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Market Drayton Town vs
Clitheroe FC Monday 7th February 7:45 pm Kickoff Greenfields Sports Ground, Greenfields Lane, Market Drayton, Shropshire, TF9 3SL
Admission Adults - £7.00 Seniors - £6.00 Children - £1.00
MARKET DRAYTON TOWN FOOTBALL CLUB Ground : Greenfields Sports Ground, Greenfields Lane, Market Drayton, Shropshire, TF9 3SL Tel : 07435 960650 E-mail : secretaryMDTFC@hotmail.com RULE 2.13 Club Entity Incorporated - A private Limited company by guarantee without share capital (company no. 07362001)
Directors Brian Garratt, Frank Hodgkiss, Pauline Hodgkiss, Clive Jones
Associate Member of The FA | Member of Shropshire FA Chairman : Mick Murphy Treasurer : John Kirkham Secretary : Darren Beech Club Safety Officer : Mark Parton Press/Media : Cliff Taylor Manager : Matt Johnson Head Coach : Steve Chamberlain Physio : Jess Sayers
MANAGERS
VIEW & REVIEW
Good evening everyone, A very warm welcome to the management, players, officials, and fans of Clitheroe. We hope you enjoy your stay with us and wish you a safe journey home after the game. On Saturday is was very tough conditions against a well-drilled Marine side. The game didn’t start great with Joe Hawkins failing a fitness test before the warm up. He’s been injured since my first game in charge away at Mosley and has been a massive loss in my defensive outfits over the last few weeks. We started well and were compact all over forcing Marine to go long with the wind. Before we left the dressing room I highlighted that they are dangerous from set pieces, corners especially. So you could see my frustration when their first goal came from their first corner. We lost our man on the first and second phase and was a real poor goal to concede. From then we never really recovered. They picked up every second ball and their rotation in midfield and movement up front was something we couldn’t get to grips with. Their second and third goal came from this and we got pulled all over the place. I changed formation and personnel at halftime and we were better. On the front foot, picking up second balls and competing. We were handed a lifeline when my keeper Ash kicked out of his hands, the wind just got hold of it and bounced over their keeper. We looked at getting some momentum but with Angelos straight red for a tackle the uphill climb increased. Angelo has been fantastic since I’ve bought him in. A real leader that adds passion and grit. 5 years ago the tackle would have been fine but football has changed and I think referees watch too much TV just as players do.!! We worked hard with 10 men and showed some real good discipline at times. Our fitness levels looked good which kept us in the game still at 3-1. But unfortunately just didn’t have that last push needed. We need to go into Monday night against a real powerful Clitheroe team the way we finished today. With such a small squad changes will need to be made to be able to match the physical demand of 2 games in 3 days, again!! A tough day on the road but we go again Monday.
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CLITHEROE FC The club starts its 18th season in the Northern Premier League at Level 4 of the non league pyramid. Under the chairmanship of Stewart Fort, it is looking to build on the continuing transformation of the club and to seek promotion to the next level, or at the very least to secure a place in the play offs for the first time. The club was formed as Clitheroe Central in 1877 at the Swan Hotel in Castle Street by local businessmen. After playing in local leagues, the club joined the Lancashire Combination in 1903 and dropped Central from their name. Aside from breaks during the First and Second World Wars, the club continued to play in the Combination until the end of the 1981-82 season, when it combined with the Cheshire League to become the North West Counties League. For the first 100 years of Clitheroe FC’s existence, a Lancashire Junior Cup win in 1893, the Lancashire Combination Cup in 1934-5 and the League Championship in 1979-80 all that the club had to show for its efforts. That was soon to change. Although Clitheroe were put into the Third Division of the NWCFL at its inception due to the state of the ground, there followed the most successful period in the club’s long history under the stewardship of Eric Whalley, subsequently manager and Chairman of Accrington Stanley FC. He assembled one of the best non-league sides in the North of England and won back to back Championships in the Third, Second and First divisions, as well as securing the Lancashire Cup for the first time in 50 years, thanks to a solitary strike from local lad Eric Geldard. This was all the more impressive when one considers that the Division 1 was effectively Level 3 in the non-league pyramid. Captained by Mick Ashcroft and containing extravagant talents such as John Taylor and Steve Mullen, possibly the best player ever to play for the Blues, Clitheroe regularly attracted bumper gates, with the championship winning season seeing three crowds over 1,000. Cracks started to appear when Whalley took over the manager’s seat at Accrington. To compound matters, the new Northern Premier Division 1 was formed, but a lack of floodlights meant the Blues could not take their rightful place and they found teams effectively leapfrogging them.
