Ossett United v Pontefract Collieries (02/01/2023)

Vs PONTEFRACT COLLIERIES MONDAY 02 JANUARY | 15:00 PITCHING IN NPL EAST

OSSETT UNITED FOOTBALL CLUB

INGFIELD, PROSPECT ROAD, OSSETT, WF5 9HL

CLUB PRESIDENT: NEVILLE WIGGLESWORTH CHAIRMAN: JAMES ROGERS VICE-CHAIRMAN: PHIL SMITH SECRETARY: NEIL SPOFFORTH TREASURER: PAUL BILLING BOARD MEMBERS: LEE BROADBENT, STUART GARSIDE, JOE HANKS, STEVE HANKS MANAGER: GRANT BLACK ASSISTANT MANAGER: MICK NORBURY COACH: DAVID BROWN, RYAN PUGH MATCH ANALYST: VACANCY MEDICAL TEAM: EMILY CRISPIN MENTAL HEALTH & WELLBEING OFFICER: KATE HENNIGHAN

OSSETT UNITED V PONTEFRACT COLLIERIES

HEAD OF MEDIA: CRAIG BIDDLESTONE MEDIA TEAM: CHRIS CASSIDY, HAYDN FOX, OWEN GERRARD, JAMES GOTHARD, JON HUNT, GEORGE NORTHOVER, KEITH WOOD PROGRAMME DESIGN: NEIL SPOFFORTH CLUB HONOURS – OSSETT UNITED, OSSETT TOWN, OSSETT ALBION WEST RIDING COUNTY SENIOR CUP WINNERS: 1949/50 WEST RIDING COUNTY CUP WINNERS: 1958/59, 1964/65, 1965/66, 1967/68, 1981/82, 1998/99, 2018/19 RUNNERS UP: 2000/01 NORTHERN PREMIER LEAGUE FIRST DIVISION RUNNERS UP: 2001/02 PLAY-OFF RUNNERS UP: 2016/17 NORTHERN COUNTIES EAST PREMIER DIVISION WINNERS: 1998/99, 2003/04 RUNNERS UP: 1998/99, 2000/01 NORTHERN COUNTIES EAST FIRST DIVISION WINNERS: 1986/87 NORTHERN COUNTIES EAST SECOND DIVISION WINNERS: 1988/89 CLUB RECORDS FA CUP FOURTH QUALIFYING ROUND: 1965/66, 2003/04, 2005/06, 2012/13, 2017/18 (R) SECOND QUALIFYING ROUND: 2019/20 FA TROPHY SECOND ROUND: 1999/00 FIRST ROUND: 2001/02, 2004/05, 2012/13 THIRD QUALIFYING ROUND: 2022/23 OSSETT UNITED IS A TRADING NAME OF OSSETT UNITED LIMITED, A PRIVATE LIMITED COMPANY LIMITED BY SHARES. IT IS A COMPANY LIMITED BY SHARES. IT IS REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE, COMPANY NUMBER 11162425. THERE ARE TWO PEOPLE WITH SIGNIFICANT CONTROL. J. ROGERS (31.525%) AND D. ROGERS (25.5%)

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WELCOME TO INGFIELD JAMES ROGERS, CHAIRMAN

WELCOME TO INGFIELD FOR TODAY’S PITCHING IN NPL EAST GAME WITH PONTEFRACT COLLIERIES. I HOPE YOU’VE ALL HAD A GREAT CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR AND READY TO CHEER THE SIDE ON FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE SEASON. OUR MOST RECENT GAME AT BRIGHOUSE TOWN WAS A DISAPPOINTING RESULT, BUT HAVING GONE DOWN TO TEN MEN IN THE OPENING MINUTES, AND TO THEN BE THE BETTER SIDE FOR MUCH OF THE GAME UNTIL THE INEVITABLE FATIGUE ON A HEAVY PITCH

WITH A LITTLE BIT MORE LUCK (AND SHARPER FINISHING) WE COULD HAVE TURNED MANY OF THE RECENT DRAWS INTO VICTORIES, IF WE WERE NOT CREATING CHANCES IT WOULD BE A WORRY, BUT THE CHANCES ARE CERTAINLY

COMING AND, LIKE WE SAW AWAY TO GRANTHAM TOWN RECENTLY WE KNOW WE HAVE THE PLAYERS CAPABLE OF TURNING THE CHANCES INTO GOALS AND I HAVE NO DOUBT THAT WILL START TO SHOW IN THE RESULTS.

THAT WAS OUR, AND MANY OTHER SIDES FIRST

IT WAS GREAT TO SEE A COUPLE OF THE IMPRESSIVE U18 PLAYERS SIGN FOR THE FIRST TEAM IN RECENT WEEKS, IDRIS ATTA AND TOM PRIESTLEY-STANDING HAVE BOTH IMPRESSED

GAME FOR A FEW WEEKS AFTER A FREEZING DECEMBER. OUR PREVIOUS GAME WE LEFT TADCASTER ALBION WITH A POINT AND AS THE FULL-TIME WHISTLE CAME I HAVE NEVER EXPERIENCED A GROUND SO QUIET AS SUPPORTERS FROM BOTH SIDES TRIED TO GET THEIR HEADS AROUND WHAT

STRENGTH TO THE SQUAD AS WE LOOK TO GET THE POINTS OUR PERFORMANCES HAVE BEEN DESERVING OF.

KICKED IN, WE CAN DEFINITELY SOMETHING POSITIVE FROM THE GAME.

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HAD JUST HAPPENED. FOR THOSE NOT THERE WE CREATED SO MANY CHANCES, ESPECIALLY IN THE SECOND HALF, AND IT WAS INCREDIBLE THAT NONE OF THEM WENT IN THANKS TO A MAN OF THE MATCH PERFORMANCE FROM THE TADCASTER ALBION GOALKEEPER AND EVEN WHEN HE WAS BEATEN THE POST WAS STRUCK OR A DEFENDER WAS ON THE LINE TO SCRAMBLE THE BALL AWAY!

TAKE

AND BEING IN AND AROUND THE FIRST TEAM WILL SEE THEM GAIN VALUABLE EXPERIENCE. ADDED TO THAT THE SIGNINGS OF CHRIS DAWSON AND LUKE ALDRICH ADDS GREAT

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THE DUGOUT GRANT BLACK WELCOME TO EVERYONE TRAVELLING FROM PONTEFRACT COLLIERIES TODAY AND EVERYONE WHO HAS MADE THE JOURNEY TO THIS GAME.

LOOKING BACK ON OUR LAST COUPLE OF GAMES, THREE WEEKS APART, AWAY AT TADCASTER ALBION AND BRIGHOUSE TOWN I THINK WE WERE FRUSTRATED A NOT GETTING THE SIX POINTS. WE CREATED CHANCE AFTER CHANCE, ENOUGH TO WIN MORE THAN ONE GAME, AT TADCASTER BUT JUST COULDN'T FINISH THEM WHICH SOMETIMES HAPPENS. DUNSTON WHO SIT IN A PLAY-OFF PLACE WENT THERE THREE DAYS BEFORE US AND COULDN'T GET THE WIN EITHER SO IT SHOWS HOW COMPETITIVE THIS LEAGUE REALLY IS.

THEN ON BOXING DAY THE TRIP TO BRIGHOUSE WAS VERY FRUSTRATING TO SAY THE LEAST. LOSING A PLAYER IN THE OPENING MINUTES WAS A BODY BLOW, ESPECIALLY AS I BELIEVE IT WAS A TERRIBLE DECISION BY THE MATCH OFFICIAL BUT WON’T BE SAYING ANYTHING ELSE ABOUT THAT. THE LADS SHOWED WHAT A GREAT TEAM SPIRIT WE HAVE BUILT HERE AS THEY PUT THEIR BODIES ON THE LINE AND FOUGHT FOR EACH OTHER AND MORE THAN DESERVINGLY LED AT HALF TIME. ULTIMATELY PLAYING WITH TEN MEN FOR OVER 90 MINUTES AND ON A VERY HEAVY

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PITCH BRIGHOUSE WERE ABLE TO COUNTER ON US AND TOOK THE POINTS IN A GAME THAT PRE MATCH I WAS TARGETING ALL THREE.

SINCE THAT GAME WE HAVE BEEN ABLE TO ADD CHRIS DAWSON AND LUKE ALDRICH TO THE SIDE AS WELL AS GIVING FIRST TEAM DEALS TO TWO OF THE U18 SQUAD, TOM PRIESTLEY-STANDING AND IDRIS ATTA SO THE SQUAD CONTINUES TO BE STRENGTHENED.

WE ARE NOW NINE GAMES INTO THIS PROJECT AND HAVE LOST TWO LEAGUE GAMES, ONCE AGAINST THE RUN AWAY LEAGUE LEADERS AND ONE WITH TEN MEN SO WE AS A GROUP ARE POSITIVE ON HOW THINGS ARE GOING AND ARE LOOKING TO BUILD ON THINGS TODAY AGAINST PONTEFRACT COLLIERIES.

ENJOY THE GAME.

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THE PRESIDENT’S ADDRESS NEVILLE WIGGLESWORTH THAT NONE OF THOSE SEVEN TEAMS HAVE A SUPERIOR GOAL DIFFERENCE TO US AND OURS IS SIGNIFICANTLY BETTER THAN MOST.

I CAME AWAY FROM THE MATCH AT BRIGHOUSE I START THESE NOTES CONSIDERING THE DISTINCT RISK OF SOUNDING LIKE A BROKEN RECORD BUT ONCE AGAIN I REVERT TO A FAMILIAR THEME I.E. THE TIGHTNESS OF THIS DIVISION. AT HALF TIME DURING THE BRIGHOUSE TOWN FIXTURE ON BOXING DAY, AND WITH US LEADING AT THE TIME BY A SINGLE GOAL TO NIL, I CHECKED THE ‘LIVE’ DIVISION ONE EAST LEAGUE

TABLE. AT THAT TIME WE HAD ELEVATED OURSELVES INTO 8TH PLACE AND WE WERE SITTING PRETTY WITH ASPIRATIONS OF A TOP FIVE FINISH. TWO SECOND HALF GOALS BY BRIGHOUSE, ONE OF WHICH ULTIMATELY TURNED OUT TO BE THE WINNER WAS ALMOST PREDICTABLY SCORED BY ONE OF OUR EXPLAYERS JACK WILSON, AND THAT RESULTED IN US PLUMMETING DOWN TO 16TH SLOT BY THE END OF OUR GAME AND ONLY A 90TH MINUTE GOAL BY GRANTHAM TOWN AGAINST LINCOLN UNITED RESULTED IN US CLIMBING ONE MORE PLACE TO 15TH COME THE END OF THE DAY.

