Kiwi Players Elsewhere

Luke Rowe

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over 10 years ago

Since Rowe joined, he's been a regular starter, and Bedworth Utd finished 4th in Southern Division One Central and won promotion to Southern Premier League (7th Tier).

Currently sitting in the relegation zone 22nd out of 24 after 10 games.




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over 10 years ago

I would not get too excited. Bedworth is a small village in the UK with a population about the size of the Wairarapa and the play in front of an average croud of around 200 and are near the bottom of 7th Tier.  

Hope he enjoys, but would suggest he has probably given up on progressing his football to any meaningful level.

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over 10 years ago

sthn.jeff wrote:

I would not get too excited. Bedworth is a small village in the UK with a population about the size of the Wairarapa and the play in front of an average croud of around 200 and are near the bottom of 7th Tier.  

Hope he enjoys, but would suggest he has probably given up on progressing his football to any meaningful level.

It's true that Bedworth play in the third tier of non-league football (Southern League Premier Division) or 7th over-all nationally.

But Bedworth is a sizeable enough town of 32,268

Close to Coventry (9 km), Birmingham (31 km), Leicester, Warwick and Nuneaton.

On the M6 motorway and Coventry rail link and growing fast as a dormitory town for its larger neighbours.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedworth

A 15 minute rail ride to Coventry.

Big Pete 65, Christchurch

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over 10 years ago

Big Pete 65 wrote:

sthn.jeff wrote:

I would not get too excited. Bedworth is a small village in the UK with a population about the size of the Wairarapa and the play in front of an average croud of around 200 and are near the bottom of 7th Tier.  

Hope he enjoys, but would suggest he has probably given up on progressing his football to any meaningful level.

It's true that Bedworth play in the third tier of non-league football (Southern League Premier Division) or 7th over-all nationally.

But Bedworth is a sizeable enough town of 32,268

Close to Coventry (9 km), Birmingham (31 km), Leicester, Warwick and Nuneaton.

On the M6 motorway and Coventry rail link and growing fast as a dormitory town for its larger neighbours.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedworth

A 15 minute rail ride to Coventry.

Yup. Have had an Aunty live in Bedworth for close to 70 years.

A town if 32k in NZ may be sizeable but in the UK it is barely more than a village. That aside, I would still think he has given up on progressing much further, and their is no shame in that. He has achieved far more than many of us have / will.

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over 10 years ago · edited over 10 years ago · History

Big Pete 65 wrote:

sthn.jeff wrote:

I would not get too excited. Bedworth is a small village in the UK with a population about the size of the Wairarapa and the play in front of an average croud of around 200 and are near the bottom of 7th Tier.  

Hope he enjoys, but would suggest he has probably given up on progressing his football to any meaningful level.

It's true that Bedworth play in the third tier of non-league football (Southern League Premier Division) or 7th over-all nationally.

But Bedworth is a sizeable enough town of 32,268

Close to Coventry (9 km), Birmingham (31 km), Leicester, Warwick and Nuneaton.

On the M6 motorway and Coventry rail link and growing fast as a dormitory town for its larger neighbours.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedworth

A 15 minute rail ride to Coventry.

32k sounds like a decent number by NZ standards Pete, but here in the UK that's quite small. Plymouth has a population of 256k but really gets more then 8/9k at home games.

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