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CLUB OFFICIALS Chairman

NIGEL CORNER

The Editor’s Wider View 5 Harrogate Railway Clubhouse 13 2014/15 League Table 16 2014/15 Results 17 Ossett Town Match Report 18 Prescot Cables’ History 24 Team Sheet 43

Treasurer

CHRIS PARKES Club Secretary

ANN KIRK

Football Secretary

DAVID SHEPHERD Committee

GARY JOHNSON SIMON MERCER ALAN SMITH BEN DRURY CHRIS WATT Media/Press Officer

MARK P DOHERTY HAL BOXHALL-DOCKREE Clubhouse Manager

TERI BUSSEY GARY JOHNSON

FIRST TEAM Manager

LEE ASHFORTH Assistant Manager

SIMON WOOD MARTIN POWELL Director of Football

STEVE GRIME Physio

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That ‘R’ Word It has been a difficult season. There is no doubt about that.

know how to play together.

With five games left, we find ourselves eight points behind Ossett Town, who have two games more than us to play.

The club has shown faith in Lee and I have seen the makings of a superb manager - it just takes patience to allow him to build the squad around his ideas.

We’ve won four games this season, drawn nine in all competitions and now face the prospect of finishing second bottom in the league.

Trust and faith is simply something that many clubs do not show in their managers, panicking at the first signs of when things go wrong.

Contrast that to last season when we won 19, drew 13 and lost 10 - ending eighth in the league.

Now some reading this will point out that Railway face relegation. Yes we do. But we have assembled a core of young, talented players with bags of potential.

Doesn’t make pretty reading does it.

However, the statistics tell one story and yes, we will be judged by the wider audience with those stats at 5pm Saturday 23rd April - but the real story is more complex.

Over the summer, Railway lost a manager and a lot of talented players. Nearly all clubs would struggle to lose the players we did.

That’s not to say that the players we started the new season with weren’t good enough, but a new manager and new players means that it takes time to get to

Lee has a three year plan and this is the first and most difficult year of that plan one that involved a forced rebuild of the squad.

For those rushing to judge; compare Lee’s first season not with Billy Miller’s record breaking final season at Railway, but his first. Makes you think doesn’t it.

Lee deserves our trust, patience and above all our faith.

Five games to go and who knows how the season will end, there are still points to play for and maybe...just maybe?

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Chris Ovington and Ossett keeper Tom Beaurepaire get to the ball at the same time.

2015/16 EVO-STIK LEAGUE ONE NORTH FIXTURES

2015

2016

August

Sat 15 Tue 18 Sat 22 Mon 24 Sat 29

1-1 1-1 3-1 0-6 0-0

D D L L D

Droylsden Spennymoor Town Brighouse Town Scarborough Athletic Spennymoor Town

H A A H H

2-0 4-1 2-0 6-0 3-2 2-1 2-4

L W W L L L L

Spennymoor Town Radcliffe Borough Mossley Trafford

Burscough Ossett Albion Glossop North End

A H H A A A H

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1-0 4-1 6-3 0-1 2-2 1-1 3-0

L W L L D D L

Mossley Glasshoughton Welfare Warrington Town Northwich Victoria Scarborough Athletic Brighouse Town Clitheroe

A H A H A H A

FA TROPHY PRELIM WRCC EMIRATES FA CUP 3Q

2-3 W 2-3 L 1-3 L Postponed Abandoned

Droylsden Stocksbridge Park Steels Kendal Town New Mills Ossett Town

A H H A H

EMIRATES FA CUP 1 INTEGRO LEAGUE CUP 1

Postponed Postponed 1-3 L Postponed Postponed

Kendal Town Trafford Ossett Albion Farsley Celtic Clitheroe

A H H A H

5-0 L 1-0 L 3-1 L 0-0 D Postponed

Witton Albion Lancaster City Farsley Celtic Radcliffe Borough Burscough

A A A A H

Tue 2 Sat 6 Sat 13 Mon 15 Sat 20 Tue 23 Sat 27 Mon 29

5-0 L Postponed 5-1 L 0-4 L 1-2 L 0-3 W 1-1 D 0-7 L

Bamber Bridge Warrington Town Glossop North End Spennymoor Town Bamber Bridge New Mills Northwich Victoria Warrington Town

A H A H H A A H

Sat 5 Mon 7 Sat 12 Sat 19 Mon 21 Sat 26 Mon 28

4-2 2-2 1-3 1-3 1-2 5-3 1-1

L D L L L L D

Prescot Cables Witton Albion Lancaster City Clitheroe Burscough Mossley Farsley Celtic

