The Harrogate Town Post
Squad3 Aug 2026
A career in one shirt: Warren Burrell
11 seasons and 421 appearances, all of them here. Careers like this are not designed; they happen to a certain kind of man at a certain kind of club, and this town has one.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Sam Waller stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Sam Waller and Harrogate Town agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Harrogate Town
Sam Waller and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Harrogate Town ask about Modou Faal
A loan enquiry to Wrexham: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
A loan move for Dylan Moody is in the works
Harrogate Town have made the call to Southampton. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Squad3 Aug 2026
5 new faces, and Harrogate Town are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
Market3 Aug 2026
Still no ink between Harrogate Town and Cathal Heffernan
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Harrogate Town, another week without a signature from Cathal Heffernan.
Market3 Aug 2026
Nobody at Harrogate Town has picked up the phone to Ben Fox
36 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
Grant Horton knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Harrogate Town, and both men came out saying it was fine.
In brief
- Market Stephen Duke-McKenna leaves for nothing
- Market Tom Hill leaves for nothing