Match Preview - Cleethorpes Town
The games are coming thick and fast for the Blues and following Tuesday evening’s 2-1 away win at Hyde United, we now turn our attention to another away trip. Leek will travel to the east coast to play Cleethorpes Town.
The Blues past three league games have yielded 9 Points and have shot us up into 7th place in the league table, well in the mix with 4 teams all on 13 points.
On the other hand, Cleethorpes have started the season with three losses, two wins and two draws and head into this fixture sitting in 14th position in the league table. They have suffered three league defeats in a row before this weekend’s fixture.
The True Blue Army will assemble at?
A long trip to the east coast for travelling Blues fans as we head to Cleethorpes Town, just outside of Grimsby. Roughly 2 hours and 40 minutes. The quickest route to Cleethorpes will be heading through Ashbourne and into Derby, joining the A38 into Alfreton before heading onto the M1 until joining the M18 at Thurcroft through Doncaster and then heading east on the A180 into Cleethorpes.
We will be wearing our away colours of ALL YELLOW
How much to get in?
- Adult - £12
- Concession - £8
- Under 16 - £4
- Hospitality - £25
The Opposition?
- Cleethorpes Town FC – The Owls
- Formed – 1998
- Ground – Myenergi Stadium, Linden Club
- Gaffer – Craig Rouse
Their Website?
How are they doing?
The owls have had a mixed start to the 25/26 season. The newly promoted Cleethorpes were last seasons NPL East champions and enjoyed a great season. In their opening 7 games they have lost 3, drew 2 and won 2. Their 2 wins so far have come against Hyde United and fellow newcomers Stocksbridge Park Steels.
Their Main Man?
The Owls will be very happy that they retained the services of last years club top scorers. Joshua Walker missed out on the NPL golden boot by one goal (21 Goals), his team mates Curtis Bateson(16 Goals) and Adam Haw(15 Goals) also made the top ten. Between the three of them in their promotion campaign they scored a total of 52.
Their Gaffer?
Criag Rouse was appointed at the start of the 24/25 season having lead Pontefract Collieries to their highest ever finish. Prior to Pontefract he was assistant manager at Worksop for several years. Cleethorpes moved quick in the off season to get their man and it paid dividends, Rouse led the Owls to promotion as NPL East champions. With 28 wins, 9 draws and 5 losses amassing 93 points.
Cleethorpes Town – Have we met before?
The Blues have taken on the Owls on 4 occasions dating back to the 2017/2018 season. Over those 4 games there have been 2 draws, 1 Leek win and 1 Cleethorpes win.
The highest scoring game was a 5 goal thriller in October 2020. Rob Stevenson, Will Saxon and Tim Grice helped Leek edge out a 3-2 home victory in front of 400 fans.
There have been 10 goals scored between the two sides in the 4 match history, 5 goals for each team. Purely based on head to head meetings there is an XG of 2.5 goals.
