Season: 2023-24

Stourport Swifts vs Tividale

Midland Football League Cup
2nd Round
Tuesday 24th October 2023
Stourport Swifts 0-4 Tividale

A tale of two halves, Both good

After the postponement of Saturday’s game. Tividale were soon back on the field with a visit to Stourport Swifts in the Midland Football League Cup. Once again, we were not sure of what performance we were going to witness but anything near the effort of a week ago would be welcome. Well, we got that and then some.

Tividale started brightly, and almost went ahead after just 5 minutes when from a Swifts fee kick Tividale broke and Swifts keeper Jamie Emery turned Dom Dell’s shot around the post. A minute later and Ryan Snape caught Jim Hanson in possession on the edge of the box and his snap shot flew narrowly passed the post.

Swifts first chance fell on 18 minutes to the evergreen Lee Chilton, but he fired wide, then Tividale keeper Tim Beech comfortably caught Swifts skipper Drew Canavan’s shot.

Emery then saved well at the feet of Snape before Dell put Tividale ahead on 25 minutes When a Callum Gillie free kick caused all sorts of problems in the Swifts box and Dell reacted quickly and fired in from close range. Dell doubled his and Tividale’s lead on 31 minutes when finished off an incisive break down the right to convert Ewan Edwards’ cross.

Ethan Tivey saw his shot saved by keeper Tim Beech in a rare Swifts attack in the 33rd minute, and Swifts best chance then followed 6 minutes later but Lee Chilton’s point blank effort was also saved by Beech.

A minute before the break and Ryan Snape then put the visitors firmly in control when he fired in a peach of a free kick into the top corner from 20 yards after Edwards had been brought down.

Half Time:- Stourport Swifts 0-3 Tividale

Swifts made a number of changes at half time, putting on a number of their “rested players” and there was a marked improvement from the home side. Tividale then saw keeper Beech sent off for handling outside his area in the 53rd minute but luckily normal keeper Louis Conner was on the bench, and he came on in place of Snape.

Tividale were now having to defend as Swifts made the extra man tell and Canavan had a golden chance on 59 minutes but shot wide. There then followed close misses from Harland, Chilton, and Bailey but the ten men of Tividale held firm.

With 7 minutes to go Tividale’s tremendous rear guard effort was rewarded when Cody Mullen rounded off a fine Tividale performance to make it 4-0 when he fired home from a Taylor Townsend cross.

For only the second time this season Tividale enjoyed back to back wins. Albeit two cup matches, both were against exceptionally good sides and with this work rate things can only get better going forward.

Full Time:- Stourport Swifts 0-4 Tividale

Tividale: – 13. Tim Beech, 2. Zac Kourouyianni, 3. Callum Gillies (12. Cameron East 89), 4. Jakob Burroughs, 5. Joe Hawkins, 9. Dominic Dell (10. James Douglas 76), 11. Ryan Snape (1. Louis Connor 55), 14. Cody Mullan, 16. Max Morris (7. Taylor Townsend 64), 17. Ewan Edwards (15. Callum Powell 86), 18. Taryll Davis

Unused Sub:- None

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Tividale vs Coleshill Town

Walsall Senior Cup
1st Round
Tuesday 17th October 2023
Tividale 4-3 Coleshill Town

Consistently inconsistent

With the mixed bag of performances over the last few games a cup match against step 4 side Coleshill Town is not going to instil any confidence of a positive result in any Tividale fan.

But a team with a number of changes from the one that started in Saturday’s defeat came back from 3-1 down to move into the 2nd round.

Colehill started the brightest, but it was Tividale that struck first after 9 minutes when a James Douglas strike from the edge of the box beat Coleshill keeper Paul Hathaway all ends up. This stirred Coleshill into action and two minutes later the returning Tividale keeper Tim Beech had to field an Ashton De Moulder shot. a  minute later and Hathaway had to turn a Ryan snape effort away for a corner. Back came the visitors and Ryan Nesbitt saw his shot just clear the Tividale bar.

On 23 minutes came the Coleshill equaliser. A Lewis Archer cross deflected off Kamol Campbell and landed nicely for Nesbitt who hooked the ball home. On the half hour Coleshill where in front. Left back Oscar Tower was allowed to run at the Tividale defence and Nesbitt took it off his toes and beats Beech with his shot.

Tividale had the last chance of the half as Edwards fired across Hathaway’s goal but also wide of his far post.

Half Time:- Tividale 1-2 Coleshill Town

Tividale where the ones asserting all the pressure after the break, but with their first attack of the half the visitors extended their lead in the 57th minute. A counter attack saw the ball whipped across the home box and there was Sam Fitzgerald unmarked at the back post to guide the ball home and make it 3-1 to Coleshill,

There then followed an amazing 7 minute spell of football from Tividale that brought them from 3-1 down to 4-3 up.

