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Backing
KitAid
9th November, 2008
Thanks to all the keepers who brought kit to the recent
coaching session at Ingleborough to donate to the KitAid
appeal. I will be doing more collections at
forthcoming courses. KitAid is a charity that
sends unwanted football kits to children and adults
across Asia, Africa and Eastern Europe. I am happy
to be backing the appeal and I am grateful to all those
who have donated so far.
For more information, see the KitAid website at http://www.3valleys.co.uk/community/oc_kitaid.shtml# and see some photos from the launch in my gallery on this website.
Testimonial website launched
15th October, 2008
The 2008/09 season is my eleventh at Tranmere and I'm
delighted that the club has granted me a testimonial to
celebrate this. I have today launched my new
testimonial website which will have all the details on
events and ticketing for the testimonial year.
Click the link below to see the site:
Masters
Grand Final
8th September, 2008
The Tranmere team got to the semi-final of the Masters
Grand Final in Birmingham on Sunday, narrowly losing to
Manchester City with a late goal. We had beaten
Glasgow Rangers in a penalty shoot-out in the quarter
finals and I think we probably deserved to beat City.
Wolves were the eventual winners. There are now
photos in my gallery.
New
range of clothing in stock
27th August, 2008
The new range of clothing for the 08/09 season is now in
stock and available to view here.
I have also reduced the price of some other items of
clothing and will be doing some more special offers
soon. To see these, view the new Special Offers
page in the shop, or by clicking
here.
300th
start
25th August, 2008
I was delighted to make my 300th start for the Tranmere
first team on the opening day of the season at Swindon
Town. This was followed a few days later by
another start against Grimsby Town in the Carling Cup.
Masters
Victory!
29th June, 2008
The Tranmere Masters team won the Merseyside Masters
Tournament last night after beating Liverpool 4-2 in the
final. It was a great night to be involved in and
superb to win. The results were as follows:
Tranmere 5-1 Everton
Liverpool 2-1 Tranmere
Wigan 1-1 Tranmere
Final: Tranmere 4-2 Liverpool
We now go onto the Grand Final which is played in Birmingham in September.
Tranmere play in the Mersey Masters tonight
28th June, 2008
Tranmere will have a team of former stars playing in the
Merseyside Masters Football Tournament at the new Echo
Arena in Liverpool tonight. The competition will
see Tranmere play head-to-head against Wigan Athletic,
Liverpool and Everton. It is live on television at
8pm, Sky Sports 2. It should be a great night.
Courses
complete
28th June, 2008
I have successfully completed the courses I have been on
during the last few weeks. The re-validation of my
Outfield 'A' License and the Youth 'A' License Aged
17-21 are complete. I have also done my UEFA A
Goalkeeping License which will be completed with a final
assessment at the club later in the year.
Pre-season training starts again
28th June, 2008
I am fit and ready to go for the new season and will be
returning to pre-season training with the rest of the
Tranmere squad when it starts on Tuesday, July 1st.
New
gloves now available!
18th June, 2008
The all-new 2008 range of gloves are now on sale on the
site. Click here to see them
New
range of gloves on sale this week
8th June, 2008
The new range of goalkeeping gloves will hopefully be
delivered this week and will go on sale on the website
once I receive them.
New
dates for coaching courses
6th June, 2008
I have just got back from a family holiday in Egypt.
We had a great time, the weather was very hot!
I also have some new dates for coaching courses coming up. You can join by using the forms on the academy pages (or below). The dates are as follows:
Flint:
Starts again on 9th July, 2008 -
download form
Liverpool: 18th June, 2008 -
download
form
Wirral, Bromborough: 1st July 2008 -
download form
Goalkeepers two-day course coming up:
Tranmere: 20-21 August - cost £30
1 day course coming up:
Flint
Town: 27th August - cost £15
Both courses start from 10.00am and finish 3pm
Round-up of latest news
28th April, 2008
Tranmere ladies goalkeeper Rosie is going to be leaving
the club to play in the USA were she has got herself a
scholarship college soccer team. I wish her all
the best.
The new
range of gloves will be on sale in the next four weeks.
We have made improvements on the finger save gloves so
they are stronger and we've also made a new glove, the
aqua glove with aqua latex high quality grip.
Also, we all want to wish Danny Moran, one of our youth
players who was involved in a car crash, a good recovery
and have our fingers crossed for him and his family.
Unfortunately Tranmere have missed out on the play-offs
for the second year running. We didn’t manage to
keep the form going to maintain a place in the top six
to give ourselves that chance for promotion to the
Championship.
The new web is now live and we want to thank Richard for
his great work and outlay from the web site also thanks
Carl for his time and work on the old web site.
We are going to try to update the site at least once a
week now on with the latest news. If anyone has
any suggestions of what else they'd like to see on here
or any questions, they can
contact me throughthe web site.
John
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