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    Bamber Bridge 7/7/18 3pm
     
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    Burnley home 23/7/2018
     
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    Colne away
     
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    Fylde away West Ham home
     
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    Cobh Ramblers and Oldham both away and that completes this years list of warm up games
     
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    And so it begins the long road till glory next May or so we hope, first up a local game for locals only at Irongate, Bamber Bridge. The Evo Stick Premier side will provide a useful workout at the 3000 capacity stadium.Won there last season scoring seven didn't hinder the home side as they won promotion via the play offs. Both sides will use virtually all their squads game time valuable at this time of the season. 3pm kick off although this could change depending on England's result on Tuesday if they win it's a 1 pm kick off.
    Real football is back.
     
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    Bamber Bridge now 12.30 due to obvious reasons
     
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    3 up after 20 minutes
     
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    Finished 7-0 Maguire 3 Burke Bodin Moult and Harrop who also missed a penalty
     
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    Bamber Bridge 0 Preston North End 7




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    Alex Neil’s team started pre-season with sharp-shooting display at the Sir Tom Finney Stadium, putting seven past Bamber Bridge in a lunchtime kick-off in the sun.

    Graham Burke on debut, Billy Bodin and a 20-minute hat-trick from Sean Maguire gave the Lilywhites a 5-0 half-time lead, before further goals from Louis Moult and Josh Harrop – who also missed a penalty – made it an entertaining afternoon for the almost 2,000 who turned out for the annual Gerry Lawson Memorial Trophy.

    There were two different starting XIs in each half utilised by the North End boss and the first team started brightly and were one up after only five minutes.

    Burke, pulling on the green third shirt of PNE for the first time since his summer move from Shamrock Rovers, picked up the ball in a right hand channel and cut inside onto his left foot, easing past two defenders before drilling a shot low into the bottom left hand corner from 15 yards out in a central position.
    The second of the game came on 13 minutes and Burke was again involved. This time he went down the left the penalty area and cut the ball across for Billy Bodin who moved the ball quickly out of his feet to the left before firing hard and low into the bottom right hand corner of the goal with his favoured left foot.

    Maguire, whose movement throughout the opening 45 minutes looked very sharp and caused all sorts of problems, began his run of three goals in 20 minutes in the 16th minute.

    A long ball from Daniel Johnson midway inside his own half saw the Irish No.24 race clean away from the half-way line, holding off the attentions of two Brig defenders before sliding the ball past the advancing Lloyd Rigby into the middle of the goal.

    It was almost 4-0 on 18 minutes with the only shot on target in the opening period that didn’t end up as a goal coming from an exquisite move.

    Bodin had the ball centrally and drove at the heart of the home side’s defence. The Welshman slid the ball inside the left back for the onrushing Calum Woods. The right back drove the ball across to the edge of the six yard box for Maguire, who tried a cheeky back heel, only for Rigby to block and then again did well to deny Daryl Horgan on the follow up.

    Like fellow keeper Chris Maxwell in the second half, Declan Rudd was a spectator for much of the half, however, when he was called upon just after the period’s mid-point, he made a superb save. Danny Forbes was the man for the side in all red as he found space 15 yards out and drilled towards the bottom corner, only for the North End No.1 at full stretch to get a strong hand on the ball and palm it out and then get quickly up to block Jamie Milligan’s follow up.

    After the 25 minute drinks break – that was needed for both teams in the searing heat – the game’s fourth goal and Maguire’s second arrived just before the half hour mark. This time it was an excellent poacher’s finish from close range with his left foot after a driving run down the left to the byline and a cross from fellow Irishman Horgan.

    After Burke had been denied a second by an excellent block by Brig skipper Matt Lawlor and from the resulting corner skipper Tom Clarke was an inch away from getting in on the action with a powerful header, Maguire made it five and made the matchball his own on 36 minutes.

