THE VIEW
NCEL PREMIER
SEASON 2016/17
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2016/17 PRE-SEASON OFFICIAL MATCH PROGRAMME
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CONTENTS
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PRE-SEASON REVIEW Lee reviews the ins and outs at Station View
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DARLINGTON Look ahead to the first friendly of the pre-season
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CAMPION Review of the game against the newly promoted side
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Lee talks about our local neighbours
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HARROGATE TOWN John Smiths’ Trophy game always hotly contested
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KNARESBOROUGH TOWN
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BRIGHOUSE TOWN Great start to last season, but how will they do? HALF TIME QUIZ Are you good enough to answer the questions?
NORTON How are Railway and Norton linked? Find out...
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Welcome back to Station View
Thank you once again to the Committee for backing me as this seasons manager, many clubs would have changed after my first season in charge, but Harrogate Railway decided to let me continue to develop as a manager and hopefully develop the team. 4
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Most of the people I have spoken to fully understand how difficult it is to manage a team and when budgets are involved, even more so. Our target was to finish outside the bottom two, to put that into perspective, if the target was to finish in the top ten and we finished 11th, some would have considered this as near enough, unfortunately we finished one place below our target and that meant we were relegated. I was offered two other roles in football at levels above the North East Counties but never did I consider these as options once the club had backed me to stay. I believe that Railway have given me a chance and at the end of last season they deserved some loyalty, many managers talk about how players are not loyal and how frustrating it is, therefore surely as managers we should be loyal and set a precedent to the players. 7
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Of course in football thin gs change regularly an d each chall enge is a new one an d new decis io ns always need to be m ade, but as w e stand, I can assure e veryone tha t I see myse being at this lf club as long as they want me. This season we need to ensure that we are succ essful, how w e gauge the success is yet to be d e te but as a clu rmined, b we need to consolidate and get acc ustomed to the level, it common th sa eme in footb all that whe you go dow n n the target is to bounce straight bac k up, but in the North East Counti es Premier D ivision this would be d ifficult, how e v er achievable, as only one is prom oted. If the budge t of last sea son’s winning team is true then I c an assure you we are not involve d with thos levels of fin e ance and no t by a long way. The manag ement team and players will go into the season w ith fresh impetus and confidence th at we can do well in th is league an d compete on a more e ven keel tha n we did over the las t twelve mo nths. From a man agement pe rspective, Simon Woo d left at the end of the 11
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grow into th e role and b e the enthusiasm that I need by my side. Matty Love green, Luca Mellor and Chandler H allwood hav e all moved back to their previous clu bs and these three youngsters h ave a brigh future in th t e game. Nathan Curt is (Frickley ), Lawrence Hunter (Ba mber) have b oth decided to have a go at Evostick le vel and Harry Coate s although re leased from Harrogate T own is seek ing a club a a higher lev t el, these thre e players 15
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were superb last year and again go with our best wishes. The final parting player is Dan Thirkell (Tadcaster), I spoke to Dan at the end of the season and said that if he decided to go to an Evostick team then the club wouldn’t stand in his way. It did not come as a surprise that he decided to go to Tadcaster, with Billy Miller in charge and most of the team from season the before last it was a logical step. 18
It may have upset one or two but realistically he has served 11 seasons at his boyhood club.
and he will be warmly accepted once again. I wish Dan all the best for the rest of his football career wherever he plays.
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Darlington come to Station View as Evostick Premier Winners and back to back promotions. I have spoken to Martin Gray regularly over the past few seasons and he is without doubt an unbelievable manager. I have a lot of respect for him and wish him all the best for this season. We will see the return of Matty Lovegreen, Amar Purewal, Liam Hardy and of course one of my best friends Nathan Cartman. Matty and Amar were great for us last season and a fit Amar is a frightening prospect to face, with Cartman and Hardy as well, I think we may have a few issues to deal with. We wish Darlington as a club a great season, I wont call them a sleeping giant, as they certainly aren’t doing much sleeping, but the size and stature of the club is magnificent.
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The second game will see us face newly promoted Campion who will play in the First Division of the Counties, I am good friends with James Bicknell who is the manager and driving force behind the club. We played Campion in a friendly when we were having the bad weather last season and it was a good competitive game. They certainly wont be easy and have recruited well and will have a point to prove. Good luck to James and his team for the season. We then entertain Knaresborough Town who will no doubt include several ex-Railway players, Ben Parkes, Tom Hesquith among them. I never really knew Paul Stansfield as a player and only had a couple of dealings with him as a manager obviously with the Mike Morris, Fatlum Ibrihimi and later Simon Parkes deals. I can honestly say he is the only manager in my short reign who I have clashed with a little. Maybe due to the closeness of the two teams and the players we have tried to sign etc. but it hasn’t been easy. However I hope these issues have now been put to bed and we start with a clean slate. I am a firm believer that if all the local clubs can do well then it bodes good for the area. The times I have visited Knaresborough it is a great club with great backroom staff and I hope they achieve promotion this season. 27
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A FEW FOOTBALL QUESTIONS TO WHILE AWAY THE INTERVAL 1 Here’s a good one to start us off. How many clubs have played continuously in the FA Premier League since it started in 1992? 2 Fabio Capello was in charge of England for 42 matches. How many did he lose? 3 ‘The Loons’ is the nickname of which Scottish club? 4 Which club became the first to be automatically relegated from the Football League in 1987? 5 Which country was chosen to host the 1986 World Cup finals but had to withdraw because of financial problems? 6 Who is the only player to score three times for Scotland in the World Cup finals? 7 Which goalkeeper scored his first Premier League goal against Bolton Wanderers in January 2012? 8 Who is the only man to lose a World Cup final both as a player and a manager? 9 Who refereed the 1972 centenary FA Cup final in which Leeds United defeated Arsenal 1-0? 10 Who came on as substitute for Gary Lineker in what was his last appearance for England in 1992? Answers - Bottom Page 34
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Last game of pre-season, we play Norton and Stockton, this game came as links from the Matty Lovegreen deal, Matty played a couple of games for Norton whilst he was with us and I know Norton have a massive interest in developing young players and finding talent especially when they are surrounded by big spending clubs. They will bring a team today that will be a big challenge 6 days before our first game of the season and it will be a great test against a team that will be no push overs. We hope Norton have a great season and successful one too. Finally, speak to any manager and they will tell you results dont matter in pre season and that is without doubt a fact. What does matter is the performance levels and the fitness levels of the players, this is what we be looking for as we introduce a new batch of players to add to the 12 players who are still on our books from last season. On August 6th we want to hit the ground running and ensure that last season is a distant memory and the new memories we create are only positive ones, Enjoy the season I know I will
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