The Reserves opened their fixture programme against SIL Premier Division team, Ransomes, where they earned a hard-fought 2-1 victory, courtesy of a late penalty from the ‘afore-mentioned’ ‘Player-Coach’, emergency substitute & ‘40 something’, Andy Lawrence! He actually made amends for deflecting in Ransomes equalizer minutes earlier after Craig Jennings had given Woodbridge the lead.  An even younger reserve team came from a goal behind against Grundisburgh Reserves to produce a very impressive performance in winning 3-1. Jack Severy grabbed two of the goals & 15 year old, Jack Lawrence scored the other, while Andy Nugent, another Under 16 player, also came on to make a very promising reserve team debut. When the Reserves’ took on BT Trimley, Liam Hillyard was the oldest player in the team at the grand old age of 18, & it was he who gave us the lead with a blistering shot. Two great efforts from Matt Oxbrow put us firmly in the driving seat before Craig Jennings & Ben Hutton rounded off another excellent performance with our 4th & 5th goals, while the defence gave absolutely nothing away. The pre-season fixture programme was wrapped up with the short trip to Coplestonians, where their 2nd team had no answer to the speed & quality of our attacking play in the opening 30 minutes as Jack Severy & Craig Jennings each added two more goals to their pre-season tallies while Luke Read was also on target. It wasn’t all one-way traffic though as the hosts netted twice themselves!

Having been so impressive throughout the previous three & a half matches, it was surprising & disappointing that the standard of our play dropped so dramatically after half-time & a painful 45 minutes of frustration, silly fouls & countless losses of possession had to be endured with Ben Hutton claiming the only goal of the half!