1st Team News

Due to the poor weather conditions in December and the shortage of matches in the three Blue Square Bet divisions, it has been decided to cancel the ‘player of the month’ and ‘manager of the month’ awards in the Blue Square Bet Premier, North and South. The awards will return as normal for January. Blue Square have decided to assign the costs of the trophies and the presentation of our…

There was no over night frost last night, therefore our home game against Droylsden goes ahead as scheduled with a 3pm KO at Croft Park. Thanks goes to the ground staff a for their work on the pitch over the holiday weekend.

Our match at home tomorrow (3pm Kick Off) against Droylsden has been given the go ahead after a pitch inspection this morning, there may be a further inspection tomorrow morning but only if there is an over night frost, the weather forecast indicates that temperatures should be just above freezing.

Due to the current condition of the Croft Park pitch (No snow but large areas still frozen with standing water unable to drain) There will be a pitch inspection Sunday 2nd Jan, updates will be published via this site.

Our away game at Workington looks very much like going ahead, however this will be confirmed this afternoon.

A pitch inspection has been carried out at Workington today (31st December) and tomorrow’s game has been given the go ahead. The team coach leaves at 10.30am complete with hangovers (players excepted) The club wish all supporters a very happy New Year.

Tomorrow’s (Tuesday) away fixture against Alfreton has been called off after a pitch inspection today, it was still snowing onto the existing frozen pitch during the inspection. This adds yet another problem for General Manager Ian to sort out. The Club wishes all supporters and sponsors a very Happy New Year and look forward to seeing you at some time in the New Year. A further inspection willl be carried…

Due to the prevailing weather conditions there will be 2pm pitch inspections on Monday 27th Dec and Friday 31st Dec on the days prior to our away games against Alfreton and Working respectively. Annoucements will be made via this website and the local media.

Our home game against Workington on Boxing Day was called off today due to the amount of snow on the pitch. The actual playing surface is also frozen underneath the snow. The re arranged date will be published on this site once it has ben agreed.