ANOTHER

RATHER STRANGE STATISTIC REGARDING OUR DIVISION IS THE FACT THAT OF THE SEVEN TEAMS ABOVE US AND BETWEEN OSSETT UNITED AND TODAY’S OPPONENTS PONTEFRACT COLLIERIES, WHO AT THE TIME OF WRITING, OCCUPY 7TH POSITION, IS THE FACT

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SOMEWHAT DISAPPOINTED AND NOT LEAST BECAUSE WE USUALLY DO WELL AGAINST THEM AT THIS TIME OF THE YEAR AND I TRAVELLED TO THE GAME EXPECTING TO COME AWAY WITH NOTHING LESS THAN A DRAW AT THE VERY LEAST. MY OTHER OVERRIDING THOUGHT ON THE GAME WAS THE IMPORTANCE AND CONTRIBUTIONS OF GOALKEEPERS – SOMETHING WHICH IS NOT ALWAYS RECOGNISED – CAN HAVE ON THE OUTCOME OF A GAME. HAD NOT THE BRIGHOUSE ‘KEEPER MADE A QUITE STUNNING SAVE FROM DANNY SOUTH’S CLOSE RANGE HEADER WHICH WAS BOUND FOR THE BOTTOM CORNER OF THE NET SHORTLY AFTER THE INTERVAL WE WOULD HAVE GONE 2 – 0 IN FRONT AND I’M SURE WOULD HAVE SEEN US THROUGH TO VICTORY. NOT ONLY DID THE SAVE RESTRICT OUR LEAD TO JUST THE ONE GOAL BUT WITHIN FIVE SECONDS BRIGHOUSE CHARGED UP THE OTHER END AND SLOTTED IN AN EQUALISER.

HOWEVER, BECAUSE OF THE TIGHTNESS OF OUR LEAGUE, ALTHOUGH WE ARE CURRENTLY NEARER TO THE RELEGATION PLACES THAN TO THE PLAYOFFS EVEN A HALF DECENT RUN OF RESULTS COULD QUITE EASILY ELEVATE US TO WHERE WE WANT TO BE. HOPEFULLY, BACK ON OUR OWN TURF THIS AFTERNOON, WE CAN START TO COLLECT A FEW WINNING OUTCOMES AND

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THE PRESIDENT’S ADDRESS ACHIEVE OUR AMBITIONS. OUR NEAR NEIGHBOURS AND VISITORS THIS AFTERNOON PONTEFRACT COLLIERIES, WHO ARE CURRENTLY

ON OUR LOCAL FOODBANK COLLECTIONS WHICH WERE DUE TO TAKE PLACE ON THE DAYS WE WERE SCHEDULED TO PLAY SHILDON AND

LOOKING TOWARDS A PLACE IN THE END OF SEASON PLAY-OFFS THEMSELVES, WILL NOT MAKE THAT EASY FOR US BUT ON OUR DAY I STILL BELIEVE WE ARE A MATCH FOR ANY TEAM IN THIS DIVISION AND IF WE CAN START TO CONVERT A

CARLTON

WITH THE POSTPONEMENT OF THOSE TWO MATCHES SEVERAL OF OUR SUPPORTERS STILL MADE VERY GENEROUS DONATIONS AND PAUL STEPHENSON WAS ABLE TO DELIVER A CAR BOOT FULL OF

HIGHER PERCENTAGE OF THE CHANCES WE CREATE WHO KNOWS WHERE THAT WILL TAKE US?

ITEMS TO SOUTH OSSETT CHURCH FOODBANK PRIOR TO THE CHRISTMAS PERIOD. HOPEFULLY WE WILL RE-SCHEDULE THE MAJOR COLLECTION FOR ANOTHER TIME IN THE NOT TOO DISTANT FUTURE WHEN I’M SURE WE CAN RELY ON OUR

AGAIN, AS I’VE MENTIONED BEFORE IN THESE NOTES, WE RELY HEAVILY ON OUR LOCAL COMMUNITY FOR THE EXCELLENT SUPPORT THEY AFFORD THE CLUB AND IT WAS UNFORTUNATE THAT THE ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS PRIOR TO THE BOXING DAY GAME PUT THE DAMPENER

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TOWN.

EVEN

SUPPORTERS’ GENEROSITY TO HELP OUT THE FOODBANK WHICH I AM TOLD IS BUSIER THAN IT’S EVER BEEN IN THE CURRENT FINANCIAL CLIMATE.

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ON THE BENCH GRANT BLACK – MANAGER

GRANT BLACK HAD A SUCCESSFUL PLAYING CAREER BEFORE STARTING HIS MANAGERIAL CAREER HERE AT INGFIELD WITH OSSETT TOWN IN 2016 TAKING THEM TO THE BRINK OF PROMOTION BEFORE MOVING TO BELPER TOWN WHERE HE ENJOYED FOUR SUCCESSFUL SEASONS CULMINATING IN PROMOTION TO THE NPL PREMIER DIVISION. BLACKIE RETURNED IN INGFIELD WITH OSSETT UNITED IN OCTOBER 2022.

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MICK NORBURY– ASSISTANT MANAGER NORBS IS NO STRANGER TO OSSETT HAVING PLAYED FOR BOTH TOWN AND ALBION AND ALSO HAVING A SPELL AS ASSISTANT TO GRANT BLACK AT OSSETT TOWN AS WELL AS WORKING WITH HIM AT BELPER TOWN.

SPONSORSHIP AVAILABLE DAVID BROWN– PLAYER/COACH DAVID BROWN BOASTS A SUCCESSFUL PLAYING CAREER WITH A NUMBER OF CLUBS INCLUDING OSSETT ALBION AND TOWN AS WELL AS SCARBOROUGH ATHLETIC AND HYDE AMONGST OTHERS. HAVING QUALIFIED AS A COACH HE HAS BECOME AN IMPORTANT MEMBER OF BLACK’S TEAM.

SPONSORSHIP AVAILABLE RYAN PUGH– GOALKEEPER COACH PUGHY SPENT HIS PLAYING DAYS AT GOOLE, NEW MILLS, MATLOCK TOWN AS WELL AS A LOAN SPELL AT OSSETT ALBION BEFORE TURNING HIS HAND TO COACHING ALONGSIDE GRANT BLACK AT BOTH OSSETT TOWN AND BELPER TOWN.

SPONSORSHIP AVAILABLE EMILY CRISPIN – SPORTS & EXERCISE THERAPIST EMILY GRADUATED FROM LEEDS BECKETT UNIVERSITY WITH A BSC HONOURS IN SPORT AND EXERCISE THERAPY. SHE IS ALSO QUALIFIED IN FIRST AID AT WORK AND TRAUMA MANAGEMENT WITHIN SPORT.

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PLAYER PROFILES EDD HALL EDD JOINED THE CLUB IN JANUARY 2022 AND IS WIDELY ACKNOWLEDGED AS ONE OF THE BEST GOALKEEPERS AT STEP FOUR AND WAS VOTED AS THE SECOND-BEST GOALKEEPER IN THE NPL EAST FOR THE 21/22 SEASON. EDD HAS NATIONAL LEAGUE NORTH EXPERIENCE HAVING PLAYED FOR BRADFORD PARK AVENUE AND FARSLEY CELTIC.

SPONSORED BY: FOOTBALLBOOKREVIEWS.COM DANNY BURNS CENTRAL DEFENDER SIGNED FROM WORKSOP TOWN. A TALL COMMANDING PLAYER WHO STARTED HIS CAREER AT CAMBRIDGE UNITED BEFORE SPELLS AT BUXTON, BLYTH SPARTANS, NUNEATON BOROUGH AND STAFFORD RANGERS AS WELL AS A SPELL AT FRICKLEY ATHLETIC ALONGSIDE BRAD BEATSON.

SPONSORED BY JAMES & DAWN ROGERS HARRY COATES HIGHLY RATED CENTRE HALF WHO TURNED DOWN A NUMBER OF CLUBS FROM THE NPL PREMIER DIVISION AND NPL EAST TO SIGN FOR THE CLUB FROM ASHTON UNITED WHERE HE WON A NUMBER OF AWARDS LAST SEASON. COATES FORMER CLUBS INCLUDE TADCASTER ALBION, SCARBOROUGH ATHLETIC AND BRADFORD PARK AVENUE

SPONSORED BY: BSP HYDRAULICS HARRY GAGEN AFTER A LOAN SPELL AT INGFIELD IN 2020, GAGEN SIGNED PERMANENTLY FOR THE CLUB UPON HIS RELEASE FROM BARNSLEY FC. ‘GADGE’ ESTABLISHED HIMSELF IN THE FIRST TEAM LAST SEASON, WINNING THE PLAYER’S PLAYER OF THE YEAR AWARD.

SPONSORED BY: LJB JOINERY CRAIG NELTHORPE A VASTLY EXPERIENCED PLAYER WITH FOOTBALL LEAGUE APPEARANCES FOR DONCASTER ROVERS AND DARLINGTON. NELLY HAS ALSO PLAYED FOR SEVERAL NATIONAL LEAGUE SIDES. A VERSATILE PLAYER WITH EXCELLENT SET PIECE DELIVERY HE IS AN ASSET FOR ANY SIDE.

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PLAYER PROFILES DANNY SOUTH GRANT BLACK’S FIRST SIGNING, AND CAPTAIN. DANNY SOUTH HAS PLAYED FOR BOTH OSSETT ALBION AND TOWN AND MOST RECENTLY AT BELPER TOWN WHERE HE ENJOYED PROMOTION TO THE NPL PREMIER DIVISION. THERE WON’T BE A STRIKER IN THE LEAGUE WHO WANTS TO COME UP AGAINST HIM.

SPONSORED BY THE ADAMSON FAMILY JAMES CADMAN CADMAN JOINS THE CLUB FROM SCARBOROUGH ATHLETIC WHERE HE PLAYED A BIG ROLE IN THEIR PROMOTION TO THE NATIONAL LEAGUE NORTH IN 21/22. CADDY HAS PLAYED FOR HARROGATE TOWN, STALEYBRIDGE CELTIC AND HYDE UNITED IN HIS CAREER AND WILL ADD ABILITY AND EXPERIENCE TO THE SQUAD.

SPONSORED BY: OSSETT TOWN JUNIORS CONNOR LEAK-BLUNT LEAK-BLUNT SPENT HIS YOUTH AT LEEDS UNITED WHERE HE SIGNED A PROFESSIONAL CONTRACT BEFORE MOVING TO SHEFFIELD UNITED, HE THEN HAD A SPELL AT PORTADOWN IN IRELAND.

