Please accept this notice as an invitation to all members of the Club to attend our AGM on Thursday 27th July in the Clubhouse.

Ossett United have signed another two players from Brighouse Town this week to join experienced midfielder Corey Gregory and wing-back Mohammed Ibrahim who both moved to Ingfield last month.

The biggest shock for Town fans sees former Cowdenbeath and Boston United forward Zephaniah Thomas joining United as player-coach. The 34-year-old who was appointed player-coach at Town towards the end of last season and was all due to take a coaching role this time around before leaving for Doncaster club Rossington Main, but has altered course once more and moved 13 miles down the road to Ossett. The fourth player is striker Reon Benjamin-Potts who has played for Sheffield United, Scunthorpe United and York City and will be joining Ossett for a second spell.

Town have also lost their goalkeeper Jamie Hassall who is returning to Knaresborough Town owing to work issues and the distance he travels down from North Yorkshire to Brighouse. Hassall showed a lot of promise last season and ousted experienced contracted custodian Brett Souter from the No1 jersey. It very much looked as though manager Vill Powell was going to go with Hassall for the 2023-24 season ahead.

Tomorrow night (Friday) Town travel the short distance to Manningham, Bradford to take on Lee Ashforth’s side who were promoted last term into the Northern Counties East Premier Division (7.30).

On Tuesday next they are away to Pitching-In NPL East Division champions for last season, Worksop Town (7.30).

On Saturday the players and team management are at Bradley Park Golf Club, Fixby (12.30) for a round of Footgolf, something they haven’t done in pre-season since the Covid-19 pandemic hit.

The fixtures have come out in the past week and Town open their programme on Saturday, August 12 with a mammoth trip to Ashington in the north east where the famous Charlton brothers, Jack and Bobbie, came from ahead of their international careers. Two lates late on the Monday, August 14 they entertain another new club to the East Division in North Ferriby from Humberside.

For their August Bank Holiday game Town are away to relegated Liversedge and at the Christmas and New Year games they travel on Boxing Day to Winterton Rangers, another new club in the division, and then on New Year’s Day entertain Liversedge. The Easter fixtures are Dunston away on Saturday, March 30 and then home to Winterton Rangers on the Monday, April 1.

Last season’s contracted goalkeeper Brett Souter has signed for his local club in South Yorkshire, Worsborough Bridge.
Manager Vill Powell has also brought coach Leon Wainman back into the fold to replace Thomas.
Wainman, a Sheffield-based grammar school teacher, has been over the past two seasons tied up with work and also ensuring his son followed his promising football career.
Town lost Tuesday evening’s away friendly at Penistone Church, 3-0.
Assistant manager Stacy Reed was pleased with the performance despite the score line
“We had a side with several trialists in and more towards the the last quarter of the game
It was 0-0 at half time and we had a very promising keeper in goal and will be signing him.
“We made quite a few changes for that last quarter and another keeper in goal and shipped in three goals.
From our good endeavours we just couldn’t find the back of the net.
“The players also felt legless somewhat as we had the previous evening held a tough fitness session at MP Fitness

Brighouse Town continued their unbeaten run in their third pre-season friendly last Saturday at home to AFC Emley with a winning goal in the 87th minute.

The Huddersfield side, who have certainly pushed the boat out in the closed season on the recruitment side, looked the more livelier and skilful side in the first 30 minutes and deserved their opening goal through striker Reuben Jerome. The former Town player, who most recently has been playing for Workington and Ramsbottom United, struck home a 32nd minute penalty.

It remained 1-0 at the break and afterwards Town returned as they had done in Tuesday’s 2-0 win over Eccleshill United a more competitive side and slowly began to turn the tables on their visitors.

In the 56th minute striker Myron Gibbons, who missed a good part of the second half of last season through injury, found the back of the net to equalise.

Jerome went very near with a thunderous strike on 75 minutes before Gibbons bagged his brace and Town’s winning goal.

Town gave a trial to experienced goalkeeper former Farsley Celtic keeper Kyle Trennery in the second half as Jamie Hassall was retired to the bench.

In the past week Town have registered more signings to bolster the squad after what manager Vill Powell has witnessed in the first three games.

Those on board are defender Jamie Allsop from Nostell Miners Welfare, striker Malachi Bailey from the club’s U-23 side, defender or midfielder Will Crook from Tadcaster Albion, defender Matthew Ingham from Farsley Celtic, defender Alexander Phillipson from Matlock Town who has also played out in Malta and utility player Curtis Peters from Albion Sports.

