Brookvale & District Saturday League, Division Two
Trinity
Rovers
Two Saturday sides and a veterans' eleven, playing on the council pitches at Meadow Lane since 1998. Anyone over sixteen can turn up to Thursday training.
Meadow Lane, Trinity Fields · Training Thursdays, 7pm
First team
Results and what is coming
Kick-off 2pm unless stated
| Date | Opponent | Ground | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 Sep | Ockbourne Athletic | Meadow Lane | W 3–1 |
| 30 Aug | Kingsford Town | Barrow Rec | D 1–1 |
| 23 Aug | Netherfield Swifts | Meadow Lane | W 4–0 |
| 16 Aug | Ashcombe United | Ashcombe Park | L 0–2 |
| 9 Aug | Hanley Vale | Meadow Lane | W 2–0 |
| Date | Opponent | Ground | Kick-off |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20 Sep | Marsh End Colts | Meadow Lane | 2:00pm |
| 27 Sep | Whitcombe Athletic & Old Boys Association | Whitcombe Lower | 2:00pm |
| 4 Oct | Brookvale Wanderers | Meadow Lane | 1:30pm |
Division Two
The table
| Pos | Club | P played | W won | D drawn | L lost | GF goals for | GA goals against | GD goal difference | Pts points | Form over the last five matches |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brookvale Wanderers | 14 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 35 | 13 | +22 | 33 | WWDWW |
| 2 | Ashcombe United | 14 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 33 | 15 | +18 | 32 | WLWWD |
| 3 | Whitcombe Athletic & Old Boys Association | 14 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 30 | 19 | +11 | 29 | WWLWD |
| 4 | Trinity Rovers | 14 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 28 | 16 | +12 | 28 | WDWLW |
| 5 | Marsh End Colts | 14 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 25 | 21 | +4 | 24 | DWWLW |
| 6 | Kingsford Town | 14 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 23 | 20 | +3 | 22 | DDWLW |
| 7 | Saint Cuthbert’s | 14 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 19 | 23 | −4 | 18 | LWDLW |
| 8 | Pellwood Rangers | 14 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 20 | 24 | −4 | 17 | LLWDL |
| 9 | Hanley Vale | 14 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 18 | 25 | −7 | 15 | LDLWL |
| 10 | Ockbourne Athletic | 14 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 16 | 28 | −12 | 12 | LLDLW |
| 11 | Delford Park Reserves | 14 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 13 | 31 | −18 | 9 | LDLLL |
| 12 | Netherfield Swifts | 14 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 11 | 29 | −18 | 5 | LLLDL |
| 1 | Brookvale Wanderers | 15 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 38 | 14 | +24 | 36 | WDWWW |
| 2 | Ashcombe United | 15 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 35 | 15 | +20 | 35 | LWWDW |
| — | Trinity Rovers | 15 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 31 | 17 | +14 | —a | DWLWW |
| 3 | Whitcombe Athletic & Old Boys Association | 15 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 31 | 20 | +11 | 27−3b | WLWDD |
| 4 | Marsh End Colts | 15 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 27 | 22 | +5 | 27 | WWLWW |
| 5 | Kingsford Town | 15 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 24 | 21 | +3 | 23 | DWLWD |
| 6 | Pellwood Rangers | 15 | 6 | 2 | 7 | 22 | 24 | −2 | 20 | LWDLW |
| 7 | Saint Cuthbert’s | 15 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 19 | 25 | −6 | 18 | WDLWL |
| 8 | Hanley Vale | 15 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 19 | 27 | −8 | 15 | DLWLL |
| 9 | Ockbourne Athletic | 15 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 17 | 31 | −14 | 12a | LDLWL |
| 10 | Delford Park Reserves | 15 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 13 | 33 | −20 | 9 | DLLLL |
| 11 | Netherfield Swifts | 15 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 12 | 32 | −20 | 5 | LLDLL |
Confirmed by the league to 13 September. Two clubs go up, one goes down.
Saturday’s results are in the table and the league has not ratified them. Two rows remain open.
- Trinity Rovers 3–1 Ockbourne Athletic is under protest. Ockbourne say Rovers fielded a player still registered elsewhere. The league committee sits on 24 September and holds the three points until it does, so Rovers take no position this week.
- Whitcombe Athletic & Old Boys Association carry a three-point deduction for an ineligible player on 16 August. The deduction leaves their goal difference alone.
New players
How to join
Turn up to Thursday training at Meadow Lane at 7pm and play. The club turns nobody away and asks nobody for money on a first night. Bring boots and shin pads; the club has spare bibs and balls.
Subs are £5 a match and £40 for the season, and the club covers them for anyone who asks. Registration with the league takes about a week, so a player who trains in September is available by the end of the month.
Who plays where
The Saturday first team sits fourth in Division Two. The Saturday reserves play in Division Five and give most new players their first games. The veterans’ eleven is over thirty-fives and plays Sunday mornings.
Design notes
Bootstrap, themed rather than overridden
- Shape of the page
- A document. One column, read top to bottom, with no app frame and no side rail.
- What it leads with
- The league table. It takes the full width and the writing sits either side of it.
- Spacing
- Bootstrap's own defaults, with the buttons drawn a little shorter so they sit better in a page of reading.
- The one bold decision
- Nothing on this page fights Bootstrap. The claret, the square-ish corners, the two typefaces and the ruled twelve-club table are all set through the settings Bootstrap already publishes for exactly that purpose, so an upgrade cannot undo them.
- Where the colour comes from
- One claret, chosen for the club, and every other value derived from Bootstrap's own published set. The dark theme restates the whole brand palette rather than inheriting half of it, which is what Bootstrap's own dark mode does and why the stock version keeps its blue.
- Readability, measured
- White on the claret button measures 10.21:1, where Bootstrap's own blue measures 4.50:1, right on the floor. Body text on the paper ground measures 15.53:1 light and 14.88:1 dark.
- The edge of a control
- 3.60:1 light and 3.38:1 dark, clearing the floor of 3 that a control edge needs. Bootstrap ships a line at 1.30:1, which most readers cannot see at all.
- What we changed
- Bootstrap draws a blue ring around a text field while somebody is typing in it, and that blue is written into the framework where no setting reaches. The page puts a claret ring outside it using Bootstrap's own tool for the job. The other stock blue, on a checkbox, is gone because the side picker uses a control with a larger, easier target.
- A note on the palette
- A club colour nobody has measured before cannot be generated, so the claret and its 26 shades are declared once each, by name, and everything on the page reads them from there. No colour is written twice.