Bideford vs Bristol Manor Farm
Southern League Division One South
Tuesday 15th October 2019
7:45pm kick off
Sports Ground, Bideford

Bristol Manor Farm make the trip down to the Sports Ground on tonight for our rearranged Division One South fixture. Manor Farm are currently bottom of the league but it’s a bit of a false position as Farm have played only half the amount of games the teams above them have due to their FA Cup exploits. The Bristol side made it all the way to the 3rd Qualifying Round of the competition before going out to Wealdstone after a replay. Much like The Robins, Farm have also been struggling with injuries of late but have still managed very impressive cup wins over Tiverton Town and Moneyfields. On Saturday they suffered a narrow defeat at Sholing in the FA Trophy.

With seven defeats in their last eight games Bideford are on a really poor run of form but performances in the last couple of games have been encouraging, particularly considering the amount of changes that have been made to the squad. Following the departure of Billy Tucker, Craig Duff, Charlie Lawrence and an injury set back for Sean Downing, Sean Joyce has been able to bring in fresh attacking options in the form of Theo Simpson, Aaron Goulty, Domenico Panesar-Dower and David Jerrard. Simpson has already appeared a few times, Goulty and Panesar-Dower debuted at Frome, while Jerrard could well feature tonight.

Form Guide

Bristol Manor Farm's last six: (WWDDLL) Pos 20th W1 D2 L2 Pts 5
12/10/19 Sholing 2 Bristol Manor Farm 1 (FA Trophy PR)
08/10/19 Wealdstone 4 Bristol Manor Farm 0 (FA Cup Q3r)
05/10/19 Bristol Manor Farm 0 Wealdstone 0 (FA Cup Q3)
01/10/19 Weston-super-Mare 1 Bristol Manor Farm 1 (League Cup R1) *WSM won on pens
28/09/19 Bristol Manor Farm 7 Moneyfields 1 (FA Trophy EP)
21/09/19 Tiverton Town 2 Bristol Manor Farm 4 (FA Cup Q2)

Bideford’s last six (LLWLLL) Pos 12th W3 D1 L4 Pts 10
12/10/19 Frome Town 2 Bideford 1 (FA Trophy PR)
05/10/19 Slimbridge 2 Bideford 1 (League)
01/10/19 Bideford 2 Taunton Town 5 (League Cup R1)
28/09/19 Bideford 2 AFC Totton 1 (League)
18/09/19 Plymouth Parkway 4 Bideford 3 (St Luke’s Cup R1)
14/09/19 Thatcham Town 4 Bideford 3 (League)

A Brief History of Bristol Manor Farm FC
Founded in 1960, Bristol Manor Farm began playing in the Somerset County League after securing a permanent home at The Creek in 1965. After progressing through the divisions, Manor Farm joined Western League Division One in 1977. Following five top ten finishes Bristol Manor Farm won the Division One title in 1982/83 and were promoted to the Premier Division where they would remain for the next 19 years. After being relegated in 2001/02, The Farm were promoted back to the Premier in 2003/04. They narrowly avoided relegation finishing 18th in 2012/13 but from there they never looked back with finishes of 2nd, 4th, 3rd and finally becoming Western League champions in 2016/17. In 2017/18 Farm finished a very respectable 9th in their first season in the Southern League while in 2018/19 they ended up in 15th place.

Bristol Manor Farm FC
The Creek
Portway
Bristol
BS9 2HS
Tel: 0117 968 3571
Website: http://www.bristolmanorfarm.com
Twitter: @ManorFarmFC

Most recent meetings:
26/01/19 Bideford 3 Bristol Manor Farm 1 (Southern Div 1 South)
20/11/18 Bristol Manor Farm 4 Bideford 3 (Southern Div 1 South)
04/09/18 Bristol Manor Farm 4 Bideford 2 a.e.t. (FA Cup PRr)
25/08/18 Bideford 2 Bristol Manor Farm 2 (FA Cup PR)
27/03/18 Bristol Manor Farm 1 Bideford 0 (Southern Div 1 West)
24/10/17 Bideford 3 Bristol Manor Farm 1 (Southern Div 1 West)
02/03/10 Bristol Manor Farm 2 Bideford 2 (Western Prem Div)
07/11/09 Bideford 2 Bristol Manor Farm 1 (Western Prem Div)
17/03/09 Bristol Manor Farm 0 Bideford 0 (Western Prem Div)
21/02/09 Bideford 0 Bristol Manor Farm 1 (Western Prem Div)