On 61 minutes Ewan Edwards was brought down in the Coleshill penalty area and Snape made no mistake from the spot. to make it 3-2. In the 64th minute a Taylor Townsend corner was powered home from the head of Zac Kourouyianni to level the scores. On 67 minutes Coleshill had a golden chance to go back into the lead after a poor Tividale clearance but Fitzgerald failed to cash in on the error and dragged his shot wide.

At the other end and a minute later, Tividale cashed in on the let off and went in front when Edwards received the ball on the edge of the box and drilled the ball past Hathaway and into the far corner with the keeper not moving.

The rest of the game was surprisingly quiet with the home side going through quite comfortably and no scares at either end.

Full Time:- Tividale 4-3 Coleshill Town

Tividale: – 1. Tim Beech, 2. Zac Kourouyianni, 5. Joe Hawkins, 6. Joe Burroughs, 7. Taylor Townsend, 8. Cain Smith, 10. James Douglas, 11. Ryan Snape ( 3. Callum Gillies 82), 14. Kamol Campbell, 16. Max Morris (4. Jakob Burroughs 82.) 17. Ewan Edwards

Unused Sub:- 9. Dominic Dell 12. Jamie Oliver

Tividale
33Private: Tim Beech Goalkeeper
2Private: Zacharias Kourouyianni Defender 64'
5Private: Joe Hawkins Defender
6Private: Joseph Burroughs Defender
7Private: Taylor Townsend Midfielder
8Private: James Douglas Midfielder 9'
15Private: Cain Smith Midfielder
16Private: Max Morris 4 Midfielder
17Private: Ewan Edwards Forward 68'
20Private: Ryan Snape 3 Midfielder 61'
23Private: Kamol Campbell Defender
3Private: Callum Gillies 20 Defender
4Private: Jakob Burroughs 16 Midfielder
9Private: Dominic Dell Forward
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Highgate United vs Tividale

Midland Football League
Premier Division
Saturday 14th October 2023
Highgate United 4-1 Tividale

Poor all-over

in football there are times when you just don’t see a performance coming and this was one of them. As disappointing as our results have been, I don’t think Tividale have been guilty of a lack of effort, well not until this performance. As good a side as Highgate are, they will never get an easier 90 plus minutes run out than this one.

Highgate were at the visitors from the off and created their first chance after 3 minutes when Tividale keeper Louis Connor turned away a Kartel O’Neil-Martin shot. Two minutes later and Highgate centre back Shay Palmer waltzed from his own half to the edge of the Tividale box forcing Connor to make another save.

Connor could do nothing about the next Highgate attack on 7 minutes when a crossfield ball found James Wilcock who cut in from the right, played in O’Neil-Martin who steadied himself and placed the ball into Connor’s top right hand corner.

Tividale’s first chance fell in the 14th minute when a Cody Mullen cross was headed wide by Dominic Dell. But two minutes later it was normal service resumed when O’Neil-Martin had his shot blocked from a Wilcocks pass. On 22 minutes Tividale went close again when Joe Burroughs found Cain Smith but his shot went across the face of goal and just the wrong side of the post.

Tividale seemed to be making a game of it in the second quarter of the game, but Highgate were still the better side and Connor had to make another save in the 41st minute to deny Wilcock after great work from Charlie Shaw and Connor Mooney in the build up.

As the half came to a close Tividale’s James Douglas played a ball blind that went straight to O’Neil-Martin but he decided to go for the spectacular and loft the ball over a stranded Connor, but the ball came back off the cross bar and Douglas was back to clear.

Half Time:- Highgate United 1-0 Tividale

Within a minute of the restart Highgate had a chance to extend their lead when Corey Currithers got his head to a Ben Vallance cross, but Connor got down to make a comfortable save.

Two minutes later and completely against the run of play Tividale were level, and in possibly the only way they looked like scoring. A Callum Gillies free kick was missed by Highgate keeper Reece Francis and the ball Highgate centre back George Cleet and flew into the net.

The scores were level for 10 minutes when a Josh O’Grady shot took a deflection off Jakob Burroughs and Connor did well to get his hand to it but Mooney was on hand to tap the rebound home and put Highgate back in front.  Just past the hour mark and a Dell header from a Townsend cross went wide of Francis’s post. The dangerous O’Neil-Martin then curled an effort just wide of Connors left hand post on 62 minutes.

With the visitors now struggling to contain the home side, it was just a matter of time before the lead was extended and on 71 minutes it was. Again Tividale fail to clear their lines and the ball comes out to Carithers on the edge of the box and he beats Connor with a fine effort from distance.