SPONSORED BY: JAYNE OGLEY & RED BRICK FM LUKE HOGG COMBATIVE MIDFIELDER, HOGGY WON THE GARY WIDDOP SUPPORTERS PLAYER OF THE YEAR AWARD IN 2021/22, HOGG HAD A BRIEF SPELL AT WHITBY TOWN BEFORE JOINING FIRST ON LOAN AND THEN MAKING THE MOVE PERMANENT IN DECEMBER 2022.

SPONSORED BY: R&R GROUNDWORKS JANNI LIPKA HIGHLY RATED MIDFIELDER WHO HAS PLAYED A KEY ROLE

FOR HYDE UNITED FOR A

NUMBER OF YEARS WHERE HE EXPERIENCED PROMOTION TO THE NPL PREMIER DIVISION.

JANNI JOINED BELPER TOWN IN THE SUMMER BEFORE GRANT BLACK BROUGHT HIM TO INGFIELD IN OCTOBER 2022

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PLAYER PROFILES OLI METCALFE OLI SPENT THE SECOND HALF OF THE 21/22 SEASON ON LOAN FROM GUISELEY BEFORE MAKING THE MOVE PERMANENT THIS SUMMER. THE CENTRAL MIDFIELDER HAS GONE FROM STRENGTH TO STRENGTH AS HE LOOKS TO ESTABLISH HIMSELF IN THE SIDE. METCALFE WILL UNDOUBTEDLY ESTABLISH HIMSELF AS A KEY PLAYER AT INGFIELD.

SPONSORED BY SPOFF & KATE DERRY ROBSON A TALENTED AND VERSATILE MIDFIELDER, DEZ HAS VAST NPL EXPERIENCE AND HAS A PROMOTION ON HIS CV AS RECENTLY AS LAST SEASON. ROBSON MOVED TO CLEETHORPES TOWN EARLIER THIS SEASON BEFORE GRANT BLACK TOOK THE OPPORTUNITY TO BRING HIM TO INGFIELD

SPONSORED BY: LIAM MOORE-MCCLUSKEY JUNAYD CASSIUS-GILL JUNAYD SPENT HIS YOUTH AT HUDDERSFIELD TOWN AND BRADFORD CITY WITH NPL EXPERIENCE AT TADCASTER ALBION AND YORKSHIRE AMATEUR. HE CAN PLAY IN ANY OF THE ATTACKING POSITIONS AND WILL CERTAINLY EXCITE FANS WITH HIS ABILITY ON THE BALL

SPONSORED BY: STEVE MAUD NATHAN CURTIS EXCITING FORWARD THINKING PLAYER WHO HAS LINKS TO BOTH OSSETT TOWN AND ALBION, SIGNED FROM TADCASTER ALBION AFTER A LONG AND SUCCESSFUL SPELL AT BELPER TOWN CURTIS WILL ADD SKILL, ENDEAVOUR AND GOALS TO THE OSSETT UNITED SIDE.

SPONSORED BY: ROY TAYLOR & RICHARD FARRELL BRAD GRAYSON SIGNED FROM GAINSBOROUGH TRINITY, BRAD WILL BRING EXPERIENCE AND COMPETITION TO A TALENTED OSSETT UNITED FORWARD LINE. AS WELL AS A SUCCESSFUL NON-LEAGUE CAREER IN ENGLAND BRAD HAS ALSO PLAYED IN SWEDEN, THE PHILIPPINES AND AUSTRALIA.

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PLAYER PROFILES BEN MORRIS BEN SPENT HIS TEENAGE YEARS WITH DERBY COUNTY AND BARNSLEY BEFORE STEPPING INTO NON-LEAGUE WITH THE LIKES OF BARWELL TOWN, GAINSBOROUGH TRINITY, FRICKLEY ATHLETIC AND BELPER TOWN. THE WINGER IS EQUALLY COMFORTABLE DOWN THE MIDDLE AND ADDS OPTIONS TO THE SQUAD.

SPONSORED BY: PAUL COOPER ALEX PETERSON PETERSON HAS SIGNED FROM SHEFFIELD AFTER STARTING THE SEASON AT BELPER TOWN WHO HE HELPED TO PROMOTION IN 21/22. THE STRIKER IS A HANDFUL FOR OPPOSITION CENTRAL DEFENDERS AND WILL ADD STEEL TO THE FORWARD LINE.

SPONSORED BY: MOZ & MARV LUKE ALDRICH LUKE JOINED THE CLUB FROM ECCELSHILL UNITED IN THE SUMMER WHERE HE FIRED THEM TO A PLAY-OFF PLACE AND ONE GAME AWAY FROM PROMOTION. HE CONTINUED THAT FORM AT THE START OF THE SEASON EARNING HIMSELF A MOVE TO THE NPL PREMIER DIVISION. LUKE MADE THE DECISION TO RETURN AT THE START OF 2023

SPONSORED BY: THE SCOTTISH SUPPORTERS CLUB CHRIS DAWSON CHRIS DAWSON STARTED HIS CAREER AT LEEDS UNITED WHERE HE MADE FOUR FIRST TEAM APPEARANCES AS WELL AS TWO FOR WALES U 21’S. HE HAS ALSO PLAYED FOR SCARBOROUGH ATHLETIC, GRANTHAM TOWN AND BUXTON FROM WHO HE JOINED US ON DUEL REGISTRATION TERMS.

SPONSORED BY: PAUL COOPER JAMES CARVELL CARVELL IS COMFORTABLE OUT WIDE OR UP FRONT WITH PACE AND SKILL THAT WILL FRIGHTEN MANY A DEFENDER. CARVS PLAYED FOR DERBY COUNTY, AND BARNSLEY IN HIS YOUTH, AS WELL AS ILKESTON AND BARWELL IN NON-LEAGUE BEFORE SIGNING ON AT INGFIELD IN DECEMBER 2022

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FOOTBALL BOOK REVIEWS BIRDSONG ON HOLBECK MOOR BY BILLY MORRIS

THIS IS THE THIRD BOOK FROM BILLY MORRIS, WITH HIS DEBUT NOVEL BOURNEMOUTH 90 AND ITS FOLLOW-UP LS92 BOTH REVIEWED ON FBR. THE FIRST TWO ARE A MIX OF FACT AND FICTION EVENTS

SURROUNDING OF

PROMOTION

THE

LEEDS UNITED’S CLINCHING

WIN

DOWN AT BOURNEMOUTH IN MAY

1990 AND THEN PICKING UP WITH BOTH THE CLUB AND SOME OF THE CHARACTERS TWO YEARS LATER.

FOR BIRDSONG ON HOLBECK MOOR READERS ARE TAKEN BACK TO THE PERIOD IN AND AROUND THE FIRST

WORLD WAR. AS THE

AUTHOR

DETAILED

INTERVIEW

IN

HIS

FBR

THE

UPHEAVAL

IN

WITH

BACKDROP TO THE STORY IS, “A TIME

OF

LEEDS…THE WAR IS COMING TO AN END, THE LEEDS PALS WERE VIRTUALLY WIPED OUT ON THE FIRST DAY OF THE

SOMME AND

FAMILIES ARE STRUGGLING TO COPE WITH THE AFTERMATH OF THAT.

THERE IS RATIONING AND FOOD SHORTAGES AND SPANISH

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FOOTBALL BOOK REVIEWS FLU IS RAVAGING THE CITY;

AT ELLAND ROAD

LEEDS CITY ARE STRUGGLING TO EXPLAIN HOW THEY FUNDED AN INFLUX OF 'GUEST' PLAYERS WHO ENABLED THEM TO WIN THE 1917/18 LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP, AT A TIME WHEN MATCH FIXING WAS RIFE.”

THE LEEDS NAMED CONTINUED THOUGH WHEN LEEDS UNITED WERE FOUNDED IN 1919 AND TAKING UP RESIDENCE AT ELLAND ROAD. THE OTHER PLOTLINES CENTRE ON A SOME OF THE SURVIVING LEEDS PALS, BACK IN THE CITY AFTER THE WAR WITH BOTH FACING VERY

WHEREAS IN HIS FIRST TWO BOOKS MORRIS WAS

DIFFERENT STRUGGLES.

ABLE TO CALL ON HIS OWN EXPERIENCES TO

HE RETURNS TO

PROVIDE AN AUTHENTICITY TO THE WRITING, IN

SUFFERING FROM SHELL SHOCK AFTER HIS

THIS THIRD BOOK, THE AUTHOR HAS HAD TO

EXPERIENCES

RELY MORE ON RESEARCH ABOUT THE PERIOD TO

STRUGGLING TO DEAL WITH LIFE. WHILST FRANK

PROVIDE THE SAME EFFECT, AND ONCE AGAIN HE

HOLLERAN, FETED AS A WAR HERO, RETURNS TO HIS ‘BUSINESSES’ AND FINDS HIMSELF AND HIS

SUCCEEDS CREATING A REALISTIC FEELING OF

LEEDS IN THE LATE 1910’S FOR HIS CRIME FICTION. SETTING FOR

AS EVER THE WRITING IS TIGHT WITHIN THIS BOOK AND MORRIS MANAGES TO JUGGLE THE VARIOUS PLOTLINES EFFECTIVELY. THE FOOTBALL CONTENT IS NOT AS PROMINENT

BIRDSONG ON HOLBECK BUT IS AN INTERESTING TAKE ON EVENTS AT ELLAND ROAD AND THE BRIEF EXISTENCE OF LEEDS CITY. WITHIN

FOR ARTHUR ROWLEY

YORKSHIRE TRAUMATISED AND

IN

THE

TRENCHES

AND

FAMILY EMBROILED IN A SERIOUS ISSUE AS A CONSEQUENCE.

MORRIS CAPTURES WHAT MUST HAVE BEEN A DIFFICULT TIME FOR LEEDS, THOSE RETURNING TO IT AFTER THE WAR, THEIR FAMILIES AND INDEED THE CITY’S FOOTBALL TEAM. THE BOOK MAYBE SMALL IN SIZE BUT DELIVERS A PUNCH.

