[yonmon]

YES....with my implanted Intra-Ocular Lenses, and by wearing my celebrated Rose- Coloured Pince-nez, I can just about see clearly enough to make my pre-season predictions relating to the fortunes ( or Misfortunes!...should any actually occur!) of 'THE NEW REDS'.
One damn thing after the other appear to have hindered my on-going love affair with the finest Football Club that ever was...and reading through some the many threads which have appeared on our forum over the last Month or so persuades me that I have missed one or two of the more interesting goings on at 'The Crown'......but Heigh-Ho !!....anyway these Fiscal/Political/Legal topics are all beyond me (being one struggling along in my dotage!).
Better that I gaze through my dim and debris-filled eyes at the vista stretching out before our Club, it's Managers, and it's Fans...to see a new Season which will firstly make a mockery of those pundits who rather foolishly have stated that The Reds are 9/4 Favourites for relegation to Blue Square Oblivion....will secondly produce a squad of players who will really put fear into the Hearts of the rest of the teams in League 2...(Who is Sven Goran What's 'is name anyway??). ...will thirdly provide a real focal point for
the denizens of Hyndburn and it's surrounds, renewing a pride in THEIR Football Club which will bring them through it's turnstiles in their Thousands
(Well Hundreds anyway!!)....and will thirdly provide for we, the true 'Stanleyites', a Season of thrilling matches provided by players with whom we can really relate, and which will leave us all with another batch of precious 'Stanley' images for storing in our Memory-Banks.

This is what the view, through my always-optimistic eyes, persuades me is
the treat which awaits us all...starting on Tuesday Night!, and that it is here that my focus should be directed !!..a focus which will surely diminish in importance those factors which have caused so much concern to so many of us who have, and will support our Team whatever the cost.

If all this appears to be a 'Yonmon burying his head in the sand again' exercise...I apologise profusely....but Alfred.E. would never forgive me if I failed to produce my yearly homily of hope for the very best of fortune and success for t'Stanley....SO THERE !!!....altogether now...

'ON STANLEY!...ON!!!'