Season 2022-23

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Season 2022-23.

 

It has been a massive pleasure and honour to have covered County, on line as hedgegrower over the last 9 seasons, and published reports over the previous 10 seasons via SCSCList Yahoo account.

With the Club now poised and fully ready to commence their first season back in the Football League, times are set to improve for the County team and the supporters who sustain them so well week in week out!

Regrettably however it looks very much like hedgegrower will be unable to provide the same service in the new season.

The Photographic License requirements, for none club photographers, are far tougher than those of the National League and the licensing body has indicated they do not grant accreditation to `single club fanzines/ blogs`.

This is a fantastically sad situation and hedgegrower apologises to County supporters, for this, particularly those resident overseas who follow the team so passionately despite the many miles twixt us and them.

Thank you all for the support you have given hedgegrower, and thanks also to Andrew Machin for his contribution of recent years which has been greatly appreciated, and the Club for granting accreditation for home matches.

All that said, the blog will still exist and has over 1000 articles within its pages.

Approximately 50% of these are match reports but there are also a fair number of articles in the `County History`   section, numerous `Man in a Hat` epic offerings and hopefully these will continue along with occasional items on Help the Hatters and current news, so please keep an eye out for anything new , or check out  `Labels` on the drop down ( top left of page 1).

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