Tom Lake Way Opening

It was a fitting day of remembrance for Pte Tom Lake of the 1st Battalion Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment at the official opening of Tom Lake Way in South Oxhey.

Serving Princess Of Wales Royal Regiment soldiers currently based at Woolwich barracks were joined by Veterans including some who were alongside Tom on that dreadful day, the Royal Marines, the Royal Navy and RAF personnel as Watford Parish Council formally opened and named Tom Lake Way.

Mr & Mrs Mallett also attended and represented the Hertfordshire FA as we honoured Jets former footballer Tom.

Colonel Ross Noott paid tribute to Tom before Tom’s Mum Carol lifted the Union Flag to reveal the road name and the smile as she saw her son’s everlasting tribute was clear.

Petty Officer James Jones RN & Colour Sgt Stephen Steve Saleh RM were joined by the Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment in receiving a cheque from the Watford Rural Parish Council which was added to the Poppy Appeal bringing this season’s total to £4,676.51. What an amazing achievement.

A big thank you also to Wenzels the Bakers in supporting the day so well.

Herts FA Add To Our Poppy Appeal

We are very pleased to see that with Jets reaching the Hertfordshire FA Charity Shield final the ⁦Hertfordshire FA⁩ today donated £367 to the RBL Poppy appeal. Adding that to our Poppy match v Northwood Command and its now £3841.51 raised.

2023-24 Player Awards

Congratulations to all our winners!

Jets In Fine Form – Draw at Ballers

Rising Ballers Kensington 1 Oxhey Jets 1
Combined Counties Division One
2nd May 2024

Jets put on an incredible show against play-off chasing Rising Ballers Kensington, who needed a point to replace Molesey in the play-offs.

Jets squad with too many games too close called London marathon finisher Spencer Bellotti out of retirement and had to make many changes from Tuesday’s miserable performance, and nobody expected the battle that followed.

Jets kicked off and immediately showed their intent with Archie James and Skipper Owen Ayres combining and Nugs having a superb game going full at the Baller’s defence, while Lewis Lavin was back to his dominant best in Jets goal.

It was end to end, but the hosts grabbed the lead with an excellent unstoppable low drive. (17 mins )

Jets kept battling, and the Ballers kept coming at speed. It was a cracking match and somehow still 1-0 at the break.

An early double blow in the second half for Jets as an elbow incensed Spencer Bellotti, and he was shown a straight Red by the frankly completely out-of-his-depth match official.

Danny Fowler’s game was cut short by a double blow to his head, leaving him unconscious on the pitch. The young full-back came around then went out again and was to spend a long night in Watford General with limited sight, speech and mobility. ( update: Danny was released from hospital and is now resting without sport for a few weeks.)

Jets, despite the double blow with now ten men, seemingly just said to hell with it, go for it and literally had Ballers reeling, and on 73 minutes an incredible strike from close to the corner flag from Remell Stirling shook the home defence and brought buoyant celebrations from Jets.

Ballers went defensive and were pushed into retreat by Jets in the closing minutes. What they must have thought would be a pushover was anything but and they were struggling to hold on. It was a battering wave after wave of Jets attacks.

Ballers, however, held out and moved on to the playoffs. No winner, but a very good point and performance by Jets.

The Carlsberg MoM was hard, TJ and Nugs excellent and, to a man, incredible effort and high skill from Jets but the nod, given by Dave Barnes, went to James Kimber, who was dominant in defence

Tough week. Won one, lost one and now one to go.

As mentioned above, Thursday night’s performance was a mighty improvement on a poor display on tuesday night in a 2-4 home defeat to London Samurai Rovers. The bright spot in that game though was the Jets Man of the Match performance from Olly Pope, coming back from injury and building up his minutes in recent weeks, and now back to full fitness and form.