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-PAGE 71 Thursday, May 4th, 2006 l i with your sports team of Edward Lee, Chris Boden, Phil Simpson and Adrian Capstick ______ By Adrian Capstick Boss confirmed!
MARK Smitheringale has been con firmed as Clitheroe PC’s manager for next season. And he will be assisted by Neil
Reynolds in a player-coach capacity. The committee feel that the Blues
boss has impressed enough over the past few months, in what has been a difficult time for the club, to warrant taMng the helm full time. And acting-chairman Carl Gamer
believes it is the right appointment: “We feel Mark has done enough to have a crack at it with a clean slate. He has done a good job under not ideal circum stances, and has justified his postion. “And we are excited that Neil
Reynolds has taken up our offer to be player-coach, as we look to a busy recruitment period over the summer months and build for next season.” Smitheringale took over the manag
er’s position in February at the height of the club’s finanadal problems, and as the club has steadied itself off the pitch, he has rebuilt the side, brought stability to the team and is now ready for the future. The Blues boss said: “I’m really look
ing forward to working with Neil who is an integral part of the playing staff. I t is a fantastic opportunity for us to take the club forward. A number of things have yet to be discussed over the coming weeks as we look to strengthen the team in all areas.” And Neil Reynolds is very much
looking forward to the challenge: “I’ll be taking the lads for training and will be involved in recruiting players. I’d like to stress that I’m not an assistant man ager, but very much a player-coach. “I’m working towards my UEFA B
coaching badge and this all helps, and I just hope, in terms of player recruit ment, I can attract players to Clitheroe FC. “I feel Mark has done an excellent
job in a short space of time and we are looking to get a nucleus of local players who are proud of playing for the club and want to wear
the.blue shirt. We’re looking for the same kind of spirit that saw us win the North West Counties First Division two seawns ago.” Smitheringale added: “If you look
at the final table there is very little between the sides, but if I look back at the Eastwood Town, Belper Town and Ossett Albion games, they were fixtures we should have picked up points from. “We’ve had to bring in six players
midway through the season and they’ve settled in and played well, and I ’m extremely pleased and proud of how the whole team have pulled together. “Gregg Anderson is only 21 and
then you’ve got Andy Sunley and Chris Coupe who have all made the big step up from Counties football and shown that they can cut it.” Clitheroe ended their UniBond
campaign with a 1-0 win over Bam- ber Bridge on Saturday to finish 16th
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in the league. And Monday witnessed an.enter-
taing 3-1 defeat to Conference cham pions Accrington Stanley with new face Rob Henry featuring for the Blues. Smitheringale said:“Rob was
guesting for us against Accrington Stanley, he’s just been released by Burnley and a player of that quality has lots of options open to him. He is a hopeful for next season, but he has had offers from Accrington, Wrex ham and Darlington th a t he will obviously follow up first. “I was very pleased and flattered
that Stanley brought down their first team players and I thought our lads did us proud. It was a great occasion showing the level of football we need to aspire to if we are to attain their standards. We acquitted ourselves well.” Clitheroe are holding this year’s
end of season presentation evening at Mytton Fold Hotel, which will also be a joint celebration to mark the 10th anniversary of the club’s 1996 FA Vase Final at Wembley. The night is Friday, May 26th and
tickets are priced at £22.50 which includes two live acts, supper, raffle and stand-up bingo. And the club aims to re-group the
whole Vase squad for the night. For further information, or to buy
your ticket, please contact Clitheroe FC commercial manager Bob Kay (07815458532).
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HAT-TRICK: Fred Green of Clitheroe thirds. A250406/11
Fred follows in father’s footsteps
INDIVIDUAL success obviously runs in the family at Clitheroe Cricket Club. I t was only la s t year
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CLITHEROE Royal Grammar School’s Under 13 Girls football team will run out at the Riverside Stadi um tomorrow for the Coca- Cola Northern Schools’ Final (kick-off 11-15 a.m,)., The Ribble Valley youngsters will take on
■ defending Northern cham pions Archbishop Beck Sports College from Ain- tree at the home of UEFA Cup Fiiialists Middles brough. CRGS won their semi
final against Cumbria’s William Howard School 2-
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1 before Easter to reach this stage, and if they suc cessfully see off their Merseyside opponents on Teeside, they will then take on the Midlands Schools’ Cup Champions at Ever- ton’s Goodison Park next Friday in the Northern
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National semi-final. And the winners of this
play the grand Coca-Cola’ English Schools’ Cup National Final a t the Ricoh Stadium, home of Coventry City, on Wednes day, May 24th.
that John Green was one of th re e cricketers to score a century for the club across all thre e teams in the same Bank Holiday weekend, and now, on the first day of the new season, his son Fred has followed in his father’s footsteps with his
■ CLITHEROE Ladies’ Superleague Darts team, sponsored by TU Sports, had a fine 5-3 win over Halliwell at the Swan and Roy^ on Sunday. Liz McDonald was
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own impressive achieve ment. The 16-year-old
claimed a hat-trick for the Chatbum Road club’s thirds in th e ir 244-run victory
over
Oswaldtwistle Immanuel. Fred, who is a lower
sixth student at QEGS in Blackburn and lives in Clitheroe, eventually fin ished his five overs with 5-11 as Immanuel were all out for 80.
player-of-the-match with an average of 40.55. Audrey Southwell,
Daphne Heap, Linda Waring and Tracey Park er were the other winners.
4 The right arm medium
fast bowler clean bowled his opponents for the first two wickets, before claiming his hat-trick with an Ibw decision. The other half to
Clitheroe’s exceptional performance in that game came with the bat, as Peter Dibb’s 185 not out saw th e side post an incredible first innings of 324-3.
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