THEY WERE FOUNDED IN 1904 AND WERE ELECTED TO THE FOOTBALL LEAGUE A YEAR LATER AND DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR BECAME MIDLAND LEAGUE CHAMPIONS. HOWEVER, THEY WERE EXPELLED FROM THE FOOTBALL LEAGUE DURING THE 1919/20 CAMPAIGN FOR ILLEGAL PAYMENTS TO PLAYERS. WWW.OSSETTUTD.COM

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PONTEFRACT COLLIERIES HISTORY PONTEFRACT IS KNOWN TO HAVE HAD A FOOTBALL CLUB AS FAR BACK AS THE 1890S WHEN A SIDE, PRESUMABLY COMPOSED MAINLY OF SOLDIERS, COMPETED IN THE WEST YORKSHIRE LEAGUE AS PONTEFRACT GARRISON. MUCH OF THE HISTORY OF THE GAME IN THE TOWN IS STILL IN NEED OF FURTHER RESEARCH, BUT IT IS KNOWN THAT A PONTEFRACT BOROUGH CLUB REACHED THE DIZZY HEIGHTS OF THE YORKSHIRE LEAGUE IN THE LATE 1920S. THEY FAILED TO FINISH THE 1929–30 SEASON, THOUGH. BUT BY 1935, A CLUB CALLED TANSHELF GEMS MANAGED TO ACQUIRE A GROUND ON ACKWORTH ROAD, MOVED THERE, AND BECAME PONTEFRACT UNITED. UNITED RULED THE ROOST IN LOCAL FOOTBALL BEFORE THE WAR, BUT WHEN HOSTILITIES ENDED IN EUROPE, THEY WERE REKINDLED IN THE TOWN WITH THE APPEARANCE OF A PONTEFRACT COLLIERIES SIDE, WHO

BY THE LATE 1950S HAD GAINED SLIGHT BRAGGING RIGHTS OVER THEIR TOWN RIVALS, BOTH PLAYING IN THE WEST YORKSHIRE LEAGUE. BUT IN 1960 THE OLD COLLIERIES CLUB BECAME EXTINCT, ONLY FOR THE NAME TO RETURN A COUPLE OF YEARS LATER WHEN

UNITED

MERGED WITH A LOCAL YOUTH SIDE AND

ADOPTED THE NAME FOR THEMSELVES.

THE

NEW CLUB QUICKLY GAINED IN STATURE AND FOUND CONSIDERABLE SUCCESS IN THE WEST

YORKSHIRE LEAGUE, BEFORE JOINING THE YORKSHIRE LEAGUE IN 1979. PROGRESS ON THE FIELD CONTINUED, CULMINATING IN A YORKSHIRE LEAGUE DIVISION THREE CHAMPIONSHIP WIN IN 1982. THIS WAS THE LAST SEASON OF THE OLD YORKSHIRE AND MIDLAND LEAGUES, WHICH THEN COMBINED TO FORM THE NORTHERN COUNTIES EAST LEAGUE (NCEL).

THE COLLS WERE FOUNDER MEMBERS OF THE NEW LEAGUE. SUCCESSIVE PROMOTIONS WERE GAINED IN THE FIRST TWO SEASONS; THE RUNNERS-UP SPOT IN DIVISION TWO (NORTH) BEING FOLLOWED RAPIDLY BY

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DIVISION ONE (NORTH) CHAMPIONSHIP. THIS METEORIC RISE SAW THE COLLS INTO THE TOP FLIGHT OF THE NCEL, A POSITION THEY HELD FOR A DECADE. PROGRESS ON THE FIELD WAS MATCHED BY GROUND IMPROVEMENTS, AS FLOODLIGHTS, A NEW CLUBHOUSE, STANDS, SEATS, AND OTHER MAJOR CHANGES TOOK PLACE. MUCH OF THE WORK WAS DONE DURING THE MINERS’ STRIKE, CEMENTING FURTHER, LITERALLY, THE CLUB’S RELATIONSHIP WITH THE MINING INDUSTRY AND LOCAL COMMUNITY. THE

THE FLOODLIGHT COLLIERIES TAKE

OPENING

IN

1987

SAW

THE

HULL CITY IN A FRIENDLY, WATCHED BY THE RECORD 1,000 CROWD FOR THE SKINNER LANE GROUND. MORE HONOURS CAME THE CLUB’S WAY AS THE NCEL FLOODLIT CUP WAS WON TWICE, AND TWO WEST RIDING COUNTY CUP FINALS WERE REACHED. ANOTHER NEAR MISS WAS THE APPEARANCE IN THE NCEL PRESIDENTS CUP FINAL IN 1994.

MANAGERS PAUL COOPER, JOHN BROWN, AND GED ELLIOTT HAD BEEN THE MAIN INSPIRATIONS BEHIND THE FOOTBALLING

ON

RISE

OF

THE

CLUB

SUSTAINED PERIOD OF PROGRESS.

DURING

THIS

BUT WHEN THE LAST

OF THIS LINE, GED ELLIOTT, LEFT THE CLUB DURING 1994–95, A SUDDEN DECLINE COULD NOT BE HALTED AND THE FIRST RELEGATION FOR MANY A YEAR CAME ABOUT.

THE

APPOINTMENT OF NEW BOSS, JIM

KENYON, SOON HALTED THE SLIDE, HOWEVER, AND THE COLLS BOUNCED STRAIGHT BACK, TAKING THE RUNNERS-UP SPOT, AND WINNING THE WILKINSON SWORD TROPHY ALONG THE WAY. THE FOLLOWING SEASON SAW PONTEFRACT IN YET ANOTHER CUP FINAL WHEN THEY LOST OUT BY 3 –1 TO HUCKNALL TOWN AT MILLMOOR IN THE NCEL LEAGUE CUP FINAL. SUCCESS COULD NOT BE SUSTAINED, THOUGH, AND BY 1998–99, A

THE COLLS 11 GAMES LOST, AND ONLY 7 POINTS GAINED BY CHRISTMAS. NEW MANAGER, PETER DANIEL, CAME IN, AND ALMOST TURNED THE FORTUNES AROUND IN AN AMAZING REARGUARD BATTLE. THE CLUB STILL LOST ITS PREMIER DIVISION STATUS, FINISHING SECOND BOTTOM, BUT ONLY ON GOAL DIFFERENCE. DISASTROUS START SAW THE FIRST

STEVE KITTRICK THEN TOOK UP THE CHALLENGE WITH A MORE LOCALLY BASED SQUAD, AND AN EMPHASIS ON YOUTH DEVELOPMENT. 1999-2000 SAW THE UNDER16S WIN THE WEST RIDING JUNIOR CUP, AND THE UNDER-19S REACH THE NORTHERN YOUTH ALLIANCE LEAGUE CUP FINAL. THE SENIOR SQUAD ALSO REACHED THE WILKINSON SWORD TROPHY FINAL, WHICH WAS NARROWLY LOST ON A 4–2 AGGREGATE TO GOOLE. BUT SUCCESSES AT YOUTH LEVEL WERE ULTIMATELY UNABLE TO BE REPEATED BY THE SENIOR SQUAD, AND

STEVE

KITTRICK LEFT, AFTER A DISAPPOINTING FINISH TO THE 2000–01 CAMPAIGN. THE SUCCESSFUL YOUTH COACH, GARY BATLEY, TOOK OVER FOR THE 2001–02 CAMPAIGN, BUT A VERY YOUNG AND UNSETTLED SIDE SAW A DISASTROUS SEASON END WITH THE COLLS ROCK BOT-TOM OF THE NCEL FIRST DIVISION. 2002–03 SAW PETER DANIEL RETURN, AND IMPROVEMENTS ON THE FIELD WERE OBVIOUS FROM THE VERY START. IRONICALLY, DESPITE BRINGING IN A FEW

KEY PLAYERS TO STRENGTHEN THE SQUAD, MUCH OF THE SIDE WERE GRADUATES FROM THE CLUB’S YOUTH POLICY, WHICH SEEMINGLY HAD NOT MATURED QUITE QUICKLY ENOUGH FOR PREVIOUS MANAGERS. THE SEASON SAW THE CLUB REACH ITS BEST EVER STAGE IN NATIONAL COMPETITIONS, REACHING THE

SECOND

ROUND PROPER OF THE FA VASE, AND WITH ANOTHER CUP FINAL APPEARANCE IN THE WILKINSON SWORD TROPHY, THIS TIME LOSING OUT TO MICKLEOVER SPORTS, 3–1 ON AGGREGATE. A STRONG RUN IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE LEAGUE SEASON SAW THE COLLS FINISH IN FOURTH PLACE IN DIVISION ONE. BUT OPTIMISM FOR THE 2003–04 CAMPAIGN SOON

EVAPORATED, AND AFTER A POOR START,

PETE DANIEL RESIGNED. RESERVE TEAM MANAGER ROLY LANES TOOK OVER THE REINS, AND THE CLUB WERE PULLED OFF BOTTOM SPOT, BUT STILL NEEDED TO APPLY FOR REELECTION. BATTLES OFF THE FIELD HAVE DOMINATED RECENT TIMES, WITH FIRES DESTROYING SEATS AND PARTS OF THE STAND, THE TEA BAR, AND THE CLOSURE OF THE ADJACENT PRINCE OF WALES COLLIERY AND LOSS OF THE ELECTRICITY SUPPLY. ON THE FIELD, COLLIERIES CONTINUED TO STRUGGLE, AND ONLY AVOIDED RELEGATION ON MORE THAN ONE OCCASION AS A CONSEQUENCE OF PYRAMID RESTRUCTURING.

PROGRESS IN NATIONAL COMPETITIONS WAS VIRTUALLY NIL. THINGS REACHED ROCK BOTTOM IN 2007–08 WHEN, DESPITE WINNING THE FIRST LEAGUE GAME, PONTE THEN FAILED TO WIN ANOTHER FOR THE REST OF THE SEASON, AND FINISHED WITH JUST 9 POINTS, A STAGGERING 15 ADRIFT OF THE CLUB ABOVE THEM. ONCE AGAIN, RELEGATION WAS AVOIDED AS THE CLUB WERE SAVED BY THE CONSTANT RESTRUCTURING OF THE

PYRAMID

LEAGUE SYSTEM.

DOMINATED

THE

TURMOIL

SUMMER

AND BAD FEELING

BREAK,

SEEING

THE

DEPARTURE OF THE MANAGEMENT TEAM AND MOST OF THE COMMITTEE AS WELL. BUT THIS PROVIDED AN

EXCELLENT OPPORTUNITY FOR THE CLUB TO REBUILD, AND TO PUT IN PLACE A PLAN FOR THE FUTURE WHERE NONE HAD PREVIOUSLY EXISTED.

2008-09

SAW A NEW AND ENTHUSIASTIC, COMMITTEE APPOINT NEW MANAGER, SIMON HOUGHTON, FROM

CENTRAL MIDLANDS LEAGUE SIDE KINSLEY BOYS, AND AFTER JUST 4 LEAGUE GAMES THE NEW TEAM GAINED THE 9 POINTS IT WON THE PREVIOUS SEASON. FOR THE FIRST PART OF THE SEASON, THE CLUB KEPT PACE WITH EVENTUAL CHAMPIONS SCARBOROUGH ATHLETIC AT THE TOP OF THE TABLE, BUT UNFORTUNATELY, A DISASTROUS SPELL INTO THE NEWYEAR SAW THE CLUB EMBARK ON A RUN OF 1 WIN IN 9, WHICH SAW THE CLUB FINISH IN NINTH PLACE. LOCAL

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SAW WHAT CAN ONLY BE DESCRIBED AS A

SPECTACULAR SEASON.

