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I live in Stockport and watch Stanley every home game. Many of my friend sfollow County and they all say they are coming on the 17 Feb.
They have nearly 3000 season ticket holders and have sold their allocation of 1400 allowed by Stanley.
Obviously many of their supporters dont have tickets but they are still making the journey.
I hope that there isnt any trouble.
It could be the first game I have ever been to where the away support was higher than the home support.

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what about Bury on boxing day? that was close as they sold 1400 and had fans in and about the other stands

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What about Chester in the season they were promoted from the Conference? That was embarrasing.

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I don't think we can get any more embarrasing times, the Club is one big embarasment.We can't get players ,we can't get a Roof. we can't get a striker. we can't pay the wages required to get players of the calibre to keep us in the League. No wonder the Gates are going down, as Eric never heard the saying you have to speculate to accumilate, at least give us a roof to watch in the dry, at what ever level we fall to, or we will be back to gates of 600, again

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Your a happy chap arent you... :rolleyes:

Jimbo T :horn8:blower

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But he has the balls to say what at lot of people are thinking.:)

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Can anyone explain why the away fans are ticket only, yet the home fans are pay on the day?................to my way of thinking it would surely be better to make it an 'all ticket' match that way the club would have a possibility of at least reducing the amount of away fans that may attempt to get into the 'home 'ends? It would also make Policing/Stewarding an easier task and reduce the possibility of 'trouble' (not that I envisage any btw!)............Just a thought :)

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The home fans are not all ticket probably because they wouldn't get sold, and the Clayton end would be half empty. I have no problems with away fans mingling with us, after all we have been doing that for years.

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Hear hear! So much the sweeter for we few home supporters when we do 'em!

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Errrm, probably because it would make sense :rolleyes:

I work with a load of Bury fans , and the concept of half an all-ticket game was new to them :) . Stanley, innovators again.

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Have patience. The roof will be on before you know it (Clayton end anyway) why do we need a striker when we have the 3rd or 4th best strike force in the league - I have said it before and I will say it again, it is defenders we need and the signing af MA de SA ( the portuguese chappy) is welcome addition in my book. Why is the club embarrassing :confused: We have Rommy almost back to full fitness and other injured players coming back. This will be like having a new team. My only worry is the goalie situation. If you think the club has money to burn, fine, you run it, however I think 1963 and all that will ensue very quickly. The one thing the fans do not want is that again. If we happen to get relegated, so be it, we have been promoted once and we could do it again (Barnet have done it). As regards the crowds, Accrington Stanley have always had the problem of being between Blackburn and Burnley with other premier league clubs within a 30 mile radius. It is a problem that is not going to go away. Which in reality is why Eric must be applauded for keeping the club on the level and accounts in the black.

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Quite right Ozzy.
PS..did you like the smell of Rotorua? :)

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Loved it M8. Won't be too long afore I am back in NZ, probably within the next couple of years and for a hell of a lot longer. Came over for the Lions tour last year - though I have to admit not to watch the Lions - Too embarrassing.

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Of the clubs mentioned with regard to having a larger away support than home support, the difference with Stockport is that they aren't the most pleasant of supporters :eek:

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Surely that's a Burnley thing though, you have history with them but then again they are nearly mancs and I've never liked them.:)

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Lets face it, all other fans are pap compared to us anyway, they're just so jeaous of the quality of our football, and of course people come far and wide just to hear the roar from Clayon End :)

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Sorry you feel that way Tommy.
Stanley are not an embarassment. They are a legendary club with real achievements made on a shoestring budget that are currently going through a phase of questionable form and structure. Don't be embarrased, be proud always!
It's ok to be disheartened but embarassed?!!!
That just seems wrong, sorry...

As for the County fans, erm they're rougher than Judy Finnegan...

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You can have some karma for that quote, never be embarassed.

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Definitely have some Karma for that quote.

Tommy, is that you on Early Doors? :)

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Cheers chaps.;)

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the club is embarrasssing its a non league club in the football league.

1. stadium is crap
2. cant buy new players
3. pay crap wages
4. the club shop is crap
5. the bar is crap
6. there isnt even a dietcian at the club
7. the players dont watch videos of the oppostion ( these are basic things)
8. coleman is tactically inept

i could go on and on

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why dont you keep going on and on until you get bored of yourself.........cause i know i am already

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Yes there is some history. They see us as bitter rivals for some reason. Purely one sided though cos we aren't bitter we have moved on :D

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ok john tell me what number of my points you dont agree with

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1. Not just goin to spend Millions on a new stadium with low attendances
2. Go on www.accringtonstanley.co.uk and press the resfresh button :)
3. How much you want us to pay? chelsea paying players 100k a week+ and still not walking the league
4. Blame Boggles :p
5. What do want it to look like? pink and glitter around with reclining deckchairs??
6. Why would we need a dietcian? never had one before so why now?
7. Im almost sure they do
8. Been unlucky with 5 or 6 longterm injurys and nobody can say at start of this season if we finished 3rd from bottom they wouldnt have taken it.

