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Post by hoopy on Jul 31, 2023 7:34:49 GMT
Ashington had their last pre season friendly on Saturday, losing 3-0 to Workington.
The Colliers started brightly, having the best of the opening 30 minutes or so before falling behind. Two sloppy goals added to Workington's advantage.
Both sides played good, free flowing football and on the balance Workington deserved the win and look good for the coming season.
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Post by footyfollower on Jul 31, 2023 8:40:42 GMT
My prediction;
Ashington will wallop North Shields next week in the Cup
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Post by hoopy on Jul 31, 2023 8:52:58 GMT
My prediction; Ashington will wallop North Shields next week in the Cup I'm taking nothing for granted. It is a really unpredictable game in my view. |
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Post by footyfollower on Aug 2, 2023 10:58:04 GMT
My prediction; Ashington will wallop North Shields next week in the Cup I'm taking nothing for granted. It is a really unpredictable game in my view. I watched Ashington at Morpeth, the following week I was at Shields v Seaham I would be amazed if Ashington do not thump Shields |
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Post by hoopy on Aug 2, 2023 16:52:57 GMT
I'm taking nothing for granted. It is a really unpredictable game in my view. I watched Ashington at Morpeth, the following week I was at Shields v Seaham I would be amazed if Ashington do not thump Shields They’ll have had two competitive games by Saturday, this will be our first. I hope you’re not wrong, but it’ll be close |
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Post by whiteside on Aug 2, 2023 22:02:34 GMT
As a follower of workington afc interested to hear any views on the reds performance, after a stuttering start to preseason we seem to have all players available again and appear to be improving weekly for what no doubt is going to be a difficult return to the Npl. Another visit to the north east at Dunstan then season starts at home to Ashton United
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Post by hoopy on Aug 3, 2023 6:33:20 GMT
As a follower of workington afc interested to hear any views on the reds performance, after a stuttering start to preseason we seem to have all players available again and appear to be improving weekly for what no doubt is going to be a difficult return to the Npl. Another visit to the north east at Dunstan then season starts at home to Ashton United Thought you looked good a played some good attacking football. If you can maintain that level of performance you should have a successful season. |
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Post by whiteside on Aug 3, 2023 20:23:49 GMT
As a follower of workington afc interested to hear any views on the reds performance, after a stuttering start to preseason we seem to have all players available again and appear to be improving weekly for what no doubt is going to be a difficult return to the Npl. Another visit to the north east at Dunstan then season starts at home to Ashton United Thought you looked good a played some good attacking football. If you can maintain that level of performance you should have a successful season. Thanks for the comment definitely think things are looking up generally for Cumbrian football, reds boss Danny grainger has talked consistently about the need for ourselves to create links and pathways to develop county based players working with carlisle utd, Carlisle city ,penrith and cleator moor celtic to help strengthen each other long term. Will say that keeping Grainger and assistant Terry Mitchell is crucial for the club |
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Post by windy1970 on Aug 4, 2023 5:43:55 GMT
Thought you looked good a played some good attacking football. If you can maintain that level of performance you should have a successful season. Thanks for the comment definitely think things are looking up generally for Cumbrian football, reds boss Danny grainger has talked consistently about the need for ourselves to create links and pathways to develop county based players working with carlisle utd, Carlisle city ,penrith and cleator moor celtic to help strengthen each other long term. Will say that keeping Grainger and assistant Terry Mitchell is crucial for the club The best thing that should happen to Cumbrian football, would be the creation of a feeder league. Now obviously there are difficulties, because there’s 2 FA’s Cumberland and Westmorland & the latter gained a chunk of Lancashire in the 70’s. So the area is probably too big to cater for a single entity. But the current situation has clubs either playing in leagues that are miles away or clubs are playing in basic Saturday leagues outside the pyramid. I’m sure 14 clubs could be found(including reserves from the bigger clubs that you’ve mentioned) able to compete in a‘Cumbrian League’. This would also help develop players, who could then be picked up by the clubs you mentioned. The FA have tried twice to do this and have failed, probably because they didn’t sell it right to the clubs. |
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Post by hoopy on Aug 4, 2023 6:48:26 GMT
Thanks for the comment definitely think things are looking up generally for Cumbrian football, reds boss Danny grainger has talked consistently about the need for ourselves to create links and pathways to develop county based players working with carlisle utd, Carlisle city ,penrith and cleator moor celtic to help strengthen each other long term. Will say that keeping Grainger and assistant Terry Mitchell is crucial for the club The best thing that should happen to Cumbrian football, would be the creation of a feeder league. Now obviously there are difficulties, because there’s 2 FA’s Cumberland and Westmorland & the latter gained a chunk of Lancashire in the 70’s. So the area is probably too big to cater for a single entity. But the current situation has clubs either playing in leagues that are miles away or clubs are playing in basic Saturday leagues outside the pyramid. I’m sure 14 clubs could be found(including reserves from the bigger clubs that you’ve mentioned) able to compete in a‘Cumbrian League’. This would also help develop players, who could then be picked up by the clubs you mentioned. The FA have tried twice to do this and have failed, probably because they didn’t sell it right to the clubs. I agree, Cumbria seems to fall between two stools. Too far west for the Wearside/Alliance/Northern League, but too far north for the Lancashire leagues. A Cumbrian league at the same level as the Northern League could really develop clubs in the area and give them an incentive to build, in much the same way that enforced promotion helped North-East clubs push on through the pyramid. |
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Post by sikirk on Aug 4, 2023 8:48:41 GMT
Cumbria is a strange one. Take penrith, they could travel to county durham just as quick as they could to say barrow especially once the a66 is all dualled. The cumbrian coast clubs seem to be in no mans land. I doubt a league would ever be formed there at northern league level. Also a step 7 league would need to be split north and south and where would the clubs come from to fill it? Odly enough if penrith or carlisle ever got promoted to the northern premier they would have a bigger pool of players as they would be in the north wear division and could get players from lancashire
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