    Again, it was excellent wing play down the left from Horgan, who this time played the ball into the overlapping Josh Earl; the new No.3 fired the ball into the penalty area from the left edge of it and Maguire fired home from six yards out.
    After the changes at the interval the home side were looking at damage limitations and defended in numbers and deep in their own half after the break, but the chances kept coming for the Lilywhites.

    Just before the hour mark, the sixth goal came and it was Louis Moult, with the No.9 on his back, who grabbed it. Ben Pearson had started the move, finding Callum Robinson, who fed the ball in to Moult 12 yards out, who opened up his body and caressed the ball into the bottom right hand corner.

    With 11 minutes left Josh Harrop showed quick feet to dance into the penalty area and drew a foul from substitute Chris Churchman, referee Leigh Doughty, just a yard or two away, pointing straight to the spot. The former Manchester United man picked himself up and fired the penalty in with real pace and power, but it crashed off the bar and over.

    However, the North End No.10 wasn’t to be denied in the final minute, getting his goal and making it seventh heaven for the team. It was the culmination of a crisp passing move with Harrop collecting it after a one-two on the edge of the box, before dispatching it calmly into the bottom right hand corner, adding the finishing touch to an excellent first work out of pre-season.

    PNE First Half Line-Up: Rudd, Woods, Earl, Johnson, Clarke (c), Davies, Bodin, Gallagher, Maguire, Burke, Horgan.

    PNE Second Half Line-Up: Maxwell, Fisher, Hughes, Pearson, Storey, Huntington (c), Barkhuizen, Moult, Harrop, Robinson.

    Subs Both Halves: Howard, Simpson, Baxter, O’Reilly.

    Bamber Bridge Line-Up: Rigby, Wilson, Dodd, Lawlor (c), Charnock, Milligan, Waddecar, Forbes, Boyd, Tanner, Marlow. Subs: Barton, Morgan, Dawson, Doughty, Mahoney, Churchman, Linney.

    Attendance: 1,739

    Referee: Mr L Doughty
     
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    A tidy start.
     
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    Next up Fylde at Mill Farm 7/7/2018

    A.F.C. Fylde is a professional football club based in Wesham in the Borough of Fylde, Lancashire, England. Originally known as Kirkham & Wesham following a merger of Kirkham Town and Wesham in 1988, the club adopted its current name in 2008 after winning the FA Vase. They are currently members of the National League, the fifth tier of English football, and play at Mill Farm in Wesham.

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    A first visit to the newest ground on the Fylde coast which is just off the M55 at Kirkham, upwardly mobile Fylde are just about to swtart their second season in the National League top division having almost done what Fylde coast neighbours Fleetwood have done by trying to get from the West Lancashire League to the Football League, they hope to achieve this aim by 2022 they seem to be well in front of were they want to be.
    Of course to achieve this aim you need a rich benefactor which they have, so having a budget to dwarf most sides they have worked their way effortlessly through the leagues. Personally have no time for these sort of clubs.
    Have been to Mill Farm once for a league game against Curzon Ashton last season decent ground but a soulless atmosphere won't be going back.
    However that's the modern way of football whether you like it or not.
    They will provide a decent test for North End as we wend our way to an inevtable place in the Premier League in 2019/20

    As with last Saturday the vast amount of the squad will get game time however it will be interesting to see if the likes of Boyle, O'Connor, Doyle, Pringle, and Vermijl will be in the squads if not will give an idea of what will happen to them before the start of the season
     
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    Mt father, born in Kirkham, used to say 'They take them from Kirkham to Wesham.'
     
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    Won 6-1
     
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    The Lilywhites made it 13 goals in two pre-season games with another sharp-shooting display on their first visit to Mill Farm.

    Paul Huntington got the scoring underway, converting Josh Harrop’s corner, before Callum Robinson scored a brace either side of half-time against Dave Challinor’s AFC Fylde.

    Sean Maguire then made it five goals in just 75 pre-season minutes, with two stunning strikes, having come on as a substitute on the hour mark, before Andrew Hughes scored his first goal in a PNE shirt after an excellent overlapping run from left back.

