North Wiltshire Division

The title race in the North Wiltshire Veterans’ Division this season is shaping up to be very interesting in with no teams still unbeaten and with seven sides looking like they could yet mount a challenge for honours.

The current leaders of the division are Redhouse who maintained leadership of the division in Week 8 with a 3-1 win over Purton Kingsdown, another of the fancied sides this season. Two goals from leading scorer David Pratt saw him move into double figures for the season with Chris Howe getting the other Redhouse goal, Paul Cooper with the reply for Purton Kingsdown.

Cricklade Town remain level on points with Redhouse thanks to a 4-0 win over Swindon Rovers at Cirencester, two goals from Steven Algar and one apiece for Adam Smith and Sam Collier giving Cricklade the three points. Cricklade have played one more game than Redhouse.

ExIntel sit third in the table, and they were another side scoring four goals in Week 8. They defeated  Chiseldon at New College thanks to two goals from Richard Wells and one from both Richard Clark and Lee Jones in a 4-1 win that sees them sit two points behind the top two.

Nationwide were the third side to score four in Week 8 and, like leaders Redhouse, have dropped just three points so far this season, those dropped points coming in their opening game of the season against Cricklade Town. On the Thursday night at Moredon two goals from Richie Miles plus one apiece from Pete Sealey and Neil Snow gave Nationwide a 4-0 win over Stratton to make it four straight wins since that opening game defeat.  They sit three points behind the top two with a game in hand over Redhouse and two games in hand over Cricklade Town.

The action in Week 8 had got underway on the Monday night at Moredon where goals from Dean Wason and Donatas Stanevicius secured a 2-0 win for Royal Wootton Bassett Town over AFC Swindon  which sees them sit fifth in the table, also just three points adrift of the top two with a game in hand over Cricklade.

The following night, again at Moredon, it was honours even in the game between FS Stratton and Penhill United, Chris Angell scoring for Penhill and the FS Stratton goal coming courtesy of an own goal.

There were no games played in the division in Week 9 due to the school half-term holidays.

Mid Wiltshire Division

There were just two games played in the Mid Wiltshire Veterans’ Division of the Corsham Print Wiltshire Senior League in Week 8 of the season with a waterlogged pitch resulting in the game between Warminster Town and Calne Town being postponed and Westbury United again being unable to raise a side for their scheduled game at Green Lane against Devizes Town.  

The two games that did get played saw Melksham Town  make it four wins from four games with a 7-0 win over Barford Hornets. It was a good night for Dan Kovacs who scored four of the goals, Gary Higdon bagged a brace with Matthew Cooper getting the other goal.  

In the other game played Radstock Town  maintained their unbeaten record but dropped points when they were held to a 2-2 draw by Durrington, that is now the third draw in six games played for Radstock. Jesse Walters and Keith Darling were on target for Durrington with Radstock replying with second half goals from Robbie Cunningham and James Billing.

There were again just two fixtures played in Week 9 in the Mid Wiltshire Division due to half-term. However, the two games included the big top of the table clash between two sides who went into the game with perfect league records, Devizes Town and Melksham Town. Devizes had won all of their opening five fixtures whilst, as noted above, Melksham had made it four wins in four games ahead of this week’s encounter at Oakfields. A close encounter was anticipated, and it proved to be just that with Devizes Town winning 2-1 thanks to two goals from Mark Dolman. Dolman put his side 1-0 up with a lob from the edge of the area. He then made it 2-0 capitalising on a defensive mistake that allowed him through one on one to side foot home. It remained that way until five minutes from time when a push on Aaron Ledgister in the box saw the award of a penalty to Melksham which Lee Morgan scored to make it 2-1. Melksham pushed for an equaliser and pinned Devizes back for the final five minutes of the game, but Devizes defended well to hold on for an important win in the title race. David Giles was at the game with his camera and more of his photos can be found on the League Facebook Group Page.

The other game being played this week was Trowbridge Town Tigers  at home to Bishops Cannings, a game which had been put back a week to enable the veterans’ side to play their first game under the new floodlights at Woodmarsh. It was to prove to be a happy opening night for the Tigers at their new home venue as they won 3-2 to record their first league win of the 2025-26 Season thanks to two goals from Nathan Holloway and one from Jacob Mazan, Adam Bewley and Mike Booth with the Bishops Cannings goals.

Unfortunately, after struggling to raise a side on a number of occasions this season, Westbury United  have now withdrawn from the league and their record has been expunged from the Mid Wiltshire Division league table, leaving the division with just nine sides.

Next week sees the Second Round of the Wiltshire County FA Veterans' County Cup with seven ties set to take place, which means there will just be the one league fixture played next week, which is in the Mid Wiltshire Division, with Trowbridge Town Tigers set to host Calne Town.