It was not until the mid nineties that the Club recovered from this setback and started to fulfil its potential. It became a force in the NWCFL Division 1 again and also made itself known on the national FA Vase stage. Having been pipped to the title in 1994-95 by Bradford PA in controversial circumstances, the following season saw possibly the highlight of the club’s history when the Blues reached the Vase Final under the joint managership of Dennis Underwood and Gary Butcher after an epic two legged semi Final win against Mangotsfield United of Bristol. 2,000 people were on Shawbridge for the second leg when a deflected goal saw the Blues home with seven minutes of extra time remaining. The Final pitted the Blues against a powerful Brigg side and a 3-0 reverse in front of 7,500 fans was a fair reflection of the play. In the close season, Clitheroe also received their record transfer fee, £45,000, from Crystal Palace for goalkeeper Carlo Nash.
The Wembley experience turned the Blues into a Vase side and a Quarter Final defeat against Tiverton in 1998/99 and a two leg reverse against Taunton in the 2000/01 semi-final gave the Blues national prominence. The Taunton season saw Clitheroe beat pre-tournament favourites Chippenham in the quarter final on their own patch before a two-legged semi against Taunton Town, which would never be forgotten. With the first leg away and the game only just surviving an absolute deluge, the Blues went in at half time 5-0 down and reduced to 10 men. There was not much good humour amongst the 150 travelling Blues over that cup of Bovril. No further goals followed, but with manager Dave Burgess throwing caution to the wind in the home second leg, the fans dared to
dream with 3 goals for the home side in the first 15 minutes (including hitting the post) and the Taunton keeper being stretchered off, but in the end Clitheroe went down 8-4 on aggregate.
Dave Burgess stood down at the end of the season and central defender Lee Sculpher took over as player manager. In 2002/3, Clitheroe again finished as league runners up and lost to Mossley at Gigg Lane in the League Cup Final. Early cup exits the following season enabled the Blues to concentrate on the league and superb away form saw the Blues capture the 2003/04 league title on the final day of the season at Nantwich where Blues legend Neil Reynolds sparked bedlam when he thumped a 25 yarder into the top corner with six minutes of the season remaining.
High hopes accompanied Clitheroe’s first foray into the Unibond League in 2004/05, but the club never fully recovered from manager Lee Sculpher resigning after a handful of games into the new season. He was succeeded by Paul Byrom who then quit in the close season. Tommy Lawson was appointed manager for the 2005/06 season but he was relieved of his duties in early 2006, to be replaced on a temporary basis by Mark Smitheringale. He too left before the 2006/07 season started and his assistant Chris Stammers stepped up to the plate before resigning after a 10-1 thumping away to Conference North Kettering in the FA Trophy in November 2006. The then chairman Carl Garner offered the job to Neil Reynolds and Pete Smith at the turn of 2007, before the latter took on the role in his own right at the end of the 2008/09 season. 2009/10 and 2010/11 saw Clitheroe finishing in eight and sixth respectively, the highest league placings in the club’s history. The end of the 10/11 season also had a unique twist with Carl Garner stepping down as chairman after four years to replace Pete Smith as manager, in the process going unbeaten throughout April and taking the manager of the month prize. Garner was replaced in the role of chair by his long-standing deputy Anne Barker.
Despite the great end to the previous campaign, the 2011/12 season under Garner’s leadership was ultimately disappointing, although it had started so brightly with another manager of the month award. Form quickly tailed off and huge player turnover ensued, before Garner resigned and the managerial Vase duo of Burgess and Sculpher ensured survival on a temporary basis, having taken over with less than 10 games to go. Paul Moore, the ex Leek Town and Warrington Town manager, took over the reins in 2012/13 and led Clitheroe to their record points total in Division 1 in finishing eighth, with the play-off push only ending over the final games of the season. However, the loss of key players in the close season led to a woeful start in 2013/14 and to an early exit from the FA Cup and Trophy, and the committee replaced Moore mid season with ex Blue Simon Garner.
