indermere SC Reserves 2025/26 Wednesday’s comprehensive 5-2 win away at Lunesdale Reserves completed the 2025/26 season for the reserve team. After a tricky 24/25 season the side regrouped for a season in Divison 4 and have brought a real feel good factor to the group and club. Scoring lots of goals and entertaining football, the youthful reserves side were top of the league as recently as January. Although promotion wasn’t to be with very good Brough and Cartmel Reserves sides taking the top 2 spots in the league, everyone should be proud of the season and the foundation is built with the aim for next season being promotion. A special thank you to our sponsors Lindeth Howe & Popeyes pizzeria&grill windermere for your support. Manager Dan Hicks’ thoughts on the season - “Since the start of this season the reserves have used 50 different players. The oldest being Keith Taylor born in 1981 and the youngest and also the last one to get his debut, Bobby Wilkinson who was born in 2010. At one stage during our last game against lunesdale,the average age of the players on the pitch was 18.55 years old. Which tells you how young this team is and points to a bright future. Yet most of them have at some point been involved with the first team too. Which gives them invaluable experience. Most games this season we have been lucky enough to have had an experienced player or 2, Sam fletcher, LewRT, Matt Dawson, Crowdy, Robbie or Matt Parkinson alongside our younger players and I think it’s really helped bring them on. We got off to a great start this season beating the eventual league winners Cartmel away with the help of a few first team lads, only to get thrashed away by the team that finished 2nd in our next game. We then lost again at Millhead before going on an 8 game unbeaten run in the league scoring 42 goals in the process. My own personal highlight of that run was the game on the rec where we put 9 past Ibis with Maty Taylor getting a hatrick. This was the game where I think everything clicked and we began playing what I would call proper football. As usually happens during the season some lads become unavailable for a game or 2 and the wheels seem to fall off for a bit. This definitely happened to us a couple of times but it meant we could give debuts to some of the young lads that had been training with us. I remember throwing Toby on at Ibis without a doubt in my mind that he was gonna do well and he didn’t disappoint and hasn’t since. That same game in December saw Olly and Bob make their debuts too with Bob being unlucky not to get on the score sheet and Olly causing havoc down the left. We lost 4-3 in the end but the signs were so encouraging. Our next game away at Burneside brought debuts for Isaac and Mason too. It was a rough game but we held on to win 3-2 with all 5 U16’s coming on from the bench and playing a big part in it. A week later we played Burneside again this time on the rec. They were after revenge and fielded a strong side but this time one of our veterans, the Vice Captain Robbie Moore had his shooting boots on and he fired in a hatrick. We went 3-2 up Subbed Robbie off for another U16 player to make his debut for us, Trev. He was just 8 minutes into his debut when he lit the rec up with a dazzling little dribble in the box and brilliant finish that cemented the win for us 4-2. We then lost our way and 3 games in a row before a very good performance on the rec saw us draw with Brough. We then thrashed the unbeaten at the time Kirkby Stephen 4-1 on the rec. A brilliant game where we dug in and got exactly what we deserved playing football our way. A disappointing draw with Staveley was next on the rec before we came out on the wrong end of a 6-5 thriller away at Arnside and Milnthorpe. A tough night match away at Ingleton followed where we battled bravely but were beaten 3-1.

LAST WEEKEND AND THIS EVENING FOOTBALL RESULTS ‼️ Apologies for the late post. Last Tuesday a shortened first team side travelled up to Wetheriggs and lost out 4-0, made a few good chances but lost to the better team on the night. On the Wednesday the Reserves thrived under ‘new management’ beating Arnside and Milnthrope Town 3-0, a team they’d lost to 2 weeks prior 6-5. Credit to the 3 16 year olds on the scoresheet. Goal Scorers O. Hindle ⚽️ S. Fletcher 🅰️ M. Shepherd ⚽️ B. Wood ⚽️ M. Shepherd 🅰️ On the Thursday evening the first team hosted Cartmel and District to the rec, with the warm weather we’ve had the surface was difficult and it wasn’t the prettiest affair, regardless, the lads battled well and came out with a point after a 2-2 draw. Goal Scorers L. Rands - Trevor ⚽️ P. Czechura 🅰️ P. Czechura ⚽️ J. Dalzell 🅰️ Huge thanks to our kit sponsor Hackney and Leigh for sponsoring the game. 🫶🏼 Sponsors Man of the Match 🥁 P. Czechura 💙 The reserves returned to action Saturday for their first weekend game in a month and welcomed Greystoke Reserves. A good side Windemere side dismantled Greystoke and came out 5-1 winners Goal Scorers J. Hindle ⚽️ L. Webster 🅰️ B. Wood ⚽️ P. Czechura 🅰️ J. Hindle ⚽️ J. Gosling 🅰️ L. Webster ⚽️ J. Gosling 🅰️ J. Gosling ⚽️ A. Baxter 🅰️ Finally this evening the first team faced Appleby at home, some nice passages of football played alongside a few long balls from Sando and the lads came out 3-2 winners. Goal Scorers S. Burke ⚽️ P. Czechura 🅰️ S. Burke ⚽️ P. Czechura ⚽️ L. Wood 🅰️ Big thanks to the gaffer Gaz Wilks for sponsoring our last home game of the season. Sponsors Man of the Match 🥁 S. Burke 💙 Thank you all for your support in all the games above and your continued support through out the season. #UTM 💙