All Things Stockport County

I suppose I should have known as soon as I heard “ and a warm welcome to the Horsfall Stadium”...twice, and “ lets welcome back......” another once in the Bradford team announcements pre-match. Our opponents had spirited some new faces in to bolster their forces- I told myself. Whether this `in the blood’ pessimism was justified or not, in the end I suspect that it was less a case of   being undone by an apparent influx of fresh bodies, and more   a case of those at the disposal of County not having the equipment to sufficiently influence events as they unfolded. The result was 2-0 to Avenue and I am hard pressed to say that we deserved any more from the game! Bradford, despite lively showings from Craig King, Luke Dean and Chris Howarth, did not look anything special. The problem was....County looked similar......OK the defence ...the back four ,marshalled resolutely by Mark Lees, worked hard and did pretty much all they were reasonably asked to do, but elsewh...

County swept into the last four in the Cheshire Senior Cup, with a good 4-1 win against a very decent Runcorn Town side last night. Rules is rules......thus A.L., with another crucial match at Bradford on Wednesday, had to field his first teamers, or sufficient of same to stay within said rules. He did this magnificently and they rewarded him with a   performance that sent the County contingent in   a crowd of around 150 home happy. Runcorn made a good game of it particularly in the first half, kept their discipline admirably and never resorted to the sort of none tactics relied on when all was lost in the last round by our last opponents in this competition. I can hardly remember a foul, by either side, in the whole match actually! For County, the goals came from Sharp( 2) who was so...so busy all night , Spencer and Wilkinson, and the latter was truly top class when he came on after the break. Others shone too.....Hancock and Todd particularly at the back, ...

I guess that you will be wanting an update on the Mars One project, which last time I mentioned it, had 200000 assorted human beings listed as willing to make the one way trip to the Red Planet! Well......that number will be down to 100 on Monday, and ultimately 24, who will set off, in teams of four, for( but not return from) their final resting place, which at any one time can be anything twixt 33million and 249 million miles from Earth. Thus far NASA, who are not running this `once in a lifetime’ gasser, and indeed every other suitably qualified space agency, have not sorted the small matter of landing people or masses of equipment or food on the planet as yet ( which probably accounts for the fact that in aiming to raise £4bn the chancy trip has only thus far achieved 500k). Even so the organisers ( who will be staying here on Earth, you may be surprised to learn) have set 2025 as their date for landing their first team ! So....as suicide missions go that one`s abou...