Town have no pre-season game this Saturday but will resume at Penistone Church next Tuesday (7.45) and another away game has been sorted for Tuesday July 25 at promoted Worksop Town (7.30).

On Saturday morning July 22 the squad and management will play footgolf at Bradley Park GC, Fixby, Huddersfield.

The draws have been made for the Emirates Extra Preliminary round and Preliminary round ties and Town will travel on Saturday, July 19 to the winners of the Glossop North End and Colne tie on August 5.

In the ISUZU FA Trophy First Qualifying Round Town will entertain Hebburn Town from their own East Division of the Northern Premier League on Saturday, September 9 (3.0). Should they win that tie they will entertain on Saturday, September 23 the winners of the Widnes or Clitheroe tie.

The fixtures will be out for the 2023-24 season at 12 noon today (Thursday) and Town officials can then start to sort out their match day sponsorships.. Town lost their Tuesday night home fixture with a Bradford City side going down 3-2.
They trailed at the break 3-0 with goals from Sam Bentley after seven minutes, Mo Sedibeh seven minutes later and then in the 43rd minute through Isaac Robinson.
Town gradually came back into the game in the second half and finally got on the scoreboard on 75 minutes.
Skipper Mo Qasim, who got married last Saturday, was brought down in the box and then took the penalty himself to make it 3-1.
Five minutes later and Jack Cook rose above the City defence and looped a header into the net for 3-2.
A draw would have been a satisfactory outcome but City kept Town at bay in the last 10minutes.

Brighouse Town’s pre-season programme is underway with almost a completely new squad as two more players depart the scene.

While Town were drawing 1-1 last Saturday afternoon with National League North side Farsley Celtic at the Yorkshire Payments Stadium, wing-back Javelle Clarke was heading out the door to Gainsborough Trinity, while striker Jack Boyle was in talks with Pontefract Collieries.

Contracted Clarke, 21, was a target for Northern Premier League club Gainsborough towards the end of last season and they have followed up with an undisclosed firm offer for him which has been accepted. Clarke, stepson of Nat Brown the former Huddersfield Town, Lincoln City and Macclesfield Town striker, has been with Town for three seasons since leaving Sheffield United’s academy.

Boyle asked to leave Town last week, as revealed in Echo Sport, and was wanting to play a step or two higher but appears, it is understood, to be happy to join Pontefract who play in the same division as Town.

Town played out an entertaining 1-1 draw with Celtic from two divisions higher and after the game manager Vill Powell said he was happy with what he had seen from a squad full of trialists.

“After witnessing that performance we have signed on a good majority and are now really only looking for an extra centre back and a centre forward,” he said.

Only Mo Qasim, Sam Drake and goalkeeper Jamie Hassall were in the starting line up from last season-Josh Grant being on holiday- and to say this was the first game together for everyone after just two weeks of training the performance was good.

Town went behind after nine minutes when Celtic’s right winger Joao Silver cut in and then delivered a tremendous shot which beat Hassall to his left.

Six minutes later and Town were level when Drake was put clear and he comfortably beat Harry Allan.

It remained 1-1 on the break with both sides having chances and Town in the second period despite making changes from the bench did not look troubled by a side playing a full strength side.

With a strong second half performance on Tuesday night Town beat Eccleshill United 2-0.
In the first half Town were lacklustre and the Bradford club from the Northern Counties East Premier Division were the better on footballing side
A couple of changes at the break and a few words from manager Vill Powell and they were out of the traps very quickly
On 49 minutes Mohammed Qasim made it 1-0 with a super curling shot from 20 yards out.
Ten minutes later it was man of the match Qasim who laid on goal number two. He beat two defenders out on the left and cut in before laying the ball across the box to new signing Malachay Bailey who made no mistake
Town went looking for more and only last minute blocks and two fine saves from Qasim shots kept the score line down.

On Saturday Town entertain AFC Emley (3.0) and on the following Tuesday, July 11 (7.30) they host a Bradford City Select X1.

Tomorrow (Friday) the draws take place at Wembley for the 2023-24 season Emirates FA Cup extra preliminary and preliminary round ties and also for FA Trophy, FA Vase and the FA Youth Cup.

Town are exempt from the extra preliminary round on August 5 and will play their preliminary round tie on August 12 while commencing their Pitching In NPL Division One East programme on the following Saturday, August 19.

We are delighted to announce the signings of Matty Ingham, Jack Crook, Malachi Bailey and Alex Phillipson.

All four join the club ahead of the 2023/24 season. Matty and Alex join as defenders, Jack Crook a midfielder and Malachi a centre forward.

We look forward to seeing them all play!