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A DECISION on the new Clitheroe FC manager is to be made early next week. Six solid applications have been
received for the position, and interviews have commenced, with the final selection set to be made on Monday night at a committee meeting. Names in the hat for certain
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are former Ramsbottom boss Derek Egan, ex-Rossendale man ager Ashley Hoskin and Great Harwood chief John Hughes, while there has also been inter^t from a former assistant manager of Morecambe, who presently works with the Manchester Foot ball Association and is involved with youth football at Oldham Athletic, an ex-BIackbum Rovers player .who now lives in Halifax, plus a mystery skth man. Egan underwent a two hour
interview last Sunday and further interviews are being carried out this week. Clitheroe chairman John
Robinson and the committee are not rushing into a decision, but they are pleased with the response that they have received, with candidates who have good experience at a higher level, and have links with Football League sides. Several names that get outgo
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ing boss Paul Byron’s backing for the position are Egan, former Woodley manager Tony Hancock and one time Burscough boss John Davison, but he personally would like to see former Blue Stu art Todhunter given a chance: “Derek is a good coach and brought a lot of good young play ers in to Ramsbottom and would be a good shout but I would like to see Stuart Todhunter have a go
as he has played at a higher level ■ andhasalottoofferi’ - However, as yet Robinson has
n’t heard from Todhunter, but Byron is keen to stress that North West Counties experience won’t be enough: “Whoever is chosen has to have some experi ence of this level, as it is a big step up from North West Counties football.” Bidding farewell to the club,
added: “The lads have been spot on, we’ve had a good laugh together, we could have won a tew more games perhaps but that was what I was aiming to put right' this season. “That’s not to be now, I ’ve
.enjoyed working with the lads, John (Robinson) and Mark (Gid- low) and wish them all the best, its a good club that has its heart firmly in the right place, it is just a bit upsetting that I won’t be . leading the side next season.” Meanwhile
the.club has been
dealt a blow foIlo\ving the new FA regulations over match officials used in non-league pre-season fix tures against Premier League and Football League clubs. Clitheroe had planned home;
games against Manchester Unit ed Under 19s, with the possible inclusion of Ryan Giggs, and Blackpool Reserves, but the new laws brought in recently have cur tailed those plans. As from this pre-season, any
game against Premier League or Football League opposition has to have a referee and a linesman with experience from said league - at a cost of at least £500 to the host club. Obviously this fee far outways
any profit the Blues would hope to make from the fixture, and is now why Clitheroe have turned to fellow Castle Cement-spon-' sored side Buckley Town to fill
He said: “What I would call
the nucleus of the side will be returning next season. “I’m just sorry to see the likes
of Adam Gardner going. “He is a good lad who has done
a lot for Clitheroe, but saying that, Ramsbottom are in a lower league and there is nothing to stop players signing on at both sides and then changing their mind at the last minute as to who they \vill play for.” Meanwhile, vice-chairman
Mark Gidlow continues to make headway in establishing Clitheroe FC as a community club, as from next season the Blues will also have a women’s open age football team.
. . Just like the Wolves boys’ INTERVIEWED: Derek Egan
one of the vacant fixtures left by the controversial rule. That game will be played away
at the Welsh club on Saturday, July 23rd. More importantly though,
with the recent-appointment of Lee Sculpher ait Ramsbottom United, several Blues players look to have moved on to pastures new at the North West Counties First Division side.' According to sources at the
club, Lee Cryer, Kris Richens, Adam Gardner and Chris Whit- tingham have all agreed to link up with their former manager at the Riverside. But Blues chairman John
Robinson is assured that Neil Reynolds, Gary Jackson, Paul Stansfield, Ryan Parr, Chris Nestor and the core of the Clitheroe side vrill all be returning to Shawbridge for the new season.
teams have been taken under the wing of the town team. Wolves Ladies will also use Shawbridge asabase. The Ladies’ side will still play, the bulk of their games at Roe-
. field, but will now play important high profile fixtures against the likes of Manchester United Ladies at Shawbridge, as and when the pitch is not being used by the first team or the reserves. The Blues’ Reserve side man-
ager'-.ent team is also now in place, and training starts on Tuesday, continuing next Thurs- , day. By then a new first team man
ager should have been appointed, and according to Gidlow he should be in attendance at the sessions. Any new players who are inter-■
ested in joining the reserves, or maybe even fancy their chances in the UniBond with the first team, should roll up to Roefield for 7 p.m. on either day.
