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TONY CUNNINGHAM AND THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF NON-LEAGUE FOOTBALL

President: J SmithChairman: H WilliamsSecretary: A Cunningham07973 416580Matchday Secretary:A Edmundson07875 566261Treasurers: H Williams, C WoolfallCommittee: C Woolfall, A Edmundson, G Lay, DWolfenden, K ToppingLife Members: FA Rothwell, L Read, A Whalley, F Rothwell,J Wolfenden, P McSherry, A McleodHospitality Manager: I McCoolCatering Manager: S FletcherTeam Managers: A Johnson, B MorleyFirst XI Coaches: J Hunter, G Moses, D GreenRecent Honours: NWCFL Champions 2011/12Premier Runners Up 2010/112nd Div Champions 96/972nd Div Trophy 95/96Bolton Hospital Cup Winners2005/06. 2006/07, 2007/08The Harry Williams Riverside, Acre Bottom, Ramsbottom, LancashireTel: 01706 822799www.rammyunited.co.uk

Welcome to the Harry Williams Riverside Stadium this afternoon for whatpromises to be an absolute cracker! We welcome our match officials to Rams-bottom, and our opponents who have ventured over the hill to be with ustoday.

As this game was scheduled to take place at the end of last year, but wasyet another victim of the wettest winter on record, it is the first time that theRams have played Farsley this season. So a warm Lancashire welcome to ourYorkshire visitors.The chase for the play-offs is turning into a fascinating contest. Farsley are

now just one point above ourselves, and the two games between the twoclubs could well prove to be decisive. We return to the Throstles Nest in threeweeks time, and already the Rams supporters have hired a coach to take a fairfollowing over there. Along with those who will travel by car, we can expectgood support for what is a much-anticipated fixture. Before then, of course,we have the little matter of a ninety minute contest here today! We go intothe game with a positive frame of mind. Our thumping of Harrogate RA in thelast game down here was emphatic, to say the least.Last Saturday’s contest at Church Lane was a nail-biter. Once again the sup-

port for the Rams was magnificent. Not only are we attracting large numbersof supporters to away games these days, but the atmosphere created is betterthan ever before. Flags and singing – wonderful! Credit to the lads for theirperformance at New Mills. In the early stages it looked like we were carryingon from the Harrogate performance.Then things began to go wrong. After all, it was New Mills we were playing,

so I suppose we would never have expected anything else. The injury to GrantShenton was a massive blow, especially considering that from that incidentthe Millers notched an undeserved equaliser.

But we continued to take the game to the opposition, and had GrantSpencer’s penalty gone in, the 4-1 lead would have effectively ended thegame.As it was, the game turned on it’s head, and Dominic’s debatable red card

with quarter of an hour to go really did test the will of our defence, and theability of our stand-in keeper, Bernard, who was superb.It’s great to get the monkey off the back when it comes to New Mills. They

have been a good side over the years, but I believe their financialbacker has pulled out this season, and their results prove howquestionable it is to rely upon one person to prop up a club.Every club has it’s level within the game, and sometimes over-ambition can prove to be fatal. Ask today’s visitors. FarsleyCeltic went on a fine run which catapulted them up to the Con-ference National. Whilst understandably taking the opportu-nity to compete at a level which had previously been wellabove them, the repercussions were such that the old clubfolded. Ambition is fine, but it needs to be realistic.The newly-formed club have done well since their reformation,

but the current officials will no doubt be aware of the past andkeep current ambitions within a realistic scale. They, like ourselves,though, will be desperate to secure one of those four play-off

spots. I hope they manage it, as long as they fin-ish one place below us!Enjoy your non-league football!

Saturday 22nd MarchBamber Bridge v New MillsClitheroe v Cammell LairdCurzon Ashton v Ossett A.Mossley v HarrogateOssett Town v KendalPadiham v BurscoughPrescot v DarlingtonRadcliffe v LancasterRammy v FarsleyWarrington v Northwich

Monday 25th MarchNew Mills v LancasterTuesday 26th MarchCammell Laird v RadcliffeRammy v PrescotWarrington v Ossett TownWednesday 27th MarchDarlington v Wakefield(Cheshire Senior Cup):Northwich v Macclesfield

Over the next couple of matches the supporters club will be checkingout the feasibility of filming Rammy’s matches. If it works out then wewill be making full match videos and edited highlights available to oursupporters club members. We’ll keep you posted with updates...

