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LITHEROE’S new manager finally took


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Shawbridge hot-seat this week and immediately declared: “I ’ll get things right.”


Tuesday night’s defeat at Maine Road, said there was a lot of work to do to get the squad into shape. "It's going to take some time,


Steve Parry, speaking after


Daniel’s Shawbridge honour


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but I’m going to do it as quick­ ly as I can,” hesaid. “The committee are talking


about us having the rest of the season to get things right, but I’m too impatient for that. “They say we’re too far


behind the leaders already and we probably are, but we’re not


giving up on anything. “One thing is for sure, I can’t


CLITHEROE FC’s new manager, Steve Parry, is wcl- c„ « d f . Shawbridgc b , c b . l n . . .


put up with what happened on Tuesday night. We need to make progress and for people to


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see that progress.” Parry’s reign began with a 4-


1 defeat at Maine Road, but he saw that game, and Saturday’s win at Salford, as a good chance


ty in the squad, but it’s not deep enough and I’m going to tryandbnngsomc now players


We’ve got some good quali­


to get to know his players. The former Haslingden boss


knows several of the Chtheroe squad already - some of them played for him at Hashngden. Now he is concentrating on get­ ting to know the rest of the side. “I don’t want to come in and


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I A; FISTFUL of goals>^or, .Matt Garncr helped I ciitheroe’s youth side to a comprehensiye win oyer Mill Hill StPetcr’s at Shawbridge.1 j ;> A- < i ...1 A.


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r On the 24th minute Paul Parkinson scored the second goal and from then on the goalsjust kept coming. ■


j I utes for the third.


I The fourth came three minutes later from Peter Halleron and Mill Hfll must have b e e n relieved to hear the


Ben Parsons placed a lovely cross to Gamer on 35 nun „ ,


I ' Clitheroe were in no mood to sit back and on 55 niin- half-timewhlstle. J v J " 1 make the score an astonishing 8-0.^


I goals came from Tbm Benficld, Steven Wilkinson and Paul I Anthony Clark.' 1 ’ ‘ ’ 5


| But fittingly the final goal-went to Garner from the penalty spot, taking his tally for the game to an amazing


-ii i. Parkinson'was man-of-the-match and,In goal,.eyeii^ s'


It was a great display,of team-work as well as individual brilliance that brought the victory. • _


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though he saw little of the ball, Danny Woodhead gave usual solid performance.


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Tiiis seemed to spur the rest of the side on and further j ’ n %


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I utes Gamer placed a perfect header to make it 5-0. -.... I Then he netted again after 70,71 and 74 minutes to


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' ' The goals began to flow just four minutes into the game when Steve Wilkinson executed a well-worked comer and Martin Hallcron struck the first one home.


in quickly. “The players have to have


the right attitude - they showed that on Saturday when they battled hard for the result. "But in the second half at


that.


make wholesale changes just for the sake of it, but I need to find out who can do what,” he said. “We want to get the ball


down and play football, not launch it forward as quickly as


possible “But you can’t play that


who have good movement.


defeat at Maine Road on Tuesday. But the result failed to reflect an excel­


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way if you don’t have players who have good movement


LITI-IEROE club c ap ta in Xav Bowers is p ic tu re d welcoming match mascot Daniel Meyler to


Seven-year-old Daniel is the first mascot to be chosen under a new scheme started by


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the club.They hope to choose a youngster lrom Clithoroe and the rest of the Ribble Valley to bring the team luck before each game. Daniel is a keen footballer himself and plays for the Shawbndge-affiliated Clitheroe


Wolves Under 8s side. But lie was disappointed to see the Blues


lose 1-0 to Ramsbottom United last week after leading the side out.


do what all the time. “When the side go out they


the end of last season. “I just wanted to take some


are not only representing Clitheroo, they are also repre­


senting me. “Sol need to work quickly to


mould the side into the team I


want.” Parry comes to Clitheroe


Maine Road their heads dropped and we can’t have


"We want to play football


when we have the ball, but what you do when you don’t have the ball is just as


improtant. “We have to work hard to get


“I’m learning about wno can


it back when things are going against us, and that’s what we didn’t do on Tuesday. ‘I’m learning about who can


EW Clitheroe boss Steve Parry got his reign off to a dis­ appointing s ta r t with a 4-1


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lent first hall display from Chtheroe which gave the new manager encouragement. It was in the second half that Clitheroe


after a spell in the Manchester league as a player with no man­ agerial duties. Before that Parry played for


time out of management after Haslingden folded. But when tins job came up I knew it was


right for me. “I t’s a good job, the crowd


are good, the ground is good and the potential is good. "It’s going to be hard work -


Accrington Stanley, Darwen, Morccambe and ltosscndale United before a very successful spell as player-manager of Haslingden He guided them to runners-up spot in the North- West Counties’ Second Divi­ sion and then consolidated their position in the First Divi­ sion before the club folded at


---------- Voonniitthorfanirercus Tim Crane. keep out the dang rous


when Grimshaw was unlucky to see Mor­ rey block his goal-bound effort.