A H H H H A H

Sat 2 Mon 4 Sat 9 Sat 16 Mon 18 Sat 23

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Ossett Town Prescot Cables New Mills Trafford Ossett Town Kendal Town

A H H H H A

September

Tue 1 Sat 5 Mon 7 Sat 12 Sat 19 Sat 26 Mon 28

October

Sat 3 Mon 5 Sat 10 Sat 17 Tue 20 Sat 24 Sat 31

November

Sat 7 Mon 9 Sat 14 Sat 21 Sat 28

December

Sat 5 Sat 12 Sat 19 Sat 26 Mon 28

January

Sat 2 Sat 9 Tue 19 Sat 23 Sat 30

February

March

April

May

Sat 21 Sun 22

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EMIRATES FA CUP 4Q

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HD

HL

AW

AD

AL

W

D

L

F

A

Diff

Pts

Adj

17

2

1

13

2

3

30

4

4

108

32

76

94

0

Spennymoor Town

37

12

5

2

12

5

1

24

10

3

104

27

77

82

0

Glossop North End

36

14

3

2

7

5

5

21

8

7

70

34

36

71

0

Northwich Victoria

36

13

2

3

11

3

4

24

5

7

89

37

52

68

-9

Burscough

37

11

2

6

10

2

6

21

4

12

67

44

23

67

0

Clitheroe

37

11

1

6

10

2

7

21

3

13

83

72

11

66

0

Trafford

38

11

4

5

7

3

8

18

7

13

71

46

25

61

0

Ossett Albion

38

9

2

7

10

1

9

19

3

16

53

57

-4

60

0

Lancaster City

38

10

5

4

5

9

5

15

14

9

67

55

12

59

0

Mossley

36

11

2

4

6

3

10

17

5

14

70

61

9

56

0

Witton Albion

38

8

3

7

8

3

9

16

6

16

75

65

10

54

0

Farsley Celtic

38

10

2

7

5

6

8

15

8

15

71

46

25

53

0

Bamber Bridge

35

7

7

4

6

4

7

13

11

11

60

47

13

50

0

Brighouse Town

37

9

3

6

5

5

9

14

8

15

64

64

0

50

0

Prescot Cables

37

7

3

9

5

3

10

12

6

19

61

87

-26

42

0

Kendal Town

36

5

5

8

5

5

8

10

10

16

52

72

-20

40

0

Scarborough Athletic

37

6

3

11

4

4

9

10

7

20

39

57

-18

37

0

Droylsden

36

6

3

8

4

3

12

10

6

20

60

119

-59

36

0

Radcliffe Borough

36

4

5

7

5

1

14

9

6

21

44

65

-21

33

0

Ossett Town

35

3

7

9

4

0

12

7

7

21

38

85

-47

28

0

Harrogate Railway Athletic

37

2

4

11

2

4

14

4

8

25

44

103

-59

20

0

New Mills

35

0

1

17

0

1

16

0

2

33

21

136

-115

2

0

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2014/15 First Division North League Table

Home

16

Away

All

Goals

#

Team

Pd

W

D

L

W

D

L

W

D

L

F

A

Diff

Pts

Adj

1.

Salford City

42

17

2

2

13

3

5

30

5

7

92

42

50

95

0

2.

Darlington 1883

42

16

3

2

12

4

5

28

7

7

99

37

62

91

0

3.

Bamber Bridge

42

14

3

4

11

5

5

25

8

9

88

58

30

83

0

4.

Northwich Victoria

42

12

5

4

13

2

6

25

7

10

75

39

36

82

0

5.

Spennymoor Town

42

13

5

3

9

6

6

22

11

9

76

45

31

77

0

6.

Scarborough Athletic

42

14

1

6

9

5

7

23

6

13

80

61

19

75

0

7.

Mossley

42

12

2

7

11

4

6

23

6

13

79

63

16

75

0

8.

Harrogate Railway Athletic

42

11

5

5

8

5

8

19

10

13

85

75

10

67

0

9.

Warrington Town

42

10

5

6

9

3

9

19

8

15

65

55

10

65

0

10.

Droylsden

42

13

2

6

7

1

13

20

3

19

98

84

14

63

0

11.

Lancaster City

42

10

3

8

8

5

8

18

8

16

65

53

12

62

0

12.

Farsley AFC

42

12

5

4

6

2

13

18

7

17

73

64

9

61

0

13.

Clitheroe

42

8

7

6

6

3

12

14

10

18

73

81

-8

52

0

14.

