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CONTENTS

CLUB OFFICIALS Chairman

NIGEL CORNER Treasurer

CHRIS PARKES

The Editor’s Wider View 5 Harrogate Railway Clubhouse 15 2014/15 League Table 18 2014/15 Results 19 New Mills Match Report 20 Trafford FC’s History 26 Lee’s View 44 Team Sheet 49

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

ALEX FARRELL

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Reading Material With two home matches to go, including today’s game against Trafford, we are in a strange position of having the match day programme printed months ago.

That’s because both home games against Trafford and Ossett Town are rearranged fixtures.

Often criticised, often overlooked - the match day programme is actually a labour of love for a number of people.

Ken Welford provides the excellent Points from the Past and quiz. I’ve heard from a number of people outside of the club, that they consider this the highlight of the publication.

Lee Ashforth, manager of Harrogate Railway provides his thoughts for the game and a review of what is happening at that time.

Hal Boxhall-Dockree writes all the match reports, interviews and provides us with his thoughts regularly as the guest editor’s view.

Nigel Corner, Chairman of the club will also provide from time to time, an article for us to publish.

The programme also builds on the foundations laid down by David Shepherd, football secretary. His fantastic work over the years, long hours [often late on at night] provide the framework for what you are reading.

We have constraints about how we put the programme together. The sponsors need their pages, the league say we have to have certain adverts in certain places.

The printers say that we have a maximum number of pages and the total cost dictates what we can and cannot do.

Then there is the time it takes to put the publications together. As any programme editor can tell you - it can take quite a few hours to cajole all the contents into something you may want to read.

So when you pick up the programme and think that it has just been thrown together by someone who doesn’t care...that couldn’t be further from the truth.

We have a printed programme and a separate online programme - nearly 100 pages of [we hope] interesting content for each home game.

The match day programme may contain some mistakes. It may have content that is a little out of date due to unforeseen circumstances. It may be a little different from what you were expecting.

But remember, it has been put together with the best of intentions and we hope ours is something you enjoy reading.

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Daniel Thirkell playing against New Mills

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Nathan Curtis cuts iinside the New Mills defender to get a shot in on goal.

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 Postponed 3-1 L 0-0 D Postponed

Witton Albion Lancaster City Prescot Cables Farsley Celtic Radcliffe Borough Burscough

A A H 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

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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

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January

Sat 2 Sat 9 Sat 16 Tue 19 Sat 23 Sat 30

February

March

April

May

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EMIRATES FA CUP FINAL FA TROPHY FINAL

