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Tuesday 18th October 

Frickley Athletic 1-1 Warrington Town (aet) 4-5 on pens 

The Blues bowed out of the FA trophy in disappointing fashion as they gave another poor performance against Warrington Town and ultimately went out 5-4 on penalties with Alex Callery being the unfortunate player to miss his spot-kick.

Gary Marrow opted to make just one change to the starting line-up with Leroy Chambers starting in place of Andy Evans.

The game more or less continued from where Saturday's first meeting had left off with the Blues struggling to stamp any authority on proceedings. The Blues did have an early scare when a Warrington right wing corner deceived everyone and struck the near post before rebounding to safety but the Blues were struck a blow after just 29 minutes when Matt Daly picked up an injury and was replaced by Craig Robinson with Calum Selby moving to centre half. Worse was to follow as Martyn Woolford was also forced off through injury after 38 minutes with Ryan Golden taking his place. The Blues ought to have taken the lead lmost on the stroke of half time when Colin Flood could only parry Selby's 20 yard free-kick into the path of Phil Lindley who somehow managed to knock the ball wide of an open goal from 6 yards.

Thirteen minutes into the second half and the Blues finally broke the deadlock as Ashley Scothern and Leroy Chambers both chased a high bouncing ball into the Warrington box which the defender failed to control. The ball bounced kindly to CHAMBERS who pounced to fire past the helpless Flood. Shortly afterwards Rob Pell replaced Scothern and Pell was the next to threaten Flood's goal when he met Golden's left wing cross but steered his shot agonisingly wide with Flood wrong-footed. On 76 minutes Warrington's Farrell was sent off for a second caution after bringing down Golden. This was just minutes after Farrell, Danny Salt and Douglas Pitts had all been cautioned within the space of five minutes for cynically bringing down Alex Callery. However, despite being down to ten men, Warrington drew level on 81 minutes was a brilliant individual goal from Steve Latham who flicked the ball past both Selby and Kennedy before volleying past Ingham from just inside the box.

With neither side adding to their tally the game entered extra time, with the first period of which being the first time the Blues managed to force Warrington back but they still failed to make the breakthrough. Unfortunately, the second period was much more even, although, almost the the death, Chambers picked out Pell at the back post who hit an angled first time volley just past the far post.

So, the game moved on to penalties. Alex Callery stepped up to take the first for the Blues but it was too central, enabling Flood to save easily whilst Pitts scored his for Warrington. Selby, Golden, Lee Pugh and Craig Robinson all scored for Frickley with Phil Mitchell, James Featherstone and Salt all scoring for Warrington before Mike Ellison despached the deciding penalty past Gary Ingham to leave Gary Marrow facing the unenviable task of raising his players morale for Saturday's visit of Marine.