Clitheroe could have re-taken the lead ,


, But soon after Crane ran down the lelt and shot across Parrott and into the far comer to give the home side the lead. Dave Bennett could have equalised


crumbled, letting Maine Road smash in three goals to seal their biggest ever win


over the Blues. Midfielder Dennis Hill was on top of his


game in the first half, showing his form of old And the rest of the side dominated the


game.Clitheroe started by winning a comer but former Shawbndge keeper John Mor- rey was in fine form in the Maine Road goal and dealt with the danger easily. But he had no answer minutes later


when Jon Riley burst through and chipped Morrey for the opening goal of the game. The goal inspired the Blues and Hill and


I six goals. -• r ; ‘On Uic day it wasn’t that Mill Hill played.badly,.put


I; Ciitheroe’s incredible form, from. the. off .that gave them such superiority.-


Chris Grimshaw caused havoc from the Clitheroe could not increase their


lead and disaster struck on the stroke of half-time.


In a rare Maine Road attack Rob „


Stevenson equalised from close range. That seemed to revitalise the home side and they came out for the second half in


attacking mood. Jon Parrott had to be in good form to


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Maine Road added a fourth three min­ utes later through Rob Stevenson to send Chtheroe home pointless. St Helens


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MANAGER Steve Parry watched Graham Stamper stepped up and blast- Clitheroe end their four-game losing home the spot kick to give his side a life-


, streak a t St Helens on Saturday.


High-flying St Helens saw their keeper Michael Allison gift Clitheroe two goals


with two incredible mistakes. Clitheroe produced a much-improved


performance as the players looked to


impress their new manager. The Blues attacked first and managed


to force a few comers but couldn’t convert any of the chances they created.


deflected for a comer. The St Helens defence looked very sus­


Chris Quirk was unlucky to see his shot


pect and Clitheroe came forward well with Paul Lynch in the thick of things.


On 30 minutes Clitheroe took the lead


bringing down a home forward in his own penalty area.


M . line.


''"Dave Bennett could have sealed the | game for he Blues when, soon after the penalty, he fired over the bar from five yards when it would have been easier to


sec his free-kick shave the upright and go W


more likely to add to their score and deserved their 2-1 victory.


Clitheroe, and one which should have filled the new boss with confidence as he pre­ pared to take over the running of the side.


It was a good performance from


b i t in g finale w i th two teams gunning for Premier


T point-


Division title glory. Just four points separate


leaders Kings Arms A from second-placed Read Consti- ■


tutional with just two games left to play.


Whalley Arms A look to •


have wrapped up the Second Division with a 25-point gap separating them from the nearest challengers. The Second Division is


even closer than the Premier with Legion C and Pendle Witch separated by just one


Division by six points, but just three points separate the chasing pack with two games


Ultraframe lead the Third


left to play. • The league committee


meeting is on Tuesday, at the Legion, starting at 8 p.m. Ail committee and the cap­


tain from the Dog and Par­ tridge A team must attend. • The Winter League gen­


eral meeting and team regis­ tration night, originally scheduled for Tuesday, has


been rearranged. The meeting will now take


p.m. and team registration dosesat9p.m.


Team registration fee of £30 per team must be paid on


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the night. I t is hoped to run a ladies'winter league on Tues­ day evenings., v


place on Wednesday, October 21st, at the Legion m


Clitheroe. The meeting starts at 7-45


. , Ribble Valley Pool Scene


per team and matches will be played over nine frames. The registration fee will be


Three ladies will be allowed


£20 per team and the league will start in November. New teams should contact league secretary Chris Stew­


art on 01200 442243. RESULTS


Premier Division Buck A 13, Pendlc B 1: Do


Lacy A 0, Castle A 14; Legion A 12, Dog and Partridge B 2; Kings A 10, Higher Buck 4; Read Con- stitutional 14, De Lacy B0.


First Division lV Stork A 5, Kings B 2; Man-


grove A 5, Legion B 2; Black Bull A 3, Whalley A 4; Horseshoe A 5, Waggon and Horses 2; Pendle A 5,


White Hart 2; Bay Horse 4, Buck


Wrinkleys3. Second Division


Castle B 0, Pendle Witch 7;


Craven Heifer 4, Horseshoe B 3; Royal Oak B 2, Legion C 5; Hurst Green 4, White Lion 3; New Inn 6, Three Millstones 1. Third Division


Whallcy B 0, Starkie’s Fun Bar


4: Legion D 4, White Horse B 3; Buck C 2, Ultvaframe 5: White Horse A 2, Mangrove B 5; Black Horse 2, Dog 5. ■ Ladies’ League


De Lacy A 4, Legion 5: Black


Horse 4, Kings B 5; Fondle Witches 4, De Lacy B 6; Kings A


4, Brown Cow 5. FIXTURES Tonight


Premier League Pcndle B v Dog and Partridge . 1 al v Buck A.