    The Coasters scored a consolation goal via a trialist from the penalty spot with three minutes to go, but in reality it could have been more than the six it ended up with some more impressive forward play from Alex Neil’s side.

    Where the previous week at Bamber Bridge the manager chose two separate XIs that played 45 minutes each, this time it was a 60-30 split for his two sides.

    It was another game where North End had over 20 attempts on goal, but it took until the 20-minute mark to get the opener. It came from an excellent inswinging corner from Harrop on the left-hand side and skipper Paul Huntington got across his marker at the front post to flick a powerful header across goal into the top right-hand corner.
    This seemed to open up the floodgates and it could have been four or five by the interval. Daryl Horgan looked a bright spark and he drove down the right and put over a deep cross for Louis Moult, who did everything right, heading down, only for Jay Lynch in the home goal to tip the ball over the bar. From the resulting corner – another quality ball from Harrop again found Moult, but once again the keeper was up to the task, making another impressive tip over.

    Just after the half hour mark a superb PNE break saw Graham Burke thrust forward with pace and direct running and he dragged a defender to him, before squaring to an unmarked Robinson. He was one on one with the goalkeeper, but it was the Fylde No.1 who came out on top with a brilliant block.

    However, the new No.7 wasn’t to be denied two minutes later as he picked up the ball 18 yards out on the edge of the box, shifted the ball quickly out of his feet and connected with a sweet drive low into the bottom left hand corner for the second of the game.

    And it became a hat-trick of chances for Robinson a minute later as this time Moult played an excellent ball out to the left-hand side to find his fellow forward, and he cut inside and fired goalwards, only for Lynch to once again impressively deny the PNE man.

    The one-way traffic continued after the interval. Darnell Fisher’s right wing cross found Burke at the back post, but his shot was saved by the Coasters’ No.1 and then the former Shamrock Rovers man on 58 minutes picked up the ball off the feet of Harrop and curled a beautiful left-footed shot which this time beat the keeper all ends up, but came back off the left hand post and Robinson fired the rebound over the bar.

    However, Robinson’s last touch of the game, on the hour mark, was a stunning strike as he collected the ball outside the left corner of the box and curled a vicious dipping shot back across goal into the top right-hand corner for number three of the afternoon.
    There were 11 changes before the resumption after the goal and it took only three minutes for Maguire to add the team’s fourth of the afternoon with his first touch of the game. And it was a superb strike curling a half volley first time into the bottom left corner of the goal from 18 yards.

    He was denied a second on 68 minutes by a post, after a header down from Billy Bodin, but last season’s top scorer added his second and North End’s fifth with 19 minutes to go; this time an Alan Browne through ball sent him clean through and he dinked a wonderful finish past the goalkeeper into the empty net.

    It was 6-0 with ten minutes to go with left back Hughes getting in on the act. He had been keen to join up with the attacking side of the team from the off and was on hand with a poacher’s finish from eight yards out, poking home after a strong run down the left.

    A consolation penalty came with three minutes to go, when one of many AFC Fylde trialists sent Declan Rudd the wrong way after Calum Woods had been adjudged to have pushed the home side’s left winger in the penalty area, but it was little solace from a game the Lilywhites had illustrated their preparations for the new Championship season were on track.

    PNE line-up (First 60 minutes): Maxwell, Fisher, Johnson, Pearson, Huntington (c), Davies, Horgan, Burke, Moult, Harrop, Robinson.

    PNE line-up (Last 30 minutes): Rudd, Woods, Hughes, Ledson, Storey, Boyle, Bodin, Gallagher, Maguire, Browne, Barkhuizen.

    Subs not used: Baxter, O’Reilly.

    AFC Fylde line-up: Lynch, Montrose, Angol, Byrne, Tunnicliffe, Bond (c), Croasdale, Rowe, Philliskirk, Trialist 1, Trialist 2. Subs: Griffiths, Tasdemir, L Burke, 7 Trialists.

