HEBDEN Royd Red Star, which is celebrating its centenary this year, will have a new face in charge of the first team for the coming season - but he is a familiar face too.
Danny Gilfillan, a stalwart player for Red Star and long serving member of the club is taking the step into management with Gary Porter, another well known sportsman in local football, as his assistant.
Gilfillan is the third Red Star playing lege
nd to take the first team managerial hotseat in recent years, following on from Dave Peters, who resigned his duties to resume playing at the end of the 2006-2007 season, and another player-manager Richard Ingram, who steered Star to the double last term with the Halifax League Premier Division title and Challenge Cup being brought up the valley.
All three players have spent much of their career at Star, taking in the tremendous run of success from the early 1990s.
Ingram had been finding it difficult to juggle playing and managerial responsibilities so Gilfillan is taking over the hot seat this term, taking over at the club's annual meeting.
The other positions in the club have been filled as follows: President, P. Kennedy; treasurer and league rep, A. Watts; reserve team manager, D. Whitehouse.
Training will start for the new season on Wednesday, July 16, at the club's White Lee, Mytholmroyd, ground (6 pm). All present and new players are welcome.
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