“Playing Professional Football was always my ultimate goal”
Billy Hesler Cregg is certainly getting there and anyone that has been watching the Bloods since he arrived on a youth loan from Rochdale last autumn will surely agree.

Now surely one of the first names pencilled in on the team sheet, goals now for the team, including in the last game at high riding Lancaster, Billy ‘Whizz’has left many opposition defenders wrong footed and Bloods fans were delighted when Rochdale agreed to extend his loan until the end of the season.
Billy admits that he was a little apprehensive when he arrived at the Butcher’s Arms, having never experienced.non league football before and not being sure what to spect from the players or the other teams.
It probably took him a couple of months to settle in, a few outings from the bench excited the fans and coincided with the start of the club’s turn around from an indifferent start.
Now secure in the team, Billy tells us his time has been most beneficial. “The physicality of the game at this level has made me more comfortable on the ball, when to take more or less touches and when to pop the ball off so that I don’t get hurt.”
As for the management, Billy can only sing their praises with the Dave Pace and his team being most supportive since his arrival.”They have wanted me to be successful and have trusted in my ability…..I hope that I am repaying their trust in playing well.”
Billy started at a young age, joining the academy at Burnley at the age of seven until he was sixteen.He unfortunately was not offered a scholarship there but instead was at Rochdale.
His two years there went well, in the second he was involved on the fringes of the first team squad, named as substitute a couple of times and in the summer of 2015 was one of only three Academy players to gain a first professional contract.
Football was his dream from a very young age, it’s slowly coming true and it’s getting there bit by bit, he tells us.” I needed to work hard, even harder than I am already doing”
Bloods fans won’t want to lose him at the end of season but Billy has his ambitions, the Accrington Lad wants to play for Blackburn Rovers, but let’s hope he gets a few more goals for the Bloods first.

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