Market Drayton Town are ready and willing to write a new chapter in the annals of Shropshire football – by becoming the first club to contest both the county’s showpiece finals, the Senior Cup and the Challenge Cup, in the same season.
Teenage striker Jason Oswell, who has scored six goals in 14 games since joining Market Drayton Town on loan from the Crewe Academy, could miss the club’s crucial end-of-season campaign to confirm their Evo-Stik League South status.
Market Drayton Town head off to long-time Evo-Stik League South backmarkers Spalding tomorrow with a golden opportunity to heal the savage wounds inflicted by Tuesday’s 4-0 mauling at champions elect Barwell.
Market Drayton Town expect to spend about 14 hours on the road journeying over 700 miles in the next eight days in a mind-boggling run of three games at Goole tomorrow, Barwell on Tuesday and Spalding the following Saturday.
Female running enthusiasts in Market Drayton are being encouraged to improve their fitness levels and have fun at weekly training sessions in the town.
A whirlwind roared into Hodnet at the weekend, blew away the locals and breezed off again with their blessings echoing in his ears.
It’s all change again for Market Drayton Town tomorrow as they return to the gritty business of Evo-Stik League South survival against Romulus at Greenfields in what has all the makings of a goal fest.
Market Drayton travel to Warley tomorrow in Midlands Four West (North) hoping to get back to winning ways following a disappointing defeat last time out.
Boosted by two new signings from Crewe and the return of firm favourite Jason Francis, Market Drayton Town are calling for maximum effort from players and supporters as they face a make-or-break bonanza of games at Greenfields.
Shropshire’s football supremo has heaped praise on the sport’s local back room boys for the way they keep their clubs at the forefront of grass roots development.