Brighouse Town

42

9

3

9

5

6

10

14

9

19

64

81

-17

51

0

15.

Burscough

42

6

5

10

6

7

8

12

12

18

62

73

-11

48

0

16.

Kendal Town

42

8

5

8

4

5

12

12

10

20

81

92

-11

46

0

17.

Ossett Albion

42

8

3

10

5

4

12

13

7

22

49

72

-23

43

-3

18.

Ossett Town

42

9

2

10

3

4

14

12

6

24

48

83

-35

42

0

19.

Radcliffe Borough

42

6

7

8

2

4

15

8

11

23

49

91

-42

35

0

20.

Prescot Cables

42

5

9

7

2

3

16

7

12

23

47

86

-39

33

0

21.

New Mills

42

3

3

15

3

4

14

6

7

29

56

107

-51

25

0

22.

Padiham

42

4

3

14

2

3

16

6

6

30

50

112

-62

24

0

2014/15 Results Date

Opponents

H/A

L/W/D

Score

Kick Off

Competition

21-Aug

Scarborough

A

L

3-2

19:45

League

16-Aug 23-Aug 30-Aug 30-Aug 06-Sep 08-Sep 13-Sep 20-Sep 22-Sep 27-Sep 01-Oct 04-Oct 07-Oct 11-Oct

14-Oct 18-Oct 25-Oct 28-Oct

01-Nov 03-Nov 08-Nov 15-Nov 22-Nov 24-Nov 29-Nov 01-Dec 06-Dec 13-Dec 20-Dec 26-Dec 28-Dec 01-Jan 03-Jan 10-Jan 24-Jan 19-Jan

07-Feb 10-Feb 14-Feb 23-Feb 28-Feb

07-Mar 14-Mar 21-Mar 04-Apr 06-Apr 11-Apr

14-Apr 18-Apr 25-Apr

Mossley

Droylsden

Farsley AFC

Garforth Town Burscough Clitheroe Clitheroe

Prescot Cables Brighouse

Colwyn Bay

Darlington 1883

Warrington Town Ossett Albion Kendal Town

Bamber Bridge

Spennymoor Town Droylsden Clitheroe

Brighouse

Scarborough

Radcliffe Boro Salford City

Ossett Town Goole

Northwich Victoria Frickley Athletic Lancaster City New Mills Brighouse

Spennymoor Town Salford City

Farsley AFC

Ossett Albion

Warrington Town Bamber Bridge

Spennymoor Town Padiham

Ramsbotom Utd Darlington 1883 Prescot Cables New Mills

Ossett Town Padiham

Kendal Town Burscough

Spennymoor Town Radcliffe Boro Mossley

Northwich Victoria Lancaster City

H A H A A H H A H A A H A A H H H A H H A A H H H H A H A H H A H A A H A A H H A A H H H A H A A H

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W W W W D L L L L

W L

D L

W L

D

W L

W W W W W W W W D

W L

W D

W W D L L L

W L

W D

W W L

D D

W

5-5 6-1 2-4 1-2 1-3 1-0 3-1 2-2 1-2 3-2 7-1 1-2 2-3 4-3 1-1 2-3 4-3 2-1 1-1 3-0 4-3 1-4 4-0 2-1 2-1 7-1 0-1 3-0 1-4 1-1 1-0 4-2 2-1 0-0 1-2 5-1 1-1 3-1 1-5 1-2 1-2 3-1 2-0 0-0 4-0 1-3 0-1 2-2 2-2 3-0

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Ossett Town Match Report

Harrogate Railway lose what was billed as a ‘must-win’ game against fellow relegation threatened Ossett Town

Harrogate Railway’s hopes of survival were dealt a blow on Saturday afternoon as they were defeated 2-1 at Ossett Town.

Luca Mellor, while only Lawrance Hunter, Dan Thirkell and Will Peers remained from the abandoned tie earlier this season.

Alex Peterson only had to tap in from a yard, but somehow couldn’t find the elusive touch and allowed bodies back in to clear.

Ossett started the strongest and took the lead in the 20th minute when Danny Frost smashed home, though Rail found an equaliser ten minutes before the break through Amar Purewal’s clinical finish.

The home side came flying out the traps and went close within the first minute when the returning Frost flashed a left footed shot across the face of goal.

Former Town striker Nathan Curtis then almost found the opener with a powerful shot, but Tom Beaurepaire saved well to keep the game goalless.

The visitors bombarded the Ossett goal in the second half in search of a winner, but were undone by Simon Rogers’ looping header that opens up an eight point gap between Railway and safety.

