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Haha brilliant guys, took me a while to notice what you were on about!
Definitely a slow Sunday today!!

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Marseille beat Stoke's youngsters 1-0 at the weekend:
https://www.stokecityfc.com/news/edged-out-by-marseille
https://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/spor...seille-3064420

Not much of a crowd there. It looks like we might get a few of their second string playing in the second half.

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First we have a choir, then we have an orchestra. Over to you, yonmon! :theband:

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Tonight's team sheet at Sligo:
https://twitter.com/sligorovers/stat...96997323071489

Three triallists starting. And another on the bench.

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Zanzala finally gets a start :)

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Ben Barclay centre half released by Brighton ex Manchester city named in line up must have signed presumably.

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we a playing shelley FC on saturday 13th , suspect this is a youth/development game

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Barclay is this the one AH has been on about ?

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Doubt it only 13 league 2 apps.:confused:

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Any reports on the Sligo game?

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saw a bit on twitter

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Lost 1-0 Details of your team om the Sligo Web site. One of their players got a nasty injury and had to be stretchered off. Well done to the 20 ASFC fans who travelled.

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Looks like he still has one game of a 3-match ban remaining after being sent off two games from the end of last season.

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A bit more:
https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.u...iendly-defeat/

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Dan Jewell has stated that 2 of the trialists last night at Sligo were starting at left back Joe Maguire released by Fleetwood in the summer on the bench Jeff King midfielder released by St.Mirren ex Bolton hence Joe Pritchard in his interview saying he knew one of the lads.

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Maybe our captain comes from a big family?;)

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& I’ll be the first to admit how wrong I was with the ‘immenent’ signing.
won’t be listening to that person again haha!

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23rd july padiham away

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Fantastic result against Marseille tonight should do the lads a world of good. Zanzala and Sykes particularly impressive.

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Agree with Tom, thought the trialists 3 @10 did quite well also Zanzalas penalty was very good also. in fact no-one put a bad shift in i thought. went hoping for a good performance never expecting a win. well done REDS you did us proud. the french i thought were sharper than us which was expected.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKZEfwwOMnU :):):)

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The penalty in higher definition:
https://www.mycanal.fr/divertissemen...12089001_50001

I can't find the first goal though. :(

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Cheers Mark... :)

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Shouldn’t read much into a pre-season friendly,but enjoyable game it was !!!
They were quality opponents and for large periods we didn’t have the ball.
What we did do was work hard and kept our shape,then took our chances when they came.
Good to watch how quality players find space when there isn’t any!!!

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Doubt if anyones reading too much into it? thing is it can only improve confidence as far as i'm concerned.

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Did anyone recognise any of the triallists? I'm trying to get a picture of potential signings.

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No-one i know, but was told the num3 was a scottish lad, not much but thsts all i could find out.

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The Lancashire Telegraph named number 3 as Joe Maguire: https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.u...french-giants/.

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need VAR on here.

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Number 18 was our very own 'Sunbeds' Phil Edwards, listed as a 'triallist' and on the bench at the start of the game, but came on midway through the 2nd half, Mr Reliable at right back.

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Joe Maguire left back released by Fleetwood hails from Manchester on Liverpool,s books before that we all know Phil Edwards one other trialist was I believe to be Tom Miller on Bury's books ex Carlise United full back the other 2 no idea will troll about see if any clues from Kippax,s pictures.

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Someone told me Gary Roberts was yon with sunbeds.

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/48958963

Report from the BBC sports page

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Apparently, West Ham fans aren't too keen on Dimitri Payet:
https://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2019/07/1...iliati/page/1/

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just shows yeh gotta accept players moving on to bigger clubs, we have too pity West Hams aint managed it.

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On the pitch? Wont be the first winger hes had in his pocket ...

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not to my knowledge just yon with him as far as i know.

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Yeah,he was, check Facebook, Jo Gems put up photo with him.

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Not the best of publicity,

Ground staff took a picture of the changing rooms after accy had left, bottles and tape everywhere. Andy had a word with staff and players, to look after the dressing rooms better. Players available to clean up after Salford devils game.

https://twitter.com/bbcsport/status/...807415296?s=21

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Good response from Andy Holt to (if true) juvenile behaviour.

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It was a good response from A.H. but surely J.C. @ J.B. should be having words with the lads also?

