Club Committee Members
Playing in the Southern Amateur Football League, Thorntonians FC consists of 8 teams. This includes our first team playing in the top division of the Southern Amateur Football League and our other teams playing in the various other divisions, as well as vets team.
Below is a profile of the committee members and team managers.
Club Chairman
‘Scotty’ is the Club Chairman having taken the reins over from former Chairman and all round club legend Stuart Halliday in July 2016. He is responsible for all aspects of the clubs operations – football, financial and otherwise. A proud Yorkshireman and mighty Leeds United supporter, Scotty is looking forward to taking the club forward in the coming years.
1st Team Manager, Club Coach, and Clubhouse Facilities Manager
As 1st Team Manager, Club Coach, and Clubhouse Facilities Manager, Walshy brings his wealth of coaching skills to the table in our Thursday training sessions and provides a valuable source of coaching advice and guidance to players throughout the club. He also looks after our on site clubhouse bar at REMPF. On match day he’s boss as first team manager.
Team Managers
Alongside Walshy (1’s), Yemi (2’s), Nima (3’s), ASR (4’s), Ellis Forrester (5’s), Peter Green (6’s), Ewan Porteous (7’s) and Si Thomas (Vets) are the eight team managers. They select the squads, run training sessions, make sure we have playing kit balls and all other equipment needed for games, liaise with refs and oppos on matchdays, and do various other admin to make sure everything else just has to worry about playing their best each Saturday.
Comms Manager
RPJ is our Comms Manager administering our Facebook, Twitter and Instagram channels and creating comms media for the club. As the club’s design guru he is always on the lookout for top quality #content. He also looks after our Veo Camera for recording home games.
Club Treasurer
Chris Weir serves as Club Treasurer in managing the club’s finances including collating playing subs, fines and registrations and reporting on these regularly for managers as well compiling club budgets and end of year accounts.
Fixture Secretary
Tam DeLacey is the Club’s Fixture Secretary responsible for liaising with the opposition, refs and the league in scheduling and organising fixtures.
Club Secretary
Rich Jones serves as Club Secretary acting as main point of contact for player registrations as well as liaising with the league on insurance, charter standard, player discipline, league and cup affiliation and general match day issues.
Club Social Secretary
Matt Crowe takes on the coveted role of Club Social Secretary. He will have his hands full planning the Summer Social, Christmas Party, End of Season Awards and Summer Tour and ensuring all new players feel welcomed to the best and most sociable club in London!
Director of Football
Chris Lang is our Director of Football, ensuring the Club Selection Policy is adhered to.
Data Guru & OTPI Stats Manager
James Timmins is our Data Guru & OTPI Stats Manager, running the weekly match stats through his own designed app (Subsync) to work out the Team of the Week and then the overall awards winners at the end of the season, as well as tracking player finances.
Website Manager
Paul Ball is our Website Manager, using his tech wizardry to keep everything up to date and in working order on the club website.
