Chesterfield Junior Blues F.C

A Charter Standard Club

Will be held at Dunston Inn, Dunston Lane, Chesterfield S41 8HA
Starting from 7.30pm, All Managers/Assistants to Attend, any Parents or Vounteers are wecolme.

We are holding a goalkeeping training course on Saturday 2nd June at 10am.

It will be held at Ace of Clubs, Mansfield Road, Bolsover, Chesterfield for 6 weeks.

FREE for all CJBFC Players and £2 for Non Players

For more information please call Karl Millward on 07789 917473

The training school and u7s meet regularly at 1730 at Holmebrook Valley Park on Thursdays unless otherwise advised.

We are pleased to announce that this years Presentation Evening will be at CFC’s B2Net Stadium starting at 7.30pm on Friday 25th May 2012.  There will be a buffet, disco and prsentations as well as a stadium tour included.

Tickets must be puchased in advance as no admittance without a ticket on the night, Tickets will be available from your Manager shortly.  Places are strictly limited and we advise you to speak with your Manager as soon as possible.

The under 6/7/8 squads had a great session with Bobby Green from the FA Tesco Skills programme last night and five coaches had a master class in how to encourage youngsters to look for space, make and receive passes, and support the player with the ball. We are doing this again on 4 January at Brookfield School, at 1730. Do come along to watch and learn. Here are a couple of photos from last night.

At the Rowsley League Clubs meeting last night, writes Oliver Couch, I reminded the club representatives of some of the headline changes to youth football that the FA are considering following their highly successful national consultation “Your Kids Your Say”. After masses of research, including asking kids, investigating how other countries develop kids, and over 100 national consultation events, the FA are thinking about

• 5-a-side games at under 7 and under 8, keeping 7-a-side at under 9 and under 10, and playing 9-a-side at under 11 and under 12 as already agreed
• playing mini-soccer in three mini-seasons over a year, with development games as now but also with competitive games three times a year, and a winter break
• setting up county and regional competitions for the very best players at under 13 and above, linking with academies and centres of excellence in professional clubs; and
• basing playing age groups not on age at 1 September but on calendar years.

The point of all this is to improve kids’ chances to develop football skills and progress to elite levels of the game if they have the dedication and the desire. There will always be room for the majority who just want to have fun playing the game but the lack of success of the national England team has prompted the FA to go back to the grass roots and suggest changes there.

For me this links with two other developments. First, the introduction of the FA Youth Award Modules for coaches, which are essential preparation for any coach hoping to excel with young players and, second, the book “The Future Game – Grassroots” which provides the underlying philosophy and practice essential to giving kids the best chance of success. All three taken together show the importance the FA attaches to improving grassroots football. Now, if only we could afford decent pitches!

After a couple of under par performances against Brampton boys (lost 3-1) and Brimwood (won 4-0) the boys put on a second half total domination of Burbage ,who were top of the league …They came from behind,losing 3-0 after 25 mins to get a goal back before half time(Kyle Martin) and then totally ripped apart a Burbage team who were a bit physical to say the least…A fantastic hat trick from kyle and a superb free kick from sam devereux gave the blues a much needed boost going into next weeks quarter final against matlock hawks,Kyle scoring with virtually the last kick of the game to break the burbage hearts and end there hoodoo over us…Kyle got man of the match although there were some excellent performances from Isaac dale,aaron carrington,sam devereux and a battered jack foki,jack taking most of the abuse from the burbage team but rose above it all to have a vital part in the last second winner…..All in all a very pleasing ,determined,dominant performance