Season 2020/2021 Official On-Line Match Programme Pitching In N P L Premier Division. Saturday 17th October 2020 3.00 p.m. kick off WARRINGTON TOWN v RADCLIFFE Welcome to Cantilever Park THE TEAMS Warrington Town V Radcliffe (yellow with blue trim/blue/yellow) (all white with red and blue offset stripes) Charles Albinson 1 Cameron Belford James Baillie 2 Curtis Obeng Michael Rose 3 Javid Swaby-Neavin Charlie Munro 4 Tom Miller Mark Roberts © 5 Jonathon Royle Matt Regan 6 Stephen Johnson-Fikula Jack Mackreth 7 Luca Navarro Chris Holroyd 8 Simon Lenighan Josh Amis 9 Andy Owens Bohan Dixon 10 Jean Louis Akpa-Akpro Jack Dunn 11 Matty Crothers Craig Carney 12 Larnell Cole Jordan Buckley 14 Joey Oldham Joel Amado 15 Rhian Hellawell Callum Grogan 16 Kole Hall Mitch Duggan 17 Darren McKnight Paul Carden Manager Lee Fowler Referee Neil Evans Assistant Jack Welch Assistant Justin Walton Pitching In Northern Premier League Premier Division Saturday 17th October 2020, kick off 3-00 p.m. Focus Increased Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen and welcome to Cantilever Park for this Pitching In Northern Premier League Premier Division fixture. May I take this opportunity to offer a warm welcome to all players, officials and supporters of Radcliffe Football Club to Warrington? I trust you all have an enjoyable stay and a safe journey home after the match. Town and Radcliffe are Today’s games – Premier Division among our oldest friends in Ashton United v Mickleover this division having met many Atherton Colls v Stalybridge Celtic Basford United v Bamber Bridge times over the years. This will Buxton v Morpeth Town be the forty fourth meeting in FC United of Man v Stafford Rangers Gainsborough Tr v Witton Alb. all. Indeed, only Nantwich Grantham Town v Lanacster City Town and Lancaster City of Hyde United v Whitby Town the current Premier Division Scarborough Ath v Nantwich Town South Shields v Matlock Town membership have crossed Warrington Town v Radcliffe our paths on more occasions than The Borough, for although they have dropped that tag from their official name, it is still their nickname. I suspect that will continue for many years to come. Radcliffe made a slow but poor start to the season. After our last home game, they sat at the foot of the table with no points but had only played two games so not too much could be read into that. To enforce that point they went away to South Shields a week last Tuesday and came away with a 3-1 win. It lifted them quite a few places. A win and a loss have followed. I am sure they will be here to give us a stern test and I know I say it every week because it is true. They will offer us many problems as every side in this division does. It is a very competitive league most of the time. Maybe, just maybe we will catch them low on confidence and can take advantage of it. All at Warrington obviously hope so but absolutely nothing will be taken for granted. We will approach the game as we would any other and try to do things our way. Looking back, we have a couple of games to catch up on starting with the visit of Whitby Town. This proved to be really close and was played in incessant rain which lasted all day. The pitch held up well though. It was not a classic and unsurprisingly the weather kept the crowd down along with the inevitable worries of the population’s health. It was another clean sheet for Town, the fifth in as many games and crucially we scored one. It came just on half time from a Matt Regan header, his first goal for Town. My editorial that day was “Must Take Full Advantage” which reflected on there only being two league games played that day. Well we did just that to open up a five point lead at the top of the table and maintain our 100% record. We would need to go back to our formative years to beat that record at the start of a league campaign. I think it is fair to say it is the best start we have had since I began watching Town in the 1980’s. As always no one is getting carried away though. Last Saturday saw us play just our second match away from home since the restart and a trip to Mickleover. Sadly, the perfect start to the league campaign is no more as we went down 3-2. It had started well, and we took an early lead through Josh Amis, but things went wrong after that. Mickleover