[Outback Ozzy]

I think we will find that a lot of the footballing decisions on when to play will be taken out of our hands now we are a league team! The police WILL have to be involved in all decisions and having read the story, I can see the police point of view, but in the case of all local derbies, or clashes in fixtures (which is bound to happen at some point), could they not detach in from another area for the day? After all - aren't they supposed to be Lancashire Police, not Eastern and Pennine areas as seperate forces. Lancashire consists of 6 areas of which only 4 have league teams, Pennine (Burnley) Eastern (Stanley and Rovers), Central (PNE) and Fylde (Blackpool) - surely then the other 2 areas can assist or if the worst came to the worst, mutual assistance with forces outside Lancashire (much as the Fire Service do). Cannot see Stanley needing that many police on duty as I should think most of our matches will be Cat C with the odd Cat B and A when more policing will be required. Though the figure of 100k being banded around is just pure guess work from the revenue potentially lost by supporters going to one match rather than two.