Tomorrow's Opponents: Holker Old Boys
It's the epic journey for us two (and the Cheadle team!) tomorrow as we make the 200+ miles round-trip to Barrow-in-Furness for the Holker Old Boys away match.
Holker have been around as a club since 1936, getting their "Old Boys" moniker from the fact that their team was made up of alumni from Holker Central Secondary School. They have been members of the NWCFL since their acceptance for the 1991/92 season. Two seasons later they finished third and were promoted to Division One as then second-placed Haslingden's ground wasn't good enough to meet Division One standards.
Holker enjoyed five seasons in Division One, although their fifth will be one to forget for them: they lost every single match as they went tumbling back into Division Two. The club now proudly boasts three open-age sides and a junior section of nine sides that goes down to an Under-8s team.
Holker are winless in the league thus far and currently sit second-from-bottom in the league with just three points and three goals to their name. However, Holker have been Cheadle's 'bogey side' of recent seasons and have their tails up after beating Runcorn 2-1 in last week's Challenge Cup match. Cheadle are without Dean Martin tomorrow, but another performance like that on Wednesday night should see them come away with something from the South Lakes. Come on Cheadle!
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Evening chaps,
Best of luck with tomorrow's game and finding the ground. If you haven't been there before then beware as Bank Lane on the left hand side isn't signposted and the other sign saying Hawcoat 3/4 is only visible if you're travelling in the other direction. Genius!
Only thing I can recommend is that you look out for the small open patch of land, which starts to rise up the hill, after a series of warehouses on the left hand side and you should be OK. If, like we managed to do, you suddenly see PC World looming in front then you've missed the turn off.
As for the club. Certainly the least friendly we've been to this season. There were even disparaging remarks about the flags a number of us took up to the first game 3 weeks ago.
They have quite a young team, think seven of them still play for their youth side, which is probably part of the reason why they're near the foot of the table. The left-back is quite useful and the keeper isn't too bad (despite the dodgy barnet). Don't rate any of the others much. We've created enough chances in our two recent fixtures against them to have won every game until the end of November. Gross profligacy has allowed Holker off the hook on both occasions. Not to mention their goal leading quite a charmed life too.
If Cheadle put up a performance anything like you did against us at Wincham Park in August you should pick up the three points.
Btw, looking forward to our visit to Park Lane in four weeks. See ya then.
"Disparaging comments about the flags". Oh great, it's gonna be like Winsford all over again, isn't it? :-)
Thanks for the help about the directions. I'm hoping I've got the route sussed for tomorrow; it looks a fairly "straight run".
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