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<strong>Dee</strong> <strong>Rangers</strong><br />
Football Club
Contents<br />
Inside our welcome back issue<br />
#BringBackTheOnionBag Pg 4<br />
<strong>Dee</strong> <strong>Rangers</strong>; A History Lesson Pg 5<br />
September Round Up Pg 7<br />
Once a Hoop; Always a Hoop - Benners Online Pg 10<br />
Player Focus Pg 12<br />
And lots of out-and-out shite…
#BringBackTheOnionBag<br />
Well its been a while, but as The Mighty <strong>Dee</strong> reaches a point in its history when players<br />
are arguing that it could quite possibly be the best <strong>Dee</strong> team of all time, it only seemed<br />
fit to bring back a few institutions and traditions.<br />
Benners, Wainers, Steveo and crew have been contacted and John has been sought out so<br />
finally The Onion Bag is back!!!<br />
We aim monthly to round up how our Super Hoops are getting on and how these new<br />
crop of young players live up to the legends of old.<br />
With all this in mind, this season as <strong>Dee</strong> <strong>Rangers</strong> enters into its 32 nd competitive full<br />
season we held a special, first of many, pre-season friendly where current manager Ryan<br />
Williams took his side out to challenge Benners’ Vets team.<br />
A great day for all involved!
<strong>Dee</strong> <strong>Rangers</strong>; A History Lesson<br />
With the birth of the new website (read all about it with Benners on page xx) there has<br />
been some questions asked about the history of Chester’s longest serving Sunday<br />
League team.<br />
Who is the Top Goal Scorer? When were we formed? Who was in charge then and now?<br />
Between Ryan and Benners they have been doing their best to find out the answers; the<br />
first question was raised when the great date debate began.<br />
“A quartet of players (Paul Spruce, Phil Thacker, Kerry Driver and Pete Chaloner)<br />
hankered though to form their own Sunday League side. In 1980-81 season they<br />
became aware that Sunday League side New Inn had slid into irreconcilable financial<br />
difficulties.”<br />
Eventually it was concluded, <strong>Dee</strong> <strong>Rangers</strong> dates back to its first full season in 1981/82. ..<br />
We are proud to be written in the archives of Chester Sunday Football and are looking<br />
forward to our 32 nd Season in the famous Blue and White.
<strong>Dee</strong> <strong>Rangers</strong>; A History Lesson<br />
The <strong>Dee</strong> <strong>Rangers</strong> Highest ever score line…<br />
After a 12-0 Home win this season against Saltney<br />
Ferry many questions were raised. After much<br />
research we have discovered that it doesn’t quite<br />
reach the top of the mountain, despite being the<br />
highest score line without reply Kerry Driver was<br />
quick to tell us about a 16-4 victory against The<br />
Westminster Hotel in 1982/83 season in which he<br />
scored a hat-trick at the Roodee.<br />
The <strong>Dee</strong> <strong>Rangers</strong> All Time Highest scorer…<br />
With 141 Goals during his time in the Blue & White Hoops,<br />
Si Brockley is crowned as The all time <strong>Dee</strong><br />
highest scorer.<br />
A few have set their sights on the crown but it<br />
will sure take some beating.
September Round Up<br />
The 32 nd <strong>Dee</strong> Season kicked off this season started as the fixtures always seem to in<br />
Section B – The new boys against the oldest team in the league.<br />
After the pain of relegation last year Manager Ryan has been active in recruitment for<br />
the season ahead. Taking on Axis United was the game we had all been waiting for…<br />
Although nobody thought to tell Axis and they set out to ruin the Party.<br />
The month went on to get better with five games throughout in both the league and the<br />
Bill Gresty Cup.<br />
The Mighty <strong>Dee</strong> started relatively strongly after a disappointing first week and everyone<br />
is looking up as we head into October.<br />
All individual match reports are posted on<br />
the website at www.deerangers.co.uk but<br />
we have also posted a list of just results as<br />
Our Manager and Captain talk you<br />
through how they have seen the opening<br />
to the season…
September Round Up<br />
How The Gaffa Sees It…<br />
Last season was hard to take so the start of this season<br />
couldn’t come quickly enough for me. It was my first<br />
season in charge of the team and we really struggled but<br />
we had a great group of lads that have stuck together<br />
during the close season and we were ready to go again.<br />
The game against Axis was a great atmosphere but the result didn’t suit, they wanted it<br />
more and it didn’t make good watching. To lose to the newbies was not what we wanted,<br />
but it sent us back thinking that this season wont be easy no matter how strong we are.<br />
The game against Waverton was much more<br />
like it, we turned up to fight and we made<br />
short work of it with some great attacking<br />
play and Crogg barely had to touch the ball.<br />
We played great for a couple of weeks with<br />
only a blip against waverton the second time<br />
round. We finish the month in a good<br />
position in both the league and the Bill<br />
Gresty! Overall I think we look good!
