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First County Visit:<\/td>Saturday 17th September 1994<\/td><\/tr>
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Competition:<\/td>Endsleigh League Division 2 – (Tier 3)<\/td><\/tr>
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Result:<\/td>Huddersfield Town 2 – 1 Stockport County<\/td><\/tr>
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Attendance:<\/td>9,526<\/td><\/tr>
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Away Trip:<\/td>67<\/td><\/tr>
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Away Day:<\/td>285<\/td><\/tr>
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County Line-up<\/td>1 John Keeley; 2 Sean Connelly; 3 Lee Todd; 4 Jeff Eckhardt; 5 Mike Flynn; 6 Tony Dinning; 7 Jim Gannon; 8 Peter Ward; 9 Kevin Francis; 10 Alun Armstrong (12 Dean Emerson); 11 Martyn Chalk<\/td><\/tr>
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Scorer:<\/td>Martyn Chalk<\/td><\/tr>
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Manager:<\/td>Danny Bergara<\/td><\/tr>
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County Visits:<\/td>10<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Fifty-five weeks after visiting Leeds Road for the last time, came a visit to the Terriers new home.  <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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As ever, and catalogued in the <\/a><\/strong>Leeds Road post,<\/strong> <\/a>it was the same route with the very same period of contemplation as I crossed Saddleworth Moor.  On that last trip to Leeds Road, construction of what became the McAlpine Stadium had started 2 months previously.  By September 1994, only 4 months after the last league game had been played at Leeds Road, the site had been cleared and there was no evidence left of what I had always regarded as one of the great old fashioned stadiums.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Throughout the posts on this site readers will note that I am no real lover of the new generation of stadium design.  They are a monument to the production of breeze block, and my view is that one architect must have made a lot of money by selling on an identikit design.  That\u2019s where the McAlpine stands out.  It is different.  Still a nice earner for the breeze block manufacturer but with a huge degree of individuality.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The development of the idea; design and in particular the functionality was outlined back in 1990 as \u201cA Stadium for the Nineties\u201d, brought together by Rod Sheard; Geraint John and Stephen Morley.  The design wasn\u2019t undertaken for Huddersfield, but issues surrounding the inadequacy of Leeds Road in terms of structural deterioration and its lack of facilities for revenue generation, (the place had no facilities for dining and quite incredibly not even an alcohol licence), meant that an alternative was needed.  Simon Inglis, in Football Grounds of Britain<\/strong> (Third Edition 1996), outlines in great detail the process which led to a new stadium, shared with Huddersfield Rugby League team.  It\u2019s worth a read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new ground was literally not\nmore than a stone\u2019s throw from Leeds Road, and on my first visit, with Jeff\nLawrenson we could look across to the now cleared site.  So, finding the place wasn\u2019t too difficult,\nand unlike its predecessor there was a sufficiency of car parking.  Only problem with that, as I found that day,\nand also on later visits, was whilst ample car parking is great, the impact of\nfunnelling that many vehicles out into a series of side streets, and then onto\nthe single main thoroughfare, Leeds Road, doesn\u2019t provide for ease of exit.  But approaching the stadium what was\nfound?  Simon Inglis\u2019 description is very\nevocative:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cFrom almost any angle of approach, the first glimpses are of weirdly white, skeletal arches looming above the rooftops of Huddersfield\u2019s weathered sandstone terraces or between its gasometers and chimneys.  Do these incongruous white structures form part of a bridge, or perhaps a fairground ride?  Closer to, the whiteness of the arches comes sharply into focus against the trees on Kilner Bank, which rises up behind the stadium like a hazy, green backcloth.  McAlpine the stadium may be by name, but from certain angles its setting is almost Alpine by nature.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

