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' Celebrates his winner on Saturday at V , ' Warrington Town


'BLUES manager Peter Smith-felt =that his young sideUacked:the 'physical presence-'Lo'beatlan - imposing ^Chorley.side.;who' biill- .dozedrtheirrway'to victory on Tuesday mght. »


^2009/10,UniBond League First Divi­ sion North season with an impressive


T-0 victory away a t Warrington on Saturday, thanks to a coolly-taken goal from striker Alan Goar.:'


r- :But.his team failed to get off to a winning start at Shawbridge, where a


. last-gasp wonder- goal from Magpies striker. :;Terry,:Pearns.’Condemned Glitheroe to a 3-2 defeat." ■ Smith said:;“We didn’t deserve to-v. lose on-Tuesday night. They scored a .


iiast-minute winner.) which, was'a reaPA ■sickeher.because you can’t- come back from-that.'Twas impressed:with;thera -way the lads^dapted thenfeelves in the\)> second half, but i felt'a couple of deci-.^ sionswentagainstus.”f ■


' Former Ghorley. man Jason Jones v - by Dan Black


. “The challenge was made outside ; the.boxj'but we can’t do anything


; about that.now. And I; can’t under- . stand how the linesman hasn’t flagged ; for off-side on their second; so we felt- hard done by on th a t one; But deci--


; sions hke that do sometimes go against^ you and you have to pick yourselves up; and get on with it.” i He added: “I was disappointed with


the last-minute goal though;'We did : not pick up on the throw-in, but before, that, at 2-2,1 felt we did well and we looked like the side that was going to ;


'push on and win the game. But some-: times football is like that; it just pops- up and kicks you in the face.” ' • - : .New signings Gavin Lee Ellison and; Kev Brown both missed Tuesday’s-


andrZac Glark'had.twice levelled fora-L the Blues, after what Smith felt was a"?a dubious penalty,decision’anda';goal;^5: that was clewly o f f - s id e . 'V •V'"’!''',;.'',


ij;. ip h e ref: awarded a^'freetkick b u t ^ thenchanged his ihirid,’:^ said SniithTssSi'-


idefeat, and manager Smith felt'their. absence against a physical Ghorley outfit.'He said:.‘.‘They.were a physical .'and strong side and they out-fought us in the first.half. They made i t hard work for us and they kept hitting the; long ball up to the two forwards. : '


5',“We were the better footballing side' and we created plenty of good chances,': but i t did not go our w a y We didn’t ; have the physical strength to match:;-


•- them and they bullied us..:We really, missed Ellison in the middle of-the


; . park, who ;Would'have:won those :. ; 50/50s and picked.'up the pieces, and • -.wemissed Brown’s presence as well.’’ . Feams’ class showed in the game at


; 'Shawbridge,_and i t was his 17 goals last u season that'fired AFG Telford to the Gonference North play-off final; But


-/ Smith couldn’t knock his players’. .. efforts and feels they will learn from each and every game.


"I can’t fault the lads’ performance.'


; Everybody did their joh and worked hard and it was that effort that got us off to a winning start to the campaign;


- ,‘Tt would have been nice to have fol- lowed th a t up with a win at home, hut


: .they’ve got to bounce back''now.;We > will have a proper look after about six ;; or seven games, but we are looking like


;: scoring goals at the moment, and they ; will win us games.--We have a young


: side who will learn from their mistakes."^^ “ We need to keep going and vre’ll get


'. the results we deserve."^It do'esn’t mat- ;ter who we are playing,, we jiist need to carry on and mn games.


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;:.:,,.“We got beat against Chorley play-- H big well,, and that is something we'ean teke away from the ganiie.’; , ' . .'".-..v Glitheroe will face Skelmersdale


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Ribble Valley Taxis RPORT


..United a t Shawbridge on Saturday with a 3 p.m. kickToff, before travelling to Gar-


-fonihTownon Tuesday, kick-off 7-45 p.m. A goal-at the end of normal and extra-


:time saw Staveley.MW snatch a 2-2 draw in their FA Gup;extra-preliminary round replay a g a ^ t Squires Gate before snatch-


; ing a 5-3 penalty shoot-out win. They will be Clitheroe’s next opponents


in the competition on Saturday, August 29th at Shawbridge.


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