September Round Up<br />
The<br />
Captains<br />
Corner<br />
At only 19 years<br />
old Danny is one<br />
of the youngest<br />
players in the<br />
team but after<br />
three years with<br />
the club manager<br />
Ryan decided<br />
that his attitude<br />
and dedication<br />
deserved to be<br />
rewarded.<br />
Having been<br />
asked recently, he<br />
claimed hat being<br />
named captain<br />
was the proudest<br />
moment as a <strong>Dee</strong><br />
Player
Once a Hoop; Always a Hoop<br />
Benners – Online<br />
At the start of the season between the two managers<br />
(First Team – Ryan & Vets Andy Bennion) challenged<br />
one another to give The Mighty <strong>Dee</strong> <strong>Rangers</strong> the<br />
website our great history deserves!<br />
Benners used his knowledge of the club and his skills<br />
acquired as a web designer, where Ryan writes match by<br />
match reports and basically makes complicated requests<br />
and keeps the Veteran busy.<br />
We would like to take this opportunity in the brand new<br />
version and first edition of The Onion Bag to welcome<br />
you to the all new deerangers.co.uk
Once a Hoop; Always a Hoop<br />
Benners - Online<br />
www.blueskysportsconsultants.co.uk<br />
A new venture for a Football & Cricket local legend.<br />
Benners is using all of his experience to<br />
help advise new clubs or new people<br />
running a club for the first time. It is<br />
something that comes naturally after over<br />
20 years as a <strong>Dee</strong> <strong>Rangers</strong> and <strong>Dee</strong> manager<br />
Ryan is already taking full advantage of the<br />
skills available.<br />
Great Work Benners!!<br />
#UpTheHoops
Player Focus<br />
Over many illustrious years <strong>Dee</strong> <strong>Rangers</strong> has been very lucky to have some great<br />
players, some Special Players and even some who could play football…<br />
As everybody knows, everyone who plays Sunday league once “had trials” or “played for<br />
England school-boys” but unfortunately lost all the photos, cant remember the name of<br />
the training facility or “it was before the internet so there is no record of it” but The<br />
Onion Bag will once a month bring you a special inside look at one or two players who<br />
have an interesting story – whether they are any good at football or not…<br />
“<strong>Rangers</strong> still play in their original blue and white hoops and<br />
stick to the traditions of being a „good bunch of lads‟ who play<br />
the game the right way.”<br />
“The Badge:<br />
1) The Real Ale tradition is still nominally around – homage is<br />
always paid to real ale on team doos.<br />
2) The general tradition of graduates and undergraduates<br />
only, has on the whole been kept up – although Delgado‟s<br />
HND in Bingo at “Wrexham University” is spurious at<br />
best.<br />
3) The 3rd element of our badge is a mystery”<br />
Words from deerangers.co.uk
Player Focus<br />
This months Player Focus is all about the return home of Craig “Curly” Rogers<br />
After three years away in America on a scholarship playing the beautiful game of Soccer<br />
(whatever that is) Curly has come home.<br />
He made his <strong>Dee</strong> <strong>Rangers</strong> debut four seasons ago, at the<br />
age of 19, before moving to the States. In a season where<br />
he played for close friends Hoole <strong>Rangers</strong> too.<br />
As a youngster his hair caught all the headlines (obviously)<br />
and his skills as a striker came second – maybe<br />
that’s why he now claims to be a left back…<br />
He couldn’t escape the Blue & White Hoops even over<br />
the Atlantic
Player Focus: Craig Rogers<br />
D.O.B. 22/02/1990 Age: 24<br />
Where are you from?<br />
Ellesmere Port<br />
Where are you going?<br />
The idea is to try and live the dream, I‟ve been away for<br />
three years – the yanks have paid for my degree (thank you<br />
very much by the way) and all I had to do was play<br />
football for them. It was an easy choice but now I‟ve got<br />
my degree I‟ve got a chance to keep playing – I am<br />
heading over to Norway in November for a trial with a<br />
pro-club. You never know what might happen in football<br />
– but I hopefully will be earning a living from the game<br />
sooner rather than later.<br />
Why/How <strong>Dee</strong> <strong>Rangers</strong>?<br />
Well back then the gaffa was a close friend, we played<br />
together as we grew up and when it was time to play with<br />
the adults we joined the same team as his Uncle – Croggy!<br />
The rest for him is history, he has made a lot more<br />
appearances than me but when I am home I always try<br />
and play… I guess “once a hoop always a hoop”.
Thank You for indulging us<br />
For more up to date and useful information join us at<br />
deerangers.co.uk<br />
<strong>Dee</strong> <strong>Rangers</strong><br />
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