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Like the way 3 promotion feels? HONOURS Eccles & District League Division 2 1955-56, 1959-60 Eccles & District League Division 3 1958-59 Manchester League Division 1 1968-69 Manchester League Premier Division 1974-75, 1975-76, 1976-77, 1978-79 Northern Premier League Division 1 North 2014-15 Northern Premier League Play-Off Winners 2015-16 National League North 2017-18 National League Play-Off Winners 2018-19 25 Lancashire FA Amateur Cup Chris Casper 1971, 1973, 1975 Manchester FA Challenge Trophy 1975, 1976 We sat down with the Sporting Manchester FA Intermediate Cup Director to talk transfers and the 1977, 1979 rest of the club. Take your business to the next level with our NWCFL Challenge Cup 2006 award-winning employee wellbeing services CLUB ROLL President Dave Russell 22. Salford City vs Crawley Town Chairman Karen Baird Secretary Andy Giblin Committee Jim Birtwistle, Pete Byram, Ged Carter, Barbara Gaskill, Terry Gaskill, 04 33 Counselling Advice Online support Ian Malone, Frank McCauley, Paul Raven, George Russell, Bill Taylor, Alan Tomlinson, Dave Wilson Graham Alexander Club News Groundsmen George Russell, Steve Thomson Shop Manager Tony Sheldon The Gaffer reflects on the January A couple of items from the last week CSR Co-ordinator Andrew Gordon transfer window and recent results as around the club. Media Zarah Connolly, Ryan Deane, Will Moorcroft we’re five games unbeaten. Photography Charlotte Tattersall, Howard Harrison 39 07 First Team Manager Graham Alexander Visitors Speak to one of our experts today Assistant Manager Chris Lucketti GK Coach Carlo Nash Liam Hogan Kit Manager Paul Rushton Read up on Crawley Town, their Head of Performance Dave Rhodes See what the captain has to say about history, players and our opposition Physiotherapist Steve Jordan aims, ambitions and targets in our first report. Club Doctor Dr. Mubin Ibrahim Sport Science Rob Williams Performance Analysis Ross Duncan 0800 028 8712 Director of Football Chris Casper 12 56 Head of Scouting Greg Strong Development Coach Warren Joyce Match Reports Academy Head of Academy Jamie Russell Assistant Academy Manager Lewis Craig Academy Staff Andy Badby, Josh Coulson, Catch up on our last two games, both The Under-18s had a big win against Luke Morgan, Joe Potts, Liam Preece, on the road, as we won at Cambridge Shrewsbury Town on Tuesday in the Sam Tomkins and drew at Port Vale. EFL Youth Alliance North West. health assured.org Programme printed by MatchDay Creative www.salfordcityfc.co.uk 4 5 Graham ALEXANDER Good afternoon and welcome back to The Peninsula Stadium for today’s game against Crawley Town, and I would like to extend that to John Yems, his players, staff and the travelling Crawley fans and officials. The transfer window is now closed and we believe the The players are certainly determined to do just that and it’s squad we have gradually assembled over the last six important each individual attempts to produce his best for months is strong and has the quality to win games. his team mates at every moment. As always when introducing new players it takes time The value of the squad has always been at the centre for them to settle in, some quicker than others, but we’ve of everything we do, and if we are to be successful this already had a glimpse of the quality we have introduced. season, that is where our strength will lie. I believe we already had a group of great professionals Get behind your team as always and enjoy the game. who make it easy for anyone to integrate into, which undoubtedly helps these lads show their full value. I’m Up the Ammies! also confident that you the supporters, will quickly show the backing you give anyone pulling on our red shirt. Graham. We’ve picked up some valuable wins recently and shown for good spells what we’re capable of, the challenge is to continue that form and show the consistency needed at this stage of the season. Salford City vs Crawley Town www.salfordcityfc.co.uk 7 Liam HOGAN Hello everybody and welcome to The Peninsula Stadium With improvements to the squad being added in the window for this afternoon’s home game against Crawley Town. we have a greater depth of quality to call on with the players knowing they must produce their best. With both matches on the road last week we return looking to really focus on improving our home form and it’s crucial The level of the group has gone up a notch and training has at this stage of the season we start by picking up wins. been excellent. We are looking to today’s opportunity to get a winning result