All Things Stockport County

County`s Development Squad , hit by injuries to key players , and first team call ups, struggled against a lively Nelson team last night, going down 3-1 under the Edgeley Park floodlights. The visitors, with Adam Nuttall quickly in County faces, were in front in short order , and with   Abass Saadat a constant danger, and Dominic Mahoney directing play for Nelson every bit as brilliantly as he had in the reverse fixture,   that lead increased, and County`s late strike from Michael Hampson, though welcome, was but a consolation. County had a couple of relatively older hands on board in Glenn Belezika and Jordan Fagbola, which meant that the excellent Connor Hancock was pushed wide to RB. With Matthew Todd at LB notionally we had a back line that was fit for purpose, and it was for much of the time, but further forward County struggled to contain their opponents, and thus the back four was pretty much always under pressure- Fagbola getting through as much ...

The visit of Boston will bring back some nightmare memories for the County fans as they flashback to our first game in the Conference North. Before Tuesday's matches it seemed likely we would be playing host to the League leaders but Boston somehow managed to conceded 7 goals at home to a team that had leaked 8 goals themselves the previous Saturday. Boston's last five games (positions in brackets) H v North Ferriby United, lost 0-1 (3rd) A v Tamworth, drew 1-1 (4th) H v Stalybridge Celtic, drew 1-1 (3rd) A v Bradford Park Aevnue, won 3-1 (2nd=) H v Oxford City, lost 2-7 (5th) The Oxford game saw the following player's turn out for Dennis Greene's side The match report on Boston's own website said the Pilgrims created plenty of chances so it's perhaps likely that the midfield and forwards will be left unchanged on Saturday. The defence might well be a different matter. The goalkeeping duties have been shared between former League of...