HD

HL

AW

AD

AL

W

D

L

F

A

Diff

Pts

Adj

17

2

1

14

2

3

31

4

4

109

32

77

97

0

Spennymoor Town

40

13

5

2

14

5

1

27

10

3

111

29

82

91

0

Northwich Victoria

39

14

2

3

13

3

4

27

5

7

97

40

57

77

-9

Glossop North End

39

14

3

3

8

6

5

22

9

8

74

38

36

75

0

Burscough

39

12

2

6

10

3

6

22

5

12

72

48

24

71

0

Clitheroe

40

11

1

8

10

2

8

21

3

16

87

82

5

66

0

Lancaster City

40

10

6

4

6

9

5

16

15

9

71

57

14

63

0

Trafford

40

11

5

5

7

3

9

18

8

14

72

49

23

62

0

Witton Albion

40

10

3

7

8

3

9

18

6

16

80

66

14

60

0

Ossett Albion

39

9

2

8

10

1

9

19

3

17

54

60

-6

60

0

Farsley Celtic

40

11

2

7

6

6

8

17

8

15

77

46

31

59

0

Mossley

39

11

2

6

6

3

11

17

5

17

75

70

5

56

0

Bamber Bridge

39

7

7

6

7

4

8

14

11

14

66

53

13

53

0

Brighouse Town

39

9

3

7

6

5

9

15

8

16

69

69

0

53

0

Kendal Town

39

6

5

8

6

5

9

12

10

17

56

76

-20

46

0

Prescot Cables

39

7

3

10

5

3

11

12

6

21

63

92

-29

42

0

Droylsden

39

6

3

10

5

3

12

11

6

22

64

127

-63

39

0

Scarborough Athletic

39

6

3

11

4

5

10

10

8

21

40

59

-19

38

0

Radcliffe Borough

39

5

6

8

5

1

14

10

7

22

51

70

-19

37

0

Ossett Town

39

4

7

9

6

0

13

10

7

22

45

89

-44

37

0

Harrogate Railway Athletic

39

4

4

11

2

4

14

6

8

25

50

105

-55

26

0

New Mills

39

0

1

18

0

1

19

0

2

37

23

149

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2

0

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Saturday 16 April 2016

15:00 Bamber Bridge v Droylsden 15:00 Clitheroe v Burscough 15:00 Harrogate Railway Athletic v Trafford 15:00 Kendal Town v Brighouse Town 15:00 Mossley v Farsley Celtic 15:00 New Mills v Witton Albion 15:00 Northwich Victoria v Spennymoor Town 15:00 Ossett Town v Glossop North End 15:00 Radcliffe Borough v Ossett Albion 15:00 Scarborough Athletic v Lancaster City 15:00 Warrington Town v Prescot Cables

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2014/15 First Division North League Table

Home

18

Away

All

Goals

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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

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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 D

W W L

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W

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New Mills Match Report

New Mills put up a spirited fight and make life difficult for Harrogate Railway A convincing second half performance saw Harrogate Railway claim a fourth home win of the season as they overcame New Mills 4-1 at Station View.

Michael Jones gave the winless visitors a shock lead after 12 minutes, but Chris Ovington struck six minutes later to put Railway back on level terms.

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finished to wrap up a deserved win for The Rail, who have now taken seven points from their last three home games.

Lee Ashforth made one change from Monday night’s win over Prescot Cables; handing a first Railway start of the season to Harrogate Town loanee Paul Beesley.

Harry Coates headed the hosts in front 11 minutes after the break with Ovington smashing home his second of the afternoon from close range soon after.

Ovington had looked dangerous right from the off and forced New Mills stopper Oliver Martin into a well-timed block within the first five minutes after the winger had ran clear of the defence.

Stephen Bromley made it four as he beat the offside trap and calmly

Martin was again on hand to deal with Beesley’s flicked header

before a long ball into the Railway box wasn’t cleared and Jones picked up the scraps to fire past Chandler Hallwood from close range.

It took just six minutes for Railway to find a response though, as Dan Thirkell attempted a diving header from Bromley’s floated cross only to be denied by Martin’s parry that fell to Ovington, who made no mistake from close range.

Garry Brown’s men created a clear chance to take a 2-1 lead into the break when Jake Williams nipped in front of Alex Low on the half way line and dashed towards goal Continued on page 23

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opposition half and placed into the bottom corner.

The chance served as a warning to Railway who looked much brighter after the break and soon took the lead through Coates’ first Railway goal of the season.

Ovington went close to sealing a memorable hat-trick in the 84th minute when Curtis teed him up on the edge of the box, but Jones made a brave block to keep the score at four.

Lawrance Hunter bent in a corner that Coates climbed highest to nestle a header into the bottom corner and give the hosts the lead.

It could have been three on the hour mark when Beesley and Thirkell combined with the latter forcing an excellent low save from Martin.

Thirkell was involved again for Railway’s third as he spread the play left towards Bromley whose direct running and low cross found its way to Ovington who powered home his second of the afternoon low into the net.

The creator of the third then became the scorer of the fourth as New Mills defensive line failed to react to Coates’ through ball and Bromley ran unopposed into the

Dan Barrett was introduced late into the game and nearly created a fifth for Railway as his dribble into the box fell to the feet of Curtis who shot wide.

Ashforth’s men had to work hard to take the lead, but were comfortable when ahead and now look forward to hosting Trafford next Saturday.

Harrogate Railway: Hallwood, Parkes (Lovegreen 76), Hunter, Low, Coates, Thirkell, Bromley, Clamp (Peers 60), Beesley (Barrett 73), Ovington, Curtis Subs not used: Mason, Mellor Goals: Ovington 18, 69, Coates 56, Bromley 76 New Mills: Martin, Golden, Wilshaw, Rand, Pritchard, Jones, Williams (McLoughlin 83), Hopper, Hibbert, Foulds (Brown 67), Woodhead (Coates 74) Subs not used: Boateng, Stanway Goals: Jones 12 Booked: Foulds, Pritchard Referee: H Conley

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Harry Coates scores against New Mills

Trafford FC’s History

The club was formed in summer 1990, being the brainchild of David Brown, John Harrison, David Law, and Bill Whitten under the name North Trafford, sharing Shawe View with Trafford Borough Rugby League Club. After initially being denied entrance, a late withdrawal resulted in the club being invited to join Division 2 of the Mid-Cheshire League for 1990/91 season.

