2006–07 Colchester United F.C. season

Colchester United

2006–07 season

Chairman

Robbie Cowling^[1]

Manager

Geraint Williams
(From 28 July 2006)

Championship

10th

FA Cup

3rd Round

League Cup

1st Round

Top goalscorer

League:
Jamie Cureton (23)
All:
Jamie Cureton (24)

Highest home attendance

6,065 (Ipswich Town)

Lowest home attendance

4,249 (Barnsley)

Average home league attendance

5,466

Home colours

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The 2006–07 season was Colchester United's first ever season in the second tier of English football after finishing 2nd in the 2005–06 season Football League One.

Season Review

Chris Iwelumo's 19 goals and 15 by midfielder Neil Danns in the 2005–06 season put both players in the shop window. Danns left for Birmingham in a deal worth an eventual £850,000 whilst Iwelumo welcomed Jamie Cureton on a permanent deal.

Manager Phil Parkinson, however, resigned on 13 June 2006 in a case reminiscent of the George Burley saga 12 years earlier. Many fans thought that Hull Chairman Adam Pearson had approached Parkinson illegally and like Ipswich before him was made to pay when Peter Heard won £400,000 damages for the club.

Geraint Williams oversaw pre-season training and, after a lengthy recruitment process, was charged with the daunting task of leading United in their first season in the Championship. He employed Mick Harford as his assistant and the pair worked miracles for a club that was now owned by Robbie Cowling, a very successful local businessman.

United entertained Ipswich in the first League derby for 49 years and a Karl Duguid goal gave U's the victory they so dearly aspired to. Parkinson returned with his struggling Hull team in November 2006 and Iwelumo bagged four and a share of the club record as United trounced The Tigers 5–1. Parkinson was sacked five days later whilst United recorded eight home wins on the spin to be in a play-off position by Christmas.

Talk turned to sharing Portman Road if United reached the Premiership with Cuckoo Farm still to rise from the drawing board.

Reading paid a new record £2.5m for England U20s international Greg Halford, but the loss did not affect United too much as they continued to take playing against the likes of Leeds, Sunderland and Birmingham in their stride.

Iwelumo netted an impressive 18 goals but Cureton went even better netting 24 times winning the Championship Golden Boot. Unbelievably, United were just one point off a play-off place with two games to go. Defeat at chief rivals Stoke ended their hopes but the 10th-placed finish was the highest in the club's history making them 30th in the entire Football League.

Gates at Layer Road had risen to 5,466, the highest since 1970/1 with most games sold out, and, the first turf was cut at Cuckoo Farm.^[2]

Squad

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No.	Position	Player
1	GK	Aidan Davison
3	DF	John White
4	MF	Johnnie Jackson
5	DF	Wayne Brown
6	MF	Kevin Watson
7	MF	Karl Duguid
8	FW	Jamie Cureton
10	MF	Kemal Izzet
11	FW	Chris Iwelumo
12	DF	Pat Baldwin

No.	Position	Player
13	GK	Dean Gerken
14	MF	Richard Garcia
15	FW	Jamie Guy
16	DF	George Elokobi
17	DF	Lawrie Wilson
19	DF	Garry Richards
20	MF	Kevin McLeod
21	MF	Robbie King
23	GK	Mark Cousins
25	MF	Anthony Wordsworth

Player Info

No.	Name	Place of Birth	Date of Birth	Previous Club	Date Joined	Fee
1	Aidan Davison	Sedgefield	11 May 1968	Grimsby Town	5 July 2004	Free
3	John White	Colchester	26 July 1986	Youth Team	1 July 2003	Free
4	Johnnie Jackson	Camden	15 August 1982	Tottenham Hotspur	26 June 2006	Free
5	Wayne Brown	Barking	20 August 1977	Watford	8 July 2004	Free
6	Kevin Watson	Hackney	3 January 1974	Reading	5 July 2004	Free
7	Karl Duguid	Hitchin	21 March 1978	Youth Team	16 July 1995	Free
8	Jamie Cureton	Bristol	28 August 1975	Swindon Town	6 June 2006	Free
10	Kemal Izzet	Whitechapel	29 September 1980	Charlton Athletic	13 April 2001	Free
11	Chris Iwelumo	Coatbridge	1 August 1978	Alemannia Aachen	6 July 2005	Free
12	Pat Baldwin	London	12 November 1982	Chelsea	31 August 2002	Free
13	Dean Gerken	Southend-on-Sea	22 May 1985	Youth Team	1 August 2002	Free
14	Richard Garcia	Perth	4 September 1981	West Ham United	3 September 2004	Undisclosed
15	Jamie Guy	Barking	1 August 1987	Youth Team	1 July 2004	Free
16	George Elokobi	Mogadishu	31 January 1986	Dulwich Hamlet	1 August 2004	Free
17	Lawrie Wilson	Collier Row	11 September 1987	Youth Team	1 July 2006	Free
18	Garry Richards	Romford	11 June 1986	Youth Team	1 July 2004	Free
20	Kevin McLeod	Liverpool	12 September 1980	Swansea City	7 September 2006	Free
21	Robbie King	Chelmsford	1 October 1986	Youth Team	3 September 2005	Free
23	Mark Cousins	Chelmsford	9 January 1987	Youth Team	1 July 2004	Free
25	Anthony Wordsworth	Camden	3 January 1989	Youth Team	1 July 2006	Free

