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The Editor’s Wider View
That ‘R’ Word
It has been a difficult season. There is no doubt about that.
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With five games left, we find ourselves eight points behind Ossett Town, who have two games more than us to play. We’ve won four games this season, drawn nine in all competitions and now face the prospect of finishing second bottom in the league. Contrast that to last season when we won 19, drew 13 and lost 10 - ending eighth in the league.
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 23 rd 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 know how to play together. 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.
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.
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.
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?
Chris Ovington and Ossett keeper Tom Beaurepaire get to the ball at the same time.
2015/16 EVO-STIK LEAGUE ONE NORTH FIXTURES
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
September Tue 1 2-0 L Spennymoor Town A Sat 5 4-1 W Radcliffe Borough H Mon 7 2-0 W Mossley H Sat 12 6-0 L Trafford A Sat 19 3-2 L Burscough A Sat 26 2-1 L Ossett Albion A Mon 28 2-4 L Glossop North End H
October Sat 3 Mon 5 Sat 10 Sat 17 Tue 20 Sat 24 Sat 31 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
November Sat 7 Mon 9 Sat 14 Sat 21 Sat 28 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
December Sat 5 Postponed Kendal Town A Sat 12 Postponed Trafford H Sat 19 1-3 L Ossett Albion H Sat 26 Postponed Farsley Celtic A Mon 28 Postponed Clitheroe H
2016
January Sat 2 5-0 L Witton Albion A Sat 9 1-0 L Lancaster City A Tue 19 3-1 L Farsley Celtic A Sat 23 0-0 D Radcliffe Borough A Sat 30 Postponed Burscough H
February 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
March
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
April
Sat 2 2-1 L Ossett Town A Mon 4 Prescot Cables H Sat 9 New Mills H Sat 16 Trafford H Mon 18 Ossett Town H Sat 23 Kendal Town A
May
Sat 21 Sun 22 EMIRATES FA CUP PRELIM
EMIRATES FA CUP REPLAY
FA TROPHY PRELIM WRCC EMIRATES FA CUP 3Q
EMIRATES FA CUP 4Q
EMIRATES FA CUP 1 INTEGRO LEAGUE CUP 1
Twitter watch:
Gutted for @THERAILFC who lost in a big game at the bottom yesterday. But massive credit to @ashforth_lee incredibly magnanimous in defeat!
Jay Taylor @jaytaylormedia1
EMIRATES FA CUP FINAL FA TROPHY FINAL
Four Evo-Stik League One North home fixtures left
Lee Ashforth’s Ossett Town Post Match Reaction
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