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1. If the stadium was crap we wouldn't have been allowed in the Football League.
2. Can't buy new players - we have just bought Sean Whalley
3. Pay crap wages - how do you know that we pay crap wages ?
4. The club shop is crap - we have three outlets selling Stanley goods, if you think Stanley's shop is crap have a look at Macclesfield's
5. The bar is crap - what is wrong with the bar
6. There isn't even a dietician at the club - you seem to be obsessed with there being no dietician at the club, how do you know there isn't
7. The players don't watch videos of the opposition - again how do you know what the players do
8. Coleman is tactically inept - Please explain and give examples

Then why don't you - somewhere else. You obviously don't like Stanley or anything connected with Stanley so why not push off and stop slagging us off.

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in reply to you baldy,

1. the stadium is awful it puts of fans returning when they are getting p*ssed on
2.we havent bought anyone its a loan
3. im not talking chelsea wages but if our average wage is 27k an the rest of the leagues in 56k it not hard to work out where the players are going to go
4. the club shop is crap that is fact
5. i actually meant we should have a bar at both goal ends too
6. we have never needd a dietcian before but we havent been in league football for years and things have changed, could you see any prem team without a dietcian? no because little things like this make the difference
7. the players dont actually watch videos of the oppostion ask them in the bar
8. yes we have had injuries but i still dont think coleman is the man to take us forward

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im not slagging the club off im saying the problems thats holding the club back BECAUSE i want them to progress

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You think promotion into the football league is not progress in itself? Let me guess, you were expecting us to win the league and be in the UEFA Cup in 3 or 4 years time?

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What a sad chappie you are. There is no other club in the football league which has come as far as we have in such a short space of time. What do you expect? A 10,000 capacity all-seater stadium, an army of full-time staff, state of the art facilities, designer manager? Get real mate and either put up or shove off.

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If you dont like it, you know where t'door is sunshine :)

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i dont think i need to carry on what others have said do you kimberly?

We are a small club in a big league yes we have problems, at least there not the problems that teams like boston and mansfeild have who arent worried about how big their club shop is, just worrying whether they will still have a club next season......you fancy swapping boots with them????

The progression on the pitch has been huge, the progression behind the scenes has been steady. Rome wasent built in a day!

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Although I don't agree with everything KC has to say, they do have a perfect right to express their frustration. I know where they are coming from, because I have never felt as frustrated with the club as I do at the moment.

All too often people express their views on here and are shot down by the same old responses. What a boring place it would be if that stopped people from expressing their true feelings.

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All true TM but I reckon Kimberley-Clark's still on one because Mangy isn't in the starting line-up - that's all he usually bangs on about. Also, I believe KC is a relatively new supporter, and so has not seen how much we have progressed from a few years ago with regards to the club shop etc. Progress may be slow but it is happening

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Kimberley Clarke....I find your impatience astounding. I am speechless.Your points may well be valid,but the tone of your post portrays a type who "Wants,wants wants,moans,moans,moans and would never be happy even if all your bleetings were met.Accept the fact others have pointed out in that Accy has done remarkably well in the progress stakes and are walking before running.

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Expressing your points is one thing, but like AccyMad says, we are a smll team in a big league...

The progression made by Stanley in the ast few seasons is immense IMHO. Just because we have got promoted into the official league doesnt mean drastic action needs taking, if we can survive in the league without a massive stadium and fancy looking bars & stores then I personally couldn't care less.

What would you rather have, a Stanley League 2 team, or alot of glamour?

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Well b*gger me, I'd hate to read a post where you are slagging off the club!

"Stanley fans" being so down on our own club are embarrasing me. I bet the bored Hereford fans are having a right old chuckle at this crap.

I'll be honest, I wasn't born in Accy and I've only been going to Stanley for about five years but I hope I never become that cynical.

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Stick around long enough.......

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I intend to.
I've lived here over 30 years...
Probably time to consider citizenship as an Accringtonian!!!

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OK but you should have seen it 38 years ago. Some of us are proud to be as "crap" as we are now!!!

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OK so KC likes to use the word "crap" to describe the state of Accrington Stanley. There is a simple solution if you are so disenchanted... support another football club. The true supporters stick with the club through thick and thin and try to find positives to move forward. Eric Whalley would love to have a stadium and all the facilities of clubs like Bury, but he does not want to run the club into financial difficulties. Better a Football club that can grow steadily rather than a supernova that shines brightly for a short time then disappears. Just my opinion, and like KC we all have opinions

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Sorry, but I thought Kimberly-Clark was a paper mill in Barrow, and you can't get crapper than that (no pun intended).

