Young Rocks lift the league silverware
Bognor Regis Town U18 boss Christian Dew has praised his players after they were crowned champions having lost just one game all season.
The young Rocks won the U18 West Southern Combination League for the first time in the club's history and the manager was thrilled at the achievement and delighted for the players involved.
Players and management gathered at Nyewood Lane to be awarded with the silverware and collect the medals after a hugely successful campaign that saw them narrowly lose out in two cup competitions as well as a champion of champions event.
And Dew said: "Winning the league by five points is an amazing achievement, easily the best season the U18s have ever had. The majority of our players are year ones, so essentially under-17 rather than under-18, which was the aim of the club in the county league competition.
"We lost one game all season, to Littlehampton, and coupled with the Isthmian U18 team, with a lot of these players in the Isthmian team as well -- which finished third in the league -- it is a real success.
"I have been running the team since they were under six when we started back at Felpham Colts and then came across to Bognor at under 10s -- so I have taken the majority of the team to under 18s and obviously a lot of new players have joined in that period of time.
“Going into a new pathway academy we were almost like a guinea pig year and it has shown that it is a big success.”