Come on down, support the Town

By Luke Hodgson

This is a new feature to introduce Redcar Town First Team who at present play in the Ebac Northern League.

At the time of going to press the Club is still in with an outside chance of making the end of season promotion playoffs and we hope that we can give the people of Redcar and the surrounding areas something new to do with their spare time by asking for additional support for our final five games of the season which could help us achieve our goal. Our ground is the Vibrant Doors Stadium at Mo Mowlem Park, Trunk Road Redcar and we would love to see more of the locals down to support us if they can make it.

Redcar Town’s First Team recently held a fundraising evening sponsored by Car Care of Marske and were honoured to welcome Craig Hignett as the guest speaker. The Boro legend retold tales of his playing career, entertaining the packed Lakes Social Club with stories of his encounters with such stars as Gazza, Ravenelli and Juninho. A fantastic evening was had by all - thank you to those who attended and the small dedicated team who helped organise things.

Redcar Town relies on generosity, sponsorship and support to maintain their Northern League team - if you feel you could assist, please contact ourselves via social media.

On the field the team had a couple of disappointing results at the beginning of March as they lost 3-1 to promotion rivals Blyth Town and then lost 3-0 on a 3G pitch to the young Chester le Street United side but prior to these defeats they had beaten Brandon United in another important game at the top end of the table. The defeats were a bit hard to swallow as missed chances proved to be vital as the opposition took their chances while we did not capitalise on the many chances we had in both games. The last two games have seen us step up and a very hard earned draw away at second placed Horden saw us come from behind to earn a point as Nico Weatherald converted from the spot after Kurtis Howes had been brought down. The one point could have been three as we squandered more chances but at the same time we were indebted to Mike Algie in goal as he thwarted the home side with a couple of important saves. In our final game before going to press we welcomed basement side Willington who had performed better in the few games leading to their visit to Redcar. Unfortunately for the visitors we were not to be denied and

Middlesborough Development Ladies 0 Redcar

Town Ladies 3

Our Ladies made it through to the County Cup Ladies Final after a solid team performance away at Middlesborough.

Credit to our opponents who made us fight all the way for the win.

We took the lead after 5 minutes with

Mary heading into the path of Tiana Hill to fire home.

Our lead was doubled on 8 minutes when Wiggy’s big boot up field found Mary who ran on and fired home at the near post

We finished the scoring on 41 minutes when Grace set up Jess to pass the ball into the bottom corner. We would like to thank our u11 girls team and our men’s team for coaches for their continued support it is much appreciated. Our u11 girls even set up a homemade lemonade stand to provide refreshments for our spectators. they were put to the sword as Luke Drummond opened the scoring with a close range effort inside the opening ten minutes. The visitors’ battled hard and made life difficult but Connor Smith was on hand to fire in a second on the half hour. The game was eventually made safe as half time approached as two goals in three minutes saw the lead extended to four. Firstly Foster Garton was in the right place at the right time with his first goal of the season and then Sam Webster struck from long range to make it four on the stroke of half time. The second half saw the team squander a lot of chances and the rhythm was affected by substitutions but it did allow Ben Andrews to come on for his first team debut and he was joined by fellow reserve Leon Bellerby a short time later as the manager took the opportunity to give his young bench some game time. Although the visitors did not threaten too much some indifferent defending saw the home side put pressure on themselves but in the final ten minutes they grasped the nettle and further goals from Garton and Howes saw the home side with their biggest win of the season whilst the performance was not the best. The final five games see a couple of our promotion hopefuls lying in wait but if we can get the victories we need then the play-offs may still be on the cards.

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