scored three unanswered goals before Jordan Buckley got s a late consolation. In between Scott Brown was sent off along with an opponent following a clash after a heavy challenge. Scott will now miss three games. It was naturally disappointing, but no one truly expects us to win every game. The true test is how we can respond to that loss. On the player front we welcome in Chris Holroyd who joins us from Stalybridge Celtic. Chris has a distinguished Football League career with a plethora of clubs. We wish him well in his time with Warrington Town. On the other hand, a player not currently featuring for Town has gone out on loan. Tom Warren will continue to train with us but is on loan to Spalding Town for a time. Also, Jordan Buckley is struggling with some injuries so is working on a programme of improvement that will allow hopefully him more game time. Senior cup news now, or sorts. The first round of this historic competition has been drawn and has as quite often been the case in recent seasons, Town have missed the first round draw again. We will come in at round two which is not scheduled until the new year. Last season we were at the semi-final stage when the competition had to be abandoned due to COVID-19. Let’s hope we can finally go one better than that for the first time in our history later in the season. The full first round draw is featured later in this programme. Our match at Stafford Rangers on 24th October is off as they are still in the FA Cup. No game has been arranged as I write. Our trip to Morpeth has been arranged though and we go there on Tuesday 1st December. Don’t forget to check the new and improved Warrington Town website for all the latest news and results involving everything to do with Warrington Town. This can be accessed at http://www.warringtontownfc.co.uk Warrington Town FC Official Supporters Club Join the Official Warrington Town FC Supporters Club for a variety of benefits throughout the season. Adults £20.00 Under 18's £10.00 Some of the benefits include - Up to date Club information, Travel Club Membership, priority ticket sales, discounted coach travel, Match Day updates, members only group, priority for all coach travel. To join, call into the Club Shop on home match days or see social media. Follow us on - Facebook - Warrington Town Supporters Club Twitter - @WarringtonTownS Instagram - warringtontownsupportersclub Email - [email protected] Finally enjoy the match and may the best team from North Cheshire with a Town suffix win. Paul R. 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No significant interest TOWN v RADCLIFFE (BOROUGH) - THE HISTORY OF THE CLASH THE FULL RECORD (League games only - 3 points for a win) HOME AWAY P W D L F A W D L F A Pts GD 36 9 2 7 28 23 8 5 5 26 21 58 +10 CUP MATCHES - SEVEN MEETINGS 1990/1991 HFS Loans League Div 1 Cup 1 Radcliffe Borough 3 Warrington Town 1 1999/2000 FA Cup 1Q Radcliffe Borough 8 Warrington Town 1 2004/2005 UniBond League Challenge Cup 2 Warrington Town 3 Radcliffe Borough 4 (aet) 2007/2008 UniBond League Presidents Cup 2 Radcliffe Borough 4 Warrington Town 1 (aet 1-1) 2009/2010 FA Cup Second Qualifying Round Warrington Town 1 Radcliffe Borough 1 FA Cup Second Qualifying Round Replay Radcliffe Borough 3 Warrington Town 1 2014/2015 Doodson Sports Cup First Round Radcliffe Borough 0 Warrington Town 3 ------------------------------------------------------------ Radcliffe Borough are meeting Town for the forty fourth time in all today. The very first meeting came in the Cheshire League Division Two back in season 1980/81. Boro won 5-4 at Cantilever Park and the points were shared in a 1-1 draw at Stainton Park. Twelve months later the home side each recorded a 1-0 win. There then followed a nine year gap before the sides met again, this time in the Northern Premier League (or HFS Loans League as it was known at the time). It was the beginning of a period in which we would meet for seven consecutive seasons. Scores were as follows with Towns home matches and scores being the first listed. 1990/91; 0-1, 1-2, 1991/92; 1-2, 2-2, 1992/93; 2-0, 1-1, 1993/94; 2-1, 2-1, 1994/95; 1-1, 2-0, 1995/96; 1-1, 1-3, & 1996/97; 0-3, 0-3. In that first season in the NPL the sides also met in the old Division One Cup with Boro coming out 3-1 winners.