Just a quick note to let people know about this game who might want to come along and support it and especially aimed at ex-teammates of Gilly and people who knew him through football.
Couple of options:
1st just turn up, pay at the turnstile, have a beer with friends of Gilly and remember a top bloke.

Or join in the sponsorship of the game; £20 gets you entrance to the game, a free pint and free pie and pies or burger and chips and helps support the club and a donation to the British Heart Foundation.

If you’d like to do the sponsorship please let Josh know on 07799381499 to help with numbers.

Please feel free to forward to any friends you feel might be interested.
Hope you all can make it and share some memories/laughs over a few beers for Gilly.
Thank you.

For Brighouse Town last Saturday at home to NPL East Division champions Worksop Town it was a case of after the Lord Mayor’s show which seven days before was a faultless performance in a 2-1 win at Stockton Town.

In this game, Worskop, crowned champions the previous week at home to relegated Tadcaster Albion, celebrated with a six goal showing to delight their travelling fans, which on Non League Day, drew a crowd of 406.

They were on the scoreboard after just three minutes when former Bradford City striker James Hanson netted.

Town did have their chances in that half, with Joshua Grant clear on goal, and just as he pulled the trigger the ball bobbled and he sent his shot over the crossbar. Sam Drake also had a great chance to equalise but he also fluffed his lines when only left facing the Worksop keeper Sebastian Malkowski.

The visitors closed the first half scoring with a Luke Hall goal in the 42nd minute and the prolific Liam Hughes headed home on the stroke of the half-time whistle to make it 3-0, a scoreline which really did not reflect the home side’s commitment.

Brighouse saw useful contributions in the second half from substitute Javelle Clarke, who was denied by Malkowski and in the 78th minute the visiting keeper also denied acting skipper Corey Gregory when parrying his strong shot onto a post and away to safety.

Vaughan Redford then got Worksop’s fourth two minutes later and Hughes set up Hall in the 87th minute for his brace, before on 90 minutes Redford scored his second and his side’s sixth.

Worksop look a strong and skilful side to more than hold their own next season in the Northern Premier League’s Premier Division.

Town now have their work cut out over the next six games to pull away from the relegation area and prevent following Tadcaster Albion or having to play a play-off game with a team from Step 5, which would be at home seeing as they are a Step 4 club.

Going into the weekend’s game to ninth-placed Cleethorpes Town (3pm), Town are 15th of the 20 clubs. They are still without skipper Tom Haigh, who has one more game to serve of a three-match suspension, but will be available away to Shildon on Tuesday night (7.45).

Town will be running coaches to both matches and Saturday’s coach will leave the Dusty Miller at Hove Edge at 11am and on Tuesday it will leave the same pick up point at 4pm.

Manager Vill Powell says his charges are fully committed to bagging points between now and the last game of the season away to Long Eaton United on Saturday, April 22.

Its very doubtful striker Laurence Sorhaindo will play in any of those games but he has returned from a specialist this week with news he does not need an operation on his meniscus injury to his right knee, which is healing by the day.

Wing-back Mohammed Ibrahim is making slow progress from his ankle ligament injury sustained earlier this month and he may well make a comeback for the last two games of the season.

The club’s academy side entertain Mossley today at 12 noon (Thursday) and in the evening 150 regional coaches will be descending on the Yorkshire Payments Stadium for a coaching session towards their coaching badges with the Brighouse Town squad and U23 players participating under the West Riding County FA’s Senior Football Development Officer Lee Ashforth.

Brighouse Town travel to third in the table Stockton Town on Saturday (3pm) minus their influential suspended skipper Tom Haigh and fellow suspended centre-back Aiden Walker.

Both would have been available for last Saturday’s re-arranged away game at Shildon after being sent off on the Monday night had the game in Durham not been postponed on the Friday night with four inches of snow on the pitch. Haigh received a three-match ban for his dismissal against Sheffield FC and Walker one match for his red card.

At the time of going to print no added recruitment had been completed and Town will also be without right wing-back Mohammed Ibrahim (ankle ligaments). Northern Counties East club Frickley Athletic have been rebuffed after they made a move for Town’s early autumn recruit Josh Dacre and he looks likely to line up alongside Matty Nebard with the fullbacks being Josh Grant and Sam Reed who will continue to train fulltime with Sheffield Wednesday at their Middlewood Road training headquarters near to their Hillsborough Ground.

Reed, 19, son of the club’s assistant manager Stacy Reed, impressed in his two outings with the Owls U-23s against Peterborough United and Sheffield United but, as a contracted Town player, he will not play another game now as the deadline for signings is next Thursday, March 23 at 5pm. To play those two games he had to be de-registered and then re-registered and Town cannot afford to lose a player of his quality for the remaining eight games of the season.

