Buckingham Athletic

[Rhodes]

I see from the Sports Shots website that Buckingham Athletic's excellent supremo Neil Griffiths has decided to sadly step down at the end of the season after two years at the helm at Stratford Fields, Club Chairman Tony Checkley is inviting applicants for the vacant post with immediate effect so as the Club can hit the ground running next term. It says everything about Neil when he approached Mr Checkley last week and said he had decided to step down and wanted to give the Club as much time as possible to find a suitable replacement, unlike, for example, Mark Ducket at Eynesbury Rovers who walked out of the door in January without even saying goodbye to Chairman Matt Plumb after four years at Hall Road:

https://sportsshots.org.uk/2020/02/29/buckingham-athletic-fc-manager-to-step-down-in-summer/

Edited March 2, 2020 by Rhodes

[Rhodes]

A messege from Buckingham Athletic Chairman Tony Checkley earlier this week:

I never thought as Chairman I would ever be in this position but It is with regret that the Buckingham Athletic Sports & Social Club committee have had to make the tough decision in closing the doors as from today until further notice.

[Rhodes]

Stratford Fields is looking great at the moment isn't it, do we know whether the Club have found a successor to Neil Griffiths as yet:

[Rhodes]

Buckingham Athletic currently have a food bank in operation at Stratford Fields:

[Rhodes]

Some match action was put up at the time from this one at Elmfields Gate on 28 December but not these photographs, Winslow United won 1-0 in front of an excellent attendance of 293:

 

[Rhodes]

All the old Sports Shots links to match reports, video clips and photos were lost when they had unforeseen problems with their website last year and many included Buckingham Athletic games from the start of the campaign, here is a pre-season friendly from Tuesday 23 July with Crawley Green at Stratford Fields with some particularly good photos:

 

Edited April 14, 2020 by Rhodes

[Rhodes]

And another pre-season friendly with Wembley on Saturday 27 July, there's no better SSML ground than Stratford Fields in summer is there:

 

[Rhodes]

Milton Keynes Robins v Buckingham Athletic in a SSML Division One fixture on Tuesday 21 January at Manor Fields, Buckingham Athletic won a bruising encounter 3-2 with goals from Dominic Lawless, debutant Juan Bosoka and, who else, Matt Cruse, attendance 63:

 

Edited April 16, 2020 by Rhodes

[Rhodes]

Courtesy of Sports Shots, YouTube action from the SSML Division One encounter between Buckingham Athletic and Hillingdon Borough on Saturday 2 November, Hillingdon Borough won 1-0 in a smash and grab raid on Stratford Fields:

 

[Rhodes]

The amazing food bank at Stratford Fields, it's like feeding the five thousand isn't it:

[Rhodes]

Not this term but photos from Buckingham Athletic v Codicote towards the end of last season on 6 April in the SSML Division One which Buckingham Athletic won 2-1, Robbie Carter netted both goals:

 

[Rhodes]

Some links for interest when anoraks have visited Buckingham Athletic's Stratford Fields in the past:

 

http://pieandmushypeas.blogspot.com/2014/10/buckingham-athletic-fc.html

https://allroadsleadsomewhere.blogspot.com/2008/08/game-on-saturdayyou-must-be-joking.html

https://footygrounds.blogspot.com/2014/05/buckingham-athletic-stratford-fields.html

https://www.botp.co.uk/blog/180

https://nlbpt.blogspot.com/search/label/Buckingham Athletic FC

 

 

[Rhodes]

Last term and over a hundred  photos from the Buckingham Athletic v FC Clacton FA Vase First Round proper tie at Stratford Fields which resulted in a 2-2 stalemate after extra time, FC Clacton went on to win the replay 3-2  in another thriller which Buckingham Athletic led 2-1 at the interval:

 

 

[Winslow Boy]

Heard Jordan King is likely to take managers seat there. 

[Rhodes]

Nice mugshots of the 2017/2018 Buckingham Athletic playing squad in a campaign where the Club didn't really pull up any trees in the SSML Division One albeit finishing in a fairly respectable seventh place. It was in the Cup competitions that they faired better and beat Bedford and AFC Hayes in the FA Vase before bowing out 6-2 at Bracknell Town, they were unfortunate to be drawn away to eventual League Champions Southall in the Division One Cup Second Round going down 6-3 as well as 3-1 at London Colney in the First Round of the Challenge Trophy. After beating Unite MK, Stewkley and Penn & Tylers Green in the Berks & Bucks FA Senior Trophy they finally lost 1-0 to Marlow United in a tight affair at Stratford Fields however reached the Buckingham Senior Charity Cup Final losing 2-0 to Daventry Town on home soil:

 

[Rhodes]

