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Whitby Town fixtures mayhem as lights go out
WHITBY Town face a crippling fixtures backlog after the floodlights failed on them for the third time this season on Tuesday night.
The Blues have already had UniBond League matches at Marine and Retford United abandoned due to the lights going out on them.
And the curse struck again on Tuesday night at half-time in the match at strugglers Frickley, with the score 0-0.
It means the fixture will have to rearranged to the last vacant midweek slot, leaving Whitby with 14 league games still to play over the remainder of March and April.
Boss Harry Dunn said: "We're really frustrated because we had chances in the first half and dominated with 75% of the possession.
"We certainly felt we could have gone on and won it.
"I've never known anything like it – we've lost all these games to the weather and now three games away from home where the floodlights have gone."
The situation is being compounded with several Blues players picking up injuries in the past couple of games.
Skipper Tony Hackworth and defender Christian Hanson have both sustained groin injuries, Leon Scott has a twisted ankle and striker Andy Campbell has a calf problem.
On top of that, full back Kev Burgess missed the Frickley game after coming down with a sickness bug but is expected to be well enough for tomorrow's home clash against Burscough.
Dunn said: "We've got games coming up thick and fast and it's not giving players much chance."
Any further postponements could lead to Whitby having to cram in three to four games a week and Dunn suspects employers will be increasingly reluctant to let his players have more time off work.
Some teams have played even fewer games than Whitby which means getting hold of any replacements or additions to the squad will prove difficult.
"It's doubly difficult to borrow players as well because everyone else is in the same boat," added Dunn.
In the match on Tuesday, Ashley Lyth fired over for Whitby early on while Hackworth lifted a 15-yard drive over the bar and Alex Gildea forced Athletic keeper Adam Nicklin to block his shot at point-blank range after racing clear.
And before the interval, it took a fine save from Nicklin to smother a 25-yard drive from Ged Dalton.
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