Town are currently 15th in the table four places above second from bottom Carlton Town and seven points above them but they need all the points they can muster as they also don’t want to be dragged into the two places above and face a play-off game with a side from the NCEL.

Town and others in the Pitching-In Northern Premier League Division One East cannot rely on the relegation of mid-table North Shields through failing ground grading standards as was shown last season when Leeds-based Yorkshire Amateur were relegated through failing to upgrade their ground. North Shields are looking at a cost of around £50,000 to upgrade their cliff-top ground and their officials feel they will only serve one season in the division from the EBAC Northern League as the funds are just not coming in.

Town have a tough run in with runaway League leaders Worksop Town due at the Yorkshire Payments Stadium on Saturday week for a game sponsored by Heckmondwike-based national clothing company Tog 24 and Lightcliffe CC Juniors’ parents. The week after they travel to Cleethorpes, followed by the re-arranged game at Shildon on Tuesday, April 4, and then entertain the in-form Grimsby Borough. Points are going to be hard to come by and each one will be a bonus for Vill Powell and his charges.

Assistant manager Reed says they will take each game as it comes and in the division says anybody can beat anyone else higher up on their day.

“You only have to look at last midweek’s shock 2-0 away win for Carlton at Hebburn Town, who are second in the table and also on a night when they have just made the longest trip in the division, some 170 miles and a round trip of 340 miles, he added!

Striker Laurence Sorhaindo has been diagnosed with a damaged meniscus (cartilage) and a bruised bone in the right knee and will need specialist treatment, so, as revealed last week, he is out for the season.

Walker will be back from his suspension for the Worksop game, but Haigh will also miss the Worksop and Cleethorpes matches.

Almost a barren return from two very important home games in three days as Town lose to play-off hopefuls Dunston in added-on time and draw with Sheffield FC as three are sent off and three are cautioned in that game!

In the Dunston game Town took time to settled against a more experienced and physical side and survived one penalty appeal before Aiden Walker gave away a penalty in the 43rd minute which was converted by Dale Pearson.

Town substituted Cole Roberts with Javelle Clarke at half-time and he had his best game in weeks, and, along with Mo Qasim, they brought Town back into the game down the flanks. They also had to make another substitution in the 50th minute when consistent performer Mohammed Ibrahim was helped off the pitch with ankle ligament damage.

Town equalised in the 79th minute when substitute Reon Benjamin-Potts at the second attempt buried the ball in the back of the net. His first shot was parried out by by goalkeeper Dan Staples, but the striker picked his spot for the second strike.

In the 82nd minute Dunston had winger William Jenkins sent off and Town’s faithful got behind the team to go for the winner.

However, it was from a free kick three minutes into added on time that Dunston took the three points with a header flicked on that beat keeper Brett Souter and saw the home crowd leave disappointed once more after seeing a valuable point lost from the same situation and at the same time as in the previous game against Bridlington Town.

Town must learn game management, and quickly.

On the Monday, Town were off to a great start when referee Arran Williams showed a red card to Sheffield’s centre-half Joshua Burns after just five minutes for bringing down Jack Boyle in the box..

Reon Benjamin-Potts stepped up and beat former Town keeper Ed Hall with a strong shot to his right.

Fellow Sheffield central defender Reece Fielding left the pitch a minute later on crutches and was replaced by Rory Coleman.

In the 25th minute the normally reliable Boyle had a great chance to put Town two up with only Hall to beat but he screwed his attempt from 12 yards out wide of the target. Sheffield lifted their game despite being a man down but had a further setback in the 32nd minute when their skipper Adam Watson had also to leave the field aided by the physio.

Luke Aldrich replaced him and was on the scoresheet 10 minutes later to level matters a minute before the interval with a smart finish from an acute angle..

Town failed to get the ball wide to make their one man advantage count, the stand side of the pitch virtually ignored as they came down the dug-out side time and again.

Disaster then struck as Town had two players sent off in a minute. First Aiden Walker went after allegedly pulling a Sheffield shirt on the edge of the box and then skipper Tom Haigh was sent off for an alleged elbow in a tackle.

Town, who managed to hold out for a 1-1 draw, also had Corey Gregory, Javelle Clarke and Mo Qasim also cautioned.

Town’s manager Vill Powell was looking at footage of the game on Tuesday to see if there was any leeway on the dismissals for an appeal on them.

Town now need valuable points in their last eight games to pull away from the relegation area after a poor run of results since the turn of the

year. Weather permitting they make a return trip to Shildon on Saturday (3pm) after the original fixture in late January was called off after they had made the journey to Durham. A coach leaves the Dusty Miller at 11am.

Striker Laurence Sorhaindo (right knee) has revealed he is very unlikely to play again this season and has been out injured since the West Riding County FA third round tie with Campion.

With possible suspensions and injuries the manager is now looking to strengthen his squad before the 5pm deadline on Thursday, March 23 for all signings for this season.