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Good find as usual Mike !... he, and the entire Marseilles squad looked very ordinary..
And their Manager.. Inept ?.

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Arrgh AGAIN

ASFC paid a fortune which included FULL cleaning of the whole Stadium.

Full investigation of who got into the ASFC dressing room when "lock down" was in place.

Learning curve; shame the mess OM left in their areas # notreported :eek:

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Its irrelevant what the other lot left and if it was reported or not. stanley have a pretty good name and want to keep it i would hope. hope investigation sorts out who and whats gone on.

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Not sure what’s worse. Stanley players leaving that mess or more fake news from the BBC whose journalistic integrity nowadays seems to extend to reporting anything on social media without checking a few facts with interested parties.
If people are being paid to clean up after players then maybe that’s how all changing rooms, outside of Japan, are left.
Perhaps, if Stanley players have to go to tidy up after Salford RFL, they can take a photo of what they find so we can judge whether the changing room is any cleaner than how Stanley left it.

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If youve seen the pictures on Twitter the 'devastation' is nowt more than drinks bottle left on the floor and an odd sock. A sweepy brush and bin liner wouldve sorted it in seconds. Maybe we couldve tidied up but its hardly a crime scene and probably every week in every ground.

Move along, nothing to see here

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Most workplaces have paid cleaners but you don't leave such a **** tip and try and find a bin or one of Nas' bin bags.

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same as those who drop litter in the town centre when there,s a bin a couple of yards away. how many have commented on people doing this.

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Why move along, Bad publicity does stanley little good, best to find the truth if possible surely.

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All over twitter that the no:-10 trialist was Wilson Carvello last played for Stratford striker would be a huge step up if signing but good luck to him if he does.

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Appears he didn’t play much for Stratford?
https://www.stratfordtownfc.co.uk/te...rvalho-2052067

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Interesting. Wilson Carvalho was on Port Vale's books when Jimmy was there.

There's a video of him here (no 11) being brought down in the box twice, then scoring the penalty (start at 5:05): https://www.stratfordtownfc.co.uk/vi...wn-145699.html

And, yes, if anybody's wondering, Stratford Town's match reports all end with a Shakespeare quotation!

Another goal (from 2:53): https://www.stratfordtownfc.co.uk/vi...wn-139264.html

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That link takes you to the 2019/20 season. Try this instead: https://www.stratfordtownfc.co.uk/te...-2052067/51647 :)

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Marseille highlights in HD:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTH7...fwu5edw03c010c

For full-screen, search
'Accrington Stanley FC - OM l Le résumé '
on YouTube.

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That’s more like it! :)

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Signing being announced at 1-00 pm today.

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Colby Bishop 22 year old striker signed for undisclosed fee from Leamington ex Notts County.

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An Accrington Stanley XI beat Shelley FC 1-0 today.
Mixture of fringe players and youth, although 8 of the starting 11 have had involvement with first team.
Savin, Perritt, Rodgers, Ogle, Sousa, Watson, Simmonds & Scott.
Okera Simmonds scored the only goal of game from the spot after Sousa was fouled.
Thought Perritt, Ogle & Scott in particular had very good games.

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I say move along because there's nothing to see. Its a non-story exacerbated by dunces

Its nothing like dropping litter in the street ESPECIALLY when the club have paid a fee to Salford to clean the stadium for us.

Salford have tweeted that it was originally posted by an over zealous cleaner or summat

Move along

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So clever ****** why didn't yeh say that in the first place.

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because normal folk dont need to have it spelt out to them

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You would know nowt about normal folk being such a genius.:rolleyes:

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From Leamington FC's website:
'Brakes fans will get an opportunity to see Accrington in action at the start of next season when they bring their squad down to Warwickshire for a pre season friendly.'

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Youve gone from boring, repititive 'banter' to plain old nonsensical. I think you should ask your doctor to check your dosages as its clearly not good for you

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Still suppose boring is better than being a big headed sod. CARNIVAL HEAD they call it. By the way i base that comment on the fact i sent you a P.M. 3 weeks back just asking a simple question yeh never even responded,

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Gents;
Can we please keep this on track; friendly matches of football

Thank you

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Carnival head? You do make me laugh. Ill be the carnival, you can be the circus ... friendly enough?

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sorry but i cant seem to operate messages via my phone, fingers are too fat for the arrow.