and put in a great performance. It was a productive week with four points to add to the tally Thanks for the support we received for last week’s journeys, a home win would really keep us within the play-off chase. and continually over the course of the season. Last time out Crawley were victors and they have been in We are into the final third of the year so please continue to good form of late. We have an unbeaten run of five games get behind us and hopefully there are some big moments in all competitions that if we can continue it will be timely for us to enjoy together. and welcome going into the final part of the season. Enjoy the game, Hoges www.salfordcityfc.co.uk 9 Superfast Fibre Frankly £21.95 a month, fixed for 24 months Speaking SAVING. IT’S NOT JUST So, we’ve now entered the final three months of the Vale, on the previous Tuesday they had come from behind regular season with most clubs having 15/16 matches left to defeat Exeter City but their experience was one of taking to play. As we stand nobody has opened up a 20-point full points in a game they might have expected to lose while FOR CHRIS NEAL. plus lead as is the case in the Premier League so we have dropping points in a game they might have been more to assume League Two is a bit more of a competition. confident about winning. But who’s going to end up with the winner’s pennant, who If we go back to the end of October (after 15 matches) the will fill the other automatic promotion spots and who is top seven clubs were Crewe, Cheltenham, FGR, Bradford, going to qualify for the play-offs? Is it still too early to say Newport, Exeter and Swindon. Come forward to the end of for certain? Are there dark horses out there who are going January (with 30 games played) and the top seven read to come galloping through in the final matches? And could Swindon, Crewe, Plymouth, Exeter, Northampton, Colchester Salford City be in that category? and Cheltenham – four teams remained and three new ones had come in. So, should we be inclined to think the I know I’m stating the obvious here but it’s consistency of promotion spots lie between Swindon, Crewe, Exeter and performances which wins a league. Some might argue that Cheltenham? the team in a division which possesses the better players will come out on top but unless those quality players are I think there are managers of clubs not on that list who consistent over the nine months of the season the cream would suggest that with a consistent run of positive results won’t necessarily stay at the top. But do you have to be they could yet be challengers. Enjoy average speeds of 67Mb/s and keep consistent for 46 games? Can you afford to go off the boil? On another topic. Over the years, in this column, I’ve often everything connected with our award-winning Teams can have blips but when they have a dip in form bemoaned the lack of coverage given to the football club they still need, for the most part, to be producing a standard in the local print media. For the last few years other than a Wi-Fi Hub. Now that’s a deal worth shouting about. better than their opposition. weekly through the door ‘freebie’ paper – which actually had more content featuring areas outside the city – Salford TalkTalk Fibre On our journeys around the country following the fortunes did not have its own newspaper. of Salford City FC we always take the opportunity to speak with the officials of our host club. As a totally new club at Thankfully that has changed in recent weeks with the arrival Football League level we are on a massive learning curve of the Salford City News. It’s good to see images and text and we try, as it were, to pick the brains of the longer relating to our club (and the rugby club) and hopefully as established clubs to try and discover what their opinions of the enterprise develops more sporting organisations will get League Two are and what is required to be successful at their activities featured on a regular basis. The paper isn’t the level. a ‘freebie’ and is available from newsagents for 80 pence each Friday. Please give it your support. And it’s that ‘consistency’ word which gets repeated time after time. Everyone seems in agreement that it’s a strange division this season. Take last weekend’s opposition Port www.salfordcityfc.co.uk Salford FC Sponsorship Ad4 Jan20.indd 1 07/01/2020 15:10 11 This weekend Salford City is uniting with football clubs across the country to kick off the biggest ever conversation on mental health! We all have mental health, just like physical health.

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