This Week in Town’s History

KEY MOMENTS FROM THIS WEEK OVER THE YEARS...

MARCH In 2010 it was 20 top against bottom in the Blue Square North as league leaders Fleetwood Town visited Wetherby Road. Town did well to only lose 1-0 to the Cod Army who eventually finished the season as runners-up. A young Lee Gregory who is currently on loan at Derby County from Stoke City was playing for Town this day on loan from Mansfield Town.

MARCH In 1987 Town beat 21 Belper Town 2-0 at home in the Northern Counties East League thanks to goals from Dave Ballantyne and Mick Parker who played 326 (11) games for Town making him the fifth highest appearance holder of all time in the club’s history.

In 2008 Town drew 0-0 with bottom 22 MARCH club Leigh RMI in the Blue Square (North) at Wetherby Road. That season, Town again missed out on the play-offs finishing sixth for the third time in four years.

Lee Gregory moves challenges Fleetwood’s Alan Wright

by Phil Harrison Club Historian

Mick Parker

MARCH In 2006

23 Town played Guiseley in the West Riding County Cup semifinal at Nethermoor and came away with a 3-0 win with goals from Stuart Preston and Gareth Grant (2). Unfortunately Town lost the Final 2-1 to Farsley Celtic.

Gareth Grant

MARCH In 1951 Town 24 met Altofts Welfare at Swillington in the Semi-Final of the West Yorkshire League Division One Cup but lost 2-1 with Ray Ross scoring for Town. Ross Ray Ross finished top scorer with 26 goals from 33 games. The other semifinal between Kippax and D.P. & E (Otley) was played at Wetherby Road.

MARCH In 1978 Town 25 drew 3-3 at Fryston Colliery Welfare in Yorkshire League Division Two with Alan Milburn, Graham Shepherd and Dave Jones netting for Town. It was a match Town should have won but for an unfortunate mistake from Town keeper Billy Carr who gifted Fryston an equaliser in the last minute of the game.

MARCH In 2011 fan favourite ‘Chib’ Chilaka 26 bagged a memorable hattrick for Town in a 3-0 home win over Gloucester City in the Blue Square (North). Chin had arrived on loan from Bradford City in the February and this was actually his first and last goals for the club in the last game of his loan spell during which he made 5 (3) appearances. The striker had two further spells with Town from 2011-13 and 2016-17.

Dave Jones

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