N ailbiting fin a le in store for sum m er pool lea gu e „ w □


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HE Clitheroe Sum­ mer Pool League is heading for a nail-


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....min .nm 'TUP'Mirlmel Humphreys Tro-­ phy wcnl to cue ace Craig Divine


THE cha r after some stunning pool saw hint


defeat Carl Hackelt in the final. Divine plays for Ultrafruine and is also


Ihc number one player in the Clitheroc A team in the Lancashire Super League. Hackctt, of Pcndlc Witch, hud no


answer to Divine’s superior skills and the Ultraframc man won the first three frames to take the title nl Clilheroe s Sturkic’s Fun Bar. He now goes forward to represent the


Clilheroe Pool League in the Champion of Champions competition, hoping to clinch a place in the finals of that compe­ tition in Great Yarmouth next year. ^ ^ Divine had earlier beaten Legion s


1 ’ Our picture shows finalists eying the trophy with officials looking on. They are (left to right) Craig Whittaker, Craig Divine, Chris Stewart (league secretary),


Craig Whittaker 3-2 in the semi-final while Hacked defeated Ultrnframe s Phil Walton 3-1 to book his place in the final.


Phil Walton and Peter Stirzakcr. (230998/02/19)


A; De Lacy B v De Lacy A; Royal Oak A v Legion A; Dog and Par­ tridge B v Kings A: Castle A v Higher Buck; Read Constitution­


First Division Kings B v Mangrove A: Buck


■ Wrinkleys v Black Bull A: Legion : B v Horseshoe A; Waggon and Horses v Pcndle A; Whallcy Ay White Hart: Bay Horse v. Stork


Second Division


' Pcndlc Witch v Craven Heifer; Three Millstones v Brown Cow;


i Horseshoe B v Royal Oak B; Legion C v Hurst Green; Stork B


; V White Lion; New Inn v Castle ''■ ■


■ Third Division Black Bull B v . Buck C;


; Starklo’s Fun Bar v Legion D; ■ White Horse B v White Horse A;


Mangrove B v Black Horse; Ultrafrainc v Dog Inn; Whalley B


-bye. Ladies’ League De Lacy Arms A v De Lacy


Arms B; Kings Arms A v Kings Arms B; Royal British Legion v Brown Cow; Black Horse v Fon­ dle Witches.


Premier Division P W D


TABLES.


: Legion A.......... 20 12 6 Do Lacy B ...... 20 9 2


; Duck A.............20 13, 3! Dog & l’A....... 1913 4


Kings A.......... 20 10 2 Read Con......... 20 10 1


1 Higher Buck .... 20


Royal Oak A.... 19 Castle A.......... 20


’ Dog & P B...... 20 Pen die B.......... 20 x De Lacy A...... 20 '


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.4 175,' 2 173 ;


L Pts 2 207 3 203 .


• 8 130 13 119


2 173 9 130


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•13 113 14 105 15 92


Whallcy A.......... White Hart......... Waggon/Horses..


Stork A............... Horseshoe A.......


Kings B............... Mangrove A.......


Black Bull A......


Bay Horse.......... BuckWnnkleys...


PendleA ............. Legion B.,


Second Division P W


Legion C............ 20 15 Pcndlc Witch..... 20 16 White Lion......... 20 12 Craven Heifer..... 19 10 Hurst Green....... 20 11 Stork B......;....... 20 11 New Inn............. 19 9 Horseshoe B....... 20 9 Three Millstones. -20 8 Royal Oak B....... 20 5 CastieB............. 20 5


Ultraframc......... Doglnn............. Starkie’s Fun Bar


Black Bull B..... . Black Home.......


18 18 18


18 19


The same player was unlucky later to I 1 In the end- Clitheroe looked the side J .


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10 92 9 91


L Pts 0 137 6 112. 7 111 8 93


■14 72 15 66


14 66 15 64


L Pts. 5122 4 121


11 87 11 86


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Brown Cow........ 20 o Third Division P W


15 11 15


.Legion D.... .......... 18 H BuckC...... .


Mangrove B....... White Horse B .... White Horse A ....


