All Things Stockport County

        Dave Challinor and his coaching staff will be well pleased with their team`s work at Edgeley Park today where County ran out deserved 1-0 winners against Championship Stoke City. It was a decent game, one well worth the trouble attending-County`s winning goal decisively put away by Woots 15 minutes or so after coming on as a substitute for Mellon. Stoke came to play but were well contained for the most part by County particularly in the second half where after a raft of personnel changes Steven Schumacher’s side noticeably upped the revs. In response , County were excellent…resilient and showed the sort of zest for a battle that will prove a prime asset in the rough and tumble of League 1. Today , as many times in the past the ( pale pink shirted) blues performance was boosted by  some fine keeping from Ben Hinchliffe who produced a string of good to better saves to frustrate a Stoke side that showed every inclination to want something , other than a fine late July ta

      County`s second pre-season outing saw them lose out to a lively Oldham Athletic side at Boundary Park today. County never really established any command of the proceedings ,indeed Latics just might feel slightly miffed at the 1-0 score-line at games end- they had Ben Hinchliffe to blame for this for a second half super save that stopped Micky Mellon`s team from doubling their lead.   Keepers Corey Addai and Ben Hinchliffe who took a half each, were arguably the pick for County – Camps showed his usual drive and flair when he came on ( until he went off following a bit of a clattering from someone in blue)and Triallist A showed he could do a shift but after that there was not a lot to report from what it must be conceded is a very early outing indeed and in a format unlikely to coax the best from County . Oldham by contrast looked to have been well served by their pre-season being just back from Scotland . Their side had a decent number of ex   Hatters within it- Liam Ho