THE

MIGHTY

PONTE COLLS

SURPRISED EVERYONE (PROBABLY MOST AT THE CLUB

TOO). WE STARTED THE SEASON BRILLIANTLY WINNING 12 OUT OF OUR FIRST 13 GAMES SCORING 50 GOALS IN THE PROCESS. LOST

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BY THE END OF 2017 PONTE HAD ONLY

TIMES IN LEAGUE FOOTBALL AND WERE STILL

GOING STRONG IN THE

FA VASE. DUE

TO THESE CUP

RUNS WE SAT THIRD IN THE LEAGUE AND 18 POINTS BEHIND LEAGUE LEADER AFC MANSFIELD BUT MANY GAMES IN HAND.

BUT BY THE TIME WE TRAVELLED TO MANSFIELD FOR THE “TITLE DECIDER” WE WERE RIGHT ON THEIR TAILS, THE GAME WAS BILLED TO BE A CLOSE BATTLE, YET PONTE TOOK THE WHEELS OFF THE MANSFIELD TITLE CHARGE AND HAMMERED THEM 3-0 IN THEIR BACK YARD! A WIN IN PONTE’S NEXT GAME WOULD GUARANTEE OUR HISTORIC FIRST PROMOTION

NORTHERN PREMIER LEAGUE (NPL). AWAY AT MALTBY MAIN SAW PONTE DO EXACTLY WHAT WAS NEEDED, A 2-0 WIN AND MASS CELEBRATIONS. THE COLLS FOLLOWED THIS UP WITH A MIDWEEK WIN AGAIN AWAY, THIS TIME AT HANDSWORTH PARRAMORE AND A 3-1 WIN AND PICKERING LOSING THE FOLLOWING NIGHT, MEANT PONTE WERE CHAMPIONS OF THE NCEL PREMIER DIVISION. 2018-19: AFTER TWO CONSECUTIVE PROMOTIONS THE COLLS HAD AN EXTREMELY SUCCESSFUL FIRST EVER SEASON AT STEP FOUR OF NON-LEAGUE IN THE NPL DIVISION ONE EAST FINISHING AS RUNNERS-UP TO MORPETH TOWN. A GOOD PRE-SEASON SAW THE COLLS GAIN TWO PIECES OF SILVERWARE – THE BILL COOK MEMORIAL TROPHY AGAINST GLASSHOUGHTON WELFARE AND THE INAUGURAL COLLIERY CUP FROM A KEENLY CONTESTED GAME AGAINST NPL DIVISION ONE WEST SIDE ATHERTON COLLIERIES. THE COLLS NARROWLY LOST OUT ON PROMOTION TO THE NPL PREMIER DIVISION AT THE FIRST TIME OF ASKING AFTER TO THE

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LOSING THE PLAY-OFF FINAL TO BRIGHOUSE TOWN.

2019-20: PRE-SEASON SAW THE COLLS AGAIN RETAIN THE BILL COOK MEMORIAL TROPHY AGAINST GLASSHOUGHTON WELFARE (WINNING 9-2) AND ALSO RETAINING THE COLLIERY CUP AGAINST THE 2018-19 NPL DIVISION ONE WEST CHAMPIONS ATHERTON COLLIERIES (WINNING 6-1) THIS SEASON WAS UNFORTUNATELY TERMINATED IN MARCH AND RESULTS EXPUNGED WITH THE COLLS SITTING IN FOURTH PLACE WITH SEVERAL GAMES IN HAND ON TEAMS ABOVE. 2020-21: A SUCCESSFUL PRE-SEASON FOR THE COLLS RETAINING THE BILL COOK MEMORIAL TROPHY AGAINST GLASSHOUGHTON WELFARE (WINNING 5-1) AND WINNING THE LAST 5 PRE-SEASON - UNFORTUNATELY THIS SEASON WAS ALSO TERMINATED. 2021-22: AFTER AGAIN RETAINING THE BILL COOK MEMORIAL TROPHY, WE WERE LOOKING FORWARD TO A FULL SEASON UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT TEAM – CRAIG ROUSE, ANDY SEED, JIMMY WILLIAMS, HEAD COACH GAVIN ROTHERY AND GOAL KEEPING COACH ROSS MCKENNA. WITH ONLY LEAGUE GAMES REMAINING FOLLOW EXITS FROM OTHER CUP COMPETITIONS, IT WAS TIME TO PICK UP POOR LEAGUE FORM. COLLS SAT SECOND BOTTOM IN EARLY NOVEMBER, BUT A STRING OF BIG WINS SAW A JUMP TO MID-TABLE. A STRONG BOND BETWEEN PLAYERS AND FANS BUILT FROM THE START OF 2022 AND SOME BIG WINS FOLLOWED.

THERE ARE MANY POSITIVES FOR THE NEW SEASON IN 2022-23 WITH MANY PLAYERS RETAINED, PLUS THE ADDITION OF A COUPLE OF FORMER FACES. ON AND OFF THE FIELD THE CLUB SEEMS TO BE IN A MUCH STRONGER POSITION, SO HERE'S TO MORE HAPPY DAYS DOWN

BEECHNUT LANE!

OSSETT UTD V PONTEFRACT COLLS PREVIOUS MEETINGS

2018/19 PONTEFRACT COLLIERIES MIKEY DUNN 86’ PONTEFRACT COLLIERIES VAUGHAN REDFORD 70’P MIKEY DUNN 111’ JAMIE WILLIAMS 116’

1-0 OSSETT UNITED 3-1 OSSETT UNITED TOM GRAVES 23’

ATT 320 OSSETT UNITED 1-1 PONTEFRACT COLLIERIES ANDY MONKHOUSE 90’ VAUGHAN REDFORD 49’P ATT 486 (NPL ONE EAST P/O SF)

ATT 606

2019/20 PONTEFRACT COLLIERIES

0-2 OSSETT UNITED ATT 133 (INTEGRO CUP 1) TOM GREAVES 80’ ELLIOT HARRISON 87’

OSSETT UNITED

0-2 PONTEFRACT COLLS ATT 414 JACK GREENHOUGH 9’ JAMES BAXENDALE 60’

2021/22 PONTEFRACT COLLIERIES

0-2 OSSETT UNITED ATT 269 OSSETT UNITED 1-3 PONTEFRACT COLLIERIES AARON HASWELL 38’ REON POTTS 33’ LUKE HINSLEY 51’ 79’ GEORGE GREEN 86’ GAVIN ROTHERY 72’

ATT 552

2022/23 PONTEFRACT COLLIERIES MIKEY DUNN 51’ 74’ SPENCER CLARKE 59’

3-1 OSSETT UNITED LUKE ALDRICH 11’

ATT 527

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EDD JOINED THE CLUB IN JANUARY 2022 AND IS WIDELY ACKNOWLEDGED AS ONE OF THE BEST GOALKEEPERS AT STEP FOUR AND WAS VOTED AS THE SECONDBEST GOALKEEPER IN THE NPL

EAST FOR THE 21/22 SEASON. EDD HAS NATIONAL LEAGUE NORTH EXPERIENCE HAVING PLAYED FOR BRADFORD PARK AVENUE AND FARSLEY CELTIC.

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A-J A

IS FOR ARTIST:

B

IS FOR BALLER, WHO IS THE BEST YOU’VE PLAYED WITH?

C

IS FOR CRUSH: WHO WAS YOUR FIRST?

JENNIFER ANNISTON

D

IS FOR DESTINANTION, WHERE WAS YOUR FAVOURITE HOLIDAY?

LOVED ROME WHEN I WENT

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IS FOR EAT: WHAT IS

THE CLASSIC BEANS ON TOAST

F

IS FOR FIVE, YOUR ALL TIME ME IN NET, LUCAS RADEBE, INIESTA, RONALDO, DREAM 5-A-SIDE TEAM IS..?

THIERRY HENRY

G

IS FOR GUEST: WHICH THREE

WILL FERRELL, DAVID BECKHAM, LEONARDO DI CAPRIO

H

IS FOR HERO. WHAT

TO BE ABLE TO FLY

I J

WHO

IS YOUR FAVOURITE SINGER

?

YOUR PRE MATCH MEAL?

PEOPLE ARE COMING TO DINNER?

SUPERPOWER DO YOU WANT? IS FOR ISLAND: WHICH TEAMMATE WOULD YOU WANT ON A DESERT ISLAND?

IS FOR JOKE. TELL US ONE…

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LOVE A BIT OF SAM FENDER AT THE MINUTE

OLI JOHNSON OR ANDRE WISDOM

A FEW

YEARS AGO

DANNY SOUTH, COULD USE HIS HEAD TO CRACK COCONUTS…

KNOCK, KNOCK. WHO’S THERE? TANK… TANK WHO?.... YOU’RE WELCOME….

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IS FOR KARAOKE. WHAT’S YOUR TUNE?

L

IS FOR LATE. WHO TAKES THE LONGEST IN THE DRESSING ROOM

QUEEN – DON’T STOP ME NOW

OLI METCALFE FOR CERTAIN

MI

S FOR MATCH. THE BEST OF YOUR CAREER?

BRADFORD PARK AVENUE DEBUT V STOCKPORT COUNTY

N

IS FOR NICKNAME. WHAT DO YOU GET CALLED?

PRETTY SIMPLE. EDD

O

IS FOR OPPONENT. WHO IS THE BEST PLAYER YOU HAVE FACED?

JAMES HANSON AFTER THAT VOLLEY FOR WORKSOP TOWN THE OTHER WEEK!

P

IS FOR PROFESSION. WHAT DO YOU DO AWAY FROM THE GAME?

I’M A SALES MANAGER FOR A MARKETING AGENCY

Q

IS FOR QUIZ. WHAT IS YOUR SPECIALIST SUBJECT?

ABSOLUTELY USELESS AT QUIZ’S!

R

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IS FOR REWIND. WHAT FILM DO YOU WATCH OVER AND OVER?

FERRIS BUELLER’S DAY OFF - CLASSIC

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S-Z S

IS FOR SPORT. WHAT’S

T

IS FOR TROUBLE. HOW

U

IS FOR UPSET. HOW FAR

YOUR FAVOURITE OUTSIDE FOOTBALL MANY

RED CARDS HAVE YOU HAD?

HAVE YOU GOT IN THE FA CUP?

VERY AVERAGE, BUT LOVING GOLF AT THE MINUTE ONLY A COUPLE IN MY YOUNGER YEARS, ALWAYS FOR CATCHING THE LAST MAN, SIMILAR TO TADDY LAST MONTH…

THIS YEAR IS ABOUT AS WELL AS I HAVE DONE

V

IS FOR VROOM. WHAT DREAM CAR?

