{"id":16565,"date":"2019-02-20T08:45:23","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T08:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rtfc.sam-thorp.co.uk\/?p=16565"},"modified":"2019-02-20T00:16:05","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T00:16:05","slug":"crows-welcome-tom-knowles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rtfc.sam-thorp.co.uk\/?p=16565","title":{"rendered":"Crows welcome Tom Knowles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-16566\" src=\"https:\/\/rtfc.sam-thorp.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/tom-knowles-announcement-500x281.png\" alt=\"Tom Knowles\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rtfc.sam-thorp.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/tom-knowles-announcement-500x281.png 500w, https:\/\/rtfc.sam-thorp.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/tom-knowles-announcement-80x44.png 80w, https:\/\/rtfc.sam-thorp.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/tom-knowles-announcement-100x56.png 100w, https:\/\/rtfc.sam-thorp.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/tom-knowles-announcement-50x28.png 50w, https:\/\/rtfc.sam-thorp.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/tom-knowles-announcement-25x14.png 25w, https:\/\/rtfc.sam-thorp.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/tom-knowles-announcement.png 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Royston Town are pleased to announce the signing of Tom Knowles on loan from Cambridge United.<\/p>\n<p>Knowles graduated through the Cambridge United\u00a0Shadow Scholars Academy to win a place in the club&#8217;s youth-team in 2016.<sup id=\"cite_ref-2\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>\u00a0He was an integral part of the under-18 team that reached the fourth round of the\u00a0FA Youth Cup\u00a0in the\u00a02016\u201317\u00a0season.\u00a0He made his first-team debut on the final day of the\u00a02017\u201318\u00a0season, coming on as a substitute against Port Vale\u00a0at the\u00a0Abbey Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Tom has previously been on loan at various clubs including St Ives Town, Cambridge City, St Neots Town and Dartford. His most recent loan stay was at current EvoStik South Premier Central leaders Kettering Town.  Whilst at The Poppies Tom won their latest Goal of the Month award for this free kick against Stourbridge:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7kiJ6G23BbE\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Welcome to Garden Walk Tom!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Royston Town are pleased to announce the signing of Tom Knowles on loan from Cambridge United. 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