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Lee Ashforth made one change from Monday’s draw with Farsley Celtic, replacing Simon Parkes with

Railway had a few early sights of goal themselves as Harry Coates sent a shot into the back of Purewal who, minutes later, tried to curl in but found Rogers in the way.

Chandler Hallwood then showed quick reactions to beat away Steve Ridley’s deflected shot, but was caught out minutes later when Town created the best chance of the afternoon.

After 20 minutes, Frost made Ossett’s early dominance pay off as he powered in unchallenged following Hallwood denying Peterson’s free header from six yards out.

Frost had the ball in the net five minutes later, but this time was flagged offside, before Railway started to push forward.

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Purewal then fired Railway back onto level terms when a long goal kick picked out the Darlington loanee, who expertly held off his marker and darted towards goal before shooting right footed into the far corner.

Railway then had a big appeal for a penalty turned down in the 73rd minute when Matty Lovegreen’s long throw found its’ way to the back post where it looked to be handled before Dan Thirkell could reach it.

It wasn’t given though, and six minutes later Rogers, the only survivor from November’s abandoned match, broke the hearts of Railway.

Anthony Mackie went close for Ossett on the break, but couldn’t put his left footed shot between the sticks before Hunter threaded Ovington through on goal, but Beaurepaire closed down quickly block.

A rare Ossett free kick inside the Harrogate half was not cleared properly and delivered back in towards Rogers who acrobatically looped a header backwards and into the far corner.

Purewal continued to look a threat in the opening 15 minutes of the second half as he sent a volley into the face of Xander M’Burnie who took the full force of the strike.

Ashforth threw on strikers Stephen Bromley and Dan Barrett as Railway prepared an all-out assault on the Ossett goal, though it was Hunter’s right footed volley that went closest, but was well caught by Beaurepaire.

With 20 minutes to go, Ossett knew a draw would be better for them than it would their visitors, and subsequently got men behind the ball and looked to hit on the counter.

The strategy almost paid off as Liam Schofield arrowed one just past the far post and M’Burnie’s near post shot was comfortably saved by Hallwood.

Harrogate Railway: Hallwood, Mellor (Bromley 81), Hunter, Low, Lovegreen, Thirkell, Peers, Coates (Barrett 85), Purewal, Ovington (Beesley 64), Curtis Subs not used: Youhill, Clamp Goals: Purewal 35 Booked: Low, Peers Ossett Town: Beaurepaire, Hawksworth, L Schofield, Monfredi, Rogers, Kilner, M’Burnie, Ridley, Peterson, Frost (Farnhill 58), Mackie (Brown 90+3) Subs not used: Payne, Quinlan, J Schofield Goals: Frost 20, Rogers 79

Paul Beesley, also introduced in the second half, created Railway’s final chance to salvage a point deep into stoppage time, but his knock down towards Purewal was fired over.

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Nathan gets past the Ossett Town defender...

Prescot Cables’ History

Prescot Football Club was formed in 1884 and the first organised game of Association Football ever played in Prescot took place against the second team of a local St Helens side, St Thomas. Prescot lost 3-1.

After playing friendly games for the first five years, Prescot entered the Liverpool & District League in 1889. Prescot’s highest finishing position in that league was third in 1891-92, the year in which Prescot entered the FA Cup for the first time.

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A home game against Crewe Alexandra attracted 3,000 spectators to Prescot’s ‘Slacky Brow’ ground, where Prescot were beaten 7-1.

Prescot joined the Lancashire Alliance in 1895 and were champions in 1899-1900.

The Liverpool County Combination became the Prescot club’s sixth league, in 1911-12.

The club finished bottom the following year but joined the higher standard Lancashire League for 1901-02.

Leagues were suspended in 1914 for the Great War and the postwar Prescot club dropped ‘Athletic’ from its name and joined the Lancashire Combination Liverpool Section.

A ground dispute resulted in Prescot dropping out of the league in 1902-03 and Prescot FC was dormant until 1906 when an athletic and football ground was opened at Hope Street and Prescot Athletic FC, was formed. Prescot Athletic started in the St Helens & District League and won the championship in the first year, after which they joined the Liverpool League for four seasons.

In their first season, 1918-19, Prescot finished runners-up to Tranmere Rovers but did not fare too well the following season and the club returned to the more locally-based Liverpool County Combination for the 1920-21 season and spent a further seven years in that league.

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giants, BICC, donated a magnificent 1,000-seater stand (which was destroyed by fire in 1960) to the club. In what was clearly an early form of commercial sponsorship, the club’s name was changed to Prescot Cables and the team colours became black and amber to commemorate a bit of local industrial history, as the first successful insulated cable drawn at Prescot was covered with black and amber paper.

club struggled and in 1975, it was voted out of the Lancashire Combination. Prescot Town joined the Mid-Cheshire League and won it at the first attempt.