Ignorant maybe, but how you get big headed from that is beyond me!

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Not a happy pre-season tour for Marseille:
https://rangers.co.uk/news/match-rep...4-0-marseille/

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:hidewall::hidewall::hidewall::hidewall:I won't mention the result against Burnley today...............

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I know it’s only preseason, it was behind closed doors etc... but 8-0? Sounds like nothing clicked with the new lads.

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Dunno about that, but thought was did ok last thursday.

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Been away for a short while Mark... but I see that little has changed !

Dearly hope that personal sniping couched in bitter and unacceptable terminology is not going to sully our Forum during the coming season !.

Apart from being persistently boring to read it also provides no interest whatsoever when discussing and sharing opinions about our Club and Football in general is concerned !.

ON STANLEY !.. ON TO GREATER THINGS !!.

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Well said, sir! Oh and while I think on, congratulations to Alfred E. on his recent retirement!

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Anyone else going to Bala Town

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My mate is he lives near chester so its less distance than a home match.:D

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Thanks S !.. You'll be pleased to hear that , paraphrasing Mark Twain, the reports of Alfred. E's retirement have been greatly exaggerated, mostly by a chum of mine who is a Bolton Wanderers fan and suffering badly !,. NO , A.E. is merely taking a sabbatical to complete an article on Victorian Humour for his parent Magazine !. At least that's what he told me when he last turned up to annoy me during an instalment of Love Island !.
But as you might know, he's not a one who likes pre-season jaunts anyway so when J and I visit The Globe Arena on Saturday week he will be missing.. hopefully !.
My GP is still concerned about the obsessions which dear Alf burdens me with. The most recent of these being one which drives me to collect ladies hairslides !.. He says that I really must get a grip !.

Will keep you up to date... .! WHAT..ME WORRY ?.

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Just a confirmation!... his latest selfie !

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Just a quick FYI for anyone going to Bala tomorrow;
Understand it's going to be a mixture of fringe and youth players playing as Coley doesn't want to risk key players on artificial pitch.
Stronger XI on Monday at Warrington.

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Are we still at Padiham on Tuesday ????

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Think it will be Stanley XI - same as vs Shelley.
Mainly youth lads.

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[QUOTE=yonmon;1229667]Thanks S !.. A.E. is merely taking a sabbatical to complete an article on Victorian Humour for his parent Magazine !. At least that's what he told me when he last turned up to annoy me during an instalment of Love Island !.

Well well Yonmon!......
Who is your favourite character on Love Island then?:p

ps. I would love to see you on Love Island!

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Well well Yonmon!......
Who is your favourite character on Love Island then?:

deserves a medal for the admission that he watches that load of dog poo.

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OFFICIAL: Preston vs Stanley on Tuesday 23rd July 19:45 kick off at FA Leyland

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1-0 Bala town

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New shirt sponsor again?

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Anyone any idea who the numerous triallists were at Bala today and how they did? Clearly none excelled in the central striker roll where I reckon we need to make another signing.

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Wearing youth team shirts, sponsored by The Football University.
Wham still appearing on First Team shirts

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9 trialists in all, only 3 looked half decent. Tall centre half, centre midfielder and a striker.
No one of real interest, all looked younger, likely to be playing for U23s next season.

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See Lee Moly played for Bala town today!!

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The WELSH WAND!:alright:

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Looking at kipax,s photos looks like Phil Edwards played again wondering if it's a fitness exercise or whether Coley fancies a bit of experience can play in midfield too.

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Certainly one of our best defenders ever ! Would be a fantastic addition....... If he's fit !

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And not sunburnt :alright:

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Decent run out V PNE tonight, very hot indeed .

Really like the look of the new Left Back, looks very solid.

Happy for Colby to score, always good to get the first one in, despite it being a friendly.

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Good game for a friendly Joe Maguire looks a good signing took a while to click upfront but Bishop did what he has been brought in for scored I think the trialist that came on was Jeff King looked quite useful could be the eighth signing enjoyed the evening.

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Was a good game also a good result considering they are championship and looking to move up. thought like the frog match no-one let us down am really looking forward to this coming season.

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Only thing that worries me is up front with no sign of Billy coming back anytime soon, plus Zanzala out with a hamstring for 6 weeks.

Definitely an area that needs addressing.

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How did “Trialist A” play last night?;)