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40. Keeping in Touch

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  Match 18: Colne v Morley Town Put simply we need to get our act together after two heavy defeats and we seem to have lost the fizz we had at the start of the season. Therefore I have decided to try something new and have finally ditched the 4-4-2 and have gone to a 3-5-2 system This is bad news for the returning AML/R Marlon Gutzmore, but I think we have the personell to pull it off and will hopefully make us more solid at the back and be able to compete better in midfield. Colne sit in a middling 12 th place, while we have slipped to 4 th place, but just two points off the top. These are the kinds of games we need to win if we are to challenge for promotion. Morley Town: Oldham, G.Wilkinson, Bentley, Cotteril, Christie, Worsnop, Wright, Bett-Wildsmith, Smith, Wood, Ellis Subs: Thompson, Cotteril, O’Connor, Preston, Haylock Colne: Lombard, Angus, Barnett, Noble, Rice, Delaney, Pelling, Drake, Roberts, Ede, Lee Match Action We do not touch the ball from the kick off ...
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39. Trying to See The Wood For The Trees

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  The season has so far gone pretty well and after ten games we are in the hunt for the title, or a place in the play-offs again. The squad (for now) seem happy, settled and focused on the job in hand and a settled team is emerging, made up of a good mixture of youth and experience. Until.... Cresdee Loan Finishes Olly Cresdee has returned to Farsley Celtic after their manager recalled him to the team as cover. He was also unhappy that I was not playing him as a poacher (even though I was) and to be honest his performances had been below par, scoring just twice and missing a load of chances, so off he goes. . Match 12: Marine U23s v Morley Town The last time we crossed paths it ended up with us crashing out of the first Division Cup at the Quarter Final Stage and the team from Merseyside going on to win the trophy. They have not adapted to life well in the NW Counties Div 1 North though and lie in the relegation places. We have slipped to 5 th but have two games in hand on e...
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38. Bumps in T'Road

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  After starting the season in barnstorming form , winning our first five games and shooting straight to the top of the table the mood in the camp is good. There is also a feeling among the Ultras and down the Farriers Arms already that this could be our year to take the next step up the English Football Pyramid to Level 9... But as the late Jimmy Greaves once said.. "It's a funny old game Saint.."  Match 7: Morley Town v Silsden It’s around the same time last season when we were humbled 3-1 by their reserve team, who eventually were relegated by a country mile and replaced by their first team counterparts. While we are riding high at the top of the league, the visitors are in a middling 12 th after a mixed start to the season. I go in with the same team and match squad. Morley Town: Thompson, Cotteril, J. Wilkinson, G. Wilkinson, Christie, Wright, Smith, Preston, Ellis, Wood, Gutzmore Subs: Oldham, Jewson, Bentley, Cresdee, Bett-Wildsmith Silsden: Richardson ,...
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