Transfers

Transfers In

Date	Pos.	Player Name	Previous Club	League	Transfer Fee	Notes
6 June 2006	FW	Jamie Cureton	Swindon Town	Football League Two	Free
26 June 2006	MF	Johnnie Jackson	Tottenham Hotspur	Premier League	Free
1 July 2006	DF	Lawrie Wilson	Youth Team	N/A	Free
1 July 2006	MF	Anthony Wordsworth	Youth Team	N/A	Free
7 September 2006	MF	Kevin McLeod	Swansea City	Football League One	Free

Transfers Out

Date	Pos.	Player Name	New Club	League	Transfer Fee	Notes
19 June 2006	DF	Stephen Hunt	Notts County	Football League Two	Free
20 June 2006	MF	Neil Danns	Birmingham City	Football League Championship	£500,000
1 July 2006	FW	Gareth Williams	Weymouth	Conference National	Free
11 July 2006	DF	Liam Chilvers	Preston North End	Football League Championship	Free
14 July 2006	FW	Tony Thorpe	Stevenage Borough	Conference National	Free
17 July 2006	DF	Sam Stockley	Wycombe Wanderers	Football League Two	Free
30 January 2007	DF	Greg Halford	Reading	Premier League	£2,500,000	Record transfer fee received
8 March 2007	FW	Marino Keith	Peterhead	Scottish Second Division	Free	Signed 1 July 2007

Loans In

Date	Pos.	Player Name	Parent Club	League	Date Returned	Notes
16 August 2006	DF	Chris Barker	Cardiff City	Football League Championship	7 May 2007
27 August 2006	MF	Ritchie Jones	Manchester United	Premier League	27 November 2006
23 November 2006	MF	Hogan Ephraim	West Ham United	Premier League	7 May 2007
26 January 2007	DF	Matthew Mills	Manchester City	Premier League	30 March 2007

Loans Out

Date	Pos.	Player Name	New Club	League	Date Returned	Notes
9 February 2007	DF	Garry Richards	Brentford	Football League One	9 April 2007

Results

Championship Results Summary

Pos	Club	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
9	Sheffield Wednesday	46	20	11	15	70	66	+4	71
10	Colchester United	46	20	9	17	70	56	+14	69
11	Plymouth Argyle	46	17	16	13	63	62	+1	67

Pld = Matches played; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against; GD = Goal difference; Pts = Points

Championship Results Round by Round

Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	36	37	38	39	40	41	42	43	44	45	46
Ground	A	H	H	A	H	A	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	A	H	H	A	A	H	A	H	H	A	H	A	H	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H
Result	L	L	L	L	W	W	D	W	D	W	L	W	L	W	D	W	L	L	W	W	D	W	W	L	W	W	L	D	L	W	D	W	L	L	D	L	D	L	W	W	W	W	D	W	L	L
Position	17	20	21	22	21	19	19	16	15	9	13	10	14	10	10	9	11	13	11	7	10	8	6	8	7	6	6	6	8	8	9	8	8	9	10	10	10	10	10	10	9	9	9	9	9	10

Source:
Ground: A = Away; H = Home. Result: D = Draw; L = Loss; W = Win; P = Postponed.