But\ncloser still and the stadium now cuts right into its surrounds.  The familiar soft colours of a West Yorkshire\ntownscape are now but faded pastels next to the shiny, hard, metallic, almost\nclinical blues, yellows, reds and greys of the stands\u201d.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Unlike virtually any other new\nground the stands weren\u2019t the rectangular boxes beloved of those architects who\nwant an easy design for easy money, and no doubt cheap and cheerful solutions. The\nstands are framed on what was termed a \u2018banana truss\u2019, providing for a curved\nroof, and interestingly the overall design actually addressed the needs of the\nturnstile fodder.  Various studies have\nshown that a majority of spectators wish to see the action close to the centre\nof each touchline.  Apparently, the same\nsort of research had determined that the optimal viewing distance is a 90m\ncircle drawn from the centre spot.  So,\nthe stand roofs weren\u2019t the only thing curved, so were the touchline stands\nwith fewer rows at the ends than in the middle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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McAlpine Stadium<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Riverside, (main) Stand. Photo taken before the development of the North Stand, (foreground)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The stadium had opened for\nbusiness 4 weeks prior to our visit, and that time was only three sided.  The Riverside Stand, (where the dressing\nrooms; admin and hospitality complexes were) held around 7,000, and on the far\nside the Kilner Bank Stand had a similar capacity.  The South Stand was substantially completed\nat that point but wasn\u2019t to open for another 3 months.  At the other end, it was a plot of vacant land,\nwhich afforded the view from where Jeff and I were sat of the site where Leeds\nRoad once stood.  The North Stand was\nbuilt there and opened in 1998.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kilner Bank Stand, with the undeveloped north end in the distance<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Coming into the ground and taking\naside the emptiness of the north end it was impressive.  Just under 10,000 turned up so the (then)\ncapacity of 14,000 wasn\u2019t tested.  A lot\nof new grounds have teething problems, but this wasn\u2019t one of them.  Clearly a huge amount of thought had gone not\nonly into the design but also the facilities. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That first game started with a degree of expectation.  We had got off to a decent start to the season after the Wembley heartache 3 month previously and had got 13 points from the 7 games prior to the trip over the hill.  It ended in a 2-1 defeat, (Martyn Chalk on the scoresheet), but the loss was a sign of things to come in our visits there.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve been 10 times, and seen us pick up the single win, (2-0 at the tail end of the 1999\/00 season), and sadly 7 defeats.  Each time we have been there subsequent to September 1994 we have been stationed in the South Stand.  I\u2019m full of praise for the McAlpine as a ground, but can say, without fear or favour, that the lack of any sun, at any time, on the seating in the South Stand, renders it cool at the best of times, and as autumn wends its way into winter it’s bloody freezing!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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View from the Riverside Stand. <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

On the left is the Kilner Bank Stand and behind the goal the South Stand, (with its own micro-climate!!)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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One game I particularly recall was the one in March 2005.  It had been an awful season.  We had started the season with Sammy McIlroy in charge; then there was Mark Lillis for a caretaker period of a month or so, and then Chris Turner was appointed.  He came with a decent record in charge at Hartlepool which had seen him take over at Hillsborough.  But it didn\u2019t work out there and he was fired three months before arriving at EP.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He took over at the turn of the year.  It had been disaster.  Three wins and a paltry 12 points from 15 games meant that we arrived at the McAlpine rock bottom and 14 points from safety.  In the early part of the season the goals, (such as they were), had been coming from Luke Beckett and Warren Feeney, (below), with a contribution from Rickie Lambert.  Beckett had moved on to Sheffield United, (for \u00a350,000), in November and Lambert went round the M60 to Rochdale In February.  Goals were as scarce as the proverbial rocking horse droppings and certainly never enough to challenge the number that were going in at the other end.  A young Adam Le Fondre, (so successful at a whole range of clubs in later years), was only on the verge of the team at that point.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After Lambert\u2019s departure Turner signed Chris Armstrong from Queen of the South.  He had lasted 6 games up there after spells with both Leeds and Rochdale which didn\u2019t see him make an appearance.  It quickly became apparent why.  Over the years there\u2019s been some poor players \u2013 that\u2019s a natural fact when I\u2019ve seen 737 wear the shirt.  But, in my view, Armstrong was up there with them.  (But still not anywhere near the league of \u2018Marvellous\u2019 Marvin Robinson a few years later!).  By the time we got to the McAlpine he had started in 9 games, notched but once, (his single goal in senior football), and had been relegated to the bench the previous week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He didn\u2019t feature at Huddersfield, but we did see a very first appearance in a County shirt of Ezekiel Tomlinson.  