    Referee: D McNamara

    Attendance: 1,812
     
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    Cobh Ramblers v Preston North End 17/7/20178 at Turners Cross Cork

    And off we go to the Republic of Ireland to play one match and have a weeks training on Fota Island. The only game to be played is against Cobh Ramblers who lost 2-1 at Home to Galway on Saturday.

    Cobh Ramblers

    CRFC was originally a field hockey club but until the British withdrawal from Ireland many club members played football with the soldiers who were stationed at Cobh, leading to the Ramblers' eventual re-formation as a football club.

    Ramblers played in the 1976 FAI League Cup, reaching the semi finals.

    Cobh Ramblers joined the League of Ireland in 1985, after many successful years as a Munster Senior League side. One of the most successful of those teams was the team of 1983, who got to the semi final of the FAI Cup humbling many senior clubs on the way. They met Sligo Rovers in the semi-final that year and captured the imagination of the Irish footballing public, drawing crowds of over 20,000 to Flower Lodge for the home games as St Colmans Park was too small. There were 3 replays until Sligo finally won 3–2 and went on to win the Cup.

    Cobh won promotion to the Premier Division in 1988, after finishing First Division runners-up to Athlone Town. Lasting just one season in the top flight, they won promotion again at the end of the 1992–93 season, this time as runners-up to Galway United. A play-off win over Finn Harps saw Ramblers retain their Premier Division status at the end of the 1993–94 season, but the club were relegated in second-last place the following year.

    With Ramblers having played all but four of their League of Ireland campaigns in the First Division, they rarely get to play their local rivals Cork City, a Premier Division team, with the two usually only being able to match up in pre-season friendlies and the occasional cup match, Cobh being the minnows in terms of League of Ireland experience.

    In recent years, fan numbers have not been as high as they were during the glory days when Ramblers were in the top flight of Irish football and playing glamorous pre-season matches against the likes of Celtic and Arsenal. Though even with its lower attendance at home matches (usually about 600 or so, over 1000 for the 2008 season), the fans in attendance are loyal and take part in club fund-raisers and events as well as watching the match. It is hoped though that with a new younger generation becoming interested in the League of Ireland, due to promotion of the league and sport as a whole, that attendance and the fortunes of the club might improve.

    Ramblers appeared on live television for the first time on Friday, 10 November 2006 in an away fixture at Galway United, where they lost 1–0.

    On 10 November 2007 Cobh Ramblers beat Athlone Town 1–0 in Lissywoollen in what was a tense and nervous display. This victory gave Cobh Ramblers their first piece of Senior Silverware and crowned them First Division Champions. During the 2007 season, with their young squad, they recorded a 27-game unbeaten run, keeping 22 clean sheets.[4] Their points tally of 77 points was also a record for the league.

    However, after suffering relegation from the League of Ireland Premier Division, Ramblers subsequently failed to obtain a licence for the First Division due to financial constrainst and so compete in the Newstalk A Championship (Ireland's third tier).

    In 2010 Ramblers missed out on gaining promotion back to the League of Ireland losing to Salthill Devon in a play off.[5]

    The Ramblers most noted past player is former Irish international and Manchester United star Roy Keane,[6] while Irish international Stephen Ireland is a product of the Youth System. Westlife singer Nicky Byrne, also a talented footballer who was on the books at Leeds United, had a spell with the club too.

    On 18 March 2014, the club parted company with manager Dave Hill by mutual consent after five years. He was replaced by Martin Cambridge on an interim basis. In March 2015 Martin Cambridge tendered his resignation and Stephen Henderson returned to the club as first team manager. In Oct 2015 Stephen Henderson signed a new three-year contract with the club. In 2016 Henderson guided Ramblers to munster senior cup victory and to a 3rd-place finish in the first division. Cobh Ramblers were the only side to defeat first division champions Limerick that season and this coincided with a run of 5 victories in their last 5 league games to reach the play offs. They narrowly lost 3–2 on aggregate to Drogheda Utd despite overturning a 2–0 deficit in the return leg at United Park after only nine minutes.

