NPL Division One East Round-Up Ossett United have made an excellent start to the new season after making it two wins from two by beating Stocksbridge Park Steels 3-0 at Ingfield. Last year’s troubles seem to be consigned to history with victories over Pontefract Collieries and Stocksbridge silencing any doubters. Tabib Hussain’s free kick on read more→
Toolstation NCEL Premier Division Ossett United manager Wayne Benn has helped his old club Hemsworth Miners Welfare out by sending back striker Seon Ripley on dual-registration terms. Threadbare Hemsworth have been in desperate need of a striker since losing Layton Swaine to Pontefract Collieries on Friday. The Wells went to Knaresborough Town on Saturday with read more→
NPL Division One East Round-Up (1) Wayne Benn’s Ossett United enjoyed an outstanding start to the season with the 2-0 victory at local rivals Pontefract Collieries, ruining Craig Rouse’s homecoming. If the first game is to go by, Ossett have left the struggles of the last two years behind them. Aaron Haswell set the wheels read more→
Season Preview NPL Division One East Ossett United Ossett United are hoping to create a platform from which to build from after a rocky time during their opening three years as a merged club. The Manager Wayne Benn The legendary former Hemsworth Miners Welfare has found it tough since taking over the sleeping giant in read more→
NPL Division One East Wayne Benn is running the rule over several trialists as he prepares to potentially bolster his Ossett United squad before the mouth-watering opening day clash at Pontefract Collieries on August 14th. Two appeared in the 1-0 win over Carlton Palmer’s Grantham Town on Saturday while another is expected to play in read more→
Centre-back Declan McGivern has been handed a deal with Ossett United after a successful trial. McGivern has been a regular in the defence during the pre-season matches and has obviously impressed Wayne Benn. McGivern used to be the captain of the Bradford City reserve team before moving to America to do a scholarship. Since returning read more→
Handsworth 2-4 Ossett United Wayne Benn’s Ossett United comfortably won at Handsworth in their latest pre-season encounter. Aaron Haswell and James Walshaw laid the first half platform and Nash Connolly and an own goal sealed the win well before the end. Two very late goals from James Oliver and teenager Noah Flint made the score-line read more→
Pontefract Collieries will host Wayne Benn’s Ossett United in a mouth-watering NPL Division One East opening fixture on August 14th. That is the stand-out fixture on the day which will see Liversedge and Yorkshire Amateur make history when they make their NPL bows. ‘Sedge will visit Lincoln United while the Ammers face a tough test read more→
Ossett United 1-0 Goole AFC Second half substitute James Walshaw’s late wonder goal handed Ossett United a solitary goal victory and denied lower league Goole AFC a deserved draw. Walshaw’s headlining act of genius was perhaps predictable given it was his first game back at Ingfield since returning to the place where his outstanding career read more→
Nearly all of Wayne Benn’s Ossett United squad from the aborted 2020/21 season have committed to stay at Ingfield. Only Elliott Harrison, Jack Stockdill and Jack Normanton have been confirmed as departures. Those staying link up with new signings Ross Killock, James Walshaw and Tabish Hussain. The likes of the players – Eddie Cass, Nash read more→
