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Reynolds wary of Blues denied by Borough backlash former manager


By Adrian Capstick ?8s.


NEIL Reynolds is wary of Saturday’s winless opponents Radcliffe Bor­ ough, but insists there won’t be a repeat per­ formance of last week­ end’s defeat against Skelmersdale. The Clitheroe player-


manager feels a valuable lesson has been learned, and there is no room for complacency or slip ups of that magnitude again this season if the club is to be taken seriously. Radcliffe may be bot­


against the Blues, and all signs of the naivety shown in the second half of last week’s 3-2 defeat will be gone. Reynolds said: “I was


tom of the league and yet to win a game, but like Clitheroe they’ve had cup success and have games in hand, so Reynolds knows better than most that an upturn in league fortune isn’t far away for the hun­ gry visitors. Hopefully it won’t be


Neil Reynolds


did. “I treat every game like


a cup final, but to put in such a fantastic first-half performance, and then throw it away by shooting ourselves in the foot with three poorly-defended goals was disappointing.” He added: “Radcliffe’s


a game I’m not relishing, as there is no way they’re going to go all season without winning a game with the recent close results they’ve had. “We won’t be under­


estimating them, espe­ cially after Saturday, I’m just glad we’re at home. “We will not take it


absolutely devastated. We were very naive to think the game was won at half-time. Too many people thought they’d done enough. “If we want to go any­


where this season, we’ve got to mature as a team. “We’ve got to finish


teams off, or at least defend better than we


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lightly, there were some stern words after Satur­ day’s game in readiness for this week. “They drew 0-0 with


Lancaster on Saturday and they’ve not lost by lots of goals, only the odd one has decided it - so by no means are they going to be easy.” There will also be a few


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defender every opportuni­ ty to stake his place, only to be rebuffed. The Blues boss said: “I didn’t want him to go,


familiar faces in the opposing line up, includ­ ing 2003/04 North West Counties First Division Championship-winning team-mate Glyn Barker, who has linked up with Borough until the New Year. Saturday may see John


er-manager Pete Smith stayed away from train­ ing on Tuesday night, as they too have been under the weather. Craig Sargeson (ankle)


Osborne return, before a one-match ban the fol­ lowing week for five book­ ings, if he and his brother Paul have overcome the flu virus that kept them out against Skelmersdale. Russ Clarke and play­


and Gary Jackson (ham­ string) are slowly recover­ ing from their injuries, while James Mann, Jack Overson and Nigel Taylor are a step closer to full fit­ ness, having had run outs for Squires Gate. ' Meanwhile, Reynolds was sad to lose Kieran Fletcher to Chorley last week, but keen to stress that he gave the central


•and he definitely wasn’t released. I rang him up and asked him to start against Woodley Sports, and he neglected to take up the offer, telling me his head wasn’t in the right place. “I thought he was


happy to compete for a place but the next thing I know he’s signed for Chorley. I wish him well, but I was disappointed about the way he went about it.” Finally, looking to Sat­


urday again, Reynolds summed up: “I expressed concern on Saturday but this week is a great opportunity to bounce back. I t ’s still only one defeat in six games, and the target is to get in the top 10 by grasping the opportunity of winning our games in hand. The table doesn’t lie and we’ve got to do better. “I’m looking to bring in


another central defender, and the search for a right winger continues. The 4- 3-1-2 system we’ve been playing doesn’t enable us to change things around, and if we had a Pete Smith five or 10 years younger we would be sorted.”


Clilheroe....................2 Skelmersdale United .3 A DISAPPOINTING sec­ ond half saw Clitheroe throw away a commanding two-goal lead to an industri­ ous Skelmersdale United on Saturday. Tommy Lawson's visitors


bar as early as the ninth minute and a flurry of moves fizzled out with strikes wide of goal as the Blues overran their oppo­ nents' back line. Byrom opened Clitheroe's


ter, Aaron Turner and Steven Akrigg undid the efforts of Joel Byrom and Neil Zarac, to see the Skelmersdale boss take home the bragging rights from his old club. Ryan Fisher struck the


were transformed after the break, having been given the runaround by his old side in the opening 45 minutes. Goals by Kevin Leadbet-


Horridge was again in good form in the Clitheroe goal as he denied Adam Birchall a one-on-one opportunity, launching himself at the feet of the former Clitheroe player, while solid defending by Russ Clarke ensured Skelmersdale's sight of goal was impaired. So when Fildes put the


from an Adam Kozlowski throw in to poke the ball home at the back post after keeper Ryan McMahon had made the initial save. At the opposite end Paul


ball through the visitors' defence and Byrom skilfully hooked the ball away from the out-coming McMahon into the path of Zarac, the Blues striker had an easy tap-in to put the locals in a commanding position. However, Skelmersdale


account on 30 minutes, com­ bining with Paul Fildes and Zarac in a move originating


way in unchallenged from the left wing to fire home Skelmersdale’s first, fol­ lowed by an equaliser eight minutes later, when, again from the left wing, Turner met a cross with a low swift strike past Horridge. Horridge continued to


reversed and the Blues were limited to just one real effort from Byrom five minutes from time, before another left-wing cross in to the back post was pinged back across goal for Akrigg to poke home a decisive third.


pull out the stops and denied Akrigg a close range header from a 50-yard Turner free kick, but he couldn't keep out the central defender's winning strike. Roles had very much


attacked the second half with vigour and Clitheroe's defence folded thrice to let the visitors creep in for vic­ tory. Leadbetter weaved his


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