{"id":322,"date":"2016-12-31T16:33:58","date_gmt":"2016-12-31T16:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clubnets.co.uk\/bucklandlfc\/?p=322"},"modified":"2017-01-14T16:36:34","modified_gmt":"2017-01-14T16:36:34","slug":"new-year-special-feature-24-bafc-playing-under-one-badge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clubnets.co.uk\/bucklandlfc\/new-year-special-feature-24-bafc-playing-under-one-badge\/","title":{"rendered":"New Year Special Feature 2\/4: BAFC: Playing Under One Badge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Buckland Athletic are, of course, not the only Devon side to have a ladies side but the way they have burst on to the scene has attracted keen interest. To recap, Buckland Ladies were promoted twice in their first season owing to their incredible record. By the end of 2015\/16, having won the league cup and all ten of their league games in the Devon Women\u2019s Football League Division One, amassing a goal difference of over 150, they were spared the duty of competing in the Premier Division of that league and put straight into the South West Women\u2019s League Western Division.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This season, they have strengthened further with the addition of players from Exeter City and Torquay United and are once again taking the league by storm, sitting at the top with eight wins out of eight including some cricket scores against the likes of Illogan and Exeter and Tedburn. They are also in the semi-finals of both the league cup and County Cup with the latter being played at Homers Heath on 22nd January against Plymouth Argyle.<br \/>\nAs for the men\u2019s first team, they have established themselves as South Devon\u2019s second club behind Torquay United, regularly pushing for promotion to the Southern League in recent seasons. This season they are currently enjoying a seven game winning streak and are poised for another attempt at promotion under new manager Ellis Laight. Their reserve team currently lead the South Devon Football League and there is also a third team in the SDFL Division One and numerous youth teams feeding into those.<br \/>\nIn charge of the ladies and girls set up is first team goalkeeper Grant Fisher who also manages the ladies first team:<br \/>\n\u201cWe start with the Ladies\u2019 first team which obviously is at the pinnacle; we then have a Development side for ladies which play in the Devon Women\u2019s Premier League and then we have an Under-12s who play in the Devon Girls\u2019 football league,\u201d Fisher explained. \u201cThat\u2019s the current structure of the club with the introduction of another two junior sides for next season.\u201d<br \/>\nIn preparation for the Southern League, Buckland Athletic have recently added a new stand to their Homers Heath ground, complementing the enviable facilities they have on the outskirts of Newton Abbot. The main pitch is used by both the men\u2019s first and reserve sides and also the ladies first team which, according to Fisher, has been a big factor in attracting the quality players that are strengthening his teams.<br \/>\n\u201cThis football club has been unbelievably supportive of what we\u2019re doing,\u201d enthused Fisher. \u201cThey have never had a qualm or a problem with us using the pitch. Having our home pitch at Homers Heath is our brand. This is our football club and the committee and all the men\u2019s senior players and ladies have all bought into the fact that we wear the same badge and it\u2019s really helped us to attract players. With the fantastic facilities we have it\u2019s given us a real platform to build off of.<br \/>\n\u201cI can never speak highly enough of this football club because they\u2019re backing us 100 per cent to keep pushing and they give us everything they can for us to be successful. They\u2019re pushing us as much as me and the ladies and that really shows on and off the pitch.\u201d<br \/>\nLadies first team captain Maria Warman echoed Fisher\u2019s sentiments:<br \/>\n\u201cI joined mid-way through last season and one of the biggest things was the support from the whole club itself,\u201d said Warman. \u201cI\u2019ve played at other teams before with men and it was very much, \u2018there\u2019s your ladies team, there\u2019s your men\u2019s team\u2019 \u2013 keep them separate. Here it\u2019s very interlinked: the guys behind the bar, the chairman, they all come and watch and support us and the men ask about us.<br \/>\n\u201cAs a ladies team, a lot of us have played football with each other before so we had the base of a supportive side. We\u2019ve had girls coming from Exeter and a few girls from Plainmoor and other local teams and they\u2019ve just slotted straight in.<br \/>\n\u201cIt\u2019s probably the best team that I\u2019ve played for before where everyone just gets on really well and I think that shows in the football that we play because everyone is relaxed.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cI can never stress enough how thankful we are to the football club and for what they have provided for us,\u201d added Fisher. \u201cIt is special and it is unique and a lot of ladies clubs would probably give an arm to have something like this.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buckland Athletic are, of course, not the only Devon side to have a ladies side but the way they have burst on to the scene has attracted keen interest. To recap, Buckland Ladies were promoted twice in their first season owing to their incredible record. 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