The Harrogate Town Post
Squad14 Sep 2026
Mark Oxley damages knee ligaments — 125 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 125 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Reece Smith runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The terraces14 Sep 2026
Harrogate Town supporters have found a favourite in Ellis Taylor
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Ellis Taylor has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Match12 Sep 2026
Harrogate Town find a way past Accrington Stanley
Accrington Stanley made Harrogate Town work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Anthony O'Connor falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad14 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Anthony O'Connor
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
The afternoon belonged to Mason Bennett
7.76, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Harrogate Town had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
Squad14 Sep 2026
9 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.
Market14 Sep 2026
Still no ink between Harrogate Town and Jack Evans
“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 Jack Evans.
In brief
- Player ratings Nothing got past Riquelme Thompson-Jones
- Market Window shut, Tom Hill still here