Tividale had a rare foray into the home half with 10 minutes to go, when Edwards broke free down Tividale’s right but his shot was pushed away by Francis a save made better as he had Dell bearing down on him. Highgate added a fourth in the 90th minute when Wilcock went another of his rampaging runs and crossed the ball to an unmarked Mooney 6 yards out and in the centre of the goal and he fired past Connor to make it 4-1 and end Tividale’s misery

Full Time:- Highgate United 4-1 Tividale

Tividale: – 1. Louis Connor, 2. Zac Kourouyianni, 3. Callum Gillies (5. Kamol Campbell 68), 4. Jakob Burroughs, 6. Joe Burroughs, 7. Taylor Townsend, 9. Dominic Dell, 10. James Douglas (8. Jake Lloyd 68), 11. Ryan Snape (17. Ewan Edwards 59), 14. Cody Mullen, 15. Cain Smith.

Unused Sub:- 12. Elliot Sumnall, 16. Max Morris

Tividale
1Private: Louis Connor Goalkeeper
2Private: Zacharias Kourouyianni Defender
3Private: Callum Gillies 23 Defender
4Private: Jakob Burroughs Midfielder
6Private: Joseph Burroughs Defender
7Private: Taylor Townsend Midfielder
8Private: James Douglas 10 Midfielder
9Private: Dominic Dell Forward
14Private: Cody Mullan Midfielder
15Private: Cain Smith Midfielder
20Private: Ryan Snape 17 Midfielder
10Private: Jake Lloyd 8 Midfielder
12Private: Elliot Sumnall Defender
16Private: Max Morris Midfielder
17Private: Ewan Edwards 20 Forward
23Private: Kamol Campbell 3 Defender
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Tividale vs Wyrley

JW Hunt Cup
1st Round
Tuesday 10th October 2023
Tividale 2 -3 Wyrley

It doesn’t get any better

Just as you think we have turned the corner we come up with another disappointing result. Not a lot can be said regarding the manner of this latest defeat. Although we had the majority of the possession and huffed and puffed, we never really laid a glove on an opposition who plain and simple wanted it more than us.

The night got off to the worse start when forward Lewis Taylor-Boyce pulled up in the warm up and had to be withdrawn from the squad. and it got from bad to worse when on 12 minutes Tividale keeper Louis Connor could only parry a shot from James Appleby Tividale’s defence could only clear it to the edge of the box and Alex Arrowsmith was quickest to react and he fired home.

The exact opposite happened 10 minutes later when Wyrley keeper Lee Garghan failed to hold onto a Ryan Snape shot but he was able to comfortably grab the ball at the second attempt with no Tividale player within yards of him.

tividale were level on 32 minutes when full back Cameron East went on a run at the heart of the Wyrley defence and finished like a forward with a great strike. Then right on the stroke of half time Wyrley were back in front when another ball into the box was not dealt with. The shot came in and crashed off the crossbar and again a Wyrley player was quickest to react, this time it was Joshua McGregor who was there to stab the ball home.

Half Time:- Tividale 1 -2 Wyrley

Within three minutes of the restart, Tividale had a great chance to draw level when Kamol Campbell and Taylor Townsend exchanged passed down the left flank but Campbell’s shot was wide of the target. Five minutes later and it was Townsends turn to shoot wide after creating the shooting chance for himself.

Tividale were now bossing the game and should have drawn level in the 68th minute when a Snape free kick headed over by Elliot Sumnall. Tividale did draw level in the 77th minute when Dominic Dell rose and thundered home his header from a Townsend corner.

The game then began to meander and looked as though it was heading for a penalty shoot out when a Jadent Henry-Dean long ball forward had to much on it and Connor came out to clear it back up field. But as the keeper came out to meet the ball and pump it back up field he slipped and the ball rolled under his foot and into his net. So after reaching the previous season’s final. Tividale went out at the first attempt this season.

Full Time:- Tividale 2 -3 Wyrley

Tividale: – 1. Louis Connor, 2. Cameron East (14. Ashley Oliver 81), 5. Joe Burroughs, 6. Kamol Campbell (3.Callum Gillies 58), 7. Taylor Townsend, 8. Callum Powell (9. Dominic Dell 58), 10. James Douglas, 11. Ryan Snape, 12. Elliot Sumnall, 16. Max Morris (4. Jakob Burroughs 58), 17. Ewan Edwards

Unused Sub:- 13. Roman Davies

Tividale
1Private: Louis Connor Goalkeeper
3Private: Callum Gillies 23 Defender
6Private: Joseph Burroughs Defender
7Private: Taylor Townsend Midfielder
8Private: James Douglas Midfielder
12Private: Elliot Sumnall Defender
16Private: Max Morris 4 Midfielder
17Private: Ewan Edwards Forward
20Private: Ryan Snape Midfielder
26Private: Callum Powell 9 Forward
21Private: Cameron East 25 Defender 33'
23Private: Kamol Campbell 3 Defender
4Private: Jakob Burroughs 16 Midfielder
9Private: Dominic Dell 26 Forward 77'
13Private: Roman Davies Goalkeeper
25Private: Ashley Oliver 21 Defender
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