Championship Results

Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Scorers
05/08/2006	Birmingham City	A	1–2	24,238	Garcia
08/08/2006	Plymouth Argyle	H	0–1	4,627
12/08/2006	Barnsley	H	1–2	4,249	Halford
19/08/2006	West Bromwich Albion	A	1–2	17,509	Guy
26/08/2006	Derby County	H	4–3	4,574	Cureton (3), Iwelumo (pen.)
09/09/2006	Burnley	A	2–1	10,039	Watson, Iwelumo (pen.)
12/09/2006	Luton Town	A	1–1	7,609	Cureton
16/09/2006	Queens Park Rangers	H	2–1	5,246	Iwelumo, Garcia
23/09/2006	Leicester City	A	0–0	22,249
29/09/2006	Ipswich Town	H	1–0	6,065	Duguid
14/10/2006	Wolverhampton Wanderers	A	0–1	19,318
18/10/2006	Sheffield Wednesday	H	4–0	5,097	Cureton, Halford, Iwelumo, Duguid
23/10/2006	Coventry City	A	1–2	16,178	Guy
28/10/2006	Southampton	H	2–0	5,893	McLeod, Cureton
31/10/2006	Norwich City	A	1–1	25,065	Cureton
04/11/2006	Cardiff City	H	3–1	5,393	McLeod, Guy, Cureton (pen.)
11/11/2006	Leeds United	A	0–3	17,678
18/11/2006	Sunderland	A	1–3	25,197	Iwelumo
25/11/2006	Southend United	H	3–0	5,954	Halford, Baldwin, Cureton
28/11/2006	Hull City	H	5–1	5,373	Iwelumo (4), Cureton
02/12/2006	Cardiff City	A	0–0	13,512
09/12/2006	Crystal Palace	A	3–1	16,762	Duguid, Garcia, Iwelumo (pen.)
16/12/2006	Stoke City	H	3–0	5,345	Cureton (2), Garcia
23/12/2006	Preston North End	A	0–1	14,225
26/12/2006	Luton Town	H	4–1	5,427	McLeod, Iwelumo (2), Garcia
30/12/2006	Wolverhampton Wanderers	H	2–1	5,893	Cureton, Iwelumo
01/01/2007	Queens Park Rangers	A	0–1	11,319
13/01/2007	Leicester City	H	1–1	5,915	Iwelumo (pen.)
20/01/2007	Ipswich Town	A	2–3	28,355	Duguid, Iwelumo (pen.)
30/01/2007	Preston North End	H	1–0	5,085	Richards
03/02/2007	Birmingham City	H	1–1	5,918	Izzet
10/02/2007	Barnsley	A	3–0	11,192	Duguid, Cureton, Ephraim
13/02/2007	West Bromwich Albion	H	1–2	5,611	Jackson
20/02/2007	Plymouth Argyle	A	0–3	12,895
24/02/2007	Burnley	H	0–0	4,934
02/03/2007	Derby County	A	1–5	26,704	Jackson
10/03/2007	Coventry City	H	0–0	5,453
13/03/2007	Sheffield Wednesday	A	0–2	18,725
16/03/2007	Southampton	A	2–1	18,736	Cureton (2)
31/03/2007	Norwich City	H	3–0	5,851	Cureton, Garcia, Iwelumo
06/04/2007	Southend United	A	3–0	10,552	Cureton (3)
09/04/2007	Leeds United	H	2–1	5,916	Iwelumo, Cureton
14/04/2007	Hull City	A	1–1	20,887	Cureton
21/04/2007	Sunderland	H	3–1	6,042	Brown, Garcia, Cureton (pen.)
28/04/2007	Stoke City	A	1–3	20,108	Iwelumo (pen.)
06/05/2007	Crystal Palace	H	0–2	5,857

League Cup

Main article: 2006–07 Football League Cup

Date	Round	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Scorers
22/08/2007	R1	MK Dons	A	0–1 (aet)	2,747

FA Cup

Main article: 2006–07 FA Cup

Date	Round	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Scorers
09/01/2008	R3	Barnet	A	1–2	3,075	Cureton

Squad statistics

^[3]

No.	Nat.	Pos.	Name	Total		Championship		FA Cup		League Cup
No.	Nat.	Pos.	Name	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
1	GK		Aidan Davison	19	0	19	0	0	0	0	0
3	DF		John White	17	0	8+8	0	0	0	1	0
4	MF		Johnnie Jackson	33	2	24+8	2	0+1	0	0	0
5	DF		Wayne Brown	48	1	46	1	1	0	1	0
6	MF		Kevin Watson	42	1	38+2	1	1	0	1	0
7	MF		Karl Duguid	45	5	42+1	5	0+1	0	1	0
8	FW		Jamie Cureton	46	24	44	23	1	1	0+1	0
10	MF		Kemal Izzet	47	1	45	1	1	0	1	0
11	FW		Chris Iwelumo	48	18	41+5	18	1	0	1	0
12	DF		Pat Baldwin	40	1	35+3	1	1	0	1	0
13	GK		Dean Gerken	29	0	27	0	1	0	1	0
14	MF		Richard Garcia	38	7	33+3	7	1	0	1	0
15	FW		Jamie Guy	34	3	1+31	3	0+1	0	1	0
16	DF		George Elokobi	10	0	8+2	0	0	0	0	0
17	DF		Lawrie Wilson	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
18	DF		Chris Barker	39	0	38	0	1	0	0	0
19	DF		Garry Richards	5	1	3+2	1	0	0	0	0
20	MF		Kevin McLeod	25	3	13+11	3	1	0	0	0
21	MF		Robbie King	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
23	GK		Mark Cousins	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
24	MF		Hogan Ephraim	21	1	5+16	1	0	0	0	0
25	MF		Anthony Wordsworth	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Players who appeared for Colchester who left during the season
2	DF		Greg Halford	30	3	28	3	1	0	1	0
9	FW		Marino Keith	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
22	MF		Ritchie Jones	6	0	0+6	0	0	0	0	0
22	DF		Matthew Mills	9	0	8+1	0	0	0	0	0