W

IS FOR WHO. WHO DO YOU SUPPORT?

LEEDS, LEEDS, LEEDS!!!

X

IS FOR X-FACTOR. WHAT’S YOUR HIDDEN TALENT?

I CAN WIGGLE MY EARS…

Y

IS FOR YOU. DESCRIBE YOURSELF IN THREE WORDS?

LOVES A BEER…

Z

IS FOR ZOO. IF YOU COULD BE AN ANIMAL WHAT WOULD IT BE?

A LION

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IS YOUR

PORSCHE 911 GT3

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VIEW FROM THE PRESS BOX CRAIG BIDDLESTONE THE CAMERA GANTRY IN THE WIND, AND THE RAIN, WHILST TRYING TO KEEP HIS PHONE AND HIS TEAM SHEET DRY OWEN WENT ABOVE AND BEYOND TO ENSURE THAT OUR SUPPORTERS WHO COULDN’T MAKE THE GAME COULD STILL LISTEN TO WHAT WAS GOING ON, AND THE APPRECIATION HAS REACHED BOARD LEVEL TOO, WELL DONE OWEN AND THANK-YOU.

HELLO EVERYONE AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM MYSELF AND THE REST OF THE MEDIA TEAM. IT SEEMS LIKE A LIFETIME AGO THAT WE LAST PLAYED ON THE HALLOWED TURF HERE AT THE WORLD FAMOUS INGFIELD, THOUGH I’M SURE BOTH JAMES AND NEVILLE WILL HAVE MENTIONED THAT TOO! WE’VE BEEN WORKING HARD BEHIND THE SCENES DURING OUR ENFORCED BREAK WITH MUCH NEEDED NEW ADDITIONS TO OUR OFF THE PITCH TEAM AND ON OUR RETURN AT BRIGHOUSE TOWN ON BOXING DAY SOME DAMN RIGHT BRAVERY FROM THE LADS AT THE GAME.

FIRST OF ALL I’D LIKE TO GIVE A VERY SPECIAL MENTION TO OWEN GERRARD. OWEN STEPPED UP TO DO THE RADIO COMMENTARY AS BOTH CHRIS CASSIDY AND MYSELF WERE AWAY WITH FAMILY OVER THE FESTIVE PERIOD. IT WAS THE

FIRST TIME HE’D DONE A FULL COMMENTARY ON HIS OWN, AND TO SAY THE CONDITIONS WERE ENOUGH TO PUT PEOPLE OFF FROM EVER DOING IT AGAIN IS AN UNDERSTATEMENT, STOOD ON

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SPEAKING OF WIND AND RAIN, ONE MEMBER OF OUR TEAM WHO I OFTEN FEEL DOESN’T GET THE PLAUDITS HE DESERVES IS KEITH WOOD. KEITH HAD NO CONNECTION WITH TOWN OR ALBION AND CAME DOWN TO OUR FIRST EVER GAME FOLLOWING THE MERGER IN 2018. SINCE THEN HE HAS GONE ON TO MISS ONLY 3 FIRST TEAM GAMES IN THAT TIME, HOME AND AWAY, AND HAS BECOME A VALUED PART OF THE CLUB THANKS TO HIS MATCH-DAY PHOTOGRAPHY ROLE. KEITH HAS ENDURED THE SAME SORT OF CONDITIONS THAT WERE WITNESSED AT BRIGHOUSE ON A NUMBER OF OCCASIONS, AND ALSO HAS THE MISFORTUNE OF POSSIBLY BEING THE ONLY FOOTBALL PHOTOGRAPHER IN THE HISTORY OF FOOTBALL TO BE SENT OFF BY THE REFEREE NOT ONCE, BUT TWICE, AND POSSIBLY EVER! BUT SERIOUSLY, THANK-YOU KEITH, AGAIN YOUR EFFORTS DON’T GO UN-NOTICED.

WE’RE PRIVILEGED AT OSSETT UNITED TO NOT JUST ONE BUT TWO QUALITY PHOTOGRAPHERS, DON’T WORRY JON HUNT, I HAVEN’T FORGOTTEN YOU AND YOUR EFFORTS DON’T GO UN-NOTICED EITHER!

VIEW FROM THE PRESS BOX CRAIG BIDDLESTONE BUT AS I SAID EARLIER WE HAVE SOME QUALITY ADDITIONS TO THE TEAM TOO, I’VE MENTIONED JAMES GOTHARD PREVIOUSLY WHO HAS COME ON BOARD TO WRITE MATCH REPORTS, AND HE

FINALLY, WE WILL BE HOLDING A MINUTES APPLAUSE PRIOR TO TODAY’S GAME FOR TWO PEOPLE WHO BOTH LOVED THE BEAUTIFUL GAME

HAS SINCE BEEN JOINED BY HIS HOUSEMATE AND FELLOW HUDDERSFIELD UNIVERSITY STUDENT GEORGE NORTHOVER WHO WILL BE FILLING THE ROLE OF CLUB VIDEOGRAPHER, SO WELCOME

AND BOTH SADLY LOST THEIR LIVES OVER THE FESTIVE PERIOD. YOU WILL HAVE ALL SEEN THE NEWS ABOUT 23 YEAR-OLD STAFFORD FC FOOTBALLER CODY FISHER WHO WAS KILLED WHILST OUT WITH FRIENDS AT A BIRMINGHAM

ABOARD GEORGE. FINALLY, HAYDN FOX JOINS US TO ASSIST WITH EDITING, CO-COMMENTARY, AND AS HE SAYS ON HIS TWITTER BIO - “AND WHATEVER ELSE”, AGAIN, WELCOME ABOARD HAYDN.

NIGHT CLUB ON BOXING DAY NIGHT, AND THEN 3 DAYS LATER THE SAD PASSING OF PELE, THE ORIGINAL GOAT, THE MAN WHO IN MY EYES CHANGED MODERN FOOTBALL FOR THE BETTER, JUST BY BEING A PURE MAGICIAN ON THE BALL,

WE ALL KNOW IT’S THE VOLUNTEERS WHO ARE THE BACKBONE OF ANY NON-LEAGUE CLUB, SO TO GET PEOPLE IN WITH THE QUALITY OF OWEN, KEITH, JON, JAMES, GEORGE AND HAYDN, AND OF COURSE NOT FORGETTING CHRIS SHOWS JUST HOW FAR WE HAVE COME IN THE LAST 4 AND A HALF YEARS.

SO I HOPE YOU WILL ALL JOIN US IN HONOURING THEIR LIVES.

AT HALF-TIME TODAY YOU WILL HEAR THE SONG CHOICES OF SHEEPICORNS, BELOW.

ONE JOE

OF OUR NAUGHTON,

YOUNGER PICTURED

I HOPE YOU ENJOY HIS TUNES, AND ALSO THE GAME.

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Juice Personnel are an independent recruitment agency based in Wakefield. We were founded in 2003 in Huddersfield with the knowledge that things could be done differently. This led us to adopt what we called our ‘refreshingly different’ approach. This radical new approach to recruitment was based around our core values of mutual understanding, honesty, integrity and quality.

From day one we had a policy to constantly review how we worked.

Because of this dedication to self-improvement and our refreshing, personal approach to recruitment we saw a client and candidate loyalty that we’ve never experienced before and quickly outgrew our small office.

Skip forward a few years and we still hold fast to the same morals we started with: mutual understanding, honesty, integrity and quality. Because of our unwavering dedication to client and candidate satisfaction Juice Personnel are now seen as one of the leading independent recruiters in Wakefield.

OSSETT UNITED MEDIA PARTNER

CLUB HISTORY THE FORMATION OSSETT UNITED WAS CREATED ON THE 1ST JUNE 2018 FOLLOWING THE MERGER OF OSSETT TOWN AFC (EST. 1936) AND OSSETT ALBION AFC (EST. 1944). BOTH OSSETT TOWN AND OSSETT ALBION HAD MANAGED TO GAIN NORTHERN PREMIER LEAGUE STATUS AND MAINTAIN THAT LEVEL OF FOOTBALL FOR A REMARKABLE PERIOD OF TIME.

EARLY HISTORY THE

TWO CLUBS MERGED UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF A NEW BOARD BROUGHT TOGETHER FROM THE TWO

PREVIOUS CLUBS.

THE FOUNDING DIRECTORS WERE JOHN CHIDLAW (OA), JAMES ROGERS (OT), EMMA CHIDLAW (OA), DAWN ROGERS (OT), LEE SUMMERSCALES (OA) AND LEE BROADBENT (OT) FORMING THE NEW BOARD WITH SUPPORT FROM PHIL SMITH AS CEO. JOHN CHIDLAW TOOK ON THE ROLE OF CHAIRMAN FOR THE FIRST SEASON. THE CLUB MADE ITS NEW HOME INGFIELD, THE PREVIOUS HOME OF OSSETT TOWN, AND USED DIMPLE WELLS, THE PREVIOUS HOME OF OSSETT ALBION, AS ITS LADIES AND ACADEMY TEAM BASE. ON

THE PITCH, THE FIRST YEAR

(2018/19)

WAS A REMARKABLE SUCCESS WITH ATTENDANCES SIGNIFICANTLY

INCREASED FROM WHAT EITHER CLUB HAD EXPERIENCED PREVIOUSLY, COUPLED WITH SUCCESS ON THE PITCH REACHING THE PLAY-OFF SEMI-FINAL AND WINNING THE COUNTY CUP, UNDER THE GUIDANCE OF MANAGER ANDY WELSH. OFF THE PITCH THINGS WERE NOT AS SUCCESSFUL WITH A NUMBER OF RESIGNATIONS AND BOARD CHANGES AND SOME CHALLENGING FINANCIAL ISSUES TO DEAL WITH FOLLOWING THE MERGER.

BY THE END OF THE

2018/19 SEASON, PHIL SMITH HAD TAKEN ON THE MANTLE OF CLUB CHAIRMAN FOLLOWING A NUMBER OF BOARD CHANGES.

WAYNE BENN TOOK UP THE MANAGERIAL REIGNS IN LATE 2019 FOLLOWING A POOR START TO THE 2019/20 SEASON, HOWEVER, THAT SEASON WAS ENDED ABRUPTLY IN MARCH 2020 WITH THE ONSET OF A GLOBAL PANDEMIC KNOWN AS COVID 19. THE SEASON WAS NULL AND VOIDED. OFF THE PITCH THERE WERE MORE TROUBLES FOR OSSETT UNITED IN NOVEMBER 2019 AS

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A SIGNIFICANT AND UNPRECEDENTED COURT CASE, DATING BACK TO A TACKLE IN

2015 WHEN OSSETT TOWN WERE

RADCLIFFE BOROUGH, WAS LOST WITH UNITED FACING LEGAL AND DAMAGES COSTS AMOUNTING £135,000. FORTUNATELY, THE CLUB RECEIVED A GENEROUS LOAN FROM TWO OF ITS CLOSEST SUPPORTERS AVOID THE CLUB GOING INTO LIQUIDATION (AT WORST) OR SELLING THE INGFIELD GROUND (AT BEST).