Scott Reynolds has been handed the reins at Stratford Fields by Chairman Tony Checkley as successor to Neil Griffiths, I wonder if the great man can repeat the success he had at Bell Close with Leighton Town:

https://www.sportsshots.org.uk/2020/04/27/buckingham-athletic-reveal-scott-reynolds-as-new-manager/

[Rhodes]

Photographs from the White Ensign v Buckingham Athletic FA Vase First Round proper tie earlier this season, on 13 October 2019, which, disappointingly, Eastern Counties League Division One South White Ensign won 4-1 at a ground they share with Great Wakering Rovers from the Isthmian League North Division:

 

Edited May 4, 2020 by Rhodes

[Rhodes]

Buckingham Athletic v Risborough Rangers in a thrilling SSML Division One fixture at Stratford Fields on 2 January 2017, resulting in a 3-3 draw:

 

[Rhodes]

Perhaps, rather than continually post albums of photographs, courtesy of Sports Shots, from past Buckingham Athletic matches, here is a summary of what is incorporated in this link:

 

https://www.flickr.com/photos/dalejamesphotography/albums/with/72157712864204343 

 

FC Broxbourne Borough 3 Buckingham Athletic 2, SSML Division One, 8 February 2020 (page 1)  

Milton Keynes Robins 2 Buckingham Athletic 3, SSML Division One, 21 January 2020 (page 1)  

Buckingham Athletic 0 St Panteleimon 1, Division One Cup Quarter Final, 7 January 2020 (page 1)

White Ensign 4 Buckingham Athletic 1, FA Vase First Round proper, 13 October 2019 (page 1)

Buckingham Athletic 1 Wembley 5, Pre Season Friendly, 27 July 2019 (page 1)

Buckingham Athletic 1 Crawley Green 2, Pre Season Friendly, 23 July 2019 (page 1)

Buckingham Athletic 3 Ampthill Town 1, SSML Division One, 23 April 2019 (page 1)

Winslow Utd 5 Buckingham Ath 2, Buckinghamshire Senior Charity Cup Semi Final, 16 April 2019 (page 1)

Ampthill Town 2 Buckingham Athletic 0, SSML Division One, 9 February 2019 (page 2)

Buckingham Athletic 2 Buckingham Town 2, SSML Division One, 29 December 2018 (page 2)

Buckingham Ath 2 Winslow Utd 1, Berks & Bucks FA Senior Trophy 3rd Round, 3 November 2018 (page 2)

Buckingham Athletic 3 Winslow United 2, SSML Division One, 7 August 2018 (page 2)

Buckingham Athletic 3 Pottersbury 0, Pre Season Friendly, 31 July 2018 (page 2)

Buckingham Athletic 0 Daventry Town 2, Buckinghamshire Senior Charity Cup Final, 13 May 2018 (page 2)

Buckingham Athletic 2 Rayners Lane 1, SSML Division One, 20 February 2018 (page 3)

Buckingham Athletic 1 Risborough Rangers 1, SSML Division One, 9 January 2018 (page 3)

Winslow United 1 Buckingham Athletic 3, SSML Division One, 23 December 2017 (page 3)

Buckingham Athletic U25 1 Holmer Green 2, SSML U25 Development Division, 19 December 2017 (page 3)

Buckingham Ath 2 Old Bradwell Utd 0, Buckinghamshire Senior Charity Cup, 21 November 2017 (page 3)

Buckingham Athletic 0 Baldock Town 0, SSML Division One, 7 November 2017 (page 3)

Buckingham Athletic 1 Bedford 1 (aet), FA Vase First Qualifying Round, 9 September 2017 (page 3)

Buckingham Athletic 2 Aylesbury United 2, Pre Season Friendly, 29 July 2017 (page 4)

Buckingham Athletic 0 Langford 0, SSML Division One, 25 March 2017 (page 4)

Buckingham Athletic 3 Risborough Rangers 3, SSML Division One, 2 January 2017 (page 4)

Winslow United 1 Buckingham Athletic 2, SSML Division One, 27 December 2016 (page 4)

Buckingham Athletic 0 Ardley 9, Pre Season Friendly, 19 July 2016 (page 4)

Edited May 8, 2020 by Rhodes

[Rhodes]

On ‎04‎/‎05‎/‎2020 at 17:39, Rhodes said:

Photographs from the White Ensign v Buckingham Athletic FA Vase First Round proper tie earlier this season, on 13 October 2019, which, disappointingly, Eastern Counties League Division One South White Ensign won 4-1 at a ground they share with Great Wakering Rovers from the Isthmian League North Division:

Some YouTube highlights from the White Ensign v Buckingham Athletic FA Vase First Round proper tie earlier this season, on 13 October 2019:

 

Edited May 8, 2020 by Rhodes