Signed by Turner in January after being released by WBA we wondered if he could offer anything.  With the best will in the world the answer was \u2018no\u2019.  A substitute appearance at the McAlpine; starts in the next two games and a substitute cameo in a thumping at Wrexham towards the end of the season were his sum total of contributions.  Two players there who came and went without a whimper, like so many before and after them.  It\u2019s a tale of my 57 years.  The Players Page<\/a><\/strong> shows just how many transient players we have had, here today and gone tomorrow.  Over the years there have been 265 players who I have seen make 5 or fewer starts!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jeff and I settled down in the\nSouth Stand, (as chill as ever), that afternoon.  Our mantra over the years has been that \u2018we\ntravel more in hope than expectation\u2019. \nNot that day.  Hope didn\u2019t even make\na fleeting appearance.  It was an\nabsolute certainty that another defeat was to be witnessed, to make it 25 in 38\ngames that season as we were to wend our way on an inexorable path to the\nbottom Division.  And all this a mere 5\nyears and 3 months since we had stood 6th<\/sup> in the second tier of\nEnglish football. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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By half time a very early goal from Feeney, (left), had been equalised and it stood 1-1.  The expected happened 56 minutes into the second stanza as Huddersfield took the lead.  <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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We sat back and awaited the deluge.  But incredibly within 15 minutes we were 3-2 up.  Feeney had helped himself to a hat-trick, the first by a County player since Kevin Francis at Plymouth 12 years earlier.  Was the (virtually) impossible about to happen?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Things looked good until 8 minutes from time, when Huddersfield equalised.  A minute later the inevitable happened and the tin hat was put on it in injury time as a Joe Dolan own goal saw us end up on the wrong side of a 5-3 scoreline.  But there had been a bit of fight.  Avoiding relegation was a long shot but maybe we could end the season with a bit of pride.  The experience of following County for all these years should have told me what was to come.  In the remaining 8 games of the season brought just a single point!!  Two weeks later our fate was sealed, and it was to be League 2 football in 2005\/06.  A time to rebuild possibly.  Hardly because 12 months later we were in a fight to the last day to avoid the drop into the Conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

May 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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VISITS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Day<\/strong><\/td>Date<\/strong><\/td>Competition<\/strong><\/td>Tier \/ Round<\/strong><\/td>Opponents<\/strong><\/td>Res<\/strong><\/td>F<\/strong><\/td>A<\/strong><\/td>Crowd<\/strong><\/td>Away Day<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
Sat<\/td>17\/09\/94<\/td>Endsleigh League Division 2<\/td>Tier 3<\/td>Huddersfield Town<\/td>L<\/td>1<\/td>2<\/td>9,526<\/td>285<\/td><\/tr>
Sat<\/td>07\/02\/98<\/td>Nationwide Football League – Division 1<\/td>Tier 2<\/td>Huddersfield Town<\/td>L<\/td>0<\/td>1<\/td>11,121<\/td>378<\/td><\/tr>
Sat<\/td>06\/03\/99<\/td>Nationwide Football League – Division 1<\/td>Tier 2<\/td>Huddersfield Town<\/td>L<\/td>0<\/td>3<\/td>11,914<\/td>403<\/td><\/tr>
Sat<\/td>29\/04\/00<\/td>Nationwide Football League – Division 1<\/td>Tier 2<\/td>Huddersfield Town<\/td>W<\/td>2<\/td>0<\/td>14,046<\/td>426<\/td><\/tr>
Sat<\/td>13\/01\/01<\/td>Nationwide Football League – Division 1<\/td>Tier 2<\/td>Huddersfield Town<\/td>D<\/td>0<\/td>0<\/td>10,988<\/td>439<\/td><\/tr>
Sat<\/td>14\/12\/02<\/td>Nationwide Football League – Division 2<\/td>Tier 3<\/td>Huddersfield Town<\/td>L<\/td>1<\/td>2<\/td>7,978<\/td>474<\/td><\/tr>
Sat<\/td>19\/03\/05
(Highlights)<\/a><\/strong><\/td>		Coca-Cola Football League – League 1<\/td>Tier 3<\/td>Huddersfield Town<\/td>L<\/td>3<\/td>5<\/td>11,180<\/td>526<\/td><\/tr>
Sat<\/td>09\/08\/08<\/td>Coca-Cola Football League – League 1<\/td>Tier 3<\/td>Huddersfield Town<\/td>D<\/td>1<\/td>1<\/td>15,578<\/td>608<\/td><\/tr>
Tues<\/td>11\/08\/09
(Highlights)<\/a><\/strong><\/td>		Carling Cup<\/td>Round 1<\/td>Huddersfield Town<\/td>L<\/td>1<\/td>3<\/td>5,120<\/td>635<\/td><\/tr>
Sat<\/td>26\/09\/09<\/td>Coca-Cola Football League – League 1<\/td>Tier 3<\/td>Huddersfield Town<\/td>D<\/td>0<\/td>0<\/td>12,020<\/td>639<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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ON MY JOURNEY WITH COUNTY AROUND 180 GROUNDS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

..<\/p>\n\n\nPreviously – TWERTON PARK<\/span><\/a>\n\nNext stop – MANOR GROUND<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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