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Match Officials Andy Haines will referee the game, and will be assisted by Steven Rushton and Wade Smith. The fourth official will be Joe Clark. Ticket info you can pay on the day at the away end ticket Booth CASH ONLY(There may be an increase of £2) located close to the North Stand turnstiles. Stanley having sold over 600 away tickets at the Wham already.Ex-Stag Kee the key for Stanley success
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andy haines. well thats a good name to give us hope of having a fair referee and a good clean game.

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Luton have got 'The Kettle' :D

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Let's bring home the points lads not there today in person but will be cheering you on give em some noise Stanley fans have a good day.

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Unable to go today, safe journey to all going yon, is it on radio today,? with no other local games playing?

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Just hope we get there, coaches currently stuck on M62 due to a serious accident - motorway now been closed :(

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Oh no!
Just checked on the web for a traffic update...
An Audi TT and a Toyota Avensis Estate in collision....
Between J22 and J23.
Thankfully nobody seriously injured.....
Should be cleared fairly soon.

Enjoy the match travelling faithful....
and come home with THREE POINTS PLEASE!:jimbo:

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Evertons playing. the don musta broke his neck or summat. hope its nowt serious.

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Big Ben in for Janoi??

Hope he gives us the type of performance we had come to expect :)

:) :) :)

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Hope the coaches make it!

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I really rate Everton, but to me side would not be changed unless an injury, which i agree with.

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Twitter says illness????

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Donacien hasn't travelled due to illness apparently & we're still on the way, hoping we'll be there for half time

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What a barsteward that is, hope yer yon sooner.

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Mansfield down to 10 men already.

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Mansfield down to 1O !...

Hope the 'ten man curse' doesn't strike !.

KTF

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Luton 1 down.:D

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Colchester in front at Luton, they have only had 8% possession!

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:hothothot:thankya:

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Have you made it yet Di ?...

Like Cashy says (paraphrasing of course !)... it's a real mess !

Hope you get there soon !.

KTF.

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Luton 2 down now, we only need to win 15-0 now.:D

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Almost there Alan, almost there . . .

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Make that 2 -0 !

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Coventry down 1-0

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1 nil to Stanley! :D Header Coneely SMc cross

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Exeter 2-1 down, can't get much better.

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Super Stanley KTF.

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0-1 :) get in gooooooaalllll

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Still no score at Notts v Wycombe

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But where is AccyyMad ?.

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Dunno but hope they watching second half.

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C'mon boys, hold on

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indeeeeeeeeeeed!

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All over 3 pts brilliant result given the others today, Well done REDS,

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Done & dusted, another sterling effort from the lads & management, top of the table .... looking good! :)

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happiness is another stanley win john !!. 😁😎😀😂😃😅😉

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Aye...makes up for the changes in daylight savings and the fact I have to work today. It will be a breeze now thanks to those magnificent men.:mosher:

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We got there for second half. Great result Mansfield caused us problems without having many shots on our goal. We saw last 10 minutes out well again. It's a familiar pattern how in tight games we are grinding out wins. Thought Richards-everton's strength was useful at the back. Mcconville and kee kept hold of ball late on well as well. Whole team kept it shape well. Mansfield fans kicked off outside abit unnecessary.

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Safe on the coach home now, got there in time to see all second half & was well worth the 5 hour journey to witness those scenes both after the goal & at the final whistle.
Just hope it doesn't take same time to get home, there's a drink with my name on it waiting in the Crown :D
Well played lads, bloody brilliant!! :dancedog:

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That'll be a well deserved three pints Accymad, celebrating a well deserved 3 points from the on-field team :D

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If my maths is right, 11 points gets us up automatically .... Exeter can only get 87, Coventry 86, Notts County 85, Lincoln 85, Mansfield 84, Swindon 82 and Carlisle 78 ...... No one else can catch us whatever happens.

16 points guarantees the title

Blooming 'eck. Keep the Flippin' Faith! :D

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Realistically only 10 for promotion as we've got 17 goals on Exeter!

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Getting stupid now,have all our rivals had a bet on Acci to win promotion?.
Another fantastic result,KTF

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Wow what a day that was !!
Hope everyone got on the coaches safely and best wishes for a better journey home.
It the clubs year.
Grinding out the wins and watch everybody else capitulate. Even when the chasers play each other they conspire to draw.
Made up for our Captain today.

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The stags had only lost 1 match at home this season,before today, to me puts into context, what a great result we achieved. KTF.

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:) Mansfield 0-1 Accrington | Video | Watch TV Show | Sky Sports :)

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Even more delighted to read (on the Sky site, so don't blame me if incorrect) that Mansfield have failed to beat Stanley in 14 attempts!
What a result, what a team!