Good afternoon and welcome to the HarryWilliams Riverside Stadium for this afternoon’sclash. We’d like to extend a warm welcome toall the players, management and supporters ofFarsley, and hope they enjoy their trip over thePennines.We have been looking forward to today’s gameall week after saturday’s win against a New Millsside who’ve always seemed to get the better ofus results-wise over the years. I’m pleased to saythat we finally ended the unwanted run of neverwinning against them, and what a way toachieve that; a game that simply had it all. Wegot a first half hatrick from Gassy, a bad injuryto Shents (that’s a massive blow to us all as he’sin my opinion the best keeper in the league),Bern stepping up and putting himself in the fir-ing line in goal and I must say doing a great job,so hats off to him. It reaffirms just what ourRammy spirit is all about. then we got a missedpenalty which could have put the game out ofsight at 1-4, then we conceeded a penalty andwent in at the break 2-3. Next, a man sent off,and to withstand the last 10-15 minutes like wedid surely all contributes to a massive threepoints. When you look back at the record booksit will simply say a 3-2 win and three points. Inour eyes all of the above makes it much morethan just three points, and to leave the field tothe noise that our ever increasing followingmade was an unbelievable feeling. Thank you toeach and every one of you who travelled over tosupport us. I said in my last notes that therewould be a few more ups and downs but I didn’texpect so many in one 90 mins!Onto today, and we all know how important

all of our remaining games are. Hopefully thecouple of additions we’re hoping to sign beforethe game will have been completed and you willget to see them in a Rammy shirt this afternoon. All that’s left to say is please get behind the

lads again today and hopefully we can the rightresult. Enjoy the game...Coyrgle

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5 - 0Harry Williams Riverside Stadium11th March 2014Att: 136Rammy Goals: Warrender(9), Dean(35), Gaskell(62),

Hulme(73), Priestley(82)

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5 - 0Harry Williams Riverside Stadium11th March 2014Att: 136Rammy Goals: Warrender(9), Dean(35), Gaskell(62),

Hulme(73), Priestley(82)

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Ramsbottom United returned towinning ways in emphatic style asthey completely dominated theiropponents with a five star display.The side from north Yorkshiremust be sick of the sight of theRams. Having played the Lan-cashire side four times since thelatter gained promotion, they havebeen on the receiving end of fourdefeats, having leaked 15 goalsand scoring none in the process.Tuesday night was as emphatic avictory as was possible, with fivedifferent goal-scorers helpingpush the team back into con-tention for a play-off place. De-spite their dominance, the Ramscould quite easily have fallen be-hind early on, when the firstchance of the game fell to Harro-gate.Alex Metcalf was played throughthe middle, but with only GrantShenton, in goal, to beat, he firedwell wide of the target. Within aminute, however, the tone of thenight had been set.The home side immediatelypushed forward, and Lee Gaskellbeat the offside trap to fire in a su-perb shot which was brilliantlypushed round by RA keeper PeterCrook. Crook however, turnedfrom hero to villain as the cornercame in. Danny Warrender wasfirst to the ball, but Crook ap-peared to have his header withinhis grasp, but inexplicably fumbledit as it went over the line, to givethe Rams a morale-boosting ninthminute lead.Crook, however, was in the rightplace to keep out a Billy Priestleyheader from a Gary Stopforth free-kick, and a direct free-kick fromGaskell. Gaskell then headed widefrom another free-kick as thehome side began to dominateproceedings.Jordan Hulme’s persistence paidoff as he wriggled past his de-fender on the by-line, but ChrisDenham, returning after injury,was unable to hit the target.It was no surprise when theRams doubled their lead on 35minutes. A fine run from Stopforth