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Whallcy B............. -19 2 Ladies' League


Brown Cow.... . H


6 4


10 90 11 88 12 80 15 51 15 62 15 61


L Pts 3 115 4 109 3 107 4 106 7


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C 13 73 8


.14 66 16 32


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Legion............. 10 5 ^ 11 Do Lacy B.......... 10 8 - 60


Kings A..;........ JJ . 6 4 60 Pcndle Witches... 10 I 6 56 De Lacy A..........P 10 2 8 38 Black Horse....... 10 2 8 26 Kings B........... 10 1 9 24


W E E K E N D T E A M S Saturday


Chnlbum (v Mill Hill St Petcra,


away, meet Bridge .12-50 p.m,). Craig, Hoarian, Bibby, Boyd;


■ Brctherton, King. Bradshaw, Chirk- son, Braithwaltc, A, Booth, ,Cliffc,i Fronklaml, Bamos, Young, Butcher.:


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when his shot skimmed the post, but Crane struck again to seal the result after 83 min­


ConhoIl/,M,d 1P c t e r 'S f r c c { T 8 8 p o ® ^ ^ ^ S r e ^ p l i c § a f ^ |^


conbultatidn of icards with Jim Furpcll,’Gary^Speak and Ron Saville. Derek Driver, Bryn Ifari andJJob Swm^rlck compiled 87 points and finished'third on


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Great • start - poor finish!


North Manchester ..30 Clilheroe


CLITHEROE racked up ...............■?.


a 3-0 lead lead from the trusty boot of .Malcolm Heanan with only five minutes on the clock when they visited North Man­


chester. Things looked good.


from there. t,


But it was all downhill ••!.


The home side ran m four


tries and bagged 30 unan­ swered points to claim the


two league points on offer. Forward play in general


was below par. The line-out did produce


its usual amount of posses^ sion, but scrummaging fell well below the s tandard Clitheroe have set them­


selves. In loose play, rucking and '


mauling was timid and easi­ ly brushed aside by a more committed home team. The back showed few


Owen and Andrew Child;'-YsV 1 Nick Green, of 3M:Neotechnlc; and Max RdmondsonimC


- i The' M in e r§ LampTdqnatcd byfgiratrcaptain:and-pr^dent John Xuilc, producedi some excellent liqtt‘Fpw-|isni«Ep«.Qa^,


ers would like to thank thb.spoufore fq rt he ir ‘-if.",


but we will get there.” • Clitheroe play host to Vaux-


hall GM at Shawbridge on Sat­ urday, and then travel to take on Ilolker Old Boys in the First Round of the Floodlit Trophy on Tuesday night. A coach will leave Shawbridge at 4-45 p.m. for Tuesday night’s game, which kicks-off at 7-45 p.m. The reserves are away to


.....■ • % Disappointing start for new manager with a bizarre goal. . with a bizarre goal.


a high centre and Jon Riley was on hand to tap the ball into an empty net with no


Keeper Allison made a hash of collecting • , ■


defenders in sight. ■ ■ Eight minutes later Allison made exact­


ly the same error — this time Dave Wor­ thington was on hand to fire the ball home.


looked like coasting to victory. But St Helens came back strongly and


Clithcroe were 2-0 up at the break and


the Clitheroe defence had to be firm. But St Helens finally made the break­


er Xav Bowers conceded a penalty after ■ i


through they were looking for when defend­ f_...M#1 «n hip mim


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glimpses of the attacking • play they can produce, and gave the ball away too quick­


ly when under pressure. Matters were not improved


at half-time when centre Ian Ibbotson had to leave the field with a wrist injury. With a half-time score of


15-3 Clitheroe did show some fighting spirit for the first 30 minutes of the sec­


ond half. Roger Holmes came close


to scoring following a break by hooker Mike Chambers and Chris Stott had a cou­ ple of half chances. All came


to nothing, and North Man­ chester rounded off the game


Squires Gate on Saturday and tliat game has a 3 pan. kick-off.


T v i thT v ? en a tc ir i« a ^ _ ^ . Clitheroe play RochAaiq^


on Saturday and will have to improvean.all_depar.L-_.


ments if they are to return to Littlemoor with the cor­


rect result. Clithcroc (v Rochdale, away, .............v


-ThdriiborrM. Wilyman, J. Proc­ tor, N. Green, M. Wigley, A. Nut- tall, R. Holmes, D. Barnes. > Clitheroe 2nds (v Garstang,


meet 1-15 p.m.) M. Heanan, M. ; Briggs, D. Slinger, D. Watson,-A.. Burrill. D. O’DuIfy. S- Graham, A.


home, meet 2 p.m.) M. Allen, C. Bosonett, D. Davenport, D. Field­ ing, S. Greatorex, S. GrettonJS. Hall. T. Ilitchen, N. Hutchinson, P. Ishcrwood, J. Knowles, G. Meadows, B. Platt, P. Procter, M. Rowley, B. Slater, B. Stansfield, D. Tattersall, P. Whiteside, G. Williamson.


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