PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, could we remind all parents and players that they should not park or "drop off" on the bottom car park at Belgrave High School but to use either the top car park or indeed the large space available round the back of the school buildings to the right as you drive in which you can access by following the drive in, turning right when you get to the school building in front of you, and then turn right again immediately before the fence. Please leave all access areas open at all times. No one should park on any of the grassed areas on the school premises as they are likely to cause damage to these areas. Your help in this matter is much appreciated. This is a safety issue, if we continue to have cars travelling up and down the driveway and parking down there with lots of young children running around, there will be an accident

Abuse in Football

We are very fortunate at this club that we have very little trouble on the pitch caused by our players or indeed off the pitch caused by club officials or by supporters or spectators. We are very grateful to all of you for this and we want to keep it this way which we can do with your help.

Campaigns

Don't X The Line..........and...........Keep It Shut!.........and...........the FA has 3 pilot schemes
 

http://www.dontxthelinecampaign.com/

                                                        http://www.totalyouthfootball.com/keepitshut/

The F.A. are launching three pilot schemes in nine regions across England from January.

These are:

1. Only the team captain will be allowed to speak with the referee.
2. Roped-off areas will be introduced at junior matches so 'over-indulgent or abusive' parents cannot easily abuse referees.
3. All players and club officials will be forced to sign a 'memorandum of understanding' thereby accepting to abide by the standards of behaviour that will be expected. 

We, as a club, intend to rope off the Small-sided games initially as stated above in 2 which will also give the managers room to work as they will be the only people allowed pitch-side of the rope. We also intend to produce a "Zero Tolerance Policy Card". We already have Codes of Conduct for Coaches, Players, Supporters and Team Officials alike as can be seen by following the links on the left of this page, so if we can all follow these, no matter how frustrated we get, and we do, then we can keep up our good record. Thank you for your support!

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16/07/2007 - Cottage Farm Rangers want to encourage as many of their Coaches, Players and Parents who have access to the internet to complete the on-line Soccer Parent course at Soccer Parents Course.  All of those people who complete the course will be able to print out a certificate, and we would like them to get in touch with us (use the Mail to link below left) to let us know, and we will include their name of the Roll Of Honour page. Soccer Parent Roll Of Honour.

02/05/2007 - The sum raised from Sunday's John Schofield memorial game now stands at an impressive £1,142 which included over 110 paying adults at the gate. Once again, thank you to everyone who contributed and helped. Some pictures from the game are available by following this link.

23/03/2007 - Congratulations to Thomas (Dobbo) Dobson and Jack Dodd from the Under 15s and James Dyer, the Coach of the Under 11s, who have all just qualified as F.A. referees. They join a growing band of referees within Cottage Farm Rangers, namely Robert Booth, Kieran Darkes and Eddie Poultney from the Under 15s who qualified last summer and also Coaches Kevin Dyer and Charlie Hembry who qualified a while ago.

19/03/2007 - Congratulations to John Lewin, Stuart Aubury, Mark Livesey, Dominic Hinks and Jim Wright who have all passed their 1st4sport Level 1 Certificate in Coaching Football course.

22/01/2007 - The F.A. has updated its guidelines regarding the taking of photographs and videos. See the Child Protection tab for details.

04/01/2007 - You may have seen the article on the front page of the Tamworth Herald regarding the new fire station potentially being sited on part of the paying fields at Belgrave High School. The plans as we understand them are that the fire station is going to be located where the Junior School pitches currently are so it should not affect our long term future at Belgrave. It could well be that some pitches may need to be moved around to fit things in and we may share pitches with the Junior School but that is all to be decided.    

13/10/2006 - A small feature in this week's Tamworth Herald - Rangers are on the up - Cottage Farm Rangers Football Club are going from strength to strength with teams running from under-eights to under-15s level as well as girls teams.
The club also runs a very successful Football Development Centre for boys and girls aged between five-seven-years old,. The centre takes place in at Dosthill Boys Club in Cadogan Road in Dosthill every Friday between 5-6.45pm
The centre is run by qualified FA coaches who have been subject to CRB checks. For more information about the club, call Charlie Hembry on 07903 939107 or visit www.cfrfc.co.uk.