Runcorn Linnets must dust themselves down after falling to Hallam in the Isuzu FA Trophy, a quick turnaround bringing home NPL West action against Atherton Collieries this Tuesday. Manager Michael Ellison has admitted that eight points from the first six games has not been good enough. Without a clean sheet in nine league and cup outings, the team is still conceding silly goals and needs to be more clinical in the opposition area when on top. Ello was hugely appreciative of t

We'd like to welcone to the club Oscar Wright, who made his Linnets debut yesterday, Oscar is an exciting 18-year-old striker and joins on a short-term loan from Enterprise National League North club Morecambe. He made a good impression after going straight into the starting XI for the Isuzu FA Trophy tie at Hallam. Oscar came through the ranks in the Shrimps Academy to earn his debut in the top tier of non-league footbal, aged 17 - as a late substitute at Aldershot Town in

Hallam 1 Runcorn Linnets 1 (Hallam won 5-3 on penalties) Linnets were knocked out of the Isuzu FA Trophy on penalties for a second consecutive season, after throwing themselves a lifeline with a stoppage-time equaliser. It meant their involvement in the competition abruptly ended in the steel city of Sheffield, where it had begun just a fortnight earlier with a late comeback victory at Stocksbridge Park Steels. Steels' neighbours Hallam, thus far without a win in Northern Pre