Brentwood Town
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Brentwood Town
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Brentwood Town are now in their twelfth season in the Isthmian League after winning
promotion from the Essex Senior League in 2007. All but one of those seasons has been in the
North Division, with just one season in the Premier in 2015/16, and after relegation in 2016
the last three seasons have seen the Blues mostly in the wrong half of the Bostik North table.
Manager Craig Shipman has been
at the helm for two years and has twice
successfully guided the team to safety.
This season he has a new assistant in Miki
Hood and Shipman says, “Brentwood
is a good environment in which to
coach and manage. I am really enjoying
working with the squad and the group
are learning all the time.”
A mostly young squad now looks
stronger than in the previous two
campaigns and there were some good
cup runs in the first half of the season.
Shipman says, “We began the season
keeping teams out of our goal and
getting wins. It’s not massively changed
but there’s a few games where the odd
goal has cost us, so we need to be tighter
defensively.”
“We have had a tough period over
Christmas and New Year with one win
in four and some disappointing results,
although our results up to Christmas
were excellent with a 6-0 win away
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to Mildenhall, knocking Maldon and
Heybridge out of the Essex Senior Cup,
and beating top-of-the-league Bowers &
Pitsea 3-0.”
The first goal against previously
unbeaten Bowers came from a long
kick by goalkeeper James Pellin who
was making his league debut for Blues.
Remarkably, the club’s other keeper,
Rob Budd, also scored in similar fashion
at Mildenhall just four weeks later.
Shipman’s realistic target for the