BURY FC: SUPPORTERS get their first chance of the season to see the Shakers in action when the first team and reserve squad face visiting Huddersfield Town.

It will be a first chance to see the new forcing tactics due to be employed by player-manager Dave Hatton and coach Stewart Imlach.

There was a scare, however, in training when midfield starlet Peter Farrell turned his ankle over in training.

The game will see the new £1 minimum gate admission being followed after it was sanctioned by the Football League.

Meanwhile, the only trouble at the club's AGM surrounded the payment of over £10,000 plus a company car to departed manager Bob Stokoe.

After riding the mini-storm, the club announced a profit of £41,841 but officials at the club believe they need an extra 6,000 fans on the gate each week to compete with the bigger teams in the division.

POOL: TONY Badiman and Patrick Breslin are £1,700 richer after their brilliant performances at the Jaguar 1978 Pool Tournament in London.

The pair won £700 for finishing as runners-up in the doubles final before Patrick held his nerve to pocket £1,000 by winning the singles final.

The pair both play for the Dragon Hotel on Parr Lane, Unsworth, and were welcomed back by landlord Roy Higson to a champagne reception.

ATHLETICS: LOCAL firms, organisations and the public have managed to raise enough money to send three girls from Bury Athletic Club to Leningrad in Russia for an international meeting.

Etta Kessebeh, Gillian Munro and Susan Lees will all make the trip thanks to the hard work and money of so many local people.

Lees warmed up for the event by teaming up with clubmates Sally Barlow and Lileath Rose to win the Northern Counties Junior 3 x 800m relay at Kirkby in a time of seven minutes and 19.6 seconds.