The first game at competitive level versus Macclesfield College was won 3-1, leading to a finish in second place, and promotion to Division One.

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As a bonus the club obtained sole tenancy of Shawe View via a 30 year lease, and substantial ground improvements were undertaken.

1990/91 Manager David Law took North Trafford to 2nd place in the Mid-Cheshire League Division 2 & were promoted to the Division One.

Promotion was dependent on further ground improvements resulting in the erection of floodlights and the South Stand, which was granted.

1991/92 saw progress continue on the field as 4th place was achieved coupled with a successful application to join Division 2 of the North West Counties League.

1994/95 was launched under the club’s present name, ending in 4th place and defeats in the finals of the Manchester Senior and Carling Cups, progress being maintained the next season via 3rd place and reaching the last 16 of the F.A, Vase losing to the eventual winners, Brigg Town.

1992/93 the club had another good season ending with in 7th place in the NWCL Division 2.

1993/94 a magnificent second half of the season in which 20 out of 22 games were won, resulted in 2nd place and promotion to Division One. Additionally the first trophy was won via a 3-1 victory versus Maghull in the Lamot Pils Cup.

1995/96 Trafford had another successful league programme finishing in 3rd place.

1996/97 was undoubtedly our most successful, winning the N.W.C.L. and gaining promotion to Division 1 of the Unibond

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League but losing out in the finals of the Manchester Senior Cup and the League Cup. David Law who had managed the club since inception was named N.W.C.L. Manager of the Year, and the Reserves won the N.W.C.L Reserve Division, the Reserve League Cup, and the Manchester Amateur Cup. 1997/98 saw an indifferent start but the club finishing 12th, and a further trophy was won, the Unibond First Division Cup, beating Lincoln United 3-1.

1998/99 started with the appointment of Mark Molyneaux as assistant manager to David Law, taking over the reins in the December, and guiding us to a final place of 14th.

2001/02 saw Mark Molyneaux resign to take over at fellow Unibond First Division side Chorley, with the club finishing in 15th place. Trafford then appointed Joey Dunn as the new manager.

any of the cup competitions but finished in an improved 12th position on 56 points. While the Reserve Team won their third County Cup in four seasons by winning the Manchester F.A. Trophy.

2002/03 the results didn’t come Trafford’s way and at Christmas the club decided to release manager Joey Dunn & appoint the vastly experienced Mike McKenzie who has won so many honours as a manager in the Unibond League.

Sadly results still didn’t come & Trafford were relegated to the North West Counties League.

2005-06 was Trafford got off to a flying start in the League and had a good run in the FA Vase, but sadly couldn’t maintain their league form throughout the season finishing in 14th position

1999/2000 Manager Mark Molyneaux along with his assistant Wayne Goodison guided Trafford to victory in the Unibond President’s Cup Final beating Whitby Town in the 2nd leg on their ground.

2003/04 By October Trafford decided to part-company with MikeMcKenzie after finding themselves in 19th position in Division One. A month later Trafford appointed 28 year old former Leigh R.M.I. Reserve Team Manager Danny Johnson as the new manager. Within a couple of weeks the results changed and Trafford began to improved their league position.

2000/01 Trafford finished the season with thirteen games unbeaten run placing them in 5th place, their highest ever league position in the club’s eleven year history.

2004/05 By the end of season Danny Johnson’s young entertaining side finished in 16th position with 50 points.

Trafford didn’t have much joy in

Season 2006-07 saw Trafford finish in 5th place in the NWCL Division One the club’s best campaign since 2001 when they finished in 5th place in the Unibond Division One. The season included a good run in the FA Cup, two players in the top 20 goalscorers in the NWCL, with Glyn Barker in 6th place with 34 goals & Troy Hayder in 16th place with 20 goals, and a end of season run of 17 games unbeaten to round off a marvellous season.

At the end of the season sadly manager Danny Johnson decided to move up to the Unibond League with Ashton United, with our player Ged Kielty becoming Trafford’s ’new’ Player Manager, assisted by Lee Southwood &

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coached by Tony Coyne.

2007/08 With the new look management Trafford had one of their most successful campaign’s winning the Vodkat League Championship title by 11 points with a club record of 95 points to be promoted to the Unibond League for a second time after winning the title in 1997. From September 2007 Trafford went on a 29 league game unbeaten run including 18 straight wins which is a League record. Manager Ged Kielty was also voted Manager of the Year & the club won Programme of the Year. Centre forward Andy Lundy ended the season with 34 overall goals putting him in second place in the League goalscoring chart, but was the League top scorer with his 28 goals in Division One. His ‘sidekick’ Scott Barlow came close behind in fourth overall place with 29 goals.