Scorers

^[4]

All

Scorer	Goals
Jamie Cureton	24
Chris Iwelumo	18
Richard Garcia	7
Karl Duguid	5
Jamie Guy	3
Greg Halford
Kevin McLeod
Johnnie Jackson	2
Pat Baldwin	1
Wayne Brown
Hogan Ephraim
Kemal Izzet
Garry Richards
Kevin Watson

League

Scorer	Goals
Jamie Cureton	24
Chris Iwelumo	18
Richard Garcia	7
Karl Duguid	5
Jamie Guy	3
Greg Halford
Kevin McLeod
Johnnie Jackson	2
Pat Baldwin	1
Wayne Brown
Hogan Ephraim
Kemal Izzet
Garry Richards
Kevin Watson

FA Cup

Scorer	Goals
Jamie Cureton	1

League Cup

Scorer	Goals

Assists

^[5]

Assistant	League	Cup	Total
Kevin Watson	8	0	8
Jamie Cureton	6		6
Karl Duguid
Chris Iwelumo
Chris Barker	4		4
Richard Garcia	4		4
Kemal Izzet	2	1	3
Greg Halford		0	2
Johnnie Jackson			2
Hogan Ephraim	1		1
Ritchie Jones
Kevin McLeod

Disciplinary record

^[6]

Pos.	Name	League		Cups		Total
Pos.	Name
DF	Pat Baldwin	3	0	0	0	3	0
DF	Chris Barker	4	2	0	0	4	2
DF	Wayne Brown	4	0	0	0	4	0
FW	Jamie Cureton	3	0	0	0	3	0
MF	Karl Duguid	5	0	0	0	5	0
DF	George Elokobi	1	0	0	0	1	0
MF	Hogan Ephraim	4	0	0	0	4	0
MF	Richard Garcia	5	0	0	0	5	0
FW	Jamie Guy	1	0	0	0	1	0
DF	Greg Halford	2	0	1	0	3	0
FW	Chris Iwelumo	2	0	0	0	2	0
MF	Kemal Izzet	6	0	0	0	6	0
MF	Johnnie Jackson	2	0	0	0	2	0
MF	Ritchie Jones	1	0	0	0	1	0
MF	Kevin McLeod	3	0	0	0	3	0
DF	Matthew Mills	2	0	0	0	2	0
MF	Kevin Watson	2	0	0	0	2	0

Most Frequent Starting XI

This section shows players in a 4–4–2 formation with the most league starts during the season.

No.	Pos.	Name	Apps.	Goals
13	GK	Dean Gerken	27	0
2	DF	Greg Halford	28	3
5	DF	Wayne Brown	46	1
12	DF	Pat Baldwin	35	1
18	DF	Chris Barker	38	0
7	MF	Karl Duguid	42	5
6	MF	Kevin Watson	38	1
10	MF	Kemal Izzet	45	1
14	MF	Richard Garcia	33	7
8	FW	Jamie Cureton	44	23
11	FW	Chris Iwelumo	41	18

Gerken

Halford

Brown

Baldwin

Barker

Duguid

Watson

Izzet

Garcia

Cureton

Iwelumo

References

↑ Whitehead, Jeff; Drury, Kevin (2008). The Who's Who of Colchester United: The Layer Road Years. Derby: Breedon Books. p. 279. ISBN 978-1-85983-629-3.
↑ "The U's History: The 00s". Colchester United F.C. Retrieved 1 April 2011.
↑ "2006–07 Season Appearance Data". Colchester United F.C. Retrieved 1 April 2011.
↑ "2006–07 Season Goalscorers Data". coludata.co.uk. Retrieved 1 April 2011.
↑ "2006–07 Season Assists Data". Colchester United F.C. Retrieved 1 April 2011.
↑ "2006–07 Season Discipline Data". Colchester United F.C. Retrieved 1 April 2011.

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Home stadium	Layer Road (1937–2008) Colchester Community Stadium (2008–present)

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Rivalries	Essex derby Pride of Anglia

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Matches	1997 Football League Trophy Final 1998 Football League Third Division play-off Final

Teams	Under-21s and Academy

Related articles	Colchester Town F.C. Colchester United L.F.C. Peter Heard Up the U's

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