Garner steadied the ship and Clitheroe finished the season in 17th position, with Garner setting his stall out in 2014-15 to create a more east Lancashire focussed team. A 13th place finish and an appearance at the Reebok in the Lancashire Trophy against Chorley represented good progress, whilst the 7th place in 2015-16 continued the good work, and the push for the play-offs only faltered in the final weeks. Following Garner’s resignation, the club moved quickly to appoint ex Wales international Simon Haworth to the manager’s role. He moulded a team from scratch into genuine play off contenders, only faltering in the penultimate game of the season to a 90th minute goal at rivals Colne. 2017-18 could not quite recapture these heights although both Kurt Willoughby and Alex Newby featured prominently in the league goal-scoring charts. When Howarth announced he was leaving, the club appointed former Warrington Town manager, Stuart Mellish. After an unhappy, short tenure, his assistant, former Ossett Town manager Lee Ashforth was handed the role six games into the season. Unfortunately, Clitheroe endured their worst season at this level and Ashforth’s tenure was brought to an end. Former Lancaster manager Phil Brown steadied the ship in the truncated 2019-20 season, with crowds averaging back over 350 and the Blues hovering around the play off places. He left for personal reasons at the end of the season and the club appointed former Blue David Lynch as player manager for the 2020-21 season, who in turn left after a promising truncated season. Billy Priestley and Gary Stopforth have now been appointed as joint player managers for the coming season.
CLITHEROE FC PLAYERS 21/22 Billy Priestley: Player/manager. Centre Back. Started his career at Ramsbottom where he won the league before he followed Messrs Johnson and Morley to Salford, where he stayed for three years. He has since played for Southport and Bradford PA, and is relishing the chance to cut his managerial teeth. Chris Price – Assistant manager, bringing over 20 years of management and coaching experience with him. Chris Thompson: 31 year old stopper, with over 100 Clitheroe appearances to his name. Firm fans’ favourite and a member of the Team of the Decade. Matthew Hodds: 18 year old goalkeeper from Sabden. Has been at professional academies and is now part of the youth team set up at Stockport County academy. Jack Burrows : 21 year old who has progressed through the Blues under 23 side. He is versatile across the back line and has the engine and desire to secure a place for himself this season Louis Jeanne: 22 year old, 6ft 3 centre back recently captured from Kendal Town after impressing against Clitheroe. Bailey Sloane: highly rated 18 year old left sided defender, recently signed from Avro FC. Alex Turner: high energy 20 year old central midfielder who was at Liverpool’s Academy, who had a spell with Runcorn Linnets last season. Jamie Edwards: 24 year old attacking wideman who started on Blackpool’s books. Signed from Darwen after a lengthy pursuit and will be keen to show his quality at the higher level. Richie Baker : 33 year old midfielder signed from Ramsbottom United. Has more than 100 games on his CV with Bury in the league, as well as higher level non league experience with FC United, AFC Fylde and Stockport County.
CLITHEROE FC PLAYERS 21/22 Ross Dent: A Clitheroe lad. Still only 28, he already has 190+ Clitheroe appearances to his name and another member of the Team of the Decade. Having spent two seasons with former manager Simon Haworth at Stalybridge, Ross cemented his reputation as one of the hardest working and most fearless midfielders around. Danny Wilkins: signed at the end of 2019-20 season from Droylsden and returned to the club for a second spell. Can play anywhere across the front line and midfield and offers a rare mix of talent. Jake Connelly: 19 year old winger played for the England Colleges XI, suffering an injury just as he was starting to make inroads into the first team. After shaking off a couple of niggling injuries, he will be looking to use his power to terrorise defences. Ben McKenna: 28 year old Burnley based forward signed for an undisclosed fee from Farsley Celtic. Has spent most of his career in the Conference North and is looking forward to help Clitheroe move up the pyramid. Joel Byrom: 35 year old attacking midfielder, returning to Shawbridge after a gap of 13 years, in which he won promotion to League 2 with Stevenage and to League 1 with Northampton. Terry Cummings: 24 year old is already a big hit with the Shawbridge crowd, using his strength and pace to take on defences. Will be looking to add to his goal tally to complete the package. Sefton Gonzales : much travelled striker who has spent much of his career at the higher level. Was a member of the Team of League when last at Clitheroe and on his day is virtually unplayable. Max Cane: 21 year old striker returning to the club after starting the season with Nelson FC, having previously earned his spurs at Shawbridge as a prolific under 21 forward.