saw the industrious midfielderfeed the on-rushing Phil Dean, andthe latter fired home from just in-side the box. Hulme hit the sidenetting, before a rare chance atthe other end proved to be thefinal action of the first half. NathanCartman wriggled through only tosee Shenton palm the ball away,and the follow-up also hit the sidenetting.Dean was thwarted by Crook asthe second half began, before hiscross found Hulme, but he wasinches wide from 15 yards.In a desperate attempt to getback into the game, Metcalf’s 25yard effort sailed inches wide ofthe post, but Harrogate attackswere rare as the Rams totally con-trolled the game.They were rewarded in the 62minute when a neat flick on fromStopforth put Gaskell through ongoal and he found his spot from15 yards to end the game as acontest. A fine move involvingDean Gaskell and Dominic Smalleyended with a shot that sailedinches over the bar, before a finethrough ball from Priestley sentHulme scampering through. Fortu-nately for the visitors Crook wasable to snuff out the danger, buthe wasn’t so fortunate just sixtyseconds later when an identicalopportunity arrived. This timeHulme made no mistake as hefired the ball home for the Ramsfourth on 73 minutes. Hulme fired another chanceover before Priestley finished thescoring on 82 minutes. A fine crossfrom the left from Darren Green,who had an excellent game inmidfield, landed perfectly forPriestley who volleyed home firsttime from 12 yards out.Hulme had a shot cleared off theline as the minutes ticked down,but the final whistle sounded on aperfect night for the home side.Another three points, and an-other convincing victory as theRams continue to battle for thatfinal play-off spot, a battle that islooking more intriguing as theweeks pass.

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goal number ninety-nine for Lee Gaskell

2 - 3Church Lane15th March 2014Att: 175Rammy Goals: Gaskell (4,25,30)New Mills Goals: Shaw (17), Hampson pen (44)

Ramsbottom United finally beat New Mills at thetenth attempt, but in keeping with tradition, theyhad to do it the hard way. The Millers had won allbut two of the previous nine meetings betweenthe two clubs, with just two draws being the re-ward for the Rams attempts over the years. How-ever, after seemingly strolling through the earlystages of this one, a bad injury and a sending offensured that their fight to finally grasp three pointsoff their opponents was never going to be easy.

The visitors had the perfect start, when athrough ball down the slope confused the de-fender and Lee Gaskell raced on to plant a firmshot past Peter Collinge in the home goal. Thatearly boost seemed to spur the Rams on as theylaunched attack after attack with Dean, twice, and

Pilkington all going close to extending the lead.But on 14 minutes came the injury which saw

the Rams having to re-shuffle. Grant Shentonmade a fine close range save from the over-lap-ping Dan Hewitt, but in doing so, caught the ballbelow his body, and badly injured his left ankle. Itproved to be a double blow for the Rams, for, afterlengthy treatment to the keeper, from a throw-inthat resulted, the ball was fed back into the middleof the area where the unmarked Dan Shaw firedhome from 15 yards to level the scores. Shentontried to carry on, but it was obvious he was in pain.His defenders did an admirable job of ensuringthat he had nothing to do for the next 15 minutes,whilst the attackers helped the cause by firing inanother two goals.

On 25 minutes Grant Spencer sent over a superb ball toPhil Dean on the left. Dean made his way to the by-linebefore putting over a cross for Gaskell to nod home bythe far post.

Five minutes later, the striker completed a 26-minutehat-trick with the goal of the game. Owen Roberts floateda diagonal 50 yard ball over the Millers defence into thepath of Gaskell, who fired home an unstoppable volleyfrom an acute angle, that flew in off the far post. 3-1 tothe Rams, at which point any attempt to keep Shenton onthe pitch was proving fruitless. On came joint-managerBernard Morley to replace the custodian, and take hisplace between the sticks, as he had done on an odd oc-casion in the past.Then came the tale of two penalties, which in effect, to-

tally transformed the game. On 37 minutes, Darren Greenwas adjudged to have been brought down in the area, andup stepped Spencer to dispatch what would probablyhave been a game-ending penalty. Alas, he struck the ballover the bar and the score remained at 3-1. Just beforehalf-time another penalty was awarded, this time to thehome side. Morley and Billy Priestley made a hash of col-lecting a loose ball in the area, and in so doing, a homeforward went sprawling. James Hampson took the respon-sibility, and unlike Spencer, his effort found the back ofthe net. From a possible 4-1 advantage, the Rams went infor the break with a slim 3-2 lead.Gaskell was having a fine game. He almost added to his

tally with an overhead kick that just cleared the bar, andearly in the second half he twice went close to openingup a bigger gap between the sides. A header from a Deancross was cleared by the post, before he spotted Collingeoff his line, but his delicate lob again just cleared the bar.Spencer fed Green, but his goal-bound shot was deflectedfor a corner, then Roberts tantalising cross fell just pastthe far post. Green should have found the target from 15yards but fired wide before the Rams were reduced to tenmen.

