We would like to wish the club future success and look forward to the results on the pitch continuing to improve as the full force of Holker Junior Football moves into the Senior set up. 

So Holker finish the season with a home win, coming from 2-0 down to defeat Norton United for the 3^rd time this season, goals coming from Low, Keenan & Southward. How apt that the youngster, the guy who came to give North West Counties football a go and the ‘old timer’ who returned to the club early season all scored. This typifies what Holker are striving for, good experienced players WHO can deliver at this level, Sooty again bagged 15 goals (finishing 12^th in the list this season), the good young player who wants to have a go at it, Danny Keenan came from Barrow Wanderers; struggled a little at the start, spent a few months in the Reserves came back in & has looked to be developing nicely now & also Chris Low who represents what Holker must be for the next few years, good young talent playing first team football for the club, not themselves. Chris came through our highly successful juniors, as did at least 9 others who have been involved with the first team this year. At the start of this season we had the ‘Holker Exodus’ headlines, the doom & gloom of people within local football that Holker where to implode. However those who understood football knew there was only two ways to go, pay to attract players or build on the youth we had coming through. One leads to bankruptcy & the other leads to an assured future, no club has a better junior set up than Holker, so lets give it a chance to develop our future. One statement that was used was ‘Lets play the kids, we cannot be any worse…’, so at the season end how did we do?

The buzz around the club has not been better for a number of years, we get regular e-mails from supporters of other clubs congratulating us on our style & standard of football, we progressed in cup competitions, including knocking promoted Runcorn Linnetts out of the KO Cup, we won the Lancashire Youth cup with OUR juniors & players (only Jon McMenemey did not play senior for us, but was developed through our junior), we paid our bills and we finished a creditable 14^th in the League, oh & last year we finished 15^th, so we were right ‘Lets play the kids, we cannot be any worse…’, we travelled over 2,000 miles for the experience and just as importantly we have other good young players wanting to give the higher level a go next season and some senior players, potentially not being paid next year, expressing an interest. We also have had an average crowd of 44 (798^th best supported team in the country), not many compared to the 700 at the Soccer, but what is important is they enjoy their Saturday afternoons with us; they enjoy the football & a pie & a pint watching local Barrow developed lads give the game their all.

So to us at Holker, we have enjoyed the season, we also want to improve, so good players or managers (we required a Reserve Team Manager) who want to get involved in Barrow’s only FA Chartered Club, please contact the club either directly or via this web site & to potential sponsors, think about the exposure, look at the coverage in the national press our sponsor Schofield Construction received from Graham Capstick’s 60 yard headed goal. We’d like a run in the FA Cup & the Vase and some ‘Senior’ silverware would be nice, so yes we also want to be better.

So from this web site, thanks to all at the club for an enjoyable season, especially the Under 18's who have matured rapidly this year. Enjoy the summer, you can see most of our lads playing cricket in the Northern League for Barrow CC and see you back at Rakesmoor in August (for the players I believe that is June when a good old fashion ‘hard’ pre season is planned!).

Have a good summer.