Fraser Gascoyne

Veteran stopper Fraser Gascoyne has joined the reserve team revolution and will be a vocal member of the back line with his trademark “FLLLLLASSSSSSSSSSEEEEEERRRRRSSSSSSS” chant as he slices the ball into touch.

Fraser pledged his future to the club after a heart to heart with Nasal Abramovich at Barratts and will be looking to bring his calming presence and defensive know how to the team. He can play anywhere across the back line when family commitments allow.

Another astute signing by Dr Peath.

Phil Littlewod

Journeyman footballer Phil Littlewood will see out his long and distinguished career after signing on for the reserves for the coming season. Littlewood’s career has seen him play for various clubs including local rivals Squirrels and also Saturday team Duston Utd.

“The Weave” as he is affectionitely known can play either left back or centre half and has been known to do the odd stint in the middle of the park. His “competitive” nature can sometimes see him get into trouble with referees and opposition players alike but he has a great engine and will add experience and know how to the reserves defence.

He once scored a winning goal at ixfields with his right peg, the only time he has ever kicked the ball forward with his right foot. Phil will be a valuable addition to the reserves this year.

Reserve Skipper Hit by Setback Before Season Begins

Reserve team skipper Leighton “Beighton Badams” Adams was today hit with the news that the fans have been dreading – he will miss most of the season with a cruciate ligament injury. 33 year old Adams was a key part of the convoluted management structures plans for the coming season and will now have to concentrate on his off the field duties.

Talking to the clubs official website he said “I was always going to miss the start of the season due to a harsh sending off from the sidelines last term, but this has come as a real blow. I was looking forward to getting out on the park and showing everyone what I’m made of after a couple of years warming the bench for the first team. I would however, like to state in writing that I will be attending every match, and (leg permitting) running the line”.

What a captain, what a player, what a man!

I’m sure all at Northampton United, Urban Tiger, and Stringfellows wish him a speedy recovery.

Major New Signing Joins Training for the First Time

Last nights training session saw the introduction of new signing Craig “killer” McAuley to the squad (well kind of introduction – the gaffa basically said “this is Craig”). It was a baptism of fire for the new boy as club fitness coach Totty Sholeman put on a tough training session whilst chomping on a number 47 and a 28 from China Spice.

Young Seeton wins trainer of the week award for struggling with numbers and cones, he may have to put in some extra hours after training with the clubs (allegedly) cleverest player Andy Blackwell.

The squad embarks on it’s pre-season tour to Benidorm at 3am on Thursday morning and the gaffa will make sure the lads fluid levels remain topped up to avoid dehydration.

For the reserves, veteran defender Phil Littlewood put an end to weeks of speculation by signing on the dotted line. He will bring a wealth of experience and a bag of defenders dirty tricks, and will be a welcome addition to help strengthen the problem position of left back (with the club currently having 5 on their books!).

Training News

The first training session for Northampton United went off without incident (apart from Jack and the swingball pole) after the tensions reported on this very site proved to be nothing more than papertalk.

A reasonable turnout for the first session saw good effort from the lads which got their motors oiled up again. I’m sure we can expect the intensity to increase over the coming weeks and months ahead of the big kick off in September.

The next training session is Tuesday at Errington Park from 6.30pm before the lads embark on their pre-season training tour to Benidorm. Gaffa Karl Parsons has carefully selected Benidorm as the destination due to the high humidity improving the CO2 max of players during workouts.

We look forward to seeing the results.

Cracks Starting to Appear Before Season Even Starts?

With pre-season not even started yet, sources from within the club are already talking about dissension in the ranks between the first team and the newly formed reserves team. News reached northamptonutd.co.uk that the first team had set a private first preseason training session, which was only revealed to new reserve team gaffer, Dr Neil “Peath” Lewis by a first team supergrass who was cloaked in a seal of privacy (and denim).

First team gaffa Karl Parsons was quick to quash any rumours at a hastily arranged press conference late this afternoon in a phone box in St James. “It’s simply a matter of miscommunication”, said the spindly manager. “We were lead to believe that the reserves wanted to train on their own in town, but having spoke to Das Kaiser, we now realise that everyone would like to get a good team preseason under our belts.”

Reserve team manager was unavailable to attend the press conference due to scouting commitments, but via live phone link (on an appaling phone line, we can only assume he was in central Africa at the time) he said “mmmmmmm, we joined Northampton Utd to continue the fine tradition of the club and enable mates to continue to play together. MMMmmm we look forward to both teams doing well next season, in what will be a ground breaking year for the mmmmm club.”

Exciting times indeed.

Training starts tomorrow (10/07/08) at Errington Park in Duston.

Town training will start on Sundays at the Racecourse at the start of August – everyone is welcome.