Dominic Smalley barged a Millers forward off the ballon the edge of the area, and the referee deemed him tobe the last man and promptly showed the red card. Thatloss turned the game completely.Playing down the slope, the home side threw everything

at the visitors, with free-kick after free-kick having to bedealt with by the defenders and make-shift keeper. Morleydid all he was asked to do, including a superb close rangestop from Mike Smith who volleyed goalwards from tenyards out. Morley dived to his right to push what lookedlike a certain equaliser for a corner.Having resisted all the late pressure, Gaskell could well

have killed the game off in the final minutes when hechased the ball into the area. He drove his shot straightat Collinge though, but the whistle sounded a couple ofminutes later much to the relief of the large band ofRamsbottom supporters who had made the journey to thePeak District.A hard-earned three points from a game that had every-

thing. A hat-trick, two penalties, a sending-off and a nastyinjury. In the end, despite the late rearguard action, theRams took the points their overall play deserved, and theywere all the sweeter having at last come at the expense ofNew Mills.The race for the play-offs shows no sign of abating.

2 - 3Church Lane15th March 2014Att: 175Rammy Goals: Gaskell (4,25,30)New Mills Goals: Shaw (17), Hampson pen (44)

Rammy United Supporters Clubwould like to invite entries for ourinaugural ‘Design A Flag’ competi-tion.A winning design, as selected byBernard and Johnno, will be manu-factured and presented to its designer at the Warrington Townmatch on 19th April. The second, third and fourth placed entrants will be provided with asmall subsidy should they decide to get their flag made themselves. We will also help withproducing print-standard artwork.So, if you’d like to have a go, then get tinkering in Microsoft Paint, Adobe Illustrator, orwith your crayons/felt-tips and see if you can come up with something that suitably represents the Rammy Family. We’ll be looking for something simple, bold, unique andclever, not the usual stuff, so feel free to get really creative. You can also enter multipledesigns if you’re on a roll.Entries must be received by the end of March and can be emailed to: [email protected] it’s a hand-drawn entry then please call Rob on 07944 038512 and we can organise someway of picking it up.Good luck! DESIGN A FLAG

match on 19th April. The second, third and fourth placed entrants will be provided with asmall subsidy should they decide to get their flag made themselves. We will also help with

So, if you’d like to have a go, then get tinkering in Microsoft Paint, Adobe Illustrator, orwith your crayons/felt-tips and see if you can come up with something that suitably represents the Rammy Family. We’ll be looking for something simple, bold, unique andclever, not the usual stuff, so feel free to get really creative. You can also enter multiple

Entries must be received by the end of March and can be emailed to: [email protected] it’s a hand-drawn entry then please call Rob on 07944 038512 and we can organise some

today’s visitorsfarsley

Tom MorganTom began his career at the Huddersfield Town acad-emy but joined Halifax Town after being released byThe Terriers. Played for Guiseley before joining FarsleyCeltic where he helped the club to reach the Confer-ence Premier. He left mid-way through the 2007-08season and played for Garforth Town before returningto Farsley AFC in September 2010.

Mark Jackson – Centre Back/Assistant ManagerMark signed for Farsley in the summer of 2007 afterleaving Rochdale to take up a player and coachingrole with the club in the Blue Square Premier. Markstarted out at the club as a junior before joining LeedsUtd.He started at Leeds United and represented Englandat U18 and U20 level in the European & World YouthChampionships. He also had stints at HuddersfieldTown (loan), Barnsley (loan), Scunthorpe, Kiddermin-ster and Rochdale. Mark made his first team debutunder Howard Wilkinson and went onto make 19 firstteam appearances under George Graham beforemoving to Scunthorpe Utd where he played for fiveyears. After John Deacey's departure, Mark was ap-pointed the club's assistant manager by new managerNeil Parsley. Mark is also the Head of Football at LeedsCity College and holds the UEFA A Licence coachingbadge.

