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JERRY SPEAKS



      Good afternoon. I hope you all had
      a wonderful Christmas Day with your                         Todays front cover comes from
      families. On writing these notes, we                        the 1993/94 season, in which
      are yet to play in the much anticipated                     City reached the 3rd Round of
      Boxing Day derby; let’s hope we come                        the FA Cup after beating Football
      away with a good performance and                            League side Hereford United 2-1
      positive result.                                            live on TV. Their reward was a trip
      Today we welcome Hungerford Town                            to Stoke City where City earned
      staff and players in what will be a very                    a superb 0-0 draw and a Twerton
      tough game against a newly formed                           replay. 6,213 were in attendance
      squad that have started the season in                       for the replay which City lost 4-1.
      very good form. We will certainly have                      The season yielded an FA Trophy
      to be at our best to come out on top.                       win over Yeovil
      We trust they have a safe journey to and                    and silverware in
      from Twerton Park.                                          the shape of the
      Last time out here, we had a convincing   when our hard work and preparation   Somerset Premier
      win in the FA Trophy v Swindon   starts to be seen in the group dynamic   Cup following a
      Supermarine. I felt we dominated the   and performance levels.   win over Bristol
      game from start to finish with a high                       Rovers.
      amount of possession. In the second half   Hopefully, we can see some players
      we wore them down with a constant   return from injury and self-isolation in
      threat in attacking phases. The clean   the coming weeks as we have been left     3   Jerrys Notes
      sheet was just as pleasing on the day.   thread-bare recently. It’s important I can
      The weather made the pitch really tricky   have settled squad from now through
      but our players handled the ball very   to the end of the season. I have several     4   Commercial News
      well scoring four really good goals.  loans that need extending, I have been     6   From the Boardroom
                                   in constant dialogue with their parent
      We were happy to see us drawn at   clubs and hope we can get some
      home again for the 4th round of the FA   positive news on them soon.
      Trophy v Peterborough Sports; it will be                     11  Hungerford Town
      another very tough game but one we   To you the fans, I really hope you are   History
      will look forward to for sure.   here today watching the team perform,
                                   they have produced some amazing
      Our confidence and team cohesion   attacking football recently and just wish     12  Getting to Know
      has certainly had a turn for the better; I   you had been here to witness these   Hungerford Town
      really believe we needed the time and   games.
      patience to get back to looking like a                       15  Last Time Out
      Bath City team. We kept our process   Use all that energy and passion to
      and methods the same and now we are   get behind the lads; I think we have     25  The Pledge
      seeing good relationships on and off the   all realised how important you are to
      pitch, which has been seen in the way   football in general but especially for our     29  We have Met Before
      of games being won in the month of   team.
      December.                    COYR                            30  Next Match Preview
      We continue to work hard and prepare                JERRY
      properly over the Christmas period. Our                         Chippenham Town
      record each season during December
      and January is very good and I think it’s                    33  The Day we Played
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