As 4 year olds in November 2004 Reece Blakey & Ryan Hucks were introduced to Whiteleas JFC and trained with the under 6's.
By Easter 2005, Reece's dad Ray decided he would take his coaching badges and advertise for more kids of the same age to make a group of their own.
Joining Reece & Ryan amongst others were Callum Tooth, Ethan Collinson, Scott Rafferty, Daniel Wilson, Morgan Smith, Marcus Shaw, Brandyn Pollard and Brendan Hall.
By May 2005 the boys had split from the now Whiteleas Predators to form their own age group.
The boys trained throughout the summer and were joined by Ellis Heslop, Conner Urwin & Jake Robinson.
During the summer of 2005, the Tony Christie hit "show me the way to Amarillo" was all over the charts. The boys loved singing it during warm ups so we adopted the name Amarillo.
In December 2005, an already impressive group was strengthened even further with the additions of Liam Mulvain.
It was in February 2006 that we played our first competitive matches. We put together two teams (Amarillo & Brazil) and played against South Shields Raiders. At this point the two teams were split with Brazil being taken over by two dads, Paul Collinson & Lee Smith who had just completed their own coaching badges.

Amarillo went on to win a few friendly tournaments during the summer of 2006 and the squad was completed by the addition of Niall Palmer in June 2006

Amarillo went on to win their first competitive match at Monkton in September 2006 12-0 with Ryan Hucks scoring 6 and hitting the headlines in the gazette with "Ryan runs Riot", a caption which is still used today by the gazette to advertise their saturday sports suppliment.

Amarillo went on to have a great first season winning a league & cup double at Monkton.

With a further addition to the squad with David Kenrick in June 2007 and the backing of a great set of parents and two extra coaches with Dave Robinson & Colin Hucks the future looks bright for this talented bunch of boys.
Watch this space!