Newspaper Clippings - Loose - Volume 1 - page 45
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UTH SHIELDS resume after a week's " holiday ith bread and butter Northern Premier League ixtures against Northwich Victoria at Simonside Hall tomorrow afternoon and another home game with Gainsborough Trinity p Monday night before they get down to planning their FA Cup sortie into Blyth Spartans territory ! the following Saturday . There is no doubt that the Mariners thoughts will be very much on the following week's task for a run in the cup is essential not only for morale but as a croad puller after some lean weeks . only side Bobby Elwell makes one change from the which brought a point back from Runcora with a 1-1 draw on October 17 . Malcolm Leask is recalled for Dave McClelland , who is not yet match fit after return ing from South Africa . WILSON'S DEBUT With only the one change , it means that former Harton and Westoe Junior Derek Wilson will be making his senior home debut for the Mariners on the left wing . normal circumstances Northwich Victoria should not offer Shields much trouble but as Elwell said today . " The way our luck has been recently they are all hard games . " Northwich beat Runcorn by a single zoal at home last veek to chalk up their Arth league victory of the season agams the Shields record of only a couple of successes . see the rain . Our players do not like the hard , bumpy ditions are more yielding 1 grounds and now that the con think we should do much bet ter . " David Adams is now back in full training after a lengthy lay - off with back trouble . He played for the Reserves against neighbours Boldon CW last week and he is again in the second string which visits Darlington Reserves . Another to return is Geoff Cars who has been off even longer than Adams with a pulled muscle . LIVERI WOLVES are busy reviving past glories this season . Afte : a poor start , they have asto nished soccer followers with a remarkable run of nine League games without defeat which has taken them from bottom of the table on Augus ! 22 to sixth position last Satur . day . Wolves still have problem in defence - they have con ceded 27 goals in 14 matcher among In last season's matches Shields scored a double over Victoria , with a 2-0 win at Northwich early in the season and a convincing 5-1 victory in the return encounter at Simon side Hall last October . but their attack is the most lethal in the Firs Division Between them strikers Hugh Curran and Bobby Gould have scored 1 goals and Wolves , in their las seven League outings , have never failed to score less that twice . RAIN COULD Shields had two hard train ing sessions this week and Eiwell says : " We were glad to It is a fine record but the |
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