2008-09 saw Trafford return to the Unibond League after an absence of five seasons. Manager Ged Kielty led the team to the club’s second Unibond League President’s Cup win beating First Division South Quorn 2-0 on their ground in the final. Trafford previously won the President’s Cup back in 1999-2000.

Trafford’s striker Scott Barlow finished runner-up as the First Division North Overall Leading Goalscoring charts with 40 goals. Trafford finished in 15th place in the Division.

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2009-10 former Trafford stalwart Garry Vaughan in the ‘hot-seat’ as Ged Kielty decided to step down as manager. During seven seasons in the 90’s Garry played a record 305 games for Trafford & is still the overall leading club goalscorer with 89 goals. In his first season as a manager at Unibond League level Garry along with his Assistant Manager Loz Green-

halgh guided the club to a creditable 12th place in the First Division North & were finalists in the Manchester County FA Premier Cup. During this season striker Scott Barlow scored 21 goals to become the joint overall club top goalscorer with a total of 89 goals in his three seasons at the club along with Manager Garry Vaughan.

2010-11 Trafford had a poor first half of the season, then Manager Garry Vaughan made a number of personnel changes including bringing back former Assistant Manager Wayne Goodison & the clubs fortunes changed finishing in a respectable 14th place.

2011-12 Trafford didn’t have much luck in any of the cup competitions & had a rollers coaster season in the First Division North finishing in 12th place.

2012-13 In Garry Vaughan’s fourth season as Manager along with his Assistant Wayne Goodison they led Trafford to promotion to the Evo-Stik League Premier Division, after winning the First Division North Play-Off final against Cammell Laird 4-2 on penalties aet on their ground.

2013-14 Trafford playing in their highest ever level of football in the Evo-Stik League Premier Division the club had a very successful season finishing in a very impressive 10th place & won the Manchester Premier Cup against Football Conference side Hyde at Bury FC’s Gigg Lane.

2014-15 In January 2015 Manager Garry Vaughan & his Assistant Wayne Goodison resigned from the club & former Altrincham Manager Graham Heathcote

took charge along with his Assistant Chris Adams. At the end of the season Trafford were relegated back to the Evo-Stik NPL First Division North & Graham Heath-

cote retired from Football management.

2015-16 In May 2015 Trafford appointed

former FC Haifax & Chorley Captain Tom Baker as the club’s new Manager.

Stephen Bromley just fails to connect with the ball

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Loz Hunter holds off the Trafford player

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Greg Kidd playing against Trafford earlier this season

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Welcome to Station View A warm welcome to Trafford and their management team and hopefully they will have had a safe trip across.

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This unfortunately now is a game

that has no real meaning for either team, after the previous week Traffords hopes of the play offs have ended and our own hopes of remaining in the division also disappeared after Ossett Town took 6 points from their mid week fixtures.

We need to ensure that we approach this match with the correct attitude and ensure that we end the season on a high, our last few results have been good and we have finally hit a little bit of form going into the remainder of our season. I hope we can continue

Lee’s View

this and try to make the summer break as positive as we can. Trafford will have felt the way we do 12 months ago when they got relegated from the Premier Division and I will be interested to hear their views now on how they have recovered and been competing in

this league.

I have one more set of notes to do after these and then a season review will be done so I will go into much more detail then. However I wish to thank you for your support throughout the season and

can now only wish we had done more.

Enjoy the game

rth Lee Ashfo

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Team Sheet

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01 Chandler HALLWOOD 02 Simon Parkes 03 Lawrance HUNTER 04 Alex LOW 05 Harry COATES 06 Daniel THIRKELL 07 Chris OVINGTON 08 Charlie CLAMP 09 George MASON 10 Nathan CURTIS 11 Stephen BROMLEY

01 Russ SAUNDERS 02 Evan GUMBS 03 Danny CALDECOTT 04 Kyle JACOBS 05 Andy LANGFORD 06 Ryan LEDSON 07 Chris PALMER 08 C ROBERTS-NURSE 09 Sam NOAR 10 Ashley STOTT 11 Jack DORNEY

12 Paul BEESLEY 14 Will PEERS 15 Matty LOVEGREEN 16 Dan BARRETT 17 Luca MELLOR

12 Dimitri TUANZEBE 14 Connor MARTIN 15 Chris SHUKER 16 Tom BAKER 17 Matt GREEN

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