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    No doubt more mix and match squad for us.
     
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    How friendly can one get?
     
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    5-0 win Barkhuizen 3 Clarke and Burke
     
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    Tom Barkhuizen got off the mark in pre-season, scoring a first half hat-trick, as North End made it 18 goals in three pre-season games with a 5-0 win over Cobh Ramblers.

    Skipper Tom Clarke was also on the score sheet, along with Irishman Graham Burke – on his return to his homeland – as the Lilywhites recorded a comfortable victory at Turner’s Cross, the home of Cork City.

    Barkhuizen scored two from the edge of the box, before Clarke headed home a third and then the PNE No.29 completed his treble by closing down the host side’s goalkeeper to make it 4-0 at the interval.

    Burke scored an excellent free kick with seven minutes to go, to make it a good night for the green-clad side in front of a vocal following support, who had travelled across for the game.

    It took only five minutes for the opening goal to arrive, as Barkhuizen collected the ball on left, drove inside to the edge of the box and fired a hard low effort into the corner of keeper Adam Mylod’s goal.
    And the same man repeated the act with a similar second on 17 minutes. This time he picked the ball up about 45 yards out, drove forward, taking advantage of a ricochet before connecting right footed and directing the ball into the bottom right hand corner.

    The third came on 39 minutes, as the visitors recycled a corner well, finding Billy Bodin, who crossed deep to the back post to where Clarke rose highest to head down and in off the goalkeeper, sneaking inside the left hand upright.

    Barkhuizen made his hat-trick complete right on half-time, the high press forcing the goal as he closed down goalkeeper Mylod, getting a block in on the attempted clearance, the ball ricocheting off him and nestling nicely in the bottom left hand corner of the goal.
    Cobh started the second half well with David Hurley driving goalwards, just wide of Declan Rudd’s left hand upright just before the hour mark, the time that brought 11 changes from North End, with the starting line-up from the win at AFC Fylde coming on to the Turner’s Cross pitch.

    Chances continued to come for PNE after the alterations, Louis Moult finding the target from 22 yards, after some great movement and pass from Josh Harrop, only for Mylod to dive at full stretch to deny PNE’s No.9.

    On the counter the Lilywhites also looked dangerous, Harrop broke down the right on 75 minutes, coming into a central area, finding Callum Robinson, who in turn squared the ball left to Burke, but he dragged his shot just wide of the left hand post.

    But the former Shamrock Rovers man was not to be denied with seven minutes to go, Callum Robinson was brought down 20 yards out in a left hand channel and Harrop and Burke stood over it. Seemingly it was the No.10 to take it, but Burke took it quickly and powerfully, drilling the ball left footed into the bottom right hand corner of the goal.
    Harrop almost added a sixth in the closing stages, finding the outside of the left hand post, after some good build up play involved Burke and Horgan, but it was to be five and another good work out for Alex Neil’s side.

    PNE line-up (First 60 minutes): Rudd, Woods, Hughes, Pearson, Clarke (c), Storey, Bodin, Gallagher, Maguire, Browne, Barkhuizen.

    PNE line-up (Last 30 minutes): Maxwell, Fisher, Johnson, Pearson, Huntington (c), Davies, Horgan, Burke, Moult, Harrop, Robinson.

    Subs not used: Baxter, O’Reilly.

    Cobh Ramblers line-up: A Mylod, Fleming, O'Riordan, McSweeney, Christopher, Taylor, Hurley, I Mylod, Hull, Kenny, Sh O'Connor. Subs: Hunt, Leonard, Kabia, Sadys, St O'Connor, Fernandes, Wall, Crowley, Trialist, Cronin.

    Attendance: TBC

    Referee: Anthony Buttimer
     
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    Now for the Hammers and the Dingles! How did Burnley get the tag 'The Dingles'?
     
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