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Had to go away on a friends social weekend do in sunny Cleveleys. Followed the match on BBC live feed. Stanley are just amazing continuing this winning run. ON STANLEY ON. :jimbo::jimbo:

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[QUOTE=chevyfire;1211052. Mansfield fans kicked off outside abit unnecessary.

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not surprised there. didn,t they do the same at the wham a couple of seasons ago. like luton its not our fauld they live in their respective towns.

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and lets not forget a Stanley fan set of a flare in the stands when we scored our goal, this set the stewards in to a panic .

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Yes that happened however in the great scheme of things not a hanging offence but credit to the stewards they were not heavy handed,dealt with the situation and were a breath of fresh air compared to the knuckle scrapers that we've had to endure there on previous visits

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'The Stags' best chances against Accrington'
From link on Stags' YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/mtfcofficial

Mansfield-biased, naturally, but shows how good Aaron and our defence are. And how poor Mansfield's shooting was.

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Another one set off at the end of the game as well caused a problem.

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The stewards were good lads.
When it got very heated outside they let me take Jordan’s family including ladies round to the players entrance by walking round the pitch.
Not sure the trouble causers we’re actually at the game.
Hope the Accy fan with the nasty thumb dislocation is ok.

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As for the match..... I didn’t enjoy it that much. I felt nervous throughout as soon as they had a player sent off. It suddenly became ours to chuck away.

Thought we were very poor in the first half and then much better second. Yet again, though, we do seem to always manage to be tighter as a team than the opposition. Always just good enough. Coleman must take massive credit for this. A master strategist.

A few notable mentions:
Scott Brown - again, making a big difference with his energy.
Callum Johnson - I really like him. Each game he seems to improve. He’s starting to get past defenders more easily.
Big Ben - looked shaky and out of position first half, much better second. Can’t have been an easy game for him.
Jimmy Dunne - one day he’s going to start scoring loads of goals from corners. At the moment he’s frustratingly unable to apply the killer touch. Thank god Seamus took the one in the 60th min.

Finally, they should have been down to 9 men. The blatant arm in Jackson’s face when he was racing clean through was obvious to all but ref and linesman.

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How you can have notable mentions and not put Hughes on the list is beyond me.
He was immense yesterday against another centre forward adept at using a crafty elbow (ask Seamus another shiner).

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Maybe the Ref and Liner could see the same as I did and thought there was no need to go down for a flat hand slap.

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I think Kayden has to be careful.
He can sometimes go down too easily and then something blatant happens ....... and cry wolf syndrome kicks in.

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Good to hear but it's just a shame the rest of our fans weren't given the same consideration instead of being faced with the ambush from those antagonistic Mansfield 'fans'
At Luton, it may have been frustrating for some to be locked inside after the final whistle but at least everyone was kept safe until the police arrived to diisperse the trouble makers
Even if those involved hadn't attended the game, surely the stewards should have been informed what was waiting outside the stadium for our fans to come out to & acted accordingly

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Simple question. Forget about the stewards - where was the police presence ?

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You're right but that's a question for Mansfield to answer, at the end of the day whoever makes the decisions about crowd safety got it wrong & should be held accountable. I know of a few who will be sending complaints in, I just hope they get acted upon.

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CS ( club security game,) with Police Spotters

Police are only summoned if an issue.

IF a game is deemed to be Cat A; home club pays. Lets say a "normal" match income at ASFC; the game wouldn't be worth playing; hence us being on course for 4 years with a formal police presence for League games

In the pre-match intel ASFC away don't pose an issue, so no need for a police presence.

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I think you will find there were several serious issues !!!

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It's not the Stanley away fans that has been the issue but some Luton and Mansfield HOME fans that can't take a defeat without behaving like morons.
Wasn't there something on another thread implying the reason Mansfield games are al ticket is nothing to do with visiting fans but to try and prevent their so-called fans getting into the away end.

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There were also a lot of new young supporters that I didn't recognise.

Don't claim to know everybody but dozens of people without any colours on entered the seats with beer bottles in their hands just as the 2nd half started

We're waiting for the CCTV footage from Mansfield and Lancs police ( who did film so of the post match incidents) to see IF anybody can be recognised.

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Beer bottles in their hands! :eek:
How did that happen if there are stewards ?

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The steward was poor; but was not SIA so wasn't really his remit.

When supervisors picked up on the issue people were challenged.

Easy to miss a bottle in a pocket; on the bigger games empty beer bottles are on the Clayton End.

I stress these weren't wearing any colours and think the vast majority of Stanley fans do show something connected to their club.

