Coastal View & Moor News Issue 19 Happy feet Aquafitta variety By Quita Owen


on a short impromptu dancing display (shades of ‘Happy Feet’ perhaps?), before exiting to applause and cheers from everyone present.


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wondered if you and your readers might be interested in hearing about


our Christmas Aquafit? This is something of a ‘Guisborough Special,’ we think, held every year between Christmas and New Year. Everyone agreed that this year’s was definitely the best yet. What happens is that the instructors put on fancy dress, we come along wearing our reindeer hats, tinsel in our hair etc, and we all spend a very happy hour in the pool exercising and singing away. At first, only one of our instructors was there to take part this year, dressed as Cinderella, but we were soon greeted with the sight of a most unusual penguin, the rare Aquafitta variety. This unusual creature proved to be very energetic, full of fun, and surprisingly athletic for a penguin. It took us through all our exercises and even put


This made a wonderful and truly memorable end to our special 10th anniversary year. A very big ‘thank you’ from us all! We are already back at the pool, trying to get fit again after Christmas and starting to recruit new members. Everyone is welcome to the aquafit sessions at Guisborough. Membership


of our group is entirely voluntary, and free and we hope to see many new faces coming along in the New Year. We can’t guarantee the return of the penguin, of course - but you never know!


Sport Redcar Town FC By Derek Hartas


home a shot from 25 yards. Grangetown responded immediately by pulling back a goal


just a minute later and started to apply pressure on the Redcar defence but it was Redcar got the next goal again through Curtis Round after the keeper


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espite the three week break for Christmas and New Year one Redcar team the under 18s still managed to keep busy by arranging two friendly games against Wearside League side Wolviston FC and Grangetown Boys Club of the Teesside League. The game against Wolviston was played at Redcar and ended in a 2-2 draw this was a superb result for Redcar against a strong men’s team. Redcar fielded five sixteen year olds and produced an excellent team performance by coming from two goals down to snatch a well deserved draw with Jack Williams pulling Redcar back to within one goal of Wolviston before a dramatic last minute equaliser from Bradley Halliday.


The Under 18s took to the field against Grangetown BC again with a young side and found the going tough against a team that were Teesside League Champions last season. Redcar weathered early Grangetown pressure and took the lead through Curtis Round after 22 minutes. Redcar increased their lead after 35 minutes with a superb goal from Jack Williams who thundered


could only parry Bradley Halidays shot into his path for him to tuck the ball away. Grangetown had the final say of the first half when right on the half time whistle they grabbed their second goal.


The second half started roughly the same as the first. Redcar playing into the wind found it difficult to get out of their own half as Grangetown put them under a lot of pressure. On 55 mins Grangetown equalised when a right wing a corner went straight in without anyone touching it 3-3. Redcar settled down and caused problems for Grangetown on the break down the right.


Fion Crawley and Curtis Round often got forward and put fine crosses into Grangetowns box but to no avail. Grangetown kept pressing and were still dangerous on the break and gained what proved to be the winner with a fine right foot strike in the 84th minute to make the score 4-3 to Grangetown.


Redcar battled on and a cross field ball from Morris found McGouran on the left, who crossed well for the advancing Kieran Stares, who agonisingly saw his header go wide. All in all, an even game, and physically at times Redcar were out muscled but 5 of the starting 11 only left school in July so this has to be seen as a great effort from such a promising young Redcar team.


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