PLAYING

TO TO

THE START OF THE 2020/21 SEASON STARTED LATE DUE TO THE ONGOING PANDEMIC AND VIRTUALLY FINISHED AS SOON AS IT HAD STARTED WITH ONLY EIGHT LEAGUE GAMES HAVING BEEN PLAYED BY UNITED. THIS TIME THE SEASON WAS CURTAILED RATHER THAN NULL AND VOIDED AND MEANT A SECOND SEASON HAD GONE UNFINISHED. OFF THE PITCH ROGERS AND SMITH SWAPPED ROLES DUE TO SMITH'S WORK COMMITMENTS AND ROGERS TOOK ON THE ROLE AS CHAIRMAN, A ROLE HE HAD PREVIOUSLY HELD AT OSSETT TOWN. 2020 ALSO SAW

THE CLUB DECLARE DIMPLE WELLS AS SURPLUS TO REQUIREMENTS AND MADE ARRANGEMENTS TO SURRENDER THE LEASE MAKING INGFIELD THE SINGLE HOME OF THE UNITED CLUB.

2021/22 LAST SEASON SAW MANY CHANGES AT OSSETT UNITED BOTH ON AND OFF THE FIELD. AFTER A STRONG START TO THE PITCHING IN NPL EAST SEASON A RUN OF ONLY ONE WIN IN THREE MONTHS SAW WAYNE BENN AND ANDY HAYWARD LEAVE THE CLUB IN DECEMBER. JAS COLLIVER AND MARK WARD WERE APPOINTED TO RE-IGNITE THE SEASON AND STRENGTHEN THE SQUAD WHICH THEY DID FROM DAY ONE. THE DUO SAW THE CLUB GO UNBEATEN AT HOME WITH 7 WINS AND DRAWS HOWEVER THE AWAY FORM CONTINUED TO BE IN CONSISTENT. OFF THE FIELD NEW DUGOUTS WERE INSTALLED, BEFORE THE ERECTION OF A NEW PITCH SIDE BARRIER FOLLOWED BY THE UPGRADING OF THE FLOODLIGHTS TO LED TO BRING THE FACILITIES TO A HIGH STANDARD. COLLIVER

AND

WARD

HAVE SPENT THE CLOSE SEASON WORKING HARD TO RETAIN PLAYERS FROM THE SQUAD AS

WELL AS BRINGING IN REINFORCEMENTS TO STRENGTHEN THE SQUAD FURTHER AS THE CLUB LOOKS TO IMPROVE UPON THE NINTH PLACED FINISHED IN 21/22.

AT

AUGUST MARK WARD LEFT THE CLUB, CITING ONE VOICE WOULD BE BETTER THAN TWO IN THE MANAGERIAL POSITION. JAS COLLIVER LEFT THE CLUB IN OCTOBER AND WAS REPLACED BY GRANT BLACK ON AN 18 MONTH CONTRACT. THE END OF

WE ARE OSSETT UNITED

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2022/2023 DATE

OPPONENT

RESULT

SCORERS

MO M

ATT 275 212 407 342 235 402 527

AUGUST 06/08/22 13/08/22 16/08/22 20/08/22 23/08/22 27/08/22 29/08/22

(H) NEW MILLS (A) CARLTON TOWN (H) STOCKTON TOWN (H) WHITCHURCH ALPORT (A) DUNSTON (H) CLEETHORPES TOWN (A) PONTEFRACT COLLIERIES

FA CUP EP NPL EAST NPL EAST FA CUP P NPL EAST NPL EAST NPL EAST

2-0 2-0 0-3 1-2 3-3 1-2 1-3

ZOTTOS, STACEY FEARON, OFOEGBU

CROPPER STACEY

ZOTTOS ALDRICH (2), BEATSON ALDRICH ALDRICH

HOLLINGSWORTH ALDRICH GAGEN

(A) BRIDLINGTON TOWN (A) STOCKSBRIDGE PARK ST (A) SHEFFIELD (H) STOCKSBRIDGE PARK ST

NPL EAST FAT 1Q FAT 2Q NPL EAST

2-2 P2-2 P1-1 1-0

NELTHORPE, STACEY ALDRICH (2) FEARON ALDRICH

BEATSON ALDRICH BURNS ZOTTOS

281 115 351 267

(H) GRIMSBY BOROUGH (A) RUNCORN LINNETS (A) SHILDON (H) HEBBURN TOWN (A) KNARESBOROUGH TOWN (A) LONG EATON UNITED (H) CONSETT

NPL EAST FAT 3Q NPL EAST NPL EAST WR COUNTY CUP NPL EAST NPL EAST

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

THEWLIS, STACEY, GRAYSON METCALFE BURNS, ALDRICH (2), WILSON HOGG (2) ALDRICH

THEWLIS STACEY BEATSON HOGG STACEY HOGG SOUTH

343 616 264 361 125 345 413

NPL EAST NPL EAST WR COUNTY CUP NPL EAST NPL EAST

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

PETERSON GRAYSON GRAYSON BURNS, SOUTH, LIPKA, CURTIS GRAYSON

HOGG BURNS MATCALFE NELTHORPE COATES

359 379 198 267 532

NPL EAST NPL EAST

0-0 1-2

PETERSON

CURTIS PETERSON

263 424

SEPTEMBER 03/09/22 13/09/22 24/09/22 27/09/22

OCTOBER 01/10/22 08/10/22 11/10/22 15/10/22 18/10/22 22/10/22 29/10/22

NOVEMBER 05/11/22 12/11/22 15/11/22 19/11/22 26/11/22

(A) NORTH SHIELDS (H) LINCOLN UNITED (A) GOLCAR UNITED (A) GRANTHAM TOWN (H) WORKSOP TOWN

DECEMBER 02/12/22 26/12/22

(A) TADCASTER ALBION (A) BRIGHOUSE TOWN

JANUARY 2023 02/01/23 07/01/23 14/01/23 21/01/23 24/01/23 27/01/23

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(H) PONTEFRACT COLLIERIES (A) STOCKTON TOWN (H) DUNSTON (A) STOCKSBRIDGE PARK ST (A) SHEFFIELD (H) TADCASTER ALBION

NPL EAST NPL EAST NPL EAST NPL EAST NPL EAST NPL EAST

NEW DATE NEW DATE, NOW FRIDAY 27 JANUARY

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2022/2023 DATE

OPPONENT

RESULT

SCORERS

MO M

ATT

FEBRUARY 04/02/23 07/02/23 11/02/23 18/02/23 17/12/22 25/02/23

(A) GRIMSBY BOROUGH (H) BRIDLINGTON TOWN (H) SHILDON (A) HEBBURN TOWN (H) CARLTON TOWN (H) SHEFFIELD

NPL EAST NPL EAST NPL EAST NPL EAST NPL EAST NPL EAST

(H) LONG EATON UNITED

NPL EAST

(A) CONSETT (H) NORTH SHIELDS

NPL EAST NPL EAST

(A) LINCOLN UNITED (A) CLEETHORPES TOWN (H) BRIGHOUSE TOWN (A) WORKSOP TOWN (H) GRANTHAM TOWN

NPL EAST NPL EAST NPL EAST NPL EAST NPL EAST

NEW DATE NEW DATE

MARCH 04/03/23 11/03/23 18/03/23 25/03/23

APRIL 01/04/23 08/04/23 10/04/23 15/04/23 22/04/23

PLAYER STATS

NAME ALDRICH, LUKE BURNS, DANNY CADMAN, JAMES CARVELL, JAMES CASSIUS-GILL, JUNAYD COATES, HARRY CURTIS, NATHAN DAWSON, CHRIS FEARON, OLLIE GAGEN, HARRY GRAYSON, BRAD HALL, EDD HOGG, LUKE LIPKA, JANNI METCALFE, OLI MORRIS, BEN NELTHORPE, CRAIG PETERSON, ALEX ROBSON, DERRY SOUTH, DANNY

FORMER PLAYERS 2022/23 APPS GLS 11(5) 16 2(4) 1 3(1) 3 7(2) 0 13(2) 15(3) 14(2) 24 12(1) 6(1) 11(10) (2) 9(1) 6(1) 6(2) 9

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10 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 4 0 2 1 1 0 1 2 0 1

CAREER APPS GLS 16 15 6 1 4 3 9 0 15 55 16 36 51 7 31 2 14 7 8 9

10 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 4 0 2 1 2 0 1 2 0 1

NAME BEATSON, BRAD COWGILL, JACK CROPPER, TOM HALL, LIAM HARDAKER, ROSS HODGSON, CONNOR HOLLINGSWORTH, MICHAEL JOHNSEN, EIVIND OFOEGBU, IFY PARKIN, JOE PHILLIPSON, ALEX STACEY, JOE THEWLIS, GEORGE WALDRAM, JOSH WILSON, JACK ZOTTOS, BASILE

2022/23 APPS GLS 21 3 6 1 5(2) 4 21(1) 0(5) 4 4(2) 1(2) 15(1) 8 0(1) 3(11) 9(4)

1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 3 1 0 1 2

CAREER APPS GLS 37 27 6 1 81 4 22 5 22 6 3 16 8 8 14 13

1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 6 0 0 3 1 0 1 2

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WORKSOP TOWN STOCKTON TOWN STOCKSBRIDGE PARK STEELS HEBBURN TOWN CLEETHORPES TOWN DUNSTON PONTEFRACT COLLIERIES SHEFFIELD BRIDLINGTON TOWN BRIGHOUSE TOWN LONG EATON UNITED GRIMSBY BOROUGH CONSETT AFC NORTH SHIELDS OSSETT UNITED LINCOLN UNITED GRANTHAM TOWN CARLTON TOWN SHILDON TADCASTER ALBION

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P 20 20 19 19 19 19 19 17 19 19 19 20 19 19 18 19 19 18 18 21