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Yes Oggy, it is.

Interesting choice of online name.
A bit like me calling myself "Nori"
Just pondering...

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or me call myself a cu** cos I work for a set of cu**s?

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Away fans at Edgeley Park have no cover and can easily get p**ss wet through and freeze to death..but its like the Tropics compared to what you are in for up here..so bring your big hats

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altogether now :
yes we have no bananas

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Not only no bananas; no apostrophes, big font, small 's', big 'N', little substance, no style, no sense, nonsense. Were red - we still are, were white - Leeds :confused: .

I suspect Phosphorus poisoning :Banane19: .

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:Banane43: :banhat: :banhat: :Banane10: :D :D :D we are red and white and were f****N dynamite:Banane10: :Banane10: :Banane43: :Banane43: :banhat: :banhat: :banhat: cmonstanley:banhat: :banhat: :banhat: thers only one paul mullin:banhat:

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Ah, C'mon Stanley, you're back, how we have missed your witty, erudite and thought-provoking posts.

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I am apoplectic with rage that such disgusting grammatical errors are creeping onto this site. Please remember that we are a League 2 side now, and that misuse of the English language should be confined to the Conferance and below!

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That may be grammatically correct but spelling is ****e :D

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[quote=kimberly-clark;377257]the club is embarrasssing its a non league club in the football league.

1. stadium is crap
2. cant buy new players
3. pay crap wages
4. the club shop is crap
5. the bar is crap
6. there isnt even a dietcian at the club
7. the players dont watch videos of the oppostion ( these are basic things)
8. coleman is tactically inept

YOU ARE CRAP!!!!!

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Sorry Lancsdave, in my fury I spelled Conference wrongly.

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pipinfort where did you get yer kiss avitar ?

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i got it from something called smiley central, just google it, i have been told its spyware so i copy/pasted the kiss thing then spyswept my pc, job done.

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You mean spelt???

Jimbo T :horn8:blower

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Touché...:D

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Spelled, spelt, both OK; but spelt is a bit archaic these days, suppose it depends on your age ;) .

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I was always taught that the past tense of spell was spelt - spelled was bad grammar or wasnt even a word that existed - one of the two - cant remember now...

Jimbo T :horn8:blower

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From the Oxford English Dictionary:
spell

• verb (past and past part. spelled or chiefly Brit. spelt) 1 write or name the letters that form (a word) in correct sequence. 2 (of letters) make up or form (a word). 3 be a sign of; lead to: the plans would spell disaster. 4 (spell out) explain clearly and in detail.

Oggy and Jimbo are both correct.

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In that case, I apologise cjrk... :o

Jimbo T :horn8:blower

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See, you DO learn something new every day! :p

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No problem Jimbo, it looked like some people were taking me seriously, perish the thought. I learned my grammar at a decent school where all of the teachers had A levels at throwing blackboard dusters and Degrees for sarcasm.

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I was at that school, they'd be lost with these interactive whiteboards, they couldn't afford to throw them around.

Hilda once said to me, "Not 'what', Stanley, 'who'. Didn't they learn you no grammar at school?". :)

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Whiteboards! Political correctness gone mad.

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Not really. Whiteboards are cleaner and easier to work with. Not chalk dust, etc. A legitimate case for 'white supremacy'. ;)

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I had a teacher that used to throw the 'ethnically-challenged'-board duster at people... Made a lovely elongated oval shape of dust on my 'ethnically challenged' school jumper which used to be paraded around school - Ahh youve just had Mr @@@@@@ for maths havent you were the comments from others.....
Fun times... :rolleyes:

Jimbo T :horn8:blower

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I've heard it said that goes for people also.:D

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I came up last week to watch you play chester and meet some lads from Nelson that I know and who watch you a bit.
So I stood on the home end of your ground and was surprised at a few things Chester could learn from your club.
You keep knocking yourselves but with such small crowds you cant have a super stadium it would not be cost effective.
Still your stewarding is really good and nice to see them with a laid back roll as at chester they think they are the law.
Your snack bars are Great your addmission is great and your small band of fans are the most friendly I have ever come across and i have been to some places.
maybe a small roof would be nice for you but there is a roof down the touch line on both sides so at least you have one if it rains.
I really hope you stay up and carry on building and looking at accy you atre on a par with Macc when they first arrived in the league and look what they have done over time.
Good luck and Keep the Faith.

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nice to hear an objective view for a change. Even the most diehard fan struggles to see the good things when life is a struggle, and it is certainly that at the moment.

A non Stanley fan can stand back away from the bad things and see what is good at the club. Remember where we came from.