Valiant Match Thread

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:) Man in the middle :) Ross Joyce will be the man in the middle.
With the 2017/18 campaign now over halfway through, Joyce has refereed 28 games in several competitions, with the breakdown outlined below:
10 Sky Bet League One matches
11 Sky Bet League Two matches
2 Carabao Cup matches
3 Emirates FA Cup matches
2 Checkatrade Trophy matches
Across those 28 fixtures, he has brandished 113 yellow cards, with seven handed out in his last game when Lincoln City hosted Notts County in Sky Bet League Two. He has also shown one red card.
His assistants at the Wham Stadium will be Kevin Mulraine and Gareth Mellor. The fourth official will be Thomas Kirk. :)TEAM NEWS LINE UPS Stanley (4-4-2): Chapman; Johnson , Hughes, Richards-Everton, Donacien; Clark, Nolan, Brown, McConville; Kee, Jackson . Subs : Maxted, Rowan, Leacock-McLeod, Williams, Francis. Vale Probable line up (4-4-2) :- Boot; Davis, Anderson, N. Smith, Pugh; Kay, Tonge; Harness , Whitfield , Montano ; Pope.
Bookings: Anderson 51'
Subs : Lainton, Barnett, Forrester, Angus. with new signings Jules, Hannant may be included
 
always had a bit of a soft spot for vale after my first visit to their ground. looked really massive in the old days when it was more open and remembered them getting to the f.a. cup semi finals in the mid fifties when it was a competition that every football fan cared about.
 
Alarm failed to go off at k/o time, but my overwhelming love of the team made me wake up at halftime. ...switch on computer and we down 2-0..que involuntarily expletive that startled the dogs but 'she' slept through it (thank u god).. Pure controlled delight as 3 goals get in in 2nd stanza. Sunday will be a great day thanks to you mighty men in red.
 
Great win. Thought we played pretty well throughout.

Chappers couldn’t have chosen a worse game to have a shocker of a first half with the new keeper watching on. Appeared to redeem himself with a great second half save.

Standout players were McConville, Ben and Clark.

Loved the scenes after the third goal and at the final whistle. Felt like a team hell bent on going up.

Despite the usual partisan abuse, the Ref has a decent game I thought, apart from the free kick for their second goal and not giving Jackson a free kick (before he was booked). I assume he was unsighted for Billy’s goal though. Looked like clear handball.

Shame about Wycombe and Mansfield snatching unlikely wins at the death.
 
We were the best side in first half, just gave em 2 gifts i thought, second half we just annihilated em, great 3 pts today.:) went for a Coventry ticket before the match, was told to come back at 5-00,cos they were busy, there was not a soul behind me, were supposed to be trying to attract more people, yet still got SECOND RATE service to fans, i didn't go back cos thats not the way i go home from the clayton end.
 
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A superb win for the Stanley boys today!
After giving Vale a gift on 3 minutes and a dodgy refereeing awarding Vale a free kick for their second goal we were 2 - 0 down and it seemed like the points were going South with Vale!:eek: We actually played really well for most of the first half and should have been rewarded with a goal. The FAITHFUL Stanley fans in the Clayton End kept singing though and the team was showing the necessary BELIEF needed to get back into the match!:mosher:
The second half continued with Stanley on the attack constantly but with Vale always looking like they could score 'on the break'.
We were rewarded with a very important early goal which lifted the players and supporters even more! Then the second goal came and their was only going to be one winning team after that. The third goal duly came and we held on to gain a valuable three points! Most of the Stanley boys played well. Clarke Sean Mac and Kayden were always looking dangerous. Brown and Nolan were superb in midfield and the defence did well apart from being asleep in the third minute for Vale's gift of a goal. For though me I thought that Billy was MOM as he was just tremendous, setting up two goals and scoring the other. I thought that he scored his goal guiding it into the net off his stomach.....(We will see when we see the video coverage later.):theband:
Agree with you Lord D about the atmosphere at the end with PLAYERS and SUPPORTERS united in mutual appreciation! What a Finnish to the match it was!:cuddle::love::cuddle::love::mosher::theband:


Lord Didsbury said:
Great win. Thought we played pretty well throughout.

Despite the usual partisan abuse, the Ref has a decent game I thought, apart from the free kick for their second goal and not giving Jackson a free kick (before he was booked). I assume he was unsighted for Billy’s goal though. Looked like clear handball.
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Lord D .....IMHO, I thought that the referee was pretty useless!:dummy2::dummy2::dummy2:
Lord D......for just the reasons that you observed above he was poor! :enough
Throughout the match his decisions on free kick awards were quite baffling and he was inconsistent 'spotting' the place from where the kicks should be taken from. He did make players move back to where the 'foul' occurred on some occasions but not on others. One example in the second half where he awarded a free kick to Vale two yards in their own half was carried five yards forwards by the Vale defender. The ref rightly made him take it back but then as the ref ran to his position the Vale defender simply rolled it forward again over the same five yards and then was allowed to take the kick!
He also allowed the Vale right back, No 21, to take several 'foul Throw Ins' as he lifted his trailing leg off the ground thus allowing him to project the ball much further down the field of play. IMHO he was inconsistent and quite poor and then in the second half he seemed to realise that he actually had a yellow card and started waving it about somewhat liberally!:oke2:

Anyhow......We can all agree that it was a tremendous 'Come back' by the Stanley boys and a great result in the end and a very important three points as all but one of the top six were victorious today!:theband::wave8:
ON STANLEY ON:theband::s_gupjump:s_gupjump:theband:
COME ON YOU REDS[/B]:mosher::mosher::mosher::mosher::mosher:
 
ps Well done to Buzza and his team of helpers for good use of 'The Covers' to protect the pitch.
There were matches at Rochdale and Halifax postponed today so it is an illustration of how well Stanley and Buzza and his team did to keep our match 'ON'.

Apologies for some grammar/typography errors in my previous post, as I was helping Mrs Choirboy preparing the Fillet Steak and Chips, and we were already downing a fine Rosemount Merlot red wine in celebration!
Happy Dayzzz....Hic!
 
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