PRE SEASON TRAINING TO COMMENCE on Saturday 21st JUNE 2008 2pm

The build up to the new NWCFL season for Ashton Athletic will start on Saturday 21st JUNE 2008 at 2pm with a light "loosener" training session before the hard work really starts on the following Tuesday, 24th June 2008 7pm and so on.

The venue for this, and the rest of pre and early season training for the adult and under 18 squads will once again be the superb grass pitches at the rear of St Edmund Arrowsmith High School, off Warrington Road in Ashton in Makerfield. WN4 9PQ

Subsequent Sessions will be held on Tuesdays and Thursdays starting at 7pm, as well as Saturday afternoons at 2pm until the pre season matches kick in. The only exception to this will be THURSDAY 26TH JUNE when the session will be moved to an alternative venue (details to be advised).

The first pre season warm up matches are scheduled for mid July (further details to be announced soon)







Any new players interested in joining the existing squads please contact David Powell on 07770 696747 or Steve Pilling on 07738 085825.

Directions to the venue - WN4 9PQ - are as follows-

Exit J23 of the M6 (Haydock Park/A580 junction) and follow signs for A49 (Ashton). Go past Haydock Park Racecourse entrance.There are 2 schools on the left (opposite Robinsons Saddlery superstore). Turn up the main drive between the 2 schools and through to the car park behind the schools, next to the astroturf pitch.

Click on the map below for an enlargement