Big chances for Chorley to pick up points (From Chorley Citizen)

Big chances for Chorley to pick up points

5:44pm Tuesday 19th January 2010

• Print
• Email
• Share
• Comments(0)

Steve Waywell’s Chorley squad, anxious for a return to action after an enforced five-match weather break, have been dealt a fixture rearrangements blow by the UniBond League that could make or break their season.

Everyone at the club hopes Victory Park is playable for the visit of Garforth Town on Saturday, in what will be the Magpies’ last home game before a run of five tough away matches on the bounce in the space of 15 days.

Manager Waywell said: “It’s a lot to ask in a massive situation for us, but if we can pick up some points from those away games we can keep in there.

“This is a very important time and we have been competing well.

"If we are still in touch with the play-off group after that run we stand a good chance, with nine home games in our last 15 fixtures.”

After putting two wins together in early December, Chorley were unable to play Rossendale United away on December 19 and Bamber Bridge on Boxing Day, Mossley at home on New Year’s Day, Wakefield away on January 9 and Clitheroe at Victory Park on Saturday, all because of the weather.

New dates have been fixed for four of the five encounters and a venue switch of the Leigh Genesis match means that Waywell’s boys follow the January 30 trip to Skelmersdale with seven February fixtures, the first four of them away, before First Division North leaders Lancaster City come to Victory Park on February 20.

After travelling to Skelmersdale on Saturday week, January 30, they visit Bamber Bridge on Tuesday, February 2, Leigh Genesis on Saturday, February 6, Rossendale on Tuesday, February 9, and AFC Fylde on Saturday, February 13.

Manager Waywell has already put his players on a two-games-a-week alert, reminding them that the weather had given Chorley the opportunity to “get in there and use the springboard we’ve been given".

• Print
• Email
• Share
• Comments(0)