Ryan Serrant – Left BackLeft-back Ryan Serrant arrived on loan at ThrostleNest on-loan from Leeds United towards the end ofthe 2006-07 season after an earlier spell at Guiseleyto help the club achieve promotion to the ConferencePremier. He was released from Leeds that summerand decided to join Celtic but numerous injuries dis-rupted his chances to get into the first team. Howeverin 2008-09, he became Farsley's first choice left-backunder Neil Parsley and won the won the manager'splayer of the year award for that season. The 25-year-old was also a key member of Celtic's squad last sea-son and when the club folded in the spring, he joinedBradford Park Avenue until the end of the season be-fore re-joining Farsley in the summer of 2010.

Josh Grant – Centre MidfieldJosh Grant makes his return to the club in the summerof 2013 after playing here during the 2010-11 inau-gural season in the NCEL Premier. The centre-back hasmost recently played at Wakefield.

Aiden SavoryAiden Savory signed for Farsley earlier this week. Hehad originally made his name on the West Yorkshirenon-league circuit with Ossett Town and BradfordPark Avenue before moving over to Australia for aspell last year. He returned to the UK last winter andoriginally joined Goole before linking up at Avenueagain but has decided to come to Farsley for this sea-son.

Paddy Miller – Left MidfielderMidfielder Paddy Miller was the first confirmed sign-ing of the summer after joining from NCEL PremierDivision champions Scarborough Athletic. The 23-year-old has also had spells with Harrogate Railway,Yorkshire Amateur and Ossett Town.

Matty James – Attacking MidfieldMatty re-joined Farsley towards the end of last seasonon loan from Bradford Park Avenue and has made theswitch permanent this summer. He originally playedfor Farsley in the 2008-09 season and has also had aspell at Guiseley.

Danny Hull – Attacking MidfielderThe signing of attacking midfielder Danny Hull wasalso announced last week. Danny made his namefrom successful spells at Brighouse Town in the NCELand then Harrogate Railway.

Robbie O’Brien – Central Midfield (Captain)Rob joined the club in February 2013 and made hisdebut in the 3-2 defeat at Curzon Ashton on 16thFebruary. He began his playing days in the youth sec-tions at Leeds United and Doncaster Rovers but wasreleased in the summer of 2004 and subsequentlyjoined Harrogate Town. He then moved onto Wake-field and Gainsborough Trinity before joining OssettTown in 2005 and went onto enjoy a four-season spellat Ingfield before switching to Bradford Park Avenuein 2009. Robbie pledged his future to the club thissummer and was appointed as the new captain byNeil Parsley.

Matty Young – Centre MidfieldYoung returned to Farsley this summer after playinghere for Farsley Celtic in the 2009-10 before the club’sliquidation. He briefly played for Guiseley at the endof that season before moving to Worksop Townwhere he has played for the past three seasons.

Lee EllingtonEllington is another player who returns to the clubafter originally playing for the club during the ill-fated2009-10 campaign and finished top scorer for Farsleythat season. After leaving Farsley at the end of thatcampaign, he moved to Harrogate Town for a seasonbefore linking up with Steve Kittrick at ConferenceNorth pro-motion chasers Guiseley. Despite netting12 goals in the 2011-12 season, he was not retainedat Nethermoor and subsequently moved onto Evo-Stik Premier Division side Matlock Town. Unfortu-nately after just two months at the club, he was toldby management duo Mark Atkins and Nick Buxtonthat he was no longer required but a compensationdeal to end his contract could not be struck so he wasforced to watch the rest of the season from the side-lines.

Farsley AFC were formed in June 2010 from the embers ofFarsley Celtic F.C which entered Administration in June 2009whilst in the Blue Square North and which failed to fulfil its fix-tures eventually being expelled from that league early in 2010.The old Farsley club (the name Celtic being added later) initiallycompeted in the Leeds Amateur leagues and played its firstgame at the current site in 1948. Throughout the 1950’s and 60’sCeltic established themselves in the Yorkshire Leagues, beingcrowned champions in 1959-60 and 1968-69, although failing tobe promoted as a result of ground regulations. A First Round FACup tie against Tranmere Rovers at Leeds United’s Elland Roadground in 1974 proved to be the highlight of the decade, andthe 11,000 crowd that saw the Celts lose 2-0 to a Steve Coppellinspired Rovers is still the largest crowd in the club’s history.As the Yorkshire and Midland leagues merged in 1982, Farsley

