'Ye old'
Stanton Rangers
&
Ilkeston Town
players
Formed in the
close season of 1992/93 when Spondon Ladies and Nottingham
Rangers merged to form Stanton Rangers. During the 1993/94 season
Stanton Rangers won through to the Semi-Finals of the FA Cup,
this game was scheduled to be played at the New Manor Ground in
Ilkeston.
After the Semi-Final the board of Ilkeston Town (Men's Club)
invited Stanton Rangers to move across town to become Ilkeston
Town Ladies FC, which they gratefully did. Ilkeston are now in
their eighth consecutive season as members of the Women's
National Premier League.
Below are pictures of some of the Stanton Rangers players in the early days and then Ilkeston Town Ladies team line-ups throughout the years. Many of these players below still play for Ilkeston Town L.F.C today! (Can you spot yourself girls?)
Stanton
Rangers L.F.C - Season 1992-93
Back Row(L-R) Julie
Pemberton, Sally Clay, Jane Taylor, Donna Bartle, Joe
Ball(Coach), Kaz Slaney, Kerry Donnelly, Geoff Newham(Manager),
Denise Roberts, Colleen Rose, Louise Wren, Bernadette ('Jet')
Smith.
Front Row(L-R) Julie Goodman, Mandy Wildey, Ali Brown, Tracy
Bourne(c), Linda Sturgeon, Sharon Cox.
Stanton
Rangers L.F.C. - Season 1992-93
Back Row(L-R) Mandy Wildey, Sally Clay, Shaz Cox, Kaz Slaney, Jet
Smith, Julie Pemberton,
Linda Sturgeon, Mary Purcell (Digger!),
Front Row(L-R)Julie Goodman, Louise Wren, Ali Brown, Tracy
Bourne, Donna Bartle, Denise Roberts, Colleen Rose.
Stanton
Rangers L.F.C. - Season 1993-94
Back Row(L-R) Cindi Harkes, Louise Wren, Mandy Wildey, Kaz
Slaney, Geoff Newham(Manager), Jet Smith, Linda Sturgeon, Sally
Clay, Colleen Rose.
Front Row(L-R) Julie Pemberton, Georgia Plinston, Ali Brown,
Tracy Bourne(c), Shaz Cox, Rose Stevenson, Nicky Davies.
Facing Arsenal Ladies at
Highbury(April 1994).
Back Row(L-R) Neil Crofts(Asst Mgr), Colleen Rose, Louise Wren,
Georgia Plinston, Jacky Eimermann, Ali Brown, Sharon Cox, Ali
Crofts, Geoff Newham(Mgr)
Front Row(L-R) Hayley Saggers, Julie Pemberton, Sarah Gould,
Michael ? (club mascot), Jet Smith, Zoey Roberts, Ali Kirk, Maria
Rudd
Ilkeston Town L.F.C. - Season 1995-1996
Back Row(L-R) Alison
Crofts, Colleen Rose, Louise Wren, Jet Smith, Jacky Eimermann,
Jayne Goldsbury, Melissa Gonda, Georgia Plinston, Alison Kirk.
Middle Row(L-R) Julia Pemberton, Alison Brown(capt), Geoff
Newham(Mgr), Neil Crofts(Asst. Mgr), Jane Anderson, Melanie
Hardwick.
Front Row(L-R) Marion Gourley, Sharon Cox, Zoe Roberts, Hayley
Saggers, Sherina Cronin.
Ilkeston Town L.F.C. - Season 1997-1998
Back Row(L-R) Emma Davies,
Emma Collins, Dennise Greenfield, Sarah Wolliscroft, Gillian
Davies, Georgia Plinston(capt), Toni Eaves, Lesley Higham.
Front Row(L-R) Annette Wale, Julie Pemberton, Hayley Saggers, Deb
White, Sharon Cox, Alison Kirk, Kerry Donnelly.
Ilkeston Town L.F.C. - Season 1999-2000
Back Row (L-R) Geoff
Newham(Mgr), Louise Wren, Toni Eaves, Alison Kirk, Kerry
Donnelly, Alison Crofts, Georgia Plinston(capt), Chris
Marples(Asst Mgr).
Front Row(L-R) Liz ?, Annette Wale, Michelle Bates, Carol
Corbett, Pat Hart, Sharon Cox, Hayley Saggers, Alison Shaw.
Facing Arsenal Ladies in a
friendly at the Notts County ground, Nottingham (Sept 98).
Back Row(L-R) Emma Davies,
Gillian Davies, Louise Wren, Dennise Greenfield, Colleen Rose,
Kerry Donnelly, Lesley Higham.
Front Row(L-R) Carol Corbett, Julie Pemberton, Pat Hart, Michelle
Bates, Alison Shaw, Annette Wale.
Ilkeston Town L.F.C. - Season 2000-2001
Back Row(L-R) Roy
Hogarth(coach), Suzy Weekes, Sam Taylor, Toni Eaves, Pat Hart,
kelly Callard, Rachel Booker, Beth Bailey, Geoff Newham(Mgr).
Fron Row(L-R) Hayley Saggers, Alison Shaw, Sharon Cox, Annette
Wale, Kerry Donnelly, Michelle Bates, Carol Corbett.
Back Row(L-R) Geoff Newham(Mgr),
suzy Weekes, Kelly Callard, Alison Crofts, Pat Hart, Kerry
Donnelly, Sam Taylor, Toni Eaves, Beth Bailey, Roy
Hogarth(coach).
Front Row(L-R) Hayley Saggers, Rachel Booker, Alison Shaw,
Annette Wale, Sharon Cox, Michelle Bates, Emma Dowey, Carol
Corbett.
Back Row(L-R) Steve
Squires(Club Physio), Beth Bailey, Rachel ('Fat Bum') Booker,
Elizabeth Spanner, Sam Taylor, Geoff Newham(Mgr) Alison Crofts,
Pat Hart, Georgia Plinston(capt), Roy Hogarth (coach)
Front Row(L-R) Alison Shaw, Annette Wale, Sharon Cox, Kerry
Donnelly, Carol Corbett, Michelle Bates, Toni Eaves, Hayley
Saggers
Ilkeston Town L.F.C. - Season 2001-2002
1st game of the season
Back Row(L-R) Michelle
Bates, Toni Eaves, Liz Spanner, Colleen Rose, Geoff Newham(Mgr),
Georgia Plinston(capt),
Sam Taylor, Rachel Mee, Beth Bailey, Alison Shaw(Head coach).
Front Row(L-R) Rachel Booker, Sharon Cox, Annette Wale, Claire
Thompson, Kerry Donnelly, Carol Corbett,
Ashleigh Evans, Hayley Saggers.(missing from pic - Lucy Smith,
Alison Piper)
(Last
game V Bangor May 2002)
Back Row(L-R) Dr Helen Lacey(physio),
Liz Spanner, Beth Bailey, Michelle Bates, Georgia Plinston, Ali
Piper, Rachel Mee, Chelsea, Sharon Cox, Pat Hart, Dr Christine
McCann (manager).
Front Row(L-R) Ashleigh Evans, Hayley Saggers, Carol Corbett,
Kerry Donnelly, Annette Wale, Lucy Smith, Louise Carter.
(missing from pic - Toni Eaves, Colleen Rose).