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MY RECORD
LOWLIGHT GAME
| P | W | D | L | |
| League | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
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| Tuesday 8th March 2011 |
| npower Football League – League 2 – (Tier 4) |
| Accrington Stanley 3 – 0 Stockport County |
| Att: 1,831 |
| 1 Ian McLoughlin, 17 Andy Halls, 3 Alan Goodall, 20 Jordan Rose (14 David Poole), 29 Aaron Brown, 12 Adam Griffin, 8 Greg Tansey, 4 Paul Turnbull, 9 Anthony Elding (19 Tom Fisher), 10 Matt Paterson (18 Danny M Rowe), 16 James Wallace |
| Subs not used: 27 Matty Glennon, 2 Mark Lynch, 7 James Vincent, 39 Danny Whitehead |
Over the years there’s been plenty of dire games, but I always point to this one as a nadir. We were heading for the Conference; Peter Ward had been in charge for around 9 weeks since the sacking of Simpson, but wasn’t for this game. The previous evening the Board, (the constituted of the two Gibbons; Snape; Taylor; Clark and Graham had decided Ward’s tenure had come to an end. All well and good – that’s within the prerogative of the Board. But with a game the following evening they didn’t bother with a replacement. It may be apocryphal but there was plenty of chat around the Crown Ground in a miserable evening that the team had turned up with no-one in charge. Legend, and probably truth, has it that Ray Mathias took on the role in order to fulfil the FL regulations. It really was absolutely symptomatic of the biblical scale mismanagement at that time.
On the pitch we were 3-0 down by half time, and after that Accrington declared to spare us further punishment. It ended that way. By 9.30 that evening we were rock bottom of the table, 4 points from safety, but having played 6 games more. There was to be no coming back. The remaining 10 games produced 10 points with Mathias officially in charge. The Conference was to be our next port of call.
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Reflections on trips to the Crown Ground..
THE GAMES..
Where the date is in bold click for highlights of the game
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| Date | Venue | Ground | Competition | F | A | Att: | ||
| Fri | 18/08/06 | h | Edgeley Park | Coca-Cola Football League – League 2 (Tier 4) | D | 1 | 1 | 5,291 |
| Sat | 17/02/07 | a | Crown Ground | Coca-Cola Football League – League 2 (Tier 4) | W | 1 | 0 | 3,004 |
| Sat | 12/01/08 | h | Edgeley Park | Coca-Cola Football League – League 2 (Tier 4) | W | 2 | 0 | 4,714 |
| Sat | 23/02/08 | a | Crown Ground | Coca-Cola Football League – League 2 (Tier 4) | W | 2 | 0 | 2,576 |
| Tue | 28/09/10 | h | Edgeley Park | npower Football League – League 2 (Tier 4) | D | 2 | 2 | 3,584 |
| Tues | 08/03/11 | a | Crown Ground | npower Football League – League 2 (Tier 4) | L | 0 | 3 | 1,831 |
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