Prescot Cables joined the Lancashire Combination In 1928-29 and, in 1929, applied to join the Football League Third Division (North), along with four other hopefuls. All the applicants failed, although one, Mansfield Town, was successful two years later.

In 1980, the name of Prescot Cables was re-taken and in 1982, Cables became a member of the newly formed North West Counties League where they remained for 20 years.

In 1978-79 they returned to the Cheshire County League, in Division Two, after an absence of 42 years. Prescot were Division Two champions the following season, with Accrington Stanley as runners-up.

Prescot finished in the top 10 in NWCL Division One in all but Prescot’s association with the one season since 1990 and, in Lancashire Combination lasted for 2001-02, the club had its most almost 50 years, apart from a brief successful season for over two spell spent in the Cheshire Coun- decades, winning the Worthingty League in the 1930’s. Prescot’s ton Challenge Trophy (League only league championship was Cup) and finishing as Division achieved in 1956-57, although One runners-up, narrowly missthey were runners-up in 1930-31, ing out on promotion to UniBond 1931-32, 1932-33, 1952-53, 1957- League Division One. 58 and 1958-59.

However, Prescot went one better Prescot Cables changed its name in 2002-03 and finished as chamto Prescot Town in 1964 but the pions of NWCL Division One to

win promotion to the UniBond League Division One. Ground improvements were carried out at Valerie Park (formerly known as Hope Street) to meet the ground standard and ensure that Prescot could take their place in the higher league.

For the season 2004-05, Prescot found themselves playing at the highest level in their history. Due to a suitable finishing position, and the re-organisation of the football pyramid, Prescot took their place in the Unibond Premier Division.

As a result of a team unable to forfill their fixtures, and after the controversial intervention of the FA, Cables were elevated to 5th position in the league. Cables had the opportunity to gain promotion to the Conference North, however, defeat at Workington in the first play-off game ended that dream for now !

For the season 2005-06, it was a case of consolidation with a new football committee being formed from the Supporters Club. The previous football club, Prescot Cables, was transferred over to an-

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other organisation, namely Prescot Football Club Ltd (although trading as Prescot Cables Football Club).

The club produced another mid-table finish in the following season to avoid becoming involved in another non-league ‘shake-up’ that saw two Unibond First Divisions being created for the 2007/08 season.

On the final game of the 2007/08 campaign, Prescot was 15 minutes from relegation. Two late goals secured a win at Lincoln United and survival.

Due to the tightness of points and goal difference, Cables eventually finished in 13th place ! Shortly after the season’s end, the ground was purchased by Triman Developments Ltd from Mr Mercer’s company (the former Chairman of the club, Prescot Cables AFC).

The current football club are working on ground improvements in order to provide the team and supporters with an opportunity to move forward.

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A dreadful 2008/09 season saw Prescot propping up the Premier

Division. Manager Andy Gray departed for Burscough.

He was replaced by Joe Gibiliru who embarked on a fresh start with player personnel. Joe managed to bring some much needed stability to the club as the team finished in mid table.

2010 saw some of Cables regular performers leave for pastures new and several fresh faces arrive.

Gibiliru was relieved of his duties around the time of the big freeze in December 2010 and assistant Dave Ridler took over. He managed to secure Cables Evo-Stik league status for another season.

The 2011-12 season was a tale of five managers. Dave Ridler (who left for Australia in January 2012), Karl Bell, Karl Connolly all took charge for at least one match.

Following the controversial departure of Shaun Reid to Warrington Town in March, Joe Gibiliru took over for the remaining games.

The team and club re-grouped after the Reid fiasco to finish the season strongly to defy the odds and remain part of the Evo-Stik

League.

David Powell was the new man in charge for the 2012-13 season.

A virtually new squad assembled with inconsistent performances and results as a consequence.

The playing surface and weather conditions forced many postponements. When matches finally began in earnest in the New Year, Cables produced one of their most successful periods since the 2003 North West Counties campaign.

A scheme asking donators to sponsor a pitch square in order to afford the much needed renovation the pitch, took on a life of its own. In the end the scheme became over subscribed.

Circumstances arose that led to David Powell leaving the club. In his place for the 2014-15 season came Neil Prince, who at 31, must be the youngest manager in Cables history and probably in the current Evo-Stik League.

With limited resources the team managed to secure their Evo-Stik status.

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