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runners-up spot in the Western 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
enough to reach our goal of promotion. The team made it through to the 6th Round
of the FA Vase, whilst finishing in 4th place in the league table, but once again just
missed out on 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. The following season the club finished in ninth
place in the Premier table, and again won the best programme award.
As said previously we have had a number of grounds over our lifetime, starting with
council owned pitches at Sandringham Park, Coach Road and then Decoy Park. In
1992-93 we secured the use of Homers Lane in Kingsteignton, 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. A lot of work has been 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 allowed
the club to achieve a ‘D’ Ground Grade which is good enough for Southern League
football. Our new ground at Homers Heath won the SWPL Premier Division best
ground award in both 2007-08 and 2008-09, and then finished runners-up in both
2009-10 and 2010-11. The clubs match-day programme ‘The Bucks Review’ has
also enjoyed success, winning the best programme award in the Devon League on
four occasions, and in the SWPL Premier Division, they won that accolade in each
of the five seasons we were in that league, and it also finished in sixth place in the
final season (2004-05) of the renowned Wirral Programme Club awards, which had
over 1100 entries that season.