began in Division One North. By the mid 80’s the club was invitedinto the Northern Premier League.After a few largely uninspiring seasons, the new decade broughtunparalleled success. In 2004-05 under the inspired manage-ment of Lee Sinnott, the team won the Unibond League PremierDivision only to have points deducted as the result of Spenny-moor Town going out of business and its results being ex-punged. The reduction in points resulted in the Celts securingonly a play-off place, losing controversially on penalties againstWorkington in the final.Promotion was secured the following season after a playoff

final victory against North Ferriby and in the following season,the club’s first in the Conference North, they reached the firstround of the FA Cup losing in a replay to MK Dons as well as se-curing promotion to the Conference National following a mem-orable evening at the Pirelli Stadium in Burton Upon Trent, whenSimeon Bambrook’s last minute penalty saw the Celts beat Hink-ley United 4-3.

A single season of Conference National football resulted inrelegation to the Conference North. On-going financial difficul-ties saw the Administrators appointed in June 2009 with theclub’s results expunged in March 2010 when the Administratorprohibited the club from fulfilling its fixtures.The re-formed club were placed in the NCEL Premier Division

for their first season which turned out to be highly successfulwith a league and cup double recorded. Many of the formerplayers remained loyal to the club and top spot was held formuch of the season, with the title confirmed on the penultimateweekend of the season. The club also reached two cup finals, theNCEL Presidents Cup, in which Tadcaster won but the seasonended on a positive note with the League Cup being lifted de-spite Farsley having to play the majority of the final with 10 men.The 2011/12 season was almost as successful, with a top five

spot being secured ensuring qualification for the play-offs. Un-fortunately, the semi-final opponents were Witton Albion whowon 3-0 and deservedly booked a place in the final, going ontowin promotion after defeating Curzon Ashton in the final.Last year’s league season didn’t quite go to plan with a disas-

trous run in the closing months, saw Neil Parsley’s side go with-out a win in the final eight games. Inconsistent form before thispoint had all but put an end to the club’s play-off chase and a14th place finish was all that could be mustered. On a positivenote, Farsley reached the quarter-finals of the Doodson SportsCup. After beating Ossett Albion and Clitheroe, Farsley beat Pre-mier Division opposition Whitby Town and Worksop Town be-fore bowing out to Matlock Town in the final eight.

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RAMMY IN EXILE - RICHARD ISAACSGood afternoon one and all - hope all are well and the nerves have

eased somewhat after the events of last Saturday.As a Rammy supporter who wasn't at the game, watching it via the

Twitter feed was just as nervewracking as it was had I been at the game.The delight of seeing us 1-0 and 3-1 up in the first half-hour was over-taken by concern for Shents and then concern for the three points aswe missed a penalty and then conceded one before half-time.And while being told that New Mills were not that great a side, they

probably didn't need to be given that Bernard was in goal and anythingcould happen!! I remember the time before at Congleton in the finalgame of the NWCFL season that we came second when 'The Cat' wasin net with Shents struggling to get to the game in time and, well, itwas a joy to behold but probably not described as Bern's favourite po-sition as a shot came in and he just watched it crash into the back ofthe goal!!!

I haven't been that nervous watching the Twitter feed since 'that'Skelmersdale game last May. I was watching a rugby game, once again,but barely really paying much attention to the clash of Hampshire clubsTottonians and Winchester, just continually checking the feed to seewhat was happening. With Southampton clinging onto a 3-2 lead athome to Norwich, having been comfortably 3-0 up with less than fiveminutes to go, lets just say that my phone was getting plenty of atten-tion and the sheer elation when the final score information appearedwas palpable.Of course, it wasn't just that ... it was NEW MILLS!!!!! Yes, we have fi-

nally beaten bloody New Mills! The bain of our lives for many a year inthe NWCFL, we re-engaged our battles with them in the Evo-Stik whenwe followed them up to a year later but it took 11 games, featuringeight defeats and two draws previously and many a heartache to finallylay to rest that particular bogey.The match on 6th October 2012 at Church Lane, our first against them

in the Evo-Stik and it is one that still sticks in the craw, even 18 monthslater. I was in Florida, in the Aventura Mall to the north of Miami.We absolutely hammered them! Everything that I read on our feed

and on the New Mills feed was saying exactly that - it was only a matterof time before that blasted Millers duck was finally banished forever. Icontinued to walk around the shops, using the mall's wifi to keepacross the news, waiting for that joyeous moment where theRams could finally leave the High Peak with a victory. It didn'thappen - not only did it not happen by a goal in the 88thminute snatched the win for the home side.Never before has the south-eastern peninsula of the United

States of America heard such blasphemous expletives as it didthat afternoon. Bears have never had sorer heads as mine thatday.So my joy was unconfined on Saturday, as you can imagine!!!And now we come to this game with Farsley, a very tough

game against a side that are holding one of the convertedplay-offs places ahead of us. So let's hope we can rekindlethe spirit of Saturday and keep our own hopes firmly alive. C'MON YOU RAMS!!!!!!!

