Congratulations to Luca on his successful trial at Southampton Football Club. Luca has been at Castle Combe Colts FC since mini-kicker age and after a short spell at Elite Advanced Development Centre, his last year at the Saints Academy has seen an incredible rate of improvement. This Season has seen him net 5 League goals in our brilliant Green Division campaign and although he will no longer be able to wear the black and white Number 10, everyone at CCCFC, especially the Under 9's, wishes him well for the future.

U9's suffered their heaviest defeat of the Season at Devizes on a wind and rain swept Saturday morning. After a great start where Colts controlled much of the play and created several chances, the deadlock was broken when Jimmy lobbed the keeper from outside the penalty area. Eddie and James found chances hard to come by and were being superbly marshalled by the home team's defence ,denying them any space to exploit. On 8', Sebastian made a fantastic diving save to his left as Devizes Town began to get into the match. Jay replaced James on 10 minutes in a change of formation but it was a break down the left hand side, 2 minutes from halftime that was to be the Colts undoing, as 4 boys in black and white failed to cut out the cross and left a simple tap-in at the farpost giving Sebastian no chance. 1-1 at the break. Alec and Joshua B came on at halftime but U9's failed to get to grips with Town's number 3 who ironically bagged a hatrick. Alec made a fine save to tip a shot round the post for a corner and Alex battled valiantly at the back  but Colts can have no complaints and despite 2 late goals, a 1-6 scoreline shows how much the team will have to improve to stay in the top flight next season.

Mom. Jimmy, great strike to put Colts ahead and worked tirelessly to inspire the boys around him.

Colts got back to winning ways with a pleasing victory at home to Trowbridge on Saturday. The manager continued his policy of squad rotation, which included a debut for one player and saw an attacking line up with Dan and Joseph providing the holding roles in midfield, allowing Matthew to linkup with James and Eddie in attack. In the 3rd minute, skipper Matthew raced through 3 challenges and finished just wide, while from a Joseph corner, James' effort found the side netting. On 11', Colts finally got the breakthrough, when James fed Eddie, who rounded the Trowbridge defender and buried his shot into the bottom corner and 3 minute later, they doubled the lead after more good work from Matthew and James combining with Eddie for him to finish clinically. Trowbridge reduced the deficit just before halftime despite some great saves from Sebastian in goal but the boys went into the break with a deserved 2-1 lead. Sebastian was alert again on 22', to dive bravely at the feet of the onrushing Town forward but they pulled level after the break, given the Colts 'keeper no chance after some sloppy defending in midfield. Driven on by their inspirational captain, it was only fitting that Matthew should grab, what turned out to be the winning goal on 23 minutes, when put through by Joseph. Dan moved back into defence alongside the impressive Alex, while Jay went agonisingly close 4 minutes time to putting the seal on a much improved display.

MoM. Alex, some fantastic tackles to breakup the Trowbridge attacks and superb passing from the back to set up counter attacks.

U9's have played few matches since November, so the Managers decided to award Player of the Month on the basis of training attendance and effort shown during practice. January's Player of the Month was presented to Charlie and he received his trophy pitchside before the 0-2 Cup defeat by Chippenham Town Youth on Saturday. Charlie was the recipient after displaying huge commitment to training, which has seen great improvement in his all round technique, particularly dribbling and passing. The match itself failed to live up to expectations and unusually, Colts struggled to create many chances and were defeated by the better team on the day. On a positive note, skipper Matthew led the team in a loud and enthusiastic 3 cheers that showed everyone present, that although the U9's have suffered only 2 defeats this season, the team is gracious in victory and magnaminous in defeat

Squad; Alec (gk), Alex, Charlie, Ben, Tom, Matthew (captain), Joseph, Eddie, James and Jay.