MATCH PREVIEW: A year in the job
Billy Barr celebrates a year in charge of Workington AFC knowing the club and team are in a better place than they were twelve months ago.
This time last year, the club was struggling at the foot of the table with just two league wins in the bank and, very much, embroiled in a relegation scrap.
Since then, Billy has overseen forty-one league matches and our record over that period reads: won fifteen (eight home, seven away), drew thirteen (five at home, eight away) and lost thirteen (seven at home, six away).
He has galvanised the club and the past twelve months has been the most positive since the team returned to the Premier Division, with everyone pulling in the right direction.
They have continued the upward trend this term, despite experiencing one of the toughest injury crises in the club’s history. There are still a number of players on the unavailable list but the team has learned to cope without them.
Ashton United travel to West Cumbria on Saturday for the first league meeting between the two this term, before hosting us next week in the FA Trophy.
United have obtained fourteen points to date, from three wins and five draws, but are a far better team than their current 18th position suggests.
Reds are in seventh position after the mid-week results.
The club will deliver their Act of Remembrance before the game kicks off, ahead of Remembrance Sunday,
The 2199 Workington Squadron Air Cadets will be collecting for the Poppy Appeal and dignitaries will include the Chair of the Workington British Legion Branch, the Chair of the Women’s Section of the Workington British Legion, Standard Bearer, Sam Jackson and representatives of the Duke of Lancaster Association.
Ashton United AFC and Workington AFC will lay wreaths before kick-off before the last post will sound followed by a period of silence.
Lest we forget.
