All Things Stockport County

County`s encouraging run of pre-season form took a knock today at Nethermoor Park where an impressive Guiseley side came back from 2-0 down to level matters, coming a whiskers width from adding a surprise winner at the death. Not many County fans fancied a trip to this particular spot, after last seasons manufactured palaver, but it very soon became apparent just why JG had plumped for this fixture against these opponents. The Lions are always combative, tight at the back, and very hard to beat, but there was much more in Russ O`Neil and Marcus Bignot`s side this time around- they had added a willingness and ability to get forward and put pressure on their opponents, and in this ex Hatter Kaine Felix excelled! Bully leads `em out ( Andrew Machin ) Behind Felix there was solid defence playing as a unit, in front of which Jamie Spencer played link man, and Dylan Barkers provided the energy and a fair bit besides. All that said…..with 15 minutes left, I had ...

County claimed their third win in three pre-season games today at the Tameside Stadium against   Curzon Ashton ,the 2-0 victory making it also the white shirted blues third clean sheet on a trot- a fact that will have pleased manager James Gannon. The National North side fought well throughout a competitive encounter giving County there best run out in the current run of pre-season games. The starting line-up was the mix as before for County who   sent out   a   strong side at the start, with Connor Dimaio the only change , from Woodley, taking over from Curran in the number 10 role. Dimaio- a welcome start ! The starting 11 more or less did an hour before giving way to a clutch of others most of whom are now becoming quite familiar to us. Over the 90 minutes I was impressed with Kirby who definitely fancies that number 11 shirt, placing another substantial deposit on same with 2 smashing goals, one in each half! Kirby- unsto...