Most people who are "regulars" (home and away) are proud of ASFC and show this to the world:)

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[QUOTE=Exile on Spencer St;1211212]It's not the Stanley away fans that has been the issue but some Luton and Mansfield HOME fans that can't take a defeat without behaving like morons.

incidents like those at luton and mansfield really make you glad you are a stanley fan. in our last two failed promotion attemps i,m sure that we behaved in a better way towards opposition fans even with the dissapointment we had to suffer. i suppose some who caused the aggro had been drinking pre match.

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When we missed out on promotion and the flood lights went out, I remember the newspapers the following day saying Stanley fans were the best supporters and a fine example to the football world and that came from the police who had been on duty at that very match.

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Exactly, the only thing we did to aggravate the Mansfield (& Luton) fans was to win :rolleyes:

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Completely false.

Since when did you have to wear a shirt of scarf to be a Stanley fan.

People don’t wear colours for a variety of reasons, not wearing them doesn’t suggest anything

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Get down off your horse, DAV0.
I read it that Mr. T wasn't suggesting anything of the sort.
He was simply saying that most of the 'fans' in the away end at Mansfield that he didn't recognise weren't wearing anything that identified them with Stanley and that, in his opinion, most Stanley fans at away games do wear their 'hearts' on their sleeves, heads, or around other parts of their anatomy.

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Over the years, as Stanley have risen through the leagues, our fans have always 'Self Policed' and been superb with only the rarest blips. These have been kicked off by 'imported' over officious stewards who don't know our fans...eg The Newcastle FA Cup Match a few years ago!
There is just one thing that I think our fans need to stop.....The Stupid Flares which could cost us a £20,000 fine!:(
Please stop this lads because we would then truly be the Perfect group of Supporting Fans to match any in the whole world.:theband:

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I see loads of fans at away games that you couldn’t recognise as Stanley fans ....... other than them being in the away end and singing away.

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Yes, true Twenty Eight.
On Monday our regular stewards at the approach to the Clayton End were searching those who they didn't recognise and who weren't wearing red colours as the regulars do. They waved us regulars past as they know us well and trust us. The gate was over 3,000 which was super and obviously the extra 1500 Stanley fans probably don't have red scarves, hats etc but it is just great to have them here boosting our usual superb support.:wave8::s_gupjump:s_gupjump
IMHO our Stewards got it just right on Monday.:theband:

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I’ve been home and away with the club for two season - three with this one - and the club and it’s supporters are a credit.
However and please accept this from a Yorshireman with tongue firmly in cheek. Yesterday I ordered a meat and potato pie and a Bovril at the Clayton End. The lad behind the counter said sorry mate don’t know what you mean. I repeated the order much to the queues amusement.
Then he says what’s bovril we don’t sell it ?
I point to the sign that said Bovril £1. More laughs from the queue. He’s then told by a colleague what bovril is.
He passed me my pie then my bovril then says
Do you want sugar in it mate ?
Now you tell me that wasn’t taking the @@@@@ out of my accent ?
Happy days.

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Tha'll larn yer, 28.

Reminds me of an old Jasper Carrot routine about him and his mate inadvertently going in on the Stretford End when United were playing 'Burmingham Citoy'.
They survived the first half without drawing attention to themselves, even when City scored, only for his mate to shout across the half-time queue at the kiosk "Heh, Karret, they've got no keffin' Bovril"

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Couldn't agree more. I wonder - if people who care actually know who the numpty is, and if he goes by coach to away games, is there any chance the flares might be left behind in Accy? Or intercepted at the turnstiles at home?

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Dav007, I see your strapline is still showing Cashman as 'Supporter of the year, 2014'.

Are you still promoting yourself as 'Prick of the year, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018' ???

Presuming you are no longer (un)official 'Fans Liason Officer' !!

With best wishes

Gerard (xxx)!!

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No fair! For at least a couple of years Dav has totally failed :eek: to maintain the standards ;) he set back in the day, and indeed is now close to being a sensible member of the community :).

Let bygones be bygones :gooddog:

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Sorry, Chimer, if you feel I am being unfair towards Dav, but even you will have to admit that his track record is not great! Just could not resist a dig!!
Am prepared to let bygones be bygones, as long as he does not post such b****cks on current posts!

Cheeers......

Geeeerard!!!

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Can I put this forward for forum contribution of the year 2018?

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If your going to judge people on their appearance and the stewards are going to selectively target people based on their clothing or lack of, you may wish to check the legal status of such actions.

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If you can manipulate the voting as you did for FLO, then I will surely win!!

Kind regards
Gerard

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Perhaps you should try turning up NAKED Dav!

I hope that you would still get thoroughly searched!:130:

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Please provide some evidence

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...oh how I wish Somerset would chime in now...could do with a laugh..