W 18 13 10 10 9 8 7 7 6 7 6 6 5 5 5 5 3 5 4 0

D 1 2 4 4 4 6 6 5 7 3 5 5 7 7 6 6 9 3 4 8

L 1 5 5 5 6 5 6 5 6 9 8 9 7 7 7 8 7 10 10 13

F 60 42 32 30 28 36 41 26 20 34 30 24 29 21 24 31 19 23 20 16

A 12 21 22 30 23 28 31 28 32 33 32 34 31 25 23 39 26 37 34 45

+/48 21 10 0 5 8 10 -2 -12 1 -2 -10 -2 -4 1 -8 -7 -14 -14 -29

MONDAY 2 JANUARY 2023

PTS CONSETT V DUNSTON 55 GRIMSBY BOROUGH V BRIDLINGTON TOWN 41 HEBBURN TOWN V NORTH SHIELDS 34 LONG EATON UNITED V CARLTON TOWN 34 OSSETT UNITED V PONTEFRACT COLLIERIES 31 SHILDON V STOCKTON TOWN 30 STOCKSBRIDGE PARK STEELS V SHEFFIELD 27 TADCASTER ALBION V BRIGHOUSE TOWN 26 WORKSOP TOWN V GRANTHAM TOWN 25 24 TUESDAY 3 JANUARY 2023 LINCOLN UNITED V CLEETHORPES TOWN 23 23 22 22 21 21 18 18 16 8

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PONTEFRACT COLLIERIES PLAYER PROFILES SPENCER CLARKE – A PONTE STALWART, SPENCER IS A REAL ROLLS ROYCE OF A FOOTBALLER AND A LEADER AMONGST THE DRESSING ROOM. SPENCER IS THE CLUB VICE-CAPTAIN. HE IS AND HAS BEEN A KEY COMPONENT FOR THE COLLS OVER THE YEARS. JACK GREENHOUGH -. CLUB CAPTAIN, JACK JOINED THE COLLS ACADEMY AFTER LEAVING BOLTON WANDERERS. HE QUICKLY JOINED THE FIRST TEAM AND MADE A BIG IMPRESSION. ONE OF THE CLUB’S YOUNGEST CAPTAINS, HE IS A MASSIVE PART OF HOW WE PLAY. JACK VANN – “VANNY” JOINED PONTE LAST SUMMER AND MADE A REAL IMPRESSION, A REAL COG IN THE COLLS ENGINE ROOM CONTROLLING THE MIDFIELD. WON A ONE-MAN GOAL OF THE SEASON COMPETITION WITH TWO FINE STRIKES. JACK LAZENBY – JACK IS A BALL PLAYING MIDFIELDER THAT HAS A GREAT RANGE OF PASSING AND LOVES A

PLAYER THAT CAN PLAY ANYWHERE IN EITHER DEFENCE OR MIDFIELD, A REAL PRESENCE IN THE SIDE.

CRAIG ROUSE – “ROUSEY”

HAS FEATURED FOR THE

CLUB IN HIS PLAYING DAYS AS A STRIKER, MAKING AN IMPRESSION

GOALSCORING

EXPLOITS

DURING HIS TWO SPELLS AT THE CLUB.

HOWEVER,

CRAIG BOOKS,

WITH

HIS

REALLY PLACED HIS NAME IN THE HISTORY BEING

A

CHAPTER TO DATE.

PART

HE

OF

PONTE’S

GREATEST

WAS A KEY PART OF OUR RISE

NCEL DIVISION ONE PREMIER LEAGUE. FROM

TO THE

NORTHERN

FABIAN BAILEY – FAB IS INTO HIS FIFTH STRAIGHT SEASON PONTE. HE IS A REAL VERSATILE PLAYER THAT CAN FEATURE ANYWHERE FROM DEFENCE TO MIDFIELD. JOE LUMSDEN – ANOTHER

STRIKER THAT KNOWS

GUISELEY

WHERE THE BACK OF THE NET IS. HE RE-JOINED THE CLUB LAST SPRING AND WILL BE LOOKING TO ADD TO

PRODUCT THAT WILL BE LOOKING TO KICK

HIS GOAL TALLY FROM THE LAST CAMPAIGN AND HIS

CRUNCHING

ACADEMY

JIMMY WILLIAMS – A PONTE UNSUNG HERO, NOW ASSISTANT PLAYER/COACH JIMMY IS A COMBATIVE

CHALLENGE.

A

FORMER

ON THIS YEAR.

PREVIOUS SPELL AT PONTE.

MIKEY DUNN –”MAGIC MIKEY” IS A DEFENDER’S NIGHTMARE, THIS LAD ON HIS DAY CAN BE ONE OF THE BEST PLAYERS IN THE LEAGUE. HIS FOOTWORK AND SPEED OFTEN LEAVE DEFENDERS ON THE FLOOR. HE’S ENJOYED A BRIGHT PRE-SEASON AND WILL BE LOOKING TO ADD TO HIS NPL GOAL TALLY THIS SEASON.

GAVIN ROTHERY – HE HAS SIGNED UP FOR A FURTHER YEAR WITH THE CLUB, A REAL FAN FAVOURITE THAT “ROUSE”Y WAS KEEN TO KEEP. HE CHIPS IN WITH

SCOTT BROWN – “BROWNY“ IS ANOTHER PLAYER THAT

BEING A PLAYER.

CAN FEATURE IN THE HEART OF THE DEFENCE OR

LLOYD ALLINSON – GOALKEEPER LLOYD JOINED THE COLLS IN 2021/22 FROM NOSTELL MINERS WELFARE. HE CAME THROUGH THE YOUTH RANKS AT HUDDERSFIELD AND MADE ONE FIRST TEAM APPEARANCE FOR THE TERRIERS IN MAY 2016. HE

MIDFIELD, HE’S ALWAYS FIRST TO THE TACKLE BUT IS ALSO GREAT WITH THE BALL AT HIS FEET.

HE

MADE A

REAL DIFFERENCE UPON RETURNING FROM A LOAN SPELL OUT LAST YEAR.

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GOALS AND ASSISTS AND AS AN EXPERIENCED MEMBER OF THE SQUAD, HE WILL PLAY A KEY PART, ESPECIALLY AS HE NOW HAS THE HEAD COACHING ROLE ALONGSIDE

THE COLLS FC UNITED OF MANCHESTER IN 2017 WHERE HE STAYED FOR TWO YEARS. HE HAS SINCE PLAYED FOR TEAMS SUCH AS GUISELEY, ASHTON UNITED, GAINSBOROUGH TRINITY AND SCARBOROUGH ATHLETIC. JOINED

BEN TURNER – BEN SIGNED FROM FELLOW NORTHERN PREMIER LEAGUE SIDE WORKSOP TOWN. THE EXPERIENCED LEFT SIDED DEFENDER JOINS FOLLOWING HIS SECOND STINT AT WORKSOP AND

NORTH FERRIBY, FRICKLEY, STOCKSBRIDGE, SHEFFIELD FC, MICKLEOVER AND GRANTHAM, AS HIS FORMER CLUBS. AT 6 FT 2, BEN ADDS TO THE DEFENSIVE OPTIONS FOR MANAGER CRAIG ROUSE. HARRY SPRATT – ONE OF OUR NEW RECRUITS THIS SEASON. HARRY CAN FEATURE ANYWHERE ACROSS THE BACK LINE. HE JOINS THE CLUB FOLLOWING SPELLS AT ASHTON UNITED, SCARBOROUGH ATHLETIC AND YORK CITY. JAKE PICTON – JAKE HAS RETURNED TO PONTE AFTER A SPELL AT WORKSOP TOWN. AN EXPERIENCED DEFENDER AT THIS LEVEL, HE’S A REAL LEADER AND NAMES

WALSALL

BEFORE MOVING DOWN THE PYRAMID.

PONTE ASSISTS. JAMES

HE’S

BACK FOR HIS SECOND STINT AT

AND WILL

LOOK TO ADD GOALS AND

HAS ALSO

RECENTLY JOINED THE COACHING STAFF AS FIRST TEAM COACH.

CALLUM BROOK – A PRODUCT OF THE CHESTERFIELD FC ACADEMY, FOLLOWING HIS ARRIVAL HE HAS MADE A NUMBER OF APPEARANCES AND HAS MORE THAN HANDLED HIMSELF AT THIS LEVEL. HE WILL GO ON TO HAVE A BIG FUTURE AT THE HEART OF THE DEFENCE.

JACK SHEPHERD – OUR YOUNG PLAYER SEASON, JACK HAS MATURED INTO A

OF THE STRONG

DEFENDER THAT CAN PLAY EITHER CENTRE OR LEFT BACK. AS WELL AS READING THE GAME WELL, IT IS HIS ABILITY TO BRING THE BALL OUT WHICH OFTEN CATCHES THE EYE.

HAS THE ABILITY TO CHIP IN WITH A GOAL FROM THE BACK.

ADAM PRIESTLEY – A GIBRALTAR INTERNATIONAL WHO HAS 17 CAPS AND A GOAL FOR HIS COUNTRY. ADAM HAS A GREAT PEDIGREE AND HAS SCORED GOALS ATWHICHEVER CLUB HE HAS BEEN AT.

A

FAST,

INTELLIGENT FORWARD, HE’LL BE LOOKING TO CHIP IN WITH PLENTY OF GOALS AND ASSISTS.

GAVIN ALLOTT – A PROPER OLD FASHIONED NO. 9, GAV JOINS PONTE AFTER WINNING THE LEAGUE LAST YEAR WITH LIVERSEDGE. ANOTHER MAN WHOSE GOAL RECORD SPEAK FOR ITSELF AND HE’LL NO DOUBT CAUSE MANY ISSUES FOR OPPOSING DEFENCES. JAMES BAXENDALE – ANOTHER MIDFIELDER THAT COMES ALIVE IN THE FINAL THIRD, MADE A NUMBER OF APPEARANCES IN THE FOOTBALL LEAGUE FOR

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EDD HALL DANNY BURNS HARRY COATES HARRY GAGEN CRAIG NELTHORPE DANNY SOUTH (CPT) IDRIS ATTA JAMES CADMAN CHRIS DAWSON CONNOR LEAK-BLUNT LUKE HOGG MICHAEL HOLLINGSWORTH JANNI LIPKA OLI METCALFE TOM PRIESTLEY-STANDING DERRY ROBSON LUKE ALDRICH DAVID BROWN JAMES CARVELL JUNAYD CASSIUS-GILL NATHAN CURTIS BRAD GRAYSON BEN MORRIS ALEX PETERSON

LLOYD ALLINSON JACK GREENHOUGH HARRY SPRATT JAKE PICTON JACK SHEPHERD SPENCER CLARKE JAMES BAXENDALE MIKEY DUNN CODY CROMACK JACK VANN GAVIN ALLOTT JOE LUMSDEN ADAM PRIESTLEY GAVIN ROTHERY FABIAN BAILEY JEROME GREAVES GEORGE THEWLIS BEN TURNER CALLUM BROOK SCOTT BROWN CODY CROMACK

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REFEREE ANTHONY TANKARD

AR2 GORDON GREAVES