Clitheroe FC 2021/22 Season So Far
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Market Drayton Town FC 2021/22
YOUR 21/22 Gingerbread Men Ashley Rawlins: Talented Goalkeeper who has returned to the club after a season at AFC Telford United. Amongst the best Goalkeepers in the NPL. Sam Leyland: Sam is a young pacey, tricky winger who has the ability to beat his man on a regular basis. Has a lot of potential at this level. Sam has previously been on the books of Port Vale and Stafford Rangers. Andre James- Big strong striker who when fit will always score goals. Brendan Price: Left sided player who gives balance to the team. Versatile player who can play in a variety of roles and positions. Joe Care: Excellent Centre half signing who should progress as the season unfolds. Reece Jacobs: Forward with pace and can play centre or as a wide player. Dimitri Dunkley- Aggressive Forward always amongst the goals, can play as lone striker or as a forward pair. Musa Ceesay, Ball playing defender who is comfortable as centre half or wing back. Recent Signing from Lye Town. Justice Campbell- Classy Left footed midfield dynamo. A player who loves to get on the ball and dictate the play. Rory Regan- Young left sided defender recently signed from Rocester. A promising player for the future. Mikel Brown- Young Defender, been with WBA and very comfortable on the ball. Jack Sweeney- On loan from AFC Telford United. Great prospect for the future. Adam Lawrence- Experienced Goalkeeper expected to challenge for the number one position. Recently signed from Abbey Hulton FC. Callum Griffiths- A versatile player who gives 100% wherever asked to play. Another one to watch out for in the future. Kyle Jordan- Quick wide player signed form Newport Town FC. Will get better as he gains more experience at this level. Matt Ball- promising young player who will look to make the starting eleven on regular basis. Jamie Meadows; Jamie is a very highly rated box to box competitive central midfielder, whose has spent time at Kidderminster Harriers & AFC Wulfrunians. Eshan Greer - Eshan is a technically gifted and hard working centre forward with bags of pace previous clubs include AFC Wulfrunians & Stourbridge
YOUR 21/22 Gingerbread Men Jordan Jones: Jordan is a strong, powerful, experienced LB/LWB or LM. Jordan will add quality and a high level of intensity to the squad. Jordan has played locally for Shawbury, Ellesmere and Shifnal Town so is well aware of MDTFC heritage. Joe Hawkins - Joe is a strong and experienced central defender who is comfortable with the ball at his feet. Joe’s previous clubs include Worcester City, Crawley and Lye Town. Angelo Franco - Angelo is an vastly experienced centre midfielder that will not only add ‘bite’ and energy but also a high level of midfield quality. Randane Lamond - Randane is an athletic, clinical centre forward with a proven goal scoring CV. Randane’s previous clubs include Redditch Utd, Kidderminster Harriers & Coventry Sphinx. Reuben MacKay - Reuben is a highly rated, tricky, direct right or left sided midfielder. Reuben has a wealth of Non-League experience. Panashe Madamba- Panashe is a strong dynamic and powerful centre forward who has showcased his talents in China, Belgium and Spain. Mike O’Reilly - Mike is a very versatile player with a wand of a left foot, he is highly capable of playing in defence, midfield or as an attacking forward. Mike is in his second spell at Market Drayton, previous clubs include Oswestry Town and Chasetown. James O’Reilly - Jimmy is a vastly experienced central defender, but is also very comfortable in any role in the defence and midfield. Jimmy is also in his second spell at Market Drayton, previous clubs include Oswestry Town and Chasetown. Roger Ngaah Bosio - Roger brings an abundance of energy, power and grit to an already talented MDTFC midfield. He has a wealth of experience from Spain, but carved his UK career at Highgate United, Redditch United and Banbury United.
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Saturday 12th February Kickoff 3:00pm
Ashley Rawlins Jack Sweeney Jordan Jones Jamie Meddows Joe Care Musa Ceesay Panashe Madama Randane Larmond Eshan Greer Justice Campbell Reuban Mackay Reece Jacobs Roger Bosio Cameron East Rory Regan Geggs Awoyemi
Lee Camp Jamie Edwards Bailey Sloane Richard Baker Jack Hopkins Billy Priestley Ben McKenna Danny Wilkins Sefton Gonzales Joel Byrom Max Cane Jake Connelly Ross Dent Jack Burrows Louis Jeanne George Bristol
(Both managers will select from a list of players available to them today)
Manager Matt Johnson
Manager Billy Priestley
Today's Match Officials Ref: Thomas Swift Asst A: Daniel Parkes | Asst B: Alexander Perkin