NEWS

The club is very sad to announce the death of Steve Rhodes, a team coach for the U14s Rangers boys’ team. Steve died on January 17th after the recurrence of an illness. He had been involved with the team, where his son Leo plays in goal, since its first season at U8s. 

A headteacher by day, Steve combined his experience and expertise as an educator with his love of football to great effect when coaching the team. He was a tremendous source of guidance and support not only to the boys but also to his fellow team coaches.

Nether Green Rangers and all other Nether Green teams will be holding a minute’s applause in tribute to Steve before their next matches. 

Our thoughts are with Emma, Leo and the rest of the family at this sad time.

Our U11's competed in the Brinsworth Tournament and finished runners up over the weekend, only losing on penalties in the final ! Great effort boys. 

As we say goodbye to our U17 Gold, the club would like to put on record its thanks to Neil, Arooj and Juan for their amazing amount of volunteering time over the years, taking this team through all the age groups. A great achievement which they should all be proud of. A message from the managers,

After seven years, we’ve finally decided to call it a day as a competitive team. We started off as a new team in the bottom division and worked our way up to Division B, via a division play-off final where we impressed the spectating FA officials so much that they promoted us above the team we lost against in the final! It’s been incredible to share this journey with a group of wonderful lads who began as small boys and turned into young men. We’re so proud of our players – not just the original core players but those who joined us along the way and bought into our way of playing and behaving (technical mastery, working hard for each other, being respectful, treating effort and winning in the right way as more important than winning at all costs). Every time we became sad or disappointed at players leaving, new players came along who worked incredibly hard to hone their skills and integrate, and ended up developing the team in ways we couldn’t have imagined. A big thank you to our parents for giving so much to the team too, whether providing constructive feedback, offering lifts, helping with nets and warm-ups on match days, selling raffle tickets, running the tuck shop or supporting social events. Finally, a big thank you also to the Nether Green committee; in some ways it feels a shame to be leaving just when things are really looking up for the club in terms of organisation and initiatives. We’ll miss you all.

Neil, Arooj and Juan

Congratulations to our U14 Gold, finishing 3rd and being promoted to Division B next season, what a great achievement.

We are looking to recruit a couple of new Development coach's for our 5-7 year olds for 1 hour per week. These are players with mixed playing abilities who need fun sessions but at the same time improve their football skills in preparation for team formation before they are 8. If you are interested in this role please contact the club.  If you haven't had coaching experience before we can help support and progress you quickly to the level required.

After obtaining planning permission and an FA grant to fund 75% of the cost, the club invested in a second container to safely and securely store all our portable goals. Each container now contains corner flags, respect barriers and the goals, the single storage place for "match day" setup.