….
The 2 Team started life in the Devon and Exeter League spending many seasons in this
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league, gaining promotion right through to the Premier Division. But, the club took the
decision for the 2007-08 season to move the 2nds from the D & E League to the South
Devon League. The 2nds have enjoyed a lot of success over the seasons, with league titles,
Devon Senior (three) and Intermediate Cups, all being won by them, with last season
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winning the prestigious Herald Cup. The 3 Team started life in the South Devon league in
2003-04 season, and they had managed to win promotion every season, although they
couldn’t achieve it last season (2011-12), and again the have also won many league titles,
and cups over this period. Our 2nd Team won the South Devon League Premier Division for