Midfield Joel Pilkington

Joint Manager and midfielder Bernard Morley

rammysquad

Centre-back Dan Warrender

Centre-Back Billy Priestley

Midfield Tom Toth

Left-back Owen Roberts

Goalkeeper Grant Shenton

Joint Manager and striker Anthony Johnson

Midfielder Scott Burton Right-wing Dom Smalley

Midfielder Grant SpencerMidfielder Gary Stopforth

Striker Lee Gaskell

Left-wing Phil Dean

Striker Darren Green

Striker Jordan Hulme

EDITORIAL - SUPPORTERS CLUBWhat a game! Last week’s battle of New Mills had everything, and was one of the

biggest nail-biters we’ve had for a very long time - let’s face it, whenyou’re 3-0 up by half-past three, games tend to lose their sparkle as arule. But not this one!

Our heart-felt best wishes must go to Grant Shenton, whose anklelooked to be in a fairly bad way. The latest news is that it’s a fracturedtibia, so he’ll be out for a good while. Astonishingly he tried to battleon, but as you could see by the way he hobbled off on crutches, it wasway beyond the point where adrenaline will get you through. ... and so, bring on

the Bernard! Flatter-ingly bedecking inpink, The MightyBernard “The Cat”Morley took to thefield, with all ourhopes pinned on him,and he didn’t let usdown! Admittedlythere were a few jitterswhen he rugby tack-led the striker to thefloor for a penalty,much like poorTommy Toth did last week, though perhaps with a bit more vigour.However, as the clock ticked down and New Mills piled on the pressure,he made a couple of fantastic saves, particularly the punch at fullstretch, and when the ball bounced awkwardly just in front of him witha striker bearing down.It’s probably three years since we last saw Bernard in nets, and the

mists of time have thankfully started to erase the memories of that day,but New Mills, and the way that every Rammy player rallied to thecause, will live long in the memory.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~You don’t need me to tell you what a humdinging six-pointer tonight’s

match is. We all know what’s at stake over the next couple of weeks,and our having to play Farsley home and away, as well as Warringtonand Bamber Bridge, means that it’s squeaky-bum time right through tothe end of the season. Yes, these games are six-pointers, but to be hon-est, I’d settle for our run-in any day. Farsley’s last few games reads like

a who’s who at the top of the Northern Premier League, and if theymanage to bag a play-off spot at the end of that lot then they thor-oughly deserve to be there.

So, let battle commence, and let’s hope that the rumourednew signing from Radcliffe Borough makes an appearancetonight as, with the loss of Chris Denham and Grant Shenton toinjury as well as the pending suspension of Dom Smalley, we’redefinitely going to need all hands to the pump!

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Just one last thing... If you’re reading this in print, with Darren

Green on the cover, then be sure to go and take a look at the bangup-to-date version online at www.issuu.com/rufc

Bernard can’t believe it’s a penalty when he’s clearly gone for the ball!

Managers: Anthony JOHNSONBernard MORLEY

Manager: Neil Parsley

Tom MORGANAaron HARDYRyan SERRANTMatthew DEMPSEYPaddy MILLERRob O’BRIENMatty YOUNGAdam PRIESTLEYAiden SAVORYDanny HULLBAMBROOKLee ELLINGTONJosh GRANTTom TAYLORHenry OWEN

Referee: Michael AinsworthAssistants: Ian Walsh, Paul Bell

Next home game: Tuesday 25th March 7:45pm, Rammy v Prescot Cables

Grant SHENTONJoel PILKINGTONOwen ROBERTS

Gary STOPFORTHDanny WARRENDER

Billy PRIESTLEYGrant SPENCERScott BURTONLee GASKELL

Jordan HULMEPhil DEANTom TOTH

Darren GREENAndy DAWSON

Dominic SMALLEY