A SECOND century in as many games from captain Neil Bolton helped .Clitheroe to an impressive 124-run victory at Eden- field.
. . The run of tons shows
no sign of abating at Chat- burn Road, and Bolton’s 112, combined ivith profes sional, and fellow opener Shahid Nawaz’s 76, saw the side move up to fourth in the Veka Ribblesdale League, just two points off second and 12 off top spot. Having lost the toss and ’
been put in to bat first, Bolton and Nawaz com manded the wicket for the majority of the innings, and would have racked up more runs but for a contro versial decision by the umpire. Nawaz had holed out to
the boundary rope and was caught by Greg Smithson, who, teetering on the edge of the perime ter, took the catch and stepped over the white wash with the ball, but instead of scoring a she, the umpire gave Nawaz out. However, the decision
had no bearing oh the result. Naeem Ashraf hit 14
before being caught by Dominic Bulcock off Edenfield professional Babar Naeem, before Simon Coulter was bowled for a duck. Mark Bolton scored 12
before being stumped by Mark Burns for another of Naeem’s four wickets, Chris Musson went the same way to Brett Storey for one, and Danny Turn- er'followed for a duck, again at the hands of Storey. Neil Bolton was also
stumped by Burns off Naeem, having taken the team to a more than defendable total as Kal Umerji (6 not out) and Matt Coulter (5 not out) saw out the remaining
.WHILE there may have been a few problems with the team over the season, Clitheroe FC have some cause to celebrate with the success of their matchday programme in two national surveys. The Wirral Programme
Club has been holding an annual survey for 30 years, and despite moving up to a higher league,
Clitheroe’s programme was placed third in the UniBond League and 50th nationally out of 1,217 - ahead of a number of Conference League match programmes. Unfortunately, it is the final Wirral Programme
• Club survey. With most clubs submitting at least six programmes and the rise in quality of pro--
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grammes, the task has now become just too big tor them to cope with. The 12th annual Soccer
Club Swap Shop national survey didn’t have an overall “Best in League” section, but Clitheroe’s programme was awarded the best in the UniBohd League Division One and placed third nationally. Programme editor Tim
Lees writes and prints the programme at home before taking it to the club, where a team of vol unteers assemble the sheets. The programme usually,
contains between 70 and 80 pages and is a far cry from the single folded- sheet that Clitheroe pro duced in the early 1980’s. With the programme
containing not only news and statistics on Clitherbe FC, but all football from the Conference down to local matches in the West Lancashire and Lan cashire Amateur Leagues, as well as cartoons, jokes and puzzles, it really has become a matchday mag azine.
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overs to see Clitheroe end on 243-7. In reply, Edenfield
struggled to get a grip, and when Mark Hargreaves took the all-important wicket of Naeem for just five, hope of an Edenfield come back was severed. The Clitheroe bowler
took a good catch off his own delivery to remove the paid man, and followed that up with a second wicket of Mark Burns (2) via a Musson catch. However, it was Ashraf
who took the bowling accolades for the day with 6-60, while Nawaz took 2- 21.
Ashraf’s first victim was
Greg Smithson, caught by Danny Turner for 19, fol lowed by Adam Barnes, courtesy of a catch from Nawaz for 16, while John i Kelly (23) was caught" behind by Simon Coulter. - Edenfield were all out for 119 in the 38th over as | Ashraf took three more and Nawaz cleaned up ^ with the final wicket of Liam Bones (11). This Saturday, Clitheroe
are away at Read, wickets pitched at 2 p.m., then on Tuesday Clitheroe play host to Ribblesdale Wan derers in their re-scheduled Twenty/20 game, start time 6 p.m., entry £1. Meanwhile, Read
enjoyed their first ever taste of Twenty/20 cricket at Whalley on Tuesday night. The Whalley Road side
scored 127-9, before Whal ley were bowled'all out for
no. Terry Little scored 53
not out in a well-placed innings of 38, balls scoring six fours and two sixes, : while Whalley paid man Phil Thornton scored 46 ; with four massive sixes ; and three boundaries. Read’s next game in the ^ competition is at home to Padiham bn Tuesday.
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